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Brought it up that georgia needs to start paying attention to this because it could still be a category 2 when it crosses over that florida georgia line as it is moving so fast. this is important for more than one state to be paying attention to. thanks so much. let's get to the east of where we expect the eye to make landfall. gary tuchman is in shell buoypo beach, florida. how has it been changing? >> reporter: the last hour and a half we have had a driving rain. i'm here east of panama city and south of tal. roads are flooded. we are actually about a half a mile from the beach. we were abou...

Specifically, say despite telling people to get out, there have not been a large amount of evacuations in the city. is it that people are, you know, basically storm fatigued and they're not listening anymore? >> well, it's a combination of that. but also when people went to bed they thought it was a category 2 and they've woken up to a category 4, winds about 145 miles per hour, which is a very different sort of storm. and now it's really too late to evacuate. just look over my shoulder at the pier. that's the city pier. this is normally almost a flat kind of gulf of mexico where you can go wa...

The building but this building seems to have not been damaged. as you can see, that's going to be a lot of work for a lot of people. this is what's happening all over the city on both sides of the street and streets throughout tallahassee. these really beautiful, beautiful old trees. i think you'll notice there's something missing here and that's rain. that's because all day long we have been seeing what meteorologist would call bands of this storm. there's been sort of whipping wind from time to time. even 30 minutes ago we barely felt any wind. there's been driving rain and then nothing. tha...

Besides moving inland, communities not used to handling so much rain in the short time and there is the potential of flash flooding far inland. there are four storm related fatalities over the bridge in wilmington, mother and her infant died during the storm when a tree fell on their home but a little bit inland in north carolina two men in their late 70s died in separate incident. one was electrocuted when talking to plug-in extension cords in the driving rain. another died after heavy wind knocked him over when he went outside to check on his dog's. treacherous conditions yesterday during th...

The coast in wilmington, north carolina. anderson joined me earlier. he's joining me now. anderson, before -- i want to talk to you about something that you were reporting on today. i was standing there listening to you and we were talking about the president of the united states and his tweets. before we get to that, can you give me an update of the current situation where you are? >> yeah, it's what it's been for the last couple of hours. we've been getting some gusts of wind here but it is really just the driving rain that continues. it's been continuing unabated for the last couple hours. ...