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Speaker 1: Right to Milton. It's just starting to arrive in Florida.

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Speaker 1: And it is political in the sense the Vice President's weighing.

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Speaker 2: Into any company that or individual that might use this

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Speaker 2: crisis to exploit people who are desperate for help through

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Speaker 2: illegal fraud or price gouging, whether it be at the

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Speaker 2: gas pump, the airport, or the hotel counter. Know that

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Speaker 2: we are monitoring these behaviors and the situation on the

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Speaker 2: ground very closely, and anyone taking advantage of consumers will

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Speaker 2: be held accountable.

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Speaker 1: All right. Dabelized as a reporter in the area, he's

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Speaker 1: with us day morning.

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Speaker 3: To you, Well, good morning, how are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed, so you're in Fort mys Are you in the

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Speaker 1: middle of it yet or not?

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Speaker 3: No, we are not, but I can tell you that

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Speaker 3: the outer bands are starting to hit us here and

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Speaker 3: we have had probably about a half dozen confirmed tornado

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Speaker 3: reports here in southwest Florida this morning. It's been a

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Speaker 3: chaos just trying to get ready to go to work.

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Speaker 3: There is now a slight break and I'm actually driving

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Speaker 3: into the television station now on my way to work

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Speaker 3: for what's going to be a very long day.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, you're going to work for obvious reasons, and most

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Speaker 1: people leaving the state.

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Speaker 2: They are.

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Speaker 3: And as I drive into Fort Myers now, I'm driving

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Speaker 3: across one of our many bridges into the city, and

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Speaker 3: I am not seeing any cars out on the roadway.

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Speaker 3: And for good reason. I've been monitoring social media and

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Speaker 3: there has already been a lot of damage just from

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Speaker 3: the tornadoes and the very heavy reins that we have

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Speaker 3: coming in this morning, and the worst is yet to come.

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Speaker 1: Is this accepted broadly as being accurate? In other words,

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Speaker 1: that I've built this up for several days as being

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Speaker 1: bigger than anything we've seen in a century. Your life

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Speaker 1: is at risk. This is going to be like something

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Speaker 1: you've never seen before. Is that true?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, according to our weather forecasters, our meteorologists,

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Speaker 3: and from everything that I'm seeing, absolutely yes. With the

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Speaker 3: rapid intensification that occurred was unlike anything we've seen. Now,

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Speaker 3: whether or not it slows down before it slams in

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Speaker 3: to the Gulf coast, that remains to be seen. But

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Speaker 3: that is certainly what people in all of all the

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Speaker 3: ghost Gulf coasts are hoping for, because we don't know

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Speaker 3: exactly where it's going to hit yet, but we have

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Speaker 3: had so I lived through Ian. I was here through

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Speaker 3: Hurricane Ian and covered it. Fort Myers Beach was devastated.

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Speaker 3: Said about island, these are all tourists areas, uh and

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Speaker 3: those areas still as we speak, were recovering. We just

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Speaker 3: had Hurricane Helene just over a week ago. There was

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Speaker 3: extensive flooding from that. This area can't take much more.

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Speaker 3: And I've talked to a lot of people who have said,

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Speaker 3: We're just not sure how much longer we can stay here.

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Speaker 1: Up to two in the afternoon where you are wins

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Speaker 1: it hit wins winds, you know the doc l.

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Speaker 3: We are looking for later tonight. I believe they're saying

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Speaker 3: around at eight o'clock is when it's going to get

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Speaker 3: pretty bad for us. But conditions are going to continue

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Speaker 3: to deteriorate throughout the afternoon and well into the evening.

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Speaker 3: But after midnight here our time, we are expecting some

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Speaker 3: of the worst that Milton has to offer.

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Speaker 1: And what means, what's the big fee way you dive,

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Speaker 1: is that the rhine is that the wind is at

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Speaker 1: the suge.

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Speaker 3: It is the storm surge here, and that we're looking

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Speaker 3: at ten to fifteen feet of storm surge that's being

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Speaker 3: predicted for some of our coastal areas. Hurricane Ian was

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Speaker 3: twelve feet and it consumed again a big part of

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Speaker 3: our coastal region. Ten to fifteen is going to do

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Speaker 3: the same thing and perhaps even worse. And we've already

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Speaker 3: seen evacuations here, and I can tell you most people

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Speaker 3: heeded those warnings that saw them.

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Speaker 1: Dave go, well, we'll stay in touch. I appreciate it

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Speaker 1: pretty much. Dave Alas, who's Tampa based reporter in Florida.

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