Now in rightsville beach, North Carolina. The character and dimension and the strength of this storm changed several times today. We just received the 11 00 p. M. Eastern time advisory on the storm. In a moment, our meteorologist bill karins will walk us through that. The president also worked his way into hurricane Coverage Today by denying the death toll in puerto rico following Hurricane Maria and insisting the numbers were doctored, a plot carried out by the democrats. He again has given his Administration High marks for its storm preparations prior to the arrival of hurricane florence. Also tonight we are covering this. A hellish scene in the suburbs of boston, mass. Homes started exploding and catching fire. This is being blamed on the over pressureization of natural gas mains. And for a time there was no stopping it. After an estimated 70 to 100 homes burned, all gas and electric was shut off to three separate towns. People there have been evacuated. Schools will be closed tomor
We have the next hurricane update coming in two hours. Bottom line this remains a serious storm. Some people are breathing a sigh of relief its a category 2 hurricane. But still a very powerful storm that will dump a lot of water and create serious storm surges. I want to bring in meteorologist Michele Grossman to tell us about this storm. Were focusing on water. Were to concussion on the life threatening surge. This is what it looks like right now. A big storm about 300 miles wide, even 400 miles wide. Its moving fairly slow right now but really slow down as we head towards the overnight hours. These are the latest numbers as of 2 00. Ali mentioned we have one coming out at 5 00. Category 2 storm. Its a strong category 2 storm. But this is what were seeing already. Ali mentioned this depends where you are along the carolina coast. Some seeing terrible weather. Ali not seeing terrible weather but will be. This is what were looking at. Radar is active. Its lit up. Lots of colors. Darker