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Officials are having a difficult time with their communications because the cell service issue. so all of that is contributing to really what we know and what we don't know at this point. that's why it's so important to do things like getting brooke up in the chopper so we can get a better sense of what is waiting when people can get in. >> chad myers, you make the point about what looks like tornado-like damage. chad myers said in terms of wind strength, it was like a 30-minute-long tornado. tornadoes don't last 30 minutes. they last seconds. and we're seeing the effects of that. joining us b...

Sort of wind strength, why the storm surge here is going to bring the wave action possibly up to 9, even 12 feet up over the sand dunes potentially and then inland here. one of the things i found interesting, on a good day this beach is about 100 feet wide. it's already been cut down to about 50 feet wide, and understand that high tide isn't until 9:00 tonight, so all of this is in anticipation of the arrival of hurricane michael. unfortunately, there were mandatory evacuations, but everybody did not heed to that. this community has about 48,000 residents, 24,000 of them by estimates by the ci...

It's about 45 minutes after the hour. four raging wildfires consuming southern california. thousands forced to evacuate. the thomas fire in ventura burning 90,000 acres. and the flames have now reached los angeles, america's second biggest city. the director of the fire protection giving a dire forecast saying the color coded system has reached the top level of purple for wind strength. adding we've never used purple before. >> all of l.a. county under an extreme fire danger warning. the 405 freeway, nation's busiest highway shut down for most of the day. nearly 300 los angeles schools closed....

Whether it will hit the u.s. mainland. what do we know, allison. >> well, we just dpot the brand-new update in at the top of the hour and it has actually increased a little bit in wind strength. winds right now 125-mile-per-hour. that is only five-mile-per-hour off from a category 4 storm. they're gusting upwards of 150 miles per hour. now, the track over the next couple of days will continue to take it out over the open atlantic towards the united states. the ultimate question is how close does it actually get? at this point in time here we're going to take it out to thursday. this is one wee...

Really for several days right now. one of the things that has concerned me is that maybe people on the west have been a little complacent. what's your take on that? what have you seen? >> as we've driven north we've seen a lot of people out and about. some people even going about their normal daily routines and that's the big concern here is that people might not have gotten enough of the urgency that the state officials have been trying to communicate because so much of that effort was directed towards east coast. but we want to tell you now if you live on the west coast of florida and being ...