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Island, no tower here, no satellite dish, no cell phone communication some hats off to the team here. this hurricane has not gone awa away. little by little, we are watching it actively destroyed, bits and pieces coming off. you heard about the water in the surge, thats exactly what were seeing it now there was a 15-foot piece there, thats gone now. the water has come over the main road and now its taking the river here. the damage from this flooding is going to be really something.

Man here there. thats highway 7, utility truck just looking at that downed power line, 1 of hundreds that are out here and thats takes you all the way to raleigh. thats how i got here coming down from raleigh coming through the inland areas that are suffering the flooding. but here we had a little bit of a low, saw a handful of people coming out to assess their damage as we drove along atlantic beach, we went in the oceana peer, a peer belt by the mayor over there, totally destroyed, the end of ...

40 inches of rain by the time this is done. now, i believe we have the south carolina governor now giving a report. lets go to him and hear what he has to say. >> across portions of the p.d. and catawba river basins this weekend and persisting through next week. given the threat for flash flooding and eventual river flooding, its important to be prepared to seek higher ground if you live in low lying or flood prone location. never drive across water covered roadways which is the main cause of fr...

When you get into mountainous terrain the water rapidly goes down and that creates a lot of flash flooding and eventually becomes slower moving, gigantic river flooding problems are her here. >> shepard: rick, i cant thank you enough. i want to show you some live pictures, this is jacksonville, north carolina. steve harrigan was in north topsail beach right along the coastline. if you were to go a mile or so inland, you follow along the new river, slightly and lend along the new river is the tow...

Because of the flooding caused by the rivers. those four rivers, the newport river, pamilco river, trent river all coming down with water it cannot hold because its pressing in some places in unprecedented levels coming down here. while this water, then, continues to just pound us and bill was saying the northeast quad rant -- the wind has not changed direction since 2:00 this morning when i started going live. it is coming straight through here because we are parallel to atlantic beach, a barri...

And he joins us now. >> it might make landfall a couple of times, kind of bouncing along the coast. we cannot save that precision, maybe ten, 20 miles one way or the other. we do not have that just yet. but the satellite image, the storm very close, just south of the outer banks. at the center of it, crossing 160-mile path right there and tropical storm force winds, about 40 miles an hour and above, 400 miles across. a really large storm that is -- going to impact so many people. we see little t...

Tammy leitner. down in myrtle beach. >> yeah, yeah. >> oh, you are still with us. okay. >> yes, sorry, brian. i didnt know you were still talking to me. thats right. 70 miles per hour, youre right. thats when they to lose their ability to stand up. thats what i think a lot of people dont realize. the people that are staying here, they havent realized that even though this storm has been downgraded to a one, it is no less dangerous. really, the danger will come not only once the storm comes throu...

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Thats why we always care about that and we still have a tornado watch going throughout the night. we are still holding to the numbers. we will wait and see what the morning high tide looks like. we probably will get the landfall somewhere 8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., somewhere in that window. as it is making landfall, the backside winds will be pumping the water towards the beach from wrightsville beach up to cape lookout, the emerald isle area, winslow county. we will just deal from there, brian, wit...

Landfall early tomorrow morning. by 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon what a slow crawl, walk, jog drift it will be. and then it will rain itself out as we go throughout the upcoming weekend. the things that are the most threatening to life is the water. surge is number one. then the rainfall, flash flooding and river flooding is number two. this is whats happening now. were heading towards high tide. the high tide is going to be here between 11:00 p.m. and midnight in the zone of greatest concern from...