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In very quick. well above your average levels and goes away a little bit but it will come back and along with the rain and surge, thats our problem. we are probably, i would say, about 30 or 40% of the way done with the storm second quarter. a long ways to go with the rain that is going to continue to fall. if you take a look at rain thats going to fall through saturday, here did you go. right here the worst of it right along the coast line and you might be thinking over here across the interior...

>> shepard: hurricane florence continues to turn to the south and west on a line coming south from wilmington. of the eye of the storm has passed wilmington, the next thing south of there is carolina beach is a heads outback over the ocean and jeff flock in the middle of the worst of it there from the fox business network, windy and wet. >> no kidding. we did get the eye, we had almost an hour, almost had sunshine that we actually got in the eye. thats where it came in the eye just north of us, ...

Flooding, which is to be expected. we were prepared for a category 4 and overprepared for this and ready to respond as soon as the winds die down. it is still windy out there and strong. the eye is closing in a little bit. we hope for a little reprieve. i dont know if well get it. >> bill: okay. on the map now if were in downtown wilmington, where are you from us? >> just down the cape fear river right before you get to the atlantic ocean. the confluence of the cape fear winter, intercoastal wat...

Storm first impacted us well over 24 hours ago. very heavy rain falling here and many indicators that we have seen between 15 and 20 inches of rain fall already from the storm. the highest rainfall total that we have ever seen in north carolina from a tropical storm was just over 24 inches. were already likely at about 20 inches in some spots and its going to go up a lot from here. all of these red polygons, these red lines here those are all areas in north carolina that are currently dealing wi...

Sustained winds. the eye is on shore. the back of the storm is about to also make its way onshore. you can see in the yellows and reds is where we have the really strong core of winds that still maintaining its strength. still staying together. bill hemmer got a wind gust earlier of 105 miles per hour. were about 76 in wilmington. some reporting 69, 70 miles an hour and new bern and jacksonville were not reporting because the stations are down. here are some of the peak wind gusts weve gotten fr...

Flash flooding. this is something we need to be careful about looking into the future into the weekend. and ive been saying it over and over, not just an issue along the coast. we can see the dangerous flash flooding inland with time. were continuing to watch this. the dangers of water and the dangers of wind. the longer we keep the wind on the saturated soil the more trees we can knock down and more power outages. ken graham at the national hurricane center with the latest on hurricane florence...

Many as three million of the four million customers without power. not just for a day or two but some could go for as long as a week. the importance of this time to prepare cannot be overemphasized. >> sandra: senator, i know that you were just on social media retweeting to your residents who follow you. areas far from the coast are also a risk of severe flooding and a very important point as we talk about the coastal areas as this storm moves inland, so many more are in danger. >> one of the th...

Could get higher rainfall totals. when that happens, you really couple that on the terrain, the mountains and hills some of these totals could be higher depending on where floods set up. flash flooding and mud slides. something we have to continue to watch through the weekend and early next week with the river flooding that could last a week even after florence. this has been ken graham here at the national hurricane center. right here in our operations area. >> shepard: ken, cant thank you enou...

During the night to tear that pier down. remember, you had where i was earlier today on the sound side a giant bay of water. of course, the flooding from the back side of atlantic beach as we drove over the bridge we saw yards normally a foot or two above water where boats are, theyre underwater. >> sandra: kris jenkins on the ground in atlantic beach, north carolina where the storm continues to move inland right now. a category 1 storm made landfall this morning. well go back to wilmington, nor...

The northeast side. morehead city, wilmington will get the back side. flash flood watches and warnings posted in north carolina and south carolina where we think the storm will track next and the potential for tornado because of the counter clockwise motion with these landfalling hurricanes and interaction with the upper level winds and wind-shear. we have the threat of tornadoes that could cause damage. were getting information from jacksonville, north carolina. because the storm is moving so s...