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Extended special live coverage of hurricane florence is at rolls on, battering the carolina coast. team coverage. leland vittert live in morehead city. senior correspondence rick leventhal and steve harrington. let's begin with steve in north topsail. it sounds like you continue to see deteriorating conditions there. as you have been on the scene for well over ten hours at this point. >> it is, shannon. that bridge behind me there that i was standing on has now collapsed. the back end of it. just as laura ingraham predicted it would about an hour ago. we are seeing the rain come in sideways, t...

To 40 inches, you can really believe it after standing out here and just watching it fall. as far as the wind goes, it is strong enough at times to snap branches, strong enough to pull tiles off of roofs. it may strengthen overnight. but from what i've seen here, it has been significant enough to cause major structural damage to the buildings in this location. not knocking down houses, not cracking trees. alarmingly, we have seen the surf creep up from where we started at 2:00 this afternoon, 60 yards of beach behind me. there is not now. the stairway has collapsed into the ocean, just huge wh...