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 in an area of almost population. if you could have said here's where the storm's gonna go, pick an area where the fewest people live and that's where the hurricane's gonna come ashore? that's what just happened. panama city 35,000 people. mexico beach pretty heavily populated. tyndall air force base evacuated except for a few people. where's it going now? north and east. youngstown, blountsville, straight on up toward interstat

but pensacola was spared. but we are look out for our friend east of pensacola.harles: the governor said 150-mile-per-hour winds, the worse the panhandle has ever seen. thousands without power, food, medical. we can't tropical those things. but the response and preparation for them has gotten better. do you think that played a role here so far? >> absolutely. when you have a leader like that and people are prepared and they are proactive instead of reactive. we had these storms from key west to pensacola. when you think about a storm like this that we haven't seen in over 100 years, it can be life-threatening. the more proactive you are, we all got on board. as floridians we understand what we have to do. it's such a special place in northwest florida. charles: governor scott says florida is unbreakable. hurricane michael cannot break florida. he guy in front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you've got a good record and liberty mutual won't hold a grudge by raising your rates over one mistake. you hear that, kare

it does still look like fort walton beach, the destin area over toward pensacola. that's on the back side of the storm. doesn't look like they're going to get the extreme damage but again, panama city beach, the tyndall air force base area, down apalachicola, mexico beach. those are the communities that are going to be devastated. we thought maybe we'd get this to a cat 4. it's shown rapid deepening over the last couple hours. it's almost up to a cat 4 already. 125-mile-per-hour winds. it only has to get one tick higher at 1:30. then we're at a cat 4. initial rain bands are not far away from the coast. these are literally the final minutes of preparation time for anyone here in this area and if anyone still remains in that area they still should get out now while they can. even if i was as far inland as the areas of tallahassee at i-10 i would consider getting out of there because you're not going to have power for weeks after the storm goes through. and if you can avoid living in that and you don't have to worry

>> for pensacola it was really the fear. if you look at radar, likes like pensacola seen the worst of the storm and it never really got that bad here. the outer bands have bonn away. it is pretty calm in the particular marina, people elected to ride out the storm in the sailboats. they could keep an eye on the line and could solve the problems as it materialized. it never got that rough. got a good bit of rain. we never saw the wind whip up. i want to show you with the bridge. mike wood with the pensacola police department they were getting ready to close the bridges if the winds get up to 39 miles an hour. there is a car boeing over right now. it never really got that powerful. they never closed brims down. we got rain out here. people elected to ride out storm in their boats. they did all right. there were shelters opened up here. i'm told 300 people went to the shelter. these were not people went to the pensacola area. they were fleeing the storm and they came to the shelter in this location. the city firms with the count

this is a lot, stretching from pensacola all the way to the florida big bend. any spot along here, eventually it could be making landfall. the timing for this, it runs over the warm gulf waters from a category one up to a category two. a category three storm currently projected to be off the coast of the florida panhandle by early wednesday morning. at that point, a category three. that means winds up to 120 miles per hour. this would be a large storm of the time it makes its way to the landfall of the united states. still several tropical model

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 being inland. inland is the area where -- there is so much poverty, and so little help for people. then you move over to the state capital of tallahassee. tallahassee has 181,000 people, leon county around it is a total of about 290,000 people. it is obviously the center of government in florida, with a huge election coming up. they are expecting this storm to move in this sort of a direction when it comes ashore. it is expected to come ashore right to the east of panama city. here is the storm right now. it is expected to move in this direction. moving just like this, and in the general direction of tallahassee. the news is better fo

as for port status, pensacola and cedar key are now open and panama city remains closed. as do wilmington and morehead city, north carolina, also still closed. that's what i have to say, thank you. >> thanks, captain. next up, our partners at epa, mr. reggie. >> okay. thank you administrator. the environmental protection agency in coordination with the impacted states is continuing to gather data on national priority list sites as well as oil and chemical manufacturing sites to assess and protect human health and environment. yesterday we had the good fortune to join the u.s. coast guard gulf strike time and the u.s. customs and border protection agency in an aerial survey of the florida coastal area from pensacola to apalachicola, floridian d deaa and epa sites. there are no reported releases of oil and hazardous substance. epa is providing support to the u.s. corps of engineer for u.s. 3 under waste water and drinking water assessment and assistance in the 35 declared counties in florida. we're currently seeing 205 systems operational, three partially operational and ar

