Up. North carolina joining South Carolina ordering folks along the coast to get in their cars and get out and fast no mystery why. Florence is already making history now. It could soon be a category 5 storm packing winds in excess of 150 Miles Per Hour. There is really nothing to stop it or slow it the National Hurricane center is set to issue an update at any moment. Ahead of that, we have got you covered with Rick Leventhal in Wrightsville Beach and adam klotz in the Weather Center why it is looking for and more like a huge exodus. We begin with rick. Hey, rick. Neil, the size of this storm is staggering and the track seems pretty certain to hit the carolina coast. And thats why governors in both north and South Carolina issued mandatory evacuation orders for coastal areas. About a Million People in South Carolina are being told to head for higher ground. I26 all the way from charleston to columbia is all lanes westbound. Also being told to move out and away from the coast. The outer banks here in Wrightsville Beach evacuation orders in effect. The bridge between here and wilmington will close tomorrow at 8 00. Thats it. No one else is able to get in or get out. Were just off of the ocean here. We want to show you this 26 unit condo under development and there are efforts underway to clear all the debris out of here. As you know if and when all this stuff hits it could go flying. They loaded three flatbeds to get the possible deagree out of the area. P. J. Kelly is building these homes and you also live here. You have been here 25 years. Are you and your friends and family staying or going . Well, we have chosen to stay, rick. On the beach here obviously a mandatory evacuation the low lying areas you need to be careful with flooding. In you are inland a little bit, board up your windows have a generator and you will be in good shape. Have you seen the size of the thing and it does look to be coming right this way. It has. Its a little intimidating. Turning north a little bit. We like to see that. But i think all in all, you know, we will be okay at the end of the day. These homes that you are building you said were rated for 130 miles plus per hour. This storm could get up to 150, 150 even. It is. Obviously the condos at Wrightsville Beach are built for the wind code. Build for storm surge. My guys have done a good job cleaning up the site. Getting the debris and lumber out of here. I dont foresee any problems. We hope there arent. We will be here. If it does i will help you put it back together. I would hold you to that. It serious business. The mayor says they have ready for this. They have evacuated many times. Right now the flow is smooth from Wrightsville Beach away and they fully expect water to be turned off by tomorrow night and power likely to go out. Not just here but across the state for hundreds of thousands of customers. Neil all right, rick. Thank you very much. Hurricane florence a massive storm. This time laps video taken by a hurricane chaser shows you how big this monster is. Expected to gain strength as is doing so right now. Meteorologist adam klotz give my hats off they warned us about this when there wasnt anything approaching this. Now that it is, man o man, adam. Yeah, its big as you said its only going to intensify forecasted to here from today running into tomorrow. Ends winds currently at 130 Miles Per Hour. It does look by the time we get into the middle of wednesday winds ump jing up to 130 to 140 to 150 Miles Per Hour as it continues to the coast. Maybe as it approaches the coast the winds back off a little bit. Thats what the current models are suggesting falling down to 140 to 120. Maybe a category 3 storm. This is a major hurricane and all the effects we have been talking about, it is still going to bring those effects stretching along the carolina coast. Likely we are looking at spots anywhere from running in to charleston all the way up to norfolk, virginia. Wherever this ultimately makes landfall, that is where you will see the largest storm surge. Thats going to be one of the Major Concerns up 6 to 12 feet of storm surge. Areas of North Carolina where flooding couldnt just be the beach. Flooding inland even farther because of those lee lying areas. The other story is going to be rain as it this system eventually works its way on land with storm surge. You start to add 20 to 30 inches of rain in isolated areas and the flooding is going to be even worse. You see large areas where we are talking about those rains getting up over potentially two feet. Why would that happen . Why would we get so much rain . Here is the system we have got, again, pretty tight path there. Are urunning you into the carolinas. Indecision. Current models suggesting this stalls out. Begins to spin around the coast a little bit more. You see it there all the models arent necessarily in agreement where it spins. But if you start to slow down and sit there a while, neil, thats where you see these numbers beginning to pile up. We have got hurricane warnings now stretching again from the South Carolina all the way up into the outer banks. That has a lot to do with these winds which are going to be in 120 to 130 mileperhour range. The rain and storm surge, thats what i am most concerned about at this hour, neil. Neil all right, buddy, thank you very much. Adam klotz. Meanwhile wrightsville, North Carolina is brace for a direct hit from florence and possibly a huge storm surge as adam pointed out this thing is going to hang around for a while. A lot of rain. And doesnt my next guest