This is a time right now we're gonna get with a major hurricane of your there, while that heads it can be very difficult to survive. That call that the people that are in the path and the storm are also preparing. Very few people can survive in the path of major storm surge, and this storm will be deadly if we don't get out of in way and take it seriously came, dahlia now a category four storm as we look at what this morning forecasts to make landfall sometime in the next couple of hours along floored as big bang, went peninsula merges into the panhandle national cain centre says: dahlia will sustain winds of one hundred thirty two one hundred fifty six miles per hour with a a high risk of injury death and it will produce catastrophic damage. Inevitably, another major concern expected record breaking storm surge of twelve to six.

feed in the landfall some forty four warning the surge could impact areas up two hundred miles south into the Tampa area in may the various uninhabitable war for an extended period of time, Several areas of diet, storm search, expect to be higher even than hurt indians last year, which devastated the fort myers area and killed in forty nine people. In addition, hurricane force winds will extend twenty five miles outward from wherever the storm makes landfall the tallahassee national. Whether service says wind likely cause significant damage there too. As italian, acts. Inland officials are warning of major car so flooding between savannah Georgia up into charleston south carolina due to a time already expect to be higher than normal, due to the occurrence of a rare blue superman, let's go right to meteorologist bill Karen's for the latest than what is shaping up bill to be a very, very serious storm,

morning, willie dahlia has done exactly what we feared intensify in the last twenty four hours up to now. A category for this is the tap area but has not got the brunt of the storm that are high time. This morning, at four o clock, the water is high, the wage splashing this attempt romeo the hospital here and you can see the cause we're here. That's the kind of things that we're getting the tent more the over watch or not hearing that any destruction or anything like that. So that's a good news for tat, but for you just a glancing but for other areas. Now, unfortunately, it's gonna be much worse than that. So here is the latest in a hurricane centre, a hundred and thirty mile per hour, maximum sustain, which it's a little small eyes. The hundred thirty five hour week is not why bread. It's about a thirty mile wide. I, where we're gonna, have that concentration of extreme wind everywhere else like tallahassee attempt but more tropical storm forest winds and the storms moving quickly, seventy miles per hour. So it's going to be moving on shorts within the next two to three hours. Here's the forecast path from the hurricane center, so we have the landfall coming up and then we still think it's going to be

category two into southern georgia, even well after landfall, it's still going to have a lot of wind immature into southern georgia. By the time we get to late tonight in between savannah and charleston. This will be about midnight, or so maybe possibly still. category one or a strong tropical storm. We have concerns, appeared not just for wind in trees, but also the high tide this evening at about eight thirty. So the winds right now we're not seeing a ton of power. Outages were seen about winds up the fifty miles per hour in the temperate area, thirty's inlet, but now the core of the storm is beginning to move on sure this is when we start the destruction portion of the storm this I you can see how small it is here, all the lightning in the center of it. This is where were the extreme articles almost like a tornado, moving on short about thirty miles. Why here's assumed, in view of it, I did a little thing about twenty seven march from the west side to the east side of it, and this We hear this is not beaches. Not cities, as is not like e n and fort myers. This is swap Lanceor. This is like a wild, let management area you have to go in

when about twenty miles or so to start getting into some of the towns in the cities like perry Florida, where I talk a lot about today, population, seven thousand, they have the best chance of going through this. I and whoever goes through that even twenty to thirty miles inland death through the extreme wind destruction, bit to the right of this landfall. This whole area, here from cedar kido to horseshoe, beat the waters coming up dramatically. As I speak, that's where the storms it's going to be. I get there's not a lot of population centers in here, not a lot of talented swamp land. There's a couple of fishing areas, villages see turkey has about eight hundred residents as the biggest of any coastal area up here why there was a lotta concerns there in the last couple days. So here's a look at the potential. storm search, flooding in this area in red is dear just show you this horse, you be serves the cedar key in this high tide. We experienced theirs. They go there in the day to day with that one, forty five, so we're almost at low tide right now, so it's actually helping us a little bit the tides or not.