we go now to pensacola, florida, where we are joined gloria horning. social and environment justice advocate, serves on the environmental advisory board for pensacola. we welcome you to democracy now! can you start off by describing the devastation in florida? -- we reallyted .issed the bullet where the devastation takes place is about 80 miles east of here. but the issues that you just brought up is about climate change and the impact our coastal waters are seeing now waters,ise, warmer waters coming in from our storm water drains from the day. of sewerthe impact breaks the go all over our community. , gordon, wericane had 300,000 gallons of raw displaced in- minority communities. nermeen: why specifically on minority communities? well, they are the last ones -- our infrastructure is very, very old. and what is being replaced is being replaced in more affluent communities. and the community i live in is the oldest african-american community in pensacola. we are constantly the site of flooding. i sent you a couple of pictures. the water coming in our s

joining me is the pensacola mayor ashton hayward and thank you for being with us.ou managing down there? >> thank you, andrea, for having me. we are doing great and all hands on deck as always when it comes to the storms. it is in zone a, and getting the folks off of the beach, but it is going well right now, and we have been through this routine many times, and obviously in northwest florida and florida and so we have it pretty much down, and most important ly, we want to keep the residents safe. >> and now, the beautiful white sand beaches there that pensacola is famous for, and how is this storm going to affect the quall toy of the environment? >> well, if you are thinking of northwest florida, there is about 1.7 million people west of the capital of tallahassee and a lot of visitors over the last weekend, but we are resilient and we know what it takes to get prepared for the storm like this, and when we be bouncing ba back. many people know where we are and what a great asset pensacola and florida is, and the friends to the east we are praying for in panama cit

across the panhandle pensacola panama city beach and over towards appear latch cola.e is the projected path of this storm jumps up to category 3 this evening. by the time we are approaching the actual coast line probably lunchtime or 1:00 tomorrow, that's when things really get most intense. i do think things really begin to deteriorate as we talk about really waking up tomorrow morning. you can pay attention to the time stamp in the corner. there is the center of circulation. the eye of the storm where the winds are the strongest. 1:00 p.m. beginning to creep on shore. there is still indecision of where exactly this will come on shore. we are looking at area from panama city beach stretching just off towards appear 4r56appear latchappear pa latctk towards pensacola that happening really late tonight into the early morning hours for you on wednesday. and then the strongest winds. those begin to approach as you get closer and closer to lunchtime tomorrow. you talked about the storm surge. that's probably going to be the biggest story with this. in the gulf of mexico th

it is the president's first visit with one more rally scheduled in pensacola over the weekend.xpect to hear plenty about immigration. the president's key focus as he tries to drive republican voters to the polls next tuesday. he's certainly to talk about the caravan and the more than 5,000 u.s. troops he is sending to the mexican border to stop migrants whoa w.h.o. are still weeks away -- who are still weeks away. >>> the president claiming he will sign an executive order to end automatic citizenship of all children born to noncitizens on u.s. soil. there are huge questions about ending it with the strike of a pen. white house counselor kellyanne conway argues some constitutional scholars believe such an order might be approved by the courts and denied the president's move was an effort to whip up the base ahead of the midterms. >> no because if only the base had voted for him, he wouldn't be president. i think -- i understand that that's like the sesame grover word of the day, that and fear and some other stuff. but no, it's not bhiping up the base. >> among those who disagree

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 dry. half the roof is gone. thank god from what i can see so far. >> shepard: survived in part. that sort of the situation. panama city is a city unto itself across the bridge is a beach. panama city on the east side, that's where the western edge of the eye wall hit. we have few reports from there but are expecting more. to the west along panama city beach, that's where we find the fox business network jeff flock. how does it work? >> fortunately not catastrophic damage. but as you can see it'

atinging this to 1 120-mile-an-hourory 3 by 8:00 on wednesday morning, just to the south of the pensacolaand then moving onshore and moving out. now, if it does that, panama city, right here, right aroundal la has see, the area in red, under a hurricane warning already. is goes from the florida/alabama border all the way to the big bend of florida to the cross city area. this is the region that is highly prone to storm surge and storm surge is going to be a major factor. tremendous storm surge. 8 to 12 feet is expected. winds over 100 miles an hour easily. guests 120, 130 miles an hour with this. and this is a big ones tree one down everywhere, in florida and georgia. and then, into portions o the carolinas, we're talking south and north carolina that were just hit with florence a couple of weeks ago, they could see trees down and power outages there, too, with tropical storm-force winds. here it is thursday, 8:00, at 0 ile-per-hour winds. it's well to our south and east so, we're not going to see real dires imparom this, but as the cold front moves our way, it will interact with the stob

