Side Flooding News Today

We have water from the sound going this way. and the river which flows from the north coming down through the new bern area trying to get out and its not. its stopping. all it can do is tile up. it started at 2 feet. its 10 feet now. the river basin goes here like this. 60 miles northward, thats 60 miles from the coast. some of that is because of back up, the wind, some because of storm surge. thats theish other y thats the issue right now. we had the mayor of moore head tell us, brian, thats wh...

Water back up in the rivers and creeks. but i do live right on the coast, so if it does push the water ahead of it tomorrow when it goes to the south, well be seeing the storm surge here in moore head city. >> mayor, about the -- you mentioned theres people on some roofs in some small communities. is that on the pimlico sound on the sound side flooding? >> that would be more towards -- it would be towards the pimlico sound, that is correct. but theres a lot of creeks up that way and im sure its ...

What hes worried about. hes located on padre island down here. right in the border of the tropical storm warnings and tropical storm watch there -- hurricane warning and tropical storm warning. the path of the storm will be like this. when the storm gets to right about here, at max intensity the winds on back side will kick around and will kick around in this general direction. what they worry about -- this happened with ike too, the winds on the back side come from the bay. then that floods fro...

Storm surges in our sounds and our rivers further inland which weve had to experience in the past here in north carolina. so most people who have been concerned have been directly on the coast. now we have concerns about people inland who may be impacted by potential flooding and rivers going over their banks. >> lets get the latest on all of this with msnbc meteorologist bill karins. hes been tracking this storm. you expect it to have a lot of damage in its wake? >> damage is still being done n...

Some portions of the coast but it certainly appears that things could have been far worse. lets get to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, which areas right now are feeling the worst of the storm? >> sound side flooding. the winds of really come down everywhere. theres no wind damage anymore but the sound side flooding. we have the radar source, the one that you just had up, i can show you the example of what sound side flooding is. its when you get the winds coming on the back side of the stor...

Cape. the hurricane force winds should arrive on cape cod come tomorrow evening by 9:00 or 10:00. they may even do evacuations on the outer cape maybe from orleans to province town and marthas vineyard and nantucket not the place to be as the storm rolls through and head through maine early saturday morning. here is a closer view. tonight at 2:00 a.m., 135-mile-per-hour winds, category 4, dangerously close to the outer banks. this is one of the strongest storms ever if it moves over the outer ba...