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Storm florence. All of our crews are out in it. Well be bringing all of this information to you. Our breaking News Coverage our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac360. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening. Im Anderson Cooper in willing, North Carolina. The story has been wailg rain and rain and more rain. Were seeing the heaviest band of rain just in the last ten minutes or so hitting this area down by the cape fear river. Five people have died so far in this storm. Five people. Five lives lost. Hundreds of people have had to be rescued from their homes. Some here in wilming...

>> reporter: tonight, torrential rain, dangerous winds, and tornados tearing through the south. reports of at least six tornados in alabama, georgia, and texas. including this one appearing to touch down in south georgia. warnings continued in several states throughout the afternoon. >> we've got a lot of lightning strikes across the area. so, definitely stay away from those windows. >> reporter: the wall to this office in alabama, gone, now lying next to the building. while inside, debris is scattered throughout the cubicles. >> trailer started wobbling real bad, so we had to hunker down and ...

Problem as you just heard from authorities, the biggest problem to come in the form of both storm surge and pounding rain. florida's governor said just moments ago the surge has hit 1. we are watching that closely. we have correspondents stationed all over florida tonight. we will bring you the best video, the live images, and all of the video through the day showing the force of this storm and we will speak live with lawmakers and emergency officials throughout the hour. correspondent will nunley of fox weather is in fort myers, florida tonight. still getting battered by hurricane ian. will? ...

Fiona has strength zwroend a category 4 hurricane with wind gusts of 155 miles per hour in the turks and caicos. but the caribbean island is still feeling the sheer force of the storm with damaging winds, pounding rain. let's get right to meteorologist pedram javaheri. pedram, gosh, that does not look good behind you. how bad is it going to get? >> the storm is going to strengthen. it is going to get larger as it approaches farther across the north. for areas across the turks and caicos, the worst is coming to an end. talking about a cloud field from the northern fringe to southern fringe with...

Expected today. and pedram javaheri is joining us. feels like every time i talk t you we're talking about the flooding and pounding rain. >> yeah, i think that some light at the end of the tunnel at least going into friday possibly getting a break across the region . in could be some thunderstorms this afternoon that could bring in heavy rainfall. and you notice the widespread coverage, frontal boundary in place that has prompted all the wet weather, it is still there. it is weakening rather quickly. and then we expect floodiminish.