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Are without power right now. todd, good morning to you. what are you seeing as the light comes up there. todd: good morning, guys. we actually have good news to report. isnt ay cooper which is the main power authority here in the north myrtle beach area decided to send out crews within half an hour hoping to get some of the 11,000 customers in the north myrtle beach area without power back on. north myrtle beach definitely so far, so far the hardest hit area here in south carolina. im going to s...

Impactful one. so this will rank up there with that, especially in terms of rainfall. i dont have current number but as of 1:00 a.m., the office, national weather service office was less than an inch from breaking the all time record rainfall from any tropical storm or hurricane. >> okay. were going to get those numbers soon enough. brian, thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. coming your way at the top of the hour, an update on florence and live reports from the areas of the storm, ...

Doesnt tell you how large the storm is, what the rainfall might be, what the storm surge might be. so when florence made landfall, it was a category 1 but it was also creating 8, 10, 11 feet of storm surge. the idea it is only a category one when you have two feet of rainfall and 10 feet of surge doesnt matter much. >> brian, the speed with which this thing is moving, it is on whats called a drifting track. how does that change things? how is that different from a direct hit? >> yeah, that makes...

Additional rain fall totals from 7 to 15 feet in some spots. in total, 30 to 40 inches for this whole system. thats a ton of rain still to fall here through tuesday and well be following this but this has been a deadly rain maker. its been large in size and even though its downgraded in terms of the wind still a problem because the flooding is the number one thing that can be deadly out there. >> yeah. part of the problem is, i know its been described as at times this storm has moved no more qui...

Theyre trying to get these 150 people out of their homes if they can. they would love to do it by noon if they can because that is when the next high tide is. tides and surge dont always walk hand in hand, but a high tide can exacerbate the problem with a storm surge. and even though the center part of the storm has moved beyond new bern, the storm surge has not because the storm is so big it continues to push the water up the noose river and into that town. and you can see the damage that has a...

Boats can get to them. again, we cant see it anymore here, anderson, what heroes these people are. the wind is strong and the rain is coming down, which means the water is continuing to rise. we have had at least seven inches of rain fall in the new bern area and a storm surge of 10 feet as the water just keeping coming down and rising up. now, they are going around the entire county and doing this at one point in new bern. this morning they had more than 150 people who needed rescuing. now, the...

Early evening last night. so it is the intensity and the prolonged nature of how long this storm is taking to come ashore. it is just a relentless feeling here throughout the night. we experienced the high winds, the heavy rains just coming and coming and coming. so that is eventually -- the materials around here get stressed out and give in. thats what we are seeing in a lot of places. but it is that flooding concern here on the north site. we are on the in order side, the topside of hurricane ...

Coverage, you get a sense of the intensity of this storm. there are 92 miles an hour wind gusts that have been registered and torrential rain. thats the story, the flooding, the rain fall, the storm surge. and that is not going away any time soon. we have been cautioned and warned it could be days. so all sorts of people are still having to be evacuated from their homes if they stayed behind. so of course we are watching this storm. florence is at the moment moving like molasses over the coastli...

Great job of forecasting. this we are not done yet. we wont really see the damage until next week. this is going to be a flooding and surge event. a flooding and surge event. not a wind event. certainly we will see prolonged winds. its thought about the category of winds u its going to be like a hurricane harvey situation in southeast texas where they will get upwards of 20 to 40 inches. already reports of 20 inches on the ground right now in parts of coastal, south carolina. this is also going ...