so search and shop. save and snooze. and rest easy, knowing that we've got your back. literally. that's what you get, when you've got wayfair. so shop now. the strongest storm on record to strike the bahamas. hurricane dorian is slamming the islands and now threatens the u.s. with devastating conditions. we'll have the very latest storm track and updates from team on the ground. plus, another mass shooting in america. a gunman kills seven in west texas. we'll go live to total of 22 pe wounded. >> good morning, everybody. on this labor day, monday, september 2, i'm yasmin vossoughian with geoff bennett and susan del percio with us as well. we begin with record setting

hurricane dorian now a catastrophic category 5 storm. right now the bahamas is getting pounded as the storm heads towards the united states. now, this is video from the abacos, where dorian made two landfalls there. we are getting reports of ripped off rooftops and maximum sustained winds of 185 miles an hour. the storm is tied one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. earlier this morning the national hurricane center warned of the ongoing life threatening situation in the bahamas and warned that the storm will move dangerously close to the u.s. meanwhile, more than 1 million people on the coast of florida, georgia and south carolina are under mandatory evacuation orders which take effect as of noon today. >> for the very latest let's bring in the meteorologist janessa webb. where do things stand right now? >> this is an unfortunate situation for the grand bahamas

right now. you said about 5 miles an hour with the latest update currently moving out of the west at 1 miles an hour. so basically what's happening is this storm system is starting to stall out. and that is just unfortunate. this is catastrophic for the grand bahama where about 50,000 people reside in that area and it's currently dark and the eye of the system continues to make its way to the west. now, what we're doing to see is just this steering mechanism hopefully before it starts to creep well to the north here. we'll start to see the transition of this storm system. but right now, we still have hurricane warnings also this just in from the national hurricane center at 6:00 a.m. hurricane warnings have been issued for coastal areas of south florida here. also, tropical storm warnings. what that means the next 24 to 36 hours we could see that tropical flow hurricane force

winds starting to pick up. with this storm system becoming so close now, it's time we put in our radar. you can start to see here, this is what we're dealing with yesterday out towards marsh harbour. the eye of that system made its way through and now they're getting the back end of this storm system. this is freeport currently really getting battered right now with the hefty side of that storm system. they are seeing sustained wind speeds of 165 miles an hour. so what's doing to happen here in about the next 24 to 36 hours, the eye of the storm will hover over this area and completely stall out. the storm surge really is going to be an issue. now with the latest update not much has changed. i do want to show you here. this is really uncomfortable for west palm beach here. this is about 20 to 25 miles away from the area here with a

major cat 4 potentially hitting that area. so really too close for comfort. i do want to show you with the wind speeds we're talking about sustained winds of 165 miles per hour, with gusts. even if we do not see the landfall at west palm they're dealing with over 185 miles an hour. this is the big difference, geoff and yas mine here look at wilmington. we have a potential landfall now for friday, gusts up to 120 miles per hour. so lots of changes. >> how confident are we in the current path, because it seems like the hurricane has drifted a bit east. but even if it drifts slightly west, then west palm for instance can see a lot more damage than anticipated at this time. >> you're exactly right. what i'm up comfortable with right now it's still moving out

of the west here. we need it to shift here well to the north and east. until we see that, you can see that little bit of a wobble. if you come closer here you can see the eye trying to shift a little bit here. but until we get an update when we see a potential north-northwest shift we're not out of the clear yet for west palm beach. >> then also i visited a lot of those amazing beautiful islands in the bahamas over the years and a lot of low-lying areas there, 185 miles an hour max sustained winds that's unbelievable to even think about, considering the structures considering how they build on the islands. the low-lying structures and how ill-prepared they would be just structurally because of the sustained winds. we know there are evacuation olders put in place and

hopefully many have left at this point. we have to wait and see as to what happens after the storm has cleared. how quickly will people be able to get back to the island to see what's happened and what damage has been sustained? at what point will the storm move past -- will dorian move past the bahamas? >> you were talking about sustained winds, we saw gusts yesterday of 220 miles per hour. and the problem here is that it's stalling out. so it's going to sit across the grand bahamas. it's out of marsh harbour right now. the outer bands but it's going to sit in fremont, the grand bahamas, for 36 hours. >> wow. >> so that's going to be catastrophic flooding here. inundation and i haven't touched on the high tide. after the system makes its way out in 36 hours you have a high tide cycle around 3:00 or 4:00 here and the elevation of the bahamas at sea le the