here you are in the panhandle of the state from pensacola to the west, tallahassee to the east. they have never had in recorded weather history a category 4 hurricane before. so this literally is unchartered territory. >> thanks for staying there with us. a lot of danger for the crews involved who are sticking along the coast line. dianne gallagher is on the coast line. what do you see in there? we were on the coast line. it became too dangerous for us to stay. we have been out here, steady rain, the rain has picked up and gone down. you can feel almost when you talk about the bans coming in from hurricane michael here. about 12,000 people live here. a good chunk of them did get out of town. we are on an island connected by a bridge to the mainland. there was plenty of people yesterday afternoon who were walking around enjoying the beach and the sunset saying we can definitely ride out a category 2. at this point, first responders are not going out on calls. they said they will go after the storm. within panama city beach, the mayor says he thinks that so far so good. everybody

maybe even pensacola. somewhere in that area. forecasters say it could be a dangerous category storm by landfall. plus, there is word google exposed the private private datf hundreds of thousands of google users but made the decision not to tell those google users. we'll talk to one the writers who broke the story coming up from the fox news deck on this columbus day afternoon. today the now category 1 storm is swirling over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, you see this there between cancun and cuba. and they are predicting it will get stronger as it heads directly towards the florida panhandle. the florida governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency in more than two dozen florida counties. and warns this storm will be extremely dangerous and life-threatening. his words. meteorologist adam klotz live in the fox extreme weather center. hey there, adam. >> hey, shepard. it is a big storm and intensifying quickly from a tropical storm this morning to category 1 off the coast of cuba. it's going to be running over war

it is widespread obviously near base, butr force really from pensacola all the way down through tampa where there will be impact from the surge. wind, thenation of surge, and lack of evacuation has us concerned. that is why we are so robustly prepared to her respond -- prepared to respond. against theplanned storm, and you do not see the massive civilian evacuation that he would have wanted to see. what areyou planning, you anticipating in terms of the overall full need for search and rescue? do you have a sense of how many people, whether it is you or other authorities or whoever, common people? >> i will say that the state of lorna is very well-prepared. -- the state of florida is very well-prepared. they have been through this met many, many times. we are less concerned because they have such robust capability. we see it from the federal side, as far as coordination with fema, we are coordinating with the governors to anticipate needs. reports that it been outcome of the governor is concerned about the lack of evacuations. capacity,a robust they will be able to handle within their

pensacola is bracing four hurricane michael set to make landfall hours from now.r rick scott tweeting we have a massive wave of support coming down and around the panhandle including more than 1,000 search and rescue personnel and 3500 florida guard troops. let's check in with mike tobi is in pensacola now. >> it is west and emergency services is confident you'll see tropical storm force winds and rain and as you see now a lot of the water coming up. i want to bring in a couple people who made the decision to ride out this storm in their boat. this is ralph -- jeff. explain to people at home why you've made this decision to ride it out in the boat. >> well, if you live in a floodplain your house will flood. there is nothing you can do to stop it. so if you've got a boat -- this is our boat. we are cruisers. so it is well equipped and this is our plan a. if i can move my lines up and down we're fine. but then it wasn't until a few hours ago we had to make -- we just made the decision to stay because if this thing had gone a different direction we would have had to

pensacola and cedar key are now open. panama city remains closed. as do wilmington and another city in north carolina also closed. thank you. >> thanks, captain. partners, e.p.a. >> thank you, administrator long. the environmental protection agency in coordination with the impacted states is continuing to gather data on national priority list sites as well as oil and chemical manufacturing sites to assess and protect human health and environment. yesterday we had the good fortune to join the u.s. coast guard gulf strike team and the u.s. customs and border protection agency in an aerial survey of the . orida crows coastal area the assessment focused on d.e.a. sites that are regulated by the two agencies. currently there are no reports of major releases of oil and hazardous substances. e.p.a. is providing support to the u.s. corps of engineers for drinking water and waste water assessments in the 35 declared counties in florida, we are currently eing 205 systems operational, three partially operational and are continuing to assess the status of 389 o

pensacola to cedar key. you have tropical storm watches and warning. you will have strong winds and heavy rains. not the catastrophic effects of a category three. 8:00 p.m., 120-mile-an-hour winds. it will pull to the north and northeast. destin, panama city. on the eastern flank of this. if that happens, the gulf of mexico is coming to you and in that direction will be terrible for this area. this area is prone to storm surge. 8 to 12 feet. these islands are flat. a foot aboveground. the buildings are taller than that. some will be impacted if we're talking 6 to 9 feet in panama city. we had florence with the incredible amounts of rain for the carolinas. that is on the way. that is stage two of the storm. it is strengthening on the way to the panhandle as a major hurricane later on wednesday. >> a managimaginmajor hurricane. ivan, thank you. >>> president trump apologizing to new supreme court justice brett kavanaugh during a ceremonial swearing-in event at the white house. every sitting member of the supreme court was in attendance along with top rep

