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down, you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands, in some of the coasts, but some of those inland places off rivers and off these inlets, you know, you're likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead. so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that you -- if you weathered the storm to this point, going and doing and getting involved in that is just totally not worth it, and we want to minimize any harm to anybody as...

The water levels are going to continue to rise higher than this. this could be the storm of record there. one of the worst tragedies and where the most destruction is being done anywhere because of this storm. the storm itself is still located -- and here's new bern, by the way, well away from the center of the storm. because of this consistent easterly wind all day long, it's taken all the water and just piled it up and areas like the noose river have been unable to unload. plus they've got 3 inches of rain in the last six hours and that water has nowhere to go either. and it continues to ris...

Almaguer, who's in wilmington, north carolina, where the storm is expected to make landfall tomorrow. what's the latest there? >> reporter: we're just beginning to feel the outer bands of hurricane florence moving then this direction. the rain has increased, now coming down steady at times in sheets. just a few minutes ago we saw a cup of bolts of lightening in this area. that's the first time we've seen that tonight. so we certainly know the winds here are increasing and the conditions are beginning to deteriorate. we're only about 50 feet or so away from our safety fall back condition here a...

Will take to get out of here. just starting to see some of the new information. sometimes our computers update when they start getting the new information in. the first thing we picked up on is that the category 1 at the current time, we've gone from a category 2 to category 1. just trying to get the confirmation from the public advisory on that. right now i have the forecast advisory came out first. so that you will really means, again, the wind with this storm was never going to be the huge headline-making storm. once we knew it wasn't going to be a cat-4 which three days ago we thought we w...

Satellite pictures. the eye wall is predicted to probably arrive here, that's where the most intense winds are, right there next to the eye wall. some time at around 4:00 in the morning where. so there's a lot we're not going to be able to really see, but we'll definitely feel it. i think one of the things to note right now you can see clearly in this shot is we still have power. that is unlikely to survive the evening, however, into the morning. duke energy which serves around 400 people along the coast here and inland estimates there's likely to be power outages worst than likely hurricane m...