geography of the bahamas will forever be changed due to this event. >> yeah. all right. >> janessa webb, thanks for that. so as we mentioned, a mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of florida, for parts for georgia and for south carolina. julia bagg is joining us live from jackson beach, florida. thanks for joining us. parts of the city have been ordered to evacuate this morning. take us through that. >> that's exactly right, and where we are here in jacksonville beach, the evacuations are set to begin at 8:00. hotels to be closing. no one will be able to stay in the hotels tonight. now, already in the state of emergency the beach just a few dozen yards behind me is closed. in fact, the plans to close that beach originally that would have happened tonight but emergency managers deciding to waste no

time closing that as of midnight this morning. no one allowed on the beach. they're also urging people to stay out of the intercoastal as well. schools are closed across the jacksonville area here in duval county. of course, they would have closed anyway for labor day but they're now closed through wednesday. also to the south of us the same thing in st. augustine. even alcohol sales are going to be suspended going into 10:00 tonight. also a curfew going into effect at 10:00 between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. that going forward until further notice. now to be clear about the evacuations even though they are mandatory, police here cannot actually force anyone to leave. but the risk here is for anyone who stays behind if there's an emergency and they call 911, rescuers may not be able to reach them. >> all right, julia bagg live from jacksonville, florida,

thank you. at one point yesterday the national weather service had to scramble to correct information from president trump about dorian. he incorrectly tweeted that alabama was likely to be hit by the hurricane. minutes after that, the national weather service tweeted this. alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. president trump also had this to say yesterday. take a look. >> we don't even know what's coming at us. all we know it's possibly the biggest. i have -- i'm not sure that i have ever even heard of category 5. i knew it existed and i have seen some category 4s. you don't see them that much but the category 5 is something t t that -- i don't know that i even heard the term other than i know it's there. >> so including dorian there have been four category 5 hurricanes during the trump presidency and he's heard of it before because well, watch this

mashup courtesy of our colleagues. >> i'm not sure if i have heard of a category 5. category 5, i don't know if i heard the term. never seen a cat gory like this coming because it came in at a 5. it was a category 5. it hit as a 5. category 5 which literally never happens. it touched down as a category 5. people have never seen anything like that. this has been a category 5 which few people have ever even heard of. category 5, nobody's heard of a 5 hitting land. category 5 hurricane. never heard of category 5s before. category 5 is big stuff. >> okay. so another story we have been following seven people are dead. 22 injured after another mass shooting in texas on saturday. the rampage began after the suspect was the subject of a traffic stop between midland and

odessa. he shot the trooper and then continued west, opening fire at motorists and pedestrians as he drove by. then he abandoned his vehicle, stole a u.s. postal service van and he was killed in a shoot-out with police. three officers and a toddler are among the wounded. police say the gunman's motive is not yet clear. however, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the case telling nbc news that the shooter had been fired from his job. they added this incident did not seem to be an act of either domestic or international terror. joining us from odessa, texas, msnbc correspondent von hilliard. take us through what we know. >> yeah, good morning. over the course of two hours on saturday afternoon, there's mass confusion and fear across this odessa/mid land area.

the population is about 280,000. this is kind of the major metropolitan hub of west texas and beginning at 3:13 when two deputies attempted to pull over a gold honda, that is when the deputies. and over the course of those next two hours ultimately 12 active crime scenes unfolded there as shots were fired along the road, over into different parking lots. you have more than 22 that were injured, seven ultimately that were killed. the gunman himself ultimately was killed himself by police officers here at this parking lot of this movie theater/bowling alley complex. it was over the course of the two hours in which the gunman essentially wreaked havoc across this city. we heard from multiple folks said over the course of the time they were trying to get ahold of the police officers, but the amount of calls that were coming in ultimately created a backlog. that is where the police

officers tracked him down to this spot before ultimately one office nudging him into another vehicle and in a standoff ensuing here at this location. we should note there's still many questions that are yet to be answered. one of those is how did this gunman obtain what authorities are calling an ar-style weapon? another question that is yet to be answered is what the motive of this shooter is. we know that he was a 36-year-old white male. as you said nbc news is reporting via several authorities that he was recently fired from his employer. the other part that we don't have answers to yet are the names and identifications of most of those who were injured. frankly those that were killed. we can report the passing of mary granodo and rodolfo arco. a trucker here in the area. we hope to learn more about the

