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Situation. after spoiling memorial day plans, the remnants of tropical storm beryl are still soaking coastal florida and georgia. beryl's winds continue to taper off, but it could trigger strong thunderstorms and tornadoes as it stalls over georgia for much of the day. beryl will drift back out to sea by thursday. beryl did knock out power to tens of thousands of people as it barreled ashore near jacksonville with near hurricane-force winds. it toppled trees, flooded neighborhoods. some areas got a half foot of rain but so far the overall damage has been relatively minimal. and the folks dow...

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Florence compared to hurricane hugo, the monster storm in 1989, which was the most powerful storm then, of course, to hit the carolinas. we're covering this storm from the ground and from the air. we will check in with our accuweather storm chaser and a hurricane hunter who just flew over florence and has new data on the storm. let's start with tom sater. give us the very latest. >> reporter: kate, another hurricane hunter is getting ready to fly into this and what they may detect is a little bit of dry air trying to infiltrate that southern flank but we don't think that's going to do anything...

That happens, 13 feet above the high tide, which might be 7, you're talking about as much as 20 feet of water coming over the dunes. our sand dunes are healthy, but they're not going to be able to keep back a wall of water like that. and we can expect at that point the water gets out on to the first two, maybe three blocks, and you know, from there, take the rain in conjunction which we have now, you put the two in combination, flooding is almost guaranteed. >> almost guaranteed. thank you for sticking it out in this rain very clearly. i can see it on you and our camera, mayor. do you have a p...

Punishment phase is under way, it could go on for at least another day. and oliver faces up to life in prison. david? >> marcus moore from dallas tonight. marcus, thank you. and as i mentioned at the top there, we're also following severe weather hitting tonight. there's already been two tornadoes. now storms across several states expected. thunderstorms with blinding rain in adams county, wisconsin, already. you can see roads blocked by fallen trees there. flash flooding covering neighborhoods in vernon county. and the governor just tonight declaring a state of emergency in parts of that st...