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Now we go to morehead city, correspondent leland vittert, who has been right out of the middle of the storm. ready using tonight? actually morning as we had past midnight. >> almost hour 12 of deteriorating conditions by our six, which he would classify as hurricane-like conditions. normally we would be done with the worst part of the storm but in fact, the worst part is just beginning. this is probably the strongest rain and wind we have seen for most of the night. its having a bad combination ...

Up, the rain has picked up as well. the storm surge is going to keep moving in, even though the tide is moving out. we are also starting to see this dock lift off. eventually these dock sections will almost certainly break off and then they become floating barges of destruction to make their way into this town. power was gone a long time ago. also fire and internet, and the police say it is simply too dangerous to head out. if they did not evacuate, they are essentially on their own. picking up ...

Are you able to get a sense and talk about the out for the water has come up? >> certainly it has come up, i dont know, 10 feet or so where it was about 6:00. its hard to tell how much of that as the tide and how much of that is the storm surge. definitely over on atlantic beach, we were seeing big storm surges as well. hard to quantify any one number to it. given the fact that all the power is out, its impossible for us with any kind of lighting to cut through this and sort of see what is happe...