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Days of big-time humidity and heat. that can be insufferable, especially for the vulnerable and the elderly. no air conditioning, inside, not being able to get help, not being able to contact. bad things can happen. so we have to watch that, even though it's not the drama of a hurricane, it is part of managing the health consequences of this. so, if we're going to get lucky here, and we'll see. if by the middle of the afternoon the sustained rain, the sustained low winds even, by hurricane standards, haven't taken out power in big pockets of long island, the story has to move on from there. it...

Whether we call it a tropical storm or hurricane, still a big impact for a lot of folks. >> ken, thank you very much. again, you used a key word there, stalling. a big deal. there's a part of that happening over new york city. we saw the rain last night. one of the outer boroughs of new york, brooklyn, got over six inches of water. that can change a community quickly. we're going to see that in different pockets of rhode island depending on how long different aspects of this storm stay in the same place dumping rain. even if you don't have the winds, you can have six, eight hours of rain. the ...

South of charleston, south carolina. 105 mile per winds moving at 9 miles per hour. not fast by hurricane standards. we have watchings and warnings stretching from florida up into virginia. hurricane warnings from north of melbourne to cape hatteras. tropical storm watches for virginia and tropical storm warning back into northeastern florida. here's what we expect as far as the track is concerned. it's starting to move a little bit closer in some of the models to the north carolina coast. by friday morning, between wilmington and cape hatteras. let's show you the other two models. the america...

This according to the national hurricane center. for the very latest, let's turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> we finally have a storm on the move. after days of sitting over the alabaman island. 6 miles per hour. still slow by hurricane standards, but now it's heading for the carolina coastline. will it make that direct landfall? it's still a direct possibility. we do not think it will get much weaker from here on out. it did go from a category 5 to a 2. even if it makes landfall as a strong category two, we would have significant problems in areas of the carolinas. would it look like ...

If you can. i want to talk about these storm shelters. i was shocked to hear in charleston county, one of south carolina counties hit by multiple hurricanes have shelters that are not strong enough to withstand a category for storm. what about shelters in your area? convey withstand category 4? what people do in terms of shelters? >> hard to predict that. the roof on the emergency operations center we had an injury evaluation, sustained winds of 100 miles an hour if we lose the emergency operations center. we have a plan b to relocate. we are using a lot of schools as shelters. these schools a...