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Is causing serious concern along the coast line. storm surge could get anywhere from 9 to 10 feet. we're getting reports of that already. and we're not even near the eye wall of the storm, which has wind gusts around -- sustained 90 miles per hour, 120 miles per hour possible gusts as this eye wall approaches here in wilmington, north carolina. let's bring in our meteorologist karen mcennis tracking it all in the cnn weather center. karen. >> george, this is going to spell it all out. here is wilmington. this is our radar imagery. here is wilmington. at about 35 miles, that's where the eye o...

I have a plan. and i have options. there will be a point where i won't have options and that time may come sometime early this morning when the wind is very, you know, high, but i'm monitoring the conditions. so, 100 miles an hour, i don't have a problem. >> joe will be in his boat, many others decided to hunker down in their homes, and thousands already hit the road to escape the storm. wind speeds have decreased over the past several hours, but fema warns the risks remain high. >> please do not let your guard down. the forecast associated with this storm has not changed. it has remained the ...

Storm pushes through. i want to now bring in my colleague cnn colleague natasha chen who has been following the effects of hurricane florence. natasha, i know there are people watching now, people who may have left. keeping them in mind because they want to know how bad is the storm here in the city that they call home, the region that they call home. tell us about what you've seen and heard. >> well, today just driving around, i can tell how much effort people have put into really protecting their homes, boarding up their windows, et cetera. there are certain objects that i saw that might b...

Away from their homes concerned about their property. what would you tell them given what you're seeing, experiencing right now? >> for the people that stayed that have their generators, we want them to be safe and stay inside until they get the word from emergency management and continue to follow our facebook pages for the latest updates. and the ones that have evacuated and are waiting to come back home, they need to be patient. it's may it may be a few days before they can make it back home and they just need to be patient and let everything be safe before they come home. >> all right, ste...

Here toward wilmington, the eye moving very slowly but closer and closer. and we're also watching the water. if we can shoal you this shot of the cape fear river just behind us here on white caps on that river, very telling. higher than it has been the last several hours. it is an indicator what's happening as the storm pushes in. also when you see the satellite loop, when you see the sheer breadth of this storm, it is a very big storm pushing in. it will cause life threatening storm surge, already being experienced, realized along the coastline. 9 to 10 feet of storm surge that has been repor...