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First to meteorologist jennifer gray in the cnn hurricane center. jennifer, what are we learning tonight about the storm? >> well, like you said, the storm has strengthened. the first warnings have gone out. the hurricane warning, all of these areas shaded in red from central portions of south carolina all the way up the north carolina coast, and they extend very far inland. you can see that right there. all hurricane watches in effect, tropical storm watches, and so this is becoming very real for people in the carolinas and virginia. like we mentioned, it is strengthening. he had winds of 130...

Forth. if you are watching and you think you are at the edge of this, pay attention because little changes in the forecast could shift this whole area in one direction. that's a huge point to make. >> when we're watching these storms come in a few days ahead of land fall, sometimes down in the caribbean, we see them where they could turn and completely miss land. i mean, when we look at the model you have here, it doesn't look like any turn is an option to not be catastrophic at least somewhere. is that right? >> yeah. people have been talking about the models. what we do is we look at dozens ...

Before making land fall on thursday. more than one million people are being forced to flee. now mandatory evacuations. live in myrtle beach, south carolina with the latest there. >> reporter: this hurricane has already strengthened. it is starting to widen as well. you won't be able to tell that just yet. you see behind me there is people there enjoying the last bit of sun before this storm is supposed to make its presence known on thursday afternoon and potentially make land fall thursday evening. i just got off the phone with the mayor of myrtle beach. she's concerned people aren't listening...

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Hurricane florence barrels towards the united states as a powerful category 4 storm. governors in north carolina, south carolina and virginia have issued mandatory evacuation orders impacting at least 1 million people ahead of the storm's land fall. let's bring in bill karins for more on this. >> this has all the elements to be a harvey type situation and irma. strong winds and storm surge plus on top of that rainfall that could be like 30, 40 inches of rain. so here's what we're looking at. still about 1,000 miles away from north carolina. 140 mile-per-hour winds. we still have about 60 to 72...