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coast of florida. 155-mile-per-hour wind speeds. that's just two miles short of a category 5 hurricane. it's expected to make landfall about 100 miles south of here in the port charlotte area. rain 12 to 24 inches across much of the florida peninsula, challenge create freshwater flooding. the impact of this will be felt by millions in florida. already 200,000 people without power. that's before the storm even makes landfall. this will uproot people's lives. its a life-threatening storm. this is the sunshine skyway bridge that we have pictures of. you can see the winds kicking up. it ...

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...

Is between 5 to 8 and we're already at 5 so could get much worse. further north they are expecting up to 18 feet which could just be devastating. joining me now is the mayor of sarasota, florida, which is a little bit south of where i am, kind of on the other end of the tampa bay area. mr. mayor, thank you so much for being with us. the outer bands of the eyewall making landfall south of where we both are, what are you expecting over the next several hours? >> we just made the decision just now to withdraw all of our police officers from the streets just because of the sustained wind pressure ...

These things are all about differences in wind pressure. the pressure is always trying to meet the other pressure. >> earlier you were with us about two hour s ago, when mariano was opening her door, it was causing other people in the hotel proms. >> we started to see a hand show up. perhaps they can trying to secure it and shortly we had two grown men sprawled over. >> i'm sure they are watching it. it's hard to tell from our angle but they were watching it flexing. they probably saw the metal. >> a window can just pop out because of the way it's bound to the window sill. it can break. while ...

But it will still have devastating impact on north carolina and south carolina. >> shannon: mike kickham of the charleston referring to hazel, the conventions that fueled hazel in 1954 at the same for florence to take him a warm ocean water and not enough wind pressure to blow apart florence massive swirl. other smaller hurricanes that approach the east coast are steered out to sea by jet streams. why did that happen this time? that primarily because of the size of the storm? >> educated gigantic wind field, usually they will swing north but the evolution of thisr the last two days has been pr...