good evening. we have breaking news tonight on two fronts. a cabinet-level departure at the white house and a major hurricane heading straight for the florida panhandle. we re going to start with hurricane michael, now a cat 3 storm with little stopping it from staying that way or growing even stronger with winds approaching category 4 intensity by landfall. there s now nothing between it and florida, nothing except the kind of warm water that hurricanes feed on. just a few minutes ago forecasters got fresh data. want to go to tom sater who joins us with the very latest. what have we learned about this storm now? reporter: the latest advisory keeps it as a pretty powerful category 3, but a couple of concerning issues. the pressure has dropped, which means it s getting stronger. they go on to say, the national hurricane center, that it s getting better organized. and something we rarely do but should do more is explain this infrared imagery. when you look at a satellite imag
20 miles to my east. john berman, i m going to send it straight to you. reporter: thanks, brooke, so much. panama city feeling the full force of hurricane michael. we have sustained winds of 100 miles an hour or more and gusts of 120 miles an hour. the physical landfall happened 30 miles east with winds of 155 miles per hour. as brooke was saying, that s just two miles per hour short of being a category five storm. when all is said and done, it may prove out that hurricane michael did makeland landfall a hurricane five storm. i m walking around gingerly trying to make sure there is no flying debris coming my way. people have been watching for a few minutes and know that behind me there used to be this metal railing, this iron railing that was cemented to the ground here. it was uprooted and bent over and pulled the cement with it. that s just how strong this wind is and there goes another piece of the metal siding flying by here behind me. a hundred mile-an-hour winds will
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