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Power. our correspondents are stationed all along the carolina coast here. all along the carolinas. one of them is miguel marquez joining us from carolina beach. north carolina and you've got rain there, buddy. >> we are starting to see the most intense rain and wind. this storm is finally starting to punch and it is coming very, very hard. the authorities here expecting anything from 20 to 40 inches of rain over the next 24 to 36 hours or so. the weather we are experiencing right now they were expecting this afternoon. this is how slow this excruciatingly slow this storm has been moving. now ...

Inland four miles because downtown had flooded so severely. we were going to be trapped there. we finally came up and the wind ripped the front door of our hotel off as we were coming here. the man who owns the hotel was trying to put it back there because there were a lot of people ho evacuated from the outer banks islands to come here. i talked to people from atlantic beach, to people from sea fair who said they had to be here and forced to evacuate the island. now they were frightened because the door has been ripped off. they're hearing about the torrential flooding that's happening. tuck ...

Going around and getting pictures there. you can see lots of rain where he is. also we're going to get to martin savidge in wilmington, north carolina. we're live in myrtle beach. we're all over the coast in the carolinas. this is where hurricane florence is moving closer tonight to the coast. lad fall expected as early as tomorrow morning. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ i put a spell on you ♪ yeah, because you're mine ♪ with chase atms serena can now grab cash on the go, all with the tap of her phone. ♪ stop the things you do no card? no problem. life, lived serena's way. chase, mak...

Falls. here is the other issue that can happen in these situations. the longer you have those winds, the further inland that surge can actually move into the inland basically. so you can have storm surge a mile inland where you keep those hurricane force winds open. places well inland could still see storm surge from this. >> so pick a spot. let's take wilmington. how long will they be suffering in terms of hurricane force winds and in terms of just the pounding rain? >> yeah. you look at it over time. we look at these values. still a depression even looking into sunday. so these winds, this o...