Just a little bit. That is 8 00 tomorrow morning on saturday. Should be right along that line. Still with maximum sustained winds at 65 miles an hour. Then by sunday morning much further inland as a low Pressure Center winds of about 30 miles an hour. But still dropping a lot of rain. Lets take a look at the radar map now. That was a satellite image. Heres the radar for perspective. This is charleston, South Carolina here, which really never got much rain out of this system. It was always inching up on it. At the top, you can see elizabeth city, Cape Hatteras and the rest with wilmington here in the center. Wilmington still getting a lot of rain. Last report was, a woman and her infant child have died in the storm. The husband has ben taken to a nearby hospital. Those are two of three confirmed deaths so far in this storm. This is expected to continue to move inland and wrap its way back around. Charlotte will be getting rain before the days end. There was a significant storm at new bern and a number of other towns along rivers along the coast. Severally the rainfall has been the story of this. These are numbers, official numbers from the u. S. Geological survey for rainfall totals. They are provisional numbers from the United States geological survey. Moorehead city, North Carolina, i can only show you what im seeing. 45 inches of rain. Grand isle, North Carolina, 33 inches of rain. Surfside beach, 17 inches. Along just on the coast there off wilmington, 19. 6 inches. Wilmington itself 17. 0 inches. These numbers seem extraordinarily high. Well wait for the u. S. Geological survey to check on it. If so, talk about something for the history bucks. We can only record to you what they reported to us. Theyve got ten a lot of rain. Bill hemmer has been in wilmington throughout the duration of this. Close to 20 inches of rain, quite a thing there, bill. We just lost his satellite hookup as does happen so often in these storms. Lets go to Steve Harrigan who we have been watching along Topsail Beach where theyre still getting blown around. Steve . Theres no let up in the wind the past several hours. Ill give you a visual. You cant fall backwards into this wind. The destruction that is taking place is pretty clear all along the main street here. Covered with sand now. You can see bits and pieces of peoples houses. Thats the stairway there, doors, windows. When you look down the road, its covered and sand and debris. The overall structures are still standing. Parts of the roof, parts of the porches and doors. Theyre all here in the middle of the road where its still gusting and the rain 20 inches is still coming in pretty much sideways. Its clear theres no in or out of the island because of the debris and the water that is covering the debris. And also because of downed power lines. Theres no electricity here. Theres no electricity for 600,000 people in North Carolina. The cleanup here is going to be huge. But too early to talk about cleanup now. This is still very much a wind event on this part of the carolina coast, shepard. Shepard you still feel like youre getting Hurricane Force winds there, steve . Yes, i do. The rain hurts and you cant fall backwards. Im not seeing trees snap. Im seeing branches snap. So yes, this feels like a hurricane. Shepard Steve Harrigan who is live along the coast now. That is north of the storm. So they still have the winds coming off the ocean. This is south of the storm in myrtle beach. So because of those counterclockwise winds, in this case, the winds are pushing the water away from the beach. Look how the winds are blowing. You can see winds going out to the ocean. People along out there now because the ocean is receded a lot. You can see the winds pushing the sand out towards the beach that is all because of this counterclockwise flow. Up in wilmington, North Carolina, theyre still getting the winds and the rain off the sea. Not as bad as it was. Theres bill hemmer that appears to be high and dry. Hi, bill. Hi, shepard. Change of clothes here and were back at it. You mentioned the fatalities. Tough news for the city of wilmington. The Police Department putting out a statement about a woman and an infant killed when a tree fell on the home. The father of a household is being treated at a local hospital. A press conference is being set up here. We expect to get more information on that when it happened. That was the warning that went out and we hope for, you know, no further news along this line. Thats really tough to take. A parking lot behind us, shepard. Weve been out here 6 00 a. M. So many trees in our line of sight that are downed just in this area here. You extrapolate that down across a town of 105,000 people, you can imagine how many people have been affected. Two hours ago, i told you the wind and raise lessened. That was true then. Look at the futurecast. The conditions right now, i dont know how long they last. But if you look at the futurecast, were looking at six hours plus of conditions like this with the bands that continue to whip around in wilmington. The rain comes with it. It lessens a little bit but picks back up like it is now. Were in for it long haul. Shes big and shes slow unfortunately. Shes florence, shepard. Shepard thanks, bill. Back to Steve Harrigan in north topsail. Your whole section, steve, from Surfside Beach no. Along Topsail Beach, north of Wrightsville Beach, up to sneeds ferry and camp lejeune still getting battered. Yeah, weve had 24 hours of nonstop rain. This wind is the strongest that weve seen. Im watching bits and pieces of this roof come off the house here and in to the grass here. There was a 60yard beautiful beach there. That beach is gone. Its come over the sand dunes now and over the road. It looks like just complete kage down the street. You can see some from the interior of houses, furniture. The houses are torn apart by the wind, shepard. Shepard anybody that says its a category one storm, it cant do that much doing, it certainly can if it beats on you and beats on you for 24 hours. Thats whats been happening, steve. Yeah, theres no way in or out when youre on an island here. The Police Closed down the island at 8 00. No cars in or out. The danger from the wind crossing the bridge. There were Police Checking on breaking and entering. There were a few incidents. A lot of people choosing to monitor their houses remotely. They can see initially some looting, but then after that, some destruction. So those cameras are probably capturing rooftops of the houses beginning to get torn off but not the structures themselves, shepard. Shepard yeah, ive been zooming in on a map of that whole area of north topsail. From satellite, you can see house after house, side by side along that beach. I dont know if you have any idea what the homes will look like when this finally clears. Yeah, if you had a balcony or if you had a porch or wooden steps, thats the first casualty, the balconies and the wooden steps. Theres an entire street lined with any wooden attachment structure. Those are gone. The buildings themselves get lost in a cat four or five are still standing. Anything attached to that building is gone. Shepard have they given you steve, its our understanding by the time night