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
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is between 5 to 8 and we re already at 5 so could get much worse. further north they are expecting up to 18 feet which could just be devastating. joining me now is the mayor of sarasota, florida, which is a little bit south of where i am, kind of on the other end of the tampa bay area. mr. mayor, thank you so much for being with us. the outer bands of the eyewall making landfall south of where we both are, what are you expecting over the next several hours? we just made the decision just now to withdraw all of our police officers from the streets just because of the sustained wind pressure that we ve been having. over the next few hour, we re anticipating that everyone will heed the governor s warning and stay hunkered down. it is too late to evacuate at this point. so everybody in zone a and b
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these things are all about differences in wind pressure. the pressure is always trying to meet the other pressure. earlier you were with us about two hour s ago, when mariano was opening her door, it was causing other people in the hotel proms. we started to see a hand show up. perhaps they can trying to secure it and shortly we had two grown men sprawled over. i m sure they are watching it. it s hard to tell from our angle but they were watching it flexing. they probably saw the metal. a window can just pop out because of the way it s bound to the window sill. it can break. while we re looking at blowing trees is something can blow into you. i didn t realize it was lester s crew. i didn t want to see something
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