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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....

Where were you when the tornado came through? how did you get through this safely? >> actually, i watched weather. i had watched this storm progress from arkansas up through kentucky. and i was on the phone with a friend of mine that lived across town. who had a basement. i had stayed with them for a period of time at one point in my life. anyway, he offered me to come over if i wanted to and i told him i was going to watch one more update. when they told me that princeton, kentucky was next, an...

Been hit by one of these. you have no idea how overwhelming it is. to experience that. >> i can imagine. and you were not actually in your home at the time. where were you when this tornado came through? and how did you get through this safely? >> actually, i watch weather. and i had watched this storm progress from arkansas up through kentucky. and i was on the phone with a friend of mine that lived across town. who had a basement. and i had stayed with him for a period of time. at one point in...

Up sand bags. >> we are closed. this is probably the most frustrating storm weve dealt with. hopefully it will stay off the coast. all we can do is prepare and hope for the best. >> gabe is back with us live from jensen beach, florida. talk to us about what you are seeing, if you are seeing the storm progress since we last spoke. >> yeah, what a difference about a half hour or so makes. you can see the sun is out. that is typical when we see these initial bands come through. if you were watching...

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...

Florida, i think governor scott has demonstrated outstanding leadership. the storm is still hitting the united states and georgia and south carolina and it will move into tennessee and maybe north carolina, as we see the storm progress. governor scott has at this stage begun conducting overflight surveys of the keys and it looks like to the north and east of key west the storms there took the islands there took the largest brunt of the storm. ill be able to speak to that when we take questions. ...

Continuing the message of getting people out of harms way, which by the way it is an ongoing effort. the storm is still hitting the united states from georgia and south carolina, and up inland flooding problem in tennessee. maybe north carolina is the demonic as you see the storm progress. it looks like the north and east of the key west, the storms there took the islands -- they took the largest brunt of the storm. i will speak to that when we take questions, and then if i could come back to 9/...

Demonstrating and outstanding leadership instinct in pressing forward. continuing the message getting people out of harms way. by the way, its a an ongoing effort. the storm is still hitting the united states from south carolina and georgia and move inland in tennessee, maybe north carolina as we see the storm progress. governor scott has at this stage begun conducting overflight surveys of the keys, and it looks like to the north and east of key west the storms there took, the islands took the ...