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Category two. Instead he exploded in veracity to a category four. Its going to cause a huge amount of damage. Our hearts go out to those folks. Sandra thats it for us. Special courage continues here on the Fox News Channel with Shepard Smith. Hurricane michael, its on the way and it is expected to be historic. Im Shepard Smith on the fox news deck. Often in programming including outnumbered will not be seen today. Hurricane michael is a major category 4 storm set to make landfall somewhere around Panama City Beach, florida. It is expected to be the most powerful storm ever to hit the region. I...

Tampa all the way up over to pensacola. you can see it is raining in pensacola. the rains are coming in tampa. i want to zoom in and show you what the storm has been doing prayed here as grand-based radar. here is florida, apalachicola. these are where the oyster beds are that are so famous. panama city, the miracle mile resort in panama city, but 180,000 year-round residents. i think that's right. 180,000 or so. in the county itself, 185,000. about 36,000 live in panama city itself. i want to show you what this i wall has been doing. i will zoom all the way in. this is ground-based radar that...

Vi wall has not made landfall, still a category one storm. it is 35 miles from wilmington but that was an hour ago. likely closer to 30 miles at a 6 mile an hour pace, maybe closer. that is wilmington over there. getting to the coast probably 10 miles away. the firewall is where these bands wrap around bringing heavy rain, these bands of absolute downpours following on the same location over and over again for hour after hour. that is why everything you are looking at highlighted in these red boxes are flash flood warnings. i'm sure their standing water in most of these locations on top of the...

>> the i wall is starting to degrade a little bit. if you can envision an ice skater when they put their arms in a spin faster and when they extend their arms they spin slower, sometimes when you see the eye grow in size physically the magnitude of the wind will decrease. rob: interesting. jillian: some tips for people, when you see storms like this what do you want people to know? >> first thing is to follow the orders of the state and local emergency managers. secondly, have a plan and be prepared. rob: do you anticipate the storm to we can further as it approaches the coast or will it stren...

Reporter: all of those low-lying areas were asked to get out hours ago so hopefully people did. we are "getting real" first band of that i wall, the first rains and winds and as you can see the surge is coming in over the seawall and we are now ankle-deep projected anywhere from six-11 or 12 storm surge for coastal mississippi as well as coastal alabama and that is the big concern here. the winds are pretty rough, stronger than they have been all day and the wind is driving the rain like needles in your skin at times but for the most part the waves have been coming from the day but this has be...