While. That does it for us this morning. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. On an extremely busy wednesday, october 10th, were following a number of fastpaced developing stories this morning. Chilling new reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times on the disappearance of Washington Post columnist jim malkashogi. Well talk to David Ignatius about that and get the very latest. Well have him about the political and Foreign Policy implications of the sudden resignation of u. N. Ambassador nikki haley. Plus, the audience at president trumps rally last night, again, breaks out in a lock her up chant, this time for someone other than hillary clinton. Steve kornacki will be here to make sense of a slew of new polling out this morning. But first, we are just hours away from Hurricane Michael making landfall in the Florida Panhandle, bringing with it life threatening storm surge as high
as 13 feet in some areas. The storm strengthened into an ex
we saw last year. the forecast takes it on shore landfall sometime right after the lunch hour. hurricane centers has it at 145-mile-per-hour winds. that s a strong category 4. and then it slowly weakened even at 10:00 a.m. tonight, still a hurricane over south central georgia. look at all the lightning strikes. that s why we know it s intensified. we have aircraft flying through it. the pressure still dropping. the storm is getting stronger and all of the heavy rain bands are moving on shore. time is up for the most part to get out of the way. if you still could, do it. if you re in the panama city area, get out because you re risking your life and your family s life. in land, if you can get out of the area, do so. there s the center of the storm. we have about 100 miles to go before it gets on shore. threatening lives will be falling tree limbs and the