Next couple hours. As far as the radar, you can see where the center is right now. This is the western and northern eye wall now coming on shore here. We have a very heavy band up in cart carteret county. By far the worst damage that has occurred has been in Craven County and carteret counties up to this point. Heres the wilmington area, heres am i righting grove. You will be the first ones to go into the eye. We went get the first landfall call until its halfway. The eye has to be halfway onto the coast. That could be one, two, maybe even three hours away now. Heres the new forecast path from the hurricane center. As it goes over land, it begins to weaken. It will be until saturday at 2 00 a. M. , still a hurricane. It wont be until saturday morning that it will drop down to a Tropical Storm. Then the winds arent really going to be an issue at all. The winds will be less of a story as we go throughout the day today. Then the focus will really be on the fresh water flooding and the ama
The embedded purple hitting places like surf city. It is going to take a while to get there, but right now wilmington has all of the weather they can handle from this storm. Nbc news correspondent Miguel Almaguer is putting up with it as part of our coverage. Miguel, it is clear to see on the radar why it has picked up where you are. Reporter yeah, brian. As the winds here increase, we certainly can feel the bands of rain also picking up here. Power has gone in and out for many who are in this city here. The mayor of wilmington told us theyre expecting upwards of four feet of rain. We are starting to see the steady precipitation now here over the last several hours. We have been outside at this location, which is a safe location, for the last six or seven hours here. Brian, as we have rolled into the evening and now officially hit friday morning, we can tell you that the weather here is beginning to deteriorate significantly. We had heavy rain here earlier today. Now it is just whippin
Carolina. Good morning, guys, for our viewers just waking up, its been a long night. The winds whipping more head city, we are on the sea what yowall. We are separated by Atlantic Beach Barrier Island parallel to just a mile that way. Thats where we were yesterday where that pier was really swaying back and forth. We are in inland of Morehead City. See the surge coming in here. Look at the dock behind me the Structural Integrity of the docks in this Fishing Community has really been challenging. We have seen all sorts of debris flowing by and i have talked to the chief of police out over in Atlantic Beach, jeff harvey, he tells me they are hunkered down, they cant go out because of the wind and surge that they are facing over there the fire chief telling me that the bay windows on his firehouse had been totally destroyed. And i can tell you this storm is going to get worse because inland about 40 miles northwest of me in new bern all night long rescues going on. People stranded. I have
Around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following two major breaking stories on the carolina coast. The first confirmed deaths in the Hurricane Florence disaster. At least four people have been killed including a mother and a baby whose house was hit by a falling tree. Hours after florence made landfall it is now a Tropical Storm and on a slow, a very, very punishing crawl. Rescuers are scrambling to reach people trapped by lifethreatening storm surges and catastrophic flooding. More than 600,000 customers right now, they are without power. Also breaking, prosecutors now say Paul Manafort is already giving them information after entering new guilty pleas as part of a deal with the special counsel. The president s former Campaign Chairman agreeing to cooperate on, quote, any and all matters. A potential game changer in the russia investigation. We have our correspondents, analysts and guests standing by in the disaster area of this
Rick leventhal in wilmington beach california. We are back with Rick Reichmuth with the Fox News Weather Center in new york with where florence is and where its going. Good evening, bret. Just right there now, its moving here getting close to the South Carolina border. Winds down to 70 Miles Per Hour, the strongest sustained winds, gusting to 85. We still see this on the shore flow, not going down towards myrtle beach, off storm flow, that storm surge pushing the way to the beach, all the energy going to the ocean here. Thats where we are going to continue to see the storm surge come on. Stick around. Since he came on sure, its moved around 36 miles or so since 7 15 this morning. Because of that, the wind direction has stayed the same and the rainfall to totals are up. Rainfall inches up to 20 inches. Along the Morehead City and down just to the west of wilmington. A lot more rain to be had as we move forward here. Radar pictures still picking up really big rain bands on the outside of