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Over the next three days, it could get eight months -- eight months worth of rain. that's on top of the 90-mile-an-hour winds we are beginning to feel. the eyewall fwinibeginning to p over us right now. this is the sign of what is to come for the north carolina coast down into south carolina. that's where we find cnn's chris cuomo in north myrtle beach. chris. >> john, you are our future. we are just getting our first taste of florence here. that is the concern with hurricanes, you think 6 hours or 12 hours maybe. this we hear could be a day and a half or 30 hours or more. the gusts for hours ...

Intensity. what does that mean? it creates more vulnerability every area that it passes over. ground that has been soaked for many hours. root systems of vegetation. structures taking on a lot of water. so vulnerabilities increase over time and so does the pressure on people that have to hunker down. for that let's go to brian todd. they thought they had seen the worst. it's going to last throughout the entire day and into the night. brian, what's it like right now? >> well, we're pretty much getting pummelled in downtown wilmington. but they have been dealing with this pounding rain and the r...

Which is on the shore, you see a remarkable difference in the weather just in sort of ten miles. we are on the western sort of side of the city now. the winds have picked up significantly, sort of in the last hour. we are reaching the sort of hurricane-force winds you will see as we cross through this intersection, sort of the lights are starting to bend, some of the poles are starting to bend. we are going through entire sections now without power. when we hear the reports coming in that this storm could last for 48 hours, maybe even 72 hours in wilmington, it is really going to be over the c...

Winds. going back to 2004, 2005 we saw storms that were higher category. i think the untold story and the think i'm frankly am not sure about and the thing we're going to have to wait and see is just the story of the water and what happens in terms of the storm surge and this pounding rain that continues hour after hour after hour. >> yeah, and if you get 30 inches of rain in that short amount of time then that is problematic. anderson, thank you very much. i want you to stand by. we'll get back to anderson in just moments. also in wilmington, north carolina, i want to get to my call league ma...

Already starting to arrive now. and they will stay with us through the overnight hours. storm surge is expected to be seven to 12 feet. the rainfall likely anywhere from 18 to 25 inches. we've already had several reports of over a foot of rain at this point in time. and keep in mind again, we mentioned that tornado watch. those potential for tornadoes still exists through the overnight hours. now, south carolina, let's shift gears to the upper south carolina coast. the tropical storm force winds start to increase as we go through the overnight hours tonight. hurricane force winds arriving shor...