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Dont hear about anyone who didnt evacuate. >> we appreciate what youre doing for everyone and the data that you gather, paul. thank you very much. really appreciate it. amazing that we can get a connection as hes coming out of florence. "outfront" for us next, 40 inches of rain, 13-foot storm surge, why an already dangerous situation could be much worse because of where florence is expected to hit. plus serious concerns tonight of a public health crisis if this monster storm floods the thous...

Uncertainty that half of it is onshore, half is off. so any snacenario is possible, t they curve it. this is days and days and days of rainfall until the system kicks off towards knoxville. when it comes to the rain, however, and this is a big, big deal here, much like harvey, which slowed with no steering currents, you could outwalk it, we may be able to outwalk this one, too. im concerned about all of the rain up into the northeast. they have had flood problems in pennsylvania, upstate new yor...

Hurricane hunters have been flying planes around, above and into the eye of the storm. theyre with the national oceanic atmospheric administration, noaa. this one didnt go through the eye of the storm but measured data from the outskirts of it and above it. scientists use that information to get a more detailed view of the hurricane. the more probes you have, the more you can know. some time lapsed video here. look at this. again, they didnt fly into the eye. the pilots battle extreme winds and ...

Many people are telling me in is the worst spreing they have eve recommended. here is the heavy rain. the squall that is coming through, lightning strikes in southeast pennsylvania. when this kicks through, blinding rain as you go out the door in philadelphia. "new york time new york city we will time that out to around 8:00 a.m. were talking about one to two inches of rain, a chance for minor flash flooding and urban r areas, they have a lot of rain. today in boston we are going to get up to 50...

Ever recorded near alaska, scientists say it could have been worse. >> the plates slid past each other. this will cause less uplift on the sea floor and there is less chance of a tsunami. >> reporter: had the fault line slid vertically, like this, there would likely have been a large tsunami. the quake occurred on the so-called ring of fire, a 25,000-mile stretch of seismic activity underneath the pacific ocean, where 90% of all quakes happen. >> and so, lets get to kayna whitworth, also with us...

>> yeah, no question about that. jon karl with new reporting on that meeting with the president a short time ago. jon, thank you. in the meantime, we do move on now, to that other major winter storm on the move tonight. alerts up from minnesota all the way to the northeast, were following this, as well. blizzard conditions in the heartland, cars stuck in deep snow in sioux city, iowa. look at those images. and then tornadoes in the south. an ef-2. winds more than 111 miles an hour in texas. an...

The time th thing gets to atlanta and further north and east it wont be a big wind maker it will just bring down some rain and that will continue. and then the westerly winds will pick it "up" above and this is going to scream up to the north and east so that were in boston with winds around 20 to 30 by then its looking to be post-tropical at that point with just-some rain. so there it is. second landfall, 85-mile-an-hour winds. near biloxi the second landfall. first one was at plaquemines paris...

Even though this storm is hopefully going to push through quickly and maybe by midday tomorrow things will look a lot better. in fact, the sun is expected to be out. george? >> marty, its good to see the conditions are improving where you are. martin savidge, thank you for your report. lets switch now to ed lavandera. ed live for us in mobile, alabama. looking at the radar here, it looks like one of the stronger bands is about to push in or has pushed in there. what are you experiencing on the g...

Hours ago. much dryer on the back side at least as far as we can sense so far. not getting the torrential kind of rain. youre getting some rain but not just the deluge that we had. and the good news is that the water that had been significant on top of u.s. highway 90 here, that has all receded. in fact i wont say its completely gone but much of it is gone. its down dramatically. so another good indicator. probably one is the change of direction of wind. also two were past high tide. so that is ...

Will continue to be favorable. you see these bands here. any of those bands embedded within them could be thunderstorms that could put down a brief tornado and we have seen that so far this evening. numerous warnings in fact have been out for tornadoes. well continue to watch that threat developing as well through the overnight hours. guys? >> ivan, that northeastern quadrant of the storm, the dirty side of the storm, right? thats whats pushing in right now and causing those tornado concerns. >>...