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Damage will look different. there will still be more wind-driven, trees down. i was just looking at the latest satellite image. albany, georgia, is right in the wrong quadrant of this storm. it's still maintaining 125-mile-an-hour winds, it's moving very rapidly, carrying all its destructive winds with it. so you're going to see a very extensive area of damaging winds, all the way into central georgia. >> newer buildings are supposed to be able to deal with the category 4 hurricane. but older ones certainly can't. >> we'll see how it sorts out tomorrow morning. >> we certainly will. louis, sta...

An hour ago we were 942. the pressure is falling. the winds in the middle picking up. a wide storm affecting really from tampa almost all the way back to about mobile bay with something, maybe not all these winds. the eye core is where you'll get the 145. it's a wide event. a wide-reaching event. this is the wind field of the storm right now. pay attention to the white. that's 100 mile-per-hour-plus winds. they come into panama city, apalachicola. certainly mexico beach. and then still purple here at 60 or 70 miles per hour for tallahassee and macon. as you get farther over to the northeast in...

>> yeah, i got you. go ahead. >> thank you so much. just give me an assessment from your perspective, sheriff. how bad is the damage in your county right now? >> it's catastrophic. there are roads washed out, trees down, it's bad. we're pretty much isolated right now. >> what do you mean by isolated? you yourself, even emergency crews can't get out and about if you need to. >> you can't get out. we have an east, west, and a north road that come into the county. they're all impassable right now. >> and in terms of the damage, is it trees down, it's washed out? describe catastrophic for our view...

We have live wires, trees down. you have other impacts. the possibility of other live flooding -- flash flooding in our community. once we have been able to assess the damage, we will give the all-clear. and we're all on all social media flat forms, we're on public radio, able to communicate with our customers and half still have power themselves in their homes. we're going to do our part. we need everybody to do their part so that we don't have folks who make it through this storm and then do something not so smart that puts themselves in danger and in harm's way. >> mr. mayor, i'm going let ...

Force winds 45 miles away. we need to not just focus on the center. you need to think of this as a wild storm causing damage for a large area. damaging on the coast. power outages could last several weeks. serious situation. catastrophic with building damage, trees down, power outages. but not just the coast. we still expect hurricane force winds stretching on the alabama/georgia state line. even moving into central georgia could still have some winds close to hurricane strength. so if you take the rain and take those winds, you can have power outages and trees down, remaining dangerous throug...