dream in the gulls cause, it's only a difference of like maybe two or three feet or on the east coast of differences like eight feet so that quite as extreme but anyway, This red is where the innovations gonna habit- that's where the ninety plus and you can see how far Inland some of this water is gonna. Go it's hard. The picture. Storm surge that could go up to sixteen feet, minutes or two stories. You know you go out You look at your house and you look at where we like. The second story is up towards the roof. That's how high the water could get in some areas and then it on this evening. We now have hurricane warnings issued, savannah area, because it's that intense moving that quickly maintain that intensity of people waking up from brunt georgia disadvantage to charles are now looking the storm a little more seriously as far as the winds are going so yet willing. All these stones are different. This is not going to be an this is not hitting a major metropolitan area, but this

its challenges for those little small. Now, instead of hundreds of thousands of people in extreme risk, we get thousands of people, but for those people who are watching this forecast and knowing what's going to happen to their town, it is still heartbreak. You mentioned perry, flora, let's go there right now, it's about fifty miles, southeast of tallahassee toy. NBC news national corresponding gave Gutierrez gave what are you saying there?

either whether what we're starting to see the wind and the rain here really pick up in the last half hour or so, and we're expecting it to really intensify over the next hour or so. As he mentioned, perry Florida is near where the storm is expected to make landfall. Then we still have power, your willy and but we're again we're expecting these contingent conditions deteriorate of a next hour or so, especially, and really throughout the morning now taylor county, where we're at it actually closed. It's emergency shelter yesterday, because it was a mandatory evacuation order. In effect, a curfew was imposed overnight. Residents in the shelter were bused to a nearby county and the police here in Perrier, seeing that once the windspeeds your reach forty five miles an hour, they're not going to be able to help So there are urging everybody they urged everybody to get out right now it could be soon were you know it's not really smart idea to be out on the roads

and, as you said, this is the big bend region, local officials, your say that this storm is unprecedented in perry actually about twenty miles inland, but still expecting some of the worst win damage from this storm as it the shore. So again, we still have power at the hotel where we're staying, but, as you can see, we're trying to get hit with rain and really were expecting those wings to pick up in just a short while willing So tell me a little bit about perry gave if you would. We know that as bill said that big men areas of natural wildlife area as a matter of fact, kind of swap land the nature coasts, They call it where exactly is pair situated and what have we been doing to brace for what's coming here, they are released.

This is actually a descent self east of talent ass. He and, as you said, this is not a very populated area of florida. Wetlands as historic council shores, that's different from other meter hurricanes that have come to ward off parries. I've got a population about seven thousand entire county about twenty thousand, or so I can't say where they was actually in seed or key just yesterday, and they are getting really hard with that storm, sir. They are expecting change of fifty feet of storm surgeon early we're out of there is that there are already starting to see some had sworn surge in the cedar key area residents there there were about a hundred, or so the mayor said that did not inside they were trying to decide whether to leave or not in it.

I decided to stay. The mayor in cedar key was warning them to get out because it's possible that those series of violence could be completely underwater here in perry. Again, the concern is not storm surge. Since it's inland, however, the concern is wind, and that is what could cause a lotta damn especially as we saw this hurricane, intensify overnight to category four storm. We should see again those winds pick up really here throughout the morning, but this is near tallahassee, big van region were flores, panhandle meets the peninsula and again this area has not seen a story. This strong ever willing This bill karen's here I know a lot of people watching this and they see you guys and for the most part three hours and now four hours from now it's gonna, be like you and your crew is going through a tornado A lot of people are wondering: what is your plan? What is your safety plan once you get to that point?

Really I wall is approaching. What are you guys? Gonna do to get safe and that's a good point. Billowy, We strive to be very transparent with our viewers. You know where this is a a concrete structure. It's a hotel here in perry. We still have power and you can't see this but off camera right now. There's a concrete wall really here in my lap, that's kind of blocking. Some of the winds we can easily go inside is three floors. So to help and there's other media here, there's other people that are here as well, and so we really know the conditions gets you bad. We do. Plan to head inside. My crew is under covering right now, I'm out here in the elements trying to show viewers are what is actually happening here, but, as you can see now back here may not pick up on camera winter really starting to pick up here and the rain starting to blow sideways here. This parking lot is

Well, you see trees in the background swing again, though you mentioned over the next couple of hours. The wind is really going to be intensifying and I've been seeing your forecast. The concern here, wind speed, could cause significant damage to some of the structures here, really incredible, because normally we know we're covering the story from up from the beach. You can really do that here, where the ice, where the I was going to cross, because it's not populated those wetland areas, and here we go again one of these. These gas right here, the wind speed again picking up police, say that once this reaches forty five miles an hour, we're not quite there yet, but we will be soon. They are not going to be able to help anyone who decides to stay behind. So this again, conditions expected to deteriorate here in the coming hours, built then gave deteriorate even the five minutes, so we ve been talking to please be safe with you in your crew. We appreciate your reporting. There,

