storm a few moments ago. i want to give an update on and i m sure it will make it through this one. i hunkered down but it s scary the really devastating storm looking outside. bearing down on florida. i want our residents, i hope it s moving rapidly and it s at they re all hunkered down good, the ones that stayed because we had quite a few people stay. a very high level. some are saying it s one of the all of those people who biggest storms ever to hit our stayed, did they have time at country. it built very rapidly,ed the very least whether to gas up the car or to get to the grocery a briefing with secretary of store? because once this storm passes, homeland security and the residents might be without power or really ability to get around administrator of fema and we are for sometime. you didn t have much time to watching hurricane michael. prepare. it s just hitting shore now. yes. up until the time the stores winds are going up to close to closed today, they were pumping gas.
we already lost power in the hotel as the storm starts to you know, what are you most make the way here, make landfall worried about here? are you most worried about the in panama city beach in the next destructive high velocity winds couple of hours. where are you physically? the building you are in. of 155 miles per hour where as are you in a hotel? you said we talk to people with an office building? i m asking because this storm houses built in the 1920s and came on so quickly, did enough 1940s or worried about the water people evacuate in enough time? damage? both. this is a total hurricane. reporter: so, stephanie, they re you knowing me to come the storm surge values are inside. good. highest of anywhere in the state i can explain to you that we are in the second story of our of florida. the low lying area have yet to hotel here. see the bulk of the storm surge this is concrete over here. shut the door, please! come in and older homes have done better. let me do thi
window. come later on today, probably they re reporting this is one across the back of the property. of the most powerful hurricanes right. on our screen we are looking to hit our country s. that at live images of panama city. actually a fact? well, you know, so in this but speak to us about sopchoppy. area this would be the most you said you live on the river. intense hurricane that struck how high is the water and are this area since 1851. you worried about those rising this storm literally has the tides? the river is over its banks capability, possibility of and the house that we live, my changing the geography of the house, was built in 1912. coast of florida. this is going to be one of the worst storms we have ever wow. so it is it is an older had in october in our country s history. we have been feeling the wind florida home with tin roof and pick up over the last hour or so. solid wood which i think is as you can see, the rain is doing well for us right now
middle of it. 5. 4. 3. 2. panama city and panama city beach, a population of 30,000 people right here in the heart first man. rated pg-13. of the northern eye wall and getting strong winds at 80 to 100 miles per hour and only today, life-changing technology from abbott about 5, 10 miles away, not as is helping hunt them down at their source. because the faster we can identify new viruses, much damage. it s a small eye and wherever it shifted was going to get hit the the faster we can get to stopping them. worst and we don t want anyone to get hit by a storm like this but if we have a near category 5 the most personal technology, is technology with the power to change your life. storm, one of the strongest we have seen, this area in here where the worst of the winds are life. to the fullest. and the storm surge is one of the least pop latted spots on the entire florida coastline. we ll talk to somebody that definitely spends sometime there. we have the mayor of port st. joe bo patters
gotten out? you. for one second, while you re reporter: so, there s 3,000 talking, the viewers are people that live here in port watching a crew in panama city st. joe. appears trying to hold the we were driving around yesterday and just like you were talking window in place. about with ali, people here if they can hear us, get the really caught you have guard. mattress off the bed. they didn t have time and and put that against the window. thankfully we re asking somebody to shine a flashlight on me what they re doing is extremely here. dangerous. if that window shatters in front they didn t have time to evacuate, many of them. of their faces like that trying this caught them off guard. to hold that. barely managing to board up some so i don t know if they can hear of the businessesment some of me or not. we ll get the control room, them have decided to hunker as well, if we can get to get down. some of them did manage to the message to them. leave. but i spoke to the mayor of por