victims as the day unfolds. >> yet again, a terrifying day for the citizens of that city and really the citizens of this nation when we see another mass shooting happening again. thank you, vaughan. let's talk about the politics of this now because yesterday president trump down played the effect of how lawmakers are approaching the gun control legislation. take a look at this. >> this really hasn't changed anything. we're doing a package and we'll see what it all -- how it comes about. it's coming about right now and people are talking about it. that's irrespective of what happened yesterday in texas. but we're looking at a lot of different things. we're looking at a lot of different bills, ideas, concepts. it's been going on for a long while. background checks. if you look at the last four or five -- going back even five or six or seven years, for the most part as strong as you make your

background checks the they would not have stopped any of it. so it's a big problem. it's a mental problem, it's a big problem. >> so following saturday's mass shooting, beto o'rourke led fellow democratic presidential candidates in renewing calls for gun safety reform. >> don't know what the motivation is, do not yet know the firearms that were used or how they acquired them. but we do know this is [ bleep ] up. we do know -- we do know that this has to stop in this country. >> we do know that it's time for politicians to act. >> the american people are sick and tired and horrified by the never ending mass shootings that we see virtually every week. >> other democratic candidates who will be on the debate stage later this month also called for action on gun control. former vice president joe biden tweeted we must end this

epidemic while south bend indiana pete buttigieg and senator elizabeth warren called on congress to act. senator kamala harris of california wrote quote, our children deserve a future without multiple mass shootings in one month. we need gun safety reform. and senator cory booker of new jersey promised executive action to reduce gun violence on his first day in the oval office. senator amy klobuchar criticized the inaction of the senate and businessman andrew yang said that the united states is the only place facing this level of gun violence. susan del percio, what is the way forward? here we go again. you have both sides settling into the well established positions here. president trump has been all over the map. he's called for tougher background checks and then to only to reiterate the nra talking points about how they're tough enough. i heard from some white house officials they think the way forward is to focus on mental illness. we heard the president echo some of that, but that's not what the democrats are calling for and what they have already passed in

terms of legislation that's now sitting at the door step of the republican senate. >> what does it mean to focus on mental illness? how do you put that into legislation? >> in texas they put in more money for funding for mental health. he said background checks wouldn't have taken care of most of what's happened in the last five, six, seven years. he's right, it's the guns. you have to go after assault-style weapons. that's the problem. >> not going to do that. >> well, they won't, but here's the one thing i think they can do is they can go after those high capacity magazines. that's no reason to be able to shoot 41 rounds in 24 seconds. that's where you see these mass amounts -- >> how are -- are you at all confident they'd do that, that republicans would support going after high capacity magazines when you sure as heck know that they are on the side of the nra? when you know wayne lapierre will be saying, we do not

support this when you know wayne lapierre will be calling the president and saying we do not support this, nor does your base support this. which is the key word as he well knows for the president of the united states to change his mind on something. >> that's very true, but we have seen the nra's influence especially their funding go down in comparison to gun safety groups. so that's another big thing. they were actually outspent by gun safety groups in 2018. do i see it happening tomorrow. any -- no. any gun control law it will be nothing more than a press release. but i think at this point it's up to the advocates on gun safety to really start playing tough, dirty pool with the nra and start going after their board members. we have seen it in boycotts on advertising. i think it's meant to hold every single member of that board accountable in their hometowns and go after them and their businesses and call them out

because until -- nothing will get changed until basically you're one or two steps removed from someone who has been touched by an act of gun violence. and we have seen one congressman get there. but unfortunately i think until it hits a critical mass we won't see it. still ahead we'll dig into what "the washington post" is calling donald trump's lost summer. >> plus the dnc throws a wrench into the iowa and nevada caucuses. we'll tell you about how that move is creating some serious confusion when we come back.

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welcome back, everybody. we're continuing to track hurricane dorian, one of the strongest storms ever recorded. it is pounding the bahamas as a million coastal residents in florida, georgia and south carolina are preparing to leave under mandatory evacuation orders. we'll go live to the bahamas coming up just at the top of the next hour. i want to get more into some more politics though. the democratic presidential contenders will have a new chance to square off on the top issues next month. the dnc says the october debate will take place on october 15th in ohio. though no city has been announced just yet. the ten candidates who already qualify for the next debate in houston later this month will be automatically included in the ohio debate. if any additional candidates qualify, it will be split up into two nights. at the moment the additional

