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This system has weakened. isolated tornadoes. still talking about damaging winds up to 60 miles an hour. large hail and the flooding issue that weve been saying. that is something that is going to linger today and tomorrow morning also. >> neil: thank you, adam. a lot of people, most people, would be running from tornadoes. my next guest runs at them. >> this is storm chaser aaron. im here in nebraska, a tornado on the ground here right now. i believe northeast of mccook. >> neil: pretty close t...

Rick, so much ahead. >> yeah, there is, shepard. i thought it was an interesting comparison, south carolinas governor made between hugo and florence. i was in charleston when hugo hit. it was a beast, a category four. it slammed charleston and moved out quickly. the governor is saying that this is a very different situation. florence hit and its lingered for a very long time and the rain continues to fall to the north of the river, swollen rivers flowing to the south. some of them have not crest...

The wind and the rain continuing in myrtle beach, south carolina. we know this tropical storm is not going anywhere, only moving at about 2 miles per hour. i want to bring in the mayor of myrtle beach. this has picked up, the ocean is a lot rougher than what we saw yesterday. myrtle beach so far has fared fairly well but whats your concern now? >> the current concerns are people dont realize were going to get some more weather today with this tropical storm. we still have a storm warning. and hi...

Other models to declare a mandatory evacuation and we put that in place or the county did, which we really appreciate and from there immediately folks started evacuating. we asked them to go east of i95 to get out of harms way. this storm was bigger than hurricane hugo if anybody remembers that. many people heeded that advice. some folks that lived around new burn for 20 and 30 years and have not witnessed a hurricane of this magnitude did not leave. neil: so the flooding issue, that will still ...

We didnt get to see thankfully the harsh hurricane force winds north carolina has, all of the trees that were toppled there, the major flooding in the new bern area. we havent seen it in myrtle beach yet, but because it is a slow moving storm, the concern here is the next couple of days. >> gabe gutierrez, were going to take our cue from you and head north to migel almaguer. i know tragedy has struck there. there have been fatalities in wilmington. lets update how things are there. >> reporter: ...

Several hurricanes, matthew laster, did not come close. take a look right here this is what -- this car may have stopped, thats a good idea. you can see how much water is in this intersection. this is margaret and riverside avenue. to the left a little bit, you can see a lot of water over there in the st. johns rushing through, and up through margaret. and then if we pan to the right, we will look down to the right area, you will see a publics in the distance, and really a river at this point. o...

Last several hours, certainly during irma itself, was the fact that the river was so low. now weve seen so much of the water pour back in, almost to normal levels. people we talked to today would say this would normal look like. the issue with the big concern, any type of storm surge coming back into this area. when you look at st. pete or tampa and you think about -- its a mini microcosm of almost what the peninsula of florida itself is like in terms of coastal communities, but when you think c...

Roofs. you know, the other problem, of course, is the flooding not from that storm surge which is going to be the big legacy along that coastline once were able to get out of this storm and see it, but the wind damage, the first part of the one-two punch that was dealt here. the wind damage has been catastrophic. its just smashed everything in this area that we see and, oven, the flooding in -- of course, the flooding and the lakes rising, we have at least i would say a foot in the lake around u...

Impact of that storm if that eye continue to wobble in that direction. if theres anything we can hope for here, and truly, theres not a lot of hope for the west coast of florida to avoid the storm, but if theres anything and people to belief in the power of positive thinking, getting that storm to wobble a little bit into the everglades would be the best thing for the operation north of th population north of the storm. >> theres the physical absorbing because there are trees and because theres ...

The anticipation for this storm, hurricane harvey, experts predict this may be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before. john? >> all right. nick val entity for us in corp. russ christie. get out and listen to emergency officials. now in san antonio where some people are heading. the even though san antonio is is inland will not be spared. >> reporter: right. many of those evac eukeys are making their way like austin or here in san antonio, the threat is far from over. once they arri...