these are the panama city beaches, the eye now appears heading directly for the city of panama city itself. around panama city are enormous bays, st. andrews bay, upper lagoon, east bay. these towns of parker, callaway, springfield, highland park, already to get a direct hit from this car again. let's get a live update from the national hurricane center in. >> welcome back to the national hurricane center. looking at the clock, 1:00 eastern, 12:00 central. the latest update on hurricane michael, there are some new updates, the pressure has dropped, making this one of the top three or four lowest pressures of a landfall hurricane in the united states, very serious situation. we are getting wind gusts of 10. looking at six and a half feet already around apalachicola, water is going in, you can see a portion of this i wall making it a magnet on shore between panama city and mexico beach, very powerful situation with the winds. we are looking at hurricane force wind gusts and this rain bans away from the center and that could be incredibly dangerous. very dangerous situation, if the eye wall m

here is panama city. here's the city, here is the beach.t is looking like this going to -- here is tyndall air force base. it is looking like the eye of the storm may clip panama city. that means the suburban towns of parker and calloway. not large populations, but parker and calloway, at least, may get a touch of this eye wall. same with cedar grove and springfield, and maybe panama city itself. not the western side of panama city like over by the bridge, but on the eastern side of panama city. i am going to back out now so you can see where this is going. this is the eye wall itself. this is real-time movement. here is tyndall, here's mexico beach pray the national hurricane center has been singing the last hour, it looks like mexico beach may take a direct hit. this is moving this way, and tears mexico beach. instead, to the left of mexico beach. could panama city be hit by this? the town itself, not the beach? it could. look at this rain wrapping around. this is extremely heavy rain. all of this area is still hurricane-force winds. for

panama city, florida. you can see on the right side of your screen, some palm trees swaying back and forth because of the winds. rain and wind is picking up there. the national hurricane center says the storm is packing winds and nearly 150 miles per hour. nikole killion has the latest from panama city. >> reporter: giant waves are thrashing florida's panama city beach, asl tas aim panhandle. the storm strengthened overnight. >> unfortunately hurricane michael is a hurricane of the worst kind. losses of life. >> reporter: forecasters are most worried about a probable 13-foot storm surge. >> without storm surge comes and you have no control of it. there is so much pressure and it pushes everything in and then it sucks everything out. >> reporter: michael is also expected to dump more than a foot of rain and lash the area with 145-mile per hour sustained winds. given the strength of the storm, nearly 400,000 people were urged to evacuate along the gulf coast. officials warn time has now run out. >> you have

panama city and panama city beach this evening, high tide around 8:40.n though the water levels are coming, the winds are pushing this away. high tide, low tides are different around the country, around the world. it's not bad here. low tide a foot lower than high tide. still the area of concern if you talk about where is this water going to pile up, where can the wind grab it? it's on the eastern side of the storm. there's the center of circulation. even though it's so far north and where the worst winds are, you can stretch back to the east. it will be grabbing this water and continuing to pile it up in the big bend. so that's where we can continue to see some storm surge being an issue here going forward. all of the water brought with it, but it's not going to allow it to retreat. our forecast of anywhere from 10 to 12 feet of storm surge along these areas, that continues to be an issue. it's not going to be allowed to retreat until eventually that wind moves off and we get better of a chance, this could still be a concern for portions of apalachicola

empezaron aquÍ a llegar a panamÁ city.ste. Éste puede ser... es un pedazo de madera que vino no sabemos de dÓnde, pero fue uno de los proyectiles que nosotros vimos volar mientras estÁbamos haciendo aquÍ la transgresiÓn. afortunadamente, no legolpeo a nadie de los que estaban aquÍ en este momento con nosotros. pero esto es para mostrarle lo que eso sucede cuando un huracÁn esta categorÍa golpea con toda su furia. y estamos hablando tambiÉn de techos de viviendas que han deÁ estructuras, de cosas que la gente dejaron afuera. de materas. esto se vuelve de proyecti lo que ahora esperamos es que no haya pÉrdidas humanas. regresÓ con ustedes a miami. borja: muchÍsimas gracias por esa informaciÓn. y como bien dices, es muy importante no baja laboral. porque la mayorÍa de las muertes se provoca luego de que pasa el ojo del huracÁn, por la cantidad de objetos que se encuentran en la calle. por la cantidad de objetos que se encuentran en la calle. caroli el 60 % de las mujeres usa toallas del tamaño incorrecto y puede tener derrame

originally panama city beach had a front beach road. live pictures from panama city. everything was along front beach road. they call it the miracle mile. this long stretch, when i was a kid, it had ferris wheels, boardwalk somewhat similar to atlantic city's board walk but not exactly. there were a lot of things to do. holiday inn style, two-story motels. as a kid we'd go stay there on the beach. you load 20 kids in the vw vans and drive seven hours to panama city beach. it was the greatest week of life. every year, you couldn't wait. you fight the whole way down there, everyone screaming, parents are furious. finally you get there and everybody gets sun burned and we all cry. but panama city beach was the place to go for people who lived in the southeastern united states. there's no one who would disagree. that's where you would want to go as a kid, of not enormous means, to have a fantastic time. it grew so fast in the 1970s and 1980s. eventually middle beach road became something. then they had to put a bypass around it to connect destin. it all just became one sor

