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A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds. The storm surges could be up to 15 feet. Additional rainfall could also produce Flash Flooding at the highest levels. We have been in constant communications with governor rick scott of florida. With all the authorities in the various states. Were very well prepared ....
City. it s a roofing this is from a nearby building, a roof from a nearby that has collapsed. i m building. here in the french quarter, this is which you know, would look from french quarter like this if you had which you know it would lights. but there look like this if you are no lights. nowhere had lights. but there in new orleans. are no lights anywhere new or that s new orleans, and because well the city s that s because while the levies and pumps city s levies and and all of, that which pumps, which they spent about they spent about 16 billion dollars 16 billion dollars on, since on since katrina, katrina worked works to keep the city to keep the city dry during the dry during the storm. take a look at storm. take this, this is decayed or a look at this this is street. there s no lights the cater anywhere. there is no street. there are no lights power. going anywhere. there is no power to anywhere in this city. whatsoever. the company that produces the energy, the company that po ....
You need, if we can. joining us now, ali velchi in new orleans. ali, what is the latest tonight. reporter: the latest is this is a dark, dark city. this is a roofing from a nearby building that collapsed. but i m here in the french quarter that would look like this if you had lights, but there are no lights anywhere in new orleans. that s because while the cities levies and pumps which they spent about $16 billion on since katrina worked to keep this city dry during this storm, there are no lights anywhere. there is no power going to anywhere in this city whatsoever. the company that produces the power here says all eight transmission lines are dead. so there are bucket trucks and people going around fixing trees that have fallen on power lines. they re repairing all of that. but it doesn t matter because there is no power coming from the source. ....
all the motels will be filled. they will not start fixing trees and power lines. they will try to get to their 911 calls and get to the priority situations as soon as it s safe. they are great american h heroes. let s go to gabe gut. what s the situation where you are? reporter: we were just about a mile or so closer to the coast a bit ago. that was starting to flood heavily. the he tell is about four or five feet of water surrounding that hotel. we re at a new location. my camera man is on the second floor balcony. we re a bit more sheltered so we don t feel the wind quite add ....