So, the national hurricane center has done a really great job of warning people. we knew exactly where this storm was going to go. steve: yep. janice: and the intensity, which is one of the hardest things to forecast they had right on. category 3. border wall category 4 and that s exactly what we had. steve: you were talking about when it made landfall and that is for historical purposes. janice: yes. steve: so they can say it came ashore at this point. speaking of history. history is going to be made shoy in tallahassee. the state capital, has never in recorded history, going back to 1851, i think. tallahassee has never experienced a hurricane and it s heading their way, janice. janice: i think we have someone that s going to tell us about that, right? one of our multi media journalist? ainsley: i remember when i went to school in tallahassee we would have hurricane parties. brian: so there was a hurricane. steve: you were just looking for an excuse. ainsley: they
To the national guard. the aftermath of this is going to be hairy. moving into south georgia as a hurricane and into the carolinas. be careful. heed the warnings, stay in. find high ground. take care of your family. take care of your vehicles, guys. back to you. brian: robert, how long do you think you can stay there? it looks like it s getting higher while you are talking? well, i got to say, i mean, the water has been gradually increasing all morning. and this is about the highest i have seen it in this pocket. the good news for us is beyond the camera there is a garage that goes up many floors, in fact five floors up. so we could take shelter in that if this becomes inundated up to 7 feet. that s what the prediction was by the national weather service up to 7 feet of surge. whether we see that, i just don t know. it s too hard to tell. and especially with the sun not fully up right now it s hard to gauge how many of these roads are taking it in. if you look at this, let me back
brian: all right. kevin guthrie executive director of the florida division of emergency manage wanted and joins us live. kevin, what s your greatest area of concern right now. hey, good morning, guys. appreciate it, brian. right now our greatest area of concern is going to be that big bend area where we just had landfall. that 947 pressure with 125, 130 mile-per-hour winds. that s a really strong cat 3 hurricane. just coming down from that cat 4 that we saw about an hour ago. storm surge, the 12 to 15-foot of storm surge along the coastnot a really populated area but nevertheless we still got some fish camps and things like that in there. lots of people in manufactured housing. that s a concern. and then moving inland with these 120 mile-per-hour winds, 120 mile-per-hour gusts bringing down that live oak canopy. i know, brian, usc up here in the tallahassee area you know there is a really strong live oak tree canopy here. that s going to go into power lines. take down power lines a
Situation as we now watch hurricane, this hurricane is now expected to make landfall here in just a matter of maybe under an hour. it is imminent that eye wall is now approaching the florida coast line. so this is a situation but i want to make very clear that us here in tampa bay are not looking at that eye wall. this is really the outer bands of the storm. and likely really was hours ago and we re still seeing lingering impacts all along the tampa bay area. so this is an incredible image here. something that the police officers you see just next to us have told me they have never seen before here in bayshore. some telling me they worked in this city for more than 20 years and unreal and incredibly terrifying image here of that storm surge behind me, guys. steve: and, nicole, the police are right there next to you, keeping an eye on what s going on right there near the water. have you seen any, you know, we always see this in florida. i don t know if this is the case
Landfall, the actual eye of the storm coming across land within the next few minutes, really for the next, i would say, half an hour or. so tornado watch in effect. we do have the potential for tornadoes as the center of circulation comes on shore. you have counterclockwise motion with those bands moving inland. already the spin in place. look at the latest storm surge, 5.5 feet in cedar key. apalachicola 1.8 feet. we have been stressing that this area of the panhandle of florida has never experienced a storm of this strength in recorded history. that s why this is such a big deal. here is the latest track. again, we are getting the information every hour from the national hurricane center. expecting an imminent landfall. that lowest pressure point moving on shore in the big bend. and then we are dealing with a category 2 hurricane that moves across georgia and the carolinas. so that s part 2 of this storm. it is moving pretty quickly, 17 miles per hour to the north and east. but it s