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>> reporter: and asking people to always pay attention to their emergency management. >> 100%. we all hope were wrong. we all hope the estimates, all the guesswork is exaggerated. you have to prepare for the worst. and just to remind people, the kind of men and women who do this work for the rest us, you heard jack casually go past the fact styles it reaches 0 g in the airplane. that means no gravity. and things start floating around. can you imagine? being on an airplane and all of a sudden the...

Radius of maximum wind. how low is the pressure in the center of the storm. we have to get up close and personal. in a lot of cases were targeting drops on instruments in the strongest wind, followed by the central pressure and the opposite side, strongest winds. thats where we get the most action, too. so everybody has to be strapped in and yet still launching these probes, taking these data and getting them out to the various important people. hurricane center and the modelling centers. >> and...

Our concern this time is it will likely be all three of those things. thats why were so concerned. >> thats bad news. were focusing on florida because thats where its going. other states are watching this as well. >> well, yeah, in the short term, georgia and the carolinas need to watch it. theyll get a lot of rain and will cause localized flooding. a lot of models are indicating that it exits somewhere towards the outer banks and meanders and maybe makes another landfall around the canadian mar...

Data and better predict these storms. he went up on one of those flights earlier today. he joins us now. jack, youre busy. ive give us an idea why you go in and check out what this storm looks like? >> were putting a t-3 aircraft in the storm twice per day. my colleague was in this mornings flight. ill be out there this afternoon between 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. this evening and well make multiple crossing patterns around the storm. generate three dimensional winds using the noaa doppler radar. those...

Safe and keep the airplane safe to go out on the 5:00 a.m. mission. im going on the 5:00 p.m. mission. we have to keep our noaa $150 million airplane safe. and the quality of the data is everything. those are the things im looking at. >> yeah, we greatly appreciate it, the work that you do. best of luck on your trip. jack parrish from noaa, thanks. >> thanks, trace. >> just ahead, joe biden responding after "the washington post" disputed a personal story that he told about a war hero. that and m...

Starts to close in near the center, this is the conservation of angular momentum. this is the ice skater bringing their arms in close to the center. the spin gets faster near the center. thats certainly a factor. very warm sea surface temperatures, and we did see a decrease in the shear on the north side of the storm. and then the only mitigating factor honestly that we saw today was quite a bit of dry air over on the west side. some storms seem to be able to shield themselves from that. florenc...

The fine tuning just before landfall. one alarming thing is, i dont see a lot disrupting it. >> i know you talked about looking for any signs of sheer, which potentially could be good news for those of us waiting for this impending storm. are there any signs of that? >> david, to be honest with you, im not particularly hopeful that well find something that will knock a little of the strength out of florence. >> jack, what are you seeing as far as the size and scope of this hurricane? >> well, ri...

>> yes, sir. we do have a stalling situation. and of course, we remember happened in the storm that stalled off of houston last year. >> well, jack, we want you and the team to stay safe up there and ill give you the last word here for americans watching this back down here with us. whats your word of warning for them tonight? >> david, i just would like to tell them to listen to what their emergency managers and the hurricane center has to say. and everyone out there, be as safe as you can. >> ...

Charleston. and then, of course, the rain. 30 to 40 inches that will fill up some of these big rivers, they will flood for days and by sunday, even, the cape fear behind me, just 25 miles away, expected to get to close to record level. david? >> all right, ginger, our thanks to you as well tonight. were feeling the first effects of this, the real outer bands, the wind already arriving as were on the air tonight. were going to see real effects tomorrow morning first thing. the hurricane hunters w...

Keep giving an accurate forecast. it may not be good news but it will be accurate. >> on a personal note, what sit like when youre flying through a storm that you know will be hitting your home state? >> well, don that is one of our biggest worries right now. that of course all of our families up up there in the lakeland and tampa area. we are thinking about them. while were flying of mission, we have to put full focus on the mission itself and were always looking for good news. but good news fo...