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As far as rainfall, possibly 40 inches or more, especially in eastern north carolina and northeastern south carolina. in addition to all of that, theres also a tornado watch in effect for eastern north carolina today and tomorrow. the next advisory from the national hurricane center will issued at 11:00 eastern time. >> i just like to take an opportunity to emphasize that the expanse of this storm. so the tropical storm force winds extend out 200 miles and the hurricane force winds extend out 80...

. i want to go to ken graham, hes the director of the national hurricane center. you have just come out with a new forecast a few minutes ago. again, the winds are a little less, but 105 miles per hour is not something most people have ever stood in or experienced. these are vicious, damaging winds, and the rain is still there. >> >> 105 miles an hour, it changes nothing in the impacts of this system because if you think about it, those -- the categories thats just about the wind. nothing has ch...

Holiday places where people stay. most of myrtle beach is shut down right now, but there is still some people who havent left. you bring up an interesting point. we have heard from city manager and mayor and emergency response people over and over that once these sustained winds hit 40 to 50 miles an hour, they cant even come out. if you call 911 or you decided you want to leave, you may not be able to do so, and yet, where you are mariana, some people are still staying. >> reporter: exactly, an...

Start cleaning u the roads, getting the power back on, making sure the roads are passable. the last thing we need is for people to be sightseeing, driving around town. i know theyre going to want to come back into the area since theyve left their homes just to see how their homes fared during the hurricane. we caution them to please make sure you contact the highway patrol to make sure those roadways, especially interstate 40, is open. because we know this is going to produce a lot of inland flo...

Get back with the inland flooding. you know, its a decision that for a lot of folks its hard to make but we just cant do that. we just cant do that. >> thank you, sherry. i just spoke to the mayor. she said you still have time to get out today. >> well be right here. were going to ride it out. >> thank you, and be safe please. so people determined to stay as you heard. but the mayor really tell megin do not be fooled by the fact the storm is a category 2. it is the flooding and the storm subje s...

Inland winds as this storm starts to come in and push into the coast. coupled with that is copious amounts of rainfall. as the systems pulling a lot of moisture out of the ocean. youre already seeing rain bands come along the carolina shoreline. and unfortunately, these rain bands are going to be with us for several days. were going to, you know, the forecasters are basically indicating feet of rain, not inches, in portions of the carolinas and into virginia. so this is a very dangerous storm. i...

Is disasters are getting bigger. part of it is the storms are producing more rain and are more intense, so we have two problems here. were growing our risk too fast, and the storms are getting worst and trying to build systems big enough, thats the challenge, and as we saw last year, three back to back hurricanes, you started running out of people and stuff very early in that response, and thats a big challenge to overcome. >> reporter: all right, whats your sense of, you know, for people who ha...

The main concern around here, just to put this into perspective is when this high tide comes in, thats when were going to see quite a bit of storm surge, and the storm surge lec -- levels are expected to be unprecedent unprecedented. the worst one that everybody always talks about is hurricane hazel in the 1950s. that one got as high as about 6.94 feet. this one is expected to bring a storm surge of about 7, 7 1/2 feet. its not a question of whether were going to see flooding or whether were goi...

Past, go to redcross.org. thank you, again. next up we have our partners with the army corps of engineers, mr. ray alexander. >> thank you, administrator long, good morning. the army corps of engineers is prepared and ready to respond to hurricane florence working with our federal family members and state and local partners. to date, we have over 200 personnel. >> please, heed this reminder. it is not the wind, it is the water. the storm surge could cause massive flooding. could reach as high as...

People time to move to higher ground, and this will be an impact well inland. were not just talking about the coast. were talking about wherever the storm ends up, its going to have heavy rainfall, again, comparisons to what we saw in harvey, going back in the history of the carolinas, most recently hurricane floyd. again, theyre forecasting record setting flash flooding exceeding those events in many parts of the carolinas. >> reporter: craig, you were the head of fema. you were also -- you hea...