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We think by late morning landfall as a category 1, and then meander around areas across the coastal regions of south carolina into the piedmont region, so myrtle beach, pauly's island, myrtle's inlet, heavy rainfall for charleston, very easily to flood in charleston, precipitation moving on offer to the southern appalachians. there is a lot to consider here, especially when you think about that by monday into tuesday, we're still looking at a significant rain event. all right. so what happens when those river basins fill up? the noose river basin, that's just about over central north carolin...

The west, northwest. it's moving fairly slowly, 6 miles an hour. we've been saying all along this is not going to be a wind event that is going to be a powerful -- it's not going to be 100 plus mile an hour winds. we have seen hurricane force winds along the coast. this is going to be a long-term sustained rain event, wringing out along coastal sections of north carolina into the piedmont areas of south carolina, that's how the computer models are suggesting now. it's category 1, sustained winds of 90 miles an hour, some higher gusts. here are all the rivers. this is low-lying territory, but t...

>> water kills more people than the tropical system, by far. >> we didn't mention mobile. they're going to have a problem. their high tide is not until 2:00 a.m. you talk 7 to 11 feet. there will be water in structures. >> is that because the water is coming down stream as well -- >> sometimes you can get the heavy rain that's falling, and that falls into the river basins, that's trying to escape, at the same time, the water is pushing it in. we had a situation like that in jacksonville, florida. with irma. the rainfall, the storm is moving so fast. the storm surge over the next three hours wi...

Dangers that people may not understand as they're traversing texas roads? >> well, absolutely the unpredictability of conditions right now, particularly in those areas that are being affected by the rain and that's ongoing. even in areas now that have the rain has stopped, what we're seeing now is many of those tributaries have flowed into their major river basins, to the west it has been guadalupe and colorado rivers, and then going eastward through houston, sabine rivers, those flood events are going to continue to occur for the next several days as those floodwaters proceed down river, plac...

This is flash flood watch south of corpus christi. san antonio to houston. now we've included the beaumont area. 12 million people are under flash flood watches. this is for at least four days of rain. the expected rainfall the next seven days. the peak triangle, you make a triangle from corpus christi to san antonio houston, we have the chance of 10 to 20 inches of rain, possibility up to three feet. now we have to figure out what is that going to look like? we've never seen it before. all that water has to collect into our river basins. say monday into wednesday, all of that water rushes int...