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Decided to ride out the storm to perhaps get in contact with emergency officials. reporting from apalachicola. i'm derek van dam. back to you, dave. >> derek, thank you. michael punished georgia with destructive rain and winds arriving as a category three hurricane as it moved across the state. making it the most powerful storm to hit the area in 120 years. our meteorologist pedram javaheri tracking michael live from the cnn weather center as it moves into the carolinas. what can folks expect? >> christine, tropical storm force wiensnds and rainfall. 13 plus hours after landfall, making itse...

Damage. it's tremendous wind damage. tremendous. a lot of things are blown over. hopefully not houses with people in them. >> they had wind gusts of 90 miles per hour here sus standz winds of 74 miles per hour. i have been talking with fema officials here in tallahassee. they are gearing up at dawn break to head south because what we are going to see is not going to be a pretty picture. guys? steve: griff jenkins live in tallahassee the state capital. thank you very much. brian: michael's fury sparking tornadoes in central georgia. ainsley: destroyed homes, downed power lines and trees complet...

Destructive winds as a category three hurricane. making it the most powerful storm to hit the area in 120 years. meteorologist pedram javaheri tracking michael live from the cnn weather center this morning as it moves into the carolinas. pedram, good morning. >> good morning, dave. michael is moving into south carolina in the last hour or so. still with it tropical storm force winds. the sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and gusts up to 65 miles per hour. we have that dropping with below hurricane threshold. improving conditions with the winds across the region. heavy rainfall in place. we ...

Scope. >> derek, be careful. thank you. overnight, michael punished georgia with torrential rain as it arrived as a category three hurricane and weakened to a category one as it moved northeast across the state. making it the most powerful storm to hit the area in 120 years. meteorologist pedram javaheri tracking michael live from the cnn center as it moves into the carolinas. pedram, good morning. >> good morning, dave. the storm over land for 13 hours. fascinating. wind gust was the storm. 9 -- gusts with the storm at 90 miles an hour. s -- florence made landfall at 100 miles an hour. we h...

To survive that. the gulf of mexico is a basin of water being pushed up on people. if you're still there when that comes in, you're going to die. >> reporter: florida officials hammering home the message. the storm surge alone can kill you, but it is now too late to evacuate. >> the time to evacuate in coastal areas has come and gone. the worst thing you can do now is leave and put yourself and your family in danger. >> reporter: we're still getting some pretty powerful gusts of wind here, and officials tell us this is still one of the most dangerous periods during the whole cycle of the storm...