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coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. thats just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. its expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. thats before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot peoples lives. its a life-threatening storm. th...

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....

Is between 5 to 8 and were already at 5 so could get much worse. further north they are expecting up to 18 feet which could just be devastating. joining me now is the mayor of sarasota, florida, which is a little bit south of where i am, kind of on the other end of the tampa bay area. mr. mayor, thank you so much for being with us. the outer bands of the eyewall making landfall south of where we both are, what are you expecting over the next several hours? >> we just made the decision just now t...

These things are all about differences in wind pressure. the pressure is always trying to meet the other pressure. >> earlier you were with us about two hour s ago, when mariano was opening her door, it was causing other people in the hotel proms. >> we started to see a hand show up. perhaps they can trying to secure it and shortly we had two grown men sprawled over. >> im sure they are watching it. its hard to tell from our angle but they were watching it flexing. they probably saw the metal. >...

But it will still have devastating impact on north carolina and south carolina. >> shannon: mike kickham of the charleston referring to hazel, the conventions that fueled hazel in 1954 at the same for florence to take him a warm ocean water and not enough wind pressure to blow apart florence massive swirl. other smaller hurricanes that approach the east coast are steered out to sea by jet streams. why did that happen this time? that primarily because of the size of the storm? >> educated giganti...

Me. yeah, looks good, huh? all right, man. see if it works, here we go. >> whoo! yes, sir, god, i was praying for this for days and days. >> reporter: what was it like waiting? >> oh, man, just knots in your stomach, borderline throwing up thinking everything you own is going to sink, you know. just nervous. >> reporter: you look back here and this is your home? >> yep, that be it. it was pretty bad. we had four-foot seas plowing into here with a five-foot surge at least here. i had the scuba di...

Already just sitting there. weve used this number a lot about 2 2/3, 3 times stronger than katrina. heres how the numbers stack up. super typhoon haiyan, estimated wind gusts of 235, that would put -- if you had up with square foot of plywood, that its 140 pounds per square foot. thats how much wind pressure is putting on that one square foot of building. now, the buildings obviously bigger than one square foot. down to 120, thats only 36 pounds per square foot. its exponential. you multiply the...

Wind tunnel with me when i first started. >> how do you explain the incredibleness of this? is it the fabric? >> its wind release vents that allow the wind to pass through the umbrella so you dont get wet. what flips the umbrella is wind pressure. because of our elastic shock cords, no two masses can occupy the same space. the wind comes through releasing the pressure, yet it blocks in so you cant get wet because no two masses occupy the same space. >> i want to test my umbrella out. >> before y...

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170 miles an hour, that issen side that funnel. so anything in there is just destroyed. what can withstand 170 miles an hour wind pressure? >> i would say the inside room which would -- might be a closet of a well-built brick home may still be there after that happened. so thats why we say you must be inside your home in the small room, away from windows. thats the only part of the structure that might still be there. we have reports -- its kind of a strange word, but we have reports of building...