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Speed and intensity. >> we were at 125. now were at 115. this is the last hour it will be a major hurricane. once its down to 110, it will be category 2. im sure theres power outages. im sure there will be a lot of tree damage in was the 5:00 update. about every hour were taking about 10 miles an hour off the peak winds. this is 2:00 a.m. close to m macon. macon could go through the center. there will be winds that will go gusty, calm and swimp aroutch a directions. at that time were really done...

Virginia beach. then well say good-bye. the sun is about to set. we have some of the drones up to show you what some of the tree damage looks like. here is whats lefrt of the et . this blue box is extreme wind warning. its a new thing in the last three years. its like the equivalent of a tornado going through a shelter in place. were waiting to see if we will get another one issued to the north of that. well wait to see as we go throughout the night. were continuing to make progress. its weakeni...

Weaken, do tree damage from tallahassee to georgia and south carolina. the satellites can take pictures of the clouds. you can clearly see the eye of the storm. you can see the bubbling thunderstorms on the northern portion of it. it is starting to expand thunderstorms in the last hour. good chance at 5:00 p.m. they come out and call it a major category 3 hurricane. all the problems with forecast intensity is not that great. the forecast path is what all the models are pointed to, near panama ci...

>> were going to have a long day tomorrow. not sure what were going to wake up to. a lot of tree damage, a lot of tree down so far from what were seeing. when we wake up in the morning were going to have water and trees down everywhere. >> you know, todd, one thing that officials are doing certainly here in the wilmington area, theyre asking people to stay off the roads, especially overnight. there is a keffer, you know. they want to make sure that people stay off the roads, because weve been ou...

As you might understand with the weather challenging what we have here. do we have logan pool whos ready? all right. logan pool, weve got logan pool with weather nation. there in jacksonville. same question to you. what are you seeing in jacksonville? >> its been a change in the storm. where we went from a high wind event that did a lot of tree damage and roof damage and earlier today when -- and yesterday morning when the hurricane was dloesest by and now its transitioning to a severe thunderst...

Karen, thank you so much. in the week ahead search and rescue teams will be critical. certainly over the next 24 to 48 hours. one of those teams is the navy. youll remember the volunteers rescued countless number of people during hurricane harvey vi in texas. and of course katrina in louisiana. and the same thing now with this tropical storm florence. the work you do cannot be under stated. its important work after the storms. tell us your thoughts about the after math of this storm. and the wor...

Mike: correspondents doing great work, how are you holding up, rick? >> we are okay, mike, but the city of wilmington is dealing for a lot of problems and primarily right now is from all the tree damage, you see crew down there, they are working both sides of the street trying to get the debris, the trees, the branches an all of that out of the road, they have to do all that before the utility crews can come in and get power back on. all the rain thats been falling, we can show you where some of...

Tidal surge, thats the problem theyre having here. we know in wrightsville beach, we cant get in there now, the bridge remains closed. only first responders can get through due to high winds. tropical storm force winds. some gusts are very high. we know there is some flooding coming from intercoastal or from the atlantic ocean. that we have seen from imagery coming from the wrightsville beach area. but the authorities have said because of high winds, they cant go out and investigate. they say th...

Is only going to throw. a couple hours ago, 165,000 customers in north carolina without power. that number could reach 1 to 3 million customers before the storm is done. it starts here in wrightsville beach. tough to stay if there is flooding yet on the main roads. we cant really tell, we cant tell if there has been any significant tree damage or trees down, but that is also likely to happen because as you know, the ground in this part of north carolina has been saturated. wilmington set records...

Ground is saturated. its been a wet summer. now throw in more rainfall and a lot of wind, there are going to be lots an lots of trees coming down. >> that is true. since it is saturated, tree damage is going to be huge. i have seen houses where the big ones can go through a small house or trailer. i would be concerned about that sort of thing. >> jon: we certainly wish your home state well as it and south carolina continue to battle this storm. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> jon: our coverage of ...