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
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
that hit them. the windows went out to, even huge buildings did not survive unscathed. that remains to be seen, but as you report, this storm is moving fast right now. we hope that perhaps it would weaken on landfall. as you know, when the storm is moving that rapidly, there is less of a chance for that to happen. you see police and vehicle still patrolling out here. i think they are about ready to come in, though. that would be my guest. shep? shepard: i would think. the scary part of all of this is that you are increase dramatically, episodically, over the next hour. every 10 minutes it will get much stronger. within half an hour, rock should be fun. i know. that s when we want to take cover. we have been looking at the direction of debris, and there is nothing coming at us at this point.
you can see the rain. that is the eye wall, where you are finding the most destructive winds. once the center pushes onshore, potentially catastrophic wind damage is likely. highly likely, especially anywhere between apalachicola into panama city. it is definitely very close to making landfall. all of the same features are present to carry it into the florida panhandle. high pressure to the east, front, mid section. but it seems like this one, even as it interacts with land, will stay a hurricane for a longer period of time. possibly a category 2 system moving into sections of georgia. then, eventually a tropical storm around the middle atlantic states. we have new advisories that have been updated, four portions of north and south carol anna. here s a closer view. it is likely to make landfall between panama city and mexico beach. that will happen in the next
hour or hour and a half or so. once it interacts with land, yes, we are expecting to gradually begin. by 8:00 tonight, still a category 2 system. a large area will and still be experiencing strong hurricane-force winds, consistent heavy rains, and then storm surge continuing to remain an issue. now, all of these locations under a hurricane warning. a tropical storm warning from crystal river, and into sarasota. including tampa bay. there is a tropical storm watch. now the tropical storm warning has been extended into north carolina. the local storm tracking radar picking up at the center is definitely getting very close to making a landfall. the outer eye wall is definitely going to be pushing onshore before this center does cross through. yes, we are keeping our friends in the panhandle of florida in our prayers. shepard: we all are. that s a meteorology team down at wsb on seven in