parry florida, which, as we say, is expected to take a big hit when this thing makes landfall shortly gave thanks so much gave. I was interested to hear governor descend to say yesterday and we will hear from the governor again in just a few minutes here lie bill that this is storm. Unlike we ve seen before my that, he meant that the big bend area actually for all the historic hurricanes that floor has seen over the decades doesn't get hit like this. The big Ben turn that we see between the peninsula and the pan just doesn't get these kind of hurricanes typically yet fit right and then deal talked in corner there no you're historically going back to emit eighteen hundreds, we ve never had Your hurricane go in this area. There is one door that was much weaker, but nothing that is looked like this just to give you an idea, I will try to keep. You gave shine going back home as much as we possibly can through the morning at once,. it will get to dangerous. A lot of us warm chasers, that no their goal is to try to get in the center of this day, and a lot of them are in perry cause it's like gotta, be the closer

The getting in that I saw stated perspective gave is in that locations where people are trying to get too to see the worst of the storm possible, because there is no location right down here on the coast at you really go to get in the center of the storm. This don't chasers do this by the way they want to give us the historical context they want should have pressure in the center of the storm in a lot of people. Do this professionally so you'd? Typically, they know how to do it safely to as the storm does but I am sure that will probably get over it. how an extreme win warning issued any time now, and they only use for really intense hurricanes, and it's the equivalent of like a large tornado warning when it give these extreme when warnings and were likely to have that for the location where gave is now- and it's important to point out that with the big population centres, how it ass. He has roughly about a quarter of a million people in that area here and also gains built. It's kind of splitting the mid of these two areas, the highest winds we were concerned. Could

up towards tallahassee anyone's ever been this portion of lord of its force, a metallic he's a beautiful city, surrounded by trees and in the middle of trees, and so we are concerned with how much tree damage in power outages will have and how long that power outage is could potentially last for the next whether service and how happy that forecast for this area. There are say if you near that I feel prepare for not to be without power for possibly up to a month, maybe too much in some areas. That's how serious the winds could be and how extremely damage would be, and areas of this warm surge. I may they were saying but, to be honest, habitable uninhabitable four weeks to come, will they that that's that so that we're dealing with category four categories- threes, they leave behind extreme distress This one's a little different because of where the landfall is not hitting a beach, not getting a populated areas, but probably take a day or two to show you two pictures of where the worst is on. This one are: let's go to Chris, so river floored about eighty miles north of tampa likely,

also to be hit by hurricane dahlia as it makes lands here shortly. That's what we find MSNBC Jose Diaz. Belarus was aids see this morning. What are you saying on the ground there and what are the people expecting over the next several hours? Good oil just about five minutes ago we were getting pelted with one on the feeder bands of this rapidly moving hurricane, and now I just can't have died the water the water is up? This is a what canals here in in in crystal river area. This is an area that again, and bill was just talking about this. It's you know where they're used to storms, but what is coming down is something that they hadn't really ever seen, and so just giving me idea of where we are just south of here is most of us are just north of here- is angles in glass and and and yankee town and I've.

the people are here all morning. Some of the people who are active What worst saying at at this at this area have gone to their homes. speaking last thy tour a lady who lives in a in parch all and I'm just saying this is the only place we have now. There's been a lot of it information out people have been told that to leave this area this isn't. If you wish, and so many of them have many have decided to stay. What I could tell you willie its it, in a matter of seconds worth going from pretty peaceful as far as rain is concerned, with some wind to all of us these feeder bans coming in at. It is just a rain and rain, and horizontal wind self only took about

about thirty minutes ago. This about sixty thousand people here in the state of florida, also, obviously in the west calls that have lost power. the governor is expected. Do all the news conference shortly about twenty three lines and that have already been put on alert and are all over this place. Coming any yesterday, we crisscross this area we saw, maybe Twelve sheriff's patrol cars, these these electric vehicles, alignment also crisscrossing ones of the state gets really a situation where everybody is on pins. needles to see what comes next they know round. Here at least, is the, fear, bans come in and then they just well everything through jose. What is your sense in a way that people are preparing for this, as you get blown around their obvious