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wins from dell asked how stretching over towards pensacola and a little further up toward the east. this might be the thing we remember most from all of this when it's all said and done, storm surge, that's often what causes the greatest loss of life. it's not going to be one that lingers and rains and rains, and it will be here by tomorrow at noon. >> bret: i will have complete coverage here. another big storm politically here in washington, here's a confirmation of brett kavanaugh. while the judge no doubt wants to put the turmoil of the last few weeks behind him, with just 28 days to go until the midterm elections. correspondent peter doocy shows us from the white house. >> president trump's supreme court nominee is on the bench and president trump says there's more where that came from. a lot more. speak and >> president trump: te could be anywhere from 1-4 additional. >> it was a president who made a ruling in the case of dr. christine blasey ford versus brett kavanaugh. >> president trump: use under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. >> if the president also apologize on

i think what, you're along highway 30a where all the businesses and hotels and destin and pensacola and panama city. are they ghost towns right now? >> it is pretty much a ghost town. almost not a drop of gasoline to be had in panama city east of where we are right now. no stores or restaurants are open. it is pretty much a ghost town. in this part as you move farther west, there's nobody around. a car maybe once every 30 minutes or so. >> let me get to gary. you're in apalachicola, a community especially vulnerable to the storm. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, don, to be blunt about it, things here in apalachicola look dire. this is one of the towns east of panama city. what's going to happen is the hardest part of the winds will be coming here. the eye is going to be just to the west. but the east part is where you get the highest winds. it's a beautiful town. there's victorian homes and cape cod homes and beautiful restaurants. also seafood workers who catch great oysters. population 2,000. but this city and this county of franklin which has 12,000 mandatory evacuation in the

there were helicopters as well choppering them to other places in pensacola and mobile, alabama.ed the storm fine. nobody was injured. they had to move some of the patients to different floors due to damage. it will continue. the good news, dave and christine, is that it is self sufficient hospital set up by the end of the day to help new patients in the community for medical needs. >> dianne gallagher, thank you for that in panama city, florida this morning. >> at this hour, michael is a sub tropical storm and nearly 60 million people under flash flood watch from the carolinas to new england. michael is moving northeast. we have meteorologist karen maginnis tracking it from the cnn weather center this morning. good morning. >> good morning. i will scroll through some of the pictures you can see right around the panhandle of florida near panama city beach. this dollar general store which was obliterated when the category four, then hurricane michael, made landfall. you see the amount of devastation here. the national hurricane center issued the last public advisory regarding mich

. >> and we're going to get through this and we're going to s yiv look in pensacola. it looks pretty tame right there. inland, wind speeds have come down to about 125 miles an hour, still capable of immense damage. storm surge and flooding major concerns in the region. good afternoon. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm ama daetz. hurricane michael made landfall as one of the most powerful ever to hit the florida panhandle, a category with winds of 155 miles an hour. >> the red cross estimates more than 300,000 people did not evacuate, and they are riding this storm out. abc news reporter elizabeth hur is live. >> reporter: hurricane michael lashing the florida panhandle with 155-mile-per-hour winds. michael, now the worst storm to slam this coastal area in a century. >> i'm -- a transformer blew. are we on? >> reporter: knocking out power to our affiliate while they were live on the air providing wall-to-wall coverage. hurricane michael flooding streets in apalachicola and sending debris flying as witnessed by our abc teams spread across the region. >> i just saw something i

pensacola, stretching through appalachia and portions outside of that are going to see at least some impact from that. that is where the strongest winds are going to hit. here we are putting this into motion. we do see currently, it does jump this up right near a category four. will it get there, we don't know. likely making landfall. we are looking at maybe noon to 1:00 time frame. still a little bit of time for this to move a little bit, but landfall will be become a reality. that is when winds are at the absolute strongest. this model is still suggesting 1:00 tomorrow around that time when we see landfall. otherwise, it is about the wind feels that is going to stretch from tallahassee over into portions of alabama. you are getting that big. really, the most extreme winds are going to be there right at the heart of this around lunchtime. the other story with the scum of the initial wind, and the storm surge, especially their, spots getting up to 8-12 feet of storm surge. that is going to put some buildings underwater. this is going to be a big storm and and a big story tomorrow. >>

