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Welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world 6789 live in wilmington north carolina. covering florence a tropical storm. that has proven deadly. >> i'm i hong kong. we're monitoring the path of typhoon manghkut. downgraded slightly after making land fall in the fiphilippines that could pick up steam again as it pushing towards china. >> of course we'll stay in touch with you throughout the hour. in the state is we're following florence. currently under a tornado watch here. the storm feeling the affects. a messy system that will cause problems for several days. th...

Buildings. there is a lot of customers, more than 300,000 customers in north carolina without power right now. that number is only likely to increase. i think there is a lot of people who are just going to be spending the day inside, can't even watch it on tv anymore. and all they have to do, though, is look out the window. it is miserable. when i spoke up this morning a couple hours ago and looked outside, you can feel the windows, the buildings kind of rattling. you can feel the gusts of winds. so it is a big difference from what it was when i was last on air about midnight last night. it ce...

Storm. just now from noa they're telling us there's 10 foot storm surges, and they're seeing some flooding there. 9.6 is the exact count they told us. and that's nearly 10 feet there. and they're also saying 70 mile an hour sustained winds right now in that area. so the winds are starting to pick up. let's check in with my colleague now ed lavandera, jacksonville, north carolina. take us to the scene there, ed. what are you seeing? >> don, it's the eeriness of these storms when they start making land fall in the darkness of night. the eeriness of the wind howling, and it's hard to make out exa...

It looks like it's somewhere between. we have 20 miles to go. we will get our official land fall and then it looks like the eye could head right over the top of wilmington by midmorning. continue to weakten by the time it gets to south carolina. here's saturday at 8:00 a.m. that's painful to go in that slow. so the itself from where it's located right now will only travel about 110 miles over the next 48 hours. or as we -- that's 24 -- about 30 hours or so. you get the picture.

With 140 miles per hour. so when you look at it that way. everything is good right now. we have seen through here is some of the fiberglass which i expect is from some of the roofing in the area. we're in a business park. we're behind a grocery store behind a sporting good store. and hiding in the best spot we can. i'm standing out in the area where there's kind of a tunnel you can feel the wind coming through. in this area as it has been in wilmington all night. the wind has been swirling. you can't anticipate where it's coming from. as we stand in and out it will slow for a moment and pick b...