this is ken graham with the latest on the powerful hurricane michael. >> shepard: we'll go straight to live reporters, but we want to show you where the storm has been and where it's going. the eye has now made landfall. you can see the direction it's expected to go. once you get into southwest georgia, it's still a category 2 storm. atlanta will feel a lot of rain from this. huntsville and auburn. all of you are going to experience rain. in pensacola, florida, all that rain to the north, but in pensacola, the sun just came out. want to show you one interesting thing about this storm. this is the eye of the storm that's just come ashore. for those who just joined us, especially on fox television stations, i want to zoom in. we watched this eye wall come across. it entered at tyndall air force base. here's the air force base. that's where it came across. this is mexico beach here. so the strongest part of the storm, the eye wall, packing 155 mile an hour winds with gusts much stronger. enough to tear down homes, throw limbs of trees through the air like missiles. the very worst of it is

ken graham is there. ken, you have been saying as far as i wall crossing, it's looking more like mexico beach, which is east of panama city and east of tyndall air force base. >> getting really close to mexico beach. you can take a look at here, 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,

ken graham is the director of the national hurricane center in miami. we have now made contact with unof our many correspondent and camera crew teams. kerry sanders is able to join us once again after what's already been a long and sporty day in panama city beach, florida. hey, kerry. >> hey there, how are you? we're getting the cameras set up. bear with us. i came down here to the beach to sort of show you what did or did not happen. as you understand what a hurricane is going for on the eastern side of the states the dirty side. you have all of that wind pushing the water up on the beach. >> that is a huge storm surge. and then on the western side, west is best. you don't have as much. so what you are looking at here is what fortunatelies with not a huge storm surge. it ended up bafbally to the sand dunes. here there is not much of a sand dune. so in the beach area here, panama city beach, things are looking pretty good. in and around the damage, we're doing assessments right now. the authorities say that they can't determine for us in the state of fl

let's get a look where this is led from the national hurricane center their director is ken graham andive with us. ken, thanks. >> you bet, shep. good to have you back here and let people know what's going on. it's a very dangerous storm at this point. >> shepard: what are you seeing? >> you look at this track and healthier and healthier. we are seeing this eye form and track at this time. a couple things we need to let people know here. it's not just about that track, not necessarily about that cone. we have tropical storm force winds. look at this 185 miles away from the center. hurricane force winds 40 miles away from the center. this is a swath. this is a swath of winds that will make its way on lands and some of those, you know, you are looking at those storm bands. they are going to be there even tonight. so really this is a reminder that these impacts are well ahead of that center. and we will start seeing some of these impacts as early as tonight. >> shepard: you know, the area where this thing is headed, your whole cone and beyond, that's not a big city area where people have

. >> we want the turn now to turn graham, director of the national hurricane center. ken, give us the newest information on the storm, hurricane michael. based on the video and images of our colleagues, things look rough. >> i was watching the broadcast and where that broadcast was, port st. joe, a gust of 106 miles per hour. that was about 106 miles per hour winds in the video and wanted to equate the values to what the viewers were seeing. >> that's great. >> 6 1/2 foot of inundation of apalachicola and the pressure down to 919. here's the latest information. strengthening all the way in. top three to four pressures of a u.s. landfall hurricane and very strong and seeing the eye wall make it on shore really close to mexico beach and the highest winds are making it on shore and remind people, some of those people on the beach near that eye get calm inside the eye. it is not safe to go outside because it's not going to last long and get the back edge of that eye wall. >> what are the next 24 to 48 hours going to look like? i guess part of my question to you, ken, what cou

. >> i'm ken graham here in the operations here. it's 3:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 central. the latest update on hurricane michael, you can see most of the center, the eye wall, the area of the strongest winds moving on shore. we made landfall and continue to move north at a rapid rate. north northeast at 15 miles an hour. so moving quickly. a reminder. we're seeing the pictures inside the eye. it's a very dangerous thing. this thing is moving so fast, 15 miles an hour. as it moves north, you may have some calm inside the eye but it's dangerous. you'll have the back edge of the winds. we often see that to be incredibly dangerous. be careful. really just best to stay in a safe place in the shelter. so with time, let's look and see where we'll get the center moving. when you have a landfall this strong, 155 miles an hour hurricane, it's going to take time to reduce the winds once we made landfall. we still expect to have strong winds, hurricane force, moving in to georgia. so into the evening hours, central georgia, take the rain that we showed and look at the winds on top of

