and you re going to have a period of very heavy rains, associated with this storm as it moves into the carolinas. so do you advise people to get out of there, even now at this late moment? i advise people to listen to their local officials. the local officials are working with us. they make the decisions, or attempt to get the communities and the local individuals to make decisions for their own safety. louie, you re going stay with us and help us better appreciate the normality of this hurricane. the director of the national weather service, thank you very much. hurricane michael is moving into alabama and georgia as we speak. it s still a category 3 storm right now with 125-mile-an-hour winds. we ll have much more on the breaking news right after this. (woman) one year ago today mom started searching for her words.
director louie cuccalinni is with us. and brian todd, what s the latest where you are? reporter: wolf, we re able to assess the damage. look at this house where the rough just got completely ripped off. you ve got cinder blocks there toppled over. now we re going to show you this house over here. this green house. look at that roof, completely torn off there. we had video from earlier showing this actually occurring as the roof got completely torn off. we re still getting some pretty strong gusts. this roof got completely torn off, and that piece over there, we believe, is that part of the roof that got sheerpeare sheare. this area got caught by the western eyewall of hurricane michael, the storm still just devastating this region. tonight, hurricane michael is ravaging the florida panhandle. hurricane michael is upon us.