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To get rain or do they have to worry about flooding? >> columbia is going to have to worry. we have charlotte as it makes its way up. you see heavier rainfall amounts. raleigh is right on the three-to-five-inch rain and some areas could overproduce and end up towards the seven-inch range. i think we will have windy conditions. we will have heavy rain. as you know, ali, this area has already been saturated and inundated so there's nowhere for a lot of the rain to go. so i wouldn't be surprised to see some flash flooding and maybe flash flood watches posted as well. you know, again, you don't ne...

Be for some places a week or more before they get their power back. the storm surge, again, ali, something we are talking about. seven to 11 feet. you have already gone through a high tide throughout the coastline there. the next one is around midnight to 11:30 this evening. this is the area, the cone from cape fear to cape lookout where we are expecting the problems. rainfall amounts, still we could see totals of about 40 inches of rain. oriental, north carolina picking up 20 inches of rain so far. so there are places that will still see those accumulations, ali. believe me, i have been on a ...

A very dangerous storm and one that's unprecedented in our area. >> so with all of that said, we talked about the surge and the rainfall amounts. what's your message to people there who say hey, i'm going to ride it out? >> water is totally unforgiving. if you're in an area that either at the coast is susceptible and low to the surge or further inland along streams, any areas that could be susceptible to water you need to find a shelter immediately. it's just not forgiving. and again, if you wait too long, you may not be able to escape the coastal surge because the rainfall may have you trappe...

Expected across the grand strand. 8-15 inches in the p.d. and 4-10 in the charleston, columbia areas and even into parts of the upstate. lesser amounts across -- to the south of there. the heavy rain potential will persist into monday and given the rainfall totals, flash flooding is likely. the rainfall amounts will also result in significant river flooding, especially in the p.d. basin through next week. landslides can also occur in the south carolina mountains. storm surge is another concern as values could reach as high as 4 to 6 feet above ground level in some locations. 2 to 4 feet from t...

8:00 a.m. we still have very warm water ahead of this storm. the storm could actually strengthen before it makes landfall and that could be also very dangerous. word that we just got in moments ago, we have a tornado watch out for parts of coastal, north carolina with these land falling systems and their counterclockwise winds and the winds coming from different directions with the wind shear, we have the threat for weak tornadoes. so structural damage could occur. here someone of our forecast models. and you can see kind of stalling once it makes landfall. it still could hug the coast. and, a...