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Duration is going to impact the counties and the states, the abilities to potentially respond to this, because we're not going to be sending people out in unsafe conditions, so it might take some time before we can begin recovery operations. >> i'm looking at live pictures, steven, right now from buxton, north carolina. some of the outer banks, again, north of where both you and i are right now. looks like some of that rain is already beginning to hit. you can see the seas tossing and turning a little bit. it's low tide right now, or lower tide right now. the problem, as you noted with this st...

The rainfall amounts are going to add up and could be very comparable to what we've had with past historic storms. so this could be one for the record books, with storm surge and, as well as the rainfall. >> and that's so important to bring up, because when we say is it slowing down in terms. speed at which it's moving, that's a bad thing, it's a terrible thing. it means that there are more people who will feel the exaimp for a longer time. so if you're in wilmington where you are and further south where i am in oak island, once we start feeling tropical storm force winds, how long will we get...

Adviser, meteorologist, i should say, for the national weather service. he's based in wilmington, north carolina, just a little bit north of where i am. and steven, this storm, it really is a multiple threat. >> yeah. we're seeing potential deadly storm surge and catastrophic rainfall as this storm slows near the coast. so it's not just going to be the wind element or the surge element or the rainfall, possibly all three of those, as this storm approaches. so certainly a life-threatening situation that we had to prepare for. >> a few minutes ago, we talked to our meteorologist, chad myers, who...

Morning, it's just after 6:00 a.m., you maybe have a few more hours if you decided to stay. do you want to send a message to any of those people, probably the year-round residents, the grizzled veterans. >> just watch the news, if you feel you're in danger, call the county, call us, we'll come get you before the winds get to 45. but if you want to leave, leave now. >> all right, with mayor cin brochure, thank you so much -- >> thank you, john, appreciate you coming down to oak island and helping us out here. >> we'll come back. we'll come -- >> come back after and see how we recover. >> it's a...

Issue, it's anything tidally connected, the tidal creeks, the waterways. that's why we're so concerned that any of these low-lying areas where there are a lot of communities, that there could potentially be some storm surge into some of the structures. certainly, the oceanfront with the large battering waves. >> and that's before we get 2 feet to 3 feet of rain. so just imagine the effect that that will have. we see the storm approaching the coast right now. again, we have the radar imagery up. any chance that it shifts paths at this point, or are you pretty certain of where this thing is goin...