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The middle of the country, potentially making history. >> one of the strongest storms. the wind field was so enormous, we had blizzard conditions all the way from the northern plains and areas of new mexico and texas. we had wind that gusted to 104 miles per hour in new mexico and 103 in texas. this is what 85 mile-per-hour winds did in amarillo, texas yesterday. in that same spot it wasn't just one 18 wheel ear second one in the same location got flipped over also. so, yeah, pretty incredible. that's just the area that didn't have the snow along with it. huge storm is slowly drifting over the...

Them. i'm here with the man who's in charge of putting the lights on in the state capital. this is scott maddox, the city commissioner. thanks for being with us. >> sure, sure. >> reporter: what do you think about the impact of this storm now that it's over, now that it's passed? you were expecting a real blow. what are you seeing? >> we're very thankful to god that it went a little bit west of us. we're praying for the folks in jackson county and other places that were devastated by high winds, including panama city and apalachicola and the coast. we have 55% of our city is under tree cover. ...

You had a scrimmage. what lessons have you applied for this hurricane? >> we had hurricane cade in 1985, and then we didn't have any until hermine a couple of years ago. that was a great dry run for us. we learned to get the outside crews into tallahassee before the storm. they hunkered down here, and we took care of them during the storm, and now we have them as force multipliers to put them out right away the next morning. we learned to take system of our circuits and power them down rather than try to fix the circuit with power on it, ask then repair from there. i think we'll have people ba...

That to by extension the president who gives up his federal paycheck each quarter, donates that back to the k coffers. >> kelly o'donnell, thanks as always. also in that interview with fox news, the president talked about the missing saudi dissident. we'll talk about that in a few minutes. also, as michael moved past florida and into georgia, it took out power, trees and homes as well. we'll go live to the damage in albany, georgia, more than 100 miles inland just to see how strong this storm stayed as it carved through the southeast. [ beep ] first man is "the best movie of the year." we'...

Doing things impetuously that are reckless. he confronted katar and created a crisis with qatar that absolutely created backlash and harmed saudi interests. he started the war in yemen, which was -- has been disastrous for their interests. he kidnapped the prime minister of lebanon in ways that just made them look bad. so i think in this case the crown prince has been very upset by khashoggi's criticism, even though they've actually been fairly moderate, precisely because khashoggi is part of the establishment in saudi arabia. >> let's talk about the news of the day here, of course, folks down...