. >> joining me now, ken graham, director at the national hurricane center. all right, ken, what's the latest on the storm's path? >> you start to see these rain bands stretch out to the middle of the gulf. with time, we're going to inch towards the coast here. looking at this, we've got a major hurricane potentially bringing 120-mile-an-hour winds to coastline and that's going to be, you know, some of these rain bands getting in tonight with landfall tomorrow. but look at this, hurricane still inland. trip call storm even into georgia and south carolina. so with all that rain and all that wind, there's going to be a lot of power outages, a lot of impact from this storm. >> what's your great ev concees at this moment? >> the greatest concern is, you know, we look at the rainfall, we look at the power outages and trees. when i look at this, i mean, 50% of the fatalities in these tropical systems is storm surge. these are values we're looking at potentially above ground. >> what does that mean, values? >> values in feet of storm surge. i mean, that's an incredib

for more on this storm, i'm joined now by ken graham, hurector of the national icane center, based in miami. mr. graham, thank you very much for being here. can you just give us the latest on this storm? >> i would just have the latest information. now we're a tegory 3, winds e20mph with this system. some sgthening as forecast. we're southwest of apalchicola. you see a healthy system with the eye in the center and some convection. so really looking at a system that is large. you're already starting to see some of these rain bands work their way northward in the gulf of mexico. >> brangham: your sense right now is the track is likely to hit somewhere in the northern panhandle around panama city? >> yeah, that's t look like. a lot of the messaging that we're talking about is also about e size. so you're looking at landfall tomorrow afternoon right on the upper portion of the gulf coast there in the florida panhandle, but this is an important point thhere. look asize of the winds. this is tropical storm force 185ds really looking about miles away from the center. 40 miles away from the c

ken graham at the national hurricane center. thank you. >> i just keep thinking back here, we're looking at video from mexico beach. >> that is panama city beach. >> just a few minutes ago when we were speaking to lester holt and he brought the microphone to the window, today door and it wasn't open. it sounded like a jet engine. there's lester in a three story brick structure with the microphone put next to the door. >> the actual numbers we're s seeing. i want to show you pictures of where this thing made landfall, mexico beach. take a look. that's the first pictures of destruction that we're seeing. when bill said tornado, that looks like a tornado. that's shredded homes. that doesn't feel like sustained wind. that feels like real, serious high wind damage. let's listen in. sg >> we can only hope the people in the vicinity evacuated. look at the amount of debris. >> if there were, they said 155 mile sustained winds. if that was true, that's where it happened. i can't tell what that really was. >> we don't know if it's a lot o

so this is becoming an atlantic issue, too. >> nawaz: ken graham at the national hurricane center, thanks for your time. >> you bet. >> nawaz: now a closer look at the impact of hurricane michael so far. panama city beach is getting hit hard. i spoke withth mayor mikmas by phone this afternoon as the storm was making landfall. >> there's damage. i think we're goio get less than i was expecting with the strength of this storm and all in panama city beach. i think panama city and mexico beach and st. joe are going to get a little worse. it jogged just a little bit e the eastre it hit us, and the winds are horrible right now, the squalls coming through, the surf was up real high, but all in all we're in pretty good shape. >> naz: tell me a bit me if you can. many people have never been threw a storm like this. can you describe what you're theing? >> well, make-up of a hurricane is amazing. wh the bands come thgh, one minute it will be blowing out the front of you. the next it's blowing from behind you. it is amzing the way, the dynamics change. on the other end of the hurricane, i was lookg

