fox weather correspondent mike seidel is out in perry, florida. a very interesting perspective. i was looking on your twitter or your over 25,000 live shots. i venture to guess thousands of them from hurricanes. what was your experience with helene and how does that compare to some of the other storms that you've stood in? >> well, it certainly was pretty sporty for about an hour, an hour and a half. but it was such a fast moving hurricane. it was a quick hit or rainfall total here. >> haley was a 3 to 30 inches. i had to add up the last part and we did get some pretty good gusts on the back side. the front side was when we had the wind gust to 99 miles an hour, meaning the eyewall, the northern northeastern eyewall. then we got into the eye. the winds never went calm, but rain shut down for a while. and then we had some more rain on the back side, about a third, about two thirds of an inch. so the winds in the past couple of hours, even after the eyewall came through, have gusted hurricane force. in the past half an hour, peak gust has been runni

let's go to the storm specialist mike seidel.lorida. >> we are just beginning to get the edge of the worst of hurricane helene. we are about 20 miles from the coast. they could see a 20-foot surged on there. at this entire county is under a mandatory evacuation. in the next couple of hours we will get into... and then we will likely be in the eye and maybe on fox news around 11:30 eastern where it goes eerie. it's moving fast at about 25 miles per hour. it's going to take the wind impacts while north versus a typical hurricane. we could see wind gusts over 70 miles per hour. is good to be massive power outages in the southeast along with localized flash flooding. it's a big storm, a dangerous 1 and we are waiting now for it to move on sure and feel it's wrath here. >> jesse: stay safe, thank you so much. johnny goes to the u.n. >> what is the quiz -- cuisine in nigeria. >> my boss says men shouldn't eat soup in public, what about in nigeria? >> why not >> jesse: the united nations general assembly is in town this week and everybo

fox weather meteorologist mike seidel is live from perry, florida with the very latest, mike?vening, laura, here in perry gusting winds now gusting 125 miles per hour. take a look at the satellite loop. that's all you need to see. this is a monster storm, large geographically storm lawrence said a cat 4. 15 to 20 feet. beaches got hit by a surge last year of up to 20 feet. and another one just a couple months three times in 13 months. makes landfall heavy rainfall and gusty winds, moving so fast nearly 25 miles per hour that winds could gust to hurricane force almost to the atlanta metro area. way up in north georgia along with flash flooding. widespread. some areas could see 10 to 15 inches of rain. so, laura, this is one of those hurricanes that many people are going to be talking about, not just here in florida but in georgia and carolinas. we will have flash flood issues. thousands will be without power if not millions. in florida already a quarter of a million customers have lost power and right here in perry the weather is going to go down hill very quickly and a matter

mike seidel with fox whether his life in perry florida. what's it like for you are? >> we are in the eye now. this is something you don't often experience, a major hurricane. we had a wind gust about a half hour ago, 99 miles an hour we've had two and a half inches of rain. power flashes. behind me, seven power flashes in a row. the entire sky turned green to. we've got damaged down the street at the marathon gas station. the aluminum has been ripped to shreds. the other issue, it's pitch black. the power is out. they got hit by a dalia last summer and they were without power for seven to nine days. this summer with debbie they were without power for several days. they are staged out of the storm zone, they will come in here and try to get the power on as soon as possible. two and a half inches of rain has not caused any issues or any serious flash flooding. we've got a long way to go. the winds will pick up again and we get more rain. but then downstream, through the rest of florida and north of here where they are getting the ... gusts could be 70 miles an hour aro

fox weather mike seidel was live on air. >> whoa, did you see that power flash, ari?> i was surprised. >> here comes another one. there goes another one. holy -- oh my gosh. that was three or four right there. i thought it was lightning. there goes another one. >> this is incredible. >> i have never seen that many power flashes back-to-back-to-back in my career. >> ainsley: transformers. janice dean is tracking the storm. fox weather bill van dylan in atlanta flash flood warning. team rubicon on the ground. art de la cruise will join us in just a few minutes but we start with fox weather's michael he is at this may live in tampa. michael, what does it look like there? i have friends who live there and their basements have been flooded. >> yeah, guys, good morning, it's basements that have been flooded. it is parking garages that have been flooded and homes that have been flooded as well. what you are looking at behind me is bayshore boulevard and you can see all of the storm water inundation. in fact, we picked up over 7 feet of storm surge where we're at on bayshore

. >> brian: here's the moment the storm made landfall in florida while fox weather's owns mike seidels live on the air. >> whoa! did you see that power flash? ari? >> i was surprised. >> here comes another one. >> it was. >> there goes another one. holy -- oh my gosh. that was three or four right there. i thought it was lightning. there goes another one. >> this is incredible. i have never seen that many power flashes back to back to back in my career. >> janice dean is here tracking the storm with he we start with marissa torres live in tallahassee. marissa, a tough storm. >> yeah, historical on so many levels. right? where i was in tallahassee it could have been so much worse, that little shift to the east helped tallahassee but made it so much worse for other areas along the nature coast. i want to talk about where we are because tallahassee, yes, you have about 70% of the county without power, mainly some downed trees. minimal damage. we decided to head least closer to helene made landfall. wwe are stuck on i-10. we knew it could be an issue it is shut down going east. we are tryi