fall comes, your conditions wont have improved much. Do you have a plan . Yeah, we have fortunately we have a fox engineer that has a condo here on the beach. Thats really been lucky to give us our access. Were tracking sand in his condo and have a nice comfortable spot when were not out in this, shepard. His building is holed up well. We dont have power. But these guys prepare so well. People that have been through hurricanes. Everything is waterproofed and were on the fourth backup to get the shot up. So they seem to be plugging along. Were on generator power. The island is pitch black once the sun goes down. Shepard man, youve been in a lot of hurricanes. Is there one youd compare this to or is this one in itself . This one just doesnt go away. I was thinking this morning, the storm came in. The storm was gone. Lets get in the car and try to go to new bern where there was some flooding. But this storm hasnt gone away. Its like the guest that comes over and talks your ear oh. Dow surfside, gray street, house after house, you have to wonder what that looks like after the storm clears and we can get out and get a better look at that whole area of the coast. You can see what were talking act. This particular area makes a cup here. The area where the storm came ashore is right here in wilmington. This is the area that were talking about, this entire section that has been inundated by wind and waves for hours and hours and hours on end. So what has this done to the power for that region . The head of duke energy joins us live next. 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I cant tell you how good it feels to have smoking behind me. Talk to your doctor about chantix. Continuing coverage of Hurricane Florence on fox news channel. You are looking live. Where . Myrtle beach, South Carolina. Myrtle beach, of course, will be spared the worst of it. The new information at the bottom of the screen is chilling. Actually, jeff flock on Carolina Beach now still getting battered down there, jeff. This is an amazing storm. It stretches so far. You know, its the kind of storm, as you know, shepard, if this was a cat four storm, we wouldnt be standing in it. Category one conditions, you can report from the beach but the fact is, these conditions have stretched so far, to me that is extraordinary that we have those kind of conditions that have stretched to moorhead city, new bern has been getting pounded the last 48 hours. Now we are and perhaps we will for quite a bit of time, too. So you know, when you have wind on structures as long as this is, whether its a berm or a structure, the damage multiplies. You know, this story has not been finally written yet. Shepard any reports on damage up and down that coast there . We talked to local authorities here. Police say they havent had any rescues, even though theres flooding. Theres, you know, damage wall came down, a roof or two came off. No catastrophic damage whatsoever. Category one storm. Wind is not the issue as much as the wind right now is an issue. Thats not the issue. Its the water. That is still coming. Shepard jeff flock live on the beach. Thanks very much. You saw at the bottom of the screen, 645,000 people now 643,000 without power across the state of North Carolina. Lets bring in david fountain from duke energy. Hes the state president for North Carolina. Overall, the numbers are lower than you projected might happen. Well, shepard, Hurricane Florence just came ashore eight hours ago. Duke energy, weve had about 400,000 customers lose power across north and South Carolina. Thats about 10 of the total customers that we serve. This is going to be a long, slowmoving storm and its one that we project continued widespread Power Outages as it moves across the central part of North Carolina, along the South Carolina border and up into the mountains later in the weekend. Shepard weve gotten reports, david, of some people whose power went out and come back on. Your people must be out and working hard already. Yeah, shepard. As i mentioned to you earlier this week when we spoke, we amassed a restoration army. Were initiating efforts where its safe to do so. Well get out in the field as soon as the hurricane strength winds recede and come down below Tropical Storm force winds. The real challenge in this storm though, shepard, is the flooding. This is going to be even more severe flooding than we had in Hurricane Matthew two years ago. Thats going to impede the pace of our ability to get out and do our damage assessment. I know our customers are counting on us. Well be there as soon as we can. Were focused on the safety of our customers and crews in the field and in particular Emergency Personnel and rescue teams who are doing heroic work today. Shepard david fountain, all the best to the thousands throughout there working hard for their fellow citizens. Appreciate it very much. Shepard thanks, shepard. Were a tough and resilient bunch in North Carolina. Well get through this together. Duke energy, were not going to rest until we get the last outage restored. Shepard all the best. I appreciate it. Coming up in just a minute, theres other big news in america today. We realized that Paul Manafort, the president s former Campaign Chairman, would end up pleading guilty to more counts and be sentenced to more years in prison. The question was would he turn states evidence. 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Im back. The magic of t. V. I was in the courthouse earlier today and in the courtroom when Paul Manafort pled guilty to two felonies, two conspiracy counts. He entered the courtroom with a red tie and navy suit. He flashed a smile at his wife and team. The two conspiracy counts have to do, first with financial dealings prior to his time as Campaign Chairman and the second has to do with tampering with witnesses. That was in the spring of this year. The big headline here though is that there is a Cooperation Agreement in place with the special counsel. Heres Kevin Downing. Hi, everybody. Tough day for mr. Manafort. His accepted his responsibility and he wanted to make sure that his family was able to remain safe and live a good life. Hes accepted responsibility and this is for conduct that dates back many years. Everybody should remember that. So thank you, everyone. Its worth noting that hes looking at significant jail time with the guilty plea and the conviction that you mentioned in august on eight counts that relate to financial crimes. He gave up five properties today in the new york city area, multimillion dollars in real estate as well as three bank accounts. So the question is why did he make the deal . Based on what we learned today, he made the deal to help his wife and daughter stay in their homes in florida and virginia and continue to have some access to the money that is left, shep. Shepard catherine, what do we know about the specifics of the plea deal . We heard about it in court. I would emphasize that based on what we heard in court and the paperwork, theres no restrictions and theres no boundaries on this issue of cooperation. Mr. Manafort was asked a number of questions by the judge and he said very clearly that he would in the Cooperation Agreement act truthfully and