former hurricane florence is now a tropical storm and the problem with that otherwise good piece of news is it has no parent plans to go anywhere quickly. that ubiquitous radar loop is also relentless, spoke after spoke, soaking rain bands hitting the same places where it has been raining for 24 hours. in some communities along the coast there is nowhere for the water to go. rescues have been going on all day. they continue tonight and into the morning. power outages are widespread, beach erosion is severe. there have been structural failures. sadly, the death toll from the storm has risen to five as of our air time tonight.
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. that s how slowly it s 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 charleston, south carolina, down here suggest a steady stream of rain everywhere with a counterclockwise wind just pounding the coast to the north and then down below center of circulation because the winds are coming in this direction, some of those rivers emptying into the atlantic ocean as the storm move south which the meteorologist tell us those winds will begin to come from the east and that will fill those rivers back up with brackish water and that s a
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misery to the eastern gulf coast over the holiday weekend. adam, i thought you were going to bring us some good news. what happened? unfortunately i m not bringing good news. we are talking about a real wet one. this one still close to cuba. you are looking just off the coast but really disorganized and a lot of rain already falling in portions of south and central florida. it will continue to move to north at 13 miles-an-hour running out over the gulf picking up a little strength organizing as it moves that direction in the next few days. it is going to linger through this entire holiday weekend. this is the past six hours. the radar loop, you are seeing at times already heavy rain moving across portions of florida unfortunately that s going to continue into your sunday, continue into your monday. so it is no surprise here that we re already seeing watches and warnings for flooding across portions of south florida into central florida and then up along the gulf coast because eventua