and you re going to have a period of very heavy rains, associated with this storm as it moves into the carolinas. so do you advise people to get out of there, even now at this late moment? i advise people to listen to their local officials. the local officials are working with us. they make the decisions, or attempt to get the communities and the local individuals to make decisions for their own safety. louie, you re going stay with us and help us better appreciate the normality of this hurricane. the director of the national weather service, thank you very much. hurricane michael is moving into alabama and georgia as we speak. it s still a category 3 storm right now with 125-mile-an-hour winds. we ll have much more on the breaking news right after this. (woman) one year ago today mom started searching for her words.
bring to make sure they ve got their medicines because there will not be medicine there. we have special need shelters. we ve been through this before. we really don t know what s going to happen until it happens, and hopefully it will not be as bad as we think it s going to be. i m afraid it may be. just finally, your message to anyone in that area in panama city tonight is what? well, what they need to do is get in a safe place. wherever you are, hopefully it is a safe place and, you know, we ll see in the morning. we re start to go get wind now. in the morning up to the 40, 50-mile-an-hour range. tomorrow afternoon we might hit 125-mile-an-hour winds. do not leave your home or leave wherever you are. stay inside and don t go out stargazing tonight and don t go out tomorrow looking around. there could be downed power
leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. breaking news. hurricane michael remains a very dangerous category 3 hurricane with 125-mile-an-hour winds. the center of the storm is moving into southwest georgia. it was a category 5 storm, almost a category 5 storm, when it hit the florida coast. 155 miles per hour. victor blackwell is in destin for us. what s it like there? reporter: well, wolf, the rain, that consistent rain, has moved on from this part of florida, just enough time before dusk for us to see the damage the western edge of hurricane michael caused here in florida. this is the bay and you can see it is churning. we re told that the water is now
headquarters here in new york. day 628 of the trump administration and we will get to all of it in just a moment. but first there s been a dangerous change in the forecast, and we want to get to the latest update on the path and intensity of hurricane michael. for that we are joined by our meteorologist bill karins. bill, what do you have? bottom line, this part of florida has never seen a storm of this intensity. it still looks like fort walton beach the destination area over towards pensacola. that s on the back side of the storm. it doesn t look like they ll get the extreme damage. panama city beach, appalachia and cocoa beach, those are the areas that will be devastated. it s deepened over the last couple hours. it s almost to a cat 4 with 125-mile-an-hour winds. the rain band is not far from the coast.
right, wolf. this is now a category 3, strong category 3, at that. 125-mile-an-hour winds. but get this. this is a category 3 storm rolling into georgia as we speak, from the south. i can assure you, that s never happened, as long as records have been kept for a storm this strong to enter georgia from the south. this is incredible. we are seeing very strong winds still with this, as it moves off to the north-northeast at about 16 miles per hour. so i want to show you the radar. and you can still see that eye holding together pretty well. it is closing in a little bit, as expected. that s what happens as they approach land and start interacting with the land. but we are seeing that tornado watch box in effect, and so we are going to have the possibility of tornadoes. we re also going to see incredible amounts of rain on top of the very strong winds. a lot of trees in the south. they re going to come down. the branches are going to snap. we have category 3 winds with