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Midday especially is when we think the peak winds will be. and then it will head north and east most likely. there is a potential for this storm to make landfall anywhere along the carolinas still too early to tell but places like wilmington the outer banks don't need to let your guard down with this. because you are seeing a lot of wind, rain and even the storm surge as well. we are expecting to see somewhere between five and eight feet of storm sturj along south carolina pan north kwo see four to seven feet of storm zblurj jennifer, thanks so much. i want to go to charleston, south carolina ...

With high winds. expect a lot of problems with power outages through southern georgia and north florida with this. we hadded a tropical storm watc through areas of the east coast through south carolina. this is where we're going to expect the worst conditions. the storm surge to the right of the storm, up to 18 to 12 feet. if you're standing on the beach, that water would be four to six feet above your head at its peak. during the day today, not much of a problem, but winds begin to pick up early tomorrow morning. the peak winds will be 86 with gusts up to 120 or 130. it's not just a north flo...

Tropical storm florence which is pounding north carolina. officials say about 100 remain stranded in new bern. first responders rescued 385 people since thursday night. joining me now, brian mcnolty. he joins me on the phone, thank you for doing, brian. i want you to elaborate on what you say which is there's more to the story than the category. people are always focusing on category rating. what are they missing? >> yes, that's right. that's what we like to use for situations that come up quite often. when you hear of hurricane category 1, category 3, that's the peak winds.

Burned in decades, so you have additional fuel to burn. that's one of the reasons the fires have been spreading so fast. so they're we're in the raney season, they've had less than 5% of the average rainfall, which leads us into today and the fire outlook. it's extreme and to have it going all the way from the u.s.-mexico border back up outside of san diego through the mountains near riverside, los angeles, almost to santa barbara, it's extremely rare to have it that large. the strongest winds with our santa ana event are beginning to kick up. they had reports of 75 mime per hour winds. as we ...

Here. it stayed in the gulf, it's expected to return at some point once they get the all clear here. >> so far at the airport, 43 mile an hour winds is the strongest you've received so far. you have about an hour and a half. you'll have winds between 55 and 65 until 2:00 a.m. your peak winds expected around 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., if you're going to have power outages, they won't start occurring until the winds get into the 55 to 65 mile an hour range. in the mobile area, if you're worried about your power, sometime around 1:00 to 2:00 a.m., by the time we get to 5:00 a.m., the winds start to ...