know it all too well the mayor of wilmington, delaware joins us on what is doing helping people in that area to deal with this. Will ming top, North Carolina. Mayor thank you for taking the time there what are you noticing now . What are people telling you . People are taking this very seriously. They have heeded the warnings. They know the size of this storm is pretty large. They know its coming right at us. And they are heeding the advice of the elected officials and the Emergency Management folks and making preparations and evacuating the area. Neil mayor, what do you do about people who say no, i dont want to leave. I dont want the hassle of leaving and i want to say right where i am . Well, you know, i have said this over and over again, but once this storm is underway, all emergency responders, First Responders will stay put until after the storm passes. We cannot come and get anybody out of their house or out of their car during the middle of storm. And thats where while we tell people evacuate, get out of the harms way, make the preparations, hunker down, because once this thing event is underway, we will not come get you until its over. And we want people to be safe. We want them toe stay alive. And we want them to get out of harms way. Neil you know, mayor, im noticing that the water surge on this could go quite a ways inland. Hundreds of miles inland as a matter of fact. Where do you recommend they go just as far inland as possible . What are they being told . Well, you know, we have asked people to start evacuating a couple of days ago. We anticipated the storms track is to hit the carolina coast anywhere from the South Carolina line all the way up to virginia. People have heeded that advice. A lot of people have already left the area. But, for those few or those that have decided to stay to the last moment, you still have time to get out. You got 40 heading west that will take you to the middle part of the state up into charlotte and ashville and greensville salem. Even going south going down 95. Down that way. But, we want people to get out of harms way. For those that are wanting to ride it out here in the wilmington area and a lot of people have decided they will try to ride this thing out. We want them to secure their homes. Board up their windows. Make sure they have flash flights and water and food and whatever they are going to need for a couple of days because we feel pretty confident that he would going to be without power for possibly a week or two. And, of course, inland areas we may have significant flooding that we have seen in the past where we have 24 to 30 inches of rain. People are not going to be able to get back to their properties or get back to the city in a very timely manner. You have got to get prepared. You need to heed the advice of the Emergency Management folks and get ready. Neil all right. Wise words all, mayor. Thank you for taking the time. You be safer and your fine folks as well. Bill satisf saffo. Mayor. John roberts is there. John . Fema director as well as Kirstjen Nielsen the secretary of dhs were here in the oval office a short time ago. Neil, the president is trying to get out ahead of this storm knowing how far devastating that its going to be. Learning from the mistakes of the past with some other administrations already acceding to governors to both the carolinas and virginia to declare an emergency declaration. It allows them to take steps that they wouldnt normally be able to take to try to get ahead of this thing. The president suggesting as well that he is ready and that this is going to be a bad one. Listen here. We are sparing no expense, we are totally prepared. We are ready. We are as ready as anybody has ever been. This is going to be a storm thats going to be a very large one, far larger than we have seen in, perhaps, decades. And a real warning this afternoon from the fema director brock long saying that, you know, as much as the wind is going to be a problem here, a bigger problem as you were hearing from just a moment ago is the fact that the hurricane is going to stall out after pushing to shore an anor must storm surge. There could be feet of rain in some areas. Director long saying that this is going to be as much a water event as a wind event. Listen here. Lets set the expectations as well. This has an opportunity of being a very devastating storm. The power is going to be off for weeks. You are going to be displaced from your home and the coastal areas. And there will be flooding in the inland areas as well. So, these are going to be statewide events. Statewide events. Its not going to be concentrated to just a confined area as we see with many hurricanes when they come ashore with that tight center of circulation. And you see hurricane winds extending out maybe 20, maybe 40 miles. Hurricane winds and devastating damaging winds will be much further out than that this could encompass entire states. The president getting his briefing from the dhs director, the dhs secretary as well as the fema director after going to shanksville, pennsylvania this morning for his second observance of this september 11th anniversary. 