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6 25 p. M. Its at facebook. Com andersoncooper full circle opinion right now i want to hand it over to chris cuomo. Cuomo prime time starts now. You were wondering where the rain is, now you know. Its right on andersons head. Hurricane florence is starting to come around for the coast of the carolinas. Anderson is going to stand by. We have correspondents up and down the path of the storm for you. Here is hurricane florence, very slow, thats the problem with this storm. When she comes, she stays...

Were tracking florence, the worst is yet to come, but were already seeing things that are bad enough. lets go to brian todd in ham stead, north carolina, we saw him in sheeting rain before, whats your situation now? >> chris, we were just at the edge of this old landing road where the intercoastal waterway was flooding the road, now were going to show you what its like for people who live near that storm surge and decide we need to try to get out. look at what people are going to go through on t...

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Thank you and good luck to you and all of your forecasters at the national weather center because it gets crazy in the next few days. as forecasters were tracking florence, president trump was talking up his administrations hurricane history and preparedness. at that briefing in the oval office today, he was asked whether the government has learned any useful lessons from hurricane maria which, of course, ravaged puerto rico about a year ago. >> i think puerto rico is incredibly successful. pu...

It, and im hard pressed to think of a more vulnerable stretch of our coastline than just what you have highlighted on your screen. >> thats right, and it becomes potentially even worse as we movin land because we have, of course, increasing elevation, and when the winds go up in elevation, they tend to drop even more rain. thats why we have this long band, even away from the center. the center is down in here. up into virginia and western carolina, up in the mountains where water can get focused...

Stretch of our coastline than just what you have highlighted on your screen. >> thats right, and it becomes potentially even worse as we movin land because we have, of course, increasing elevation, and when the winds go up in elevation, they tend to drop even more rain. thats why we have this long band, even away from the center. the center is down in here. up into virginia and western carolina, up in the mountains where water can get focused down on the rivers. were looking at a catastrophic si...

It will take us a good amount of time to do the full recovery. >> meteorologist jennifer grey in the cnn weather center tracking florence. i know youre getting up-to-date information. you heard that. officials saying it will take more than days to recover from this thing. what are you hearing? >> right. people could be without power days, weeks, months in some extreme locations. were seeing the latest from hurricane florence. the latest came out five minutes ago. no change in wind speed. still 1...

Towards the east coast. it is expected to make landfall either later thursday night or early in the wee hours of friday morning. mandatory evacuations are underway for parts of the carolinas. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking florence for us. and allison, tell me more. >> right. so the concern now is how much more intensification does this storm go through before it finally makes landfall? right now, its a very powerful category 4 storm. winds of 130 miles per hour, gusting to 140 m...

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