damage. it s tremendous wind damage. tremendous. a lot of things are blown over. hopefully not houses with people in them. they had wind gusts of 90 miles per hour here sus standz winds of 74 miles per hour. i have been talking with fema officials here in tallahassee. they are gearing up at dawn break to head south because what we are going to see is not going to be a pretty picture. guys? steve: griff jenkins live in tallahassee the state capital. thank you very much. brian: michael s fury sparking tornadoes in central georgia. ainsley: destroyed homes, downed power lines and trees completely ripped from the ground. steve: we are not out of the woods yet. meteorologist janice dean is tracking michael right now. it looks like it is smack dab in the center of georgia. heading toward south carolina, north carolina as well. tornadoes watch in effect for north carolina as we go through the afternoon. we could see weak tornadoes
president of the united states every step of the way and making schuyler we are bringing our country back together and bringing back a balance. ainsley: omar, we wish you all the best. producers did the math and said she has been in office since you were 2 years old. we did reach out her-to-her office to invite her on the show. thank you. brian: go get them omar. gregg jarrett thinks he knows why. he secretary of state he will answer that question on camera. he better come through. plus, the gulf coast is picking up the pieces from hurricane michael s devastation. the southeast is not out of the woods yet. fema administrator brock long is going to join us live with an update. if tell us more with michael and the recovery. that s coming up next.
he owes us answers. this is the investigators who have no one to investigate them and they are running amuck. rapper kanye west is headed to the white house this morning for a meeting with the president. on the docket violence in chicago. when they go low we go nchesz when i hear holder making a statement like he made, i think it s a disgrace. steve: monster hurricane michael downgraded to a tropical storm overnight after slamming into the panhandle of the gulf coast of florida as a powerful 4 category. at one point the storm was so big the eye covered parts of three different states at the same time. ainsley: incredible drone footage showing a high school gymnasium ripped apart in panama beach, florida. pictures of the devastation all over the panhandle coming. in now the clean up has to begin there. brian: sun is up in 39 minutes. other parts of the southeast aren t out of the woods yet.
and thrust into that building. this all comes after hurricane michael made landfall about 35 miles to our west, packing sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. it was nearly a category 5 storm and now we re seeing incredible drone video. check this out. the winds were strong enough to rip off roofs and topple trees across the florida panhandle. like a jet engine, i mean, the wind just super, super high pitched. you could feel it in your ears like the pressure just changing in and out. reporter: michael has since weakened to a tropical storm, setting its sights on the rest of the southeast. that includes areas of the carolinas slammed by hurricane florence just last month. going to see a lot of devastation along the coast, structurally, and then as it moves in you re going to see power outages throughout the state and unfortunately you re going to see rainfall into south
we are back with a look at kazhakstan, where the rocket is now on its way to the international space station. the rocket blasting off just moments ago with nasa astronaut nick hagga on-board along with a russian cosmonaut. this is hagga s first trip to space. good luck to them. hurricane michael downgraded to a tropical storm. we ve been reporting on this for you. but it s still packing quite a punch, now posing an inland threat. roy bogen is live for us apla cha hapalachicola. reporter: the floodwaters have receded here. it s left behind a lot of debris, including as you can see that dumpster. it was picked up by floodwaters