ken graham at the national hurricane center, thank you so much. >> you bet. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, authorities in turkey announced plans toabearch saudi 's consulate in istanbul, where a saudi journalist vanished last week. turkey says jamal khashoggi was murdered there. thsaudis deny it. a surveillance photo published by "the washington post" shows khashoggi entering the consulate. there's no evide.e he ever le president trump said today he has not spoken with udis about the incident, but plans to. china insisted today it has no plans to weaken its currency ier order to cou.s. tariffs. that comes a day after the chinese yuan sank to a 22-month low against the dollar. the foreign ministry denied china would use devaluation to make exports less expensive, and offset the tariffs. >> ( translated ): we have no intention of promoting exports through the competitive devaluation of currency, and will not use the exchange rate as a tool to respond to disputes in trade or other areas. i also want to say that these types of remarks are just some people making groundless speculat

joining us now is ken graham. so, ken, folks will hear a lot. here comes a record breaking storm. historic storm, et cetera. tell us what is unique about this one and particularly where it will hit on that panhandle because that seems to be one of the issues as well. >> you really look at this system here. we look at all the impacts. it has every impact associated with typical hurricanes. one of them is the winds. let's talk about that. so you think about still a tropical storm in georgia and continuing as a tropical storm across the carolinas. you will have a wind issue. heavy rain plus the wind and we're very concerned about this storm surge as well. so the rain fall, 6 to 10 inches. look at this storm surge. we have been talking about this for the last few days. a vulnerable part of the gulf of mexico where the water just gets trapped. some of it reaching inland. so very large storm that we're dealing with here. >> i do think, and you know this ken, when people hear about the biggest concern in decades, they feel like, well, i heard that before. i heard that before. so what wou

i'm ken graham laong at the nac clock. the official update for hurricane michael. new information coming out now. we just received a report a little bit again apalachicola receiving a wind gust of 72 miles an hour. so we're constantly updating this forecast based on the radar, based on the observation's and we have noaa and air force hurricane hunters out there. we're 145 miles an hour. strong system continuing 60 miles southwest of panama city. movement north/northwest at 14 miles an hour. the center of michael getting closer and closer to the coast but if you think about it, even in these rain bands that we're receiving wind gusts over 70 miles an hour. it is important not to just focus on the center. look at these rain bands with the dangerous winds and tornado from the storm. the latest hurricane-force winds extending 45 miles out from the center. that's a dangerous place to be and getting close as we continue to move towards the panama city area, mexico beach, apalachicola, any one of those areas will receive the intense winds from this inner eyewall. and cont

let's go to ken graham, director of the national hurricane center in miami for an update. an assessment yet, a credible assessment of the damage so far where the i came across? >> you have a situation where you have 155-mile-per-hour winds anywhere along that area will have incredible damage and we are still not done yet. can you believe we still have an air hurricane entering georgia? just got that value income at 115 miles per hour so still hurricane up the current time. >> and for georgia, that's probably not used to dealing with this kind of thing, potentially they have some long hours ahead. >> they really do and it's very concerning because it's still hurricane and you've had a lot of rain which saturates the soil. when you add those wins on top of it, you get trees coming down and power outages as well, in the nighttime hours coming. we are urging residents anywhere in this area from the southwest georgia groveport, you could come around the corner and get an accident so we are telling people to stay off the road and keep safe. >> we heard from governor rick scott e

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. >> shepard: ken graham, thank you. the storm came ashore, as you can see. directly over the air force base east of panam city, florida, in the florida panhandle. we have no reports yet but it took a direct hit. mexico beach, look at this vide video. there is widespread damage. the center of the storm did not hit it but you can see there is debris, roofs off houses, the kind of damage you would expect to the east of a major hurricane like this. the meteorologists got it exactly right. it was projected to hit somewhere between pensacola and apalachicola, and it did. there were late fears it would go directly over panama city beach. would've been catastrophic and could have leveled thousands and thousands of buildings with forward speed of 14 to 16 miles an hour and 155-mile-an-hour winds. this hit one of the least populated areas in all of florida. the next video came from springfield, right outside panama city. a local guy went out to assess the damage. >> they lost the whole roof. they are going to come over here and stay with us. they will at least stay dr

