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Tuesday of next week. well see an offshore flow. we have a long weekend in store. talking about the weekend, theres one big event everybody has their eye on, and that is the kentucky derby. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> there you go. all right, everybody watching this event here, and i tell you what, conditions unfortunately, as far as the weather goes, not looking good. today, good, tomorrow, conditions fall apart. were going to be talking about a lot of thunderstorms in the area, 75 degrees, and i want to ...

Eyewall comes onshore. chris, you are here with the offshore flow. as the eye works down the coast, something like that, you will eventually get to this side of the eyewall. it may take 24 hours to get there. when you do, thats when you will see the surge and your beach will flood. north myrtle to conway will see that surge up river rather than the neuse river back here. >> chad, we heard from the neuse river and new bern on the neuse. we heard from the storm surge and dramatic rescues that have...

Look like it will be over for them anytime soon. rain is coming down at a rate of several inches an hour. >> all right. jennifer grey with the updated forecast. jennifer, thank you so much. i appreciate that. i want to get back in the elements and go over to drew griffin in myrtle beach as well. drew, were getting bands of wind and rain. it is coming and going, comes and goes. what are you seeing? >> reporter: and the wind has gotten to a point that many of the official responders in this county...

Offshore winds. thats why the waves arent that big, the surf hasnt been that big. another on the south or west side of the storm getting offshore flow. once the eye gets closer and winds shift, youll get not only heavy rain, stronger winds, you get on shore flow. that will pull in more surge to the area, increase waves, and thats when we will see more flooding in the myrtle beach area. don? >> reporter: can i ask you, jennifer, you saw brian todd in new bern, the flooding for those people, a lot...

7:00 oclock. offshore flow right now. we will start to see onshore. however, shepard, could potentially be catastrophic for them. shepard: this is the eye of hurricane irma. the outer bands have crossed it and just right there theres a little bit of a peek of daylight. live pictures from miami beach. that tells the story, bigger picture, concern here, the concern for all of this region is the storm surge is that its deadly in the end. thats a heoring experience.

What i saw there was 130 and what the weather reporting weather vane saw at the airport said 141. well go still that this is a very strong storm. so from pun ta gorda to venice to sarasota, youre still going to get an offshore flow, the northern eye wall going to come in from the east, protect yourself to the west. stay on the west side of your home, not the east side because you may get shingles into the east side windows that could break out from the neighbors just to your east and thats alway...

Proposed. so, just how are the winds affecting the risk of contamination from japans nuclear plants. >> theres a lot of concern about this. for the answer to that, we want to go to meteorologist jennifer delgado at the cnn international weather center. jen, what are you finding on this? >> certainly people have good reason to be concerned. because the last couple of days, we saw favorable wind flow. yesterday we really got in a bad pattern. right now, the weather has certainly improved. look at ...