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Landfall of the 292 hurricanes impacted the united states since 1851. this is number three. stronger than katrina at landfall with central pressure. stronger than andrew in association with the central pressure. it talks about the vers s fer- ferocity with of the storm surge. state of georgia coastline is on the atlantic side. this storm so strong. it crossed from the gulf side over land and still had major hurricane status in georgia. >> amazing. pedram, thank you for that. >> still well defined. the national weather service working this morning to prevent tropical storm michael from sneaki...

Other side needs to really calm the rhetoric down. >> those were the kinds of warnings we heard about the president's rhetoric, now republicans are warning democrats against doing what they have done. there is a word for that in politics, it is usually not a good one. i'm joined by tonight's panel, michael beschloss, the presidential historian and author of the new book "presidents of war." ruth marcus, deputy editorial page editor at the post. and a senior fellow at international institute and columnist with bloomberg. all of us are in the style of we have all been pretty critical of this sty...

Mexico, which by the way was 2 to 4 degrees warmer than normal and it just exploded right up until landfall. a lot of times with katrina, it was a category 5 over the central part of the gulf, but it weakened to three as it made landfall as it trained some of the dry air. remember how warm and humid it has been over the eastern u.s. in recent weeks. there wasn't a lot of dry air for the storm to weaken. >> but there was another part of gulf storms, i have family on the gulf side, grew up as a floridian, that because it is so shallow, at the end, it -- they almost always lose a little bit. they...

When civility can start again. but until then, the only thing that the republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength. >> that's the all's fair argument, right? all's fair in love and war. >> and we were all here, many of us were here in 1998 when the clintons were fighting tooth and nail against the star investigation with just as long as we're revisiting, brett kavanaugh at kenneth starr's side, anyone who thinks politics and history are not cyclical -- >> not terribly civil questions. >> not civil questions at all about bill clinton's private behavior, which kavanaugh wrote for judge...

City beach where the eye wall could make landfall in the next few hours. this is a very wide storm. it is going to see some towns and cities that are 50, 60 miles away will see hurricane force winds and deal with the storm surge. i want to go to destin. it's such a great fishing location. victor blackwell is there. what are you seeing? >> reporter: the completely abandoned the town. i'm at the harbor walk village where it is full of restaurants and shops. those are all closed. there is no one really here. officials have decided to create or institute an evacuation order for this area. everywhe...