I have been through a lot on the gulf coast, they've been through they've, seen hurricanes in the Tampa area and north. How seriously or is everyone taking this people? You've talked to their cable or are taking obviously a lot of emotion say that they have determined, for example, of extraordinary woman that I gotta, Yes, of course, as there are grown, are actually a little bit cells of temper. She said and her mobile home, because She says she has a lot I animals. You know people here how everywhere consider, in other bats, part of their at last. So there's a lot of concern for for pets and there shelters. That of an opening up through this area, then accept that's, but in her chase she's a lesson I want to write it out. I hope I'm doing the right thing. I has jets dogs ducks and she

does doesn't want to leave them behind. People are taking it seriously. There's been a constant flow of information here by state authorities, and I think it's better really helpful. To see how much information people have this is whether to leave or not is a tough one for a lot of folks governors. Pretty clear it was time to leave yesterday at least jose diaz vallarta? Thank you. So much, sir, will be back to ensure through the morning enjoy a thousand director of the national hurricane centre in miami doktor, Michael Brennan, dec, many thanks for being with us today. What's the latest information you have on what is being becoming a now. Is a category four storm winds, a hundred thirty miles an hour dahlias the worst effects are now moving into that big, been regional florida. You can see the I hear, moving steadily towards the north northeast now quickly, at seventeen miles an hour maxim sustain, wins around a hundred and thirty miles an hour. They were now starting to see that you know catastrophic storm surge start to take place across portions

Dixie, taylor county: places like cedar key those water levels are going to come up here very very quickly in the next hour or two as the eye wall of dahlia moves on shore and brings those catastrophic wines that you see in a core of a category for her came to the coast year in the next couple hours hours, and so landfall is expected about what time doktor Brennan be something the next few hours, though it's hard to tell you can see that the storm sort of wiggles wobbles at the I here, but I would insist, expecting a bye bye. led to bid morning hours will have the sinner moving on shore somewhere in this big, been region, and as you look at the map- it just the Staying power of this storm, the projected staying power anyways it moves up. Florida continues to be a hurricane, maybe even a category two up into porsche and south carolina this along hall with this storm, isn't it

yeah, because it's moving so quick and it's so strong. It's not going to have time to weaken. Yet we're still forecasting it'll be a hurricane later today and even into this evening, and you can see, we have hurricane warnings in effect well, inland across southeastern georgia and now extending into savannah and Hilton head south carolina. So it's going to be stanch or wind Event- has significant power. Outages tree damage a lot of a lot of dangerous conditions that are going to unfold here across north florida and coastal southeast as we go through the data. They thought Brennan our meteorologist bill. Karen's is here with a question for you bill thanks for joining us and your hats off to your team and a fantastic forecast to this point has been amazing, talk a little bit about the concerns for savannah and charleston later on this evening. With that high tide right around eight thirty

yeah. You know we have a storm surge warning in effect from a huge portions of Savannah Hilton head up to charleston and we're expecting inundation of of three to five feet above ground level. So that's why we have that storm surge warning in effect, so that has at high tide comes in later today, and the circulation of italian moves over there rick certainly see that life threatening storm surge, develop so folks in those areas, if they'd been asked to evacuate, take other precautions by their local officials please those two completion this morning. One thing, I am already getting questions on this to everyone's ike. Is it possible the storms really getting off the coast to do look loop, loop and come back. I. What are your thoughts on that? me. Oh there's a lot of uncertainty as we get into the longer time ranges. You right now are expecting a sort of a slow southward, southeastward motion, the storms typically move that much overland is gonna weaken. You know we're still exe in a tropical storm, but we'll see what unfolds we have time to watch that play out over the next few days. Our focus is really now here on. What's going to transpire in the next forty eight hours, director of the national

hurricane centre in miami doktor michael brand, and we know how busy you are today. We appreciate stopping to take some time with us. Thank you so much had on a busy morning. We will continue our alive reporting from across the state of florida as it braces for her cain dahlia set to make landfall within the next couple of hours will be joined by fema administrator, the end criswell. Also awaiting an update from forty governor Rhonda santa's. Just within the next few minutes, we will take that live to get to the latest. Information plus will speak with them. Years of tallahassee Tampa and saint petersburg about the expected impact from this mass store the watching yeah I'll, be right back.

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the governor and the mare raises, like it first were there as long as it takes we're going to make sure they have everything they need to look at a live picture, tampa that was president Biden yesterday on the federal responds to hurricane dahlia, forty nine and forty sixty seven These are currently under state of emergency. At least thirty have issued evacuation governor ron de santis, says: resources are being made available throughout the state to help to restore power, respond to threats of life if needed. That includes placing tens of thousands electoral workers on stand by and the state deploying all fifty five hundred members of its national guard. Texas, Pennsylvania also have sent personnel the help of the rescue and recovery efforts. You expect many more states to contribute from here santas warning hurricane, a diet could be one of the biggest storms to hit floors big bend in more

than a century. This is gonna, be something that will allow that will leave significant impacts and particularly in this part of the state, you really got to go back to the late. eighteen, hundreds to find a storm of this magnitude that will enter where this one looks like it's going to enter tomorrow so we don't really have a historical and log in anybody's memory. So it's likely to cause a lot of damage and that's just the reality so be prepared for that be prepared to do power and just know that there's a lot of folks that are gonna, be there to help you get back on your feet, this storm surge. This is one of the highest risk parts of a hurricane

