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This system has weakened. isolated tornadoes. still talking about damaging winds up to 60 miles an hour. large hail and the flooding issue that we've been saying. that is something that is going to linger today and tomorrow morning also. >> neil: thank you, adam. a lot of people, most people, would be running from tornadoes. my next guest runs at them. >> this is storm chaser aaron. i'm here in nebraska, a tornado on the ground here right now. i believe northeast of mccook. >> neil: pretty close to that thing. here's aaron. you -- you're a risk taker to put it mildly. that looked pretty close....

Rick, so much ahead. >> yeah, there is, shepard. i thought it was an interesting comparison, south carolina's governor made between hugo and florence. i was in charleston when hugo hit. it was a beast, a category four. it slammed charleston and moved out quickly. the governor is saying that this is a very different situation. florence hit and it's lingered for a very long time and the rain continues to fall to the north of the river, swollen rivers flowing to the south. some of them have not crested yet. that's what they're trying to reinforce here. the flood waters may be receding some places...

The wind and the rain continuing in myrtle beach, south carolina. we know this tropical storm is not going anywhere, only moving at about 2 miles per hour. i want to bring in the mayor of myrtle beach. this has picked up, the ocean is a lot rougher than what we saw yesterday. myrtle beach so far has fared fairly well but what's your concern now? >> the current concerns are people don't realize we're going to get some more weather today with this tropical storm. we still have a storm warning. and high tide at 1:00. so stay inside if you can. it just isn't really safe to be out yet. and my major...

Other models to declare a mandatory evacuation and we put that in place or the county did, which we really appreciate and from there immediately folks started evacuating. we asked them to go east of i95 to get out of harms way. this storm was bigger than hurricane hugo if anybody remembers that. many people heeded that advice. some folks that lived around new burn for 20 and 30 years and have not witnessed a hurricane of this magnitude did not leave. neil: so the flooding issue, that will still be an issue and you're told for how long at least another day? >> so the water has receded about fou...

We didn't get to see thankfully the harsh hurricane force winds north carolina has, all of the trees that were toppled there, the major flooding in the new bern area. we haven't seen it in myrtle beach yet, but because it is a slow moving storm, the concern here is the next couple of days. >> gabe gutierrez, we're going to take our cue from you and head north to migel almaguer. i know tragedy has struck there. there have been fatalities in wilmington. let's update how things are there. >> reporter: yeah, alex. the family was inside a home when a tree came crashing down, killing two members ins...