that's why the area here from panama city to pensacola is under this hurricane watch.s is a pretty sure thing. we don't know yet what the intensity will be. landfall will happen in florida somewhere there along the coast with 11-foot storm surges possible near st. marks. there's a lot more damage that will happen here in the big bend, which is really a sparsely populated place. >>> mark mckinnon was in the heartland. he will tell us what he found in the bottom line, next. >>> this just in. midterm elections, 29 days away. right? >> i'm glad you're counting. >> i'm giving people the news. 29 days away until the midterm elections. question now, who is going to win? senior adviser to the george w. bush campaign, also the campaign of john mccain, co-host of the circus on showtime, mark mckinnon. good to have you here. >> i'm flashing back to 20 years, you in a red cap on the bush campaign. >> i was a lot younger and a lot less jaded. bruising battle, 29 days away. both parties want to use it to their advantage in 29 days. who wins here? >> the fundamental question is who i

it could be over to the right, apalachicola, or to the left, probably pensacola.we're only 48 or 54 hours from landfall. you go, wow, that really happened fast? the gulf of mexico is not very big and it's very warm. so the hurricane hunter aircraft have been in it, seeing the rainfall on their radar. they have also seen some wind speeds of almost 70 miles per hour. there's the latest, 70 miles per hour. that's not technically a hurricane, but the hurricane center said close enough. we're not going to mess with this. we know it's getting there. we know it's getting a lot bigger before it stops. so let's just make it a hurricane right now. let people know this is going to be a big one. 120 miles per hour, and some computer models are higher than that, making landfall somewhere here in that florida panhandle area. normally the right side is a lot worse than the left side. we'll have to keep watching that, but the cone is still somewhere between pensacola and apalachicola. but then where does it go? over the area that flooded from the last storm. and there could be si

one of the hospitals is in pensacola, a three-hour drive. and dr. patel reassuring this wife, her husband waiting double pi pass surgery. >> there was water every write. we were terrified. >> reporter: tonight, the hospital says they plan to have most of the patients out within 48 hours-good luck with the move. i'm glad he's okay. >> thank you. >> reporter: all of it as first responders go through the community knocking on first doors. butch browning is the fire marble. >> the sooner you get people out, the better off you are. >> reporter: so you g d to door >> yes. >> reporter: we were embedded with people today. they spent all day looking for survivors. many of the homes here with trees on top of them. authorities fearing there could be people trapped inside. searching homes, walking through this living room. the ceiling now on the floor. so far, they have mound nowhere, which is remarkable here given the amount of damage. back at the hospital, another flight taking off. getting the patients out. i cannot saw enough about the search and rescue tea

our hurricane watch stretches from pensacola across the entire florida gulf panhandle, florida big bendsee hurricane-like conditions late tuesday night throughout wednesday, some of the day on wednesday. you see, we jump up from the cat-1 to a cat-2. as you get off the coast, likely category 3 storm, winds of 120 miles an hour. if it gets landfall at category 3, that would be strongest landfall in the united states atlantic basin. early wednesday morning just off the coast. you need 80-degree waters to fuel these. 85 degrees across the gulf of mexico. it is bath water. that will allow it to strengthen. here is tropical models. there is still time of indecision. this is the eye of the storm perhaps in the pensacola area or maybe getting towards the east and apalachicola. heart of this storm will be much larger. our wind field in this, everything in the larger circle, those are tropical storm force winds. we could talk about really strong wind. beginning to see the winds pick up late tuesday night into early wednesday morning throughout the day on wednesday. only other thing to pay attent

it's going to impact us, you know, not as much, but from pensacola pensacola to tampa. of places if you go down to levy county, and places like that, they are very flat and very, very shallow and it's going to go way inland. i am very concerned about people that have chose not to evacuate. we will do everything we can to help people. we have a great search and rescue team and we have our national guard deployed and we will do everything we can to help people, but during the storm nobody can help you. >> reporter: again, it's a dire and sobering message. to give you an update on news we received, the aircraft blocked winds at 150 miles per hour, and that's at flight level. at ground level the national hurricane service confirms it's 145 miles per hour, and it still has a chance to get stronger. as i stand here along the coast on panama city beach, we are starting to get wind gusts here that i would estimate at 45 miles per hour. this is beginning to hit. this is beginning to have an impact. as you know, the impact after the fact will be for sometime. you can expect power