It is especially problematic along the west coast of florida due to the underwater geography. The coastal shelf gets shallow very quickly, which increases the amount of the storm surge, putting more people at risk. Very few people can survive being in the path of major storm surge, and this storm will be lee if we don't get out of harm s way and take it seriously, that is female administrator d and criswell. Speaking at the white house, yesterday, president Biden says he's been in constant communication with governor to santas another state officials, santas expected deliver marks. The present excuse me on the federal government's response to hurricane dalia, as well as the wildfires in Maui later day. Let's bring in the host await white house bureau chiefs, politico Jonathan. They are so obviously Jonathan, the federal government and the state afloat and know how to do this. Unfortunately, they do it all to you including last year with hurricane in which had the southward coastal flora

interesting, dynamic, thou in another layer this year is that round. The scent, of course, is running against potentially joe by independent experts in the united states right, at least for a few days. Willie. Both sides will try to set politics to the side and then into focus on the response here to this storm. You recall, the present Biden has met with governor to saint as before and heard the when that that last hurricane that kid b fort myers area killed nearly one hundred and fifty people as well as when there was there, was apartment building collapses on the other coast of florida. The president traveled there as well, so he and governor santas have spoken several times. White house officials tell me in recent days their staffs, also constant communication. We're going to hear from the governor very soon this morning with a storm briefing we'll hear from the president later today. Talking about how the federal government is helping surge help to,

that area, the presence or any sign a disaster declaration of lord, which which speeds up the process getting federal funds, getting federal assets to the ground there, and we should note willie that soon enough they'll be debates in congress about disaster for funds relief aid too build the areas there are, of course, and now with those I'll fires and that may go medical certain more far more politics may return to that venue sooner than we all want to has happened before in the wake of store, like this, and we already know a fierce spending. Fight is on the horizon, which could include even a government shut down Republicans Democrats far per Many issues, but hopefully they can come together at least quickly on this, for now anyway. Politics rightly goes to the side, as the federal government coordinates with the governor. they're in florida. As John said the santas will hold a briefing here in the next couple of minutes. We, of course, will bring that to you, live as we continue to follow the path of hurricane dahlia, powerful category four storm barreling toward florida,

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as soon as it safe to do so when the wines died down to a sufficient level search rescue efforts will begin. We have a urban, search and rescue teams staged ready to go. Thirty three ambulance strike teams, fifty five hundred national guards men. We also have the coastguard onst. and by should have necessary, There will be an immediate effort to restore power to people who lose power. There's thirty thousand plus line men issue and ready to go to commence restoration efforts for local municipalities and electric collapse. Please accept mutual aid. These are folks that can come so laments europe efforts and again. The goal is just to get everybody back on line as quickly as possible. There will be a lot of it: bree from this storm, there's gonna be a need to to have all hands on deck to be able to do, and accordingly, our foreign partners,

transportation. We have six hundred and fifty pieces of heavy equipment and struck and trucks stage for cut toss operations, poster we anticipate there to be a lot of debris allotted and trees allotted down power lines in there's going to be a need for this. We also eleven hundred generator stage. Four for traffic signal restoration. We anticipate that that's going to be a problem. A number of communities as well all we have one point, two million gallons stage were also arranging more fuel to men by truck just to make up for ever may not be coming in through the normal course of business. With things like the port of Tampa. Being closed, and so there is a lot of fuel that has been arranged to be here and our goals, not have any major fuel interruptions terms indications? There's five hundred plus starling internets ready for deployment tip.

