potential, those two particularly will be the story for hurricanes lawrence. it will be a lingering storm that will exacerbate both of those. the storm surge will go through two high tide cycles, that is not good news for those beaches along the coast there. we have seen it happen before with many other storms, sometimes a storm like hazel, you mention, racing and went back in 54. very different from florence s slow path. shannon: what does it take to rebuild? we have a few days of this rain and flooding we expect all through both the states, further inland and just its impact on the coast. what does it take? what kind of timeline and how do people put things back together? unfortunately in north carolina, we have been busy with hurricanes the last couple of decades. we ve had hurricanes ran in 96, floyd in 99, isabel, and a lot of similarities with the storms that are much stronger at sea and as they approached the
but we have heard some explosions reported, transformers that blue, and whether they got a call or not, i m not sure. they were on the road, still patrolling at the very least, and things have gotten very, very rough out here in the last couple of hours. they are on the job, and they have a very tough time ahead of them once the storm blows through, as you ve been reporting, the floods will follow. rescue most likely will be next. wrightsville beach did not have good luck with storms and starting with f. they had fran back in 1996, a couple with another hurricane that took out their fishing pier and then floyd in 99 did significant damage along the carolina coast and a lot of flooding. now they are worried that florence could do the very same thing, shannon. shannon: you mentioned seeing the folks out there come the first responders, we ve heard reports in many places
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. we ve 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. that s the very latest. we ll send it back to you. craig melvin, pretty incredible stuff. it can look like that in wilmington all day, through this evening, this is the river forecast for the cape fear river. this is going to go two feet above flood stage. then we re going to continue it above flood stages above the record set with floyd in fine, which we thought we would never top. this would be water levels through tuesday and wednesday
estimate, the initial death toll which had initially been indicated at 64 fp now approaching 3,000. the president saying it was incredibly successful, he would go on to say it was one of the best jobs ever done. which was sort of a remarkable recasting of an event that all americans would agree was insufficient in terms of the response, given the death toll being that high. we heard from the president speaking in anticipation of this new storm, it s going to be something like we ve never seen before. when brock long indicated, this would be similar to storms like floyd and hugo, that hit several decades ago. the bottom line, though, this white house is trying its best to look like it s being proactive on this, if you ve received those warnings, you should get out. katie? you have to question the level of preparedness. i had a lieutenant general on my show last hour. he was in charge of katrina in
money, whatever it takes, we re going to do. we re already set up, we have tremendous trucking systems, food systems. we have a lot of contractors waiting, for the most part it s been handled by fema. also, we ve coordinated locally. we have food for days we have emergency equipment and generators for many days. we should be in great shape. i ve also heard it could be 21 and 22 inches, if you can imagine what that is. 22 inches of rain, it s not something that we ve had certainly we ve never had this on the east coast. this storm is similar to hurricane hugo. almost like a combination of hugo and floyd in 89 and 99. successful disaster response and recovery is one that s executed, and federally supported. what fema is doing, is