gatti schwartz is there. what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: this is into the good sign of what is to come. right now we're in a marina, a neighborhood called manatee marina. and you can see this neighborhood is basically flooded out. this is from the storm surge coming unright now we're about a foot just over a foot of water in this area. and the problem is you have houses like this fortunately some of these houses over here, they are on stilts. it looks like they are about 12, 15 feet off the ground. but then you have homes over here, this is on the side of the ocean. and you see they are basically cut off right now. it looks like they have some four-wheel drive vehicles. so right about now, they can probably make it out with those vehicles. but if the water continues to come up, they will have a little bit of a difficult time. this is the marina proper. you see some of the boats in there. but the campers are getting flooded out. and then you have people that have parked their vehicles up on dry land, but again, if this water con

. >> gatti schwartz, thank you so much. and joining us on the phone is miami native cherry ben difficult smart. she's hungeredkered down with h partner and dog at a miami shelter. how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. >> give us an idea of what it's like where you are. set the scene for us. >> well, it's a huge exhibition hall on the fairgrounds. and there is about 2100 people here in one room. everybody is kind of carving out their own little section for their family. and then to get into this shelter, you have to have a pet. and there were about 500 dogs here and about 600 animals in all. so they take birds, cats, gerbils and whatever you might have. >> well, that is good because we know that our pets are our family. but it sounds like it could be a little chaotic. how are things being handled there? >> it's a red cross shelter and i have to say that for the most part, things have been handled pretty well. the first night was a little rough because it was all night long people coming in. we were here thursday. over the p.