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See, the winds have really picked up. i want to say what stands out the most being here is the emptiness of this place. there is one beach chair sitting there as the wind picks up but by and large the beach is empty and so is the neighborhood. this is the northern part of the outer banks as you know and normally this would be entirely packed with vacationers. yes were on the back side of the labor day holiday but still the outer banks an incredibly popular place in the off-season. we are here on...

For evacuating through the week. theyre getting a bit of fatigue, and there has really been a strong message from officials, from first responders here, show a little more patience. this thing is coming, and its going to cause some problems. youve prepared. now make sure you take advantage of those preparations. >> all right. jay gray in wilmington, north carolina. jay, thank you for taking a few minutes. and from where the storm is heading to where the storm has been, i want to bring in nbc new...

>> yeah. like dozens and dozens of times, but this one, man. ive been chasing hurricanes for years and this is number one or two in the ferocity. i got spooked by the storm and thought i better ride it out on a -- you know, in a solid building in marsh harbor which is the main town. i rode it out in a solid concrete school which was a designated shelter. to give an idea of what 185 mile-an-hour winds were like, despite us being in a solid concrete building, it was so badly damaged, by the time w...

Island. then all of hurricane dorians fury is just sitting offshore in the atlantic ocean, still situated about 80 miles offshore with the center of the storm. but i just want to reference something to give you a little perspective of what weve seen. just in the past hour since weve been here, weve seen a little bit of storm surge push up. again, this is the intercoastal waterway, so its a mixture of fresh and ocean water. but the point is that this has actually started to rise and thats very co...

Are 30-foot waves being measured on this particular weather data buoy. i mean, thats incredible. so the ocean is still very churned up in and around hurricane dorian, as one would imagine. were feeling the impacts of that as well. this is a breakwall you can see here just to my right. we saw the same location about midday today, and the water wasnt topping over the break wall like it is now. so were still getting that surging effect. so the immediate coastline of the barrier islands here in mart...

Of the wind. it was unlike anything id ever seen. this thing was off the charts. >> you used the eye of the storm to relocate. tell me about that. >> when we raeltzed when the calm came and we came out and looked at how bad the building was, rerealized we had to relocate. we piled into the few cars still functioning and we got to a government complex nearby. and residents from every direction were rushing to this building from the poorer low lying neighborhoods that had been swept by a tremendou...

But we are on the back side of the storm. so people have taken a collective sigh of relief because were now starting to focus the most treacherous conditions closer to the northern florida peninsula and into the coastline of georgia as well as the carolinas. the concerns going forward here is we have seen our fair share of rain from this storm and that means the ground is saturated. and every time we get hit with one of these stronger wind gusts it could easily take over trees, maybe take down s...

Though the storm, the worst of the storm may remain offshore, the back side passing over land is still going to cause a lot of problems across the east. ainsley: hey, jay, alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders are saying that this -- the hurricanes are caused by climate change. i know that hurricanes have been happening since the beginning of the atmosphere. what do you think the reason is? >> well, thats a complex question to try to answer quickly. but i will say from my historical perspe...

This is incredibly low lying. there are houses all along here. do you think most got out or they will just ride it out? >> its hard to tell. people along the front might have gone out. we are expecting to get up to the dune line by later today. thats the danger point. we built new dune systems. we have protections in place. the real concerns are the backside of the island. >> yeah. >> it will come along with the storm surge. we will be watching that real close. these people have been flooded out...

Winds here are fierce. category 3 winds, youre going to continue to pile water over and over and over. sometimes you get the storm surge coming in, and then it comes back out as things are supposed to go. but when you get a hurricane parked on top of you, this is what happens here. then on the back side of the island, by the way, we have a reverse storm surge coming in with a southerly wind, although this way less populated than freeport, but not entirely so. some of the outer rain bands, youve ...