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Welcome back to our continuing coverage of hurricane florence, expected to make official land fall about four or five hours from now. in new york. hundreds of thousands of people are without power. 198,000 officially without power in the state at this point. bill, suffice it to say this is a very slow moving storm. >> and the national weather service, the local offices make their zone forecast and i just saw the new river forecast for cape fear river. they updated the forecast and now saying it's going to break told the record by two feet, which was hurricane floyd in

The water and the chanlz. maybe more than just live on the edge of the beach. frors >> that's really what we've seen with the rescue we apprec you times and you just thought maybe they're underestimate thing storm and the devastation but you realize when it comes to health or financial situation and. >> and i want to go to wilmington, north carolina. when i saw you yesterday you were holding up that wind meter. it looks like it's picked significantly since then.

The southerly wind is already piling it up. we' we're about to hit low tide in about one hour it will start to build. those are the concerns. we already have in the newburn area, the city tweeted about an hour ago 150 people waiting for rescues and 40 to 60 mile-per-hour winds and torrential rain and there are -- just picture that. >> and the tough part is making sure they can go out and actually help them. >> the fema crews, swift water crews, other crews trying to move in and assist them. 150 people waiting for a rescuse right now that are stuck in their homes. >> we're going to talk to the ...

And i thing we have news frumt our joe friar. >> reporter: do you guys hear snee. >> whautsz tlr news you got there? again this is north of jacksonville. >> reporter: that's right. so jacksonville's obviously been getting hit earlier than other areas of the storm. keep in mind jacksonville is not right on the like many other places are. despite that we're still seeing strauj storm and despite that they're concerned with flooding because this is a community long the river and it's expected. it's going to be a lot of a rain for these people to handle.

Storm today and later tomorrow but it right now in murt beach things seem pretty quiet. >> given the fact that florence has been stalling north and the tourist destination. did you get a sense of the people who stayed, went out and about? >> reporter: not a lot. this part of myrtle beach, not lot of people decided to stay frrps we did speak to the mayor yesterday who said they did not heed the mandatory evacuation order. eeve though we're not in the so-called dirty side of the storm with with the heaviest wind and rain. there's stale pufinishal for the storm surge that might prove devastating ...