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
the bay protecting us from the gulf of mexico. the wind is blowing like a freight train. if you re outside it sounds like you re standing on the tarmac of a jet runway. the noise is just overwhelming. what s the situation in apalachicola as far as you know? are a lot of people riding out the storm there? no, i don t think a lot of people are. i had an affiliation with the county so i stayed behind to help in cases of recovery, but i think most people left. i haven t been outside the house since the storm really set in about 10:00 this morning. it s been very windy and unsafe outside. even though you re inside, tell us what it sounds like. our colleague, lester holt, when we spoke to him a few minutes ago, even with the windows closed, the wind sounded as though it was a jet engine. what s it like where you are? absolutely. apalachicola is probably 40
malaysia. stand by and don t go anywhere. i want to bring in arthur rosenburg. they re still going to make some noise. the engines. right. what s interesting is when you look at the runway, as he pointed out there, their homes were on either side of the runway. this was in the middle of the night. these people are used to hearing airplanes land. so what would distinguish this 777 from any other plane that lands there? it s a long jet runway almost two miles long and could handle 777s and they land and take off there. within the realm of scenarios, turbo fan engines are a kwaquan quieter. the people could be sleeping. it is conceivable that this
lisa bloom. she s an analyst for avo.com. thanks for being on the program. look, i understand both sides of this argument. but it does seem a little bit fishy, the timing of it all, doesn t it? it s more than a little fishy. when someone s looking to ban photography, you have to look at whose interest is being protected. this remind me very much of those terrible ag-gag bills getting passed across the country that prevent people from taking a camera inside a factory farm and documenting the animal abuses that go on there. this is not a private place. a jet runway where an accident occurred and firefighters are going in, anyone would have a legal right to take pictures of that scene. so this is not a privacy issue. this is not a matter of going into somebody s home, for example, or even their office. and clearly there s been so much criticism of the way that the firefighters handled that situation, potentially causing the death of a teenager. that clearly this is designed to protect t