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Queen? >> on my own, a medium cone. im a purist. you have to come join us. come on. >> reporter: what is your question? >> we are one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. i think you know that. >> yep. my concern is the streets. potholes. >> good education for our kids. >> reporter: why did nobody bring up the supreme court or russia? >> the issues being brought up are not only important issues, but affect us immediately here. these are the things we know are going to make a differe...

She maybe should step aside until she -- >> trump is spending us into a deficit at a rate greater than any president before him. >> he is creating an cone me that has job growth like weve never seen it in my or your lifetime. trump gets diverted by so many different things he shouldnt be. he should focus on the economy. the democratic argument doesnt hold water when you look at the growth figures, the job numbers. we have a booming economy right now that i havent seen in 40 years. thats my speci...

Warning, get on the road before the traffic and take care of our family. we view it as a vacation and trying to help their anxiety but certainly it is scary watching the cone even as it moves up above us, i went to school in north carolina, have friends there. it is scary. jillian: have you spoken to your friends in north carolina? have people evacuated? >> i have. i have a good friend there whose father recently had a heart bypass surgery. i was immediately thinking of everybody in hospitals an...

Be for some places a week or more before they get their power back. the storm surge, again, ali, something we are talking about. seven to 11 feet. you have already gone through a high tide throughout the coastline there. the next one is around midnight to 11:30 this evening. this is the area, the cone from cape fear to cape lookout where we are expecting the problems. rainfall amounts, still we could see totals of about 40 inches of rain. oriental, north carolina picking up 20 inches of rain so ...

Crazy part of that story, somebody living without it. jillian: if you are in the cone of this storm of hurricane florence, you can go to waffle house. >> if waffle house is closed, things are really bad. that is what a fema administrator said in 2004 when hurricane charley hit florida, the restaurant known for being open 24/7 is not taking hurricane florence lightly, they send a tweet that talks about their storm center saying it is activated and monitoring the situation. get your waffles while ...

Saturday morning still a tropical storm. not a lot of geography here to travel. the impacts will be long lasting and we keep talking about those impacts with time and if you look at the cone here, the center 2/3 of the time can be anywhere inside this cone. even well inland you have to prepare for those impacts. lets look at those impacts because thats what we have to talk about. and remember the category is just about the wind. its independent of the actual impact. one of the large impacts we w...

Through sandy, put it into perspective what it means when people say, oh, look, its been downgraded to a category 2. sandy was only a tropical storm. maybe a category 1. and it devastated parts of new york and new jersey. >> thats the thing thats often tricky when you see these cones where it says category 2 or category 3. thats not tracking the storm surge. the storm surge is whats the dangerous part. thats the part where the floodwaters flood in, raise the levels and do damage. the cone, the w...

We have hurricane warnings well outside the cone, well away from where the landfall is, and we talked about that storm surge. lets really illustrate that. if you have landfall godown in this region, thats only part of the story. look where the surge is. youre well away from that landfall, far away, even in the northern portions of north carolina where you can see some of this storm surge. really, we really need to be careful paying attention to where that center is. the hurricane force winds 70 ...

Myrtle and eventually to the possibility of charleston. notice -- notice -- where the cone has gone. the cone was here. and now the models are so inconsistent and now we get so many errors. this storm could be out here and could be getting stronger. right now we dont know that. there is a storm chaser in the storm right now to see whats going on. well get a brand new forecast in a few hours and well see what happens. >> we hope to get much more information about that very shortly. chad, thank yo...

The computer models that ran at 8:00 p.m. last night, they finished about midnight. the computer models took this and turned it to the left. more aircraft in it right now trying to sample the atmosphere. this is what theyre doing. this is what the airplane is doing in the hurricane. it looks like you will put your money in there and send it to the bank. they dont send it to the bank. they send it down. and its like an inverse weather balloon. these go down, but they still sample the atmosphere. ...