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The pressure is still very low. it just doesnt have more than a category one wind in the eye. thats the only difference between this storm and a category three is the eye wind. everything else is exactly the same. wilmington, north carolina normal to date. you should have 42 inches. right now you are up to 63. that is so much water in the room. you have the trees coming down, the roofs that are wet. so we have 17 moderate stage floods and 14 major floods going on right now and obviously its stil...

Buildings. there is a lot of customers, more than 300,000 customers in north carolina without power right now. that number is only likely to increase. i think there is a lot of people who are just going to be spending the day inside, cant even watch it on tv anymore. and all they have to do, though, is look out the window. it is miserable. when i spoke up this morning a couple hours ago and looked outside, you can feel the windows, the buildings kind of rattling. you can feel the gusts of winds....

Little rubber boats with winds blowing 60 miles an hour. it is nice to see that has calmed down a little bit for the people that were there. so wilmington airport, a brand-new record for you, 105 miles an hour. looking at you compared to where we were looking at with john berman, it is like you are either in two different spots or he was outside and you are inside because it has changed significantly because the eye has gone down. all morning long where john was the wind was blowing offshore, do...

Everybody else to get a sense of what we should be anticipating. chad, what are you seeing in. >> what you are going to see depends on where you are, north of the storm or south of the storm. what im seeing right now is that the center is right over carolina beach. if there is an eye and it still appears that there is an eye with the storm, it would be directly over carolina beach. earlier today when john berman was getting so wet, it was here. it has been traveling toward the south and toward t...

Especially near the cape river. obviously, it is too early really to get an assessment of exactly how everybody is. they have been receiving calls here in wilmington for assistance. and its really being done on a case-by-case basis. at this point, this actually better than it was when john berman was here even just about 20 or so minutes or so. the rain seems to have slowed down at this point. this is probably one of the differentials in one of the bands of the storm that we keep seeing. we have...

Anderson, how are you doing? >> chris, it has been pretty miserable here now for several hours, as you know. made land fall around 7:15 a.m. this morning. we have been getting these gusts. actually, this town, wilmington, is actually seeing the biggest gust, the strongest gust and hurricane they have experienced since 1960. its an extraordinary statistic. they mentioned 92 miles an hour wind gusts. thats not sustained wind. thats a gust. and theyre coming by every now and then, blowing things ar...

With you. thats really been one of the epi centers with some of the earliest flooding in new bern and now with the location she is now where those volunteers and others are staging in order to try to go out in their boats and continue to rescue people as they have been. extraordinary work, the kind of thing we saw in houston and harvey. one of those gust of winds thats coming by. its a kind of a stinging rain. there is a little bit of debris in the air. also, you are conscious of the the possibi...

Storm. but the damage appeared to be restricted to root damage. i didnt see any walls torn out or anything like that, but i didnt go very deep. >> so thats good news. so more like ef-0, ef-1 damage, probably, from this, not a really destructive tornado, but probably a lot of that debris you were seeing was shingles flying through the air. >> right, shingles, insulation, you know, the plastic that covers insulation sometimes. a lot of that flying around. >> were looking at our velocity display ri...

When he spoke to us a few moments ago, one of the additional aggravations and dangers associated with this particular storm series is that the rate at which the overall storm is moving across the ground is below average, and as a result, the tornado, when it does touch down, is staying there longer, and to that end weve asked weather channel meteorologist carl parker to rejoin us. give us a sense of how slow this overall series of storms is moving, carl, whether that is, in fact, still the case,...

Are passing now to the north. they are moving up into the very northern part of the state of texas, moving away at about 25 miles an hour. here youre looking at video of the tornado that we saw earlier today. now, this was the storm that came up into dallas county, in the southeast side of dallas. you see the power flashes there. weve seen a pretty good bit of damage. most of what weve seen seems to be in the realm of ef-1 or ef-2 damage, so low to moderate in terms of the amount of damage. when...