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If you know someone who is not evacuating and should, please contact them and make sure they have a plan to get to safety. but you cant wait to get out. you cant wait until the storm is here, youve got to do it now. possessions can be replaced, your house can be replaced, you and your family cannot be replaced. shelters. we have been working with counties across the state to ensure there are enough shelters. currently there are more than 320 shelters open across every county in the path of the s...

Hurricane irmas forecast has shifted. that happened overnight, and the storm is now expected to hit the states coastal cities, raising the real threat of storm surge. so weve been focusing a lot on the east coast of florida, but now it is southwest florida that really could be in harms way, especially when we consider storm surge. in the hours before irma makes landfall, weve got last-minute preps under way, officials are making the final pleas for people who insist on riding out this storm to d...

Of florida just outside of the ft. meyers where literally the line to get in a shelter there is wrapped around the block and gabe, we saw this here on the east coast yesterday and the governor within the last hour updated us that there are over 320 shelters available in affected counties. but are most of these people showing up now going to be able to get room, get inside this shelter? >> reporter: hey there, thomas. listen. were going to do something in this live report that i think is really g...

Forecasts or new numbers, and they decided to -- they decided that building wasnt going to be adequate to ride out the storm or they had concerns that it was the best place to house these people so they actually told those folks that had been in that shelter and were just getting processed that they had to come out. so that is certainly a very devastating situation for those folks. the frustration that we keep hearing over and over again from those people that decided not to evacuate but then th...

Theres no reason you should try to ride this out. i love my family and want to be with my family the rest of my life. >> and when will you open-- shelters? >> were continuing to open more shelters. we have 320 now and constantly opening up shelters and tracking by county, where we need the shelters, but we had an example, charlotte county, theyve had increased their evacuation zones and we had to shut down shelters there and were moving those individuals north, so, because you know, until i gues...

Contact them and make sure they have a plan to get to safety. you cant wait to get out, you cant wait until the storm is here, youve got to do it now. possessions can be replaced. your house can be replaced. you and your family cannot be replaced. shelters, we have been working with counties across the state to ensure there are enough shelters. currently, there are more than 320 shelters open across every county in the path of the storm and more are opening today. more than 54,000 floridians hav...

Folks and see if theyre willing to go on camera but yes, some of these folks from prior interviews that we had, the people in here, theyve been here for several, several hours. so, im going to see if some of them want to talk to us and ill send it back to you, thomas. >> gabe, well let you get back to work and thank you very much. very frustrating for these people. the governor said there are over 450,000 people in shelters and there is room for more and theyve been opening shelters. they have 3...

That. thats why im telling everybody, if youre in an evacuation zone, there is no reason you should try to ride this out. i mean i love my family. i want to be with my family the rest of my life. >> when and if will you open more shelters? >> were continuing to open more shelters. we have 320 now and are constantly opening up shelters. were tracking by county where we need the shelters, but we just had as an example charlotte county as they had -- increased their evacuation zones, we had to shut...

At. this potential for just disaster here. so one guy has a homemade boat he says hes going to get in. another woman said shes blowing up air mattresses and she could float on those. so, really, a dire situation as time now does run out to get out of here. >> kristen dahlgren reporting over in fort myers, we know that there are over 320 different shelters that have been set up in place with the governor saying that 450,000 people are in them, so if these people need to get out, hopefully they wi...

In their 5:00 a.m. discussion recognized that and they said that theyre also kind of honoring what they had earlier with some of the models to the west, so theyre cutting the difference here. but we may see the track change again later on today if the models keep pushing towards the east. this is an ensemble, kind of a mix of all of the models that you see here. unfortunately, this is such a powerful hurricane, the eye itself is 25 nautical miles wide. the diameter, over 320 miles. massive storm...