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Where he is. plus, we're going live to a hurricane hunter who just flew over the storm. he'll give us the latest news on the storm. breaking news, alarming details coming out of massachusetts tonight. at least 39 buildings exploding into balls of fire. major evacuations underway and the threat is not over. we have the latest details coming up. erin burnett "out front" is brought to you by the thrilling new film "white boy rick" based on the unbelievable true story starring matthew mcconaughey only in theaters friday.

Surge is going to be the most immediate impact and i think since the storm has slowed down and perhaps because it's slowed down so much and the wind has reduced, people may get a little bit of a sense that they're kind of dodged a bullet with this one, but as all of your reporting has indicated already, this is a long-term event and the amount of water that's going to be either displaced, being pushed into the river basins and in the sounds of north carolina or falling in the form of rain over the next several days, no one's going to be out of the danger zone, i think, for quite some time. tha...

>> thank you. >> as i said, the city's mayor has left. the governor has warned, don't risk your life riding out a monster is how he put it. why are you staying? >> 84 years, i've been through every one of them. >> how many storms have you -- how many storms have you ridden out at home? >> i've rid them out at home. i've rid them out on our boat. i've rid them out on the road. a storm just like this style, i've been on a boat. rode them out on the boat. we had a pretty big boat. big cruise boat.

Of that wind already since before the hurricane has even made landfall. ed lavandera is off the coast. ed, where you are will be the first location to feel the real hurricane force winds. the storm surge there could hit, what, 12 feet? i mean, what are you looking at right now? >> reporter: well, it's odd because right now we're in the middle of like this dry and calm space between these bands that have been coming on shore here through much of the afternoon so it's a little deceiving given the situation we're currently in. not sure exactly how much longer this is going to last, but we have se...

Are you confident the coast guard has all the resources in place that it needs right now and that you'll need throughout and after the storm? >> yes, kate. we have about 800 coast guard men and women ready to respond to the storm, including an incident command post that we've established in golds borrow at the seymour johnson airbase. the thing about the coast guard, we are nimble and can respond. we are able to respond to a broad scope of flooding and impacts from this storm. >> and the broad scope of the flooding, you say it very well, is a big concern with every local official that i have s...