And we also got an update from Florida Governor rick scott who says that it is now too late to evacuate. Now the storm is here, it is not safe to travel across the panhandle. If you are in a coastal area, do not leave your house. The time to evacuate in coastal areas has come and gone. Listen to local officials. If you are an inland county, you may have one last chance to seek shelter. But only do so if local Officials Say it is safe. We want to go now to marianna who is in port sachbtd jis port. What are you see something. Reporter this is an hour south of Panama City Beach where this historic storm is likely to make landfall. Landfall is going to be at 3 00 p. M. Five hours from now. But when you talk about a storm that will pack a storm surge much 9 to 14 feet, you will already start to see what im looking at right now, which is a dock here in the port st. Joe marina that is a couple feet high already uninundated. This is just a prelude of what well be seeing. An unprecedented storm
Her and her own political future. And the growing crisis and outrage after an americanbased journalist is going missing at the Saudi Embassy in istanbul. And will the saudis confront one of the closest persian allies . Im Andrea Mitchell. And now, Hurricane Michael is unleashing fury on the coast, and we could see the landfall this hour of the hurricane. And it is a urgent problem for the panhandle inhabitants who have not evacuated will be facinging storm surge of up to 18 feet, and causing Power Outages and damage that these communities have never seen. Okay. Michael is a deadly category 4 storm. This is the worst storm that the Florida Panhandle has seen in more than 100 years. Remember, we can rebuild your house, but we cannot rebuild your life. Take this seriously, and keep your families safe. Joining me now is nbc meet yourologist bill karins, and gabe guterres in ap lach kalach and bill bradley in tallahassee, and i was in a hurry to reach tout you, and while gabe, i think that
Craig, take a look at this. This eye is about anywhere from 10 to 20 miles wide, and these are these Barrier Islands. This storm literally has the capability, the possibility of changing the geography of the coast of florida. We could be talking about some of these Barrier Islands actually disappearing under this storm. And of course, you can see as it comes in, we always have to worry, especially to the east of the eye for tornados. We have a wide swath of tornado watches from panama city up into albany, georgia, valdosta, all the way down just to the northwest of tampa, florida. Heres what weve got as far as the latest. It is a category 4 storm. It is now 60 miles south, southwest of panama city. 45 Miles Per Hour winds. Its moving now north, northeast at 14, so its forward speed picking up a little bit. At that rate, this may very well just go to the east of panama city, but make no mistake. It is still a massive system. Just to put this in perspective, if this were a tornado it wou
We begin with rob in morgan city. Rob. Reporter hey, charles, if you can hear me there, i dont have isp, i hope you can hear me, but were in morgan city, louisiana. Ive lost my earpiece out here in this nasty storm weve got here. Still barry is a Tropical Storm at this point here in southern louisiana. It could become a hurricane here at any minute. Were about 75 miles east of new orleans which is where a lot of the attention for this storm has been because it is a lowlying area, very populated area. But here just to west is where were really getting hammered. Were not too far away from the storm which is making its way onshore. Were here on a lake which looks like the gulf, its just getting pounded so hard. The waves are high, and this is usually just a flat lake that you can ride your boat around on. Not today though. Here in morgan city weve seen gusts at about 55 miles an hour, sustained winds a little lower than that and a lot of pounding rain as these outer bands and now a little
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