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It is raising awareness about how bad it can be. a lot of people have left and they want to know what's going on in town that they evacuated from. we in a very safe way and as safe as we can to bring folks information. that's why we are here. >> sure. >> we'll not do anything that puts us in danger and we'll play it as safe as we can. >> that's what we'll continue to see. >> thank you, dylan and mariana. >> msnbc continues with our coverage of florence as the storm is getting closer making land fall. thank you for being with us. ♪

It's tremendously big and tremendously wet. tremendous amounts of water. >> welcome back everyone. this morning hurricane florence is inching closer as more than 1 million americans rushed to evacuate the coastline. fema is warning it could be the strongest storm to targ that carolinas and virginia in decades. bringing with it a possible life-threatening storm surge, destructive winds and potential catastrophic rainfall as well as inland flooding. for the very latest on the storm, let's bring in meteorologist, bill karins. how far away is it from making land fall and the immediate 24 hours aft...

Before, this one is different. don't bet your life on riding out a monster. >> reporter: evacuations started tuesday and will continue today. more than a million from virginia through the carolinas. gathering sand bags, boarding up, pang up pulling out. many wered about what they may find when they come back. >> just hope everything's still standing and not too much damage. but again this is a very significant storm. >> reporter: still lorraine and mike taylor say they'll tried out. a home like so many in the strike zone in the path of what forecasters are calling a catastrophic storm now clos...

Responsible for those attacks. that will be addressed as well by secretary mattis and vice president pence. >> okay. ryan will be watching for that ceremony, honoring those again 184 lives that were taken on 9/11 at the pentagon. thank you for being there. >> also breaking news this morning as we continue to honor 9/11 and the memory of all of these. all of these mandatory evacuations because of hurricane florence. it is now a category four storm and could strengthen very soon to a category five storm. we're talking about in the next few hours as we're getting a clear picture of where it will ...

Our neighbors had time to prepare, the communities did. the so for the first time i think we were not surprised by anything that this storm did or could have done. i think a lot of us in south florida feel like it could have done more and we were very fortunate to only get the brunt of what we did get, not the full brunt of it. >> all right. mayor jack sieler, fort lauderdale. a lot of credit goes to the scientists, right? . victor blackwell thank you for your great reporting, all of our teams in florida. thanks for that. "new day" picks it up now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> s...