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Hurricane as far as attention spans go, you brace for it and if you weather the storm and the winds dont destroy your house and it moves out, the sun comes up and you come back and inspect your property. the frustrating thing about this slow-moving storm is authorities are not going to let people back into these areas until they determine things are safe. they need to allow power crews and others to assess whether there are downed power lines, how much debris there is on the road and they cant s...

Officially arrived when the storm arrived. that water is in and cant get out. thats where we will be watching west of myrtle beach. offshore flow the water was pushing away from the town, excuse me. [coughing] for the better part of all of yesterday and last night. you will see when the tide comes up. that water pushing overall you see that deep oranges color. moisture going to fall on areas already seen over 20 inches. we have some spots almost at 24 inches at last recording. just over 24 inche...

It was storm surge. now as the storm begins its move inland the concern is heavy rains. rains in lens could cause flash flooding. the ground is saturated. many areas not used to handling this much rain over a long time. this is an unusually slow moving storm system. we are not in the clear just yet. connell: we are looking at video. even if you were allowed to get around the island would you be able to? that floodwater may be subsided but maybe not. streets around you could be fairly flooded out...

Traveled about 100 miles. it is going 3 to 5 miles an hour. you talk about how slow-moving it is, how much rain has fallen, that will be a significant issue, and the flooding, flash flooding, and -- connell: the fifth district headquarters in portsmouth, virginia, lieutenant amanda falconer, thank you for coming on. lets us know what you think for the next few days. >> the next couple days, focused on life-saving operations for the coast guard. waiting for the storm to subside so we can get out,...

All areas radar indicated 25 inches, that rain is going to continue and here is what that looks like, some bands of rain and lighter areas but everything highlighted in red, those are flash flood warnings, still in place. the ground is so saturated and there is still a lot of moisture coming in off the coast. the concern moving forward as we talk about yes it will rain more through the course of the day, but concerned going past that is even as this rain begins to push off the water has to go so...

If you look in either direction from me its still very dark. that will change as the sun comes up allowing officials to continue assessing the damage. but, for now, they are keeping residents and visitors off the island, not allowing them to return just yet until they determine that its safe to do. so back to you guys. ed: we appreciate it now go to meteorologist rick reichmuth who is tracking florence as it slowly crawls its ways across the carolinas. what are we seeing as people wake up across...

Feet over high tide. we watched the water covering the main road. we got in the vehicle to get out of there. our vehicle wound up in pretty deep water as the intercoastal met that community. and they did suffer some significant flooding but the mayor has told us that the damages were pretty minimal but travel there was very treacherous for a while. its a good thing that pretty much everyone heeded the mandatory evacuation order and got out. it was a rough night. the house was rocking. we didnt k...

Threat for not only flooding, but we could see some weak tornados. so a tornado threat will be existing throughout the afternoon and the evening and we had a couple of tornado warned storms around the jacksonville area because these outer bands scrape across land and they interact with land and weve got winds coming from different directions in the upper levels of the atmosphere, thats why we see the weak rotation and the threat for weak tornados. so, not only that, the threat for that, but seve...

Records like this before, this is the northeast cape fear area and 23 feet expected to be 25 feet and its really the same across the board in all of the rivers expecting crest that they have never seen before over in next couple of days, flash flooding, i mean, we have seen flash flood warnings in these areas for 12 to 24 hours it is just a slow-moving disaster for parts of these areas and unfortunately its going to kind of remain stationary over the next 6 to 12 hours, finally, we will start to...

Interruption by unnecessary travel. as flood waters continue to rise, residents are encouraged do not become complacent. as previously noted by the governor and secretary -- arthel: we are listening to state officials there in north carolina updating the nation on the continuing efforts to not only recover rescue people who stayed behind but reminding everybody that flash flooding is still the most eminent danger that is presenting itself to those folks still in harms way by the way so we will k...