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And tropical storm force winds extent nearly 200 miles out from the center. florence is forecast to slow down as it approaches the coast. so even today as we see outer rain bands from florence move into the outer banks of north caroli carolina, landfall is not expected for another 36 hours some time friday afternoon, friday evening or even early saturday morning. this slow moving very large hurricane will bring a long-term extreme rain, storm surge and hurricane force wind threat to eastern north carolina and south carolina into the weekend. in north carolina, we're particularly concerned abou...

Elections before that. so will it happen this time around? time will tell. look at the storm impacting japan as we speak. good news here, just as i anticipated, the storm is weakening as it approaches the mainland of japan, still the outer rain bands of the system bringing heavy rainfall, potential for flooding, landslides and mudslides. 215 kilometer per hour sustained winds, this thing is a behemoth, but becoming more and more disorganized as time goes on. there are open ocean swells measured at over 40 feet. that is going to cause coastal damage across this area as the system approaches mai...

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>>reporter: when katrina came through in 2005, the water was 30 feet above where i'm standing right now. they used katrina as the bench mark storm against all other storms here including hurricane nate. but look at how ominous the skies are behind me. this has rolled in within the past three minutes. i expect the weather to go downhill any moment in time. with these outer rain bands comes some of the strong wind gusts, initial wind gusts that catch people off guard quite often. we've had police cars roaming the streets and the beaches here asking people to evacuate. in fact there was an ominou...

Continues to move at 25 miles per hour, do the math, know it's coming in this evening. the problem with new orleans may not be the winds, it's going to be a storm surge of three to six feet. but most of the winds will be out of the north, so again, the kind speed and consistency of that pushing those waters towards the south. that could be an issue. when katrina hit, obviously the levies broke in 2005. but the real test was in 2012 when isaac moved in h. ed good news is if we can get the system moving in through the area. the it's more about surge right now. all the way over to the pan handle ...