pretty flattered by the head why did you set this movie in vero beach my vero beach is i have a thing with florida i love it and when i was about twelve my mom moved to florida with my stepfather and he wanted to open up. a wine company there and he had had this memory. of it being really dear to him because vero beach was really big in its heyday was or that it was for the dodgers great for the dodgers spring training fifty's and sixty's and so i guess i just have this affection for of the beach and it is the hub of some really interesting cultural events so for instance there's a windsor. polo club there where prince charles frequents he you know there's so you got prince charles a guy like darryl strawberry occasionally back in the day and you get interested in the white school yeah there's just it's very tiny but it's of note chris who then wrote and directed we will writer who then i did or we would direct to the would i i was an actress who was a closet writer who aspired to be a director so then we all mixed it all up ocean first film breakers and actors i don't know which one

shows areas under a hurricane warninging all of metro miami anticipate the keys and stretch up to vero beach. >> mandatory evacuation orders cover at least 1.2 million people in florida. all public are closed today and monday due to the storm. >> now, airlines are flying larger planes in to try to get more people out but it is still very difficult to get a flight. abc's stephanie ramos is in miami and joins us now with the latest. stephanie, good morning. what are you seeing? >> reporter: diane and nick, good morning. right now it's calm here in miami but, you know this, deadly storm is getting closer and closer to south florida, more than a million people have been ordered to evacuate as hurricane irma barrels through the caribbean leaving a mess of devastation behind. in florida, the governor is stressing this could be a historic disaster and residents should listen to mandatory evacuations. >> remember hurricane andrew is one of the worst storms in the history of florida. this storm is much worse. >> there's still some uncertainty as to where the northward turn will occur but everyone in

that caller is gone and we are moving onto in vero beach florida. hi charlotte. >> caller: how are you? >> host: please go ahead. we are listening. >> caller: it's very good to see you and me this morning. this is the first time seeing you governor wilder and i love to have -- hear what you have to say. i blame a lot of our chaos on history books that haven't changed. the emphasis has not been put on both sides of history and the truth and what has happened in our country. that's so important.an you can't go forward if you don't know what you did in the past. you will keep making the same mistake so i love what you're doing and i encourage very much that is where we belong. so thank you.i >> guest: will thank you very much. i really do think you for that.a we are going through some very difficult times in america today but we have gone through moree difficult times before and as dr. king would say we will overcome. >> host: governor wilder did you get more done as governor or mayor? >> guest: well you know i used to say that both jobs were very diff

evacuate but many have chosen to ride out the storm including our next guest we have a residence from vero beach that is on the east coast are you under a mandatory evacuation?. >> no. we are just above the flood zone so we're 6 miles from the atlantic. >> power outages why you choose tuesday?. >> we were planning to go to atlanta it was either a batter go up north where we have family and as the storm began to shift on wednesday we would leave and by then resawed negative shifting and we made a decision to be prepared i felt very comfortable with the decision tuesday. >> the tickets to the point they make the decision within the ec the gas of the highway and the traffic and people were just stranded. do you have food to last a while?. >> we could not find water all week and tall thursday there is no bottled water in the town but now we have plenty. >> we heard about price gouging had used the that?. >> we have seen some of that it was expected but a lot of people have chosen tuesday. but even those families at least in this community but did this terrible out there we did that one time in 2004

vero beach to naples. you're in the watch. can i take you the winds. the winds he's feeling there. the 150idi isiding rip off. this is just the beginning. this is the future cast. 125-mile-per-hour gusts projected in naples. 87 in miami still. ten hours later from where we're seeing the gus. up forward tampa. 70. the orange cone, 60-plus. that takes down power looins. tallahassee, picking up the types of winds that take down power looins and trees. we lose it all as it gets into georgia and alabama. don't forget about the rain. up to 15 and locally 20 inches. >> when is florida going to be in the clear? >> after monday night, into tuesday. we have to get a check closer to home. >> and ginger, back with us now. where is the area of greatest concern for you as the storm marches up the west side of florida today? >> immediate is keys. then everglades. a few brief hours of reprieve. then marco island and naples. up the beaches of fot. myers. right into the tampa bay tonight. we'll see images of water piling up. not just on the west side of the state. on the east side. we have seen thre

vero beach to naples. you're in the watch. can i take you the winds. the winds he's feeling there. the 150idi isiding rip off. this is just the beginning. this is the future cast. 125-mile-per-hour gusts projected in naples. 87 in miami still. ten hours later from where we're seeing the gus. up forward tampa. 70. the orange cone, 60-plus. that takes down power looins. tallahassee, picking up the types of winds that take down power looins and trees. we lose it all as it gets into georgia and alabama. don't forget about the rain. up to 15 and locally 20 inches. >> when is florida going to be in the clear? >> after monday >> and ginger, back with us now. where is the concern for you as the storm marches up the west side of florida today? >> immediate is keys. then everglades. a few brief hours of reprieve. then marco island and naples. up the beaches of fot. myers. right into the tampa bay tonight. we'll see images of water piling up. not just on the west side of the state. on the east side. we have seen three feet of surge in miami. all the way up to coast eventually. that water pile

