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Storms. they are remaking coast lines as they roll through and as rescue and recovery crews work to reach these islands, stephanie spoke with one man in freeport this morning who spoke to me yesterday about what he is experiencing. >> this is completely unprecedented, completely unnatural. i don't know horsepower w to de this other than in the middle of a climate emergency. nothing like this has ever been seen before. there are people who have been through cat 5s, cat 4s, cat 3s and no one really has no explanation or way of grounding this experience compared to anything they've gone tlhrough ...

Outside world to help people recover from this. >> do you have concerns that a storm surge is still in your future? >> yeah. i mean, we stayed up well past hours we really were able to stay awake because we were waiting for high tide. to see if the storm surge was coming, again, the wind picked up again just so people can see, so the water is lashing against the seawalls where we are but it hasn't yet risen too high. we're still very much paying attention to that. this is completely unprecedented. it is completely unnatural. i don't know how to describe this other than we're in the middle of a...

Let's listen to the president. >> harvey, marie and irma were cat 4s. here in the panhandle, as you can see right here, sir, then it will go through georgia and the carolinas. we do expect additional rain in the carolinas, which could lead to additional flooding. fema is moving forward, as we are with our interagency partners, we are in contact with state and local authorities. >> unfortunately, this is a gulf coast hurricane of the worst kind because all of the elements associated with hurricanes come into play. so as you see on the left, the storm surge estimates are anywhere between 9 and 1...

Director call it the hurricane of the worst kind unfortunately. he said this is final call for anyone who still needs to get out. we're doing everything we can but all we can do is hope for the best. the window to evacuate has come to a close. jon scott joining me right now. noaa gave an update. category 4 storm. 145 mile-an-hour winds. he said don't just focus on the core of this storm. 200 mile wind spread. it's a wake-up call to georgia citizens. this could be the worst storm, he said, that that state has ever seen. >> jon: a lot of people inland tend to think hurricanes are coastal events ...

>> i wanted to update you on hurricane michael, it is about 40 miles off of the coast and starting to feel the effects now. it is a very dangerous category 4 and just to remind the press, that hurricanes harvey, irma and henry were cat 4s and these are big storms that we are looking at. it is going to hit the panhandle here as you can see, sir, and then going through the georgia and the carolinas and unfortunately on the tail end, we do expect addition aal rain in the carolinas which could lead to the additional flooding. fema is leaning forward as we are with the interagency partners and in c...