they're on the east side of panama city. you probably can't see this, brooke, but our viewers at home can. i'm going to circle panama city. you can see the eye split the middle right there. mexico beach will slowly start to recover. they are in a lull right now. they will get periods of heavy rain. unfortunately, brooke, we're going to see pictures like that sprinkled all across this area within about a hundred miles or so east and west because that's where the strongest winds were. i've seen some incredible pictures out of panama city of similar looking damage. so it's incredibly sad. that's why people are warned to get out of harm's way. this is basically like a slow churning ef-2 tornado. the winds are the same strength as a tornado. so it can cause the same amount of damage as a tornado would. it's going to be a lot more widespread. as this pushes to the east, we're going to get the winds. this storm still has 150 mile-per-hour winds with it and it is well inland. it will slowly start to weaken as it continues its journe

about 12,000 people live in panama city beach. i talked to the city manager, he thinks that roughly half of them decided they wanted to ride this storm out. this is my second location of the day. i started the morning out there on the shore. but when i went to sleep last night, it was a category 2 storm, that was what was forecasted. way before the sun came up, it was a category 4. so there were hundreds, maybe thousands of people who did the same thing. when they woke up, it may have been too late for them to get out of the homes and do a last-minute evacuation. the conditions are getting a lot worse here. we're talking about rainfall between 6 to 10 inches. a storm surge of 7 to 11 feet. and again, these gusts of wind that are coming through, we have already had some of the drains on the building that we're in right now be ripped off by these winds right now from michael. and that was early on before these gusts were like this. i keep looking up, because there are a few more around here, and there's additional debris. when we wer

but east of panama city is a zone of concern. for strong winds, a storm surge which is going to be problematic. the nature of this storm, it is going to pack a punch as it hits the coastline. it will move quickly inland. this is the reason people are being told to evacuate, to get out of the way, because the storm is historic in nature here. the southeast coast. >> the 5:00 update, devastating. life-threatening storm surge, life-threatening hurricane winds, life-threatening flash flooding, all the way into georgia. stay safe, george. we'll check again soon. >>> now to major political news as the search for nikki haley's replacement is on. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations stunned washington with an announcement she plans to step down by the end of the year. speculation rampant over the reason for her abrupt departure which a source says caught secretary of state mike pompeo and national security adviser john bolton by surprise. haley herself said she simply believes in term limits, and it's time to step aside. one source s

reported in panama city beach.129-mile-per-hour gust at the tindle air force base, which is right here, and they're experiencing the eye of the storm. 1:30 at kendall air force base. 129 at panama city airport. so the air force base are experiencing winds that high, they are experiencing calm winds right now, but when the backside of that storm comes, they will be smacked with 100-mile-per-hour winds once again as the storm continues to barrel to the north. so, john, there you have it, you're going to be in it for the next couple of hours, as this storm has made landfall just to the west of mexico beach. >> made landfall just to the northwest of mexico beach, which is a little bit east of where i am in panama city. i'm out of the candid shot right now, because i hope people can see what i'm seeing, which is this railing, this railing, which is cemented to the groupd hegroupd -- ground here is bending over, it's pushing that metal railing over, and i don't think it's going to be able to stand up much more. in the ne

it is about an hour south of panama city. panama city beach.is monster of a storm is going to make landfall pretty soon. the hardest hit areas, panama city beach, port st. joe, in the right-hand quadrant of the storm and stand to be the hardest hit. when we were out there, we had to come back in here for safety because it's a strongest gust of wind i experienced and i've already covered my share of storm with both of you guys. it is amazing just how fast the moving the storm this is. unprecedented storm. especially for the panhandle. as you were discussing, a lot of people here not expecting this from sunday into monday and yesterday. it just really came out of nowhere from many of the folks here who barely managed to board up the businesses. when you start driving around, mexico beach area, going north to panama city beach and start to see a lot of beach shacks, small businesses, and people just deciding i'm going to hunker down here and not really sort of knowing the real danger facing 24 hours later with this storm that's just shy of a categ

some 12,000 people live in panama city beach. about half of those people did leave but that means there are several thousand people still trying to wait out this storm. i hope they are in a room in their house not near windows because this wind is blowing very, very hard and will do so for some time. we did have an official landfall from hurricane michael some time err ago. jennifer gray joins us from the weather center. jennifer. >> about ten miles to your east clear skies and calm wind. you are going to experience this high wall in its entirety and it's going to last probably another half hour for you and conditions will improve. there was a 130 mile-per-hour gust just to your east and that is before the gauge broke, so most likely the winds were much, much higher. in panama city beach, we had a 116 mile-per-hour gust. you have sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, possibly even higher. this is the third lowest pressure of a storm as it's made landfall. that's how we measure the intensity of storms. we measure it by the pressu

