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From the fox weather center. we saw pictures with matt and nicole, you got the 5 a.m. update, what do we know now? >> janice: category 4, strong hurricane hitting an area that has not been hit by intensity like this since records began. 130 mile per hour sustained wind, 5 a.m. advisory. pressure continues to drop. winds go up and pressure comes down, we have had rapid intensification over the last few hours. this is major hurricane, feeling wind gusts close to hurricane strengths, we are about three hours from landfall. the eye wall, where we have strongest, most powerful wind going to scrape ...

Center in the middle of your town there. what are you seeing and what are you hearing outside? >> good afternoon. we are at our city emergency operation center that's been active since 6:00 a.m. this morning with local officials, first responders, all hands on deck. we are seeing power lines and tons of trees down county wide. our message to our folks is to please remain indoors and please remain off of the road. >> our viewers are looking at a map to see exactly where this hurricane is. the eye wall is right there. it's right where you are. you mentioned the plea for people to stay off the ro...

Time. water issues far into the north here up the south carolina coastline then tomorrow morning this thing exits just south of cape fear in the wilmington area. a zoomed in view of the eye. notice it's falling apart. the northern eye wall is moving onshore and the hurricane center will declare landfill when the center of the eye, so if we do the circle like this, it would be right here so we're about ten miles from shore. and it's going to come onshore south of perry here and this is what you don't want to go through. this bright thunderstorm, this is where the strongest winds will be. that's...

We're talking about a matter of a couple of miles an hour here. >> mostly just for the history books, it doesn't look like we'll get a category 4 at landfill but looks like we'll have landfill of a strong category 3 major hurricane. again just for the history book, doesn't really matter, this is perry, florida, where our crews are located. the northern eye wall, the strongest winds are now approaching this area, and this is where some of the first extreme wind damage will be occurring so we'll keep an eye on it. the trees blowing like this, that's like 40, 50-mile-per-hour gusts. they're not i...

Or not is a tough one for a lot of folks. >> the governor has been pretty clear, it's time to leave yesterday at least, jose diaz-balart, thank you so much, sir. we'll back to you throughout the morning. joining us is the director of the national hurricane center in miami, dr. michael brennan. dr. brennan, thanks for being with us today. what's the latest information you have on what's becoming and now is a category 4 storm, winds 130 miles an hour. >> yeah, idalia's worst effects are moving into the big bend. you can see the eye moving steadily toward the north-northeast quickly at 17 miles a...