. >> joining us now on the telephone, judy peterson with fair fax county government. what is the situation there regarding flooding, power outages and concerns in fair fax? >> let me tell you we wanted to make sure residents of the bellevue new alexandria area knew we were reaching out by phone to make them ready for the possibility of flooding in their neighborhood tomorrow afternoon or evening. this message is for people that live east of the road. west of george washington parkway, south of bell haven road and north of wake forest drive. that this is the area that the county is concerned about that engine nears are monitoring the situation there. should this escalate and again, this would be tomorrow. if flooding was imminent and an evacuation was required, these folks would be called and the public safety personnel would be knocking on the door. >> we have been told earlier in the evening that 23 local roads have been closed in fair fax. does that number stand? are some of those reopened or more roads shut down? >> ire don't have a number of roads which are closed

judy peterson with the fairfax county park authority joins us. we know this was two streets earlier, arlington terrace and fenwick street. what's the latest now? >> i do want to clarify this is not an evacuation order. what we're talking about is that residents should be prepared for the possibility of flooding in their neighborhood. bieve this is possible tomorrow afternoon or evening. again we are not asking anybody new to evacuate, but if you live east of ft. hunt road west of the george washington parkway, south of bell haven road and north of wake forest drive, you are in the areas that the county is a bit concerned about. we do have county engineers who are monitoring this situation and if flooding is imminent and an evacuation would be required, they'll be called and the public safety personnel will actually come to their door. >> let me ask you. we have a reporter who has been on the scene there all evening long when the evacuations were taking place. there were some people who said hey were not going to heave. how do you handle -- leave.