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You get a cat-4, you get 250 times that one gutter in wind damage alone. and we were very, very close to what could have been a cat 5, and even andrew at the time was not a cat-5 at landfall at the time. they went back and years later, they re-evaluated what happened in homestead, and they said, hey, this couldnt have been a cat-4. this was a cat-5. so this very well may have the same -- the investigations they have to do to see what happened to the houses, how big the surge was, and all that. a...

In decades. this morning, michael grew to a category 2. its expected to reach category 3, which means 120 miles per hour by the time the center hits the panhandle. >> look a this graphic. this is going to show you, all of these counties under evacuation orders or advisories with just a few hours left for people and their pets to get out or stay put until it is over. we are tracking michael from every angle this morning. lets begin with chad myers with more. as jim mentioned at the top, more warm...

Landfall, somewhere between 24 and maybe 30 hours from right now, its going to gather more strength, but not as much as it could. it still could be a cat-4, no question about that. this 120 is plus or minus 10%. keep that in mind. so the direction is also 10% plus or minus east or west from panama city. heres the storm in its full view, in visible satellite mode. 100-mile-per-hour storm, but the aircraft flying through it did just find a 105-mile-per-hour gust. well see what they do with the sto...

Airplane. were in a crisis mode. the cat-5 hurricane has been forecast. and now we must prepare. >> facebook says these current pages all shut down have the hallmarks of the activities the russians did around the presidential election. though there are some differences, this time the pages didnt lead back to russian i.p. addresses, and they used third-party services to buy ads to boost their posts and encourage people to follow the pages. wolf, in addition to taking these pages down, facebook is...

>> no. 1932 was the last cat 4, 1928 the last cat 5. so much has happened from where there were 1.4 million people, now above 3.5 million people. the infrastructure and wires put up, the homes built, people living along the shore, a beautiful coast, why would you not want to live along the coast, thats the issue were having now, where do we put these people, how do they get out of the way, but so many of these coastal homes and communities are not safe at this point. if youre talking about a ten...

Dominica and taking aim at puerto rico and the virgin islands. >> this is not looking like a good situation for puerto rico and our friends in the virgin islands. the storm has remained a category 5 as of the last advisory at 8:00 a.m. and the strongest winds, the storm surge are going to impact the virgin islands, british and u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico could take a direct hit. the outer rain bands moving across the caribbean with wind gusts in excess of 30 miles per hour and the worst ...

Really a byproduct -- of houston. the cat 5 at landfall, thats happened twice in florida and all of the history we are aware of in florida. at floridas population has exploded also. hurricane andrew was the last cat 5 that came in. it was 25 years ago. they were 30 million people living in florida. it was perpendicular. this one is running straight up the entire peninsula and theres 21 million people living in florida now. there are so many people who are going to have hurricane force winds, 150...

>> tonight is karen and the kids are going to be on piers morgan show tonight on cnn. so i would encourage you all to take a look at that. we did the interview yesterday from charleston and youll get to see what -- at the end of the interview, piers morgan leaned over to me and said, you want my suggestion? less rick, more karen. >> thank you for the punt, mr. santorum. and sound and fury came in last night at the cnn-sponsored debate. gingrich seems to be the target of a new dirty t...

10,000 homes. it injured thousands of people. the pictures are amazing. its the early hours. its been downgraded to a category 3 as it makes its way onto lands. about it was so strong and so big they believe it will remain a category 2 and a category 1 the next 48 hours. but it hit as a cat-5 with 200-mile-an-hour winds. megyn: a will the of people were asking why was that gun load in a classroom of children. he said it wasnt. he said he didnt know it was load. upcoming a breach of security at t...