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Breaking news. hurricane florence is strengthening tonight. maximum sustained winds are up to 105 miles per hour and hurricane force wind gusts are already being felt along the central north carolina coast. our brian todd is just north of there in hampstead, north carolina. what are you looking at there? >> reporter: kate, we're entering a pretty dangerous area. the low tide has been in effect several hours. yet even with the low tide, this is old landing road that i'm standing on. that's the intercoastal waterway. they're becoming one and the same. the waterway is pushing onto the roadway her...

Are you confident the coast guard has all the resources in place that it needs right now and that you'll need throughout and after the storm? >> yes, kate. we have about 800 coast guard men and women ready to respond to the storm, including an incident command post that we've established in golds borrow at the seymour johnson airbase. the thing about the coast guard, we are nimble and can respond. we are able to respond to a broad scope of flooding and impacts from this storm. >> and the broad scope of the flooding, you say it very well, is a big concern with every local official that i have s...

But some of the computer models have been hinting towards that. we have to continue to track this storm very, very carefully. i want to tell you where the storm is moving right now it is moving toward the bahamas. it doesn't hint towards impacting the parts of the northeast. it has turned northward and we are talking about big concerns over the northeast and mid atlantic. we already saw heavy amounts of rain. yesterday we are expecting more rain coming up this weekend with a lot of moisture in the tropics regardless of whether the storm makes land fall or not. the front right now is moving eas...

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Storm chasers and experts across the carolinas and in the air. we're also tracking the storm's every move of course from the cnn weather center. let's start with miguel marquez out front tonight live in carolina beach, north carolina. miguel, what's it like where you are tonight? >> reporter: getting more intense every minute. the rain is coming down harder. the wind is picking up, but this storm has been creeping at us. we expect it to be in a much more intense period right now, but this storm has just stalled as they're talking about and it's creeping down the coast where they're losing powe...