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Morning. power outage is a major part of the story here in wilmington. tens of thousands are without power if north carolina right now. more than 325,000 are without power. weve actually lost power here in our hotel as well the winds, 70, 75 miles an hour the rains are relenting. expected to continue for several hours, flash flooding very much a real concern here in wilmington, north carolina, specifically. thats the very latest. well send it back to you. >> craig melvin, pretty incredible stuff...

We must emphasize, for your own safety, do not drive where water covers the roadways. and increase sunday into monday further inland. always remember, turn around, dont drown. concern beyond that continues with the track as it moves into the appalachians sunday into monday. and also into the middleic region over next week. due to the rainfall weve had, it will not take that much rainfall for additional flash flooding to occur in these areas. 1 to 3 inches in a couple hours will lead to flash flo...

Were talking about flash flooding and even mud slides at times so very dangerous, not just a coastal event but well inland. >> lets talk about that because we know the coast is going to get the worst of it, but should the inland areas of the carolinas be as concerned about flooding right now? >> yeah, absolutely with time because we talk about this forecast and weve been advertising how slow this is. weve been talking about the latest forecast here. if you follow it with time. right here is 2:00...

Will you be conducting rescues during the actual storm, or do you have to wait until the worst of the hurricane passes? >> well, that all depends, wolf, and if need be, we will do our best to make that assessment. during a storm, some levels of the storm, we would be able to try to do that, but given its current condition, that would be highly unlikely. if it continues to decrease possib possibly. we would have to make that risk assessment at that time. >> will this be a long-term rescue operati...

System because its so large you get the onshore flow well north, 6 to 9 feet, 4 to 6 right up the coast. the longer the winds are there, the further inland we can push the water. miles inland at sometimes, wolf. >> were talking about that. the storm is moving so extremely slowly so flooding could really become a huge, huge problem. could rainfall totals approach what we saw with hurricane harvey last year? >> we look at the rainfall totals and weve been updating that forecast. the weather predic...

Youve got to be safe out there. watch out for the water, and i want to talk about this statistic because its important. 90% of the fatalities and tropical systems it comes from the water. half of those are storm surge and another 25% is the inland rain. the message is in the only for the coast but for everybody inland, just be in a safe place because the rainfall could cause flash flooding and be very dangerous. >> as you know its now a category 2 storm, this hurricane. a lot of people say its n...

Northeast south carolina and along the coast as well. so you have a very large domain that will be affected by the storm surge. 7 to 11 feet, and -- and that surge will move up the rivers as well. so its going to cover a very large area in eastern carolina. >> do you have any advice for people who decided against evacuating? >> my advice is dont let your guard down. this is going to be a dangerous storm. its going to be a long storm for the inland areas, a prolonged period of rain through the re...

Much on the impacts. we have to listen to those and not necessarily pay attention to the category. >> so how long do you think the folks over there in the carolinas will be dealing with the impact of this hurricane? >> its going to be a while, wolf. go back to this forecast. think about this. i mean, youre looking at -- this is saturday afternoon. still a storm, so youre still going to have the battering winds circling around this system, so youre still going to have onshore flow. i do want to m...

Exposed to it who may or may not have made plans to leave. then you have duration. when youre looking at a storm and its potential consequences. what does it mean when you up duration effect? having a stalled storm moving slowly, staying in one place? what are the additional factors? >> well much like with harvey, a lot of flash flooding and sometimes thats -- sometimes thats not fully anticipated by people on the ground. i would advise them to keep checking hurricane.gov, thats the national hur...

They are still trying to assess all of that as the storm has been just been coming ashore here over the last few hours, wolf, so that can very quickly change. but intensity of the winds are much more sustained than weve seen at any point throughout the day today. wolf? >> all right, ed. thank you. be careful over there. i ed lavandera reporting. lets move south and west down the coast. cnn national correspondent miguel marquez is at a beach in north carolina. what are you seeing? >> reporter: ye...