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Anderson, how are you doing? >> chris, it has been pretty miserable here now for several hours, as you know. made land fall around 7:15 a.m. this morning. we have been getting these gusts. actually, this town, wilmington, is actually seeing the biggest gust, the strongest gust and hurricane they have experienced since 1960. it's an extraordinary statistic. they mentioned 92 miles an hour wind gusts. that's not sustained wind. that's a gust. and they're coming by every now and then, blowing things around. part of a roof came off of part of a hotel. we have been seeing a lot of debris. a lot of ...

With you. that's really been one of the epi centers with some of the earliest flooding in new bern and now with the location she is now where those volunteers and others are staging in order to try to go out in their boats and continue to rescue people as they have been. extraordinary work, the kind of thing we saw in houston and harvey. one of those gust of winds that's coming by. it's a kind of a stinging rain. there is a little bit of debris in the air. also, you are conscious of the the possibility for any kind of flying debris. there is a couple of light posts that have some metal on top ...

Storm. but the damage appeared to be restricted to root damage. i didn't see any walls torn out or anything like that, but i didn't go very deep. >> so that's good news. so more like ef-0, ef-1 damage, probably, from this, not a really destructive tornado, but probably a lot of that debris you were seeing was shingles flying through the air. >> right, shingles, insulation, you know, the plastic that covers insulation sometimes. a lot of that flying around. >> we're looking at our velocity display right now. still a good bunch of greens and reds together. it's centered over chisolm right now in...

When he spoke to us a few moments ago, one of the additional aggravations and dangers associated with this particular storm series is that the rate at which the overall storm is moving across the ground is below average, and as a result, the tornado, when it does touch down, is staying there longer, and to that end we've asked weather channel meteorologist carl parker to rejoin us. give us a sense of how slow this overall series of storms is moving, carl, whether that is, in fact, still the case, and just how much more damage is possible when you get a slow-moving set like this? >> well, that ...

Are passing now to the north. they are moving up into the very northern part of the state of texas, moving away at about 25 miles an hour. here you're looking at video of the tornado that we saw earlier today. now, this was the storm that came up into dallas county, in the southeast side of dallas. you see the power flashes there. we've seen a pretty good bit of damage. most of what we've seen seems to be in the realm of ef-1 or ef-2 damage, so low to moderate in terms of the amount of damage. when you're looking at there is what we call the condensation funnel. that's the actual cloud that is...