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Warni warnings, if there are any, and what is to come there? >> yeah, this area has been under an evacuation order since yesterday afternoon. not a lot of people had chosen to leave. in part because of confusion about the forecast. first, it looked like more of a direct hit here. then turning south. then there were some people who had heard the storm was getting weaker. it was only going to be a 2 instead of a 4. i say only because that distinction is relatively meaningless when still talking about winds over 100 miles an hour. and this is storm surge. we have not had any significant rain here...

Conditions. the winds have really picked up here. we're a good hour away from wilmington. the rainy and windy conditions started yesterday, last night. we lost power in our hotel at 9:00 last night. we lost power at the very beginning of this thing. this is the big concern, all the wind that's blowing debris around. then look at all of this rain. that is the big concern. nowhere really for that rain to go. on top of that, jacksonville, we may not be right on the ocean. it's about a 20 mile drive to get to the ocean. but we are on a river here. that river is prone to flooding under a normal sto...

Going to take a really bad pounding. most of that is going to happen under the cover of darkness. so as bad as the situation is right now, the situation is going to get a lot worse, craig. >> all right. gadi schwartz there in radio city, gadi, do be careful, sir, gadi alluding to that hurricane back in the '50s. that one is still very much the storm that all of them have been compared to here in north carolina. hurricane hazel. msnbc's garrett haake is also on duty for us. he's in newburg, north carolina. that town already fighting a battle with the noos river. garrett, who's winning the battl...