candidate that appears closest to qualifying for that october debate stage is billionaire tom steyer. >> there's growing confusion ahead of the next year's caucuses in iowa and nevada. dnc leaders are saying that they cancel plans for a virtual caucus saying that the technology is not secure enough to prevent the system from being hacked. it would allow the democrats to dial in and rank a handful of the choices for president. now the goal was to make it more accessible and to boost participation. but politico points out that it's unclear how the caucuses in both states will move forward while still full felting increasing the accessibility. as some promote the summer of 2019 as one of historic achievement for the president, privately many consider this to be a period of missed

opportunity and self-sabotage. this summer trump issued racist attacks against four congresswomen of color and called the city of baltimore which is predominantly black rat and rodent infested. beyond that his visits to dayton, ohio, and el paso, texas, served to divide rather than heal. "the post" reports when asked about the summer, the white house quote offered a detailed 26-point list of what officials characterized as key successes. the paper also notes that it's unclear whether trump will pay a political price for his summertime controversies. >> what do you make of this, susan? quite a summer for the president to say the least according to "the washington post" and not necessarily in a good way. >> let's look at the latest quinnipiac poll that came out last week, he's getting killed. he is losing women at 60%. he's losing women without college educations at an alarming rate. independents are gone. they're -- people are not reacting well to this president and his messaging. it's gone beyond the point of being divisive.

it is now having an economic impact. we had new tariffs that kicked in yesterday. that's going to hurt people where it counts -- in their pocketbooks so i think with the economic uncertainty, plus the president's behavior and frankly racism comments that he's made that only served to divide the country, of course he's sitting at 38% on a good poll. because no one wants to get behind him. we have also seen a complete lack of leadership from this president. he's not a leader. no one is following him. they're obeying him in the white house but people are not following him. >> it's interesting that you bring up the women when it comes to the latest polling because every person that i encounter when i was on vacation last week, they asked me about what they felt was going to happen in the next election and i mention how women are going to be pivotal in the next election. whether it's for trump or against him. >> oh, that's absolutely right.

when we look at 2018 as a model, women especially suburban women who may have voted for trump pause they just said all right, we have nothing to lose. they couldn't vote for hillary clinton they see what's at stake and they're not going to vote for him again. >> yeah. phil rucker who wrote that piece trump's lost summer will be with us next hour. and hurricane dorian shifts just miles off of florida's east coast. >> and the mayor will join us live with the preparations there. join us live with the preparations there. johnson & johnson is a baby company. but we're also a company that controls hiv, fights cancer, repairs shattered bones, relieves depression,

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welcome back. we continue to monitor hurricane dorian now a category 5 storm pounding the bahamas. let's bring in meteorologist janessa webb with another check on dorian's path. >> it continues to grow here. we have a powerful cat 5 here. sustained winds, constant wind speed of 165 miles per hour but the gusts they're exceeding over 200 miles per hour. now, just in the last about 20 minutes we're starting to see this eye, it's starting to wobble here. so you know like when you're driving a car and you try to make that right or left turn, you have to slow down. that's exactly what this storm

system is doing. it's out. the west at 1 mile per hour, but it's so trying to shift and it will completely park out over freeport into marsh harbour for the next 36 hours here. that is catastrophic for that area. this elevation of the northern bahamas is at sea level here. so we're going to see that storm surge and the flooding really be an issue. we're forecasting potentially up to 20 inches of rain. so now we do have hurricane warnings that are in place for southern florida here. i do expect the national weather service to really start to expand these as the cone of uncertainty continues to make its way in. now look at the winds here. we're talking about right now sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. look at these winds going into monday evening. they don't let up here for

freeport. going in to tuesday, they do not let up still 100 miles per hour. this is 2:00 p.m. tuesday here. 83 miles per hour. finally, starting to get a little bit of a break. but then you're going to start to hopefully notice the shift here. now, the geography of the bahamas will never be the same since the stall out here and just the structural damage if you see some photos and videos that are currently on social media it's just devastating for this island. never seen a hurricane of this force before here. now, it will slowly move up the coast here. dayton -- daytona beach, excuse me, the florida coast with the hurricane warnings that are put in place, there is that potential for the storm surge. we have the outer bands and i want to show you that. we are already starting to see for west palm beach into miami,

