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South port. the church thats across from us, it looks like the roofing of the two trailers on their property literally were taken off of the trailers themselves. i know that approximately 23,000 people in the county are without power right now. some of my co-workers ive been talking to and giving them information as best i can over the phone are without power. im running on back-up generators. theres a bunch of trees down blocking a lot of the roadways all the way up through south port. its real...

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Was called as the eye passed over us and then we got hit by wind in the opposite direction. a day later we wake up and find rain and wind, look at the radar, just amazed how slowly the storm system is moving. yesterday the issue was wind, today it is heavy rain and that is preventing people from getting back to these islands communities and surveying the damage. a lot of residents are eager to check on their homes and businesses and authorities say it is not safe yet. from the small portion of t...

Storm, surveying a little bit of the damage, looking at superficial things like roofing, insulation, blowing off of buildings, metal siding, a few downed tree branches. nothing major in terms of structural damage. more things i refer to as a headache for people who own or live at particular buildings. it will be a while, several days before residents and business owners return to the island. local officials wants to make sure power crews have removed any downed power lines to illuminate any thre...

But officials are worried about down power lines, debris in the road. they say it is not safe for people to come back to these barrier islands. it may be several days before people are able to check on their property. we have not been allowed to see most of the island. i say that is a disclaimer for what i am about to say, represents a small section of the island but from what little we have seen we are noticing some damaged awnings and roofing materials and siding damage but we havent seen any ...

Thank you so much. listen, tell me about the efforts that youre responsible for here and youre assigned to them by fema, is that correct? >> that is correct in part. but let me first start by saying thank you for having me on. and my concern is what ive been hearing all along, is the surge and inland flooding. we have multiple authorities. we have authority under our civil works program in which were responsible for navigable waters. then we also have that we are femas engineers and we are postu...

The ocean. you can look at the palm trees. theyre bending out towards the ocean as the winds gust. the winds have not been bad here, not nothing like what steve harrigan is experiencing in topsail beach in north carolina. theyve done a little damage to a couple homes that you can see along the beach front here, ripping off some of the roofing on a couple of those. but no major damages. the other part of the story i was talking about is inland. thats inland, south carolina. that is because this i...

Carolina tonight. john, what have you seen in your travels? >> hi, brian. stuff not unlike you have seen many times in your past. here in morehead city we have been waiting for the surge because it has been one of the biggest concerns weve had all day long. we have had wind, right now it is in the mid 30s, gusting into the 50s here, but earlier with the anometer on the truck we measured a guest of 105 miles per hour. we will give it in high the high 90s to say there might be error in the measure...

With 140 miles per hour. so when you look at it that way. everything is good right now. we have seen through here is some of the fiberglass which i expect is from some of the roofing in the area. were in a business park. were behind a grocery store behind a sporting good store. and hiding in the best spot we can. im standing out in the area where theres kind of a tunnel you can feel the wind coming through. in this area as it has been in wilmington all night. the wind has been swirling. you cant...

The army core of engineers is prepared and ready to respond to hurricane florence. to date we have over 200 personnel engaged with over six million in mission assignment dollars from fema and over $13 million in federal coastal emergency dollars. in the pacific ocean division continues to assess and respond to the effects from the typhoon and the hurricane out in the pacific. while here in the atlantic under the stafford act authorities are postured to provide temporary power support, temporary ...