louisiana, mississippi and alabama right now. it s a pretty frightening night depending on where you live for people riding out this hurricane. so let s go back to biloxi to martin savidge in mississippi. we are very near of what is supposed to be a second landfall, and it is really coming down on you. talk to me about that storm surge and what you re seeing. reporter: yeah, it s really, really running now. an indication nate is not onshore, right up along shore here in biloxi. winds are starting to pick up, and they re consistent now. we ve had 50, even close to 73 mile an hour gust. we noticed at least one transformer blew just a few feet away, and scared the daylights out of us. there are indications power has
an hour, that is where it s going to be contained. and that is now moving through biloxi. so biloxi is experiencing the worst of the storm. 85 miles an hour, that s the latest advisory from the national hurricane center. we know where the storm is headed. it s headed to the north and booking at 20 miles an hour. i was with you earlier this morning, this thing was out in the yucatan peninsula. it only took a day and it s made landfall. now within the next hour or so making the secondary landfall here across gulf port and into biloxi. mobile bay will also be seeing storm surge. that water will continue to be pushed up as long as the winds continue to come in from the south. that s not the only problem here. when we talk about storm surge
we always think about water coming in from the gulf and the atlantic ocean, sure that can happen, but it can also come in from on the eastern side of the storm because of the southerly winds we ve had water coming in through mississippi, 3.2 feet. that s already happening. again, the forecast has been anywhere from 5 to 7 feet. so the worst of it happening right now and will continue for the next couple of hours. as far as the winds, that wind field will diminish dramatically within the next four to six hours because the storm is making landfall, and it will be the last landfall. obviously it s making its way up to the north, the wind will begin to diminish and then we re dealing with a rain event the next few days. a drought condition across the eastern u.s., so this will be beneficial rainfall. it s going to be a bumpy next
last six week. so cnn s martin savidge is live for us tonight in biloxi near where nate is expected to make its landfall very soon. ed lavandera is there in mobile, alabama. but, martin, let s start with you. what a difference. look at that. reporter: you took the words out of my mouth, brooke. it is very close. let me show you the problem that is now readily evident right here. this is the storm surge. you can see it. this is highway 90 right here. and the problem is that water is just roaring up. in fact we ve had to move three times just in the 12 minutes waiting to this live shot. it s clearly going to go over highway 90, and that s clearly the problem for first responders. i m going to keep an eye out because there s one coming this
is. that s the eye of the storm making landfall as we speak. once this part goes right over biloxi, it ll be an official landfall. but right now the worst of the conditions are on that northern eye wall. and if we have hurricane force winds, that s where they re going to be located. the rest are going to be tropical force winds. nothing to sneeze at. those can also take out power lines. biloxi now, 4 to 5 feet of storm surge. literally the gulf of mexico moving into shore. these could go a little bit higher in the next hour or so and then things will begin to wind down along with the winds as well. once this thing makes landfall, the winds will diminish. the center of the storm, the worst of nate happening right