. >> david fralick, i know this is a tough time for everyone in and around naples. our thoughts and prayers are with you all. we're keeping a close eye. good luck to you. >> thank you so much. >>> hurricane irma, of course, is picking up steam. it's a category 4 storm barrelling its way towards the florida keys. in downtown miami, we saw this a short time ago. winds are picking up. this is from brickell bay drive. you can see the water flowing into the street. it's only going to get worse there. thousands of people have filed into more than 400 shelters across florida. we're going to check in with the red cross to see how they're dealing with the influx of people. >>> it's my first one. i am a little scared but not stressed because we've got to just hope for the best. >> what's the most scary is what are we going to go back to? and are we going to be even -- are we going to be able to even get back to our house? >> things can be replaced but your life cannot be replaced. >> we didn't really want to take any chances because i have children and so we decided then that

let's bring in david fralick, communications manager. he joins me by phone. wanted to get your sense of this, the latest information from the national hurricane center is, hey, west coast of florida, now irma's headed your way. >> caller: yeah, good morning. we've been watching this closely as you can imagine. and we -- we obviously didn't know that -- didn't think that it was going to hit exactly as it is. i can tell you that as far as the city of naples is prepared and we are doing all that we can to help our residents here. i believe that the good news if there is good news in this situation is that with the hurricane that unfortunately went through texas, i think people in florida and i can tell you from naples' perspective, is that we actually had a wake-up call. a lot of people, as you can imagine, have left florida. like some of your other reports, naples is -- many, many people are gone. you can drive down the street and not see a car for a very, very long time. the people who are still here, we are communicated with, we have urged to take shelter, to

. >> david fralick, i know this is a tough time for everyone in and around naples. our thoughts and prayers are with you all. we're keeping a close eye. good luck to you. >> thank you so much. >>> hurricane irma, of course, is picking up steam. it's a category 4 storm barrelling its way towards the florida keys. in downtown miami, we saw this a short time ago. winds are picking up. this is from brickell bay drive. you can see the water flowing into the street. it's only going to get worse there. thousands of people have filed into more than 400 shelters across florida. we're going to check in with the red cross to see how they're dealing with the influx of people. >>> it's my first one. i am a little scared but not stressed because we've got to just hope for the best. >> what's the most scary is what are we going to go back to? and are we going to be even -- are we going to be able to even get back to our house? >> things can be replaced but your life cannot be replaced. >> we didn't really want to take any chances because i have children and so we decided then that