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The floods have not had a husband and an area surrounding us on it is devastating all right kelly warren sharing her stories with us tonight from wilmington north carolina kelly thank you . well meteorologist have been watching florence closely and they knew days ago that this was not going to be any ordinary hurricane that includes my next guest elizabeth gardner she is a meteorologist with w.r.a.l. t.v. she joins me tonight from raleigh north carolina good evening to you elizabeth you know when we heard that florida had been downgraded yet again from you know category four to category one in...

>> thank you. >> shepard: trace cooper staying behind there. forecasters are warning people do not focus on the wind speeds on the category numbers. instead, the national hurricane center tells us to tell you, it's the huge amount of water that the storm is expected to dump and not just on the coast. we'll have the latest forecast from the fox extreme weather center next on fox news channel. america's choice for news and information on cable. what, really? craig and shelia broke up!? no, craig!? what happened? i don't know. is she okay? ♪ craig and sheila broke up! craig and sheila!? ♪ as ...

People according to the national hurricane center focus on those category numbers, the saffir-simpson scale. not included in those is a fir simpson scale numbers or coordination is the storm surge. that's the dramatic problem especially right where i am here on carolina beach. as i step out and see the waves crash and building arrival of what will be hurricane florence here, sloping down on the sea bed out to about, i think, it's 120 miles or so, we actually have the continental shelf. it's at 5,000 feet and the water, that's fine, it's deep but when it hits the shelf in here, it rises and it ...