make sure every member of your family is ready. your parents, your children, your grandchildren do you have a plan? reporter: the white house press office says president obama will be briefed over the weekend with updates on the storm. so phil, it s been a while. we have seen people getting ready down there. one thing comes to mine, i know to remind people about their pets. i know from having lived in the southeast. reporter: a big concern among emergency managers i the concept of hurricane fatigue. it s been ten years since a hurricane got here, and since, seven hurricanes ravaged the state of florida in 2004 and 2005. more than 2 million more people have moved to the state of florida. so these people have not experienced the weeks without power and damage everywhere. so a lot of people have shown up to get sandbags and buy bottles of water and the national guard is on standby just in case.
evacuations on the coastline, expect more shelters in some of the inland cities to corporate to get full. polo, san antonio it s very hard to know before it hits how catastrophic something will be. we try not to heighten anybody s fears. we ve seen that before. some people have hurricane fatigue, where they don t take it seriously, they don t believe it s going to be as bad as meteorologists predict. what s your sense of how people are feeling there? reporter: it s a great question. at this point people are going about their lives. yes, people are preparing, stocking up. they simply don t want to be out in the raen. that s expected to begin later this afternoon into tonight. so, yes, people are taking the warnings seriously, but they are also being very cautious about overpreparing. the main focus is in the coastal community, growing up in texas, i can tell you many of these low