17 now in total. The president there in shanksville paying tribute to the 40 men and women on board flight 93 who died in an attempt to bring the plane down rather than letting it hit a target presumed to be somewhere in washington, d. C. The president also paying tribute to the nearly 7,000 Service Members he said have died facing down the menace of radical islamic terrorism. As commanderinchief, the president said i will always do everything in my power to prevent terrorists from striking american soil. According to terrorism experts i talked with today, a u. S. Intelligence as well as our allies have done a very good job in trying to hunt down and prevent any large scale terrorist attacks like 9 11 from happening again. Neil, these lone wolf attacks like we saw there in new york last year where the guy in the truck mowed down a total of 19 people, killing 8 of them on the greenway there in western manhattan, very much more difficult to try to prevent those from happening. But they are doing their best. Neil . Thats all they can do. All right, thank you my friend, john roberts. Thank you. A moment of silence corner of wall and broad New York Stock Exchange not all the money that was lost and financial opportunities take days to recoup for something far more important after this. [bell tolls. Tolls] age. Ladies and gentlemen, ourheroee marketplace. Neil that was six days after 9 11 and a lot of people thought once the market opened and was starting to crash and swoon big time it did, that it was a sign that lower manhattan, manhattan capitalism itself was in danger. That was not the deal with the fellow you just heard there and saw on top there the nyse chairman dick who joins us now. Always good to see you. Hi, neil. Neil not under these circumstances my friend. Opening after that and great deal of damage to facilities, operations, so many buildings in the area. But it was important that you open up for what reason . It was, neil. I mean, we had to recognize, obviously, with sensitivity that we had lost thousands of people here in new york and the pentagon and certainly in shanksville billions of dollars worth of damage to buildings in new york and the pentagon. But the reality, the attack was on our way of life, the american way of life. And what better proxy for americas resurgeons, americas recovery than to see the stock market reopen. It was volatile. It didnt take all that long but stabilize it did. You made a point you might have coined the expression at the time i remember talking to you forget the financial capital, neil, remember the human capital. Remember all the firms and securities and fitzgerald and marshall, and all of those many work on the floor of the exchange who were not going to be there and we somehow had to plow on . Two firms most dramatically affected. And losing over 650 people. You know, neil, today its so important, every anniversary to remember the 25 to 35,000 people came out of those two towers, thanks in large part to the efforts of those 343 firefighters, 23 new York City Police officers and 37 Port AuthorityPolice Officers who gave their lives. And the reopening was a statement to the terrorists. Youve killed thousands of people, youve destroyed billions in property. You can never defeat the american way of life. And what better an opening than to have an esu Police Officer and a new york city firefighter ring that opening bell, pump his big arms, billy fisher as he did, surrounded by the mayor, the governor, the treasury secretary, our two senators. Neil secretary clinton then senator clinton. They were all there. Neil no one was arguing. They sang. They sang God Bless America with me with the whole Trading Floor with the whole country who was watching. You know, it was a lesson then that we can take now. Everyone put aside whether you were democrat, republican, whether you were Goldman Sachs or merrill lynch. We were all americans and we had a job to do. And that was to send a message that american can never be defeated. Thats what that opening bell stood for. I was very proud to stand behind those Police Officers and firefighters because they and their brothers risked and in many cases gave their lives that some new yorkers, so many people from around the world came out of those towers got to go home to their families that night. Neil you know, you and i have talked over the years how new york was a target as it was in the First World Trade Center attack in 18993. Of course, it was the epicenter of the melt down in 2008. So, new york has bigger than normal target on it, doesnt it . Its the capital of capital throughout the world. And if you wanted to take a shot at the american way of life, you take a shot at the american stock markets. Neil do you think we have dropped our guard though . We were mentioning before that a quarter of the population today wasnt born at the time. I find that stunning but that we have gotten not cavalier but we have forgotten. You know, its important on the anniversaries to make certain those of us who were there, those of us who do revere what was done to save lives communicate effectively with those Young Americans that this is why we are here. This is what we do. And how we do it. And why this country can never be defeated. Neil well put, dick grasso, set last person to say it so i will say it not for him and remembering what was important, we would not have opened up so soon or capitalism tried to get back to normal. So quickly. That was important then as much as for the lives lost as the lives plowing on. That was then. I hope we remember it now what we got through. So every time people tell you about how horrific things are, look back then. We have gotten through much, much worse, my friend. [applause] does this map show the peninsula trail . You wont find that on a map. Ill take you there. Take this left. If you listen real hard you can hear the whales. Oop. 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