unfortunately the government was shut down by schumer. they said they wanted to take it hostage me to stop the meetings that we were having in my office every day on a bipartisan basis and we were making great progress. let s get back to the table. questioning away the texas congressman arrington. thank you for joining me. you support all points in the presidents current plan to grant a pathway to citizenship to dreamers after 10 or 12 years? phase out the visa lottery program and family migration and spend $25 billion to secure the southern border? happy sunday to you arthel. let me react to that. i think first of all the president is doing with the american people elected to do. that is not be a politician and get stuck on doing nothing and your typical partisan gridlock. he is a negotiator. and he is showing a willingness
the calm before the hurricane irma storm. arthel, you re right. it is peaceful right now. naples, the city of 20,000, it s getting a light breeze on saturday afternoon. just a few drops of rain. at 5:00 p.m. here ordinarily on fifth avenue you see hustle and bust until the restaurants. instead every store is shut down, a lot of them too have been boarded up over the course of the day with plywood. the only people you really see out at this point are news crews waiting for what maybe an impending disaster and even when you talk to third-generation floridan who is are still here in naples, there s a real sense of worry. been here since 1958. it s going to be pretty bad. the area of mandatory evacuation continues to expand
citizens of port st. lucy have tone fantastic job and going through last-minute preps and getting rid of basketball goals on the street and making sure that there s debris arthel: let s go back to evacuation orderers, you have some areas under partial evacuation, some under mandatory evacuation, why are there different orderers. well, this morning our county st. lucy county, voluntary evacuation because but anyone out there but we still expect to have hurricane and tropical
conditions, be prepared, let s get through it and wait for the all clear. if you re using generator at home portable generator, please make sure it s properly ventilated, sadly tragically it seems every hurricane season somewhere in florida we lose someone because of carbon monoxide poisoning, please be sure it s properly ventilated. do not get out till the all clear is given and we will get through this. arthel: mayor greg oravec we wish you the best to your residents as well as your family. arthel: thank you arthel, thank you for your week. arthel: thank you very much, sir, take care. eric: the mayor of miami beach, levine, curfews will be in effect in hours. shelters are at capacity right up i-95. take a look at the map. north of daytona beach, volusia
kristin fisher is live at the white house with more. kristin. hey, arthel, president trump closely monitoring hurricane harvey excuse me hurricane irma from camp david along with his entire cabinet and his social media director dan, just posted this picture of that meeting with took place about two hours ago where he was briefed by the acting direct or of the department of homeland security, president trump is promising everyone in the storm s path that the federal government is ready, that it is prepared at the highest possible levels but also warned that, you know, the federal government can only do so much specially when dealing with what he described as storm of epic proportions. this is a storm of absolutely historic destructive potential. i ask everyone in the storm s path to be vigilant and to heed all recommendations from government officials and law