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The last 30 years. with forecasts, we're able to put wind speeds in localized areas in historical perspective. what i'm showing you on the right. i'm going to walk over here, i'm a screen now, and i'm a meteorologist and i love to point these things out, is on the event, we are expecting some values to reach values that kind of max our database out. so these yellows and greens that you see on this map here indicate that we're expecting to see winds in those areas pretty much at the top of our historical records that go back 30 years. that's unfortunate event on the horizon. our team will conti...

And a lot of this is very slow to come down. >> this monster storm continues and it will continue for days. thank you for that, jennifer. martin savage is in wrightsville beach, north carolina where the eye of the storm first made landfall during the day. what's it like now, martin? >> reporter: the amazing thing is, wolf, here we are with 10 hours after landfall and the conditions are gist just as badt seemed back then. that's an indication just how significantly large this storm is and how slow it is in moving away. we're being battered from exactly the opposite direction. now it's coming th...

This house. this was similar to so many rescues today that rescuers had to endure while they tried to get so many people trapped and the storm kept churning through this area. in wilmington, a coordinated effort to save a family trapped inside their house. one man was rescued and transported to a local hospital. but though a team of doctors, paramedics and firefighters scrambled to get to a mother and her child, they were not able to save them. >> that's the overall difficulty of a rescue operation like this. you guys have been here for hours. >> they were initially working from the inside of ...

The winds will continue to be an issue, but the big problem is really the storm surge as well as the rain. we have already had rain reports of more than a foot and a half of rain. some areas are getting close to two feet of rain, with oriental getting 20 inches and another update to those numbers are supposed to be coming out any moment. they are going to be much higher than 20 inches because it's been raining nonstop. davis, north carolina got a 108-mile-per-hour wind gusts, so the winds were there, but the main threat was that storm surge. the scary part is this river flooding. as we go into...

Is slowly moving across the carolinas. at least four deaths are blamed on this storm. emergency crews have been busy all day dealing with the widespread catastrophic flooding and wind damage and enormous power outages across the carolinas. drew griffin is in myrtle beach, south carolina for us and they're expecting the worst of the storm later tonight. what are the conditions now, drew? >> reporter: they are bad but they're not as bad as everyone thought here, wolf, and i don't want to minimize what's happening in north carolina, but as of right now, myrtle beach, north myrtle beach, orey coun...