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5 foot of water that's possible. the high tide is an additional one foot. that's not going to cause too much additional problems. peak winds, we're not expecting a lot of huge issues with the winds. possibility of 40, 50, 60-mile-an-hour winds. you'll see gas station awnings and small stuff like. obviously if you don't bring stuff inside like lawn furniture, that could blow around. that's the worst of it. we have heat advisories for about 29 million people in the northeast and we'll see strong thunderstorms in florida today with the squalls coming through and also into the northeast. so we'll ...

Coast of maine and the coastal areas of new jersey, and easily see gusts 30 to 50 miles an hour and some people have 60 mile-an-hour gusts. so just because the rain is over doesn't mean the storm is completely over. with leaves on the trees in leaves on the trees in areas of new jersey, pennsylvania, and also through the midatlantic we could see additional power outages throughout the day, even with the sunshine. the current winds are anywhere in the 30 to 40 miles per hour range at the coast. inland is not but now but it will get higher. the coast of maine, 60 miles per hour. that's like a st...

Strongest winds are usually on the north or the northeast quadrant of the storm. that's the part you want to avoid. that's usually where we have the maximum sustained winds are usually measured in this region. so if this northeast quadrant can stay offshore, that will usually mean weaker winds. these are pretty good thunderstorms on the back side. the other thing that it means, if we have a parallel the coast, we don't get that water piling up. we don't get the high storm surge. it's much worse if you have a storm approaching a coastline when we get them in the gulf like katrina. it hit like a...

And these bands now coming into oak island and little river here in myrtle beach, these are 50, 60-mile-per-hour winds. that doesn't do too much damage. once you get out here, this northern eye is what we need to avoid. that's where we could see the winds kicking up to 80, maybe even 100 miles per hour wind gusts. and that's going brush coast here. the wrightsville beach to wilmington as we go 8:00 to 9:00 this evening. that's the concern. and then we'll watch it tonight going up the north carolina coastline and heading up to the moorehead city area, atlantic beach. we're not done yet. we have...

Settle down, what are they expecting the biggest challenges are going to be in the myrtle beach area? >> well, steve, this is an area that has experienced significant flooding in past storms like hurricane florence and hurricane matthew, and some of the areas that experienced some flash flooding over the past 24 hours are filled with residents that are still recovering from those two storms. so those are some particularly sensitive areas here that officials are going to be catering to in the aftermath of hurricane dorian. now another thing i want to mention is the damage from the tornadoes her...