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
as 13 feet in some areas. the storm strengthened into an extremely dangerous category 4 overnight. the national weather service is calling this an unprecedented event, noting that no category 4 storm on record has ever made landfall along florida s panhandle. let s get right to bill karins with a check on the timing of all this. still strength ing for the hour. we have about 10, 11 hours to go for the landfall. we are going to see areas of the florida panhandle uninhabitable for days, weeks, possibly. panama city and panama city beach are right in the area. they re all veektsed, they re out of there, but they re not sure what they re going to have to go back home to. let s get to the latest from the hurricane center. gusts, 170. the last time we gave a forecast like this for a hurricane was hurricane charlie. this is stronger winds than what