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The coast and run parallel to the coast there are was just a chance it was going to miss cape halter russ and if it did that there would not have been a landfall in the united states. >> mr. rok, er, thank you. nbc's catie beck is there in north carolina. she's made her way to the outer banks. she's in the beach town of nags head about 50 miles from where dorian made landfall. it looks like it's worse there than it was just a few hours ago. >> reporter: absolutely. we are getting crushed right now. torrential rain and some very, very strong hurricane-force winds. i'm actually kind of winded my...

Catie beck has made her way to the outer banks. she's in nags head, north carolina. catie, when we checked in with you a few moments ago the wind and rain were pelting you and that seems to still be the case, although maybe to a lesser extent. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. the wind is now coming in gusts so i've got a slight reprieve for a few seconds and then you get one of these massive, forceful, powerful gusts. it definitely has been interesting this morning to watch the conditions deteriorate as the eye wall of dorian makes its way around the north carolina coast. getting closer you can ...

Eye wall and is now in the eye. now, to get a center landfall declared by the hurricane center, you need the center of the eye to kind of go over land. we may have to wait a little further up. but this right here, this area, this bright pink in here, the dark red. this is a heavy band. this is the northern eye wall. this is what's left on the powerful eye that once had 185 mile-per-hour wind. now it's down to 90. we could get hayer gusts in here and get some damage. higher tide was between 1:00 and 2:00 on the outer banks. now we're heading towards low tide. so we're not worried about that. by...

Downed power lines and damage to those. chblg of course, when you're dealing with these conditions, they can only be out there when it's safe. as we continue to watch this event here, it's important to point out it's not just in charleston, as you know. it's up through the coast and we're watching the storm as it tracks, moving in a northeast direction where it was trending a little bit. that will make a big difference. what we're feeling is more of the eyewall, about 35 miles from us. that's where you feel the strongest winds, the eye of the storm itself. i want to point out the mayor here ma...

Inland areas towards the coast. you get an approaching category 3 hurricane, it only makes matters worse. we have reports of flooding downtown. the threats going forward are real. people are taking them seriously. you can see how i'm getting battered by the gusts of wind. national weather service starting to pick up on a real flood threat here. i can't overstate that enough as this eye wall makes its closest approach this morning coinciding with high tide, we have the potential here for over 15 inches of rain. that is a serious amount of rainfall in a 24 hour period. that will lead to more fla...