Outside. they found a wind to 140 at the surface, 165 at 7,000 feet. no one is living up at 7,000 feet. there is the storm right there. we have a tornado watch on the east side. the real threat is the surge, 12 feet of surge easy in some spots. also 140 miles per hour will knock down most structures and certainly will knock down most trees that are now sitting in very wet soil because it has been raining for 12 or 14 hours. on land at 145 miles per hour somewhere between the 2:00 and 4:00 hour with the center of the eye. the eye wall will come on shore a little sooner than that. let me show you a radar that is mesmerizing. you can find the link to this. here is panama city. that is right where gary tuchman is right there. let me zoom into this. you can see the eye. the eye has something called
Troops have been mobilized for this disaster. 4,000 are already on the ground. moments ago, we heard a brand-new evacuation 40 miles north of houston. they keep saying, we are going to get a break in the rain. so far, we have not seen it. bret? bret: trace, thank you. adam? hey there, bret. we continue in the fifth hour seen thunderstorms rolling on shore stretching to houston and over to new orleans. everything you are looking in this box? this is a tornado watch. the conditions are there. since the hurricane moved on shore a couple of days ago, at last count, 32 tornadoes all associated with it. they have been spending up here this afternoon. big thunderstorms stretching all the way from i-10 to the new orleans area. yes, more rain is still in the forecast. why does this thing go next? here it is spinning off the texas coast. you see heavy rains moving
County decided to stop sending out any kind of emergency services. and the authorities have been saying as this comes ashore, we are going to stop sending out anyone to try to rescue you. we are getting to that point. we know the storm has gone off shore a little more. they are hoping it stays that way and the eye doesn t get as close as they thought it once would. but winds, rain, whipping up yet again. we are starting to get blown around here. stronger and stronger bands coming in. one just now. the rain will start to go this way and suddenly it will shift and go a different way and then it will go vertical. this is what you get when a hurricane comes along. i have been through a few myself an i know, don, you have been through a few. the big concern is flooding and downed power lines. we know that happens, and then people get electrocuted because they are in the water and don t realize. for example, a downed power line
They are coordinating with texas emergency management authorities. i will anticipate that there will be significant requests made to washington. my pledge to him is that we will expedite those requests to make sure both search and rescue operations where necessary but also recovery operations occur as efficiently and quickly as possible. second thing i want to mention take a look at this scene from fort lauderdale this weekend. a tornado spawned over the ocean, came a shore a as beach goers watched. the strong winds picked up a bounce house with three kids inside. all three children fell out of the bounce house onto the sand about 15 to 20 feet up in the air at one point. one of the children and her mother spoke afterwards. she was crying mommy, mommy,
Neighborhoods will be doing the same thing. we have another situation brewing not just the stop, but snow. steve: that s right. sandy causing blizzard conditions for the past two days in west virginia. we ve been telling you a little bit about it. right now parts of west virginia covered with three feet of snow. about 300,000 people don t have lights where it is freezing. kelly wright was out along the shore a couple of days ago and now he s out in the mountains where it is snowing. he s in elkins, west virginia. kelly? steve, good morning to you. gretchen and eric as well. this is beautiful downtown elkins, west virginia. it s my first time being here and i love it already. they have embraced this storm, sandy ripped through here, causing blizzard conditions. literal blizzard that had trucks across the highway. steve, when you come up to this area action it s an hour away from snow shoe, so you have the