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n ordered to evacuate as hurricane rita now is bearing down on the stateshr gulf coast in just a moment.t. florida governor rhonda santos will join us first herest with the very latest from thisrs category three storm weather. in meteorologist ian oliver is with us in thisoliver. looks like its going to be a direct hit right over. looks like somewhereoks li nortr fort myers, right towards tampa. >> yeah, anywhere from naples. igto the southern part of tampa bay, the mouth of tampa bay:...

1940s. at this hour, every county in the state of florida is under a state of emergency. >> we cant tell you exactly where this thing is going to go right now. its been kind of here and there, and its not been a very, i guess, consistent path in some respects. nevertheless, be prepared. if youre anywhere on the east coast of florida, you want to have food, water, medicine, for up to seven days. >> state of emergency is also declared in georgia. the storm packs a lethal combination of open seas a...

Youre in front of this huge downed tree i understand. let me see as we get you up. there you are. it speaks to the power of the hurricane. talk to us about. the damage youre seeing. >> reporter: this was a fast moving hurricane. not like what we saw a couple weeks ago with florence. we were out in the south carolina tooth. -- together. that hovered and that stuck over south carolina and north carolina. here it was fast moving. the wind gusts ended up being a huge issue. if youve ever been to tal...

Panhandle. thousands of trees down. many hundreds of them across the roads. starting to cut through them now. lots of power lines down, as well. maybe the most surprising things, areas like south port and just north of panama city, hundreds of people stayed there. theyre coming out trying to figure out shell shocked at the level of damage of the neighborhoods. the fact they cant get through the, that in some cases trees are block their way. in some cases its water. they have no power. many of th...

You can literally be 10, 15 miles inland and have these tributaries overflowing. people have to be careful from this water. >> thank you for keeping us up to date on what is going on with this storm. i want to show you some pictures over here. weve got a satellite image, what i was talking to ken about. this is the eye of the storm. as it goes inland, in theory that eye is supposed to break up and become a storm. theres still a little bit of an eye to this storm. it is still a hurricane. it is s...

Bane bridge at 53. were getting in that borderline area. we have a lot of tree damage, power outages and theyre beginning to expand north warwa and albany, georgia later on this evening. heres the latest from the hurricane center. well get the next update at 5:00. well see how much its weakened. now its down to 155. i like this moving at 15 so whoever is dealing with it doesnt have to deal with it for long. but the other problem with that is that since its still a very intense category 4, it spr...

Yeah, its going to slow down, its not going to be a 4, it will be a 3 or a 2. this was as advertised, my friend, if not fiercer. i kept watching and thought theres not much room for it to slow down. i think we were all stunned by how quickly it spun up. it felt like it went from zero to 60 or in this case zero to 150 in a couple of hours. >> ill be the first to admit, we have a lot of development to do for intensity forecasting. three days ago this was supposed to be a low end category 1 hurrica...

Tens of thousands of people are without power and the downed trees are the major problem for here in tallahassee and its just going to get worse. as you were saying earlier, were talking about hurricane force winds increasing as the evening goes on and continuing to add strength probably until about 1:00 a.m. this is a fast moving hurricane, going at more than 13 miles an hour. thats about what a regular person runs at or a little faster than that. so its a storm that is going to be dumping a lo...

Have a child there possibly. >> monday evening i drove from tallahassee down to st. pete. every gas station was backed up with people trying to get gas. everybody was getting gas, trying to think about how to get out, what to do when that happens. i want to go to port saint joe. its just off the map. its to the east of where this came -- the hurricane came up here at mexico beach. port saint joe is where mariana was. you will have seen her goggles blow off because of the wind, you will have seen...

Or paying your bill is easier than ever with x1. x1 help. another reason to love x1. say "teach me more" into your voice remote to get started. our special coverage on msnbc of hurricane michael continues. this continues to be a hurricane. more than an hour and a half after making landfall in the florida panhandle. its headed northeast at about 15 miles an hour. it is a fast-moving storm thats good on some levels. its not dumping as much rain as a storm like florence. not nearly as big, but, b...