Hurricane Debby makes landfall in Florida as Cat. 1 storm; threatens catastrophic flooding

[Music] hurricane this morning hurricane Debbie tearing into the Big Bend of Florida's Gulf Coast as a category 1 hurricane life-threatening storm surge and inundating rains near the eye Michael Pusa from our Tampa affiliate WFTS is in Cross City this is Cross City in Dixie County we're about 20 miles from the coast and we are now in the eye wall of Hurricane Debbie we're just now starting to see this finally come in from the southeast with all these bands and stinging rain but even those outer bands dropping up to 10 Ines of rain already and pushing water at the coast the flooding barreling into buildings officers driving through and firefighters waiting in to make a water rescue and a stunning rescue off the coast of boa Grande as Debbie passed by air Crews rescued two boers who were missing since Saturday Florida Georgia and South Carolina all now in a state of emergency as Debbie will barely Crawl Through the southeast