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With the american red cross, charlie english, to give us updates on the efforts underway. >> thank you. we certainly appreciate your leadership and your inclusive ps of our faith based and private partners on the team. thank you very much for that. the red cross and other private nonprofits continue to stage resources in the atlantic area. just like to settle a little expectations that the public has not experienced staying in a shelter in the past. you will be safe, but conditions are spartan. we ask you to bring your toothbrush, your pillow, other comfort items with you, and we'll keep you s...

Things back up and running. so with that, i want to quickly turn it over to our partners over at noah. take it away. >> okay. good morning. florence is a category two hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles an hour. it is moving northwest and is presently centered 170 miles east/southeast of wilmington north carolina and 220 miles east of myrtle beach, south carolina. florence is a very large hurricane. hurricane force winds extend outward 80 miles from the center and tropical storm force winds extend nearly 200 miles out from the center. florence is forecast to slow down as it app...

For the hurricane to make land fall. we will have an update from fema on this massive hurricane. >> good morning. we know that they started off the morning here at fema with their operational meeting, so that is likely still ongoing. but we do expect them to come out here and give us the very latest as far as where their assets are deployed and their final warnings, essentially for people who are in that target area. we do know that, you know, aside from warnings people that they need to get out, fema as well as the army core of engineers are paying closer to five federally operated dams in th...

Land fall. so you are going to see that throughout much of the weekend. really, we need to concentrate on those impacts like we have been talking about. not necessarily becoming a storm with time and depression. by the way, the longer that we have that rain, you still have those winds, even a depression can knock down the trees. >> thank you. hurricane florence is a historic storm. this will last until sunday. you can hear the force right there. cnn special live coverage begins right after this. migraine with botox®. what if you had fewer headaches and migraines a month? botox® prevents head...

Her. one such location tonight. south carolina. how are people holding up? >> look we're still a day away from florence making land fall. there are 440 people inside this shelter. until this storm passes. staff here at the red cross have tried to make it comfortable. three square meals a day. we're socializing and playing cards. and movies for the kids during the cay. and adults at night. the red cross stresses this is not a shelter. the function is purely keep people safe until florence actually passes. that means that there are only cots set up for the elderly or the sick. some people have b...