Dont get excited about markets . Gusts coming through. Not until not until they 50 left, 50 stayed. Get we see this kind of movement. I know every neighbor i have within a quarter mile is here. The market down more than 4 in a week. With all were covering let me show you whats going today, this number still gets on over here right now. This is the storm, the eye of our attention. Its a very serious number. Were going to discuss it more. The storm, that clear blue part. Thank you for the hours of it has moved. Coverage ive been watching it came on board around mexico prior to my shift starting. Beach just east of panama city, thank you for the coverage youll be providing for us. This is an important story. West of Port Saint Joe. Its moving inland now. Ali velshi with us all you can see huge affects of the afternoon. We take over with a look at this storm. This is i10, a major interstate history making storm. That goes across the country, think of it this way. It came onshore two miles
Our focus is search and rescue, getting access to the areas that have been hardest hit and search and rescue. Harris lets go to Griff Jenkins live in tallahassee, florida, with the latest. Hey, harris. Its all about chainsaws, tree removal, and power. It is a multiple lines are down, we are in tallahassee now, 4 50 00 a. M. , officials told me there was more than 111,000 people without power. Its getting much better because of the hard work of these guys. Remember, theres only 74mileanhour sustained wind when the storm came through her here, officials felt lucky because they didnt get that 155mileanhour punch they got down in mexico beach and Port Saint Joe and panama city beach. These guys are trying to get it out there in one of the things that makes this so difficult, as you see, the lane of traffic on the other side of the road because its sunny outcome people want to get out and see things. While tallahassee is doing much better with getting the cruise out, getting the tree trimme
Hurricane to hit the panhandle in recorded history, the most powerful to hit anywhere in the u. S. Since 1992, it wouldnt be hard to believe that now. Right now almost half a million homes and businesses are without power in florida, georgia and south carolina. So far there are two confirmed deaths. A man in florida, a little girl, sadly, in georgia. The mayor of panama city just across the bridge from you told you they could not get a handle on how many people might need help or rescuing because of phone problems there. Is that the case where you are . Reporter there are absolutely phone problems. Most of us do not have cell service. I spoke with a couple directly across the street from the marina where im standing now. They dont have cell service. In fact, the woman, were showing ysho showing you, when the sheriff came knocking at her door, thats when she decided to get out. She stayed at a shelter panama city, walked part of the way home and hitchhiked her way to get back her. What
Dropped, making this one of the top three or four lowest pressures of a landfall hurricane in the United States, very serious situation. We are getting wind gusts of 10. Looking at six and a half feet already around apalachicola, water is going in, you can see a portion of this i wall making it a magnet on shore between panama city and mexico beach, very powerful situation with the winds. We are looking at Hurricane Force wind gusts and this rain bans away from the center and that could be incredibly dangerous. Very dangerous situation, if the eye wall makes it to land over the next hour or so. This is something we want to talk about, some people if you are in some of these areas as we travel northward could get some calm in the eye of the storm. Its very dangerous to go outside during that time, that calm doesnt last long and you still have the other side of the eye to get there and that could cause a lot of problems. Be very careful about that. Take a look at the forecast with time,
Conservative areas in one of the most liberal states. Voters there thinking the blue wave could run into a green wall. What matters to people on Peninsula Point . What matters to them is their portfolio. What does that mean . Money. Their portfolio, their investments. We begin this morning with monster hurricane michael, the catastrophic category four storm is a few hours from making landfall along the florida pan handle. This is historic. The pan handle has never been hit since the records began. States of emergency are now in effect for florida, alabama and georgia. And florida Officials Say roughly 375,000 people up and down the gulf coast have been urged or ordered to evacuate. We have an Incredible Team of reporters stationed across the region, and i want to go first to nbcs Carrie Sanders in Panama City Beach which could take a direct hit later today. Carrie, walk us through this. Because officials in your area, specifically, say despite telling people to get out, there have not