brownsville, ex-texas, to east point, maine, since 1850 but haven t seen a hurricane landfall on the space coast, which is just south of cape canaveral moving further north in september. the last major hurricane landfall on the florida east coast was september in 2004, so craig, it s rare, but again, what we are really concerned about now, we re talking about a category 4 storm, 130-mile-per-hour winds, massive storm surge, heavy rain and really devastatingly strong winds. so this is a major concern and we re going into the labor day weekend, so i m sure there are a lot of very, very concerned people. as it sits out over the open water there over the next few days, how real is the worry that the storm becomes stronger? let s face it, that s the problem, because it s got a lot of, i want to move through here and going to cycle through this, just to get through it and you can see we ve got a lot of open water there. water temperatures are in the mid to upper 80s along this
all right. florida s governor is warning of, quote, total devastation when hurricane michael strikes, and with good reason. it was just a few weeks ago that we were talking about florence, another hurricane that made landfall. that one in north carolina, but the superlatives you are hearing now, monstrous, historic, don t dismiss them as hype or hyperbole. let s bring in tom sader, cnn meteorologist joining us now. and you can put me on the bones of why it s not hyperbole. let s start with two facts. the category 3 storm has only strengthened as it s gotten closer to the panhandle and this area, the area where it s going to get hit, it hasn t seen a big storm in like a dozen years, right? that s a true, dennis 2005, exactly right. october, chris, ranks as the number one month for hurricane landfall in the state of florida. there have been few category 3
there s few historical precedents for this storm. there hasn t been a major hurricane landfall in this section of the florida coastline since 1894. been doing digging around in old newspapers of what happened in those storms. and it s quite frightening. many of the towns and cities on the bay, near total loss of structures in the storms. particularly the hurricane of 1851, also ripped the tin roof off the florida capitol building. wow. so it s, you know, wind risks are also, you know, going to extend well inland to tallahassee and southwest georgia. we know emergency officials were walking the beaches last night, getting anything they could off the beaches, lawn chairs, anything, anything that could become a flying missile. at 115 miles per hour for the winds, once this thing hits, you know, what remind us what happens in winds like that. well, when you get over 100 miles per hour with winds, you
with emergency management officials ahead of the hurricane landfall. and he is still planning to head to pennsylvania tonight for his second make america great again rally this week. part of his big midterm push. as we keep an eye on a race in pennsylvania s 17th congressional districts. one of the 18 key house races we re taking a look at in 2018. steve kornacki is joining us now. so steve, democrat conor lamb won that squeaker. so what is the deal? i think people want to get a check-in and things have changed in a very interesting way as well. that is why it makes the list the 17th district, you sort of go a little bit northwest of pittsburgh, along the border there with ohio. 17th district. famous fun fact here, home of mike ditka. aliquippa, pennsylvania. but you mentioned conor lamb. conor lamb is not the only
mystery will not be mysterious for too long. eventually, we will find out what happened with this nikki haley surprise resignation today. until then, until we inevitably get the leak from someone associated with the trump administration or the white house who tells us what happened, until then, there is no real point in making up potential explanations that don t necessarily have basis in fact. so, keeping it in terms i feel like what we re watching ahead for the news, obviously, tomorrow is going to be hurricane landfall for hurricane michael. i think i feel like starting tonight, but certainly by tomorrow we should expect to be getting more well informed reporting as to what happened here with the nikki haley resignation. but in terms of what we re keeping an eye in tomorrow s news, one other sort of low profile thing that you might want to watch for is that we re going to have the sentencing hearing tomorrow for another one of the people who has plead guilty in conjunction with th