we are talking panama city and panama city beach. joining me on the phone is deputy chief of emergency management operations. thank you for calling in. i want to get the latest from you, what is your biggest focus right now? >> our focus is communicating to the citizens that did stay to continue to shelter in place. don't wander out or be lured out by the calm winds now. we are looking at intense winds in the next hour or two as the storm comes on shore. we do know that a great many of 50 to 60,000 of our residents did heed the warnings and evacuated. we certainly appreciate that. that makes our job as first responders a little bit easier. right now our first responders are unable to respond to calls because of the high winds. we are going through a period where we won't be able to respond to 911 calls. it's just too dangerous to put them out there. we do have assets in place. we have e.m.s. units, search and rescue units that are staged and ready to help us after the event. as soon as the conditions permit -- we are also making plan

the difference between panama city beach and panama city is remarkable.id not have to look for scenes like this one very hard. pretty much everywhere we went it looks like this. with massive trees down, blocking roads, hundreds of roads blocked across panama city alone. lines down everywhere. power is out to all of these next. the water is not running. there's trees on homes. this one has two on it. a woman just told us she had like 15 trees down in her front yard and seven more in the back. the folks here have their chainsaws out, trying to get stuff cleaned up. you can see vehicles down the road there. police went down there, rescue crews looking for people that might need help. shep, a law enforcement source here in panama city said there's five deaths in this one county. there could be more. they have not started house-to-house searches. the death toll will climb without a doubt. the cleanup and the issues they're dealing with her are, as you said, weeks if not months. they are telling people don't come back. if you evacuated, stay out. it's not safe

you see it on the radar south of panama city, about 130 miles from panama city. there's the turn that the hurricane center is forecasting. in about two minutes or so we'll get a new -- 20 minutes or so we'll get a new update from the hurricane center. they're getting more passes through the hurricane now. there will be significant power outages across the southeast. likely not enough crews to put all of these power lines back up in a week. it's going to be a long process. through here, there are so many trees that are going to come down. those trees are going to fall on power lines. the power lines are going to come down. they'll have to put power lines and power poles back up because they'll come down, as well. there is going to be a real dangerous event for many people there. even inland. we have hurricane warnings all the way up to albany, georgia. this flooding here, the 13-foot storm surge, and in the ocean, in the gulf of mexico, i looked at a wave that was 28-feet high at one of the buoys. here you go, this is the forecast radar. this is what we think is g

avanzando rÁpidamente, michaelse ensaÑÓ con panamÁ city.po de prepararse. volaron techos de casas, las calles se inundaron y las olas golpearon la costa con furor, amenazando lo que se encontraba alrededor. un rayo cayÓ sobre el techo de un edificio que explotÓ y lanzó una llamarada. esta vivienda en construcciÓn se desplomÓ como un castillo de naipes. poco antes de la llegada de michael, el gobernador scott advirtiÓ que ya era demasiado tarde para evacuar los pueblos y ciudades, por los que golpearÍa. el centro nacional de huracanes habÍa advertido que michael serÍa potencialmente una tormenta catastrÓfica. sus fuertes vientos y lluvias se desplazaban hacia el interior, afectando localidades, donde olas de 8 pies de altura penetraron en la cosa. el presidente trump dio Ánimo a casi 20 millones de personas que se hallan en el camino de michael. aseguraron que el gobierno federal estÁ preparado para responder a la emergencia. aunque tuvieron poco tiempo, miles de residentes lograron escapar y se refugiaron en otros estados, como georgia a sa

john berman in panama city, florida. the wall of hurricane michael passed over us yesterday, and you see what it did to the grocery store and office building, exploding the cinder blocks and building all around me. panama beach was vulnerable. we were told 6,000 chose to ride out the storm. joining us now is mike thomas, the mayor of panama city. thank you for being with us. we are glad you made it through the storm. give us a sense of how your city is doing. >> we are doing as good as expected. it is beautiful. we weathered that real well, and being on the west end, i have been through several hurricanes, and it amazes me how much the wind makes. we are very blessed over here, we have damage but not anywhere near what we were expecting. >> reporter: what are the areas that were the hardest hit inside panama city beach? >> on the beach itself, some places took a pretty good little beating, and the neighborhoods where the trees were, it damaged homes and a lot of the power was out. we probably got 75% of the power out out

this is one example of what we saw almost every other lot driving here from panama city beach to panama city. across the bridge early this morning this is what we saw. i have never been through a hurricane this strong before in my lifetime. the damage itself, christine, the buildings in panama city look almost like tornadoes have come through here instead of the hurricane winds. that is how strong they were and ripped the metal. they twisted it around and collapsing entire buildings. i can see through the building here. there are tires on the wall of the firestone. next to it, the wall is completely missing. the difference between this and tornadoes is this is so widespread. we're on 15th street. this street and another one over, 18th street, it is just house after business after structure that is just destroyed. they are broken down, christine. we have seen police officers out here trying to go through and figuring things out. they were here yesterday trying to break through buildings and structures to see if people were okay and do rescues. schools that were collapsed. the sun hasn't

