heed what local officials are telling you, it is not safe. there are shelters for special needs people, elderly people, people with pets and kids. take your families and get out if officials are telling you to leave because it is not safe and it is unpredictable. no one thought this could be a category 4 and look at it making landfall now. it should weaken by the time it gets to georgia, but we don t know. i have lived them when i was attorney general, the military had to bring us in, because no one could get into the panhandle and mexico beach, it was wiped out because people didn t listen and chose to stay. todd: pam bondi, this is unprecedented, stay safe. best of luck.
amount of water pushed from the bay to the road is completely covered, part of bayshore is under water and getting on to the median and not just slow rising water, it is moving at a scary fast rate. waves are crashing into the roadway, it looks like a beach and it is incredible, the imagery and how quickly this much water filled the road. three feet of storm surge, probably close to four feet at this point and we are still hours from landfall and high tide here in tampa bay. florida highway patrol recognized the danger with wind and shut down two major bridges in and out of the tampa bay area to make sure people who may have waited to evacuate don t drive over them at this point. this is incredibly dangerous
situation, just a few inches of water can sweep someone off their feet, can pick up a car. the water covered the road. notice how far inland that water is pushing, only matter of time as water continues to rise. there is potential and not hard to imagine this water moving further inland and threatening many homes and businesses along this major roadway. ashley: nicole, people are saying they were not expecting a cat 4. you are saying it is hours from landfall. we were talking to pam in tampa, she was not in the evacuation zone and did not evacuate. we know what can happen with storm surge and flooding whachl about people not in evacuation zones? they are losing power already.
continues to swirl as cat 4 expected to make landfall in several hours in big bend northeast of tallahassee. the wind gustses, you got to be careful. s ashley: thank you for that live look and deep explanation of what you are seeing. todd: the water did get higher urg did the course of his live shot, that is scary. ashley: shows how quickly things can change. we will bring in janice dean. janice: new update in 20 minutes, every hour we are getting coordinates. now category 4 storm. this will start to weaken as it interacts with land. this is historic, big bend tro tropical storm landfall, had many of them, half formed in
from the fox weather center. we saw pictures with matt and nicole, you got the 5 a.m. update, what do we know now? janice: category 4, strong hurricane hitting an area that has not been hit by intensity like this since records began. 130 mile per hour sustained wind, 5 a.m. advisory. pressure continues to drop. winds go up and pressure comes down, we have had rapid intensification over the last few hours. this is major hurricane, feeling wind gusts close to hurricane strengths, we are about three hours from landfall. the eye wall, where we have strongest, most powerful wind going to scrape the coast within