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A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds....

The bubbling is the top of the thunderstorms from above. as they get more persistent, thats the storm getting stronger and you can actually see the eye clearing out as it begins to rapidly intensify. the stronger the thunderstorms around the eye are, then the stronger the winds will get. so we are watching an intensifying eye. if you also watch this line, this red line, its supposed to be the predicted path of the center. if it was right on forecast, that eye should be right over the top of that...

Storm as we go throughout the evening. probably curious to how this will impact them. you can see as we made landfall here, this was the 2:00 advisory. it will come down from here. well get the new forecast path in the hurricane center and new intensity update as we go with the 5:00 p.m. advisory. they had 100 miles an hour winds still at 8:00 p.m. thats still enough to do very significant damage. notice that we go from 100 to 45. once we get down to 45, you dont begin too lose too many tree lim...