don t have power. one of the customers is the hospital here in bay county. this is bay medical sacred heart. the good news? this happened to the building where patients were not located. michael ripped the side off the building. this is where billing and purchasing and equipment comes in. the hospital did receive structure damage during the storm. including blown out windows and roof issues and structural issues with walls. they are in the process. they are running on generator power. water is not working in panama city right now. they are evacuating the patients here. they started yesterday morning. they have 24 more hours to get all of them out. we caught some of the ambulances coming through yesterday from other communities working on getting those patients out. there were helicopters as well choppering them to other places
right next door to panama city, florida. the devastation impacted mexico beach. a lot of people did not leave when the warnings and watches were issued in the coastal area. we know the death toll now stands at six. that will go up. there are missing people. not just that, now we have the devastation in north carolina and virginia where larger cities have reported heavy downpours and power outages and several fatalities. we will keep you updated. back to you. karen, thank you. for ways to helped those affected by the storm, go to cnn.com/impact. millions fighting to recover from michael, president trump was hosting a bizarre lunch with kanye west. this was billed about prison reform, but it went off the rails in a hurry. trump is on his hero s journey right now.
fighting to recover from michael, president trump was hosting a bizarre working lunch with kanye west. billed as a meeting about prison reform, but it went off the rails in a hurry. trump is on his hero s journey right now. he might not expect to have a crazy mother [ bleep ] like kanye west run up and support, but best believe we are going to make america great. for more on lunch with kanye, here is jeff zeleny. reporter: christine and dave, for the surreal scenes at the white house and the unorthodox moments, there was a major one yesterday at the white house when rapper kanye west was coming for a private meeting with president trump to talk about prison reform. they were scheduled to have a private lunch and nothing on the public schedule. all that changed when the president invited kanye west into the oval office. sitting right there at the resolute desk, the president listened as kanye talked.
was obliterated when the category four, then hurricane michael, made landfall. you see the amount of devastation here. the national hurricane center issued the last public advisory regarding michael. that is not to say it is over and done with here. it is racing out to the atlantic. as it pulls away, now we get to assess the damage. in this particular image, the after imagery of what happened at mexico beach. this is the eastern section of the panhandle. now it is post tropical. it doesn t have any tropical characteristics. nonetheless, we already have reports of severe flooding in portions of north carolina and virginia. perhaps several fatalities. no doubt that death toll will continue to climb as we go into the next few hours and weeks ahead. back to you, christine. karen, thank you for that. for ways you can help those affected by the storm, go to cnn.com/impact. millions of americans were
john works. i ll take john. at this hour, michael remains a tropical storm packing 50-mile-an-hour winds. nearly 60 million people under a flash flood watch. in philadelphia, new york and boston, tropical moisture coming binding with combining with a cold front to reduce flooding. we have karen maginnis tracking that from the cnn weather center. what are you seeing? we know thousands of people are impacted from michael which made landfall 48 hours ago. the damage wasn t just in mexico beach or just in panama city, but the beautiful communities along the coastal areas. downed trees. downpo power lines. cars floated away. it has been devastating. not just there. we have seen the devastation continue across the mid-atlantic. this is the dollar general store in millville, florida.