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Storm florence. All of our crews are out in it. Well be bringing all of this information to you. Our breaking News Coverage our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac360. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening. Im Anderson Cooper in willing, North Carolina. The story has been wailg rain and rain and more rain. Were seeing the heaviest band of rain just in the last ten minutes or so hitting this area down by the cape fear river. Five people have died so far in this storm. Five peopl...

>> reporter: tonight, torrential rain, dangerous winds, and tornados tearing through the south. reports of at least six tornados in alabama, georgia, and texas. including this one appearing to touch down in south georgia. warnings continued in several states throughout the afternoon. >> weve got a lot of lightning strikes across the area. so, definitely stay away from those windows. >> reporter: the wall to this office in alabama, gone, now lying next to the building. while inside, debris is sca...

Problem as you just heard from authorities, the biggest problem to come in the form of both storm surge and pounding rain. floridas governor said just moments ago the surge has hit 1. we are watching that closely. we have correspondents stationed all over florida tonight. we will bring you the best video, the live images, and all of the video through the day showing the force of this storm and we will speak live with lawmakers and emergency officials throughout the hour. correspondent will nunle...

Fiona has strength zwroend a category 4 hurricane with wind gusts of 155 miles per hour in the turks and caicos. but the caribbean island is still feeling the sheer force of the storm with damaging winds, pounding rain. lets get right to meteorologist pedram javaheri. pedram, gosh, that does not look good behind you. how bad is it going to get? >> the storm is going to strengthen. it is going to get larger as it approaches farther across the north. for areas across the turks and caicos, the wors...

Expected today. and pedram javaheri is joining us. feels like every time i talk t you were talking about the flooding and pounding rain. >> yeah, i think that some light at the end of the tunnel at least going into friday possibly getting a break across the region . in could be some thunderstorms this afternoon that could bring in heavy rainfall. and you notice the widespread coverage, frontal boundary in place that has prompted all the wet weather, it is still there. it is weakening rather quic...

Dangerous situation for parts of the u.s. tornado watches have been issued in at least nine states. the national weather service has been busy issuing dozens of warnings for twisters and hurricane-force wind gusts. tornadoes have already hit in arkansas. rescue teams were deployed after an ef2 tornado struck. the damage is significant. more than 100,000 are without power tonight from texas to tennessee. and that number is expected to grow. the line of storms will move east tonight, and the threa...

Been a tough 48 hours or so for manville. ive been watching you reporting all day long. each time youre in a new location shining a light on another tough tragic story. theyve been dealing with historic flooding and several building explosions. whats the situation there right now? how are people coping with everything that happened? >> so were trying to get a lay of the land here in manville. theres a lot of different areas that were affected by the flooding here of the last 48 hours or so. one ...

Water, fuel and still without power indefinitely. that is what the president is likely to witness when he travels through laplace and some surrounding areas here. we have no definite timetable on when some major relief will get to these areas. we heard from officials who said while the state did give them some help in the past couple of days, its been a little water, a few tarps and that doesnt go where it needs to for the long road to recovery ahead. this was an incredible storm that will be re...

This grog back down to a tropical system and turning into an area of low pressure by tomorrow evening. then its the tennessee valley, ohio valley, mid-atlantic dealing with that dumping rain, but winds will start to die down. the flood threat, the storm surge is still an issue. some totals from nashville to new york city, were talking about 5 to 10 inches. the problem for tonight, now its dark, and we are going to see very large areas that will be dealing with tropical storm warnings. now theyre...

Minute, and the pounding rain is just intensifying here. down here, heres another danger. another reason why you shouldnt venture out in a hurricane after dark when the powers out, things like this. this is a construction site that they had to leave obviously and leave a lot of equipment and debris and 2 x 4s and things here. youre not going to be able to see stuff flying around. theres been debris flying around and thats going to be a concern if people try to venture out in this. no visibility....