Still moving very slow. In fact, the latest information that we had with the aircraft and also looking on radar moving west at only 5 Miles Per Hour. So moving very slowly. So around that center you can see that intense rainfall and also some still gusty winds with the latest information still remaining at 75 Miles Per Hour. So, still a lot of gusty winds and, you know, very dangerous situation right center. Lets look away from that. These rain bands can be particularly dangerous as you have areas like this. I want to draw it like that because this is important to look at because really when you look at it on the radar you start seeing this rain moving really fast thats really because the rotation around the hurricane. But, notice, that entire band stays within the lines that i drew. That means repetitive rainfall over the same areas and thats where we are seeing incredible rainfall totals. Radar estimating 15 to 20 inches in some of these areas. Thats a very dangerous situation for flash flooding in these areas continuing. Its not just the flash flooding. It is also the tornado threat. You can see some of these cells offshore moving inland. A lot of times what we see in these rain bands is not just the high winds and gusty winds. Its also the tornado threat within these bands. Thats particularly dangerous. Lets look at that forecast. It really hasnt changed a whole lot. We do expect that slow down to continue. Here we are now at 2 00 p. M. With time we dont move very fast. We move inland. Still a hurricane. Then by saturday morning, a storm but at the same time we are not very far inland. We are in central South Carolina. We are still on sunday morning in South Carolina, very slow progress with this system. Thats all the goin geography we are going to cover through sunday. Another system in the great lakes. A trough thats going to carry florence out of here. This is on monday and thats on tuesday. Its going to take some time but, in the meantime, its going to be a lot of impact. One storm surge, a lot of storm surge as we have siena lot of areas and just devastating storm surge. And we have been really watching the values in these areas 6 to 9 feet and even inland. We have been talking about the new bern area inland 7 to 11 feet that occurs because the water gets trapped. This is something we have been talking about all morning. Its real important to talk about whats happening here. The water comes. In these rivers normally drain out. You Start Talking the panel pamo and noose river. We are miles and miles inland where we can still see storm surge. Coming off a high tide we had tide the last few hours. Even though take a lot of time drain this water. Take as while even have the rainfall has to drain. Its going to be a while before we get rid of all that water. Take a look at the rain. This is something that we have been talking about for a while. A large area of rain, 20 to 30 inches right around that center. Maybe up to 40 inches by the time its all said and done. Not just a coastal problem. Charlotte 10 to 15. Even looking northward raleigh towards ashville could get higher rainfall totals. When that happens, you really couple that on the terrain, the mountains and hills some of these totals could be higher depending on where floods set up. Flash flooding and mud slides. Something we have to continue to watch through the weekend and early next week with the river flooding that could last a week even after florence. This has been ken graham here at the National Hurricane center. Right here in our operations area. Shepard ken, cant thank you enough. So the great news is Hurricane Florence is now a very minimal category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds at 75 Miles Per Hour. Once you go below 74 Miles Per Hour, that makes it a Tropical Storm. We are minutes away from the death of Hurricane Florence the next time we get an update florence will be a Tropical Storm headed west and inland before heading north and then eventually, says ken graham, back out to sea. That does not mean that the flooding and the rain have ended. It has not. The storm, of course, over the landing so it cant pick up that moisture that it needs to increase in intensity. The central pressure is now up to 968 millibars. Thats a significant rise in pressure. Thats more evidence that this storm is weakening. The counterclockwise flow continues and the bands continue to lap along the shore. And our correspondent, jonathan hunt, is down in myrtle beach, South Carolina. The original thinking was this storm might hug the coast and stay over water, jonathan, which would have been bad for you guys. Now its moving west and inland, which is good for you guys. Yeah, that westward track is very good news, shep. And when you look at that combined with the conditions that our colleague Steve Harrigan and Griff Jenkins have been dealing with up in North Carolina, you think that my goodness the good people of coastal South Carolina may indeed have dodged a bullet here. Thats not to say it isnt bad. Thats not to say it couldnt get