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
just write off. that is the area where you have the highest winds. the latest reading is 150 miles an hour, getting really close to the coach. coast. even the rain bands at the center, apalachicola just gusted to 80 miles an hour. it s around this eye wall, incredibly damaging. the structural integrity of the structures could collapse. you can have some roof damage. in critical power outages associated with the trees down, as well. shepard: looking at that particular area, you certainly hope the eyeball doesn t go over a heavily-populated area like panama city. it looks like it will go east of there. ken, that is not to say catastrophic damage isn t ahead for that whole coast. it really is. when you talk about a cat 4 hurricane, and you look back in history, shep back to 1851 in the records we have, we haven t had a category 4 in this area. it s unprecedented, extremely dangerous. you think about the wits, when you step back a second and look at the tropical storm force wind exte