Category two. Instead he exploded in veracity to a category four. Its going to cause a huge amount of damage. Our hearts go out to those folks. Sandra thats it for us. Special courage continues here on the Fox News Channel with Shepard Smith. Hurricane michael, its on the way and it is expected to be historic. Im Shepard Smith on the fox news deck. Often in programming including outnumbered will not be seen today. Hurricane michael is a major category 4 storm set to make landfall somewhere around Panama City Beach, florida. It is expected to be the most powerful storm ever to hit the region. It is but an hour or two away. Lets get a live update from the National Hurricane center in miami. Back to the National Hurricane center, this is ken graham on the operant center. Its noon eastern, 11 00 central. The latest information on the Hurricane Michael. A couple of things to make note
here, the latest information we have wins still at 150 miles power. The pressure has dropped. We have the H
us. what are you seeing on your end right now, and what are you most concerned with as we approach this potentially catastrophic hurricane making landfall? well, what we re seeing right now is fortunately we ve had many, a high percentage of our community has heeded the evacuation orders, and they have left the areas where we expect to have storm surge. certainly concern about the storm surge and how severe it will be. but right now the information we re getting is that we have not had the amount of surge we expected yet. we expect it still to come up as we hit our next king tide which will be about 12 hours from now. our shelters have been slowly ticking up through the night, just because people, you know, have decided that they didn t want to deal with the storm itself. and they ve slowly made their way up. i believe we re about 260 across the country which is a low
moment ago about the historic nature of a hurricane making landfall and proceeding to tallahassee. never happened before in recorded history, right? yeah. that s right. i spoke with the mayor yesterday. and he said this was going to be a storm, quote: of epic proportions for tallahassee because the wind speeds and such is just something that this area has not experienced. so it will be really interesting to see what official numbers do come out of this. i last checked our fox weather app. and i was seeing wind speeds recorded here about 24 miles per hour. we will see if that increases as the day goes on. for now i m telling you, i look up at the sky, dark skies, the clouds, they are moving fast here, guys. ainsley: i remember when i went to school there, brandy, my parents we drove on to campus and they said this doesn t look like florida. because it looks like really georgia. lots of greenery. it s different. it s a beautiful, beautiful town. very hilly. steve: we can t tell
let s check in now with fox weather meteorologist amy freeze. hi, amy. hello. this is a major storm now and it does have impacts for southern california. for the first time in 84 years, we could be looking at near tropical storm force conditions right on the west coast near san diego. it s very active right now in the pacific and the atlantic but it s this storm, hillary, we are talking about, and all eyes are fixated on this. southern california rarely gets this type of action, and the first time san diego-long beach, we have a tropical storm watch. rains will start saturday in advance of the hurricane making landfall but it s going to create major flood impacts. hurricane hunters are inside the storm. they will collect a bunch of data, helps us to forecast. that s why all the alerts are starting to increase. we have the hurricane watch down off of the western side of the baja peninsula, getting close to mexico near the border to california.
airport, 10 to 12 miles per hour. as we go through the day today, winds are going to kick up again to 20 to 30 miles per hour. certainly not the 50, 60, 80 mile-per-hour winds that we saw yesterday. still, any wind gusts are not going to be a friend to firefighters. i just want to show you the prescription. the only island that has a deficit is maui. so it was this perfect storm of dry conditions, hurricane force winds and, you know, very warm temperatures as well. and i just want to show you that decrease. we have got that high pressure but dora is moving away from the island. still very strong storm. but, again, the impact will be lessening as we go through the next day or. so he so we will continue to monitor that. this was not a direct impact of the storm. this was indirect. so just goes to show you it doesn t take a hurricane making landfall to cause incredible damage. so we ll continue to monitor that and pray, of course, for the island of maui. back to you guys. steve: indeed,