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are providing the assistance they need, i need to hear from them and see for myself. i was able to do that over the last two days working with the governor, traveling with the governor to assess the impacts and hear from people that really are going to have a long road to recovery. >> how far it doesn't work as far as pre-positioning assets? you know the storm is coming there's a number of states to try to get ready for print how did that work in this case is in a playing out in the aftermath as you hoped? what's it absolutely is, shannon. i talked to the governor on friday before it landfall to hear what his concerns were going to be. and then we started to pre-position resources to make sure that we were going to have what we needed in place. the biggest thing we knew them at the governor's concern wasn't being able to take care of the people that were going to be in the way of the storm's path. we could position the largest amount of search and rescue assets that i think we have ever put in place before, bringing together all of the federal family or urban search and rescue teams, the coast guard, the department of interior, the department of defense. this is just a complement the
are providing the assistance they need, i need to hear from them and see for myself. i was able to do that over the last two days working with the governor, traveling with the governor to assess the impacts and hear from people that really are going to have a long road to recovery. >> how far it doesn't work as far as pre-positioning assets? you know the storm is coming there's a number of states to try to get ready for print how did that work in this case is in a playing out in the aftermath as you hoped? what's it absolutely is, shannon. i talked to the governor on friday before it landfall to hear what his concerns were going to be. and then we started to pre-position resources to make sure that we were going to have what we needed in place. the biggest thing we knew them at the governor's concern wasn't being able to take care of the people that were going to be in the way of the storm's path. we could position the largest amount of search and rescue assets that i think we have ever put in place before, bringing together all of the federal family or urban search and rescue teams, the coast guard, the department of interior, the department of defense. this is just a complement the
could come on shore, will not call it landfall until the center makes its way across land, but the first eyewall coming on shore and the back eyewall will rapidly make its way on. tornado watch, tornadoes throughout the day today, night tonight and into tomorrow, and farther towards the north and also going to watch massive inland flooding in addition to the storm surge flooding. the storm has not weakened at all, 12 to 18 feet storm surge at the highest points just where it makes landfall and to the right of that, and then inland flooding. the national weather service does not do this very often, high risk for flooding, anywhere in the red, happens a couple times a year with massive rain events, this is one of them. we have it for today and tomorrow. massive area, i-4 corridor, even far interior sections of florida
grass is dead. >> i picked up the kids and the girlfriend and we're ready to roll out. >> shep, the national guard tells us that the tyson plant nearby is affected by rising water. this river is carrying all of the flood water across the state through more levees and more towns and hit little rock. >> shepard: when levees go, folks suffer. what do the rest look like? >> right now, we have word there's another levee breached. the national guard is planning on reinforcing in adkins. another breach levee in scott, arkansas. we're aware of levees that are being compromised in missouri. dardenelle, arkansas, matt finn. thank you. parts of the florida panhandle are still trying to recover more than seven months after hurricane michael slammed into northwest florida as a category five storm. only the fourth on record to make to it landfall in the
where we expect this storm to intensify, potentially up to a category 1 hurricane. landfall is expected somewhere between mississippi and the panhandle of florida. the question really is the timing of this. right now it depends on which model you look at. the gfs, the american model, puts it landfall around wednesday afternoon but the european model is a little slower, holds it off until thursday morning. the key thing i want the takeaway from this to be is the amount of rain, regardless of whether this turns out to be a hurricane or stays as a tropical storm strength at the time of landfall it's going to produce a lot of rain. it could produce over a foot of rain but even far inland, victor and christi, you could be talking about six to ten inches of rain. >> we've seen this story before. it's not the wind speed but the days of rain that go on. allison chinchar, thank you for watching for us. did you know scavenger hunts
slow down. but, does it slow down before it makes landfall? does it make landfall and then stall? does it make landfall and then move southward? all of these models are starting to indicate that. yesterday they were all tightly packed. we knew exactly where this was going. and then last night it got bigger. the computer model spread. look at this was we go further out in time. we might not even have a landfall until saturday. and this forecast model as you can see that cone gets wider. sunday and monday, one of the forecast models actually makes it landfall and then go towards georgia. while the other ones some of them just show a coastal hug for hundreds of miles. here's the domestic violence model, one o -- gfs model.movesh carolina and then it dissipates. we will be talking about this. the problem is i can't tell you the exact pinpoint of landfall. it could be a long duration event. hurricane force winds, storm surge, heavy rain along the coast for hours, even days.
damage they can take, katy. >> nbc's morgan radford on the ground in jacksonville, florida. morgan, thank you very much. nbc's kerry sanders is in marco island, florida. kerry, marco island took a direct hit. i saw you standing outside in naples, which is close to there just getting blown around. talk to me about what it looks like there the morning after. >> you know, the morning after is kind of surprising. 3:35 p.m. the eye hit here, made it landfall right here on marco island, top winds of 130 miles an hour. as it moved up towards naples, which is just a short distance here, the top winds were 142 miles per hour. and those may be the strongest winds clocked at least on the west coast here. as you can take a look here, the tree tops were shorn off. the reason i'm showing you that is because between the trees you can see some of the electrical equipment. the state is basically in the dark. most of the state has no power. the entire island here on marco island without any power at all.
topics, between the political news tonight, and we're just getting started plowing through that, and the situation we're following on the coast of texas. i want to show you what's being broadcast right now by our friend at the weather channel. we have their permission to be dipping in and out of their coverage tonight. that's mike seidel up in the upper right hand corner. the fearless veteran meteorologist mike seidel in port lavaca, texas, where before the end of tonight, they're going to get all the storm they can handle there. he has been at times unable to stand up in the hotel they're staying in has quickly been surrounded by rising water. they're 25 miles inland, by the way. that gives you some visual idea. we are so fortunate to have in our very own studio here tonight our friend bill karins, our meteorologist. and bill, take it away. tell us everything we need to know about the storm, including are we calling it landfall yet as the center of the eye passed
wbr-id="wbr15600"/> of these category 3, category 4 couple of days ago when whens it was barely a tropical storm, you thought how is that possible? it has been really spot on here. the center of this storm, a lot of times they interact with land and begin to break apart a little bit. looks like a doughnut. visibly a perfect shape of a hurricane. and the outer eye wall getting right here about to make landfall. we talk about landfall and that landfall technically means where the center point of the hurricane, so the center where the lowest pressure is crosses land. then have you a landfall. so that's this when it gets across land then we will call it landfall. i will tell you what, right here we have winds about 115 miles per hour. right now we have had them reported 110 miles per hour. you get an idea, the impacts are wide. the biggest problem is it doesn't go anywhere. it's slowed down in forward speed. the next day or so it moves inland maybe about 40 miles or.
spawning the severe weather the last several days and all of this continues to push east. monday, another stormy day across the united states. i want to update on the situation with ana making landfall here. last few minutes, the national weather service has made it landfall, myrtle beach, gusty winds. 45-mile-an-hour winds and we are three weeks still before the start of the hurricane season and already we have ticked off the a in the list. bill will be next. hopefully, bill will wait its turn into june and maybe even july. but there it is. ana, gusty winds. stay away from the shore and the beaches with those rip currents today. we will keep you posted on that. >> ivan cabrera, thanks. >> he is the man credited with bringing the united states and cuba together and now, for the first time since that relationship thawed, pope francis sits down with cuban president raul castro.