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Never has seen anything like this. what are the reports you are getting this morning? >> we are awaiting daylight to go in and be able to assess the damage, but what it sounds like and seen initially, the reports coming in, this is what a category 4, borderline 5 storm looks like, the worst of the storm surge and winds, and it created damage far inland. it was a cat 2 over southwest georgia, and it's continuing to push forward through south and north carolina today. >> let's talk about the numbers, if we can, and see if we are on the same page. i understand more than 500,000 customers without ...

Taking place. >> yeah, that's right. you can still see on the radar image here. you can see some bands and the remnant of the old inner core. and we're still seeing through the doppler radar analysis winds of hurricane force, roughly 75 miles per hour in the center. so it still remains somewhat of a wind threat for tonight and into tomorrow morning. >> it was still strengthening as it came over land. it was a strong 4, borderline 5. and i'm curious how rare that was today. >> very rare for the storms to continue to intensify right up to the coast. particularly along the gulf coast. there's a f...

So it still remains somewhat of a wind threat for tonight and into tomorrow morning. >> it was still strengthening as it came over land. it was a strong 4, borderline 5. and i'm curious how rare that was today. >> very rare for the storms to continue to intensify right up to the coast. particularly along the gulf coast. there's a fairly shallow shelf water there. and sometimes that mixes up and cools the ocean. but in this case for hurricane michael that didn't happen. and that was partially due to the fact that the waters in the northern gulf of mexico are much warmer than they usually are, u...