Storm Crossing News Today

its wednesday, 31st january. our main story. scotlands former first minister, nicola sturgeon is due to give evidence about the decisions she took during the pandemic, when she appears before the covid inquiry today. ms sturgeon, who led the scottish response to the coronavirus outbreak — is expected to face questions surrounding lockdowns, and missing whatsapp messages — as the inquiry continues sitting in edinburgh. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. 1,044 positive ...

A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds....

By 8:00, theres some places that will still have 100 miles an hour winds. >> that may surprise some people. they were expecting 24, 48 hours ago they werent expecting a hurricane. we continue to look at the radar over your shoulder there. now were about to exit the panama city area and about to head up towards i-10. its one of those areas. now well start talking about this storm crossing into geor a georgia. >> all right. lets bring back ken graham, director of the national hurricane center. thi...

Those storms that is a nervous of wreck for forecasters and all florida residents, especially in the northern gulf and into areas of mississippi, alabama. i havent even completely ruled out our friends there in louisiana, although id like to. lets show you the forecast path. its just one of those storms that is it trying to snake its way around the land areas. its hard to miss florida if you look at it. extends pretty far down to the south in the gulf. but this storm has its target to try to mov...

That now that its come ashore. its just a tropical storm. it first made landfall last night as a cat 2 storm crossing into northern mexico south of brownsville, texas. it did not hit the lone star state very hard. dropped rain and triggered a couple of tornadoes but no one has reported any injuries. in mexico the floods killed at least two people, tore down power poles and trees and dumped more than a foot of rain in some spots. our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the extreme weather cente...