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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 t...

Where were you when the tornado came through? how did you get through this safely? >> actually, i watched weather. i had watched this storm progress from arkansas up through kentucky. and i was on the phone with a friend of mine that lived across town. who had a basement. i had stayed with them for a period of time at one point in my life. anyway, he offered me to come over if i wanted to and i told him i was going to watch one more update. when they told me that princeton, kentucky was next, and then dawesen springs. i told him i would be over in five minutes and i was. >> do you think going ...

Been hit by one of these. you have no idea how overwhelming it is. to experience that. >> i can imagine. and you were not actually in your home at the time. where were you when this tornado came through? and how did you get through this safely? >> actually, i watch weather. and i had watched this storm progress from arkansas up through kentucky. and i was on the phone with a friend of mine that lived across town. who had a basement. and i had stayed with him for a period of time. at one point in my life. anyway, he offered me to come over if i wanted to. and i told him i was going to watch one...

Up sand bags. >> we are closed. this is probably the most frustrating storm we've dealt with. hopefully it will stay off the coast. all we can do is prepare and hope for the best. >> gabe is back with us live from jensen beach, florida. talk to us about what you are seeing, if you are seeing the storm progress since we last spoke. >> yeah, what a difference about a half hour or so makes. you can see the sun is out. that is typical when we see these initial bands come through. if you were watching about half an hour ago, we were being pelted. we are seeing winds but for now, the sun is out. you...

By 8:00, there's some places that will still have 100 miles an hour winds. >> that may surprise some people. they were expecting 24, 48 hours ago they weren't expecting a hurricane. we continue to look at the radar over your shoulder there. now we're about to exit the panama city area and about to head up towards i-10. it's one of those areas. now we'll start talking about this storm crossing into geor a georgia. >> all right. let's bring back ken graham, director of the national hurricane center. this has been an extraordinary two hours for ali and i sitting here watching this storm progress....