storm like this, there will be a couple of technical hits. you'll lose audio from time to time. but again, we're doing our very best to stay out here in the middle of this big thing and bring people the information about what's happening. and so far so good. let's go to our meteorologist karen maginnis live in atlanta at the cnn weather center. and karen, when you see this big blob over us, you understand why these technical gremlins step in. but, you know, people are watching, and they're wondering how much longer will this storm affect the region? >> this is the big problem, george. and if you remember, i said, george, 24 hours from now, where you are it's still going to be raining. it's still going to be miserable. but this is at least 48 hours, maybe out to 72 hours. now, certainly, it's going to decrease. it's going to shift. but we have all this moisture being drawn up off of the atlantic, getting thrown back on shore. so these areas like wilmington, ocean beach, carolina beach, all