Dangerous and its really the lack of visibility. We can barely see 100 yards in either direction and obviously with the winds blowing at this speed if there is debris flying through the air i dont want to be out in the middle of that and get caught up side the head by some Flying Branch or anything like that reporter hold on one second, ed. Stay where you are. Stay where you are right now because some of these big trees are surrounding this hotel. I dont know if theyre going to make it. Theyre starting to creep out. Look, the palm tree is an extraordinary piece of vegetation. Theres no question about it. Theyre built to bend. There are a lot of trees that arent that and theyre starting to split and fail under the strain on them and weve been watching it and the concern is that these trees are going to go into the structures across and while they may not look physically impressive to you, were talking about thousands and thousands of pounds and even more of that force if they do
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Tonight, a special edition of world news tonight as we fly over ground zero from Hurricane Michael, the unimaginable destruction, buildings destroyed, homes simply swept away. The category 4 hurricane wiping out much of the town, mexico beach, not far from panama city. As we fly over, homes sitting in streets, hotels and buildings destroyed. Winds Strong Enough to flip a Freight Train right over. And just 24 hours after ginger zee witnessed a storm surge, lifting a home off the foundation, floating past her. What she witnessed today when the sun came up. Also tonight, the scare inside the hospital. The hurricane blew up to the doors to the e. R. Using gurneys to barricade themselves from the storm. Tonight, the upper floor still
with water in the hall ways. The patients awaiting heart surgery. A pregnant woman in premature labor with twins and doctors working furiously to get the patients to safety. In other news, as it plays out. The scene at the white house. The photo op at the white
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
A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds. The storm surges could be up to 15 feet. Additional rainfall could also produce Flash Flooding at the highest levels. We have been in constant communications with governor rick scott of florida. With all the authorities in the various states. Were very well prepared for massive amounts of food and we have First Responders all over, the Electrical Companies are staged and ready to go in after the storm. Over a thousands trucks. We have large amounts of food and water and Everything Else that you