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Storm florence. All of our crews are out in it. Well be bringing all of this information to you. Our breaking News Coverage our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac360. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening. Im Anderson Cooper in willing, North Carolina. The story has been wailg rain and rain and more rain. Were seeing the heaviest band of rain just in the last ten minutes or so hitting this area down by the cape fear river. Five people have died so far in this storm. Five peopl...

Developed at the time? it was unusually bumpy for you. why was that? >> the weaker storms, category 1s and hurricanes tend to be the bummier rides. more powerful hurricanes are more established. they have their horizontal wind fields. there are a lot of up drafts and down drafts. theres a lot of wind sheer and dry air. that led through a bumpy ride and in clear air around it. it was one of the bumiest i was in. you can see for a second you got a little bit of zero gravity. this is sort of stuff ...

Strongest most destructive winds are. you dont want to be outside of forecast, old timers, ive been this thing. through category 1s and category >> which is where freeport 2s. they need to leave? was -- >> freeport, all of grand bahamas. watch the last couple frames. right there. >> the emergency managers it inched north ward. responsible for people in their for the first time in 24 hours counties, as a rule of them from we finally are watching this go most ive talked to, they assume north. come...

>> not as well as we would like. thats why i appreciate you doing this, because i think there is still room for more people to get out of harms way. we wish they would because its a lot easier to take care of people who are out of the way of the storms surge than it is to go in and try to get them out afterwards if they stayed. >> congressman, as i told the mayor and we tell local officials all the time when something like this is headed their way, if you need to get the word out, if you need to...

The wind is even stronger than it has been in the last 24 hours. it is unbelievable. this storm, florence, will not quit. they call this a category 1. this is strongest category 1s that ive certainly seen. most of newhanover county is now out of electricity. almost the entire county, our cell phones have gone down. all communications, were now using a satellite phone and many other technology to even get this live shot out. it is absolute pandemonium here. >> that was miguel marq you ez. no ones...

Look at the weather, to weigh in on the topic is abcs bill karens. >> i didnt know you could eat cactus? >> that is right, if it is fried -- >> fried ice cream, maybe later on today. good morning everybody, of course were getting done with what turns out to be an historic storm. just goes to prove you dont need a category three, four or five to have a major impact wherever the hurricane makes landing. category 1s can do damage, especially if theyre as slow moving as this one. in the coastal area...

>> theyve already mentioned we should not have people evacuate on their own. some are trying, we keep telling them not to do it. but people that decided not to leave are very terrified and basically have to choose between you know a rock and a hard place. so. >> what are residence both old and young telling your reporters? whats their mood? >> a lot of them are saying they did not expect this. theyre scared, you know r, you know we live along the coast. every year it kind of a mappedtory thing, ...

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