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>> reporter: oh, they sure are, tom. this is a very busy store right now. and take a look at these shelves behind me. because some of them have just emptied up, because so many people are buying this plywood to board up their homes. the manager here says he hasn't seen it this busy in years. tom? >> the rush is on. all right, gio, thank you. and of course, hurricane dorian is arriving just ahead of labor day, disrupting a busy travel weekend. a record 17.5 million passengers were set to fly over the next few days. with millions more planning to drive. tonight, their plans could be changing. ...

Him. turns out he had a change of heart as irma got bigger and more pointed towards the keys so his family is now in a motel in okeechobee. they got about 150 miles north of here. but there are still some die hards, still some old salts, about five different families here in this marina who are bunking down not on their boats. we have a pretty sturdy strong structure behind us here with metal hurricane shutters. they feel good about that. and then nearbitis a dive shop that's three stories tall, all stone structures. that's their plans b and c. but these people are real outliers. in the last 4...

Get to evacuation centers. there's several thousand people according to our drew griffin outside one nearby center who are being processed in order to get in. and the 211 number that the city has set up is being inundated with calls. i want you to meet ross webb with the edison saline center. you've been worried obviously about a lot of the boats in the marina. >> for the last four days we've had 25 kids show up to help us take down masts, tie down boats. we moved about 25 boats to north ft. myers in a better location. and we have a bunch of them tied, 150 of them tied down there. still a few ...

Barreling this way, you could never tell that anything was wrong. look at this day we of got here. bright blue skies, pristine beaches. the only real indication that something is wrong is how few people there are out here. there are a handful, there's a gentleman out there right now in the water. that is a handful too many for the local authorities here. they don't want anyone here. this is a mandatory evacuation zone. once this storm hits tomorrow, they're expecting the storm surge to come ashore around 3 to 5 feet. now, we drove across from ft. lauderdale across the florida peninsula this mo...

You've seen of it coming compared to what you've lived through. >> well, like charlie like this almost at this point. we didn't expect much then but i think we're going to have more from this storm than we did charlie. >> did you ever evacuate? >> no, there's too many things i can do to help people once the storm is over with and i have another business i need to help with. there's a lot of things we can do to help here. >> your home is it on ground level? is it raised up? >> my home's a ground level, but it's a real high spot. but i'm going down to my daughters six blocks away with a two-stor...