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In south georgia it's a heavily wooded area, it doesn't take a lot of wind to get a lot of tree damage. that's still be aig hazard. >> thank you very much. nbc's kerry sanders is in panama city, florida where several buildings have reportedly collapsed after taking a direct hit from murk michael. kerry, i've seen images from panama city that are pretty upsetting. >> reporter: indied they are. this is a tale of the eastern and western portion of the storm. of course to the east of the storm about 43 miles from here is mexico beach when the eye came up shore that was to the east and that's wha...

Look out. we're going to talk about these shadings. this is the probability of experiencing tropical storm force winds. by the time we get to tomorrow afternoon it's pretty low, about 25% to 50% here toward the fayetteville area, getting up toward raleigh and all through eastern portions of north carolina. and as far as the rain goes, and this is -- it's been such a warm month so far of october right up the eastern seaboard. it's been very humid, unusually humid. it's not going to be any big surprise to get a good soaking of rain out of this storm as it heads up the coastal areas. four to five...

Get out of the realm of simply doing tree damage and into the kind of intensity where you can start to see structural damage to roofs. you can also see objects be lifted and thrown through the air and do additional damage as loose missiles in the air. so you really will do once you get over 100 miles per hour move to a damage damage regime. unfortunately that's the circumstance we find ourselves in in the florida big bend this morning. >> ryan, chief meteorologist from weather tiger. appreciate it. florida state university in tallahassee where ryan is, there are 30,000 students-plus, off until...

Going to have tremendous tree damage. that's a very dangerous situation, whether you're driving, whether you're in your house. so it's -- this story isn't over yet in terms of the impact that this storm is going to have. and, of course, we're going to get heavy rains, but with the fast-moving storms, it isn't going to be like what we saw with florence, but still 4 to 6 inches of rain in a very short period of time creates a moderate risk for flash floods. so we have that to be working with, as well. >> we know the damage is going to be devastating in florida and georgia, going up to the caroli...

Then we're at a cat 4. initial rain bands are not far away from the coast. these are literally the final minutes of preparation time for anyone here in this area and if anyone still remains in that area they still should get out now while they can. even if i was as far inland as the areas of tallahassee at i-10 i would consider getting out of there because you're not going to have power for weeks after the storm goes through. and if you can avoid living in that and you don't have to worry about the trees falling on your house and your car and stuff like that just get away, get out of the way...