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Landfall? >> wow, depends on what model you look at and depends if you're believing the nhc is fudging back and forth oh, this is on it right, this is on the left, this in the middle. maybe, maybe the outer eyewall touches topsail beach somewhere around the 10:00 hour, that would be the outer eyewall. the reason our numbers have gone down, wind speed, we don't have that inner eyewall. you see the olympic skaters you spin around and their arms out go fast, and arms in and they go slowly. we don't have any inner eyewall, but we still have the same power of the storm. so we still have the same su...

>> i'm john berman in wilmington, north carolina. chris cuomo is standing by in myrtle beach, south carolina. christine romans in new york. this is special live coverage of hurricane florence. here in wilmington, a serious band passed through here. a wind gust of 90 miles an hour at least. the outer eyewall is beginning to get ever loss closer to the carolina city. this storm is a category one hurricane. don't be fooled. sustained winds of 90 miles an hour. the size of the storm is a huge storm affecting thousands of people up and down the coast. that means huge storm surge up and down the coa...

In hurricanes. >> no question about that. and this water and this rain that we're seeing is around for days. zac whicker, emergency management, thank you for the work you're doing, thank you for joining us tonight to tell us where things stand. this all around me again is hurricane florence. you can feel the wind -- i can feel the wind bearing down on wilmington, north carolina. the storm, the eyewall, the outer eyewall a few miles away but approaching ever faster. cnn's special live coverage continues after this.

7:00, and right now with lines down please don't be going out until we get these lines back up. they could be interogizenergize don't want anyone to get hurt. >> if you are in your home at this point, you have to stay there because going out could be an even bigger threat with the power lines down and the standing water. thanks very much. in wilmington right now, you can see the rain around me, me getting swayed by the wind gusts. i think they probably feel like 60 miles per hour. let's see if we can get an exact reading for a sense where this storm is. >> the center is still about 20 miles fr...

It is going in and out. we do have some power outages. they're scattered around the county. just a little over 4,000 outages. >> 4,000, and i think we know that number is likely to go up. we're getting close to that outer eyewall. we're getting gusts 60 to 70 miles an hour here, and that will rise, and that will sustain for several hours. you've been lucky. you say you've had no rescues yet in this county. what's your concern and what's your message to people over the next really day? >> so our messaging to the public is stay inside until the tropical storm force winds are cleared and you get ...