Category two. Instead he exploded in veracity to a category four. Its going to cause a huge amount of damage. Our hearts go out to those folks. Sandra thats it for us. Special courage continues here on the Fox News Channel with Shepard Smith. Hurricane michael, its on the way and it is expected to be historic. Im Shepard Smith on the fox news deck. Often in programming including outnumbered will not be seen today. Hurricane michael is a major category 4 storm set to make landfall somewhere around Panama City Beach, florida. It is expected to be the most powerful storm ever to hit the region. It is but an hour or two away. Lets get a live update from the National Hurricane center in miami. Back to the National Hurricane center, this is ken graham on the operant center. Its noon eastern, 11 00 central. The latest information on the Hurricane Michael. A couple of things to make note
here, the latest information we have wins still at 150 miles power. The pressure has dropped. We have the H
remember, the storm is circulating this way so the water would be coming out. that could drain all of these areas here. st. andrews bay, grand lagoon, all the rest around panama city. if they think the storm is going to come ashore here, the worst of it will be to the right. that is not to say these communities aren t in some sort of jeopardy. i want to switch to the satellite version, here. this is rosemary beach and seaside south walton county. the locals call this area 30a. it s largely a second-home community, people from atlanta, nashville, points north. michigan, ohio. they have settled here and second homes and in some cases retirement areas. these used to be very moderately-prized, small-town communities with houses on stilts. very quiet, sort of beach community area. that has all changed. from seaside, down to seacrest and rosemary beach. sunnyside, laguna beach. all of this 30a area is now
florida, they have been leaning forward as well. right now there is no identified shortfalls when it comes to prepositioning. we have teams, equipment, and personnel not only with an embedded with the state of florida staff and some of the local county emergency managers, but we have equipment teams staged in maxwell to atlanta, to orlando, ready to move in, once the push through. then we can get intact. listen, really quickly, 14 states, utilities of 14 states are already ready, ready to help with the energy. president trump: electric companies from all of the country, they are lined up come as soon as it goes by. they re going to be working. we have got food supplies, food chains we are working with all the states. let me ask you starting a week ago, this was a small storm in an area they never thought, and that grew into a monster.
her case force winds around ther pray the way to look at it isn t that center point. it s a swath of winds. the singer again, even as georgia. much as those power outages and damage on coast, even in central georgia. to be when you look at the scum of the rings are all the way up to montgomery. that s 100 miles of coast. this is going to cause enormous water. atlanta, it s on the way. you look at the rain fall, that s one of the problems we have. we have been taking a look at the storm surge, but the rain, as will pay look at this swath. 6-10 inches right on the coast, the panhandle, stretching into georgia. this is the other problem. 4-6 inches of rain that stretches from georgia into the carolinas. you take hurricane-force winds, tropical storm force winds, you saturate the soil with a string, he will drop the trees. you will have power outages deep into the inland areas. run on the coast, apsley catastrophic. the category 4, unprecedented win. shepard: what would you
with higher gusts. we have leaned forward with governor scott and his staff and right now there s no identified short falls when it comes to prepositioning, so we have teams, equipment, personnel, not only with, embedded with state of florida staff, and some of the local county emergency managers and we have equipment from maxwell to atlanta to orlando that can move in once the storm surge kind of push through. about 14 states, different utilities from 14 states are already ready to help with any outages. they re all lined up, as soon as it goes by, they re going to be working and we have got food supplies, food chains, we re working with all of the states and. let me ask you, this started out very innocently a week ago, it