our station fox 10 wala from pensacola, mobile and fort walton now driving along panama city beach. can see the street lights are out. alex in the vehicle giving us a play by play. let's listen. >> it's not helping the situation. before the rain was at our back and helping us along, moving us through the rain and the wind, moving quicker. now it's headed straight at us. it's a lot louder and more difficult to drive headed this way because you're getting buffeted by the strong winds and the rain. these are -- the strongest winds we've seen all day, even compared to destin and the storm is two hours past landfall, we're still getting strong winds through here. it's not helping any of the situation. a lot of downed stre ee eed trf power lines down. we had some intersection that had lights still. the rest of the area is without power. it's interesting to see what the rain and wind lets up what the damage is. if things are not damaged now, i'm sure they will be. you have everything loose, all the debris falling down and everything picked up and thrown around by the winds. it's a serious

the third visit with another rally scheduled in pensacola over the weekend. about immigration. the president's key focus as he drives republican voters to the polls next tuesday or hopes to. he's certain to talk about the caravan and the more than 5,000 troops he's sending to the border to stop migrants who are still several weeks away. >> the president claiming he will sign an executive order to end citizenship for children born of noncitizens on u.s. soil. there are huge questions regarding ending the policy with a stroke of a pen. white house counsel kellyanne conway believes such an order might be denied by the courts and denied it was an effort to whip up the base ahead of the midterms. >> no because if only the base had voted for him he wouldn't be president. i understand that that's the word of the day, that and fear and some other stuff. but no, it's not whipping up the base. >> among those who disagree with the president's suggestion, house speaker paul ryan, who told a radio show it would never pass constitutional muster. >> you obviously cannot do

ports of pensacola and panama city and cedar key remain closed. ports of south carolina and georgia and north carolina are open with restrictions at that time. -- at this time. a major player that helps us with emergency power and temporary power overcoming emergency power is the army corps of engineers as well as assessing the damage to the infrastructure. we have mr. ray alexander with the army corps of engineers. >> good morning. i would characterize today as one of movement of personnel and equipment to the impacted area. as far as infrastructure, power needs, debris and etc.. finally, water management if needed at the various reservoirs in the watershed. the south atlantic division headquartered in atlanta has released their response. dan holland was the commanding general. she was in atlanta and now she is in route to mobile alabama. i she will be conducting her own assessments. there are five district amendment that will be out there with key stakeholders in visiting their projects. we also have key leaders, subject matter experts, liaison

tampa pay to pensacola. this is just one example. you could be 10, 12 miles inland along these rivers and still see the storm surge. those rivers will flow backwards as the system gets closer to the coast. >> can you explain to us why governor rick scott has said, quote, we have never seen a storm like this hit this part of our state. those of us that don't live in florida, we think florida is used to storms like this. we know that dennis hit there in 2005. why does he think this one is so different? >> this one is different. one, it has been a long time since we had one in this area like this. you start getting into category three, you start looking at the storm surge here. i have so many examples i have been looking at this morning at how far it goes inland. we have to realize that people's evacuations, we always get people right off the coast, but anybody that is starting to think they are safe along these rivers, this is another example here. you are 15 miles inland. so i think it is just a reminder. you start looking at never se

i think pensacola, you're completely in the clear for eyewall. that doesn't mean you're in the clear for wind. it will still be 75 or 80 miles per hour there. tallahassee, you think you're inland, but there's not really much between you and the coast. you're still going to get winds over 100 miles per hour. think about what the big pine trees will do in tallahassee. are you on the dirty side, as mr. howell has been talking about, the dirty side of the hurricane. talking about it all day. we make a line through the hurricane. this not only has the wind speed but has forward speed, too, pushing all the water into the bays. then this is an offshore wind, slight leave less it will take the water out of pens cole athe bay -- pensacola, the bay, and pushing it to st. mark's. you will have the most significant flooding you've seen. i there was for dennis and saw what happened to the grocery store. i'm truly afraid of what will happen to st. mark's. need to be out of there for sure. even in tallahassee, you'll get this. everywhere that you see white ther

this is a lot, stretching from pensacola all the way to the florida big bend.g here, eventually it could be making landfall. the timing for this, it runs over the warm gulf waters from a category one up to a category two. a category three storm currently projected to be off the coast of the florida panhandle by early wednesday morning. at that point, a category three. that means winds up to 120 miles per hour. this would be a large storm of the time it makes its way to the landfall of the united states. still several tropical model runs, there's some indecision about whether or not this could make landfall. perhaps the eye while making anywhere from pensacola stretching over to apalachicola. you want to be paying very close attention to this system as it gets closer and closer. the wind with it will cover a large area. it puts it into motion for you, and again, this allows the timing there to get into early wednesday morning. some of these tropical force winds and hurricane force winds making their way there. the good news with this one, if there is any good ne

