about that is this. my you can see the concern in my mother-in-law s face continuing to rise on a daily basis, looking at all of the horrible images of the devastation that irma has put into place on television. but at no time except for chad myers, he did mention anegada several times a couple of nights ago, no one else, even the word anegada ever came out of anyone s mouth. after seeing all that, we decided that we were going to reach out to the embassy in new york, the british embassy in new york. the british embassy in new york stated they could not help at all. so then we were transferred to the home office in britain. and when we were transferred to britain, and i spoke directly to the officer that was there, and i was explaining to him our situation. we ve not heard from our relatives. where are you? what is going on? do you have any information.
that is more the sense i got from them. one gentleman says he has a restaurant here in miami beach. he says, look, i ve gone through last hurricane, i know what it s like, but either i m i had a full restaurant, he said, tonight, and i am helping those who perhaps don t want to leave. this is my city. i want to city here. i don t want to leave. having said that, dave, he did say has the hurricane moves closer, he will be looking closely to see whether he should stay put or whether to seek some more shelter more inland. everyone who s staying, please be careful. please lay in supplies. don t leave at the last minute. when we ve seen terrible storms, people who leave at the last minute, they end up really in fatal positions. heartbreaking stories over the years. thank you very much for that. ahead, irma starting to move over the bahamas this hour. parts of some of the islands in the atlantic already left in ruins by irma.
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you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the breaking news tonight, hurricane irma racing toward florida and leaving a trail of death and widespread devastation across the caribbean. a new forecast has just been released extending the hurricane warnings and watches north on both florida coasts. right now, irma is packing winds of 155 miles an hour. it is on track to make a direct hit on south florida early sunday. the storm surge is forecast to be as high as 12 feet, potentially inundating the keys. the threat is being called catastrophic and it s prompted what could turnout to be one of the largest evacuations in u.s. history. officials have ordered millions of people in florida, georgia and south carolina to flee, but many in florida are encountering
take them to the bus stops. mr. mayor, of course the focus right now is to get the human beings, to get the human beings, get them all out of miami beach. but once that is done, hopefully fully completely everyone goes, what are the other areas of focus right now for you when it comes to preparedness for irma? well, we ve been doing a lot in the last five, six days. everything from bringing in portable pumps, portable generators, clearing out construction sites. we have a sandbag program for residents of miami beach. we ve given out thousands and thousands of sandbags for them to bring back to their houses. so we ve done a lot of preemptive measures. as you can imagine, when you re dealing with a hurricane, let alone a historically strong hurricane like irma, the key here is just evacuating your people for safety. back to the issue of evacuation. where do things stand with fuel? there have been some confirms of people getting to stations, they had run out. i know there was talk a