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71 in new bern. we will not see a quick-moving hurricane. we will see hurricane force winds to at least 24 hours in some spots, maybe even up to 36, so we will see a lot of damage. we are seeing power outages already. a lot of dark skies out there, a lot of dark houses if you didnt heed the warning. where you see near 100%, we expect it on the coast, on the edge of south carolina and north carolina so myrtle beach and wilmington. this has been a water story from the beginning. we keep mentioning...

Weve got enough food and water to last at least a week and a half. weve taped up our windows and have all of our devices charged. we have extra external battery packs and plenty of board games and cards for the kids to play. >> all right. i think thats a situation where you hope for the best but you have to prepare for the worst. you want to evacuate and heed any warning thats out there because we are already starting the see life-threatening situations, flash flooding and some storm surges. we ...

Myrtle beach, and then the wilmington area would be on the back side of the eye with the winds coming off the water with tremendous strong winds and torrential rain. our friends to the north who have been suffering all day long from the heavy rain and worst flooding so far from areas around new bern and carteret county here still in the heavy rain bans. thats at 7:00 p.m. this evening as the sun is setting. it gives you a general idea of what were dealing with with the storm there. as far as the...

From earlier tonight. our own correspondent gadi schwartz was out in some of those high winds and heavy rain action on radio island, north carolina. >> reporter: it is treacherous out here. as bad as it looks right here, we have actually moved locations. i am using a building as a wind block. right over there where you see the light hitting, it is extremely windy there. we are talking about wind gusts well above what we were seeing earlier, which is about 60, 70 miles per hour. this is an area t...

Isolated amounts of 40 inches of rain. we will be measuring rain in feet. lets take a look at the storm surge heights. this is a big story of the storm. anywhere from two to four feet, up to 9 to 13 feet. you add in the high tides and well increase that wall further. saturday by 12:03, we have one on friday as well. we will have this wedge from cape lookout to cape fear, thats where we expect the biggest storm surge, so from 7 to 11-foot surge from cape fear. we will continue to watch it over th...

To get rain or do they have to worry about flooding? >> columbia is going to have to worry. we have charlotte as it makes its way up. you see heavier rainfall amounts. raleigh is right on the three-to-five-inch rain and some areas could overproduce and end up towards the seven-inch range. i think we will have windy conditions. we will have heavy rain. as you know, ali, this area has already been saturated and inundated so theres nowhere for a lot of the rain to go. so i wouldnt be surprised to s...

Thats what kills people, thats where the fatalities come, from the water. it is not people standing out in the wind and necessarily getting hit with some flying debris, although, of course, that does happen. the main thing is the wind -- is the water, and in this case we are looking at a potentially deadly storm surge. what can you tell us? >> yeah, youre right. we just got a 2:00 advisory. we are already witnessing life-threatening flash flooding, life-threatening storm surges. we think of hurr...

Able the release it, so it is still staying high. that water level should be even higher at the next high tide throughout the morning hours. thats kind of some of the stories we are watching there. we have avoided a lot of the horrendous surge problems. remember we were saying seven to 13 feet and the hurricane center went down to seven to 11 feet. we havent seen those values yet. the surge in areas where it broke the gauge is right to the four to five-foot range. again, this is the fatalities, ...

Sea and come back in for a second landfall and that is a bad situation. >> yes, that is what the forecast is concerned about, the over and over again, the national hurricane center has been talking about the life threatening storm surge and life threatening catastrophic flash flooding from the heavy rains. the slow movement is verifying the forecast and that is why it is so criticalle for people if you are safe on high ground, stay inside. if you need to move, it is late. again, that -- what we ...

You this, this is the huge problem. this is the storm. look at this feeder band. this bright yellow. is heavy rain. look at it just tracking, coming all the way up, right into eastern carolina. this is the area thats already had horrendous flooding from the new bern area, on the noos river. that area is locked in to this heavy band of rain. we call it training. when we get situations like this, the flash flooding concerns really kick in quickly. >> yes, ive got to talk to somebody whos trapped i...