that came in further west near the pensacola area and brought a 15-foot storm surge there in pensacola. there are dozens of fatales from both of those storms. so a storm like this, it's fast-moving. it's strengthening as it comes in. it's going to have a quick devastating storm surge. it's going to come in fast along with those winds, and it's just something you don't want to be a part of. >> reed, what do folks need to be prepared for if they decide to stick this out? do you think it's worse if we're going to talk about the winds that are coming ashore or the storm surge? >> well, i think it's both right near the shoreline. you have the winds and the storm surge. and eventually it's going to be too dangerous to leave. the surge in the water will come up well in advance of the storm system. now is the time to leave and get out of the path of this. but it's certainly a one-two punch with both that wind and the storm surge. very different from hurricane florence. >> very different from hurricane florence, and just as dangerous, if not more. we're going to check in with you throughout the

some in pensacola and some in jacknville, florida and even moe bel mobile, alabama taking patients. it's a long process. but something t t they have been working on around the clock. it started at about 3:00 a.m. yesterday when they discovered the buildings weren't going to be safe. two of the major hospitals, the biggest hospitals here in panama city having to go completely dark because of the structural problems. >> amazing images and stories coming out of t panhandle of florida. jay, we'll check back in with you a little later. thanks. >>no it' 4:46. breaking news, a firefighter has been killed in the line of dutyr county and ems were on the scene of a crash late last night. that was on southbound i-295. the firefighter that was killed has been identified as lieutenant brad clark. there's a picture of two other refighters with serious injuries. officials say atr sek slammed into their emergency truck which did have emergency lights turned on. we'll update m youe as we learn information. >> developing this morning, this is the washington post ad that is running right now demanding

: an unprecedented storm surge zone, more than 500 miles from anna maria island up and around to pensacola beach. it's 11:03 in the morning and the distance from the sand dunes to the gulf of mexico is about a50 feet. already this beach has been cut in half. it's 12:20 p.m. the full force of the hurricane is yet to hit, and already the distance between the gulf of mexico and the sand dunes has been reduced to next to nothing. the storm surge is coming. storm surges driven by wind as i was reporting today during hurricane michael's strongest winds, my safety helmet ripped off my head. off balance, i was steadied by the weather channel's jim cantore. the storm surge threat is not over. in some places it may exceed 20 feet and the power of those crashing waves could erode 75% of the sandy beaches. adding to the problems, the unique geography here, the corner of florida's gulf coast is shaped like a catcher's mitt. the area is subject to higher storm surges because of the shallow topography that extends more than 50 miles off the coast. that lack of depth means the water has nowhere to go but

the ports of pensacola, panama city, and cedar key remain closed and the ports of south carolina, georgia, north carolina are impact and what that will open with restrictions of this time. >> a major player that helps us with emergency power and temporary power is the army corps of engineers as well as assist in the damage to their protection. we have ray alexander the army corps of engineers. lexington, administrator long. good morning. i've characterized today is one of movement of personnel and equipment to the impacted area, conducting assessments over waterways, infrastructure, power needs, debris requirements, roofing, etc. finally, water management is needed at the various reservoirs and letting his that are -- and levees that are in the watershed of the storm drizzle the letter division headquartered in relieved for a response. the general was in atlanta yesterday and today she's in route to mobile, alabama and will remain in the impacted area over the next several days conducting on assessments. she has five district commanders and colonels will be out meeting with key stakeholde

you cannot outrun storm surge.k pensacola. panama city in the warning. we could see a storm surge up t damaging winds. winter weather on the back side of this, could see temperatures in the 30s in some spots. we're going to talk more about michael. it looks to be landfall sometime tomorrow. >> thanks so much michelle. >>> well, it's wedding bells for a former first daughter. barbara bush tied the knot in a secret ceremony over the weekend to screenwriter craig coyne at the family's compound in kennebunkport, maine. president george w. bush walked his daughter down the aisle while her grandfather, president george h. tn sister jenna serve the matron on honor. congratulations to the happy couple. >> great to have grandpa there. >>> just ahead, screen to the billboard charts. and the growing fear over a mysterious polio like illness. 2s stayed clearer through 48 weeks. tremfya® works better than humira® at providing clearer skin, and more patients were symptom free with tremfya®. tremfya® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk

it's just a rainmaker from areas of new orleans to mobile, panama city to pensacola. and new england's off to a cold star, a chilly mornin t it's not goi warm up much this afternoon either. highs in the low 40s. we'll give you the rest of the t weekend forecoming up. >> all right. sounds good. thanks, bill. >>> the red sox and dodgers faced off yet again. it was game w 2 of theld series on a very chilly night in boston. once again the red sox would strike first. left.insler lining one to xander bogaerts in from second to score. and then in the fourth the first three dodger batters all reached base and l.a. took advantage. they scored on a sac fly. and then this t-out single from yasiel puig.en they w up 2-1. it was their first lead of the series. didn't last long, othough. bottf the fifth with the bases loaded for the sox reliever ryan madsen walked in to tie the game there. a line drive from j.d. martinez would score two more. the red sox win 4-2. they now have a 2-0 series lead. olay total effects. the power of 7 benefits all in one bottle. without costing $100, $20