looking at this, this is tracking like an ef-3 tornado potentially. you know, these outer bands are very harsh, it's torrential rain. that is really our major concern. folks, even if we don't see a landfall here it's the outer edges of this storm system that's really going to cause the major damage. so right now we're forecasting four to seven feet potentially for the low-lying areas across west palm beach. so that's just a very low elevation for the florida panhandle as well. and that's going to be a huge problem. isolated rain totals here, they continue to come in with our models but potentially up to about 12 inches. as it makes its way through, i think we'll see significant flooding for the carolinas. what i do not like look at this, yasmin and geoff. we're going to see this come very close to the coastal areas of the outer banks for

wilmington, potential cat 2. this is something to keep our eye on for the next update here at friday at 2:00 a.m. >> it's interesting too it will be able to maintain some significant strength as it moves up the east coast. i see it making it to wilmington at a category 2 hurricane which is incredible to see. but as we're watching this storm turn, and you're seeing those outer bands begin to affect cities like miami, like palm beach, they're beginning to see the waves coming in and the wind pick up, you talked about that storm surge. i remember covering hurricane sandy up in the northeast a bunch of years ago and it was really the storm surge on staten island that was the most devastating stuff that people lost their lives and their homes and their livelihoods. talk about how significant this storm surge could be for some of these southeast residents and also how quickly it could happen this storm surge. because it comes in very

quickly. you don't even know necessarily that it's coming and then 60 seconds that water goes from two inches to ten feet. >> right. it comes in fast. very fast here with four to seven inches here across these coastal areas. and i don't think that we will see that in the next 36 hours. with the stall out of the system right now, it's really not doing to happen very quickly so we still have some time to prepare. i think by tuesday, we really have the threat of that storm surge. but these outer bands, miami wasn't in the cone here for -- with the latest update. but miami is very low-lying area. it's very flood prone with even the high tide cycle. so then you're adding on this massive storm here. this is flooding -- flooding is going to be a huge issue here. so when we talk to our correspondents out in the field, we're going to notice in a few hours the bands that they're

going to be hit with here. this is torrential rain that's going to really come in fast. and you were talking about that hurricane, i remember matthew in 2016 here. it wasn't the storm. it never made landfall. but florida, south carolina, north carolina we had fatalities. florida, with over $1 billion worth of damage due to matthew. and we never had a landfall. so still, even if we don't have the eye of the storm really hit land, it's a huge problem just the outer edges of the storm. >> all right, janessa webb, we'll check back with you all morning long. up next could america's longest war soon be over? plus more violent protests in hong kong. how far will china go to stop democratic activists? democratic activists ♪

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welcome back. president trump tweeted a detailed photo of a recently failed iranian satellite launch that raised questions about whether he publicly released classified information. he said the united states was not involved in the catastrophic launch site 1 in iran. i wish iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at site 1. now two outside expert said that the image that accompanied that tweet would be available only to a government source and was likely very likely classified. it's worth noting that the president has the authority to declassify anything he wishes,

but analysts suggest that although the president may be letting tehran know the u.s. is watching he may have disclosed critical aspects of the his intelligence capabilities. while speaking to reports on friday, trump defended his tweet saying quote, we had a photo, i released it. which i have the absolute right to do. >> look, you know, it's obvious this is somewhat of a tit for tat situation between the united states and iran and in the back and forth and you had the selfie tweeted out next to the satellite that was to be launched, saying this is me next to this satellite, you know? the back and forth we have been seeing all summer -- not between the two individuals but between the two countries. but speaking about the satellite imaginary and susan we were talking about this as we came back from break. and the pixilation that you saw in this satellite imagery what is concerning is just how clear this photo was because it is one

thing where the president does have the absolute right to release this image but it shows the type of technology and how closely we are able to see what is actually going on on the ground in countries like iran and in countries like north korea and this is coming from the president who has said historically i don't like to say what i'm about to do because i don't want -- i don't want other countries to get a handle on that. to be prepared for what we're about to do and yet he's tweeting out satellite imagin y imaginary -- imagery of things that our intelligence agents look at. >> and cnbc reports it came from his friday intelligence briefing. that was basically -- >> so there's that. >> so what's the takeaway here? >> i think the takeaway here, once again it shows the president is not only reckless with information that he gets because he wants to show strength. oh, look what i can show the world, not that it's america's technology. and that he's weakening our country by showing the world what we have. but also that he's learned so

