. >> james loscano, thank you for sharing your story with us. >> thank you. >> want to bring in report are jul julia. how is it going there. >> good morning to you. winds really whipping things around. let me give you a look at this small community, just south of miami. this is basically the gate way to the keys, absolutely battered 25 years ago b hurricane andrew. we jt left or hotel, which is acting as a shelter and they're adding cables to the doors to hold them tight. there's a gas station here with a top that usually these pieces are among the first things to go. you can often see them go flying. we've already got some water building up here, some standing water because this is a low-lying area and this is just the beginning of irma. it gives you an idea of just how susceptible this area is to flooding. receipt now it's a story of wind shaking thing up, getting to fierce levels just in the last hour that we've been out here. for a while some people were outside of our hotel, which is also our shelter that were taking a look at things but now they're getting ready to go inside beca