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Into charleston. savanna 5.7 feet higher than average. charleston, 4.7 feet above high tide values. that is a significant concern, life threatening concern for that area. that is something to be something that people need to take seriously as we go forward in time. look at the amount of rainfall being produced from this storm. our computer models doing a great job depicting that dark shading of purple and shades of white thats approaching the upper echelon of our scale. 20 inches of rain availab...

Ago by a spanish admiral. the oldest american city they like to call it. what they had here was an eight foot storm surge. where im standing now, the water was up around mid calf let me it is a now gone, its gron the main part of the city as well. which is good news. but when the storm surge was on its way the mayor here put out an evacuation order for the 13,5,000 citizens. only half of them acknowledged it. they had to go through the flooding. they were stuck quite a while. the city was closed...

Its northerly direction we do anticipate a land falling hurricane -- remember, that is defined and characterized by the national hurricane center as the eye wall actually traversing across lands. that actually hasnt happened just yet. you can see we are referee three to six hours away from a land falling hurricane in southern sections of south carolina. specifically hillton head and into the booford region. heres charleston and mount pleasant. remember they had significant flooding a year from j...

And that is to make sure that no one takes advantage of all of these empty homes and is looting. so first responders will return to the street once its safe, so that is a big concern and something they have been thinking about, but otherwise, wands of rain have been coming but here. >> stephanie, thank you so much. brian todd, youre in charleston, which is a beautiful historic city in the u.s. which also happens to get some flooding problems and a heavy shower of rain let alone a hurricane. >> r...

Head island, just north of savannah. and again, the storm surge threat very high across the charleston region where flash flood warnings increase across the state. and attethe big threat here, st surge, also flooding. look at our computer models depicting anywhere between ten and 20 inches of rainfall in an already very wet environment. you know what that means michael when we start to have a saturated ground like this and get hurricane-force winds it will be easy to topple over trees and electr...

South carolina, the eyewall buckled again, it may be about to fly off. so we have to be careful here. we talked to emergency management people here, all night long about evacuations. nearly 400,000 people got out of this area ahead of the storm, michael, but they say that really was not enough. as of about probably five hours ago they were telling people it was too late to evacuate. what they advised you to do was to get to the highest place in your residence or wherever you were staying. that i...

So the storm here really extends along the coast. you talk about storm surge at high tides here, a major concern, major cause of flooding. high tide in charleston harbor now approaching nine feet. the third highest on record, and the highest since hurricane hugo 27 years ago, michael, theyre expecting flooding and getting it about 95 miles from charleston, will it hug this area and head out to sea or will it make landfall? that will determine the extent of the damage and floodig here, michael. >...

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