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Almost impossible. it was just, the wind was howling so loudly. we are in wilmington, which is a county of about 200,000 people. the mayor tells me the entire county is without, most people are without power now. we lost power at 6:00 a.m. this morning. the concern here is twofold. one, it's the wind. there are trees down. i know lester holt is over at a house where a tree fell on top of a house. there are people making calls like that, medical calls needing help. the mayor said they have had about 100 calls this morning. the problem is, first responders can't get out, yet. it's too dangerous ...

They want to be prepared to help with rescue and recovery. the only vehicles allowed to be moving around right now are fuel vehicles trying to keep the generators connected to have power on the base. overall, they have lost power. we are just on generator power. the important things is to keep communications ready. they have a lot of assets here, ali, that are prestaged, ready to go out for tasking and orders from federal authorities to help with recovery. amphibious vehicles, trucks and the navy. moments ago, i was speaking with navy officials. they have two big ships. the arlington as well a...

Soaking rain all day long. i think that is one of the factors that led people to make a decision they are going to be in their homes, in the dark. the power has been out for quite a while. that's enough. people are ready to get out of here. i cannot say enough good things about this. they are doing the lord's work. these are people from north carolina who want to take care of their neighbors, communities and towns. they are out here doing it today. bill? >> i know we had ali with us, also. you were mentioning the high tides where you are located. the wind is blowing off the coast. i'm not worr...

Happening. we are an hour away, less than an hour away from high tide here, but if you look at this, you see the increasing waves coming in. you can almost see the power of this wind, the storm wind is going this way right now and pushing water that way. where the water should be a lot closer to where i am right now, it's actually lower. now, we are going to see in an hour, when we have high tide, what that feels like and how close the storm is. you have the storm's wind pushing the water that way and high tide pushing in here. we're going to see how that affects flooding where i am. marianna ...

Batoning down, but they need the orders from fema and go through the right channels to help with recovery. overall, on the base, you have a lot of sturdy structures. i'd like to say i bedded down with them, but we stayed in a hotel. i'm going to show you what it looks like here. strong and sturdy structures. we are elevated 30 feet off the river here. we are not in danger of flooding. the lower area of flooding is in danger. that's why they put a lot of vehicles there. they can slide into the water, float out and help with recovery. one final note, they have a shelter here, four shelters for a...