{"id":380383,"date":"2018-10-10T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-michael-to-be-strongest-hurricane-to-hit-florida\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:24:18","slug":"presstv-michael-to-be-strongest-hurricane-to-hit-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-michael-to-be-strongest-hurricane-to-hit-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Michael to be strongest hurricane to hit Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 4 storm early on Wednesday before it was expected to plow into Florida&#8217;s Gulf shore with towering waves and roof-shredding winds as 500,000 people were under evacuation orders and advisories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Michael was packing winds of up to 130 miles per hour (210 km per hour), hours before it was set to make landfall on Florida&#8217;s Panhandle or Florida&#8217;s Big Bend where it potentially could unleash devastating waves as high as 13 feet (4 meters), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE to evacuate before conditions start deteriorating within the next few hours,&#8221; said Florida Governor Rick Scott in a Tweet early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency for the entire state of Florida, freeing up federal assistance to supplement state and local disaster responses.<\/p>\n<p>Michael gathered greater strength over warm Gulf of Mexico waters throughout the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/10\/576586\/US-HURRICANE-FLORIDA-STORM\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Michael strengthened into a Category 4 storm early on Wednesday before it was expected to plow into Florida&#8217;s Gulf shore with towering waves and roof-shredding winds as 500,000 people were under evacuation orders and advisories. Hurricane Michael was packing winds of up to 130 miles per hour (210 km per hour), hours before it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}