worse. We have just gone through high tide as you heard officials at the Hurricane Center saying. This is now retreating. That is good news. We have another high tide due here at midnight. And with the hour upon hour upon hour of rain were supposed to get until then, obviously flooding is still a major concern. Now, we cant spin our camera around quite far enough, shep, because we are protecting our equipment behind the concrete pillars of a parking structure. But a few hundred yards ahead of me there is the what is called the hog inlet. That wraps around this bit of land which is only a couple hundred yards wide in some places as i say. The worry still is that the storm surge and all of this rain that were getting just saturating the ground could ultimately mean that parts of this ocean meet parts of the inlet. And that would be very, very bad news for the hundreds, if not thousands of homes that sit on North Myrtle Beach here. As for the wind damage, not much so far, shep. A couple of homes along the beachfront here have had minor damage. But thats about all we have seen as we get another pretty big gust of wind coming through here. But the good news as i say, help, overall and as you have been pointing out over the last couple of hours is that this storm does now seem to be heading, according to Hurricane Center officials, in a westerly direction. That means that and you and Rick Reichmuth will no doubt correct me if i am wrong here. It would seem to me to mean that we have at least already seen the worst of the winds that were going to see here. The rain though, forecast to keep going at least for another 24 hours. Solidly like, this shep. So, officials here in the myrtle beach area not saying we are out of the woods yet at least in the terms of the danger of flooding, shep. Shepard things are a lot better. Jonathan hunt there. You may have noticed when the palm trees when they blew there. The palm trees were blowing toward the beach because if you are south of the eye of the hurricane, the winds are coming out of west. See that . The palm fronds are blowing towards the beach there because the winds are coming out of west. The winds are coming from the land because the storm has a counterclockwise flow. So, below the eye of the storm, the winds come from the dry side. All of that air will continue to blow from the land to the sea. So, the sort of on shore flow, the flooding of rivers and that sort of thing will not be happening in myrtle beach unless there is some crazy change of storm that the Hurricane Center does not anticipate. The exact opposite is true north of the eye. For instance, where our Steve Harrigan has been all day. North Top Sail Beach in North Carolina. Its still coming in like a hurricane there. Steve, what do you see . I know, shepard, i am hearing all this talk about this is a rain event. The storm is weakening. That is certainly not the case where im standing. This is very much a wind event still and winds are gusting about as strong as we have heard them from the very beginning. Now, it is causing structural damage. Over the last hour or two, this is the first significant structural damage that we have seen. Stairway here, a door here. Bits of roofs here. If you can look at this house behind me over here, parts of its roof over the last hour or. So and when you look down the street you see bits and pieces of houses. And downed power lines. Thats why its so dangerous for anyone to come in or out of here. Not just because the wind but because of the debris under the water. And those downed power lines. Most of these houses are boarded up. A lot of garages left open to try and get that wind cycling through. We havent seen a soul here all day. Without electric power. Without Cell Phone Service for the most part, this is, oh, man, have you got to turn backwards just to stand up in it. The water has come over the beach. There was about a 60yard beach there. It was a Beautiful Day yesterday afternoon. And then the water has kept rising. Now its actually forming a little river here and going in to the bay. So this part of the island, the houses structurally are Still Standing but bits and pieces of them are still being torn up at this late stage of this storm, shepard. Shepard steve, its late in the storm. But have you got hours more of this, it looks like. Can you come back with that again, shepard . Shepard there is more to come. Well, you know, there is nowhere we can go, really. I mean, the bridge is closed. There is so much debris. I have seen a couple of cars drive through power lines down the street. Jeff bern takes more risk than i would and he wouldnt go. We turned around. We have a generator going. We will be here, you know, we will be here until its over. Shepard if Steve Harrigan can survive the kyber spas in afghanistan he can survive north top sail. Im glad there arent a lot of other people around there steve, thanks so much. Its a case study in the front and back side of these storms. That counterclockwise flow, if you are 50, 60 miles from the center of the storm, which