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Mart to an empty k mart that for some reason people thought was an adequate place to bring them. turned out there was no air-conditioning there. some of the windows were open. they had to wait there for about three hours with mattresses and some of the belongings before they were taken to i believe it was an elementary school. it just gives you a sense -- that's only 35 people. that happened in port charlotte today. you really get a sense of just the difficulties the layer upon layer of difficulty. it's not just the immediate storm and what's going to happen over the next 12 to 24 hours which ...

Experience unlike anything we've ever seen, particularly given the magnitude of this storm. shelters are filling up. we still have some availability. what i am concerned about is given sort of the right shift of the storm is the impact is going to be more severe than we anticipated three or four, five days ago. now we're the ones that are in the eye of the storm, and we now have to execute our plan, anderson. >> the storm surge, the latest estimates i've seen for tampa, and it might change, was five to eight feet down in naples they were looking at ten feet. what is that going to do to tampa? ...

Day. all along the west coast today in tampa here in ft. myers, punta gorda, napless, authorities have been trying to open more she stated because a whole bumbling of people who thought they could ride out the storm woke up today to a different storm, a very different reality they were facing and deciding i got to try to get to a shelter and get my dog, my cat, my loved ones to a shelter and do that fast. here in ft. myers bus service stopped at 3:00. if you dialed 211, you were able to get information about shuttle service to get you to a shelter. if you're one of these last my point people, ...

You made the decision to stay, hunker down, be careful, be safe, make good decisions. anderson? >> yeah, john. as the storm moved west earlier today in ft. myers, authorities here faced a new situation. they actually expanded the evacuation zone. now they add in zone a to zone b, which is downtown west, and south down river. basically all in that direction and also across the river on the western side. that basically meant even more people were being told, there was a mandatory evacuation. the scene at some of the shelters today, people were standing in line for hours and hours, thousands of p...

We'll get a new track, anderson, in just a few hours. again, still uncertainty exactly where landfall will be. a massive storm and most likely will get to category 4. we'll look it in as soon as the storm moves north. >> we'll check back with you. i'll be on the air for the next three hours following this story, so we'll be talking to tom a lot. i want to check in with bill weir in key west. he's now in key lar go where there are a lot of folks still riding out this storm. bill, the scene tonight is what? you've been talking to a number of people riding out the storm. i've been talking to them...