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Surge. how much and do you have a sense of where? >> we can kind of zoom in. we can zoom in like this, but i think it is important if i go ahead and show a situation like this where we have a whole storm surge watch. anywhere in these areas here can see greater than three foot. this is an important point. when i go to this map, it is not just a coastal issue all the time. you have the barrier islands. but here is where it also causes problems. we're really concerned about some of these areas where the water filters in and where it piles up and can't go anywhere, you could get 10 to 12 foot of ...

What separates those is a mile an hour. either way, the impacts will be catastrophic when it comes to the storm surge and rain fall. >> when you talk about what the biggest concern is, you look, this is compared to other storms like hugo where the storm surge was just an issue you had 21 people as a result across country. this storm surge, is that the biggest concern right now along the carolina coast? >> yeah. several concerns we have, we really look at the storm surge as one. 50% of fatalities in these is the storm surge. but it's interesting. when we really dive in and look at the data, thi...

But we are looking at potentially isolated areas being up to 30 inches of rain. that is life threatening in these areas that will get this rain fall. big portion of virginia and north carolina. but remember where these colors are close together, you can shift this quite a bit. >> i note a lot of the ground is already saturated because they had more rain than usual this season. so many of us that watch these hurricane forecasts become familiar with the european models and the american model, the paths of these storms. can you give us a sense of what the difference is between the two and why the...

You need to be looking at 150. and then 145 because this storm is going to get stronger before it makes land fall. this will have a bubble of storm surge in the 20 foot range, somewhere. i don't know if that's will ming ton yet. what i do know is that the cone is getting smaller to the south and not getting as far to the north as we work our way toward land fall. but now what happens is that the storm stalls and has no direction at all. in fact, this cone gets wider. it could be back off store. it could be all the way down into georgia by the time five days comes around. we're going to get rai...

Of these areas approaching greenville. some of those are 12 foot. look at the ceiling and think about 12 foot of storm surges. here's the rain. that's another story here. we're forecasting 15 to 20 inches of rain. some places could get 30. this could be a catastrophic event. also with the rain fall forecast. >> i know one of the issues was at least how slow moving this thing was and the amount of rain fall on top of land there in the carolinas that as the mayor of myrtle beach just said is already saturated. >> that's a big problem because you are already saturated which means any additional r...