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Yesterday or the cumulus clouds. this is a storm above us. let me ask you this, captain, sorry, we lost the captain. we are going to go back to him when we can get you. let's go to oak island, north carolina, 40 miles northeast of me right now. what is your situation? >> reporter: ali, i am on dolphin drive. this is second street, close to the beach. the beach is to my left. it is a south facing beach. you can start to feel the hurricane start coming this way. you can start to see some toppled trees, some debris start to fly around. the good news for people here is because this storm ventured ...

>> michelle, behind me, i don't know if you can see this, there are some boats obviously and then these big cumulus clouds. that's what everything was earlier today. it was all cumulus clouds. they're gone now and we've got these serous clouds. this is sort of the far edge of this hurricane. when you are at the board there and you're referring to the hurricane, you're using a counter clockwise motion. as this hurricane maybe heads south of where we are, maybe even toward myrtle beach, people say, good, it's going to different areas. in a hurricane if you're at the northeast of it, you're actua...

Of the effort, the fascination that even if there was a clouds, there was still that effort. a combined effort to see something truly spectacular. and i know it sound funny, almost counterintuitive, but i know that some people when they have traveled so far, but not seen it, they feel it is a, absolute imperative to try again. that gives hope, that gives meaning to life. >> chad, let me -- you're a weather guy. what's the weather like as this total eclipse moves across the united states from oregon to idaho, missouri, and heading your way. it's heading towards south carolina. chad, i want you ...

An hour to go before we reach totality here. and hopefully still good. people here are still excited to be here even though now you see people covered up completely in their rain ponchos. this lady has a stool over her camera also from australia, made the trek. protecting camera gear. plastic bags, ponchos, rain boots. how we're eclipses here in missouri. >> you still have a half hour. we can hope it clears and that rain goes away. the clouds go away. let's hope in the next half hour. and folks taking it in good spirit. david, it's got to be disappointing. travel all the way from australia to ...

Whatsoever. move you around here. back out to the west. this is where it really is good. all the way from casper, wyoming through yellowstone national park, grand teton for echsteton. and lincoln, nebraska, omaha seeing cloud cover. we talked about this an hour ago, wolf. when the clouds move away and they can, when the sun is blocked temperatures go down. the clouds are here because the temperatures have gone up. cumulus clouds. if the temperature goes down quick enough the clouds can actually go away and can you have a brief glimpse of the sun, the eclipse even with rainfall coming in there....