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Storm florence. All of our crews are out in it. Well be bringing all of this information to you. Our breaking News Coverage our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac360. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening. Im Anderson Cooper in willing, North Carolina. The story has been wailg rain and rain and more rain. Were seeing the heaviest band of rain just in the last ten minutes or so hitting this area down by the cape fear river. Five people have died so far in this storm. Five people. Five lives lost. Hundreds of people have had to be rescued from their homes. Some here in wilming...

Developed at the time? it was unusually bumpy for you. why was that? >> the weaker storms, category 1s and hurricanes tend to be the bummier rides. more powerful hurricanes are more established. they have their horizontal wind fields. there are a lot of up drafts and down drafts. there's a lot of wind sheer and dry air. that led through a bumpy ride and in clear air around it. it was one of the bumiest i was in. you can see for a second you got a little bit of zero gravity. this is sort of stuff that billionaires spend a lot of money to get, right there. a little bump from the drop. there it i...

Strongest most destructive winds are. you don't want to be outside of forecast, old timers, i've been this thing. through category 1s and category >> which is where freeport 2s. they need to leave? was -- >> freeport, all of grand bahamas. watch the last couple frames. right there. >> the emergency managers it inched north ward. responsible for people in their for the first time in 24 hours counties, as a rule of them from we finally are watching this go most i've talked to, they assume north. come over here, i want to show one category worse. this isn't a perfect science. you the radar view. ...

>> not as well as we would like. that's why i appreciate you doing this, because i think there is still room for more people to get out of harms way. we wish they would because it's a lot easier to take care of people who are out of the way of the storm's surge than it is to go in and try to get them out afterwards if they stayed. >> congressman, as i told the mayor and we tell local officials all the time when something like this is headed their way, if you need to get the word out, if you need to say what is needed, our brothers and sisters in nickell robey-coleman income, even up in wilming...

The wind is even stronger than it has been in the last 24 hours. it is unbelievable. this storm, florence, will not quit. they call this a category 1. this is strongest category 1s that i've certainly seen. most of newhanover county is now out of electricity. almost the entire county, our cell phones have gone down. all communications, we're now using a satellite phone and many other technology to even get this live shot out. it is absolute pandemonium here. >> that was miguel marq you ez. no one's idea of typical.