Strauj Storm News Today

Its incredibly flat whether its the storm surge or a raine vent. theres not a lot of run off in this area. >> driechk around where the storm is officially expected to make land fall in four or five hours time. our coverage continues right here. r coverage continues right here

Its you shouldnt be fooled by the category of the storm. the reasons. we spent some time in a mobile home park with undocumented people and they were candid about why they wouldnt go. there are people who have legitimate reasons for not leaving. but a number of officials have tsds thereroom little known programs in place, local officials, there were resources available to get them out. >> we hope the best case scenario ande vacuations. well check back in a little bit. >> were waiting for an upda...

Steam be gent ahenlf of peep faem earl ur. people who decided to hunker down at their local pub leadership we saw some of that. but by and large overnight the smart. al died. frrt most of these folks, if your not without anywhere. we talked to a fire official yesterday who said theres going to become a point in the storm where because of the conditions theyre not going to be able to go out and rescue. theyre not going to be able to go out and put out fires. thats expecting to come in the next fe...

Way, thats the bridge to wrightssville beach kmuntz -- have been cut off. theyve been evac whatted under a mandatory evacuation. on this side theyve been a little bit more patchy. they feel more urban environment will help. its fascinating as you drive around 10 miles in any direction and the conditions will completely change and as these bands come whipping through, sometimes theres an hour between bands. and were all lissing to the wegt rer ports when they come in and wurngd if because this st...

The marina and a lot of the business in the downtown. water in the basements and first levels there too. and across the river in orient they had similar problems. now as we go throughout the next stage of this storm we have two stories, the incredible rainfall flooding. off the chart type flooding and then we veto deal with the high tide cycle. wilmington could get 24 inches additional and thats on top of the 7 youve already seen. one our of our other models, this spreads another 20 inches of ra...

Welcome back to our continuing coverage of hurricane florence, expected to make official land fall about four or five hours from now. in new york. hundreds of thousands of people are without power. 198,000 officially without power in the state at this point. bill, suffice it to say this is a very slow moving storm. >> and the national weather service, the local offices make their zone forecast and i just saw the new river forecast for cape fear river. they updated the forecast and now saying its...

The water and the chanlz. maybe more than just live on the edge of the beach. frors >> thats really what weve seen with the rescue we apprec you times and you just thought maybe theyre underestimate thing storm and the devastation but you realize when it comes to health or financial situation and. >> and i want to go to wilmington, north carolina. when i saw you yesterday you were holding up that wind meter. it looks like its picked significantly since then.

The southerly wind is already piling it up. we were about to hit low tide in about one hour it will start to build. those are the concerns. we already have in the newburn area, the city tweeted about an hour ago 150 people waiting for rescues and 40 to 60 mile-per-hour winds and torrential rain and there are -- just picture that. >> and the tough part is making sure they can go out and actually help them. >> the fema crews, swift water crews, other crews trying to move in and assist them. 150 pe...

And i thing we have news frumt our joe friar. >> reporter: do you guys hear snee. >> whautsz tlr news you got there? again this is north of jacksonville. >> reporter: thats right. so jacksonvilles obviously been getting hit earlier than other areas of the storm. keep in mind jacksonville is not right on the like many other places are. despite that were still seeing strauj storm and despite that theyre concerned with flooding because this is a community long the river and its expected. its going ...

Storm today and later tomorrow but it right now in murt beach things seem pretty quiet. >> given the fact that florence has been stalling north and the tourist destination. did you get a sense of the people who stayed, went out and about? >> reporter: not a lot. this part of myrtle beach, not lot of people decided to stay frrps we did speak to the mayor yesterday who said they did not heed the mandatory evacuation order. eeve though were not in the so-called dirty side of the storm with with the...