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As you know, craig, from reporting on these things and from your home state of south carolina, this place gets wet. it's been saturated for the last couple of years. so there are three problems, right? there's all this rain that's coming in that is saturating the carolinas. there's the storm surge coming in, and now the high tide. the issue in a place like charleston always is flooding. even when there aren't storms of this condition there's a great deal of flooding. they've evacuated this larger area. there's a bridge over there that goes to mount pleasant, evacuated mostly. if you look ahead...

The death toll has risen to at least 20 now as rescue workers are making their way to the most devastated areas of that island chain. weather watches, weather warnings now extending as far north as massachusetts. we're checking the current conditions from our correspondents along the path of dorian. al roker standing by for that 11:00 update. we'll go to him in a moment. but we start in the low country of charleston, south carolina. we start there. dorian expected to get dangerously close today to the peninsula on which that city sits. msnbc's ali velshi has made his way there. what are you se...

Wilmington and cape hatteras. it's just hugging the coast. category two storm, which is not a huge storm but still can do a heap of damage, especially folks who are inland should not be complacent because, as we said, you can -- these tropical force wind extend 190 miles from the center. so, please, do be vigilant. >> mr. roker, thank you, sir. thank you, thank you. we'll check in with you tomorrow morning or tonight on nightly news gnaws well. thank you. brenda bethune is with me now. she's the mayor of myrtle beach, south carolina. that's where we saw simone live. it's also where we find sig...

Columbia. how is our hometown dealing with the worst of the storm right now? >> it's all good. in regard from judging ms. williams for you this morning told me to tell you hello. and your guidance counselor from high school, said hole will he, we're all good. you know what it's like with storms here. the governor's ready, myrtle beach is ready and thank you for all your skblern thank you there and tell everyone that i say hello. here's the thing, kayden. all of this is happening off the coast and the president of the united states is holding up a map that one could reasonably deduce he doctore...

They are struggling to get through the water. i'm standing in about a foot of water right now. but if you go a little farther north from here, i mean, the water gets a little bit higher and, of course, as rain continues to fall the water levels will likely rise, craig. >> kathy park in charleston, south carolina, god's country to the folks who live in the palmetto state. stay safe. thank you. dorian's slow journey up the u.s. coast, a warning has been extended to include virginia now. reports of tornadoes touching down as dorian claws its way up the carolina coast. that cat two storm expected ...