A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds. The storm surges could be up to 15 feet. Additional rainfall could also produce Flash Flooding at the highest levels. We have been in constant communications with governor rick scott of florida. With all the authorities in the various states. Were very well prepared for massive amounts of food and we have First Responders all over, the Electrical Companies are staged and ready to go in after the storm. Over a thousands trucks. We have large amounts of food and water and Everything Else that you
hurricane force winds in geor a georgia. it is really important. it will still produce those hurricane force winds into georgia. not just the damage winds along the coast. you saw how large the rain shield is. you ll get the winds inland. the idea it s going go into central georgia. we ll still see high winds. at what point does it stop worrying you. at some point it becomes a normal stand that a normal city is handle. at that point it does. one of the worries that i have is once you get inland, we have such a focus on the winds, but if you think about the flow around the hurricane, even when
by 8:00, there s some places that will still have 100 miles an hour winds. that may surprise some people. they were expecting 24, 48 hours ago they weren t expecting a hurricane. we continue to look at the radar over your shoulder there. now we re about to exit the panama city area and about to head up towards i-10. it s one of those areas. now we ll start talking about this storm crossing into geor a georgia. all right. let s bring back ken graham, director of the national hurricane center. this has been an extraordinary two hours for ali and i sitting here watching this storm progress. how have things changed for you since we spoke? you keep making the force for
the winds will be so tremendous. this will be a lot of water but will be tremendous wind and lot of those houses aren t built for winds like that. haven t seen winds like that. florida and georgia will braer the brunt of the storm. however, hurricane michael as it s called is expected to bring very, very considerable rainfall to north and south carolina. i just left there and they had tremendous storm as you know. florence and that was a heavy water storm. more so than the wind and now north carolina and south carolina will be getting additional water. it s a tough situation. we re with them. we re with georgia. we re with florida. we re with alabama.
about how they navigate questions about those two subjects that i just brought up. it s really important for whoever is dominated to talk carefully about the roe v. wade issue. otherwise, you ll fuel the sentiment against the nominee. that s when republicans could have problems. they have a one-seat major think. 50-49. vice president pence can t play a role here. he can only break a tie. it will require careful vetting. neil: and tough to repeat a good choice. everybody can agree neil geor a georgia gorsuch was the ideal choice. but there s bumps along the way. always bumps. depends what they re about. any possibility can come up here. for example, if judiciary