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We are back now with our special live coverage. the breaking news recovering hurricane florence here on cnn. i want to turn to mayor sammy phillips. mayor sammy phillips is the mayor of jacksonville, north carolina, joins me right now by phone. mayor, thank you so much. how are you doing? >> we're holding up pretty good here. it's blowing real hard right now. we're getting and gusts. >> i understand there's a mandatory curfew in jacksonville in effect until 7:00 a.m. on sunday. tell me about that, mayor. >> okay. we started the curfew at 7:00 p.m. this evening. but i don't know if there's that...

Able to get it from emergency officials because they're going to also have to get to a safe place during the storm as the peak is coming in. >> diane gallagher, stay safe there. this is already serious. this is the calm before the storm, so to speak. some of the areas you're seeing here on cnn, they're getting those outer bands that are coming. and believe me, much worse is coming. that storm is creeping and possibly building speed. possibly building speed in the atlantic. in north carolina 12,000 people are in 126 shelters tonight. 12,000 people in 126 shelters tonight. that's from the govern...

New bern has lost power in some areas. you've seen the flooding and reporters having to move around several times because the flooding is so bad. that's really just the beginning of all this. you can expect more of that as that storm is sitting out there and gathering up more water and more water. updates are coming from emergency officials including the power company. the utility companies. over 100,000 people now so far out of -- without power now. also 12,000 people at fleet of a dozen or so shelters around north carolina. just the beginning. the calm before the storm. if you can call this ...

Troops and civilians have been deployed. high water vehicles, helicopters, boats, army corp of engineers restoring power to those who have lost it. can you give us an update on that? >> in south carolina we're seeing the deployment of national guard, state guard as well. we have thousands of employees from the south carolina department of transportation to emergency responders all waiting for the storm to hit. north carolina has gotten it first. the direction of the storm is heading for south carolina. we're not out of the woods. not even in the woods yet. we have a lot of emergency responders...

Hurricane florence continues to move inland, bill, the latest update here now more than 500,000 people without power in north carolina. >> bill: yeah. that number will go a lot higher as it moves inland and takes the trees down. the trees take the power lines down. half a million now as you say there are without power. getting a report from our colleague. her parents own a coffee shop 40 miles south of here. they're riding out the storm in the kalabash, north carolina. they still have power. in the bottom left-hand corner of the storm they have power. national hurricane center coming up in a m...