Says that need to be there's already been. Almost two hundred fifty that have been deployed says acted areas need that connectivity thwarted, vision of emerging managements, gonna work to provide that they also have three thousand generator stage and ready to search for areas that that need some power if you're, using a generator in your personal home, please not run that generator inside your home do not run it inside your garage. It must be run outside your house and needs to be at least twenty feet away from doors and windows, and you have to point the asked away from your home. We do not want to see any fatalities as a result of misuse of generator. So there's a lot of people that are that are on deck right now. There's gonna be a lot of it first as this storm passes by. But this thing is, is heading within the next hour and a half most likely. It's gonna make landfall. It is

major hurricane. As we ve been saying, it was likely to be for the last couple days and we just hope Everybody stay safe. I don't put your your life at risk. By doing Anything dumb at this point, this thing's powerful, you're inside just hunker down until it gets pasture we'll, be messing around with these winds or can be things flying all over the place obvious. if you're in place that's close to How did you see that surge? That's gonna be legitimate surge. It's going to be a big big deal. It's going to be very, very dangerous. There. We go with our with our power here, we're back Some have Kevin got three come up, will also here for a major general, hoss, admiral schofield, and then one of our Leon county commissioners, christian cuban will be here so Kevin but on time. Five second delay could those generators, and so I think, other talking

As the governor said, the storm is here. It is here now it is just off the coasts of the big been looking like, Keaton beat it's going to be the location and which we have landfall stealth. Roads if you're sheltering in place at home stay inside your home If you add a shelter or hotel, please do not leave this time condition are deteriorating outside in the end the impact of the impact of areas, shelter again, as we said, shelter in place as safely as you can, where you can you're saying to three foot a storm surge in the temple bay area. We're seeing about four footed storms or a right. Now it cedar key because of it, high tide, because high tide, which is coming the tide of starting to come back in throughout the world way from tampa bay all the way up through Apalachicola bay storm. Urge will dramatically increase over the next couple of hours are seeing a lot of tornado warnings of

There have been eleven, as the governor is said, of the four or five would have happened, It's about three m this morning. at least three of those by our meteorologists have hated rate are indicated tornadoes. In other words, they have seen debris in those rotations but that wall be confirmed by the national weather service, local forecasting offices throughout the day, we'll be, we will obviously see more torn attic activity is a day goes along if you we're aura and a tornado warning in your area get to an interior room. From windows. Considerable mattresses and things are your head even to include helmets, we cannot replace a lot of limbs, but we cannot replace your head. Obviously, so, please protect your hand cover your head at all cost there will be also life threatening wines in the big bang big benda days. We could see gust over a hundred miles. Our consists stain wins

over a hundred and thirty miles hours with, as we have this cat for landfill, of these are life threatening conditions. So please do everything you can to stay safe, where you are because First responders may not be able to reach you there. Storm. You need to be prepared, take care of yourself in your family. Why are sheltering in place ambulance? search and rescue teams. Others first responders will get to you just as fast as we possibly can once the wine died down to a point We can respond to you. We do not want you. Pudding first responders at risk unnecessarily. Health was flores. Governors already mentioned, we ve already resort over a hundred thousand accounts with power. the men and women of our utilities. Both are all three independent own utilities this. Will electric associations cooperatives really pay the hard work that I ve been doing even here and tell ass. He is, I was wrong. the usa and the early we morning hours

you tell us how the electric was out. Restoring power here in the EU capital region. So and very much appreciate what they're doing we continue to respond as we can as again and said. We ve already started responding to issues in cell Once more, I told you rubber, of Adam bhutan from former speech this morning about three I am and he has set its very irma like conditions a lot of storms urge not allow about damage, but certainly not in It is very reminiscent of what they experienced and hurricane orissa were happy to hear that I appreciate him you call me a ground truth. We are here we are ready. We will deploy sponsor recovery teams just as quickly as we possibly can. You know whether we we like to move very quickly here, the division we are to provide the needed support, tore big bang communities, communities would standing impacts from the other of the storm the gutters leadership

have certainly amassed a great team here at the division. And I would state agency heads of moved a bureaucracy, red tape to get things done where we're restoring one hundred thousand counts in less than eight hours so rest assured. We will do Whatever it takes to help our communities recover from a my god, general holler. We have general hoss here this morning again John. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you and your team admiral feel the same way. I appreciate everything you guys are doing. They have helicopter ready to go as soon as are gonna be able to get back into this area. There to be flying they're going to be in the area. So again, thank you for both of you being here the morning and gunnar. Thank you again for your leadership and your continued support. Your florida nash, a guard direct, got three. Thank you again for your in this work and the work of your team to protect

our floor to citizens. Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in the affected areas of the storm there. Being those there be infected already as I mentioned yesterday, the for national guard is fully mobilise with over four five hundred souls there's an airline ready to support hurricanes response efforts. We expect that the throughout the day, we will be actively engaged in a multitude of missions. Ankles, search and rescue damages. ass men around clearance. In addition, Continue to man, the state, logistics response centre. And many other logistic and staging areas throughout the state of florida, as well as support the twenty six county emergency management operation centres with liaised. specialist, the floor national guard currently has on hand twenty four hundred vehicles of well, including high mobility and high water vehicles.

