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. The storm surges could be up to 15 feet. Additional rainfall could also produce Flash Flooding at the highest levels. We have been in constant communications with governor rick scott of florida. With all the authorities in the various states. Were very well prepared for massive amounts of food and we have First Responders all over, the Electrical Companies are staged and ready to go in after the storm. Over a thousands trucks. We have large amounts of food and water and Everything Else that you
one of many businesses flattened. we ve seen homes with the roofs ripped off. we ve seen tractor trailers tipped over, tossed around the parking lot. it seems that ground zero, at least where the hurricane ashore. 20 minutes later the mexico beach, i can show you the destruction. the destruction is everywhere you look here in mexico. pile of rubble in the road. this is very common. 3 1/2 miles of mexico beach and the debris is everywhere. houses ripped off their foundation. if you look at the two haases on the front lawn of this hotel structure, those houses aren t supposed to be there. they came from somewhere else. the storm surge came in. they floated all the way to where they are now which really complicates things. we know about the physical destruction. what we don t know is the human toll. 280 people elected to ride out
the winds will be so tremendous. this will be a lot of water but will be tremendous wind and lot of those houses aren t built for winds like that. haven t seen winds like that. florida and georgia will braer the brunt of the storm. however, hurricane michael as it s called is expected to bring very, very considerable rainfall to north and south carolina. i just left there and they had tremendous storm as you know. florence and that was a heavy water storm. more so than the wind and now north carolina and south carolina will be getting additional water. it s a tough situation. we re with them. we re with georgia. we re with florida. we re with alabama.