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Other. and they also have some structural damage. but theyre hunkered down, so really their ability to assess is made very difficult because of that. and talking about the wind load, the way it shifts, because in a hurricane, once the eye passes over, you get hit 180 degrees in a different direction. but because its so sustained, 12 hours, the wind load on buildings is huge, and it continues to wear on those buildings. so its gone from one way to another, and its kind of a whip saw. yes, its ove...

We have tropical winds 170 miles from the center of the storm. there had been reports of tornadoes to the north and to the northeast of the storm. there are these spiral bands that come in, they encounter friction with the earths surface. it produces low-level wind sheer and rotation and it helps spin up these tornadoes. weve had tornado watches and warnings over the eastern half of north carolina today and that will continue into tonight. >> as though a hurricane isnt enough with all this rain ...

If i was a betting man, not sure i would put money on that luck holding through the night. the storm moving 6 miles per hour down southwest, behind us. we will be in between the eye of the storm and the ocean with all of the rain pouring through the night. so far in north myrtle beach, a few trees are down, power lines are down. beyond that, not too bad. the water is beginning to puddle and pool. i just tested a bit of earth there, and the ground is just saturated. all of this rain thats now fal...

Assess it. who calls you for help? you hook up with local emergency people. what happens? >> it is a combination of things. we get with local law enforcement and emergency people, tell them were here. sometimes they tell us they have it under control, the storm is going on, and sometimes we go in and see an opportunity to help people. you can get people a lot faster if you get to them faster. we get to them sometimes in vehicles faster than a boat. we get there and make a decision about getting ...

Course stands to have impact nationwide on gas prices are those of you at home are earned in the eye of the storm or in louisiana, it could have an impact on you because the price could jump from 15 to 25%. since this weekend. leeland: its difficult to find gas for folks who have evacuated. the mayor from victoria texas stories is now. so they understand the geography, as i see it, the storm came ashore in rockport which is there just a little north of corpus christi and then youre a little bit ...

Ashore to the time give a sense of how bad it was. >> pleasure to be on your show. generally the first four or 48 hours is going to be critical to get what we call ground zero. if you remember, 1992 hurricane andrew, came through the homestead and we couldnt get into the homestead for about 12, 18 hours but once we did we knew it was a catastrophic event. in this particular instance is very different because, if you remember, andrew in 1992 was mostly wind damage and it appears from everything t...

A huge system and were continuing to watch it. its a inland. i do want to point out that its been quiet for the houston, galveston area so far will see more of these rain bands move in that direction and expect heavier rain from now into tomorrow. were still early in the situation is private thank you. will check in more with you. more changes at the white house with a presidential pardon to tell you about. >> big news breaking out of washington in the hours that the hurricane was coming to shor...

Its scary because i have the hearput on. the wind is not nearly as bad, frankly, its late cleaning up quite a bit but now were starting to get more rain. you said corpus christi, a town that shut down. it has shut down but not mandatory. it was not under mandatory evacuation so people can stay here and that were close to where the i was expected to come and came about 20 miles from here and areas that will try to go investigate as the sun comes up. we also have reports of a wall that came down o...

That means it will rain and rain and rain and it will never try out wherever that system is so wherever it is sitting the rain continues and you get these numbers that seem hard to believe until you think about a hurricane hitting a place for four or five days and they become believable. here are the numbers getting up to 50-55 inches, in some cases, its locally widespread in areas getting 230 inches. that is running up to your chest and thats in a flat, open fields. anything with low, it will b...

Up. it will most certainly be worse for areas to the north of here where the landfall was made in the big question from here on out is no longer about the wind and what the storm will do now that its been downgraded to a category three hurricane at this point. it will be about the water and how much rain we will end up getting some of these estimates are horrifying. were talking about 30-40 inches of rain over the next four or five days even though south texas is ready for that heavy rainfall, i...