those who wanted to know what was going on a glimpse of what a hurricanes well as i think most there is not any science to this. but why is it that bill kierans maybe can tell us? why is it that most hurricanes come ashore in the middle of the night. this one came ashore in the daytime. so we had a chance to see it. it sure did. i love when we show our homework. thank you. bill this is why it so often happens. you see a correspondent or a meteorologist getting buffeted, intentionally, leaning into an oncoming wind, while life goes on in some cases in the backgrounds because they re on the leeward side. we are showing it as an exam. not only that the crews that i are with do this numerous times every year and you talk about season people. they know exactly what they re doing and it doesn t mean you still can t get caught as you mentioned, jim cantore, there was a 2 by 4 that passed him.
of what s going on. as you know because of your time with the fire department. you don t go out in the storm to try to respond. you go out after the fact. the last thing you need is for a first responder to have them meteorologist bill kierans here. first thing, obviously, panama city, all the reports i saw pictures of the hospital that you were just talking about. i saw pictures of a bank. one of those banks that s all glass. every window busted and gone. how far away are you from panama city where you re standing and also can you give me an estimate on like, you know, by looking around at the minimal damage that you are seeing, so many people have been there on vacations, how long do you think it will be before they can get back up and running? just a rough estimate? reporter: let s talk about first of all panama city, it s about a 23 minute drive from here to there on a good day in regular traffic.
you get a lot of imagery. will you have friends and neighbors the first folks back, including but not limit to the police chief and first responders. so you will probably know more in a few hours and we are just trying like blazes to get camera crews into the town and so we hope to have some imagery from there. in the meantime, linda all before the accident of membe albrecht of florida. we can t thank you for sharing a little bit of your time during this time in your life. all right. you are welcome, brian. thank you. thank you. bill kierans, it s a tough, tough business. a thousand people live in the town. everyone knows each other. she s a councilwoman. yes. likely sounds like she may have lost her home and she s worried about red building her town where she has all her memories. she has her life. she evacuated. she may not have her life if she
quickly. that ubiquitous radar loop is relentless, spoke after spoke, spinning off that hub soaking rain bands, hitting the same places where it has hitting 24 hours. if some communities along the coast, there is nowhere for that water to go. rescues have been going on all day, they continue tonight and into the morning. power outages are widespread, beach erosion is severe, there have been structural failures. sadly the death toll from the storm has risen to 5 as of our air time tonight. moorehead city north carolina one place on track to break the record for hurricane rainfall at 24 inches, 2 feet of water on top of what they already had. back with us tonight as he was for our live coverage last night meteorologist bill kierans, hey, bill. good evening, brian. we re maybe halfway through this story. i mean, it s absolutely
there will be few tragedys to come. after another long day s journey, tonight, bill kierans,py friend, really appreciate it. coming up for us tonight, the president s choice for the supreme court denies an 11th hour allegation of sexual misconduct. an update on the story and his prospects when we continue. m