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We ve got water damage threats. there s a lot that has to be kept into consideration as we make our way through the storm and then begin our recovery process. brian, i should also mention because tallahassee is closest to these affected areas, we also expect that the shelters that we now have, now six, will likely expand as our neighbors from the coast make their way here for what looks like will be a pretty long recovery for them. mayor, meteorologist bill karins. any word on how long your public schools are planning on closing for and any word on the university also? yeah, so the university of florida and university florida state and tallahassee community college, along with our k through 12 system has announced their closure through friday. so right now, you know, we do our job and get out there and get everybody restoerd, schools should be back, you know, early next week. we don t have announcements on that yet but so far we know it will be closed through the ....
And save you over 50-mile-an-hour. that s because it s just too dangerous for them. and, really, we re talking about historic winds here. as you can see, in the last five minutes, brian, the rain kind of died down a little bit. that s why i have my hood bit. that s why i have my hood off. we re still feeling that powerful wind. it s historically power. . this is the first time ever the city of tallahassee has put up an extreme wind warning. it s unprecedented here, that s because they re expecting gusts of 130 miles per hour. you mentioned andrew gillum a while ago. he was talking about these trees, lovely oak and palm trees. they re like grace with the spanish moss. what makes tallahassee such a nice southern city. but when you get a hurricane, this is what is weaponized against this city have you all these trees falling on cars, ....
Tree that is absolutely enormous. can you live your hole life in this country and not have something that large in your town. but they re all over tallahassee. you mentioned something else, the spanish moss. there s just so much vegetation and that just doubles the risk oof what can come down. reporter: it s not just the wind. you know, brian, you are starting to see it pick up just now. there is also the risk of tornadoes. there has been a tornado watch that will be lasting until tomorrow morning. so that spells kind of double trouble for the city of tallahassee. you mentioned this huge tree here. i walked down a little while ago to the end of the street. there is not one but two huge trees like this one that are downed. we re right here in front of the campus of florida state university. i imagine that throughout the city. there is tons of these massive trees that have gone down, causing massive damage, threatening people s lives, as i ....
Better for tallahassee and kept it further from tallahassee. let s do the distance tracker. we call this what s left of the eastern eye wall down interstate 10. roughly about 40 miles away. that s why tallahassee and even though with that said, over here, this is a live wind report. 67-mile-per-hour winds. that s still 40 miles per hour away. you can imagine what it s like. much worse. we re more extreme wind damage is being done. the other major city in this area is, as we go through dothan. all of a sudden these bright red and pichks are staying symmetrical. doesn t look like it s about onshore for a hurricane for the last two hours. it s going to be close to how just you don t want to get in the bright red. you ll see massive amounts of trees down and instead of days without power, possibly weeks that s going to take to clean that up. dothan right now, roughly about 20 to 22 miles away. ....
Mentioned, turning the lights off when floridians and people of tal t tallahassee really need it. i don t want to think if the more central part of the storm had passed over the capital of tallahassee. matt bradley, thank you so much. we re updating folks along the bottom of your screen with the very latest on category wind speed. this is still considered a category 4 maximum sustained winds at the core. still estimated to be 140 miles per hour. a lot of that information comes to us from the hurricane hunter aircraft, whose job it is to nigh from eyewall to eyewall all the way through the center of this storm and report their readings back to the ground. we have seen wind gusts to 175 miles an hour. with this storm, we have seen a couple unique things. this is a history maker for the florida panhandle. ....