Eye Wind News Today

The pressure is still very low. it just doesnt have more than a category one wind in the eye. thats the only difference between this storm and a category three is the eye wind. everything else is exactly the same. wilmington, north carolina normal to date. you should have 42 inches. right now you are up to 63. that is so much water in the room. you have the trees coming down, the roofs that are wet. so we have 17 moderate stage floods and 14 major floods going on right now and obviously its stil...

Boats can get to them. again, we cant see it anymore here, anderson, what heroes these people are. the wind is strong and the rain is coming down, which means the water is continuing to rise. we have had at least seven inches of rain fall in the new bern area and a storm surge of 10 feet as the water just keeping coming down and rising up. now, they are going around the entire county and doing this at one point in new bern. this morning they had more than 150 people who needed rescuing. now, the...

Storm rotates and moves southwest by west, by the time it gets here, you will have another high tide, and it will have the wind working with it that time. you will have surge, tidal action and wind coming together. they added five feet of sand to this beach not many weeks ago and it is already having a hard time dealing with high tide without any storm conditions, so well see. jacksonville has seen very dramatic activity throughout the morning. ed, tell us, what have the people there had to live...

Little rubber boats with winds blowing 60 miles an hour. it is nice to see that has calmed down a little bit for the people that were there. so wilmington airport, a brand-new record for you, 105 miles an hour. looking at you compared to where we were looking at with john berman, it is like you are either in two different spots or he was outside and you are inside because it has changed significantly because the eye has gone down. all morning long where john was the wind was blowing offshore, do...

Everybody else to get a sense of what we should be anticipating. chad, what are you seeing in. >> what you are going to see depends on where you are, north of the storm or south of the storm. what im seeing right now is that the center is right over carolina beach. if there is an eye and it still appears that there is an eye with the storm, it would be directly over carolina beach. earlier today when john berman was getting so wet, it was here. it has been traveling toward the south and toward t...

Much of these next few days. the mayor of wilmington told our colleague they have had already about 100 calls for rescues, and they are trying to get to as many people as possible. but these are the kind of conditions that people will be navigating. a lot of standing water, rushing water on these streets. you dont know how deep it is. this is what causes injury and deaths in these situations, in the hurricanes. it is water on the streets. >> all right. brian todds shot is taking trouble because ...

Lying area. thats a recipe for treacherous and dangerous situations. as this storm continues to batter away, we will continue to see that as well. chris? >> all right, ed. stay safe. stay in my ear. let me know when you want me to come back to you with a change of development. just so you can understand what ed is talking about, we will go to brian todd. but as we do, put up the sat hide picture. ed is talking to you about the north side of the storm. you will see it. it is the topside as you lo...

Out in conditions far worse than what were seeing here where the storm is yet to come. they went out. they made the rescues. the calls had been early and often from people who got caught by this storm. and, remember, it is not a four, six or nine hour event. it will be days of downpour. all right? again, that number 430,000 customers without power. here in south carolina, north myrtle beach, this is where florence is coming. throughout the day conditions will be deteriorating. what are we seeing...