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E best part? the prequel is pretty sweet too. ♪ ♪ >> the news continues. attended over to laura coates who is filling in for don lemon tonight. laura? >> nice to see you, john. great coverage on the hurricane. so important to have your perspective on the ground. we are here tonight. this is don lemon tonight, i am laura coats in for don lemon. ian is no longer a hurricane tonight. thats true. its been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. doesnt sound that much better, does it? the danger f...

Florida is so flat that water doesnt have any gravity, really, to pull it down like you would see flash flooding in mountains. this is going to be a slower flooding situation as the water has to drain off of the flat area of florida. all right, here is where ian is now, heavy rain moving in across parts of marthas vineyard and nantucket, cape cod, southern parts of new england seeing the rain and then back across areas of west virginia. were going to see, put this in kind after future track. wat...

Includes charlotte to greenville to myrtle beach and also charleston. were gonna watch that very closely as we see that tomorrow. heres your severe weather threat on top of the storm surge, and flash flooding, we do have a risk of tornadoes, and winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour and even up to 87 i saw on some spots. south carolina has a lot of trees, they can come down quickly, if the ground is saturated. so were concerned about more power outages. but notice the severe weather warning goes...

Gov. Henry McMaster previously declared a state of emergency ahead of the powerful storm.

With the heavy rainfall. people need to be in their safe place now, and sort of ride out the worst of the storm thats going to occur in the next 12 to 24 hours. >> michael, as you look at the next 12 to 24 hours, we saw some of our forecasts earlier this morning. the rain bands extending all the way up into the northeast which speaks to the size of this storm. who else should be thinking about sort of nasty weather coming their way. >> yeah, i mean, you know, theres going to be sort of a separat...

Water starts to rise later today. we have elevated water levels into north florida. a sort of widespread inundation event across much of the southeast coast, and then the rainfall threat is going to extend inland into charlotte, raleigh, greensboro, all the way up into southern virginia. this is the risk of flash flooding from today, tonight, and early saturday morning. we could see widespread flash flooding across central carolina and southern virginia. >> as we talk about places like savannah,...

Look what you guys are standing in front of. were not talking a catastrophic landfall. were talking about a hurricane. those are life threatening. so we have storm surge to worry about. we have winds that are going to knock down trees that could be on people, houses, cars. and then the flash flooding. flash flooding kills more people in the year than anything else. more than hurricanes. so thats going to be the concern. so the storm right now is only about 100 miles off the south carolina coast....

Be. four to eight inches of rainfall could make that flash flooding, water going down the rivers and trying to go up the rivers. the southside of the eye was the worst part. but the north side is the worst now. something else that i am watching, i am watching the lightning. the more lightning that we get. it cinis intensifying. for a while there were 41 strikes just in ten minutes meaning some of the storm is trying to intensify. we are not going to get rapid intensification likely.

Necessary precautions. thats the real danger. we have is human error. >> and while it is now moved away from florida, the deadly threat from flash flooding and heavy rain remains. the full extent of damage caused by hurricane it will not be known for days, if not weeks, but when describing the devastation, officials and for that have repeatedly used words like historic, and catastrophic. here is cnns ryan young. >> look at this mess! >> more than 2 million people still without power after it lef...

Country of the carolinas there. >> n it moves up into the mountains and of course, tropical moisture and the mountains. >> a terribl are e combination. >> heres what the rainorecas forecast is . so whet n his first rain to second and this corridor of rain going up to at leastof the winston-salem area, if not up ints ofo the mountains of noh carolina, is going to be a significant flash flood threat.h the national weather serviceer has identified this region as very likely to have flash flooding i...