facts from Michael are being felt here
in our area and we are seeing rain power
outages and to Central Florida counties
Marion and Flagler are under a tornado
watch until at least 2 a.m. in the
Panhandle though new video continues to
come in showing the power of hurricane
Michael look at that this video from
Panama City shows a railing collapsing
due to the strong winds from that storm
about 70 miles west of there a boat
warehouse was torn apart in Okaloosa
County this is the Emerald Coast marine
in Niceville the siding it's just been
blown away and the roof looks like it's
just collapsed and in Callaway Florida
which is in Bay County pictures of the
damage showed downed and uprooted trees
some falling right on parked cars and of
course on power lines now let's get into
our team coverage of Hurricane Michael
chief meteorologist Tom Sorrells and
meteorologists Americo quino's are
working together pinpointing the
strength of the storm and where this
thing's headed Tom heartbreaking to see
that peel back building and a really low
engineered stuff like stone mortar that
does well the high engineered stuff like
your metal your glass and your
high-rises don't do well during
hurricanes as a general rule here we go
the eye the storm system rolling it this
way from Panama City right there in
Mexico Beach all the way up to the state
line now getting ready to cook through
Dothan Alabama on its way into Georgia
tonight the eye is finally starting to
kind of close over on our visible
satellite and we will lose our visible
images here within the next couple of
hours here's the big news we're down to
category 3 status wind speeds are only
125 miles per hour and I say only
because just a few hours ago it was at
155 during the next several hours it
races across the state line here from
Alabama into Georgia all the way up
south of Atlanta Georgia tonight by
tomorrow morning it will be up there
crushing trees as a tropical storm
tonight we're dealing with the
significant weather advisory over here
parts of Western Orange County into Lake
County up to the north along 441 for at
least another 15 minutes or so it's
about 5:45 you see heavy rain from
Clermont down to the south all of this
is tied to all of this these are feeder
band pieces coming through Central
Florida so far so good
had a single warning in our area don't
anticipate we're going to be lucky
enough to get through the entire night
with at least a little action see the
eye of the storm getting ready to cross
the state line it's already made it past
Interstate 10
getting ready to cross over into Georgia
the next couple of hours all of this
stuff continues to funnel all in
downtown Orlando is dry for the moment
but if you're heading out on the town if
outdoor plans you have to walk your dog
take the umbrella because these running
gun showers gonna be here with every
band that comes on through standing by
right now in the storm tracking Center
meteorologists America he knows hey
Samara hey there and you know what this
storm was definitely breaking records as
it made landfall earlier this morning
let me show you exactly what it looked
like at landfall right here you see it
is a category 4 status when it made
landfall at 1:30 this afternoon near
Mexico City Beach 155 mile-per-hour
winds
so at 157 that's when you get up to
category 5 status Michael is the first
category for to make landfall in the
Florida Panhandle on record and those
records began in the 1800s so yeah
definitely one heck of a storm out there
we'll talk more about that and of course
we'll have more on the rain headed our
way coming up guys all right Tamara
thank you and as Tom and Samaras said
Michael has weakened from when it first
made landfall but it remains dangerous
and it is moving inland heading toward
Alabama and Georgia all while still
slamming the Panhandle erics and of all
is in Tallahassee picking up our team
coverage for us tonight and Eric
thousands of people are without power
there and you've seen transformers
explode a piece of roof even fell on the
live truck you guys are in you guys are
ok but what other problems are you
seeing out there well one one of the big
problems we're seeing right now is
people are venturing out woman was out
here walking she just got out of cameras
shot but evidently she lives in the
apartments that are right next to the
shopping center that that we're in some
of the forecasters here on local TV are
telling people not so much that it's
over but that the worst is over and when
you hear that the worst is over
curiosity takes over and we've seen
three or four cars here comes another
one
down the street they took a sharp left
sorry makes sense - talk
but no we've seen cars we've seen that
woman venturing out
you mentioned the roof that was torn off
the building that's one of the wind
gusts that the forecasters were warning
about you can see a piece of the walkway
is still hanging over this building that
can become a projectile in these gusty
winds that we're getting and that's why
we're urging people even though we're
not broadcasting to the Tallahassee
market right now to stay inside if you
have family if you have friends here in
the Tallahassee area text them or give
them a call tell them that you know the
rain may be over but these winds are
really dangerous Tallahassee Police and
the Leon County Sheriff's Office is
saying if there are trees down all over
the place there are power lines down all
over the place and you don't know what
those power lines are live or not so
please if you have friends and family
give them a warning tell them not to
venture out as another car passes right
in back of our photographer we're live
in Tallahassee
Erick's and of all News six back to you
yeah Eric people need to stay inside it
is the most dangerous time right after
the storm Eric we'll be back in just
about 20 minutes with more live reports
from Tallahassee