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nursing homes and hospitals, have been phenomenally cooperative. it has gone so smoothly. they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for naught, but we cannot take risks, particularly with the most vulnerable. we wanted to do those first, and that's basically been accomplished. we do not incidentally recommend that anybody wait forz a bus to evacua evacuate. the best thing to do is to use your own or public transportation to get yourself to a shelter, and that means you've got to do that right now. 2 1/2 hours left for mass transit. city employees, if you volunte...

Days, almost everybody has left here, and with good reason, too. the conditions are about as bad as promised. power outages started about seven or eight hours ago. right now a couple hundred thousand without power and that number could easily rise to a couple of million as the flood waters rise and it could be weeks until that is restored, shannon. >> shannon: leland, if you can hear me, what do the scenes look like? we heard reports earlier today of waves up to 80 feet high. i know that is a big part of the storm, not yet fully rolled in. what is the water like they are where you are? >> it i...

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Of rain. this one could be 20, 30, maybe even 40 inches, is what i've been told. >> yeah. so your message tonight to the people in your city who are still there? >> yeah, just get prepared. this thing is coming. it looks like we're going take a direct hit here. it looks like the track is going to go south. i know that our neighbors south of us in myrtle beach and charleston have been prepared and been getting ready, but this is going to be a significant event for our community and our area. and we appreciate all of the efforts of all of the media who has really gotten the message out to the fo...

Evacuated and gotten out of the area. what i see with this storm, which is very concerning to all of us down here is this thing may be an event that sticks around for 36 to 48 hours, with four different high tides. a tremendous amount of water. we're going to have a lot of inland flooding. so we're going to have a lot of people after this event is over, that are going to want to come back into the area. we've got to have personnel to get in here to try to renew power to get in here as quickly as possible. all of the assets that will have to come into the area to clean this place up as soon as ...