our team positioned between concrete walls at this panama city hotel. we could see suvs outside rocking and beginning to lift. we are seeing the brunt of the most dangerous part of the storm beginning to move in. trees are coming down in front of us. power lines have come down. and i just want you to hear what it sounds like standing out here, just the sheer force of it. listen to this. across this region, the water rising, taking over streets. submerging these homes to their rooftops. flooding local stores. this gas station roof coming apart. >> it's coming off again. >> reporter: and during all of this, the families huddled and now, thewe enduring reshte this. to give you an idea, the fire alarm is now going off in the building.he.sure if you can hea that. but you can see all the families who are gathered here. these are families who heeded the warning to leave their homes, come to this hotel and to ride out this hurricane. many of those families moving further inside, away from the entrance. just before part of the hotel roof collapses right in front

john berman live in panama city beach, florida. are already 2 1/2 feet higher, and a wave just came up about three feet from where i am standing right now, inching ever closer. of course you will remember that the storm surge impacts an area to the east, apalachicola, 60 miles from where i am right now could see some of the worst storm surge, 13 feet or higher. joining me now is the mayor. 13 feet seems like an awful lot. what are your concerns this morning? >> it is an awful lot of water. my greatest turn is that some people are just now starting to take this storm serious and evacuating, which is good. i just hope that the others that have not made that decision get out while the roads are still passable and the bridges are not closed. we have been emphasizing over and over this is a life threatening storm. we have seen over the last hours, it has intensified up to a category 4. >> reporter: i think that came as a surprise to a lot of people when they woke up this morning. do you think that's spurring people to action, getting th

they give you a sense of the situation in panama city.kind of the scope of some of the destruction. it gives you really a unique vantage point. not only from street level but a bird's-eye view as winds have died down there. it's only really now that the scope of destruction is coming into focus. obviously, darkness has come there. for crews, it's going to be particularly difficult with downed power lines, water still out there. and debris. just to get around. a lot of the assessment is going to have to be done once first light comes tomorrow, which is also why there's curfews in so many of these areas right now. they simply do not want people out and about, obviously for the protection of property, but really also just for the protection of life. as we often say, it's the water that kills people in these kind of events. not so much the wind. that's where the vast majorities of fatalities take place, often after the storm in standing water. people driving into fast-moving water or hitting electrical lines. >>> just ahead, two people who ro

so it's not complete devastation in panama city and panama city beach. we know that. you can see the three-hour loop of the eye coming on shore and you can see how it went right through what we call the right front quadrant of the storm there in the mexico beach area. these small towns here, they're in it right now, still getting the strongest winds of the storm. we saw how the bright red, we just watched panama city where lester was in his hotel room, they were in that part. now that is translating further north. >> i want to go to south port, northeast of panama city. i'm joined by daniel dean who is in south port. he's just had a tree crash through his home. daniel, what's the situation where you are? >> the winds are really bad right now. we have every tree on our property just about, except maybe one or two, completely down. one of the trees in our back yard just fell and one of the branches torpedoed itself basically through our living room. it's putting a lot of water in. we got some buckets under it. it's nothing major, major, but it scared the few of us that

we felt the eyewall come ashore in panama city beach.ng and the wind continues to intensify. david witnessed its strength in nearby panama city. >> it's going to go. it's going to go. you can see the roof of the hotel that we have been standing out there. that was the shelter for a category 4 hurricane. that has now come down to the suvs. >> reporter: the storm whipped through florida, toppling trees, knocking on out power for an expected of hundreds of thousands along the way. many areas here have been through a mandatory curfew throughout the night. authorities telling people now is not the time to risk their lives. stay inside, wait for the first responders, and let them get out and do their job. maggie rulli, abc 7 news. >> maggie, stay safe. thank you. just for some perspective, this is how the size of hurricane michael compares to the state of california. the storm spanning our entire state from reading to los angeles. >>> it is 4:29. if you'rg up to us, good morning. a quick update on your weather and traffic with mike. >> i'll st

la zona es panamÁ city.n el Área antes de que el huracÁn toque tierra muy cerca de panamÁ city. allÍ se encuentra carolina rosario para brindarnos los Últimos detalles.. carolina: hace aproximadamente una hora hablaba contigo y el cielo todavÍa se veía bastante claro. ahora vemos que se ha tornado bastante gris. el huracÁn está a 65 millas de la costa donde estamos, en panamÁ city. tambiÉn miremos al mar que se sigue levantando con mÁs fuerza en las horas y se siguen incrementando aquÍ en la costa de la playa habÍa gacetas de seguridad que fueron arrastradas por la marejada y poco a poco van llegando mÁs a las zonas presidenciales. en panamÁ city 1 a con alrededor de 40,000 habitantes que fueron ordenados a evacuar obviamente por el inminente riesgo peligro que enfrenta este huracÁn. como mencionabas, son ciento con el de cinco millas por hora, vientos sostenidos, categorÍa cuatro. hablamos de algo que nunca se ha visto y el temor de que se siga fortaleciendo llegue a ser un huracÁn de categorÍa cinco con vi

