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They're trying to get these 150 people out of their homes if they can. they would love to do it by noon if they can because that is when the next high tide is. tides and surge don't always walk hand in hand, but a high tide can exacerbate the problem with a storm surge. and even though the center part of the storm has moved beyond new bern, the storm surge has not because the storm is so big it continues to push the water up the noose river and into that town. and you can see the damage that has already been done. again, the threat from hurricane florence will go on for some, some time. the du...

Boats can get to them. again, we can't see it anymore here, anderson, what heroes these people are. the wind is strong and the rain is coming down, which means the water is continuing to rise. we have had at least seven inches of rain fall in the new bern area and a storm surge of 10 feet as the water just keeping coming down and rising up. now, they are going around the entire county and doing this at one point in new bern. this morning they had more than 150 people who needed rescuing. now, the city said we will come get you. we will rescue you. stay where you are, get to higher ground. but ...

Early evening last night. so it is the intensity and the prolonged nature of how long this storm is taking to come ashore. it is just a relentless feeling here throughout the night. we experienced the high winds, the heavy rains just coming and coming and coming. so that is eventually -- the materials around here get stressed out and give in. that's what we are seeing in a lot of places. but it is that flooding concern here on the north site. we are on the in order side, the topside of hurricane florence where we have seen the winds and rain that started midday yesterday. you can sense how dra...

Coverage, you get a sense of the intensity of this storm. there are 92 miles an hour wind gusts that have been registered and torrential rain. that's the story, the flooding, the rain fall, the storm surge. and that is not going away any time soon. we have been cautioned and warned it could be days. so all sorts of people are still having to be evacuated from their homes if they stayed behind. so of course we are watching this storm. florence is at the moment moving like molasses over the coastline, so we're keeping an eye on that. but there is another major story out of massachusetts we need ...

Great job of forecasting. this we are not done yet. we won't really see the damage until next week. this is going to be a flooding and surge event. a flooding and surge event. not a wind event. certainly we will see prolonged winds. it's thought about the category of winds u it's going to be like a hurricane harvey situation in southeast texas where they will get upwards of 20 to 40 inches. already reports of 20 inches on the ground right now in parts of coastal, south carolina. this is also going to be a -- rather north carolina. this is also going to be a south carolina event. it's going to ...