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It's coming. we lost power at our hotel, the generators are going and that's why we are out here trying to give you the latest from myrtle beach right now. >> shepard: live for is in the rain in that storm is headed in that direction. the latest coordinates in the latest information from the national hurricane center is this, still a powerful court category one storm with maximum sustained winds at 80 miles an hour, now the forward speed has picked up to 6 miles an hour and we believe it should crossover the water along that little bit of a jut in along the carolina coast within the next hour ...

From down in louisiana. a lot of work to be done there throughout the day. look at these rainfall totals. these are official totals from the united states geological survey. morehead city north carolina, 3, emerald isle 31. in linda here, 13. this is surfside beach, 14 and a half inches down in the wrightsville beach area, almost 19 inches of rain and in wilmington close to 17 and a half inches of rain and there is lots more to come throughout the state. the storm is moving so slowly. what other thing i want to show you before we get out into the field where correspondence are, one more time o...

With you, a pretty big win. the damage was moderate, little bit of structural power, but what happened to us as the storm came across and it moved in odd direction. and now we have a pretty significant flooding issue from a surge in a five-minute. , which i've never seen before. the high tide was 11:00, so now waiting for the tide to go slack so we can get back on the island to try to figure out what we've got. >> shepard: you've got a somewhat unique situation with water from banks channel on the left of you and atlantic ocean on the left and it looks like on both sides of your island, the wa...

>> shepard: that eye of the storm heading towards columbia and greenwood and anderson in gainesville in that direction. >> it is, seems like the forecast is pretty close to on track, really slow movement, even becoming a storm or so weakening with the wind, 8:00 a.m. sundays that's not a lot of real estate, still having the center in south carolina but an important point to make here, some areas in charleston as he had offshore flow. if you move the center in lynn, the flow around that can actually bring some people hire and water and some flooding even days after landfall so you have to be ca...

Your vision, if you were to make four quadrants, that upper right quadrant, the northeastern quadrant of the hurricane is where the worst of it always is. that's where the worst of the wind is, that's where the worst of the rain is, the energy has taken that to the north and every hurricane, the northeast quadrant is the worst part. that's where you add the forward wind speed to the winds of the hurricane all of the water coming in that direction and that's what's happening right now. imagine the coast of north carolina kind of curved there, the storm is just below that beach. as of the eye of...