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That was much different than what we are about to see right now. >> absolutely. this is a much stronger storm, it's a quicker moving storm. so, at least that is a element of good news. when it makes land fall in the early hours of wednesday as a category 4. it will be the first to do so on the main land of the united states in the month of october. so, that alone tells you the rarity of such a storm this plate in the season and onl only .09% of the hurricanes that affected the u.s. have been category 4. going from a category 3 to a category 4, it's an increase in the amount of damage that is l...

Hour, said to make landfall on thursday in the carolinas. look, we love you. if you live in north carolina, south carolina, if you are in virginia, wilmington looks like ground zero right now. this storm is headed for you. mandatory evacuations are now in place in certain areas. we urge you, please heed those warnings. you know what? we've seen enough damage. would and hugo went to the same area, this particular storm, hurricane florence, who is a slower moving storm. hugo did so much damage in the charleston area, the carolinas, that literally, decimated entire communities. you've got to take...

On thursday in the carolinas. look, we love you, if you live in north carolina, south carolina, virginia, wilmington looks like ground zero right now, the storm is headed for you. mandatory evacuations are in place, we urge you, please heed those warnings. you know what, we've seen enough damage. when hurricane hugo went through the same area, this particular storm, hurricane florence is a slower moving storm. hugo did so much damage in the charleston area, the carolinas, it decimated entire communities. you've got to take this seriously, remember, we can always rebuild homes, i know it is not...

To best of our knowledge, and we don't have a lot of information right now, but there was a -- there was a fast moving storm. it came out of basically nowhere. this seems to be sort of almost a micro storm effect or something that no one was expecting to happen the way that it did. >> now, stef, we are told that ntsb investigators are going to be on the ground today doing their own investigation, putting these facts together. the timing of when the storm occurred, whether there was any warning beforehand, whether they should have been on the water, what precautions were taken, which ones weren...

>> dana: passover starting tonight. easter is this sunday. which makes for a big weekend of celebrations. some of us could see rain or snee at our family gatherings. rick is in the fox weather center, give me good news. >> well, it's a tough one. we're in a really active weather pattern. a lot of rain, we have snow, i think more bouts of snow across the northern tier of the country, maybe the next couple of weeks. we have one storm, a lot of flooding across parts of the south. slow moving storm, timely moving off toward the east and will move out of here. another system beginning to drop down ...