beach or panama city? >> it's getting a little better now. that was a big thing. for about two to three days after the storm, we didn't know what was going on. and it was, you know, old school. you're asking people, passers-by for information. people are like, yeah, this area got hit. this area is okay. you know, because even through that time, in the beginning, even though we had cell service, we didn't have any data. not only that, almost every media outlet in panama city got destroyed. the tv station was down. all the radio stations were down at the time. so that natural flow of information is just not really happening. you know, through a while, now, everyone knows that mexico beach obviously is completely destroyed and panama city, you know, and the close cities there to panama city on that side of the beach, you know, like harper and springfield and callaway got a lot of damage out there. the air force base, they had 10,000 people, they didn't have a single unit left on the air force base. they got 1

strongest hurricanes they've ever s nhere, and in this area, we've seen a ton of damage around the panama city beach area, you see that right here, where the eye came onshore. there's been a lot of reports fr, the area mexico beach and anama city beach, incredible damage there, now the storm moving north. with a little bit more on what's happening in panama city, we go toay gray now live. >> reporter: good evening. for the first time in hours, we are getting a breakrom what's been driving rains herement it's still spitting ates tbut nothing like we've seen throughout the day for hours. sillnificant winds as well, and while this storm is moving inland, michael is still unleashing its furry here. florida's panhandle under siege. hurricane michael, mostor powerl on record to hit the region, slamming into the coast. >> hurricane michael is upon us. now'she time to seek refuge. >> reporter: the catastrophic storm with triple threat. rodangerous storm surge, up to 14 feetjected along the coastline. destructive winds as high as 150 miles per hour, carrying buildings and knocking out power. and treorr

lo que sÍ sabemos es que uno de los hospitales de panamÁ city sufriÓ daÑos serios. que tuvieron que transferir varios de estos pacientes a otro hospital. hasta el momento, no hemos . ilia: gracias, vilma. michael estÁ derribando árboles, estÁ estrellando olas gigantescas contra las costas del noroeste de la florida. cientos de negocios y viviendas estaba sin el servicio de electricidad. se espera que esa cantidad aumente a medida que continÚan las torrenciales lluvias. carolina rosario estÁ en panama city con mÁs de lo que está ocurriendo allÍ. carolina: nos encontramos actualmente en la que era una hermosa ciudad turÍstica, panama city. ahora estÁ destrozada en gran parte, despuÉs del paso del huracÁn michael, que azotÓ con furia y continÚa azotando con furia la zona.

i know you're between panama city and panama city beach right now. maybe you guys are going to make your way down to mexico beach, which is in the words of our friend and colleague brooke baldwin, gone. what are you doing on the ground? what is mission number one for you and your colleagues? >> we got with the national guard this morning, and the national guard, the police department, everybody wanted to stand down. i told them, if i'm going to stand down, i'm going to go back home. because i lost my personal truck and the cargo trailer i have one of my guys pulling, my truck is totaled. my truck is totalled. they had sheets of plywood flying off hotels and businesses. my truck busted every window on it. i have big slash marks. it looked like somebody took a grinder to my truck. i have pieces of plywood still stuck in my truck. you know, my military truck, the cargo cover blew off. it ripped and it snapped every single bolt that holds up the cargo cover. right now, what i'm doing is i said, look, i said i'm sorry. i don't mean to jump to conclusions

beach to panama city and that was even worse.a little bit further east. they were a little bit closer, the core of that western eye wall and then just to the east of there, the air force base and down to mexico beach, down to st. joe, the storm surge caused so much devastation. i really hope that nobody stayed behind, especially at panama city beach east. >> yeah. when we talked yesterday, you said that -- you had said that you think this hurricane could intensify, even though it was a cat 3, you knew it could approach a cat 4, it became a cat 4 and then almost hit the point of becoming a cat 5 it was so powerful today. what can you say about this storm now having gone through it? >> well, every storm is unique and this one was unique as well. florence was very different with the river flooding lasting almost weeks in advance of that, a slow-moving storm, weaker when it came in. but this one came in fast, it's a compact storm. in terms of the pressure, there are only a few other hurricanes in history that have come in this intens

we will feel the tropical storm force winds, east of panama city. that's where they will feel the stronger winds, honestly. that dirty side of the storm. and appalachacola, that's a point that many people are keeping an eye on. many people were told to evacuate. especially by the mayor of that city. and the mayor said, look, i'm leading by example, i'm getting out of here. i spoke with him earlier. this is what he had to say. >> i followed the advice that i was giving the older residents and that was to evacuate, this is a storm that has a significant life threaten impact and the word that we were putting on this street is to evacuate. so, i wanted to lead by example, so i'm here with my family, hopefully in a safe situation. >> let's talk about about what the company has seen brmpt strong storms that have come through. the last intense 2005, the possibility of damage with a storm like this. >> they are predicting it to be the worst storm we have seen programs in two decades. i remember 1985, with kate and elena, i wroed that one out. and that was a

