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Hurricane kate was about the roughest hurricane we've seen back in the 80s. but now what we're seeing right now is -- seems to be a devastating storm coming towards us. we're really worried about flooding and tornadoes and getting people to high ground. >> sandra: brenda holt, the commissioner from florida. our prayers are with your residents and you, brenda, be safe. >> i can barely hear you, but i did not hear your statement. >> sandra: we wish you the best. >> thank you so much and please call back and check on us. we have gotten great assistance from the state so far. we have additional 50...

Look will, don, even getting out of the car is a challenge. as soon as you open the door, the wind catches the door and whips it forward. this road is starting to flood a little bit down here. i can see. the trees are really starting to be compromised and whip around. these country roads, these rural roads right by the intercoastal waterway are getting much more dangerous. the flood surge, the storm surge from the waterway not far behind me is coming up right through here. >> all right. brian todd, be safe. brian is in hempstead, north carolina. from hempstead to jacksonville, north carolina w...

Your vantage point? >> sean, we have seen things get worse each and every hour, i'm starting to hear things break in the darkness. the electricity is out, more than 100,000 people at least along the coast of north carolina, that could go up to 3 million by the end. it looks like some of the construction on the building opposite me is starting to blow off, we have seen the winds reached tropical storm force over the next couple of hours, hurricane force, so things will get worse overnight, and the first responders are ready, the army is here. of the guard is here, from 19 states here to volunte...

The storms, the storm surge hits at low tide. you do not get that luck here, because of the way that the barrier islands of north carolina are set up, normally acting as a shield or protect her from these storms as they come in. instead, acting essentially as a funnel. funneling all of those storm surge, not only up here to something like morehead, but further up the river. in communities that do not see this kind of rain. for this kind of flooding. which will have catastrophic effects. they talk about complete inundation, that's where we will have rescues going on for days when the storm ends...

Line are absolutely going to heed those evacuation orders and get out. some of the more interior people, you know, they were getting all the supplies, the generators, the fuel. but again, like you said, if this storm sits here for 24 hours, even longer, you've got the freshwater flooding threat that you could get trapped along with that wind damage threat, the surge threat, all that water from the atlantic is going to go up the rivers and into the inlets. where is it going to go? it's going to spill out on the land. >> and water that you can't use. so if you're stuck, you don't have potable wa...