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Category of 140-mile-an-hour winds. this is a hurricane over land that is rated as a category 4. last night, this grew from 3 to 4, and it made landfall 2 miles an hour shy of a category 5. it was in the tight confines of the gulf of mexico. ocean water as warm as bathtub water this time of year. if you're a hurricane, it's nothing but fuel over the open ocean. this storm, tight and well defined took advantage of that high water temperature. if you have been watching our coverage this afternoon, you heard our last interview with daniel dean of southport, florida. they had to hunker down and ri...

Aware that atmospheric pressure like this has been known to send folks into labor. especially women who are nine months pregnant. so daniel, tell us what has gone on since we last heard you on the air, and how is everybody doing? >> everybody is doing fine, all right. i'm driving through the neighborhood of the local area of southport where i live at. there are trees, i mean trees on top of trees on top of trees on top of trees that are just piled up in the roads. every power line within a three-block radius is down right now. power lines crossing the road. i'm out driving around checking on s...

North, it's about 30 minutes the same way. where i live is approximately 43 minutes from the hathaway bridge that's been closed as of last night if i'm not mistaken due to the wind. >> you know what? we're at the mercy of cell towers, and it's kind of amazing that we were able to talk to daniel dean for as long as we were. but we thank daniel dean for phoning in. we're having just a heck of a time with communications right now. our correspondent matt bradley is standing by in tallahassee. matt, we're looking at a map of wind speeds and for tallahassee, gusts of 52 right now, which you must be ...

That may have gotten damaged, around me the downed trees, the debris still flying around. it is not safe to drive around. hearing this gentleman that you just spoke to, daniel, here in port saint joe, the hospital closed at 5:00 p.m. yesterday. there is no shelter in port saint joe. the mayor telling me this storm caught a lot of people off guard here and the storm hit 15 minutes, a short 15-minute drive from where i am in mexico beach. we've started to hear about businesses along the ghost thco lot of these places have been completely wiped out because of this strongest storm to have hit the ...

Northeast of panama city. i'm joined by daniel dean who is in south port. he's just had a tree crash through his home. daniel, what's the situation where you are? >> the winds are really bad right now. we have every tree on our property just about, except maybe one or two, completely down. one of the trees in our back yard just fell and one of the branches torpedoed itself basically through our living room. it's putting a lot of water in. we got some buckets under it. it's nothing major, major, but it scared the few of us that are here. my wife is going on nine months pregnant right now. it ki...