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Make it and everything is going to be okay. >> even after hurricane arthur passes, rip currents could still be a threat for several days. joining me now is dr. ellen prager, a marine scientist. she's on skype which is a good thing. we can see her. good morning. >> good morning. >> here's the big problem. a lot of people don't know how to spot a rip current in order to get out of the way. how can you see one in order not to get sucked in? >> the problem is they are very difficult to see, especially if the surf is rough. there some are tell-tale signs. sometimes you'll see debris or a calmer spo...

You should not be going in the water when there's a threat for rip currents. >> stay away. >> that's the answer. >> all right. dr. ellen prager, thanks for joining us and providing us with more information on rip currents. that wraps things up for me. richard lu i picks up the special coverage of hurricane arthur.

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conditions seem to be improving right now. we are starting to see a few people out walking on the beach. most people still staying inside but, yeah, things have remarkably improved the last half hour here. max winds out here last night were 60 to 70 miles an hour and extreme but not as extreme 30 minutes south where winds topped a hundred miles an hour. >> sarah, those high winds also means you have to watch the surf conditions and the waves. what are you seeing out in the ocean? >> reporter: let me show you what we are seeing. the ocean is calming down a little bit but we have quite...

Very stiff resistance. wolf? >> excellent explanation, tom foreman, thank you. let's bring in ocean scientist ellen prager joining us from miami. that was a good explanation from tom, and i understand that bottom over there, the floor of the indian ocean where they are searching has never been mapped at all, so they are not sure what's down there, right? >> that's correct. in fact, you know, you can go on the web and bring up a picture of the bottom topography of the world ocean and it looks like we know what's there, but, in fact, that's a base map that's done from satellite and it's only alo...