even tonight. so really this is a reminder that these impacts are well ahead of that center. and we will start seeing some of these impacts as early as tonight. shepard: you know, the area where this thing is headed, your whole cone and beyond, that s not a big city area where people have updated their homes. this is a place where people have had houses for decades and decades they could be in a world of hurt it looks like. yeah, shep. that s a good point. you look at this and think about this as we head inland. still a hurricane. this is tomorrow evening. still a hurricane. this is on the georgia, alabama, florida line. stale hurricane. and tropical storm headed into georgia and the carolinas. so, a couple of heavy rain. we talk about all the rainfall that could occur. that heavy rain plus those winds lingering inland can spell big trouble when it comes to trees down, power lines down a loft power outages. so areas could see power outages for quite a long time. shepard: the last
maximum sustained winds you see there 110 miles per hour. 111 miles per hour is a category 3 hurricane. and that s the first of the major divisions. so the national hurricane center predicting that by tonight, tuesday at 8:00. it will be a major category 3 hurricane and will make its way right up there to the florida panhandle. you can see the cone of uncertain auncertainty here. that s the destin, fort walton beach area in oak loose ipanama.tip apalachicola d tallahassee up the way. a live look gulf shores, alabama west of this area. wind and waves have already been picking up. take a look at the scene in pc beach. panama city beach, florida. et very heart of the redneck rivera as the locals refer to it. more than 100,000 people near the coast there ordered to evacuate. the national weather service