Wi Winds News Today

Welcome back to viewers here in the united states, and all around the world, im george howell, live in deficstin, flor, where we are awaiting hurricane michael. it has been upgraded to a category 4 storm. it has strong winds. wi winds at 210 kilometers an hour. compared to other storms, it will pack a real punch here on the florida coast line. again, pan that city, right there, target bullseye, it seems the eye of the storm, moving directly toward panama city, and everything east of panama city,...

Strong tropical storm. when you talk about the winds. as far as the storm surge, doesnt take -- dont need a t category 3 to produce impress ef water amounts. biloxi two hours ago. we had the highest water levels around three to four feet. highway 90 there completely under water. and the beach is supposed to be behind the palm trees. hoefully it didnt do too much storm surge in biloxi. this was four to five go sng. >> what were going to deal with now with nate is now were going to have to watch. ...

>> youre going to go right through the middle of it. the winds will go weak. the back side of the storm is so weak it will be breezy out of a different direction. as soon as your winds go light thats when you notice it. >> and that gentleman out there that is walking as the warning has often been said through the localities, do not get out there in this. six inches could knock you down. that could be it. but we have this gentleman as youre noting there, kerry sanders, flashlight or what have you...

Possible. 40 miles per hour gusts. and again 40 miles per hour gusts done knock down too many trees. its higher up to 50 miles per hour. and heres the last radar image. this is the last center point. at 11:00 east coast time. at the new 2:00 a.m. point should be inland here. you can see somewhere the center if we track it. the black line was the forecast line. which does would be on shore. so as far as who has the strongest winds now. now were moving awa from the coast. its an inland event. more...

Sort of the leading edge of the end of the where the storm surge of going up the hill. its gone down a considerable distance. >> in your long and storied career. this is the sec -- youre right in the middle of the eye. the wind are going calm. lowest pressure is being measured. have you ever had a hurricane season where you were in the eye two times? you did it with irma. >> this is strange. that was the second one i had been in. now im in the third eye. and here we are at night. were in the eye...

We have about 122 people in the four shelters that were open. and we put out the information that your in an area where it normally floods, or you feel the potential and feel unsafe in the structure. by all means go to the one of the shelters. and like i said we have had about 122 that did so. >> steef, what are you seeing when you look outside? >> well, its theres a little bit of rain here. emergency operations center. but its not anything real severe at this point. >> you didnt have any proble...

Lookout for the vet kalty of my map and the dots that are right behind us. wee seeing more of that moving north. >> the winds were parallel to the coast when we started. and now all the arrows are from south to the north. the water can pile up in the coast. as long as we keep the fetch from south to north the water cant escape. thats where you -- thats where you get the greatest concern. >> mobile, alabama because of the water coming downstream. and we see at least from your map here, these whit...

This the second land fall the firs land fall in a broadly unpopulated area at the mouth of the mississippi river. now were seeing the second kp final land fall. we hope as bill karens likes to say. of the this hurricane season. its bp a tough season for this part of the country. gulf as well as the united states. and territories. a loive peckture from biloxi, mississippi. 12:42 a.m. believered to be the location. according to to in the eye. >> there in the center of the storm. you dont see the t...

Geography there of alabama. that well. talk about the amount of trees that the storm has to cross over. we could be talking about power outages near birmingham, montgomery tomorrow. >> you have a lot more of the forest areas. as you move on throughout the state. mobile is much more tropical. birmingham is a densely populated city. a theres a will the to be concerned about as far as the geography there. and the trees. also mobile is has a lot of forest as well. im standing over looking on the sev...

Lets go to bill karens. we news about nate. >> exactly 12:30 central time. hurricane nate made land fall over biloxi. mississippi. wi winds estimated maximum 85 miles per hour. it moved inland. it will begin to quickly weaken. so we would expect this become lower down to possibly the tropical storm by 5:00 a.m. east coast time. only a couple hours from now. >> what does ha mean for the rest of the coast. mobile, we have pen sa cola? >> it means woer on schedule. wind were not as bad as feared in...