Page 5 - Offshore Winds News Today

The last 30 years. with forecasts, were able to put wind speeds in localized areas in historical perspective. what im showing you on the right. im going to walk over here, im a screen now, and im a meteorologist and i love to point these things out, is on the event, we are expecting some values to reach values that kind of max our database out. so these yellows and greens that you see on this map here indicate that were expecting to see winds in those areas pretty much at the top of our historic...

And a lot of this is very slow to come down. >> this monster storm continues and it will continue for days. thank you for that, jennifer. martin savage is in wrightsville beach, north carolina where the eye of the storm first made landfall during the day. whats it like now, martin? >> reporter: the amazing thing is, wolf, here we are with 10 hours after landfall and the conditions are gist just as badt seemed back then. thats an indication just how significantly large this storm is and how slow ...

This house. this was similar to so many rescues today that rescuers had to endure while they tried to get so many people trapped and the storm kept churning through this area. in wilmington, a coordinated effort to save a family trapped inside their house. one man was rescued and transported to a local hospital. but though a team of doctors, paramedics and firefighters scrambled to get to a mother and her child, they were not able to save them. >> thats the overall difficulty of a rescue operati...

The winds will continue to be an issue, but the big problem is really the storm surge as well as the rain. we have already had rain reports of more than a foot and a half of rain. some areas are getting close to two feet of rain, with oriental getting 20 inches and another update to those numbers are supposed to be coming out any moment. they are going to be much higher than 20 inches because its been raining nonstop. davis, north carolina got a 108-mile-per-hour wind gusts, so the winds were th...

Is slowly moving across the carolinas. at least four deaths are blamed on this storm. emergency crews have been busy all day dealing with the widespread catastrophic flooding and wind damage and enormous power outages across the carolinas. drew griffin is in myrtle beach, south carolina for us and theyre expecting the worst of the storm later tonight. what are the conditions now, drew? >> reporter: they are bad but theyre not as bad as everyone thought here, wolf, and i dont want to minimize wha...

Or boats or high-water vehicles coming into this area and we hope that continues and everybody got out before the water came in. >> do you expect the situation at least over the next 24 hours to worsen? >> reporter: yeah, wolf. were starting to see those winds switch around on the storm. that can push additional high surf and storm surge into the beaches here of north myrtle beach and exaggerate the flood threat even more. most of the water see behind me is fresh water flooding because of the ex...

>> fox news alert, im dana perino and this is "the five." florence turns deadly knocking out power and driving residents in flooded areas. rick reichmuth tracking the massive storm. whats the update as of now? >> winds down to 5 miles an hour so its technically a tropical storm. still technically a rain event. want to show you this, something very interesting also. still looks really remarkably well organized after having spent ten hours over land. youll also notice offshore winds down near myrt...

Evening, its going to get worse. youll notice elevated fire danger stretching across arizona and the colorado river valley and throughout southern california. its very dry. theres no humidity at all anywhere across the southwest. certainly in california. the offshore winds, pulling dry air in. well see winds again up to 80 miles an hour throughout the day -- throughout the remaining of the day and overnight tonight. it will subside a little bit tomorrow, shepard. we see a bit of a better trend, ...

This area, thats the thomas fire. three major fires, all wind-driven events. all in the southern california, burning simultaneously, thousands are affected. many homes lost. its a terrible scene out here. were just trying to stay ahead of it. >> were certainly thinking about the families affected by these three separate fires. j.t., thank you. >> thank you, david. and from j.t. to meteorologist rob marciano tonight. hes also there in the fire zone at this hour. rob, we can see firefighters put...

It could create panic and hinder rescuers. >> and linzie janis is live from santa rosa. and linzie, you told us that staggering number. 3,500 homes and businesses destroyed by this fire, and youre where a school once stood? >> reporter: thats right, david. take a look at this. this was a catholic high school. the mangled metal you see there, school desks. and this fire extinguisher exploded by the flames. of those 3,500 structures you mentioned destroyed by these fires, more than 2,800 of them, ...