The storm. Were doing whatever we can to help. Shepard lets get to it. Good friday afternoon from the Fox News Deck. Were tracking Hurricane Irma. Floridas governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. With each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of South Florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. This as the head of fema says i dont know anybody in florida has experienced what were about to get. The florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coasttocoast. He says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. Over 500,000 people there from mandatory Evacuation Orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. Rick scott telling people to be
patient when dealing with crowded highways. He says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. He says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. Some gas stations have long lines. Others have no fuel
minutes ago and said can you go live? i say heck yeah. we re busy right now. the air force reserve, we re just crushing it. we re making it happen. shepard: what are you learn something. you can see, this is an extremely powerful storm. it s going to be the benchmark storm for the next decade. katrina, as you well know and i know first hand, it s been a benchmark for the long time but now looks like irma will be the replacement for it. shepard: for me as far as destruction, there was hurricane hugo in the carolinas. that just snapped millions of trees and turned them to projectiles. and then hurricane andrew. with the very tight eye and small area that it crossed. when it went through cutler ridge, homestead, levelled everything. but it wasn t that big around. this thing though, it s got a little bit of everything to
the storm. we re doing whatever we can to help. shepard: let s get to it. good friday afternoon from the fox news deck. we re tracking hurricane irma. florida s governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. with each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of south florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. this as the head of fema says i don t know anybody in florida has experienced what we re about to get. the florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coast-to-coast. he says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. over 500,000 people there from mandatory evacuation orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. rick scott telling people to be
time. we ve been ready. started evacuations on the barrier island and most people are compliant with it. the issues you re talking about with miami shores, same issues up here in ft. lauderdale. i just had to open a second shelter for pet owners because the one shelter that was for owners with pets and their pets filled up already. they opened a second one west of ft. lauderdale. shepard: i know a lot of young people, some not so young say i don t want to go. i m on the 20th floor. i ll be fine. have you made an impression on the seniors? we ve made an impression through an active campaign. our public of affairs staff has done a lot of work. what has made a bigger impression, watching your tv storm and when they see a picture of the storm, it makes a heck of an impression.
that has shifted. now we re looking at a storm surge of 5-10 feet. they can change depending on the precipitation with the storm. our real fear right now is the storm surge. every time it takes a jog one way or the other, the storm surge alters itself a foot or two. and also the timing. if it continues to slow down and comes in with a high tide, that s a bigger problem than if it comes in under a low tide. these are all things that mother nature just playing games with our preparations. look, we re ready. we ve been doing this 100 plus years in ft. lauderdale. we feel we re ready. i believe you. mayor jack siler. hope to see you soon. thanks, shep. shepard: folks in volusia county, up the coast, which includes daytona beach, east of orlando, ordering evacuations for people in high risk areas.