Transcript for Only about half of residents of Naples, Florida, followed evacuation order

Let’s do to Naples along the west coast of Florida. Population in the metro area, around 300,000 and it is the city about which many are most concerned. Vulnerable to flooding and ABC’s Matt Gutman is right there. What are you seeing and hearing? Reporter: Right now winds are gusting about 40 miles an hour and registered here at about 75. But these are just really the first gentle nudges of hurricane Irma. I want to give you a sense of where we are. This is downtown Naples. Probably the commercial hub of all of southwest Florida. Manicured streets but right now not so much. We have seen these palm palms raining down over the past couple of minutes as this weather has intensified. For that reason we’re not going to be in this position for very long. We don’t want to be dodging flying coconuts or anything like that. Obviously it’s a ghost town. This area is under a mandatory evacuation. Only about half the town has evacuated. The reason for that, of course, not the wind or rain, it is the storm surge. We’re about 650 yards down the street from the beach. You can’t see it because of all the rain. About three or four feet elevation which means when that water comes surging up here and ginger has mentioned it, the force of that water, it’s just going to sweep everything here. I’m going to jog over here to give you a sense of what it’s like. Folks are battening down the hatches with steel plates bolted to the walls. That’s not going to do anything because it’s going to go right through that glass. A very intense situation. Folks are hunkering down pretty much anywhere. Paula. It’s just three feet above sea level in Naples. We want to go to Tom llamas in

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