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Its coming. we lost power at our hotel, the generators are going and thats why we are out here trying to give you the latest from myrtle beach right now. >> shepard: live for is in the rain in that storm is headed in that direction. the latest coordinates in the latest information from the national hurricane center is this, still a powerful court category one storm with maximum sustained winds at 80 miles an hour, now the forward speed has picked up to 6 miles an hour and we believe it should cr...

From down in louisiana. a lot of work to be done there throughout the day. look at these rainfall totals. these are official totals from the united states geological survey. morehead city north carolina, 3, emerald isle 31. in linda here, 13. this is surfside beach, 14 and a half inches down in the wrightsville beach area, almost 19 inches of rain and in wilmington close to 17 and a half inches of rain and there is lots more to come throughout the state. the storm is moving so slowly. what other...

With you, a pretty big win. the damage was moderate, little bit of structural power, but what happened to us as the storm came across and it moved in odd direction. and now we have a pretty significant flooding issue from a surge in a five-minute. , which ive never seen before. the high tide was 11:00, so now waiting for the tide to go slack so we can get back on the island to try to figure out what weve got. >> shepard: youve got a somewhat unique situation with water from banks channel on the ...

>> shepard: that eye of the storm heading towards columbia and greenwood and anderson in gainesville in that direction. >> it is, seems like the forecast is pretty close to on track, really slow movement, even becoming a storm or so weakening with the wind, 8:00 a.m. sundays thats not a lot of real estate, still having the center in south carolina but an important point to make here, some areas in charleston as he had offshore flow. if you move the center in lynn, the flow around that can actual...

Your vision, if you were to make four quadrants, that upper right quadrant, the northeastern quadrant of the hurricane is where the worst of it always is. thats where the worst of the wind is, thats where the worst of the rain is, the energy has taken that to the north and every hurricane, the northeast quadrant is the worst part. thats where you add the forward wind speed to the winds of the hurricane all of the water coming in that direction and thats whats happening right now. imagine the coa...

Because of the forward speed. so whatever you see now, if we were to go back there in an hou hour, the feeder vans of course come and go, but the heavy wind, the storm surge, the rain, what is pushing these power lines over, all of that will continue into the 1:00 hour in the 2:00 hour and then when the sun finally goes down tonight, it will still be raining in the wind will still be blowing. i want to show you really quickly on the map. here is the area where the storm is about now. there is th...

Days, just got pounded completely. we just got it bad today and now south of us is getting it. but those guys have been just getting nailed and that the old story. you stay on the north side of the storm to make you stay on a sloppy side of the storm if you want to see the worst conditions and thats what theyve gotten up there. >> shepard: thanks very much, hes just reached as he put it the sloppy side of the storm because he was the hurricane. going in this direction. there is carolina beach. t...

The scary part of it now is they told us it would slow down and it has. hurricane florence now moving along at just 4 miles an hour. about the speed that you and i might walk down the street if we were in a hurry to get anywhere. thats how slowly its moving. the radar loop will show you the worst of where the rain is now, we can switch over to that. the local radar, this is a satellite view. the radar loop comes from ground station and this gives you an idea where the all-terrain is. if peers ch...

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