this is panama city beach.l sprinkled on the beach, though there is a mandatory evacuation in effect for that very spot. the governor has a dire warning. he calls hurricane michael a monstrous storm that could bring total devastation. millions of people are under evacuation orders in at least ten counties ahead of this hurricane. >> in 90 minutes, justice brett kavanaugh will sit on the supreme court. he took part in a white house ceremony. it was one part swearing in. many moments political. hillary clinton reacted saying what was done last night at the white house was a political rally and further undermined the integrity of the court. the president claimed the sexual allegations had been disproved. that is not, in fact, the case. members of the senate decided not to put stock in the various women's stories of sexual assault. the presidentai

on panama city, florida. on your screen, the president touring lynnhayden, florida, a suburb to the left of panama city. in the blue shirt, that's governor rick scott or it was. along with president trump and the first lady, melania trump. lynnhayden was at one time a bedroom community but now part of the sprawl that is panama city, due north, not on the water, not on the gulf of mexico but on the north bay. lynnhaven sort of surrounded by water. let's listen in to see if we can hear the president. to the president's right, governor scott in the blue shirt. to the left, the first lady, melania, in the white top with the blue cap with the blue 45. listen. this scene sort of replayed over and over in street and neighborhood after the next with fema officials there trying to give aid and just widespread calamity on the ground, house after house and business after business destroyed. lynnhaven is an area just to the north of panama city and then calloway, parker springfield to the east and slightly to the south o

there is the eye itself, about 100 miles or so from panama city and going right over panama city and into the carolinas. let me get you back to the hope. the hope is that this inner eye wall falls apart. i know you can't see it out there, but it is very impressive. and this right here is where the maximum winds are. through there, through there and here and here. if, if we can build another eye wall around this in the shelf now, the gulf of mexico where this is getting shallower. if we can get rid of that warm, deep water and get an eye wall replacement cycle, the storm could go back to 120. that would be amazing. it is not the number we're looking at. it is the size of this thing. it continues to effect all the way through talahassee and west. it has a very low pressure and really the only hope we have of getting these numbers down would be that eye wall replacement cycle. right now it is not in the cards but it does happen sometimes when the water gets shallow, so we're crossing our fingers here. >> all right. chad, stick around if you can for a moment. do we have -- okay. in a mom

there you go, panama city. you are probably still the middle where this is going to make land fall. 9 to 14 feet right around apalachicola and points east ward. the white 100 miles an hour winds or more. so not just florida, but georgia, tallahassee, macon up to albany. you will see winds gusts there of 60. trees will be falling down on north carolina. hurricane watches, tropical storm watches and warnings all the way posted from the carolinas all the way back to florida. we have aircraft in the storm right now. if anything changes with these numbers, i will break right in, guys. >> good. >> it is amazing the winds will extent inland all the way to the state of florida. >> yeah, into the carolinas. with all the rain. and we do have one of those pilots that will be with us flying into the storm for eight hours on end. chad, thank you for everything. with us now is district two commissioner in bay county, florida. we know how busy you and your teams are. let me get to news that just crossed. that is, sir, that ap

panama city 29-mile-per-hour wind gusts, tallahassee at 25. 8 to 12 inches of rain. you can see up to the panama florida panhandle roug gia and thwith hurricane storm surge water level rise may hit 12 feet. damaging flooding through the panhandle and the carolina. we are watching this closely for with you michael again likely making landfall within the next several hours. we'll talk about our weather here at home and what you can expect. a big cooldown in store for us and then heating back up. i'll have details on that coming up. let's check in with jaclyn for a look at traffic. let's go to michelle for more. >> thank you. >>> we're talking more about michael. business owners are taking no chances. most shops have boarded up ahead of michael's landfall and while thousands are evacuating some residents are staying put saying they have seen worse. >> we just have been through so many that w ortable staying and we're going to and we have enough food and generator, gas. >> this morning, first responders from around the country are on their way to help. many of them were i

we are about 40, 45 miles west of panama city and panama city beach. is that a good thing for folks here? yes. does it mean they are out of the clear? it does not at all. there is an evacuation order in place for areas. we know that they are focussing clearly on the highway that runs along the panhandle. even folks here who have weathered other storms including opal in '95, a lot of folks have said i'm getting out. we know from the mayor as of 11:00 last night holiday isle. he doesn't expect them all to be there today. we know one person who planned to shelter on their sail boat in the harbor, the sheriff's office has not been able to make contact with that man this morning. they said they can't check on him until after the storm. this echoes what we hear every time. you have to leave when you are told to leave because they can't come get you. it is not safe during this event. that is exactly what governor scott said a short time ago. take a listen. >> if you are in a coastal area, do not leave your house. the time to evacuate in coastal areas has come

