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Level. 145-mile-an-hour winds are all around the outside of that i wall. the eye wall is 15 miles across. everything the eye wall goes across will, in theory, experience winds maximum sustained at 145 miles per hour. with wind gusts to 165 miles an hour. what does that do? wind at that level -- i have lived through them, and there are statistics from the national hurricane center to back this up -- winds at that level pick up rocks and boulders and send them as projectiles through the air. thats...

Hurricane michael a category 4, a monster storm packing 145 mile-an-hour winds now and potentially deadly storm surges. brian: it is expected to make landfall in hours. it could be the strongest u.s. landfall ever for the florida panhandle. evacuations are underway. if it is happening now it might be too late. >> 12 feet of storm surge. water will come up and cover your roof. you do not have a chance to survive that. steve: that warning from the governor of florida. janice dean is here in the st...

Hurricane charley was 150 when it made landfall. looks like the storm is even strengthening further. were at 145 right now, that is a strong category 4 but look at the eye. it is incredible. i mean, you rarely see hurricanes this strong and this well-formed with such a well defined eye. that is the sign of a strengthening system. that is the concern. were hours away from landfall. well be dealing with a very strong category 4. the potential for tornadoes will be ongoing throughout the afternoon....

The city manager says it continues out about in,024,000 people remain. when they went to bed, it was a category 2 and they got this false sense of security. waking up to a category 4 and finding out here on this barrier island that the three sets of bridges are now shut. so athey are kind of stuck. when somebody says mandatory when you are in grade school, its required. but adults can ignore it which is what they have done. so you talk when the storm surge and the wind. winds of 145 miles an hou...

10% would be 137. now were looking at 145. the eye is getting a little bit bigger, though. i can see this on the satellite picture now. kind of like an ice skater putting her arms out, may slow that spin just a touch. were getting much more swallow water right now. now were on the shelf. the shelf doesnt have as much heat content as the deep water did. we will have to see where it does lose intensity. at least we could hope for that. we do have a tornado watch that includes panama city, apalachi...

Where we are, about 9 feet expected where we are right now. officials say if you havent left, if you are somewhere do not try to leave now. it is too late. back to you guys. >> thanks very much. we will go to chad myers at the cnn weather center tracking the storm as it gets closer to the coast line. please tell us it is not strengthening more. >> i did see a gust to about 140. the pressure is still going down. this is really kind of unprecedented that the pressure continues to go down. 145 righ...

Rebuild a life. thats the danger here with 12 to 14 feet of sea water coming on that storm surge, along with winds of 145 miles an hour plus. >> that is true. that is so true. >> jon: van w. johnson, sr., the mayor of apalachicola, florida. its a beautiful spot. we hope we can get down there soon and watch the recovery. well be thinking about and praying for your folks there. >> thank you. >> sandra: well, another big story were watching this morning, a saudi journalist goes missing after visiti...

Looks like it will cross over -- mexico beach area. thank you for that. but you are going to be -- >> a lot of information coming in and it changes with every update. i was listening to our local guys and they told us as the day goes on well get 30 to 50 mile-per-hour winds but later on early evening and late afternoon we could see as much as 75 mile-an-hour winds. that is a lot less than what we thought we were going to get. i think everybody here not to say happy with 75 mile-an-hour winds but...

Deep trouble in the house of representative because all 145 sets are up there. if you look back over time, if you average the years at which the presidents approval rating was 45% or -- >> mark, talk about this because we always talk about whos going to come out and vote, you know, what demographic, what group. young people historically dont show up, but gender is a big factor in this election too and women usually show up. they decide the elections usually. >> right. so lets put this in perspec...

And then out of it again. and then the next one is getting higher and higher. if you are in this part, that part of the eye as it comes on shore very close to panama city or mexico beach, that is where the gusts to 140 will be. gusts to 140. lets go back a little bit. maria was 161 in puerto rico. think about that for just a second if this was 145 and that was 160. it is going to be a lot of damage, guys. >> a lot of devastation from puerto rico all the way to florida. we will be sticking with t...