Fourteen rotary wing aircraft with additional aviation assets coordinated with our neighbouring states through a mutual aid agreement, and when you three small water craft, to support, search and rescue operations and delivery of supplies. Who are flooded areas the florida national guard is prepared to accomplish any missions required by the department of emergency management we stand ready to support our neighbours and fellow citizens in need. Thank you or I could morning governor Director got three in fellow floridians. The coastguard is standing the watch to support our state and federal partners or highest priorities, always saving lives. We preposition fifteen aircraft in more twenty five cutters and twenty flood response teams.

To respond in the wake of the storm This condition safely allow we have proposition aircraft in miami in west palm beach and they'll be the first ones to respond in the wake of the storm. Yesterday, these flight crews conducted overflights of the western florida area big bend area, may call out the mariners to seek shelter, as well as to really familiarize ourselves with the landscape, priest or pre, form arrival so well ago. We also some settling our flood response teams from both inside and outside the states. So we can assist both the florida team and fema with the when search and rescue so ready to launch aircraft for urgent maritime search and rescue in the vicinity, and the big bang area as a storm passes. Our second priority is the region. Situation of ports and in waterways, really critical to our marine transportation system. So

urgently needed, so that resources can make it to the community's needs. We expect expect to begin overflight damages s of the west coast of florida at first light, soon as the storm passes and say, flight conditions allow we will fall In the wake of the storm to also assists with impacts on the east coast of florida. We also are we tenders. Any units will conduct port assessments in reconstitution efforts with our aid to navigation teams and the army core of engineers depend I see conditions and poor conditions. We hope to have those cutters near shore in the next. Several days or third party. is environmental response to address pollution or contain major concerns as a result of the hurricane in the storm search flooding the. environmental response to mitigate and clean up, her prevents up, actual pollutants and damage infrastructural be along committed effort where

The response phase of this operation, this one of the most critical and only the most dangerous of our operations in response to the hurricane, because These are dangerous conditions. We need to ensure that our aircraft and rescued crews can operate. We, especially as they may encounter down power lines urging and receding floodwaters and other visible and subsurface hazards are crews. really highly trained and fully equipped to meet this challenge. Once and our highest priority is to save lives here for fellow floridians, if you need assistance, but our If a location, we ask you to communicate your stress for fort first research, there's by dialing nine one one or calling the hf radio channel. Sixteen definitely stay where you are. We will come to you If you don't need assistance, we asked you to stay, put unsafe shelter, please allow they mercenary merchants, responders to do that

are safely without interference. Thank you to all we'll state and federal partners working together in this hurricane effort. We We really appreciate the partnership. Thank you, My name is crushing cabana Emily commissioner, I am here, to assist in the briefing of our community on the impacts of hurricane dalia. the county residents hurt Natalia has moved slightly east of the accounting system, we'll have a lasting impact on the community is. This is historic category four storm predicted to have. threatening storm surge hurricanes. worse. Winds and heavy rain Leon county residents you should expect down trees, blocked roads, our outages flooding in overall dangerous conditions. Now whenever he formed and follow all emerge the orders

Everyone must shelter in place until the storm has passed. Please tending to follow? The on counting on social media are website local radio station w S, you encourage everyone and stay safe. Until the storms passed, what torn passes. We may have many, without power, and there may be lots of debris in the roads. Public works, with its partners will be working twenty four seven on the recovery effort of restoring power and clearing roads, Many roads will be blocked by trees or flooding waters and dangerous to drive on please? use roadways unless it is safe for an emergency stay home. If you can please give first responders time to clear the way and restore power folks how many staff is the best of the best on take phone calls that our team will be around the clock to restore normal see to our community. I'd also like to thank the governor and states.

for their ability to respond quickly and assisting not only the on county, but our new on the gulf coast as well as we prepare for impact this morning. Take you, god bless. so we are going to have these the full landfall impacts very very shortly. Within the next couple hours most likely problem we by zero, eight hundred, it's gonna, is gonna, make landfall on floored of big bang. So while please hunker down, where were you? Are I don't mess storm. Don't don't do anything? That's gonna put yourself in jeopardy and they'll, be a lotta help come in on the back end this storm and were ready to go We soon is it safe to do so. You're gonna see all these different assets deployed, so stay safe? Any questions,

