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In myrtle beach. you can see some of the fallen trees in this neighborhood. this is an island filled with oak trees. when i spoke to the mayor this morning, she told me that streets like this and those trees falling on homes, on cars and on people as the storm passes. people think its safe to go out and about. that is up with of the the major concerns during this hurricane. i also want to show you the intercoastal waterway over here to my right. you can see just the current that the water is mov...

Are, craig. were expecting conditions to deteriorate here in south carolina here in myrtle beach. the hope is that perhaps the forecast might not be right but local officials are expecting more than 20 inches of rain here. that could be devastating. back to you. >> my goodness. 20 inches of rain in the 24 hours. thats as much rain as myrtle beach would see in the span of several months. thank you. gabe talked about the power outages. all of wilmington, where i am, is without power. more than 200...

Rob marciano with the new track tonight. rob? >> reporter: good evening, david. this is a large and complex system. so, i want to get right to it. take a look at this. we still have a severe threat across parts of florida and two areas of winter weather this evening, already across the northeast and that one in the midwest. its all going to combine here over the next 24 hours. so, here we go. sleet has been falling with snow and philadelphia already. d.c., youre going to see it by tomorrow morni...

From north to jackson, central mississippi, northern alabama, watch out around knoxville. possibly 2 inches. now the northeast. this is going to be late today the rain moves in and all day tomorrow, the rainfall forecast, the blue is 1 inch. red is 2 inches. i think a bigger issue will be the winds. we could see gusts in new york city 55. boston, 355. cape cod and long island could have gusts up to 70 miles per hour. so we will get some tree damage and power outages and were going to deal with s...

The intense winds like yesterday. at one point, 60-80-mile-per-hour winds in the northwest. serious business. tree damage and thousands of people without power. the next storm moving in. benefits of this one a little further to the south tomorrow. were going get snow. mown whitney. lake tahoe. reno area. 18 inches of snow. good start to snow season here. in areas of the sierra nevada mountain range. cascades have been getting snow and get more today. the winter so far season has been underway th...

Exception, if maine, the leaves come down, the other area of interest. there is associated. this is the origins of our big sunday storm in the northeast. right now, its a tropical disturbance off anything raunic. im not concerned it will become a tropical storm or a hurricane or anything like that. the thing that is important all of that moisture and rain is in south florida on saturday and then it gets drawn right up the eastern seaboard as we go through sun. this will become a pretty big storm...

With this storm. lets go to the barrier islands down here. some of them have some vacation homes on them. the most populated one is this dauphines island here. once this band comes inland, thats when the strongest wind will be. if youre going to lose power, its going to be with this band. its only a category one. i say "only" because we dealt with such monster storms this year. category one will have tree damage, knock down a couple trees, minor roof damage. that can cause power lines to go down...

For this about two hours ago, the concern about, again, trees falling because of winds. also the power outages would be there but not sustained for weeks. >> yeah, youre going to get minor wind damage. thats what you expect in a category 1 hurricane. yes, some trees, some that are weaker that were going to fall sooner or later will come down. still the leaves on all the trees. and also adds a little bit to the damage that will be done. but it will mostly be tree damage. not a lot of structural d...

Assess more of the damage on the island. just completely devastating from what weve seen. tammy lightener, thank you. >> lets bring in our meteorologist, bill karins to talk about the path of this storm, and what it continues to do in the path. >> right now were still in the fog. were still trying to figure out how bad it is in puerto rico. weve seen the pictures around san juan. theres tons of tree damage as expected in a category 4. were waiting to see what areas outside. im concerned with the...

Thank you. [inaudible] >> the president continues his walk with the community in naples, florida. shaking hands with the residents who want to get their lives and property back together. different degrees of damage where you are in the state or the neighborhood. some people had wind damage and others had tree damage. the president said im with you 100% and i will be back several times. you see the leadership in the state. the first lady and the vice president along with the president. he makes h...