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a flash flood emergency right now. particularly dangerous situation. the water is going to rise one to two feet when the winds switch to the south. right now jacksonville has the highest water level they ve ever seen in the downtown area. they re saying it s going to rise another one to two feet. this will be the story we ll be watching here. i want to explain why we re dealing with this problem when the storm has weakened so much. if you look at this line right here, this is the st. john s river. let me go in a little bit closer on this, and again, it s a strange river. it goes from south to north. this is their direction that it flows up to the north. what s happening is we have the easterly winds and we have the storm surge that s happening here off the coast. and that is not allowing the river to flow back out to sea. it s building the water up. that s why there s a record
weather center. chad, what are you learning this hour? well, those pictures from charleston are disturbing that we re seeing this morning because we re at low tide. when high tide comes in. the regular high tide will push that water four feet higher than it is right now. so, high tide may certainly be well into the city. we re already seeing pictures from some of our affiliates where that water s a couple feet deep. and a couple feet could turn into seven feet. 87 miles per hour in hilton head. we had a 94 at tybee island overnight. i suspect we ll see significant damage in tybee when the sun comes up there. was a record surge in tybee, higher than hurricane david back in 1979 as that storm came in, so, charleston, you re very close to the hugo surge was. you remember how big that storm was. these are just powerful winds blowing significant amounts of