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Worst of it appears to be passing by wilmington. yet another city on mainlands coast that is escaping the brunt of this storm merely because this storm is skirting the coast and not coming into the coast. don? >> drew griffin, wilmington, north carolina, thank you, drew. let's get down the coast now to myrtle beach, south carolina. martin savidge is there. and he joins us now live. martin, what are the conditions like at the moment where you are? >> reporter: well, we've got the winds. there's no doubt about that. in fact, the winds really picked up around midday here. and they have only inten...

The gusts here are still pretty strong. we're still getting pretty good bouts of rain. one of the reasons i can tell you that we know it's easing a bit is it doesn't sting as much on your face. there are hundreds of thousands of people that are without electricity tonight. they're still hunkered down in their homes. we know that as a result of those spinoff tornadoes, that there has been damage in and around the north myrtle beach area, and people are still fearful about the possibility of more tornadoes tonight. all in all, this is still a storm that packs a punch. it's still being felt, and ...

Dorian's winds lashing south carolina all day, flooding low lying streets, dragging down more than 100 trees. forecasters say more than a foot of rain could fall in some parts of the state. art perry rode out the storm on nearby james island. >> this is the third one in three years, you don't get used to it, you learn to adapt to it. once you're in it, you're in it. we went ahead and it was risk or reward, knew what we were getting into. >> reporter: reports of spinoff tornadoes causing havoc. >> you hear the noise, sounds like a train in a sense, went to the window to see what was going on, l...

Those poor people had no place to go. they had no shelter. the university took them in to their fieldhouse and the hurricane with spinoff tornadoes, completely tearing up the stands and their football stadium, lo and behold the police show up, with ten elderly patients in a nursing home that had been abandoned and the students of that university, since they had generators, they had power, they took those elderly senior citizens in and took care of them. that's one of the great stories that i've heard. the university president, jim tuey, my friend, years and years, told me this story and when h...