A very high level. Some are saying its 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. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its 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. Were 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 Else that you
hurricane force winds in geor a georgia. it is really important. it will still produce those hurricane force winds into georgia. not just the damage winds along the coast. you saw how large the rain shield is. you ll get the winds inland. the idea it s going go into central georgia. we ll still see high winds. at what point does it stop worrying you. at some point it becomes a normal stand that a normal city is handle. at that point it does. one of the worries that i have is once you get inland, we have such a focus on the winds, but if you think about the flow around the hurricane, even when
the downtown area will be devastated. we re expected high tide tonight. back to you. bill, when gabe says on the dirty side of the storm. tell us about that. the dirty side, people will refer to that on the eastern side of the storm. you get the southerly winds for a longer period of time which tend to be the stronger winds. a lot of times it s the rainier side. they will drag the cooler, drier air on the back side. usually they will call that the dirty side. got it. what happens now? we haven t had and probably because we haven t had an update from the hurricane center yet. i would expect the next report says the winds are lower. we ll start quickly lowering. we ve been focusing so much on the landfall area and the damage that s being done, let s quickly, we got a lot of people that will be in the way of the
point, correct? we just lost power probably 20 do you have any means of getting news updates? i ve been trying to get a radio station on my phone but i haven t been able to get that. all right. thank you for telling us about what s going on. stay safe with your family and your pets. we will stay in touch with you as well. teri vega is sticking around. sg one thi . one thing we re wondering going into the storm is how long will it be before we know how bad the damage was. panama city is coming out of eye wall now. still have some eye winds for the next hour or two. they don t have sunset for the next four hours. we may get our reporters to take a look around. as of now we re isolated into hotel rooms and safe places. authorities normally use 40 to 50 miles an hour as a
destruction and damage. we have seen minor damage. it s very hard in the middle of a hurricane to get out and do much of a survey. the fire department say they have been receiving emergency calls from the residents who decided to stay put. about 24,000 chose the stay on the beach here because they went to bed last night with a category 2 and said we ve been through that before and woke up to a category 4. the people who decided to stay here were stuck here and could not leave. the fire department is not going out. there are those emergency calls but they re not going out. they say they will respond after the hurricane passes. the chief saying it puts too many lives in danger to go out in this kind of environment. the update is it s still ongoing. we still have ways to go. the eye wall has made or the eye