it hit a different area, on the other side of the coast, it hit north carolina. same thing, life threatening storm surge was predicted there. that s what we saw. and life threatening storm surge is predicted where you are. 5 is people at our latest count lost their lives after hurricane florence. i think these are cautionary tales, each one, and it s important to really sound the alarm. obvious obviously, not unnecessarily, but it sounds like this is going to be a big one where you are. what is sewer biggest fear as you confront this one coming? again w everything that we ve heard on weather channel and in the news and through ems, it is the storm surge. 120-mile-an-hour wind is nothing to sneeze at either. but a storm surge in an area that is relatively flat. i think the highest part of the island is 30 feet high. front road is 15 feet high.
it will be a big rain storm by then. the landfall area here. wednesday 8:00 a.m. 120-mile-an-hour hurricane. panama city. if this cone moves further west, it is bad news. that puts the storm surge in more pop rated areas. populated areas. we still have a window as far as the exact center of circulation and where it makes landfall makes a difference. here are the storm surges. the deadliest part of the storm. we are talking 8 to 12 feet of storm surge when it comes ashore. it will do that as i mentioned wednesday and there goes the rain. we are waiting for the national hurricane center for the advisory coming up in 20 minutes. new track and new information from the hurricane hunters flying into the storm. joe. thank you, ivan. we will check in with you in 25 minutes. 35 minutes past the hour. president trump apologizing to new supreme court justice brett kavanaugh during the swearing-in ceremony at the white house.
sucks everything out. you cannot survive this. no one s going to survive, you know, if you get 7, 10, you re not going to survive this. don t take a chance. nobody s saying anything like this in our area. i promise you. ever. this is it. the time to evacuate and heed the local warnings is now. hurricane michael is going to be a devastating storm. florida has not seen a storm of magnitude in quite some time. joining me now, ken graham, director at the national hurricane center. all right, ken, what s the latest on the storm s path? you start to see these rain bands stretch out to the middle of the gulf. with time, we re going to inch towards the coast here. looking at this, we ve got a major hurricane potentially bringing 120-mile-an-hour winds to coastline and that s going to be, you know, some of these rain bands getting in tonight with landfall tomorrow. but look at this, hurricane still inland. trip call storm even into georgia and south carolina. so with all that rain and a
making landfall right there, anywhere between say extreme northeastern portions of south carolina and central north carolina coast, as a major hurricane, category 3, at 120 miles per hour, with gusts 150, still showing this track to walk at a snail s pace, just crawl along the coast, shredding that shoreline for south carolina and north carolina. and then still a category 1 storm on saturday afternoon, well inland, possibly in western south carolina or even eastern georgia. so this storm is just narrowing down, because it s about 24 to 36 hours away. we ll be feeling the impacts tomorrow. category 3, 120-mile-an-hour winds, jake. jennifer gray, thank you so much. the big question now, are these strong and slow storms the new normal? cnn s tom foreman is in our virtual studio. that is the question some
pahala. thank you. a new advisory from the national weather service. for the latest on that, we are joined by meteorologist ivan cabrera in the cnn weather center. basically it is still a powerful hurricane. the track has slightly shifted here. i ll show you that in a second. still 120-mile-an-hour winds. still a category three storm. look at the movement. it is walking toward the islands here north at 6 miles an hour. that is a huge problem because of the amount of rain. some areas across the big island have picked up two feet of rainfall and miguel, my friend, you will get more rain. 3 to 6 inches. the lull you are experienced on the big island will not last. here is the latest track. the shift here. it moves and it will continue getting very, very close. by the time we get to friday, 8:00 p.m. local, hurricane force winds will approach the island. we could gust over 75 miles an