>> well, i talked to numerous local officials across several counties, panama city, panama city beach and others doing the best they could. they can't force people to leave their homes and go away but all you can do is continue to alert people to this reality. ultimately people make these choices. it is probably too late right now. i would say if you have a chance to get out, you've been told to get out and do it safely at this point you should do it. as far as the response is concerned the one thing i'll keep a close eye on is i-10. it is the main artery that feeds that area from the east and west. there will be downed trees, signs on the road. the most important thing we need to do after the storm is clear the roads. they will be vital to getting assistance in and aid moving forward. >> sandra: meanwhile senator rubio it was about this time yesterday we were learning someone close tou, nikki haley, had offered her resignation as u.n. ambassador. it seemed to take all of d.c. by surprise, even the most inside of insiders. what was your reaction to that news? >> well, i was surprised

panama city, panama city beach, more of a resort area. mexico beach a hidden gem, old florida. to bring that back up. it is not just property damage. it is economic damage. this is the life blood of the economies of these communities. it will be a wile before those industries will be producing revenues and jobs. what happened after andrew is people moved. a lot moved north and it's taken 20 odd years to recover. i just hope that's not the case here. obviously, we're concerned about it. but people are going to need to understand. this is not one of these things we will scoop up and pick up and turn this around in 48 hours. this is a multi-year recovery effort. we got to rebuild the electric grid. this is not restoring power. from what i'm hearing this morning, they have to rebuild the electric grid based on some of the damage that's been described to me. >> yeah. again, it does look bad here. we are only beginning to be able to assess it. senator, we were speaking to people in the run up to this storm, but it seemed like people decided to stay even though there were the warnings

panama city still working at 66. wee talked to one mayor south of tallahassee said the power is already out. then we have to keep saying who's next as we go throughout the day? as we go further north, the storm in about two hours from now across interstate 10, that's when the storm will be as close as it will get to tallahassee and then it will hold. >> kerry sanders is out there in panama city. he can't hear us but i think he's already talking to us as though he can. let's go to kerry. >> that's brutal. that's a good wind. >> kerry may not know he has a hot mic. >> kerry, if you can hear us, let us know what you are going. we were looking at him half an hour ago. can you hear us? >> put this in perspective. now standing out there on the patio of the hotel. >> there was no wind there. he's facing the building at the moment. the building was blocking the wind. that's why the surf didn't look so serious and why it didn't look so serious. he pulled out into an alley where you can see the wind and it was remarkable. now

this is hurricane michael barrelling ashore in panama city beach. the winds ripping the roof right off this building. and this one, too. the roof lifting up and tearing off, slamming to the ground. this region had never endured a category 4 hurricane before. >> category 4 hurricane. >> we were on the air right as the outer eye wall approached us. this hurricane is about to make landfall, again, not far from where we are right now. i want to show you behind me some of the damage its already done. you can see the trees here. one of the them has already come behind us. the winds, 155 miles per hour, as the hurricane made landfall. tonight, the stunning scope of the waves crashing ashore at st. andrew's bay. the national weather service buoy recording waves higher than 30 feet before landfall, before that buoy simply stopped working. power lines down tonight. transformers bursting behind us. whoa, whoa. we're getting -- did you see that? tonight, hundreds of thousands are without power. our team positioned between concrete walls at this panama city hote

the expediential damage from panama city to panama city beach not as bad, and then st. joe, that's where the catastrophic damage is right now. every tree is down in the area, or stripped of its bark. it looked like a tornado went off. daybreak will make a big story for this right now. this was the third lowest pressure ever for a landfalling hurricane in the united states beating katrina and also andrew. john? >> really amazing. this was not a forecasting problem. you told us how bad it could get. this was a people didn't want to believe how bad the forecast was problem. you told us it was going to get stronger and it did strengthen even as it made landfall with 155-winds. we're not sure. we don't know what happened to this building as it was blown into smither raepbz. chad was talking about the damage. one of the areas that got hit of the problem, apalachicola, our derek van dam, you were watching in the thick of it yesterday, and he joins us this morning. how are you doing? >> we're doing okay. everybody is safe, john. thank you for asking. what you are looking at beh

we don't have power in panama city. we don't have water in panama city. to give you an idea of the destruction now for the third day since the hurricane came. this is on the campus of the bay medical sacred heart. the largest hospital in the county here. now the good news is this is the receiving building. if you look in there, this is where the facilities and maintenance and this is where they receive equipment and storage. patients were not here. the hospital says it did receive structural damage during hurricane michael. they moved patients during the hurricane down to different floors. maternity floor. they moved them down. after the hurricane, running on generators, it is difficult to get to the hospital from certain areas as it is all around panama city right now. they are in the process of evacuating patients now to hospitals in pensacola and jacksonville and mobile right now. another hospital here in the county gulf medical is doing the same. they started yesterday morning here in the county. it should probably take another 24 hours. in the meanti

