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This storm to contend with. it and also keep in mind that this storm is very symmetrical, we have hurricane force winds that extend 45 miles from the center on either side. so thats about a 90 mile swathe thats going to get the hurricane force winds, tropical storm force winds extend 175 miles from the center. and all of these areas from the center of the storm to the east, now sort of outline the state, theyre all going to get 16 to 18 feet of storm surge. in apalachicola, thats expected to dou...

Coming, but it wasnt until this morning when they woke up and it was wham for category 4. so a lot of people in the destin area, they feel relatively safe, they know how to handle hurricanes, but obviously taking precaution. and the worst of it, wolf, and john, it sounds like john is really starting to feel it. yet to come, about a half hour from now, and ill be here for two hours outside of my own show, so well be riding the storm during that entire time here from destin. wolf, back to you. >> ...

Is city of panama beach is home to 12,000 people normally, and 10s of thousands of tourists. it does seem as if the tourists all got out. the restaurants all closed, the tourists left, thats good, but the residents, as you have been hearing, thats a big concern here, maybe only half of them left. there could be tens of thousands of people who have decided to stay in their homes. so many made the decision to stay when it was a category two storm. >> these winds speeds simply keep on getting stron...

Of the hartist hit areas that could last for weeks, they expect they will have to be building systems during those outages, telling us they have folks from 15 different states telling us the way is clear. they cant get out and start working on anything until the winds are below 30 miles an hour. we also heard from secretary nelson who said that teams were prepositioned. telling us just a short tile time ago, in this briefing, obviously theyre urging folks, after the storm has passed because they...

All that doesnt matter, because this is an incredibly strong storm, one of the strongest storms we have ever experienced in the history of these records being kept, back in the 1800s. john berman, you were asking how long youre going to be in it. youre in the strongest part of the storm, this ring right around the eye, with the orange and red colors right there, youre still going to be in it for i would say a good two more hours. youre going to be experiencing these incredibly strong winds. we h...

I dont know if that actually worked, but just the roar, the roar of this wind, as it plows through, as it blows through, and the force of it against the railings like that and you can see the trees blowing out over there as well. ill step a little bit out here again so you can see me with that metal railing continuing to bend there. but the storm did make landfall as jennifer gray said a little bit east of where i am near mexico beach. that means the storm surge will be even east of that, thats ...

Were speaking to, they think about half the residents are still here, they think about only 4,000 people have gone to shelters in this part of the state. so not many people are in these public shelters. >> no and, look, some of the shelters did fill up all the way, they opened new shelters, those didnt. a lot of people, we have talked about this, i know that jennifer said people knew sththis was go to be a strong storm. for the minds of the people who have been through this, category 2, i can do...

The shelter. john, it broke my heart reading just the facebook page of the bay county sheriffs office saying, i didnt think it was going to get this bad, my homes only two stories, were just at sea level, i dont know what to do now, can you come help me, do i have to go somewhere? and to see, just stay where you are, shelter in place, emergency vehicles cannot go through this type of weather. >> sustained, i would say easily over 100 miles an hour with gusts definitely north of that, about a mil...

Storm. 150-plus-miles-an-hour. i think people dont realize, the storm surge, whether its 15 feet or 14 feet, its all deadly. im concerned people are not taking that into consideration. we cant respond, we cant help anybody who chose not to evacuate. they have to hunker down and take care of themselves. but we have over 1,000 people ready in rescue teams. we have the national guard and i just got a briefing from the coast guard, from one mobile and one from the clearwater area to help with water ...

Other side of this berm is the gulf of mexico and just in the last half hour, we have started to see some of these white caps and waves picking up which is the harbinger of whats to come. the storm surge is 3 feet in dwes tin, were told 4 to 8, the rain has been coming down consistently for three to four hours, but periodically youre seeing the water hitting the top of this dock. just to give you some perspective of what were seeing close to the ocean here in destin. this is on the outer western...