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Reached where were located. >> shepard: show people why that is. on camera four. there you go. heres why that is. heres the storm, right? heres panama city. the storm is here. where is the storm? its come here. heres where panama city beach is, over here. this is the circulation, right? so everything over here is getting 140, 150 miles an hour winds. pushing enormous waves in apalachicola and port st. joe. huge storm surge. on the back side, the winds are like this. so here on panama city beach,...

Night begins now. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 628 of the trump administration and we will get to all it have of it in just a . but first theres been a dangerous change in the forecast, and we want to get to the latest update on the path and intensity of hurricane michael. for that we are joined by our meteorologist bill karins. bill, what do you have? >> bottom line, this part of florida has never seen a storm of this intensity. it still l...

Again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 628 of the trump administration and we will get to all of it in just a moment. but first theres been a dangerous change in the forecast, and we want to get to the latest update on the path and intensity of hurricane michael. for that we are joined by our meteorologist bill karins. bill, what do you have? >> bottom line, this part of north florida has never seen a hurricane like this in recorded history. this will be a storm of record f...

Mexico beach where the full eye came across is about 25 miles. the strongest winds with the hurricane are right up next to the eye wall. the winds were experiencing here have gusted at about 130 some odd miles an hour. its still really strong. one of the interesting things to note is because the eye passed to the east, the wind has been keeping some of the surf that you see behind me off the who are. now with the movement and the circulation of the storm as it moves inland, were going to see the...

Most are still in good shape. ive talked with many of them. not only we have beautiful natural resources but were known as the lucky fisher villages in the world. having our fleet in tact is very important to our community. >> yeah. destin, florida is one of the great places to catch your dinner offshore. thank you so mump for calling in. bill, lets continue what he started. they were so fortunate to be on the west end. >> it was a close call. there was a sharp cut off on the back side. the extr...

I think theres no weakening in older ones. this eye will be troublesome. the winds have been blowing in it until it makes landfall and then weaken but whats one direction. you go through this period of interesting to really look at calm and go thats the worth of here, still keeping hurricane it. now the winds start blowing in strength with time so we expect the opposite direction. hurricane force winds on the everything that was damaged and weakened in if first wave now georgia/alabama border as...

Interesting because now that the storm has made landfall, we have commander, thank you for joining got the eye of the storm thats us. you recently flew into the going to move over. storm. give us a sense of this as it i know its tempting to go compared the other storms we outside in the eye of the storm know. >> yeah. when its very calm. its a pretty intense storm. the winds basically shut off. you could even see the sky yeah. i think every storms got a life because this is the visible form of t...

Was this dull hit over and over for a long time. >> it was raining and much wetter. it was much, much, much bigger. everything was getting rained on. that much rain saturates the ground. it doesnt take as much wind to saturate a tree. in faster moving storm, sometimes you can avoid some of that danger but this is really fast. i think we need to put this in perspective. ive covered a lot of hurricanes. ive covered 7 hurricanes, i think. ive never felt 155 miles an hour of sustain winds in my life...

23 miles. the strongest winds of the hurricane are right next up to the eye wall. the winds have gusted, i would estimate, about 130 some odd miles per hour. one of the interesting things to note is because the eye passed to the east, the wind has been keeping some of the surf that u yo s -- you see behind me offshore. with the movement and circulation of the storm as it moves inland, were going to see the wind coming from the backside pushing this water up onto the coast here. its already treme...

Good. it cant strengthen rapidly. the eye is three quarter os the way wrapped around with thunderstorms. lets hope it stays that way. the storm surge, because of the unique topography, the water gets trapped in the big bend area. the storm surge, 8 to 12 feet. appalach app alachicola apalachicola, not that big. you see the reporters here. its getting a little gusty. lately weve been having a lot of evening landfalls. this is going to be a daylight landfall. its going happen at 1:00 p.m. look wha...