little about how intelligence gathering works. and what's at stake and how the process takes -- unfolds. he showed our hand for no reason. and to your point, yasmin, you're right. you won't know how i negotiate, that's because he never knows how he'll negotiate or how to handle a sensitive situation like in. >> a u.s. envoy met with the president of afghan behind doors. and a spokesman for the afghan president confirmed that the meeting took place last night. and that it comes immediately after the u.s. envoy met with taliban leaders while the trump administration remains tight lipped, a taliban spokesman said they're on the verge of reaching a peaceful solution for afghanistan. but negotiations came just hours after the taliban attacked another afghan city killing both civilians and security forces. before the u.s. ends the 18-year campaign, negotiators are looking for assurances that afghanistan will not once again

become a safe haven for extremist groups. there is an uncomfortable quiet along the israeli/lebanese border after a weekend of artillery fire and threats as israeli officials say that the iran backed group hezbollah hit two idf targets including an israeli army base. no casualties were reported but the idf says it fired back with artillery shells and helicopter fire. it is the most serious cross border exchange in four years. after the attacks, lebanon's prime minister called on the u.s. and france to intervene. and in hong kong, pro democracy demonstrators disrupted public transportation as students took part in a citywide class boycott on their first day back to school. look at this. the demonstration comes just a weekend or a week rather after a tense weekend marked by some of the most violent clashes in the nearly three months of protests there. "the new york times" reports that tens of thousands of people

defied the police ban saturday and marched through several central hong kong neighborhoods. some clashed with riot police officers near the government headquarters throwing rocks and firebombs as officers there responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons. demonstrators also rallied outside hong kong's international airport disrupting transportation there while forcing travelers to scramble to get to and from the airport. now a nearby subway station was also closed after it was damaged by protesters. all right, coming up 1 million people are under evacuation orders as hurricane dorian moves closer as a dangerous storm. plus sharp reaction from several democratic candidates following the latest mass shooting in texas over the weekend. we'll be right back. ng in texase weekend. we'll be right back.

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palm beach county alone, a lot of people and a lot of lives to be thinking about today. and over the following days. what is your county doing to prepare for this storm? >> well, first of all, thank you very much for having me. our thoughts and prayers are with the folks who are experiencing this storm in the grand bahamas and we have to continue to pray for the residents in the grand bahamas and in palm peach we have a huge bahamian population. we are preparing for the storm right now. where we have issued a mandatory evacuation for certain zones. if you live in mobile homes and sub standard homes and also the barrier islands so we have issued mandatory evacuations. also, we really would like all of our residents to make their final storm preparation this morning because this storm is a very dangerous storm which is moving at 1 miles per hour very

slow. we're waiting for it to turn and any change in the storm, in this hurricane, could potentially devastate the coast of florida and palm beach county. >> mayor bernard, how would you characterize the level of coordination you're having with the governor there ron desantis and with the federal government for that matter as you try to prepare for this storm? >> well, what i can tell you, we experienced hurricane irma two years ago and this is a very different administration in terms of the preparation for this storm. we have met with the governor, he came to palm beach county. we had a conversation with fema. and the white house in terms of the preparation for this storm because this storm could potentially devastate the state of florida and i would say the coordination between local government, the state of florida and the administration has been really great for the residents of palm beach county and the state of florida.

>> mayor, what are you doing over the next 24 hours or so? i imagine right now you're starting to feel the wind pick up and then if this thing is to make landfall it will be about in 24 hours from now. what are you doing over the next 24 hours to ensure that as many residents follow these evacuation orders in the key areas as possible? >> well, we have been pretty much -- i have been at the emergency operations center just making sure that we talk to all of the residents. communicate with them to let them know because sometimes you may have apathy because some of the residents think that this storm is not coming and they make preparations, but what we want to let the residents know is you see what's going on in the grand bahamas and any turn and this storm could devastate palm beach county and so we're preparing. we have our team here. i met the emergency operation, our sheriff's office is ready. our full county operation is pretty much ready to go.

al -- because of the fact that we're in a hurricane-prone state, our county is always prepared for a storm. and, you know, you have to experience the storm so now you can put all the plans into action. >> a great point you make, mr. mayor, about apathy being one of the greatest dangers. what's your top line takeaway for the folks there, what do you want them to know as the storm approaches? >> as this storm approaches, you know, for me in palm beach county, we have over 25% of our population that are seniors. that's over 375,000 residents. we're urging our residents to help our seniors to make sure that they make their final preparation and also we have opened a special needs shelter at the south florida fair grounds and we want for those residents who are frail, who may need electricity and so we have that shelter that is available to the residents.

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