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Rannenberg, thank you for the work you do, and thank you for taking time to speak to us from the sky. we really appreciate it. thank you. that is such important, such important data being given to everyone by the hurricane hunters there. now a short time ago, you heard for the mayor of cedar key in florida about 45 minutes out telling people that they will not be able to get help if they are stuck there overnight as this storm hits. and the storm in that area could very well be unsurvivable, with the storm surge of 10 to 15 feet. now many people, if not most have chosen to leave, but not everyone. joining us now is michael bobbitt, who i understand is standing outside right now as the storm begins to creep up the gulf coast. and michael, you have chosen to stay on cedar key. why? well, we ve got some we ve got some elderly and infirm ....
Protected with the hurricane resistant windows and everything else they should have, it s a scary position to be in. and anything goes wrong pretty quickly if they lose a window, lose a roof, they re in big trouble. based on what s being forecasted here, what sort of preparations do you expect them to be making on the ground ahead of this storm making landfall especially when we re hearing some of the surge here may be considered unsurvivable? well, people that are able to and for the next couple of hours should be evacuating not under a wind advisory now. it s a very, very dangerous time if they leave too late. they struggle on the road if they leave too early. my suggestion people in the direct line should have left already. if not, they need to make some decisions about when and follow ....
Anything like this really ever before. the storm surge here could be devastating. as you head inland from here, it s all flat. there s barely any elevation at all. so if the water does rise, it could head inland some miles before it stops. there could be a lot of severely flooded areas. now, this isn t a highly populated area, alex, a town of 500 to 1,000 people, depending on the time of year. but there s some 20,000 people in the county, dixie county which is nearby has 17,000. so tens of thousands of people are very much in harm s way governor ron desantis says the time to go is now. county officials say the time to go is now. they re not going to be able to help you here once this storm starts to bear down in the overnight hours. alex. it does not get more black and white than unsurvivable. john berman, thank you very much. as idalia closes in, airports in the tampa bay area have grounded ....
Cnn s john berman is in stein hatch chie, florida. there is a mandatory evacuation order. reporter: there is a mandatory evacuation order. the reason for that is the steinhatchee river, if you get a storm surge of 10-15 feet, which is what they re predicting, that would be above my head, alex. that s what officials are saying, unsurvivable. you can t survive if you re in a low lying area and you don t heed the calls. we ve been speaking the sheriff s deputies who have been going door to door to try to convince people to leave. they say most people have gone, and a few who were going to stay behind they were able to convince. there are still some people here. it s a fishing village. these are people who know the water, have lived with the water and in the water for generations. some of them just don t want to go. still, they haven t seen ....
With after the party. ashley fallis, 28 years old, wife and mother of three was dead. the gunshot wound in her head unsurvivable. it was suicide, said her husband tom. i didn t shoot my wife. i didn t i didn t do this. it was murder, said her parents. i had three grandkids that i dearly, dearly loved that i knew in my heart that tom had just killed their mother. the news of ashley s death spread quickly in the morning after the party. i didn t understand what was happening and why. because everything was fine that night. as much confusing as anything. very confusing. she was happy, she didn t seem suicidal. andrea, new friend and coworker, drinking buddy at the party couldn t shake the feeling. i don t feel like she would ve taken her life, tom was the only other person that was there. so, if it wasn t her it had ....