wake county where we re staging other folks that are on buses as we speak going up there. we re well prepared for it. what about people who can t get out? don t have the means or cars, who are essentially stuck? we have a special needs registry that populates over 400 people. specifically folks with oxygen needs or medication needs or medical issues. first we ve made contact with all of them individually. make sure they have what they need going into this storm. those folks that can t self-evacuate that have issues with affordability, we have buses traveling to and from the shelt erts whe shelte shelters. that s staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 910-798-6800. after this storm passes, how long do you figure you ll be
the jobs, the economy and the gross domestic product. yet on a daily basis donald trump basically cached but how when you have a disruptive force name ed donald trump. one of the things that s going to happen is this storm and while this major hurricane is bearing down on the ka carolinas, president trump tweeted this. giving himself an a plus for recovery work in last year s storms. he singled out an underappreciated great job in puerto rico. senator chris murphy responded this way. i mean this seriously, not as a political dig. if you re in florence s path and considering riding it out, your president said a hurricane response where 3,000 die is his measure of success. get out of there. i wonder, bill, is this response
prize winning author for the washington post. thank you for your time. thank you. we have a live look now at myrtle beach, south carolina. this is a live look. courtesy of earth cam. there it is. the track of the storm. as i m sure you re aware. it has shifted slightly south to include a larger swath of south carolina. everyone on the coast should be prepared. we are going to get to myrtle beach next. where people are getting off work. they re leaving town. i ll talk to south carolina s former governor and current congressman who is over he is actually overseeing a number of responses to storms similar to this. he also for the purposes of our conversation just visited a state emergency operations center. mark sanford on the other side of this break. insurance that won t replace
5:00. the complete update with an updated track and hopefully we ll have more information. we ll have a new european model in, as well. we ll have a little bit hopefully better idea of what we re looking at. all right. 5:00. al roker, al, thank you so much as always. this is nbc news mariana atenso in wrightsville beach. and again, wrightsville right now looking a lot like wilmington where i am. for all intents and purposes, a very nice late summer day here along the coast of north carolina. current models, though, have you as at least as i understand it right smack in the middle of the path of of this storm. reporter: that s right, craig. it is hard to believe on such a beautiful day like today we re already seeing still some families and onlookers out here. 24 to 36 hours from now, the scene will be completely
model. the differences between the two. how stark are they? and can you explain why there is that discrepancy between the two models? yeah. little changes, craig, that looking at different wind patterns, sometimes far away from the hurricane make a big difference in the forecast. the steering so far has been a high pressure over the atlantic. but the problem becomes you got a blocking high pressure and eventually losing the steering currents altogether. depending on how strong the models pick up on the subtle changes, sometimes 500, 600 miles away makes a big deal in the forecast. us in the hurricane center don t necessarily look at a couple of mod ems but a consensus. we look at the ensemble members of the models. each one with dozens and dozens of model runs in the models and take a consensus and usually the consensus is the winner in the end. okay. well, what s the consensus right now? i tell you, really close to this forecast. it s really a strong storm. so we re talking abo