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Its way up and caused damage. but you mentioned this fatigue factor. it's been days they've been expected to feel this impact of the storm. these early morning hours we're finally starting to feel wind gusts that for right now, rosemary, more annoying than they are uncomfortable. but residents here sort of let their guard down as soon as they saw the track of this storm shift from making a direct impact on coastal florida to gripeding up the coast and the conversations that we had yesterday on the beach which was one of the most packed days we've seen it in the days we've been out here, a lot ...

Everything 15 feet and below, above sea level, could end up underwater. harris: just to get a sense, i've seen emergency vehicles behind you and police officers and you say that there are people filtering in and out of the bars. this seemed to take a much more dire tone today as we watch the storm shift to the west side of the state but if you look at the size of irma, mike, none of this has ever meant that florida wouldn't get hit because that storm is so big. i'm just curious when you talk to people who say hundreds day, what do they say? reporter: a lot of people say we are on higher ground...

More storm surge in from the bay. power is out for half the county. 3 million so far is the latest estimate. and it's likely to rise as the storm system swaddles the entire state. the west coast really getting pummeled in the next couple of hours. the east coast, the residents yesterday when they saw the track of the storm shift over towards the west coast, they thought wow we are going to get some wind or rain. this has been going on for 15 hours and there is still 12-15 hours to go. this is miserable weather. the curfew has been in effect all night long. it's in effect now. there is no desir...

Prestage them. but the problem is you can't move everything in and expose it to the storm or to the system. so there's going to be a time lag there. we have to wait for the system to get out. we have to be able to build not only pathways through the infrastructure to get back in. but then we're working with our dod partners to get back in, particularly to the south florida area. >> i'm going to send it back to you, anderson. >> to hear about that number of people potentially without power for days and days, if not weeks and again as you pointed out, a lot of elderly residents in florida, reall...

There was this massive people, and so we jumped off and it turned out it was germane arena, it's a hockey arena. some of them be had been there since 10:00 and they were there to seek shelter because they saw the storm shift, so they were there with their dogs, children, one guy had a yoga mat to sleep on, one guy with a prosthetic leg, elderly waiting with, it was a difficult scene but they were all hoping to seek shelter there instead of their homes. we talked to a few of them, and here's a sampling of what we heard. >> it changed the itinerary every time we looked at the map. >> should we g...