regain strength as it crosses open water which is very warm water between cuba and florida. that warm water will feed a storm like this, its path has shifted slightly west, that puts florida's gulf coast on high alert. many people from naples up to tampa and r now seeking shelter from the storm surge that's expected to follow and could be disastrous especially for a city like tampa and fleets of utility trucks have been mobilized to deal with power outages that affect almost 200,000 customers. let's get to karen mcginnis, tell us about where irma is now, i know its latest track is extremely worrying to tampa, naples and places like that, along that west coast. >> it is. for a variety of reasons. we have talked about that upper right quadrant that's so