i think steve is about now, the wind and the waves coming off the ocean, constant pounding wind, in a normal storm that moves at a normal pace, it would have been long gone by now. And its quite possible that it would have been a sunny day by now. When andrew came through in south florida, it was a sunny day within just a few hours. Because that storm was moving at 28, 30 Miles Per Hour. So, the storm went away and after a hurricane, you know, you have the bluest skies and the least humidity because that low Pressure Center sucks everything. In all the moisture. And it just takes it on its way as it moves out of the region. And in this case, none of that. Live looking here in new bern. We have been talking to you about new bern and all the rescues that they had to make there. New bern is at the end of a river, which comes right off the Atlantic Ocean. And as those winds and waves pounded the shore, the storm surge went right up that river. The river at the atlantic is quite wide. And it gets narrower, and narrower as you go inland. So whatever water it could take at the shore, it was funneling it in and almost like a funnel right into the town of new bern. And this was the result. People there say that oh, we have lived through a lot of these storms. They come and they go. Its bad enough, we are on a river. We understand that but we will be just fine. The water is not coming into our houses. That was yesterday. They know better today. Lots of people there hundreds and hundreds of residents of this town of a little more than 6,000 were up in their attics or up on their roofs waiting to be rescued overnight hours and into the morning. They got a storm surge, the locals tell us the mayors of alderman tell us the storm surge is about 9 or 10 feet. They have had it bad. Things are improving at new bern. Look back at Steve Harrigan again who doesnt know we are there. He is just wandering about in the streets and trying to find a place, im guessing, to get a little dry. The noise of a hurricane over time and just balancing yourself against that wind as he is clearly doing. Its one thing to be out there and do that for five or 10 minutes. Its another to stand in 70, 80, 90 mileperhour winds for hours on end. You talk about cramping and wet and cold and miserable. There is that thing in your ear so you can hear us. And then you have to hold the microphone and wet and cold. Its a terrible existence. So glad its steve and not me. Thank you, Steve Harrigan. Well be right back. Popular street name. But no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. Now that you know the truth, are you in good hands . Feeclaritin and relief fromwsy symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. Like those from buddy. Because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. Feel the clarity. And live claritin clear. Why test a hybrid engine for over six million miles . Why handtune an audio system . Why include the most advanced active Safety System in its class, standard . 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So, i guess i will retract the breaking news animation and breaking news announce to tell you that its okay. Steve harrigan Still Standing out there in the wind, just want to give you a quick little look at that there is steve. There he is. He is talking to somebody else there. Doing a live shot for somebody else. Griff jenkins has gotten off the boardwalk and still in Morehead City and along the hotel balcony. How does this look from there, griff . Well, you know, shep, the storm gave our equipment a beating. We have lost a little bit of our mobility. We can give you the best perspective. As you mentioned earlier the storm has kind of passed it. While it looks a little stormy. Its more of a Tropical Storm feel right now. Its not the beating we were taking. What you are looking at in Morehead City is out at Atlantic Beach, the Barrier Island this is the boeing sound right here. These little bushes on this strip of land is Sugar Loaf Island much larger and in the near distance you can see docks. As you know Morehead City and the whole carolina coastal areas big into shipping and boating. This is the capital right here in this area of beaufort, Morehead City for the North Carolina shrimp industry. Its going to be interesting to see if you come over this way just a little bit im going to turn you mike towards. This you see the tug boats pulled into shore. You see those cranes that are sticking up. Those huge cranes which is what offloads a lot of the shipping, the fishing, the bigger ships that were pulled out. You know, its a rare thing, shep, for a storm to come for fishermen to really pull the Big IndustrialFishing Vessels out. But that was done before this storm because they looked at florences size and if you look, just here, you can see what was really more recreational docks, some people this their own Fishing Vessels and can you see these docks are still under water. So the surge is certainly there. Here in bogue bay. As i have talked constantly to the last 14 hours to the chief of