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1940s. at this hour, every county in the state of florida is under a state of emergency. we can t tell you exactly where this thing is going to go right now. it s been kind of here and there, and it s not been a very, i guess, consistent path in some respects. nevertheless, be prepared. if you re anywhere on the east coast of florida, you want to have food, water, medicine, for up to seven days. state of emergency is also declared in georgia. the storm packs a lethal combination of open seas and high tide. derek van dam with an update from the cnn center in atlanta. good morning. good morning, dave. largely unchanged with a 5:00 a.m. update, but there have been trends that became clear overnight. dorian is expected to be a slower moving hurricane. that has implications i ll explain in a second. also, a slight shift southward, bringing in much of the southern
You re in front of this huge downed tree i understand. let me see as we get you up. there you are. it speaks to the power of the hurricane. talk to us about. the damage you re seeing. reporter: this was a fast moving hurricane. not like what we saw a couple weeks ago with florence. we were out in the south carolina tooth. together. that hovered and that stuck over south carolina and north carolina. here it was fast moving. the wind gusts ended up being a huge issue. if you ve ever been to tallahassee, you know this is a picturesque town. it became a major problem with trees. look at this. this tree has cut down access across this road, narrowly missed this house. smashed into a car. all throughout the neighborhoods. we traveled through the main streets by and large for the most part, pretty accessible. you can get through. it s not till you get into the neighborhoods you re dealing with problems like this. tens of thousands of people, an
Panhandle. thousands of trees down. many hundreds of them across the roads. starting to cut through them now. lots of power lines down, as well. maybe the most surprising things, areas like south port and just north of panama city, hundreds of people stayed there. they re coming out trying to figure out shell shocked at the level of damage of the neighborhoods. the fact they can t get through the, that in some cases trees are block their way. in some cases it s water. they have no power. many of their homes are damaged or destroyed. and now they have to figure out what is next. it s going to be a long time rebuilding for here in the panhandle. don? miguel, thank you. nick valencia in tallahassee for us this evening. you re in front of this huge downed tree i understand. let me see as we get you up. there you are. it speaks to the power of the hurricane. talk to us about. the damage you re seeing. reporter: this was a fast moving hurricane. not like what we saw a couple
You can literally be 10, 15 miles inland and have these tributaries overflowing. people have to be careful from this water. thank you for keeping us up to date on what is going on with this storm. i want to show you some pictures over here. we ve got a satellite image, what i was talking to ken about. this is the eye of the storm. as it goes inland, in theory that eye is supposed to break up and become a storm. there s still a little bit of an eye to this storm. it is still a hurricane. it is still very, very forceful. walk over here with me for a second and take a look. this is a three-hour thing that we re looking at here. you can see that this thing has stayed intact as a storm. often it will break up before it even gets onto land, so that s why this remains serious for the path it s going to continue on. tallahassee is a place that people are very interested in. matt bradley is standing by.
Bane bridge at 53. we re getting in that borderline area. we have a lot of tree damage, power outages and they re beginning to expand north warwa and albany, georgia later on this evening. here s the latest from the hurricane center. we ll get the next update at 5:00. we ll see how much it s weakened. now it s down to 155. i like this moving at 15 so whoever is dealing with it doesn t have to deal with it for long. but the other problem with that is that since it s still a very intense category 4, it spreads the damage path out with the winds even further. so extreme wind damage is going to be the story through the night. as far as the forecast path, this will be updated at 5:00 p.m. east coast time. we re going to take it towards augusta through tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. still as a tropical storm, likely still a hurricane until midnight and then coming down to a tropical storm and then we ll track it through the carolinas at maybe 40, 50 miles
Yeah, it s going to slow down, it s not going to be a 4, it will be a 3 or a 2. this was as advertised, my friend, if not fiercer. i kept watching and thought there s not much room for it to slow down. i think we were all stunned by how quickly it spun up. it felt like it went from zero to 60 or in this case zero to 150 in a couple of hours. i ll be the first to admit, we have a lot of development to do for intensity forecasting. three days ago this was supposed to be a low end category 1 hurricane. three days ago that was the prediction at landfall, and here we are, we almost had a category 5. two miles short of a category 5. lester, thank you. lester is in panama city, beach. i went to go to apalachicola, a coastal city where they are continuing to experience strong wind gusts as well as flooding and storm surge up to 7 feet above normal levels according to the latest reports from the national hurricane center.
Tens of thousands of people are without power and the downed trees are the major problem for here in tallahassee and it s just going to get worse. as you were saying earlier, we re talking about hurricane force winds increasing as the evening goes on and continuing to add strength probably until about 1:00 a.m. this is a fast moving hurricane, going at more than 13 miles an hour. that s about what a regular person runs at or a little faster than that. so it s a storm that is going to be dumping a lot of water and putting up a lot of wind but it s going to be moving very, very quickly. you can expect that the people who are here, still here, sheltering in place, they re going to not have to be holed up for quite so long. still, this could be a catastrophic hurricane and one of historical proportions. i mentioned that extreme wind warning, the first time tallahassee has ever issued that and that s when the extreme wind goes above 130 miles an hour. ali?
Have a child there possibly. monday evening i drove from tallahassee down to st. pete. every gas station was backed up with people trying to get gas. everybody was getting gas, trying to think about how to get out, what to do when that happens. i want to go to port saint joe. it s just off the map. it s to the east of where this came the hurricane came up here at mexico beach. port saint joe is where mariana was. you will have seen her goggles blow off because of the wind, you will have seen her hold onto a railing, forced to go inside a hotel. you should be experiencing weaker winds now, mariana. weaker winds, ali, but after all that, we are not able to come live with a live picture with you because cell phones are down and now is when you really start to see the cell towers
Or paying your bill is easier than ever with x1. x1 help. another reason to love x1. say teach me more into your voice remote to get started. our special coverage on msnbc of hurricane michael continues. this continues to be a hurricane. more than an hour and a half after making landfall in the florida panhandle. it s headed northeast at about 15 miles an hour. it is a fast-moving storm that s good on some levels. it s not dumping as much rain as a storm like florence. not nearly as big, but, boy, is it powerful. 155-mile-an-hour sustained winds a little while ago with gusts up to 175 miles an hour. ripping down trees and power lines and some infrastructure. we ve seen houses that look like they ve been shredded. and this storm is not over.