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>> they're going through this outer band which has been persistent. on and off all day long, this big band has been sending heavy rain and squalls through that region. as he gets closer to the center, the peak, towards about 8:00 a.m., that's when the winds will dramatically pick up for him. >> i want to go to him in a minute but i do want to ask you because we were talking to the mayor of new bern, and he was saying they're used to tornadic activity, but the kind they've been seeing is not something that they're used to. >> there's been some big -- usually when you have tornadoes happen with ...

The area in and around charleston, steph. >> you called it a triple threat and i'm calling on you to head back inside, please. i'm going to check in with you later. let's go now to msnbc meteorologist michelle grossman. michelle, just yesterday when you and i were speaking you said, this storm is unpredictable. it certainly is delivering. it is now stronger than we expected. >> overnight we jumped 10 miles per hour so bump us back into a category 3 storm. the entire time this began on august 23rd as a depression and became a hurricane a few days later so almost every day has been surprising to...

The northeast. we're also a couple hours from high tide, so the combination of those two things, you'll see it in a couple of hours. this will all over top where i am. much of downtown is already flooded. charleston floods very easily. this is saturated land. it's built, does have a flooding problem. they try to take the level of the lakes down yesterday in anticipation of this but i don't know they are going to have much help. fema is situated with boats. the national guard is situated with high water vehicles. you can see the wind just died down very suddenly. it's coming in squalls. this ha...

>> they need every piece of help they can get. it is totally devastating, heartbreaking. >> bill: you think two days ago on labor day it was a category 5 hurricane. with me today rick leventhal. we worked late last night and start this morning. good morning in neptune beach, florida. hello. >> we're getting some squalls blowing through here and light rain falling now. nothing too bad. winds not bad now but expected to get worse throughout the day. the highways are virtually deserted behind me and florida is so lucky this storm tracked further east off the coast. the northern bahamas as you men...

To withstand about -- our building codes were built to withstand about 150 miles per hour wind. we never expected that we would one day encounter the velocity as high as 180, to 200 miles per hour. but we will take that as a lesson. >> all right. staying on hurricane dorian for a moment. for the very latest on the track of that weather pattern, let's cross over to msnbc meteorologist janessa webb. >> it hovered over the bahamas for 52 hours. the squalls are taking over most of florida, the northern edge here, that's going to be the case throughout the afternoon into your evening here. the torr...