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As the storm spins of the east coast. hundreds of thousands of people bracing for storm surge and flash floods. aishah hasnie is in charleston, south carolina and people are running out of time to get out. >> reporter: yes. the hours are winding down. it is not windy, not raining, just hot and humid which is good news for folks who have a couple hours to get out of town. i want to show you this marina behind me. hurricane hugo which was a cat 4 when it hit charleston in 1989 picked up all the boats in this marina and tossed them all over the place. that will not happen with dorian being a cate...

Labor day weekend. kathy park i indian harbor beach, kathy park is in indian harbor beach, florida what are you seeing there? >> reporter: peter, the water is still relatively calm. preparations are intensifying along the coast. storm shutters are starting to go up as residents remain on high alert hurricane dorian nearly as wide as ohio.near the threat has customers in south florida jamming stores, buying supplies to keep them safe and sound >> a fan to help cool in case w generator. >> reporter: the uncertainty has people on e lose power we can run off the generator >> reporter: the uncertai...

The second landfall. the first one was just to the east of key west. there is the spin of the storm right there pushing the water away from naples, pushing the water away from tampa. but that will end as soon as the eye goes by. tampa, you still have eight hours or so before the eye goes by. significant rain and stormy weather. that's still going to happen for the next few hours. move you ahead three hours, the storm spins and the naples is in the eye. so chris cuomo will see wind at 120 going from east to west. we'll wait a while and go to zero. and then it'll come from the other direction at...

thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. >> i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that i'm glad we're sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimately find? >> what they ultimately found in the bedroom of his apartment where he was living, found ...

Like a hot air balloon. when the sun comes out, heats the ground, the ground warms up and the air wants to rise. as the air rises into space, it goes up higher and higher and gets into colder and colder air so the particles congeal, the humidity comes in and goes straight up into the air and you see the towering cumulus clouds, like everything in the northern hemisphere that spins to the right and everything in the southern hemisphere that spin to the left. if you move this stuff long enough on the way up, literally, 60,000 feet in the sky, 12 miles from the surface to the top, you will get th...