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Weve been watching heavy surf smashing against the pilings. the pier is rated to 200 plus miles an hour. its hurricane proof. it replaced a wooden pier. its the very early stages. weve had wind gusts in the 25 to 30 miles per hour range so far. its clearly picking up. the waves in spells have been pretty dramatic against that pier, dana. right now its a very quiet eerie sort of a wait-and-see situation here. its not really raining yet and the wind is not blowing that hard but we know its coming....

And then new hanover, including wilmington. then will weaken during the day friday. going down to category i and tropical storm into south carolina. then a big rain problem after were done with the surge. doesnt stop or loop, comes to crawl. slowly progress. wont stop and hit the brakes completely. as far as storm surge, were going to see unfortunately all the beautiful houses on the beaches on the pilings, any damage to them with wave action on top of the 9 to 13 foot storm surge, this area her...

Period, sunset tomorrow to sunset friday, takes us right here, thursday 8:00 p.m. strong as it is, tomorrow at this time start to see the nasty winds, storm surge and high waves on the coast. and then new hanover, including wilmington. then will weaken during the day friday. going down to category i and tropical storm into south carolina. south carolina. then a big rain problem after were done with the surge. doesnt stop or loop, comes to crawl. slowly progress. wont stop and hit the brakes comp...

A crawl. at least it slowly will progress. wont stop and hit the brakes completely. as far as storm surge, were going to see unfortunately all the beautiful houses on the beaches up on the pilings, if were going to see any damage to them with wave action on top of the 9 to 13 foot storm surge, this is this area here. heading to emerald isle and atlantic beach. moore head city back behind it. we have all these little waterways here. an pamly cosound and coo saw river here. could have consistent p...

Sandstorm surge. this is getting a hurricane once every four years. 13 feet, multiple high tide cycles because of that stall, that will test the pilings the concrete that the wood goes down into, into the beaches. we will see considerable damage in those areas. a little in cape hatteras, to the south. finally, the last thing will be a rainfall the stalled out storm the deadly destruction of the storm, this is a huge foot print of a foot of rain in the pink, isolated areas could get up to 3 to fo...

Islands in some spots. and lets hope that your house has 12-foot pilings on it or else some of those buildings will be in trouble and thats why you as a person need to get out if youre staying there. >> i think thats really important what youre showing. when you look at the models sometimes you think its going to pass through. when you show its 48 hours, that shows how much water can dump on places that are already going to be hit with winds beforehand. thats going to be devastating. >> it is, b...

A lot of these no to of new homes are built over garage is on pilings but that would put water in the first floors above about the garages on most of these houses along the beach here. its a beautiful night tonight, you can see folks coming out to take a look at the atlantic which is very calm. no rain today which is very hot earlier, its cooled off quite a bit and obviously very calm before what could be a very destructive storm. and theyve gotten a lot of rain over the past few weeks, the grou...

Well learn more on that tax reform plan in a little bit. milestone for president trumps southern border wall. as crews break ground on eight different pro-to types. now working on day two of what is expected to be a month long project. adam housely is live near the mexico border. >> reporter: this is where people go in to go down to the border wall. we just came back from the actual site itself. maybe half acre all told if you put all the eight different areas together. each company which is six...

Because the storm waters from the carolinas, they have to move south. rick leventhal is live in st. augustine, florida, purity just south of jacksonville. beach erosion is another big issue, right? >> remarkable. we are in north beach, also known as vilano beach. this area hit hard by hurricane mathew a year ago. a lot of home owners had to do a lot of work to shore up their beachfront homes. they have a lot more work to do. this is a lot worse. look at the house right next to us that has come d...

We saw in wilma in key west. from cudjoe to marathon we saw much greater storm surge than we actually had predicted. and were seeing a lot of damage. but, you know, its not damage from which we cant recover. the keys has gone through many cycles in our history and the -- probably the most challenging one in our lifetime certainly but well get through it. thanks to the tremendous report from the state and the national guard as well as locals. i have to say monroe county sheriffs department has do...