the preparedness of the state. because this is, again, don, if this thing come in a category 4, 5, into miami, if it was a game we would lose the first quarter. by design, the wind, the water, we re going to lose the first part of this. people will lose their lives, infrastructure will be broken. people need to ad here to that and evacuate now. regardless of how repaired the state and the government is, it s the damage that will come from this storm and people s lives could be on the line and they need to adhere to the instructions given to them about evacuation. we ve got much more to come on the monster storm. when we come back, facebook says they sold ads to a rugs troll farm during last year s election. we ll tell you what this could mean into the investigation into
please stay safe. thank you. we re just getting started here on cnn. we re going to be covering this throughout the duration. and when we come back, much more on this deadly category 5 hurricane heading for the u.s. and the two others just behind it well the one wer behiothe it in the atlantic. officials tracking and preparing for the storm will join us next. dental professionals recommend using an electric toothbrush. for an exceptionally fresh feeling choose philips sonicare diamondclean. hear the difference versus oral b. in a recently published clinical study,
important. it s category 5, the strongest ever seen in atlantic. 185-mile-per-hour winds. those are deadly even if you re in the sturdiest of structures. we just talked to your partner mike on key largo, he thinks he s going to stay but he s going to wait to assess the situation. you do not reck that for the average person. there s a mandatory evacuation. something this powerful, you need to get out of its path. it s very parent to get out of the way of this thing. a deadly storm. the wind, in addition to the storm surge. it s about as deadly as it can get in terms of hurricanes. i said that as we were heading down toward harvey as it was intensifying ining and this is stronger than hurricane. it won t be moving quite as slow as harvey but it will make the northward turn, the timing is critical. that will determine the impact of florida.
evacuations tomorrow on thursday. director of emergency management for broward county. thank you. we appreciate your time. good luck to you. up to 37 million people could be affected by hurricane irma. joining me now, lieutenant general, commander of the joint task force katrina. we appreciate your expertise on this program and cnn. this storm is a monster. what more should emergency officials will doing to prepare right now? continue to repeat the message, don. the more they encourage people to evacuate. one of the downsides of florida being so well-organized, the governor and mayors, county officials, people sometimes get in a complacency that the state is prepared and they can take more risks. one of the downsides of kind of the culture in florida is
parts of their homes. did they understand how puowerfl this storm was? well, we ve had strong storms here before, so a lot of them thought that they could ride it out in the house, because they thought their house was strong enough. but it was really, really strong winds. and when it was too late, some people had to go into their cupboard, some had to go in the bathroom to shelter. but what i noticed is most of the people there did that. because the eye passed over barbuda, that saved them. because when the eye passed, it got calm enough for them to get out of their, you know, makeshift shelter and run to something more secure. can help can you get