Hardship its a crisis that is causing real Mental Stress for millions of people millions of people and its within our power to solve it. And to grow the economy at the same time and his vision for the countrys place in the world. Americas back. Were at the head of the table once again plus, new covid records and new restrictions here at home as millions ignore the Travel Warnings and food banks have trouble keeping up announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from wilmington, delaware good evening from wilmington, where a short time ago President Elect joe biden sat down with me for his first postelection interview where he discussed among other things the official president ial transition now finally under way tonight, whether he would support investigations of donald trump after he leaves office, and how his administration plans to distribute covid vaccines to millions of americans. We met at wilmingtons queen theater, where just an hour or so earlier the
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especially because, martha, the population in florida has changed so much over the last, say, 25 years when hurricane andrew hit, some people have moved in there i ve never gone through a storm like this and there s been so much infrastructure build up right along the coast because they haven t had the storms. so i think we are spared that piece of this in florida, but still we have about two more days in florida that there will be impacts. martha: strikes me that we always look at all these models with your scientific help and it almost never goes exactly where you initially think that it s headed, but i look at a couple of tracks that look like they re headed straight for us charleston, south carolina, and that s days away. obviously anything can happen between now and then but this is far from over for those areas, as you say. south carolina, north carolina, look at all of those models and even if it s a 2 or a 1 at that point, you re dealing with some pretty potential signifi
finally getting a lot of rain down here in south carolina, but it is something that they have had in north carolina for over a day now, and in the northern part of the eastern north carolina, a tnd the storm came ashore is at wilmington, wrightsville beach really at around 7:15 this morning and the eye is moving slowly south and southwest of that. so we are not even getting, really, hours away from the series effects of it here in myrtle beach. the storm is still a category 1 and the winds are about 80 miles per hour right now, and highly destructive and the bigger issue is how slowly the storm is moving. so the winds are whipping around at 80 miles per hour, and sustained with gusts that are even higher than that, but it is inching over land right now which means that it is dumping more and more rain and those winds, the sustain ed winds are doing more and more damage. think of the tree or the roof of the house, and it is one thing to have a few hours of wind, but
pushed into bay st. louis and gulfport and to dauphin island with that wall of water. some of the waves, 26 feet tall in katrina. this could be 20. you could see what happened in that storm. this is the potential if you re on the right side of where the eye makes landfall. the left side is going to be less. it won t be zero, but it will be less. somewhere between 2 and 4. here, they re going 6 to 12 in the north of wilmington into morehead city, easily. up some of these rivers, we could see 18 feet. and if you are less than 18 feet above sea level and your house is, you need to leave. that s why this storm surge watch is going to turn into a warning later on today. here comes the storm on the european model. making a run kind of at wilmington. we ll see. i stopped it there to give you an idea of the american model, the gfs, is thinking, farther to the north, closer to cape hatteras. we ll see if that happens. it makes a tremendous difference for rainfall, for one, but for