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Question about tallahassee. this could bring down thousands of pine trees here. >> thats a good point you make. you look at this forecast, i think it is important to look at it because a typical cat four like this, you get those kinds of winds, it is catastrophic damage to the trees, structures, roofs off. if you go historically, the power outages could last weeks because it is absolutely overwhelming. we focussed so much on the center. im trying to get people to really think about it. 185 miles...

Down small tornadoes. there is the eye headed towards panama city, and its moving at 11 miles per hour. right now its about 90 miles away. like you said, this goes over tallahassee as a very damaging storm. thats where the calm eupblolle the capital is. trees coming down in georgia, and power lines coming down and a major outage going on, millions maybe without power and that could be for weeks because there are so many people going without power you cant get all of those back up. if the eye goe...

Pine trees. those will fall over. that means navigating here after the storm will be almost impossible. not to mention the electricity outages that were expecting across the area. the mayor setting an example. him and his family have left this particular location to get to safety. he is hoping that everybody learns by his example and have heeded the warnings and left. >> all right. derek van dam live in apalachicola. thank you, stir. check back the next hour for "new day." and we have dana gal...

>> reporter: we have seen tree limbs flying through this area and we want to go to brian, i havent seen anything like this in the last several hours, this is as bad as its been, give us a sense of where things stand where you are? >> reporter: john, it is every bit as bad here, i mean the violence that youre looking at, with the storm just rocking these trees and power lines. is just amazing to look at. and were just getting another incredible burst of wind here, as this storm starts to make law...

Threatened by these pine trees, which could snap at any moment. theyve really been bending and shaking in the wind right now. we mentioned that this came upon this area very quickly, 150 mile-an-hour winds, just 2 miles an hour shy of being a category five when it hit landfall at mexico beach just east of here. that is not necessarily surprising in the context of today but it is surprising overall for official who is said theyre just amazed at how quickly this storm gathered strength. we want to...

Debris that were really projectiles all during the storm and what made it so dangerous to be walking about. we also have a different view, i think its still light enough to show you, of some of the other damage in and around panama city beach. down this street here, as we pan around, you can see some of these pine trees snapped in half. the power lines now down, these roads very difficult to navigate. even still, i have to say, there are many, many people about now. a lot of people driving aroun...

You can see the contortion of these pine trees and these here just snapped and came crashing down on that house. thats something were going to be watching for. these palm trees are little more sturdy, you can see some of those palm trees down there are starting to shake a little bit. first responders, this is the time when theyre telling everybody, dont call us now, if you call us, we cannot come and get to you, it is simply too dangerous. they were hoping a lot of people would evacuate, theyre ...

Around so im trying to protect myself. this is a piece of i believe the siding. if you look past me in the parking lot you can see a bunch of chunks of this stuff, its pretty heavy and it would hurt if it hit you, trust me. you can see the wind swirling out here, its definitely gusting pretty strongly. palm trees seemed to be holding up pretty well, we were showing you the pine trees across the street. the visibility has increased pretty dramatically, watching these big suvs in the parking lot, ...

The pine trees up there are blowing in some pretty heavy gusts, and we expect some of those to start snapping. you see a big billboard there, there are a bunch of those around us. more of a consumer concern aree power lines. you can see some of those now just bouncing around in the wind. we have seen some pretty significant gusts. this is giving us a concern, right here. this is the strongest hurricane they are saying to ever hit this stretch of panhandle. we dont know if signs like that are goi...

Here. then you get your emergency responders to assess the damage. what is anticipated is massive power outages, as well as a lot of fallen trees. this part of florida doesnt really have all that many palm trees. it is more pine trees. those can be blocking roadways and power lines down. it can be really difficult for anybody to get in or out of here for a while. >> shepard: s cigarette there, i want to show our viewers where we are on all of this. this is where the storm is right now. this is t...