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And theyre not thinking this is going to be a big deal. what is your message to them? >> its always better to be safe than sorry. we know that these storms shift. we saw a little bit of a shift in the storm last night, moving to the east. but we saw this with sandy and weve seen this on the noreasters. things can shift back very quickly. it is always better to be safe, if youre in one of those low-lying areas. and people know that where you are prone to flooding, that search occurs. you could be...

Winter Storm Orlena continued its slow slam of Montgomery County, as the nor’easter stretched into its third and final day, bringing more than one foot of snow to parts of

Weve been going through a calm winter so far. Sure, there was one early snowfall this season, but weve forgotten about that one already.

>> south carolina is still in the path of what is a very destructive and deadly storm. if you are in the evacuation zones along the coast the time to leave is now. >> reporter: here is the problem. there is no enforcement of this so a lot of folks are staying at home. we saw tons of homes and businesses on the border boarded up but even more not boarded up. maybe they will do that today. listen to this meteorologist explain why hes worried about charleston getting hit hard. >> charleston is the ...

Temperatures in the single digits. with the windchill, the feel like temperature was negative for. its set the tone for what turned out to be a frigid, stormy winter. down south, typically warm areas like tallahassee were hammered with dangerous freezing rain and covered in ice. then, temperatures skyrocketed in late february, reaching the high 70s and setting new records in much of the north and the midwest. but what goes up must come down. plunging temperatures led to a whopping four noreaster...

And bad for our future. its happening. we see it every day. its not just this report. you have the ipc report and you had another one in the interim yesterday that came out that just reaffirms that this is true and its happening faster than we thought it was going to. we need to prepare. we are not going to stop it. its a natural phenomenon, but we as human beings are impacting it so we need to slow it down to the extent we can and prepare for more wildfires and more mudslides and noreasters. th...

The noreasters, brian, and with tropical systems, over time some of that sand will come back and the natural replenishment will kick in. but again, they pumped a lot of sand, lot of money spent every year by the corps up and down the beaches to keep them nice and wide. sometimes it all goes for naught especially when you have a system like this not moving, slowing down, battering the beaches. the waves running 15, 20, 25 footers and thats on top of the surge. what we call the wave run up. it jus...

Priority for us. >> so theres, of course, no shortage of really frightening ways that officials are describing this storm. meaning, catastrophic, disaster at the doorstep, life-threatening. fema describing it as a mike tyson punch or the storm of a lifetime. and heres the governor of north carolina, what he told me last night. >> north carolina, were used to storms, noreasters, weve had hurricanes before. but this is historic. this storm is big, and its vicious. were telling the people of north ...

Steve: they dont know where its going to go. people tried to ride the storm outer and get caught. thought we were going to get a little bit. next thing you know its a category 3 and category 4. heres the thing when you get in trouble and he was talking about how the shelters are not ready for the really strong storm and this is a really strong storm. when you get in big trouble you call the police to come help you, right? they are not going to come help you because a lot of places once its above...

Chief, his fema official, top official on in a little while. what do you need from the federal government right now? >> i talked to the president. he promised to help. he said that the federal government would be there for north carolina. and we are certainly going to depend on that. i also talked to the fema administrator, brock long. were pretty much in constant contact with him and other fema officials who are embedded with us in north carolina. i visited fort bragg yesterday which is one of ...