that s all that matters at the end of the day. reporter: across southern florida, an ever widening mandatory evacuation order. people packing up, crowding roads and airports to escape the hurricane. but options in homestead 30 miles south of miami are dwindling, right with the gas supply. one by one, gas stations closing and boarding up. stay at your own risk, says florida s governor. we cannot save you when the storm starts. if you re in an evacuation zone and you need help, you need to tell us now. i got the big cans, the little cans. everything. reporter: kelsin bertrand is not heeding that order. bird trand wasn t alive when hurricane andrew ripped through in 1992. my plan is to stay here. if this will stay here for andrew, i m pretty sure it holds this hurricane. reporter: she has weeks of food for her 15-month-old son caden and sacks of formula. enough to feed her 4-month-old aiden for months. could you be wrong?
refilling those gas stations. how is that going? well, you ll see in miami right now the gas lines have gone down dramatically. so the fuel seems to be more abundant. across the state, i can t really speak to it. but i know the governor has been working on making sure the fuel supplies come to the gas stations as soon as possible. i understand that things are starting to open up and become a little less critical. if there are any folks throughout who are still dithering about when to start packing and when to get out, what do you want to say to them, mr. mayor? i would say to them please, let s be safe, not sorry. we don t want here rose. our first responders will not be able to help you as this hurricane hits. please get out. your own safety is number one priority. and mr. mayor, as things stand right now, where will you be riding out the storm? i ll be riding out the storm on miami beach in a hardened shelter mount sinai with our command staff and be there to
. i m isa soares in miami where it is 1:53 in the morning and we are tracking hurricane irma, the monster storm that is hammering the turks and caicos island right now. it has sustained winds of 280 kilometers or 174 miles an hour. it smashed a record earlier by maintaining wind intensity above 272 kilometers an hour for 37 straight hours. to really quite the punch that is being felt with with it barrelling toward south florida residents are being told to get out and get out now. but gas shortages and traffic jams are making that difficult for some as we found out. reporter: the desire and need for petrol in south florida is
where needed. what s your number when concern of the storm of this magnitude? it s the combination of the catastrophic winds. we ve heard 185 miles per hour and possibly in the 140s or 150s when it makes landfall in florida. that combined, when it arrives in the continental united states with the storm surge, which inundates coastal regions, that combination produces catastrophic and life-threatening damage. that s the biggest concern. along with the civil authorities such as monroe county and the governor to have staof the stat concerned that people heed the evacuation orders, move away from the coastal zone and get out of the way of the storm. there is no stomg the kind of damage that it can do. thank you, sir. i appreciate that. joining me now on the phone is marlon car of abc radio in
peninsula or to the east, the current track is east of miami, a very dangerous track moving up the east coast of florida an eventually into portions of the carolinas late into the weekend. when do you expect landfall again? the eye main remain offshore just east of miami, not necessarily making landfall. but the track is just grazing the coast of southeast florida. and it s not certain whether landfall will occur in florida or whether it occurs further up the cost into south carolina or georgia. still a lot of uncertainty as we get out into three days. but all interests along the east coast need to keep an eye on this dangerous storm. thank you very much. we appreciate that. the powerful storm was going to slam florida in the coming days with, so i want to check in with peter brown, the commander of