Water Piling News Today

An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the west coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im bill hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana: you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill: you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back...

Foot of rainfall and then the effects of perhaps a category four hurricane. hurricane force winds all up and down the coast. and because this storm is moving so slowly, this is not going to be just a whoop up the east towards the coastline, this is going to be a days-long event, and thats why im concerned, because this is going to be here monday, tuesday, into wednesday still off the coast of florida as major hurricane. and then were going to watch georgia and the carolinas over the next couple ...

To the coast, we keep the water piling in here. now if we get the storm to make a landfall, which will be devastating at least we can get it to weaken a little bit. thats the dilemma all day, does it stay offshore and maintain its strength or move inland and weaken. thats the wild card. one thing we do know is this storm has delivered a lot of surprises. >> thank you so much for that. we have been seeing the most dramatic changes in miami beach, which many of you as that coastal resort city, a b...

Category 3, this is still a dangerous surge. 7 to 11 feet, that has not changed with the water piling in. high water poses a major threat. whether or not the storm comes on shore, of course, were watching hurricane matthew. were watching for that storm surge threat to continue. ari? >> i think i can speak for many when i say i learned a lot from you tonight. there have been some good notes with what youve been showing us. that does it for me this hour. but dont go anywhere. my colleague will con...

Storm. weve never seen a storm like this that could potentially devastate miles of the coastline. the warnings have been expanded. this is the latest hurricane warning up to the south carolina coast, from areas north of miami, everywhere shaded in red in a hurricane warning now. one of the main reasons is the storm surge threat, which has been growing. here are the latest maps for storm surge. miami to ft. lauderdale, not too bad. 1 to 2 feet. as you head, west palm beach north towards melbourne...

Center is 260 miles south-southeast of new york city. landfall forecast for this evening across southern parts of new jersey. that puts new york city on the northern side of the center of circulation. what does that mean? that means onshore flow, possibly the worst case scenario for new york city as far as storm surge goes. thats why were forecasting a storm surge as high as 11 feet across portions of long island sound and also the new york harbor. basically that means well have water piling int...

north carolina first gets hit on saturday, and then somewhere in new england after that, even in areas that dont get a direct hit though, theres the flooding damage, wind damage and power outages, a major pain. youre looking at live pictures from folly beach in south carolina. residents keeping an eye on irene. it could pass by though. they havent been told to leave though. they are urged to take precautions. evacuations are under way though in the north carolina outer banks. the gover...

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