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And water flooding places that are not on the water. you are on the bay side, but not on the ocean. you never expected water to get that far in. you are right here in wilmington location. that is -- ill try to make this bigger. it will be jumpy. thats live. there you go. here is wilmington. thats where you are right there. under that white spot right there. right there. the wind coming around and coming around will get stronger before it finally stops. surf city. topsail beach. you are almost in...

The outer bands. little farther outside where are you right now. what will that do to tidal surge? a mandatory evacuation area. a curfew is in effect. a lot of people did not leave. i wonder if we will hear echo of new bern or morehead city where people are desperate for rescue. can the first responders get out? we will see where the stoir -- we will see where the story goes. j.b. >> we will hear more stories of the rescues. we will check in, if we can, in a little bit. i want to give you an upd...

Go down. we have been getting reports of electric standing water on the ground. that is why you have to be careful. chris is saying it is not here, but south carolina. lets bring in chad myers. cnn meteorologist in the weather center to give us a sense of the forecast and sense of the latest national hurricane center update. chad. >> the forecast for you, john, you are about to get rocked. 95 miles an hour for you probably in the next ten minutes. you are about five miles from the outer eyewall ...

Come down in inch 20 inches in spots. lets get to this graphic. if you have not been with us since 3:00 a.m., you have not had it. atlantic beach had 20 inches of rain already. we are wondering can atlantic beach really be 22? yes. that verifies. we have 20 inches of rain in emerald isle. it has come down all night long and it will continue. the wet side of the storm over the ocean will continue to pour water into the same area and continue to pour rain in new bern. new bern gets worse before be...

A snails pace over the coast. that is a real problem. when you feel the winds, they stay. they stick around for a long, long time. they will pound the coast for hours. the rain will fall for days. the real threat of this storm, the real danger of this storm has been the storm surge and flooding. we have a near crisis situation 80 miles of where i am in ne -- new bern on the neuse river. 100 outstanding calls for help. we spoke to the volunteer group cajun navy who received 500 calls of help. the...

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Power. our correspondents are stationed all along the carolina coast here. all along the carolinas. one of them is miguel marquez joining us from carolina beach. north carolina and youve got rain there, buddy. >> we are starting to see the most intense rain and wind. this storm is finally starting to punch and it is coming very, very hard. the authorities here expecting anything from 20 to 40 inches of rain over the next 24 to 36 hours or so. the weather we are experiencing right now they were e...

Inland four miles because downtown had flooded so severely. we were going to be trapped there. we finally came up and the wind ripped the front door of our hotel off as we were coming here. the man who owns the hotel was trying to put it back there because there were a lot of people ho evacuated from the outer banks islands to come here. i talked to people from atlantic beach, to people from sea fair who said they had to be here and forced to evacuate the island. now they were frightened because...

Going around and getting pictures there. you can see lots of rain where he is. also were going to get to martin savidge in wilmington, north carolina. were live in myrtle beach. were all over the coast in the carolinas. this is where hurricane florence is moving closer tonight to the coast. lad fall expected as early as tomorrow morning. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ i put a spell on you ♪ yeah, because youre mine ♪ with chase atms serena can now grab cash on the go, all with the tap of...

Falls. here is the other issue that can happen in these situations. the longer you have those winds, the further inland that surge can actually move into the inland basically. so you can have storm surge a mile inland where you keep those hurricane force winds open. places well inland could still see storm surge from this. >> so pick a spot. lets take wilmington. how long will they be suffering in terms of hurricane force winds and in terms of just the pounding rain? >> yeah. you look at it over...