los saludo desde panamÁ city.chael", que pasarÁ a la historia porque un huracÁn categorÍa cuatro, que casi alcanza la categorÍa cinco. ya oficialmente se conoce natur la primera vÍctima. se tratarÍa de un hombre que muriÓ dentro de su vivienda, despuÉs de que quedÓ atrapado cuando un Árbol cayÓ sobre el techo de su casa. y nosotros estuvimos a lo largo del dÍa siguiendo la evoluciÓn de este fenÓmeno natural, de principio a fin. con vientos de hasta 155 millas por hora, el huracÁn "michael" tocÓ tierra entre mÉxico beach y san vincent islands. entonces comenzÓ la destrucción de viviendas y edificios vulnerablemo proyectiles potencialmente mortales. el gobernador, rick scott, dijo que es el peor huracÁn que ha azotado a la florida en 100 aÑos. michael" se moviÓ para panamÁ city. volaron techos de algunas casas, las calles se inundaron de repente y las olas golpearon la costa con furor, amenazando todo lo que se encontraba alrededor. un rayo cayÓ sobre el techo de un edificio que exploto y lanzÓ unas llamaradas. esta

panama city beach may be opened for business the city of panama city. there will be a different story. probably not as bad as we will see near the air force base and mexico beach this area doesn't look that bad. when he did the pan, the pool, i was trying to see how many palm tree branches and stuff were down. it didn't look that bad. >> not many frons. you don't get rollers starting a half mile out in normal times n. normal times, take a beach like destin, florida, at sunset, no more beautiful place on the planet the placid water of the gulf looks like a minimum pond normally. not today. not as angry as it got with hurricane michael. we will take a break. when we come back, we have a couple people standing by to talk to us, including a resident of dog island, florida, way out in the what under the circumstances who rode out this storm and has a story to tell. that and more when our live coverage continues. only fidelity offers four zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. and now we have zero account fees for brokerage accounts. at fidelit

>> yeah, i'm in panama city now, kate. this is where the western eyewall passed over 100-mile-per-hour sustained winds, gusts of 120. i'm in what i think was a conference room of an office building here. you can see the table here. but look up. look up. there's no ceiling. the roof was blown clear off this cinder block building. it's just gone. you can see the debris strewn everywhere inside here and through what was some kind of door into a wall. there's just the outdoors with the furniture and wood and metal and cinder block everywhere. and this is panama city, which did not see the worst of the storm. this was the western eyewall. the center of the storm, as you said, passed over mexico beach. winds there probably 155 miles per hour. simply devastating. our brooke baldwin got a chance to see it from the ski. the first helicopter to pass over, and city blocks, complete blocks, just gone. nearly every home, every dwelling damaged or completely destroyed. we're getting word there is the national guard on the ground now. th

it is going to bring panama city, population 75,000 when you combine panama city and panama city beach, and the smaller areas around mexico beach and point st. joe, and if you live here, you don't like it, because you are in the worst portion of the storm as it comes on shore. and the winds, and you can see the portion of the storm right now, andrea, where we have the reporters and get in and out and we are losing the transmission a little bit, but in the next hour or so, we won't be able to talk to them, because it is too dangerous for the crews or anyone to be outside, period. the winds are 71 in apalachicola, and panama city about 48 and this is when we will lose the power when the winds are into the 50, 60, 70, 80-mile-an-hour range. and as far as the storm surge, the area to be hardest hit to the right of the center where they will be 6 to 10 feet, and in some areas 14 feet of water. that is an incredible number. if you are look at the beaches and the houses, they are usually on the stilts, and nobody is up there past 14 feet, and especially with the wave action on top of it. this

here in panama city, this stunning drone footage revealing a school destroyed. today we drove past streets littered with debris. cars smashed. then we arrive at bay medical center. the hospital is hit, the win dopes breaking and the power going out. the emergency doors blown in and the wind racing through the e.r. so you're literally going to go door to door? >> reporter: the doctors rescuesing the patients. >> the wind made a wind tunnel through and we had to physically block off the doors which was fairly difficult to do. >> reporter: how did you do that? >> we put stretchers up and bars across the doors to keep the doors from flying open. >> reporter: on up upper floor, a cardiologist taking us down a hallway where cardiac patients, some awaiting surgery, were there when it hit. moved away from windows and to safety. you can see the hole through the glass here. he tells me the wind was howling, the windows shaking. you can see the water still on the floor. >> our hospital is filled with patients. a lot of them are sick and had to be movoet ahey began evacuati

joe and panama city beach, and it is just leveled. i mean crews haven't been able to get in there, and she was saying to me she lost her husband in november. this is the first time she's had to do all of this all by herself. she's six hours away and getting texts from friends, don, basically saying they think she's totally lost her home. >> oh, my gosh. thank you for the work you're doing down there. we appreciate it, brooke. if we need you, we'll get back to you. brooke, scott, brian, miguel, and nick valencia, thanks to all of you. so it is a bad night for millions of people in the southeast tonight. more than half a million without power as this hurricane slams the region with 90-mile-an-hour winds and heavy rains. more from the storm zone. that's next. the a...is stolen.es... we confess. we stole everything we could. from everything we've ever mastered. and put it here. the all-new lexus es. a product of mastery. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. you can do it. we can do this. at fidelity, our online planning tools are clea