vero beach, 60.st side of the state, you don't get away >> yesterday, the the storm was movinging west. now it seems to have turned north again. >> it's making the northward turn. every mile counts in this. as -- had it been just straight over islamorada more than key west, it would have gone more north. now it hugs the the coast. places like naples. bonita springs. the timing isover night tonight for sarasota. the highly pop lated areas. a very scary overnight. tallahassee by monday. and thuz, alabama, one thing to just note. with all of this is that this is for hours on end. just because it's just starting and your naples. they just got a 75-mile-per-hour gust. this is not going to be over soon. it will take ten >> don't be lulled by the first calm. tom llamas is in ft. myers. >> listening to your conversation. we're starting to feel the tropical force if not hurricane-force wind gusts. this is lee boulevard. a pretty busy intersection in fort meyer. it's empty. but some people are drivinging. it's

vero beach, 60.st side of the state, you don't get away if the hurricane-force gusts. >> yesterday, the the storm was movinging west. now it seems to have turned north again. >> it's making the northward turn. every mile counts in this. as -- had it been just straight over islamorada more than key west, it would have gone more north. now it hugs the the coast. places like naples. bonita springs. the timing isover night tonight for sarasota. the highly pop lated areas. a very scary overnight. tallahassee by monday. and thuz, alabama, one thing to just note. with all of this is that this is for hours on end. just because it's just starting and your naples. they just got a 75-mile-per-hour gust. this is not going to be over soon. it will take ten hours. >> don't be lulled by the first calm. tom llamas is in ft. myers. >> listening to your conversation. we're starting to feel the tropical force if not hurricane-force wind gusts. this is lee boulevard. a pretty busy intersection in fort meyer. it's empty.

joining us from vero beach, florida, tom durkin, president of premier citrus. 20,000-acres of citrusder his umbrella. what kind of preparations have you taken? >> most of these groves have drainage systems. we have fueled and employees evacuated and gone home to return monday or tuesday when the storm passes. liz: what are you expecting here at best? i was doing research, university of florida did a whole study on all kinds of trees, how they with stand winds and at best orange trees, can only sustain category 1 or 2 types of storms. this is a category 4. what do you expect to find monday when the storm hopefully passes? >> best guide we have is those of us went through 2004 which was a horrific year back then, was we lost 40, 45% of the fruit. we didn't lose such a high percentage of tree. i think it was less than 10% but it wasn't category 4. it wasn't in category 3. so my best guess coming up through the interior of the state, hitting really the central part of the, probably 80% of the industry will be impacted by a category 3 storm at least. i would say you're going to lose 50% o

jeff flock is on what has to be the most exposed area on the western coast of florida in vero beach. just that's a barrier beach with nothing between it and the gulf of mexico. how is it faring? >> here's the thing. you say the storm is in georgia. still in florida. let me tell you this is the storm surge from his coming up at yesterday we saw the pictures of water being out of the base and the passes. now it's headed back in there and you are watching storm surge as we speak come into what is called jobs that. connects treasure island with madero beach which is where we stand and i don't want to get wet. i've been wet for three days and i just got dried out so we are going to get too close to it but this is what this looks like the drives as water back into the path and potentially floods anything around it. we are not done with this yet liz as much as the storm has moved on, the effects are still here and recovery just began. recovery doesn't begin until we are done with the floods. liz: this is not news to you certainly but no boats can actually navigate anywhere near those areas

you have met with emergency management officials in miami, west palm beach, vero beach, tampa. i know you'll be in tampa tomorrow, what is the number one concern you here from officials. >> well, i tell you, i talked to almost all the county commissioners and the mayors, including four members of congress up and down the southwest coast. most recently the mayor just a few minutes ago of key west. and they are all feeling that they're as prepared as they can be. they think the cooperation between the feds, the state, and the local governments is all working. and now it's up to mother nature and what kind of below she deals to us. the mayor of key west just told me that he thinks it will go the eye a little east of key west, and therefore the north east quadrant of the eye wall will probably hit marathon about halfway down the keys the hardest. so we'll know in the morning that it's going right up the coast, and the big concern is the wall of water that will come on that counter clockwise rotation up into the bays and the he is chew areas. and we just spoke earlier to the city ma