the sea presence here, for this strengthens potentially category five an hour in category four, I think there. I think, if you look at that, did the counties. I think that they mobilise very quickly. I think that they ve been very clear about this. Storm search thread and all these zone ays across that the gulf coast and probably more so than any storm that that I can remember in recent years. So people I understand we we've said from the beginning. It was gonna, probably be a major hurricane, and that's what it is, and so so we're here and we're ready and we're going to we're going to work hard on the back end. To make sure everyone gets back up on their feet is the message to shelter place for all forty nine counties that are under the state of emergency? So it's it's. If, if you're in a part, there there's counties where the storms pass, so there may be some outer bands, that's not necessarily saying shelter, saying if you're in the

of where the eyeballs going, you know this point you gotta hunker down, and so those big Ben counties as we get in the north central florida You know you're in your in jeopardy. At that point, and so It's really those places where it's gonna hit the eye wall, where the eye walls coming in to be able to to not mess with it. It's it's going to be a significant, significant impact decided to stay well sure. I think that it's it's a hazardous situation, if you end up with storm surge that that even approaches that sixteen feet that the chance of, surviving. That is not great. You would need to be even like I'm three story building because it is going to rise very, very highly so, but I there were some pete now most people did heed the warning, but there are some that just that's just that's what they wanted to and so once this passes

will be our rescue efforts down dead done, if need be, and and and hopefully it's not necessarily- hopefully they knew what they were doing and they have a spot. But it's There is potentially very very hazardous when you're talkin about really anything even approaching ten feet. But when you start talking about potentially sixteen feet, that is a huge huge deal was that there was that there would be forty thousand electrical to respond to the restoration effort. We know always. We said up to. We said we between thirty and forty and that's where we're at we're. Between thirty and forty we haven't talked to the cruises worry because they're are actually out in the field, doing what they're doing so. Not so will not so much about the number as we of the organ, the powers what do think that, for that caught a break here in the areas like the Tampa bay area, while it's not a break for the people that are in

half way. So I think it's anytime, you have it it's it's difficult. You know. If you just look at way Florida is cut two halves. then go in this big ban and it's gonna be to georgia relic have we soon, whereas we ve had so hurricanes. I mean like ie and do rams and in south west floor and then cut across the entire state and really impacted many many millions of people. So we do not want to get hit it. All you to be as as modest and impact as as is humanly possible, and I that there's different pass that some of these storms it take in was one was a really bad path, just because it impact at so many people like peoples, the images of four myers beach, and obviously that was a catastrophic. Those are catastrophic images, but you know you would go

dreads of miles away, and you and major major flooding. You had a in on the on the east coast of florida in places like the lucia county, the beaches and things like that. yet structures falling down, because because of that, so it had massive massive impacts, and so anytime you to do this. You know you to tat. Dirty impact is small amount of of places as possible. If you think about trump. You know he's arrested you're in florida and he hasn't commented on retaliate at all. Not my concern. My concern is protecting the people of florida being ready to go, and we've done and look we in florida. You you just have to do this. I mean this is something we put a lot of time and effort into throughout the course of of each year, knowing that that there's gonna be time where you're gonna have to activate it. Now we we had a major one. Last year, one of the most expensive on record. We are hoping that

They have any this year there. Maybe we would get off lucky and about, but that state didn't was it in the cards, so you deal with it, but that's that's been. Our focus. Get All this stuff ramp up, I think, about the counties by and large they have done a really good job with this, and you know, there's going to be things, editor happen of these next few days or require a lot of support and we want to be there'd be able to support. Folks, I we'll be back, would do in some more briefings and then cities storm passes, I think, will probably end up trying to get on the road and figure out. Where where the damage, though the worst damage, is in and get down there and and see what we can do to be able to help those folks thanks. that is far too governor rhonda santas, leading a briefing in tower the florida briefing that industry the power of this storm when the power dipped out briefly, while the governor was speaking before the generators kicked in just a few seconds later, that's alive picture right now Fifty four in the morning a perry, florida justin

we came on the air little under an hour ago. That picture has changed pretty dramatically. That's gave Gutierrez our rapporteur. That is his position there. The winds of picked up the reins have picked up what we learn, from the briefing as that cheating beach florida according to fema will be the play. Of landfall there on the big Ben. That's about a hundred eighty two hundred miles north of tampa. Seventy five miles southeast of tallahassee keaton beach florida, making landfall just over an hour from now governed santa saint, eight o clock eastern time is when they're looking for this storm to hit. When at this point they say If you decide to ride out the storm stay inside hunker down and hope you survive at, they gave warnings for days to evacuate some of these areas. At this point stay inside and hope for the best, we'll be right back with our continue coverage of a powerful category. Four

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