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Homes. rob: aaron ehrenberg and her kids flood 150 miles to escape the storm and she joins us live by phone. thanks for calling in. you guys live in south carolina and sounds like you headed to florida to get completely out of the path of this storm. it has somewhat fallen apart over the last couple days, now just a category one but this is going to be a water event. what made you leave? >> we were under mandatory evacuation and we took that seriously. we have three little kids. we just moved to...

Thank you. rob: in a short amount of time. hurricane florence pounding north carolina and leaving a lot of water in the path of destruction. the eye wall starting to reach the coast bringing 90 mile an hour sustained winds. jillian: griff jenkins is live in morehead city where it is hard to stand up. >> reporter: it is. look at the texture, the harshest we have seen in morehead city. along the seawall, a mile away is atlantic beach but looking at the texture you see how strong, the amount of wat...

Seeing a lot of that roof being ripped off. heather: please stay safe down there. heather: thank you. rob: thanks for being out there. what it is a category one storm but still talking wind speeds of 100 miles an hour. if you have are brennan and a car going fast and stick your hand out the window we are talking series wind, hard to stand up even in a cat one. jillian: our reporters know how to handle it but if you havent been, that is the scary thing for a lot of residents. we have jonathan sir...

The county operations center and state agencies. so yes, we continue to do that until the last citizen is in a safe haven. rob: you have 150 rescues so far. have you had anybody hurt? >> i do not have that information. that would be confidential because it would involve probably -- rob: no injuries you know of. okay. the mayor of new bern, north carolina, thank you so much, dana outlaw. i have no idea this was going to turn in this direction for you guys when we talked to you yesterday but appre...

>> in wilmington, north carolina, people without power. >> florence is about to make landfall. wind speeds 60 miles an hour at this point. look at this, transformer blowing in wilmington. across the carolinas, 1 to 3 million people expected to lose power at some point during this hurricane, and nowhere near to being over, it is expected to get worse as we go. rob: the storm is heading your way. any minute it will be over wilmington.

Virginia and south carolina and someone has a bulls-eye of 40 inches. that is for sure. flash flood warnings, the worst of the storm in the northeast quadrant where we have the worst of the storm surge, all that ocean water pushed against the shore and they will see the offshore flow. willington will see strong gusts in the next matter of hours in the center of the storm is right there. we are an hour or two from official landfall but the strongest winds coming on sure right now, some of these w...

Note, the power lines down. if you are at home hunkered down. rob: griff is getting the worst, todd will be getting it soon. i expect the wind to pick up now. >> the rain started 5 minutes ago. that is the main concern but right now over the last hour the main concern has been the wind. live shot location is different from earlier because we have to move power out in the entire area, we need room to do our job. the structure must be on a generator. this is the only area of light on the entire ma...

Have some rescue, water rescue teams in town so they are working with the fire department, leaving it to the emergency operations center, we are going to keep working on getting our citizens safe and to a shelter. >> the city of new bern center tweet, you may need to move to a second-story erratic but we are coming to get you. if anyone who is stranded right now, most are without power but if they are able to watch on their phones, what do you want those people to know? what is your plan to get ...

8:00 p.m. last night if theyre going to go. they said the getting was good until then. now its not. its less than five feet above sea level. thats the whole town. the mayor warns it could see a storm surge up to 13 feet. that put the whole thing under. officials say they worry that 1,000 of the 6,300 residents are behind. rob is a charter boat captain. he was on skype now. how are you doing? >> doing well. all things considered. >> shepard: what are you seeing, hearing? >> were starting to catch...

We talk to some of the residents who decided to stick around like this gentleman from jacksonville. chris davis. >> we were going to evacuate but now we decided to stay it out. dont want to get trapped in the gridlock. we have generators and all that stuff, coolers, it is about boarding up last-minute windows. >> reporter: the problem is the storm surge, 150 yards behind me, this area will be underwater. that is guaranteed. a quick note, when you see two or three feet of storm surge at that poin...