vero beach, florida. that was kayla. washington times -- it was quoted as one diplomat saying there was visible shot in the room. the european union's ,oreign-policy chief agreed openly critical of trump's remarks. saying "we never talk about destroying another country, we and the iranian foreign minister posted that inump's hate speech belongs the medieval times, not the 21st century u.n. -- unworthy of a reply." focus ofea was another the speech, particularly the president talking about the recent missile launches and the intent of north korea, as the event. pres. trump: no nation on earth has an interest on seeing this band of criminals arm itself and nuclear weapons missiles. the united states has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. not -- rocket man is on a suicide mission for and his regime. the united states is ready, willing, and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. united nationse is all about. that

the president of premiere citrus, tom jerkins, about 20,000 acres, he is now on the phone from vero beachida. those are his pictures. tom, tell us about the damage. we saw some of the devastation. we'll put it back up on the screen. you tell us, what is your loss? how did the crops endure this? >> i think it's probably going to end up 40% loss. thankfully better than we thought. the storm was a little weaker than forecasted. the 40% range moves around the state. the east coast was very windy. hot spots with a tremendous amount of rain. st. lucy, the river district and 20". the de soto county area, 20" or so. the storm -- the winds were the greatest in the southern area, around ft. myers. i don't think there was a single grove untouched at the state. liz: at the height of this, i think we're looking at grapefruits trashed. at the height of it, how many feet of water were your trees under? . >> there was nearly two feet of rain. it collects somewhere in the system, and such a broad footprint that it gets backed up. it is a lot of water that has to move before the groves get drained. this is

then they take it off the coast, somewhere around jupiter, florida, vero beach, and into the south carolina as category 2 or 3. wide-range impacts all through the coast. we're very confident in this landfall in south carolina, georgia area. how close we actually get to the miami airitis still a huge question. let me show you two of our computers. these are forecast for the hurricane. this is the european model, this is the american model. 9:00 a.m. sunday, this is closest approach, when the worst would be in the miami area, the european model goes smack right into miami. this is worst case. this would be billions of dollars of disaster in the region from miami through west palm beach and first lady. t ft. lauderdale. the american model is off the coast. that's a huge difference. that would keep the eyewall off the coast. it's not set in stone we're going the get this horrific storm through south florida but as of now that's the forecast from the hurricane katrina. we'll watch all these squiggly lines. these are all of our this you are cane computer models. they come out every six hours and

. >> reporter: brand-new watch from vero beach, sarasota, jacksonville, brunswick, georgia. i imagine that they will extend it, and they have. now we are concerned about onshore or waterspouts turning into tornados. don't forget the east side. they will have plenty of threats too. this is from miami. it's tough to see. it is filling in very, very quickly. the storm surge, we have seen over five foot storm surge. we will see easily six feet in the miami area. 10 to 15, this is the number one killer. >> back to the governor, rick scott, in tallahassee taking questions from reporters. >> where are we now? >> the storm is just south of the naples area. i think it's about 80 miles south or so. it will have an unbelievable impact. 10 to 15 feet of surge on ground level. it looks like a little bit less. something close to that in ft. myers. we've added a lot of shelters. we've done everything we can to open shelters. we worked to make sure people get food. we spent hours moving -- trying to move people it of assisted living locations, making sure they have the support they need. we

neil: how are you holding up in vero beach? that is where you are right now. >> exactly.nk i have ever thought i know as much about spaghetti models and cones and website of the national hurricane center. i'm monitoring that thing, i guess it gets updated every four hours or so. for us, of course being on the east coast with the track moving slightly west, that's good. of course florida is not that wide. we're only maybe, if it goes where it is now, 100 miles from the center, so, yeah, i'm worried. neil: be well. hope your family is well. >> thank you. neil: hang in there my friend, gary b. smith. gary was touching on it here, the president is staying and working with democrats to keep the government lights on another couple months. they approved that in the house. it's a done deal. he worked with democrats to get there and there is a great deal among frustration who republicans whether he sold husband soul to do it, and maybe sold the party down the river while he was at it. the fury on the right, after this. ♪ before i had the shooting, burning of diabetic nerve pain th

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where -- where vero beach is. >> there is an intercoastal and an island where it was recommended evacuation north of west palm beach. >> how is the power situation going? we have been reporting 3.6 million without power and that number will rise. >> we have been out for 11, 10 hours. and it's actually really no guess as to when it's going to come back on. we don't have a generator so we'll be finding one the next day or so as soon as they start bringing more into the stores around here. everything was completed by the time we decided to ride it out. we decided when it moves west, and there was no generator. it's florida, it's fine, we have to pull out our backyard. laura: are you glad you have stayed. you just said i want to go back to that. you said by the time we decided we were going to stay. were you on the fence? >> we were. we were going to evacuate to atlanta. then we decided to go to d.c. where we had families. here is the thing. we thought it would be really bad. serious. but you know what? evacuation is really hard. we did it in 2004 twice. our families, with three kids. now they