. >> reporter: all right, joining us now is ken graham, the director of the national hurricane centerrector, thanks so much for joining us. let me start with telling you what i'm seeing, which is it does seem here in panama city beach, the winds have died down just a little bit. have we seen the worst of this already? >> for your location, once this landfall came through, you're on the back portion of that eye wall. it continues to move northward. what's interesting is relative to where you are is what you're going to experience when it comes to damage. looking at that previous video being on the outskirts, it's all relative to the location. right around that eye some of the greatest damage. there's still going to be structural damage. but with time you start seeing the damage with some of those rain bands as well. some of those rain bands can produce hurricane force winds as well. >> reporter: where is the center of the storm, the eye wall, the most damaging part of the storm? where at this point do you think it's headed? >> john, when we look at that, this isn't just a coastal situa

. >> ken graham, one of the busiest people in this country over the past 24 hours.u get some rest. thank you for finding the time to join us for that update. when you have that job in state of florida, charlie, francis, ivan, gene, dennis, katrina and wilma. now the hifrt story of storms i florida have michael. none of us have seen anything like this storm. >> it's never that bad and they'll never be able to say that again. what bill was just talking about, cones of probabilities concerning intensity of the storm. the intensity of this storm, i think it's fair to say took every one by surprise. >> i think the team were prepared for this. knowing this was going to be a multistate impact, they got a lot of resources not only in florida but surrounding states to respond to this. we have been working on this. the number does not tell the story of the hurricane. opal spun up quickly and got powerful. it sucked in dry air. it weakened just before landfall. this would have played out in 1995. again, short term in the gulf. big impacts and the number comm. >> did the storm

the national hurricane center director ken graham with us right now. ken, i know you are having a very, very busy day. i appreciate your taking the time. update us. where does this thing stand right now? can you hear us? we have some difficulty there. just to let you know, the eyewall of this thing has hit land. we don't know the exact locale but that's when a lot of people can get cocky, see a little sunlight, think it's okay, the worst is over. i suspect for folks in this region, they don't get so cavalier. what they are worried about now is 9 to 14 flood surges, 9 to 14 feet of flood surges along what could be a broad swath of area encompassing better than 300 miles along just the coast from the florida coast and that this could get worse before it gets better. it is also going to compromise at least nine rivers, seven of which were already overflowing from florence. this storm is fast-moving, about three times faster than florence. the only upside, it doesn't have time to do a lot of damage, just whips up through the carolinas, still doing a great d

ken graham at the national hurricane center thank you very much. chad, thank you for playing along. a reminder from the governor who said the time to evacuate has come and gone. the time to take refuge is now. you need to stay where you are. about 60 miles from here is apalachicola. >> good morning, john. i'm standing on highway 98, one of the main thorough fairs through. that way is panama city. let me get you to this side. that's the ocean. that's where the water is expected to come up. we're concerned about the storm surge. we keep talking about it. the new projected numbers, between 9 and 14 feet. that means water approaching some of the first floors of the buildings in and around where i'm standing right now. do yourself a favor. look at the map of florida. notice the big bend area. that is the area that's shaped like a c. it is almost as if it is a catcher's glove or a catcher's mitt. when the hurricane comes in, it takes all of that accumulated water and dumps it in the form of storm surge. on top of that, just like the national hurricane center gentleman was talking about a

. >> joining us now is ken graham. we know you have put out your latest advisory. >> we are seeing some strengthening as we were forecasting. you start to see that definite shape that is conducive of stronger development. the forecast is pretty much the same. look at the timing. we expect more strengthening with time. 120 miles an hour winds. one thing that we have to watch here, it's not just right along the coast. there is still a tropical storm deep into georgia. if you think about it you have all that rain and that wind. trees down all the way into georgia, maybe even into south carolina. >> power outages, trees down. what is your biggest worry this morning? >> my worry is this right here, the storm surge. this is a part of the gulf of mexico that's incredibly vulnerable to storm surge. the other part is the shape of the coastline. the water gets trapped. it has nowhere to go. it is not just right there where we could see 8 to 12 foot of storm surge. tampa pay to pensacola. this is just one example. you could be 10

