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Three, four five. what category it is, it is a category 4, now a category 3, this is a major storm, category 3678 this is a beg storm. its not only powerful, its big if size, 125 miles per hour. could strengthen a little bit more before making landfall. it will fluctuate in intensity. thats normal. it has gusts of 126 piles per hour. it is expected to make landfall as a gage 3 around wilmington, somewhere inside this cone, inside northeast sections of south carolina, even, some of the models are...

It will mean more people are going to be in this flooding area. so if are you evacuating the coast going inland, you need to be very careful about the place you choose to sit this storm out. because a lot of places well inland will get possibly ten, 20 inches of rain and we are now, like you said, a concern for georgia. now inside the cone. it could be in this for some flooding as well, so look at this, this area has widened, this 20 to 30 inch of rain total. can you see stretching now down to i...

Where its going to intersect with the u.s. from where we talked yesterday. still a category 3 on friday. around this area, anywhere inside this cone, its going to either make landfall or be just offshore. some of the models show it hovering just offshore before making this crawl to the south. and yes, you will be able to walk faster than this storm will be moving. thats how slow it will be going. and so its going to sit here for several days, and bring flooding rain all across north carolina, so...

And how its performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your inflatable swan. [ding] low-lying areas that they could be in grave danger. and that covers a large portion of the state. i want to go back to tom sater at the cnn weather center with this. tom, this storm is going to bring a lot of rain, and very quickly, as youve talked about. what areas, then, are most vulnerable? >> well, this is one of the most vulnerable spots in the entire u.s. i mean, with that low-level land, the ...

We have more from the weather center. this is a monster. weve seen the path turn a little bit. bring us up to speed. >> big changes will overnight in the models. they hinted at this change yesterday, but now they are full on changed, the storm getting klcoi ie-- going close to wilmington and turning left. the impact it for more people. now myrtle beach, youre smack dab into what this could be. even charleston, youre back in the cone whereas yesterday you were out of it. 130 mile-per-hour, gusts ...

Slow down. but, does it slow down before it makes landfall? does it make landfall and then stall? does it make landfall and then move southward? all of these models are starting to indicate that. yesterday they were all tightly packed. we knew exactly where this was going. and then last night it got bigger. the computer model spread. look at this was we go further out in time. we might not even have a landfall until saturday. and this forecast model as you can see that cone gets wider. sunday an...

Couple days ago. >> yeah, with a turn to the south, looking at this cone, we expect this hurricane to be somewhere in this cane. thats what were telling people. this could change. even the impact. people concentrate on the impacts when it comes with the rain. even if youre on the edge, you get a small shift, these high values can move. well inland in different directions. so any given times, the impacts can change. all of a sudden your impacts change on the ground. >> theres a lot of decisivenes...

What happens next? well, one of these models, the gfs, they move the same direction. the gfc weakens quicker. the euro stays down the coast and beginning to move inland. the euro one has been very popular in recent months. the gfc is often right also. so as weve seen these move, shep, thats when weve seen the cone track with these. its been pulling all of our suggestions to think okay, maybe this is more of a problem for georgia. >> shepard: if you could show us where it is now and what the thin...

>> well, shep, this storm is big, wide and vicious. we know you mentioned earlier the cone of uncertainty. we know this thing is coming ashore. were hunkering down and getting ready. i want to continue to tell all north carolinians, if youre on the coast, theres still time to get to safety. no possession is worth your life. im also telling people, too, that yesterday on 9-11, we honored our first responders. if you stay on one of these barrier islands in north carolina, not only are you putting ...

Quickly went to make mention we have an area of low pressure that could develop and bring rain along the coast of texas, this is separate from florence, several systems we are watching but the bottom line is we are uncertain. we are uncertain thursday and friday what happens. that cone of uncertainty getting wider. bottom line north carolina, south carolina, georgia. if it stalls this is going to be a prolonged impact along the coast. >> remember harvey when it stalls. rob: if it stalls over the...