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Most lethal threat from any tropical system. vegetation around here, palm trees, we have lots of pine trees, were surrounded by a national forest. those trees will come down. they will cover roadways, and it will make it virtually impossible to travel around after the storm passes. not to mention the electricity outages that are going to be a concern for the area. back to you. >> over 2,000 people there. we hope the number is closer to zero. thank you. well check in in the next half hour. dian...

Your house absolute horror because it is still way too dangerous to even venture outside. in fact, the local authorities in every single county do not want anybody leaving their house until the hurricanes gone, the rain has stopped and the roads are determined to be safe for travel. most likely, based on previous experiences, there will be a lot of roads with fallen pine trees, blocking access, making driving a whole lot of u-turns trying to get around, as well as live wires possibly down there ...

The center of town and the winds are real, really heavy. blowing. i dont know what theyre gusting to. i looked out the front door and the neighbors beach trampoline blew on the front porch. >> wow. >> just on the front porch. good afternoon. we have trees uprooted on the were following a devastation of side of my house. across the street from me oak hurricane michael. its made landfall. its the strongest storm to hit limbs thats fell and ones on a the florida panhandle and its still lashing th...

Around me attached to a that some houses are built on off of sea level but as you building. i know youre a pro at this but said, a lot of the areas hit be very careful. right now are poor areas, lower you have high winds and you have income areas and if your house got the idea that there could be wasnt destroyed you had no tornadoes around there. reason to rebuild. >> right. remember, what we saw after trees are coming down and none of the codes prepared for oak hurricane katrina was a lot of pl...

Worst-case scenario kind of fema administrator under storm for the florida panhandle as the national weather service president obama, craig fugate. is saying. the wind gusts really starting to pick up in the past hour to craig has a deep understanding the point unsafe for us to be of storms and storms in this region. craig, lets start with outside. we drove over here. along the way we could really see the trees, the debris start 155-mile-a-hour winds. what does that mean to structures in the are...

Were in new orleans during and after katrina as his arrival there marked a turning point in that storm and its aftermath and brought hope to those folks. general, thank you very much for being with us. as you look at this storm, and i, in my memory, i cannot remember a storm with a sustained eye and 140-mile-an-hour winds at the core. this far over land. this long after landfall. what are the folks going to need in the path of this? >> well, just to put things in context, brian, you remember hur...

Window. come later on today, probably >> theyre reporting this is one across the back of the property. of the most powerful hurricanes >> right. >> on our screen we are looking to hit our country s. that at live images of panama city. actually a fact? >> well, you know, so in this but speak to us about sopchoppy. area this would be the most you said you live on the river. intense hurricane that struck how high is the water and are this area since 1851. you worried about those rising >> this stor...

>> okay. >> im looking out my back windows over two acres of pine trees and the sopchoppy river. branchs are falling. really, really big wind gusts coming through. 60 to probably 80 miles per hour. and everything, things flying everywhere. >> look. a few days ago, monday, i was in tallahassee and folks there saying they were thinking it could be bigger than a category 3, category 4. gas stations around your area were already full on monday. meaning people were getting gas but did you get a sense...

Whats your sense of port st. produce flash flooding at the joe and the ability to handle a category 4 storm with winds that highest levels. we have been in constant are up to 150 miles per hour? communications with governor rick s >> i think if we get those 150 miles per hour winds were going to have some people in trouble. >> yeah. >> we have a lot of trees around falling and i think some of the houses we may lose a few. its just we have to wait and see. >> did your neighbors, other residents i...

A week, week and a half to watch something on my mind, highway it. these typical of october, they 98. theres one way in. form in the caribbean and just theres one way out. not a lot of real estate to go odds are the road is washed out and as a result the time lines or trees covering it and everything else. are shortened and did gulf is warm and the problem with the i know after katrina we had storm surge, all these pockets where the water gets trapped, marine units prepared to go on this is shal...