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"new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning and welcome to your new day, friday, september 6th, 8:00 in the east. and this hurricane dorian is still causing so many problems for the united states. at this moment the eye wall of the storm, the most dangerous part you can see it there, hugging the north carolina coast over the outer banks. there is still a possibility it could make landfall. but even if it doesnt, there could be significant life threateni...

Power. we havent heard about any structural issues, anything coming down as far as buildings especially yesterday when they had that tornado that swept through this area. they had a lot of people worried about evacuating, a lot of people seemed to heed that warning. we were told by public safety official if it got too bad -- it seems right now the finally starting to slow down. the wind still howling and remember we had some gusts about 60 miles per hour. >> that is good news, ryan, but hang ont...

Carolina. north carolina. "new day" continues right now. all right. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day" and we have breaking weather news because hurricane dorian is coming closer to landfall. its now about 30 miles off the coast of north carolina. but coastal communities at this moment in the carolinas and virginia are already seeing that dangerous storm surge and life threatening flash flooding weve been warned about. the storm is n...

Wind damage. weve also seen downed power lines. you see the street lamp here in front of me. weve also seen swamped roadways from some of the surge and the flash flooding that took place throughout the day. its incredible, the businesses and homes down here took the storm very seriously. they took the opportunities to block their windows and sand bag the lower parts of their doors because they know that this is such a vulnerable coastal city it does flood quite regularly, but they are prepared f...

That toppled because of the storm but its good to know that this city, a very vulnerable coastal city takes this so seriously. they boarded up their homes, sand bagged, boarded up the lower portions of the building all to prevent the flash flooding that was in the forecast. there were some locations that were under water but the pumping system worked very well, very effectively and took out the water quickly. it receded throughout the overnight period. what youre seeing behind me, this quintesse...

Whered it headed? >> cape hath has as we speak. it is still possible coming within only a few small miles, less than ten mails really from around the morehead city area. but not a technical landfall there. its still moving to the northeast at 14 miles per hour. 90 mile-per-hour sustained winds with gusts over 100 miles per hour. the heaviest rain is just south of hatteras, but thats where theyre getting pummelled by the heavy rain bands. tornadoes also possible as some of those outer bands conti...

And the wind is coming directly out of the north, we are on the western side of the eye wall so these whitecaps are moving in a southerly direction towards open water and even though the tide is rising and is expected to reach full tied at 4:502 am a little while from now the water level is not rising as high as people expected because this water is being pushed into the atlantic ocean. that would change of the wind direction changes into the cape fear river but that appears not to be happening....

Fear, the strongest winds right there. one buoy reading into the 60s in wilmington, wind gusts of 53 miles an hour, 50 miles from the center of the storm. one of the problems is a lot of tornadoes. some of cause significant damage. we are going to see more of that overnight as this pinwheel, you see the stronger storms move in especially across the outer banks and then eastern parts of north carolina through the overnight hours. heavy rain is causing significant flash flooding. this is the futur...

Force windss in north carolina and virginia and we could see tropical storm force winds even across long island towards new england. there is the future radar saturday still dealing with potential for tropical storm force windss which extend 220 miles from the center of this storm. as we get into saturday and sunday the canadian maritime will have to deal with this system. greatest risk for flash flooding has been across the carolinas towards virginia, storm surge, 47 feet, low-lying areas. ther...

Rotation so tornadoes are a possibility, flash flooding obviously happening in parts of north carolina up towards virginia and that is the center of the storm, the worst of the storm surge and heavy rains will come from the northeast side of this so there are your flash flood warnings, impact for parts of south carolina up towards north carolina, even into virginia so we will continue to monitor it and let you know if there is a technical landfall. it doesnt matter. the effects are widespread al...