those rain bands now approaching panama city, and pensacola, florida. current paths have this moving into panama city by tomorrow morning. winds of 130 miles per hour. rain, 3 to 7 inches. a storm surge that could hit as high as 12 feet. so, again, anywhere from panama city beach down to port st. joe could be landfall for this tomorrow morning. 130-mile-per-hour winds. while this is well over into the east coast, we are always hooking for that potential link to the bay area. and for us, it's at the airport. ian, are you hearing about any delays right now? >> reporter: jeff, no delays right now. but obviously as you're pointing out, if you're heading near the florida panhandle, check with your airline first. people we spoke with arriving from florida tonight, happy to get out ahead of the storm, and others were wishing they were back home to help protect their families. as hurricane michael intensifies, the people living in its path are bracing for impact. covering their windows and homes, more than 120,000 have evacuated. >> hurricane michael is a monst

thanks for having me, as always we are preparing public safety is number one right here in pensacola,for category 4 storm, the strongest that has ever come onshore in panhandle in the last 150 years obviously bracing in low-lying areas people off the beach most important ramping up public safety police officers firefighters, and making sure people are safe keep them in at home most importantly, as jeff said in panama as it apalachicola area this is a very low-lying area, this storm going to come onshore about 2:00 obviously, inland going to have 100-mile-an-hour plus winds into our state capitol in tallahassee, so this is some most beautiful part great state of florida we want folks to be very, very safe governor rick scott has done a terrific job getting the word out the. >> what should people be doing if they haven't left? . reporter: hungrier down maker they boarded up hunker down, we requested people to leave in certain zones but you may need to hunker down make sure they have supplies obviously right now too late in low-lying areas to east me of saint jo apalachicola area a lot o

two people from the team in the south bay are headed to pensacola florida this morning. the team is on standby to send even more people to other areas affected by hurricane michael. they've put together kits including clothing, food, and other items for rescuers. ( lydia ) a military aircraft is available to get the team to the hardest hit areas. right now, the coordinator says the team will more than likely drive. ( lydia )for the very latest on the storm, visit kron 4 dot com. you'll see more of the damage and how people are getting through this storm. ( lydia ) happening now...police in san jose need your help finding the man who vandalized a dental clinic in south bay. this is the man police say drew several swatiska symbols on the pavement outside the property on union avenue in the cambrian (came-bre-an) district. police belive he is also responsible for breaking a window and starting a fire at the same location within the last three months. the owner of the dental clinic beli

others taking it up to pensacola and others saying closer to apalachicola. all along the florida gulf coast is an area to pay attention to. remember, tuesday night, really running into wednesday morning. wednesday during the day. here is the wind field this is another model as it runs it closer. that really defined line in the red will be really strong winds. that is bringing that there wednesday morning. not just a wind-maker. category 3 will be a big storm as far as wind goes. this is a faster moving storm. so you don't get florence where you get 40 or 50 inches of rain. rain will be issue. here is the rainfall rate. looking specifically where this makes landfall. maybe getting up to six to eight inches. it will continue to run its way across portions of georgia. this will be large storm, wicker moving storm than last storm late wednesday night into early thursday morning. neil: he is sitting on the nation's highest court, brett kavanaugh, and he is already ready to take on some cases but of course it gets the ceremonial sort of stamp of approval at the wh

pack a big punch everything you're looking at highlighted in red is a hurricane watch including pensacolapanama city and orthose areas outside of that will see some impact that is where the storm surge will be the worst. currently the latest track does jump right here jumping up at a category for but that will be a powerful storm either way right as we make landfall but we have time to move this but tomorrow is when they will be landfall but there is a very tight circle wins are the strongest but is still suggesting around 1:00 still suggesting around 1:00 tomorrow when you will see landfall. is about that winfield stretching from tallahassee to alabama those extreme winds will be there at the heart of it around lunch time but then there will be that initial wind with the storm surge especially those spots getting between eight orr 12 feet of storm surge this will be a big storm and a big story tomorrow. shannon: we will be watching shannon: we will be watching around there clock. iowa for the g.o.p. candidate and supremete court justice - - fox news night. fox news night. >> i want to w