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Surge. how much and do you have a sense of where? >> we can kind of zoom in. we can zoom in like this, but i think it is important if i go ahead and show a situation like this where we have a whole storm surge watch. anywhere in these areas here can see greater than three foot. this is an important point. when i go to this map, it is not just a coastal issue all the time. you have the barrier islands. but here is where it also causes problems. were really concerned about some of these areas wher...

What separates those is a mile an hour. either way, the impacts will be catastrophic when it comes to the storm surge and rain fall. >> when you talk about what the biggest concern is, you look, this is compared to other storms like hugo where the storm surge was just an issue you had 21 people as a result across country. this storm surge, is that the biggest concern right now along the carolina coast? >> yeah. several concerns we have, we really look at the storm surge as one. 50% of fatalities...

But we are looking at potentially isolated areas being up to 30 inches of rain. that is life threatening in these areas that will get this rain fall. big portion of virginia and north carolina. but remember where these colors are close together, you can shift this quite a bit. >> i note a lot of the ground is already saturated because they had more rain than usual this season. so many of us that watch these hurricane forecasts become familiar with the european models and the american model, the ...

You need to be looking at 150. and then 145 because this storm is going to get stronger before it makes land fall. this will have a bubble of storm surge in the 20 foot range, somewhere. i dont know if thats will ming ton yet. what i do know is that the cone is getting smaller to the south and not getting as far to the north as we work our way toward land fall. but now what happens is that the storm stalls and has no direction at all. in fact, this cone gets wider. it could be back off store. it...

Of these areas approaching greenville. some of those are 12 foot. look at the ceiling and think about 12 foot of storm surges. heres the rain. thats another story here. were forecasting 15 to 20 inches of rain. some places could get 30. this could be a catastrophic event. also with the rain fall forecast. >> i know one of the issues was at least how slow moving this thing was and the amount of rain fall on top of land there in the carolinas that as the mayor of myrtle beach just said is already ...

Over and the inner eyewall is collapsing and possibly getting stronger. category 4 for the next several days. were expecting the storm to stall. earlier i was comparing this to perhaps north carolinas version of hurricane harvey for texas. we could see upwards of three to four feet of rain if the storm stalls out. it looks like this cone as it gets wider doesnt know what to do. the steering mechanism will end. the high pressure in the atlantic steering it right now gets weaker and moves eastward...

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And lingers, thats monday. south carolina, georgia, virginia, del marva needs to watch it. the legacy of this will be catastrophic, life threatening rainfall and inland flooding is one of the biggest killers when it comes to weather. >> bill: they had a hurricane there late 1990s, the name slips me but headed for jacksonville and took a northern turn and stalled over the carolinas. the rivers flooded for days and weeks after that and something that no one, even yourself could anticipate in the f...

Right now we expect thursday, friday, some of the computer models are slowing the storm down before landfall. this now is friday morning, overnight thursday, friday, look at what happens. thats sunday. the storm stalls. remember hurricane harvey last year, southeast texas, i am so concerned that this is going to stall and dump epic, historic amounts of rain fall not only along the coast but inland. so i feel nervous again this morning with this storm system. this is going to be historic, possibl...

All flights are sold out going out of charleston. might have to go to a different airport. steve: janice dean joins us with the weather. > janice: would are going to get a new advisory as of 8:00 a.m. hurricane watches in effect for the carolinas. the storm is strength. its going through what we call an eye wall replacement cycle. that means the outer eye wall takes in for the inner eye wall. all that means is we could potentially have a category 5 later on today. we do anticipate at least a cat...