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
tampa all the way up over to pensacola. you can see it is raining in pensacola. the rains are coming in tampa. i want to zoom in and show you what the storm has been doing prayed here as grand-based radar. here is florida, apalachicola. these are where the oyster beds are that are so famous. panama city, the miracle mile resort in panama city, but 180,000 year-round residents. i think that s right. 180,000 or so. in the county itself, 185,000. about 36,000 live in panama city itself. i want to show you what this i wall has been doing. i will zoom all the way in. this is ground-based radar that is coming to us from here. you can see this very well-defined eye wall, the center of simulation is here. everything clear in the middle. the worst of the winds around the outside. here is the worst of the rain. right now, just to the north. where is decided? there is panama city itself. this is the very tightly-net
heavily populated, lots of high density right around the beach. it is an upper-scale area. down here is port saint joe. the rest of this is largely rural. fountain, this is an area where i worked and lived for years. my parents my mom lived here for 32 years. there is a lot of poverty in this area. the great concern moving into this storm, from the locals there in bay- county florida and beyond, so many people have made a decision not to evacuate. the last big storm, probably oval. way back in 1995, it was. it hit way over here to the east of pensacola. but they got a lot of really bad weather because of it, when it hit. 23 years ago. they haven t seen anything like this ever on this coast. if it moves into the east of panama city beach in the next couple of hours, which they seem to think it will, all of this will have a lot of trouble. mexico beach, these small communities. a bigger problem may end up
the way up to pensacola, going to have a serious and historic day today. griff jenkins is in alligator pointe, florida. that is a beach community local located. the weather he is a so bad. but see if we can hear from him. the weather is deteriorating. can you hear me? i am in alligator pointe. we want to give you a look from an iphone. it is really that storm surge what they re talking about is really going to be hitting us anyway just the water coming [no audio] shepard: well, it is on and off. we will try to get there. our reporter nicole in south florida is actually an panama city beach now. let s listen into nicole. back to you guys. nicole, thank you.
palm fronds are flying through the air, i just saw one go by. curfew is in effect as of today. starting at sunset, to sunrise. franklin county will be under a mandatory curfew. we certainly expect many more counties in the florida panhandle are going to go into curfew mode as well. simply to get people off the street, what the first responders and law enforcement get out there and see the damage. there are 1,000 national guardsmen and women already activated. there are search and rescue that s what their mission is going to be they ve got both, they ve got atvs, 3500 florida highway patrol men are also working 12-hour shifts. each of them. the florida department of transportation has a lot of utility trucks prestage out in pensacola and in orlando, ready to get the power back on. that is the number one priority according to governor scott this morning. certainly, everybody is advised