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going to one particular shelter near ft. myers. many of them are still waiting to get in. we re going to check in with our drew griffin who s there in the hour ahead. but first, let s get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. allison chinchar is in the weather center. bring us up to date. right, anderson. take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. winds 125 miles per hour gusting up to 155 miles per hour. the movement it s been what we call wobbling where it s going back and forth between west and north and west and north. the question is when does it finally start to make that really sharp turn to the north. we focus on the maximum wind gusts. notice for the most part it s the western half of florida where we have our strongest winds. key west, this will be our peak maximum wind gusts around 138 miles per hour. but say up around ft. myers 136, even tampa going to be in the triple digits right around 116 miles per hour. ....
what are you seeing? i lost you, chris. i lost you, chris, but if you can hear me, if we re still on the air, we have taken refuge inside a parking structure in miami beach, because i want to show you why the beach floods so quickly, why that storm surge is so dangerous. our camera man is going to stay underneath the parking structure, i m going to move over here so you can see just how fast the wind is moving. this is why the storm surge is so dangerous and why this area of miami floods. the wind is barrelling here up miami beach. it s very powerful. we re estimating over 60 miles per hour. police officers cannot be patrolling the streets when the wind goes over 40 miles per people evacuated even though the storm shifted west ward, this could be dangerous to leave your home even on the east side of florida, certainly down south around miami, miami beach, until tomorrow morning. be very aware of those high winds. the beginning of the eye wall starting to affect the keys, tho ....
a very high level. some are saying it s 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. it s just hitting shore now. winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. category 4. you don t hear about that. it s 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. we re 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 ....
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, we re following a number of fast-paced 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. we ll talk to david ignatius about that and get the very latest. we ll have him about the political and foreign policy implications of the sudden resignation of u.n. ambassador nikki haley. plus, the audience at president trump s 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 stor ....
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