he wants for the whole state, but we will also talk to the national hurricane center director, ken graham will give us an update on the timing of all this, and we will talk to senator bill nelson on how florida is bracing for hurricane michael. >>> also, a big name, making a big change and it could be a window into making plans for 2020, michael bloomberg's major decision this morning, next. >>> former new york city mayor, michael bloomberg, is changing parties. hoe posted a picture on instagram this morning showing he is registering as a democrat, after years of being a independent and republican. let's call in our analysts, david gregory, and jonathan wahtell. we are going to talk about nikki haley, and we are going on but this news broke. here's michael bloomberg's message. at key points in u.s. history one of the two parties have served as a bull work as those that threaten our constitution. today i reregistered as a democrat because we need democrats to provide checks and balances of our nation, our nation so badly needs. give us the sub text here, david gregory? >> he took a hard lo

ahead on new day we will speak to the director of the national hurricane center ken graham. we will get the latest forecast and track. we will also speak to senate bill nelson. i should note as i said before i will be live in florida tomorrow. "new day "will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. >> i have guilt and perverse pleasure at the idea of you going back into another storm. >> if only getting so wet made me grow. >> like a flower. i wonder if it is because you are so good at it that you keep going. it is interesting to watch you report while you are being battered by that. i am not sure i could do it as well. >> i think you are playing mind games and trying to trick me into going. >> i am tricking my boss. >>> this just in, hillary clinton is talking about brett kavanaugh and the swearing in ceremony that we saw yesterday. what she told our christian amanpour. next. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. all the tools you need for every step o

for the latest i want to go to the national hurricane center, ken graham, with more on what we can expectm this storm. this thing made landfall, was remarkably powerful, more powerful than people thought it would be just two or three days ago. is it weakening now that it's over land? >> once these strong systems make landfall you start to see weakening but it's going to take some time. when you have winds that strong it's going to take some time to bring those down. we expect to see hurricane force winds stretching into alabama and georgia and still a tropical storm as we move into carolina. that rain on top of winds, you could see trees down and damage well into central georgia. >> ken, we were talking about this a few minutes ago. there's still an eye in this hurricane. is that significant to you or not? >> absolutely. you start seeing an eye, that's still showing us that you have those intense winds right around the center. so we still have an eye across the panhandle, you will see that moving into georgia as well. it's going to take some time to come down and you're going to see that

on hurricane michael and where it's headed over the next 24 hours, we're join again tonight by ken graham, director of the national hurricane center. he joins me from miami, florida. mr. graham, thanks for making the time. tell us now, we're talkingu to little after 5:00 p.m. eastern. what's the latest that we know about the strength and thein nsity of this storm? >> yeah, we got some brand-new information th just came in. we're looking at still winds of 125mph, which is incredible since we'relready inland. so you still have some of those hurricane-force winds. m we're looking ement. still about 16mph. so it's speeding up mat ties. luckily we're not getting some of those high rainfall totals, but we are having some issues, of course, with the wind. being inland like, that we still alpect hurricane-force winds to stretch into cenortions of georgia, so not just a coastal event. you'll get some trees down and some power outages even stretching into central georgia. >> nawaz: talk about those hurricane-force win eve further inland. a lot of people were talking about this being a worst-case sc

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question for you, ken, you spent a lot of time talking on capitol hill and your colleagues, democrats and republicans. >> they're all in. literally, i have never seen someone like lindsey graham or mitch mcconnell essentially saying thank you. >> there is an awkward relationship between the president and some of these lawmakers and they are all in as they're 23 days out and they're fired up. i interview senator jones new york and she was on the campaign trail. truly she was grateful to go back to iowa the day after justice brett kavanaugh was confirmed to talk to her voters because they felt that she had something to deliver to them. we are living in polarized time. >> all right, we'll come back here. >> up next, jared kushner is under fire fore his cozy relationship with the saudis and "the new york times" reports found that jared kushner has not paid taxes. >> he's that guy in the room, the sad thing about jared is that he does not know how stupid he sounds when he's talking and listening. >> oh, i am learning. eric always wanted to be a professional basketball player. instead, he's the tallest guy in his office. yeah, eric's had to compromise a lot in life. ah yes, you nee