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Be a big storm possibly on wednesday, on tuesday, wednesday, into thanksgiving day for areas of the west. so yes, there is not many people that will avoid some of this. >> i was going to say no matter where you are on the map. >> maybe south. >> southeast. >> always bringing up miami. i like that. >> south beach. >> yes. >> south beach. >> all right. >> were going to take bill to south beach. doing the weather forecast. bill? >> thanks, bill. still ahead republican senator lindsey graham tries...

Stance. three storms in six days. just what everyone wants heading into thanksgiving travel. the first storm is moving out through the middle of the country, it is snowing in areas of denver, to colorado springs and rain that is spreading, and widespread rain, from little rock, to memphis, all the way through kentucky, and umbrella day in areas of west virginia, too, so as we go throughout storm one, this is the storm that will be moving in this weekend to the east coast. so for today, it will...

Related to high tide. >> right. >> this could be rather significa significant. the high tide along this part of the coast is going to be later in the evening, later in the afternoon into the evening. so as that happens, were going to see that storm surge, but were also going to see those winds coming around, back and around that system, and then theres a secondary storm surge that would come in. so this high tide around apalachicola, 6:10 tonight, 10:30 around panama city. once that system moves...

Out along the coast. and embedded in the storm, people have to remember up to the 150 miles on each side, you will be having the tornadoes coming down and we know the devastating effect of the tornadoes. so people have to stay on the ps and the qs and stay inform and listen to weather warnings and the local weather reports. >> general russell honore and, gener general, thank you. an army medic who stepped in to help in hurricane florence is taking the kindness that he received from others and ...

Florida they find themselves balancing campaign mode with storm prep as hurricane michael barrels toward floridas panhandle. republican congressman neil dunn of florida joins me now via phone as well. and congressman, i understand that you are at the dade county operations center. whats the situation there? are you guys prepared? >> well, youre right, sir. this is one of the ground zero operations. its one of our most populous counties, and we have been camped out here for the last 24 to 36 hour...

Concerns. driving around youre already starting to see debris. youre starting to see those trees topple. because this storm has a sort of ridge, its a river of fast-moving water, especially when youre talking about wind gusts of 40 and 50 miles per hour, and thats why were going to start to get the effects of that storm here in this area about an hour south of panama city where its likely to make landfall from one to four p.m. today. i want you to look at this water behind me. that is st. joseph...

It would become a category 5 storm. this is the storm that is barreling down now on the florida panhandle. already some 24,000 customerspo the hurricane is two hours away from landfall. i am joined by the lieutenant general russell honore who led the response to hurricanes katrina and rrita. unlike the hurricane a few weeks ago, th ago, this is a rapidly moving storm, and how do you prepare when a storm intensifies as quickly as this one has? >> well, you do the best you can to keeping the peopl...

>> craig, take a look at this. this eye is about anywhere from 10 to 20 miles wide, and these are these barrier islands. this storm literally has the capability, the possibility of changing the geography of the coast of florida. we could be talking about some of these barrier islands actually disappearing under this storm. and of course, you can see as it comes in, we always have to worry, especially to the east of the eye for tornados. we have a wide swath of tornado watches from panama city up...

Next six hours. >> we are staying on top of that. were staying on top of it for our big picture. carol kathy spray painting calm down, michael. mexico beach is a family town outside her daughters business. she is one of the many people boarding up windows right now, laying out sandbags to prepare for the storm. were thinking of those folks along the coast. that does it for us this hour. let me turn it over to my colleague craig melvin who has much more on the hurricane barrelling towards florida...

Businesses here in the downtown, theyre boarded up. theyve sandsandbagged. the back of the hotel was a little further inland, and once the rain, the wind rather, starts to pick up here as the storm officially makes landfall in the next few hours, we plan to ride it out there. as you can see, the water here is really starting to get rough, and the waters really starting to kick in to the downtown, potentially damaging all of the businesses in this historic area, craig. >> gabe, be safe and make s...