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6:25 p.m. it s at facebook.com/andersoncooper/full circle opinion right now i want to hand it over to chris cuomo. cuomo prime time starts now. you were wondering where the rain is, now you know. it s right on anderson s head. hurricane florence is starting to come around for the coast of the carolinas. anderson is going to stand by. we have correspondents up and down the path of the storm for you. here is hurricane florence, very slow, that s the problem with this storm. when she comes, she stays, and she s dumping water in places that don t have a lot of tolerance for it, by the time the wind gets to you, the areas have been soaked. currently just over 80 miles east-southeast of where anderson cooper is. let s go to where we re seeing the storm in full effect already. brian todd is in ham stead, north carolina. what s the weather? you have to keep your eye on that situation. we have an assisted living facility not far from the area where we re getting pounded right now. ....
Through the storm surge and think they can make it out now? i don t think so. i m hearing nasty wind behind me? well, look, we re hearing from local officials. if you re here now, it s time to shelter in place the decision has been made. the trees around you they may be young, they may be strong. but the earth underneath them is getting spongy and soft. let s go to tom seder, we re trying to put some numbers to the pictures we re seeing, what are we getting from this storm now? well, we ve already seen our first 12 inch total in atlantic coast. what we re watching here, we ve already had a c-130 fly in about we re getting updates now every hour. look at this, our first 100 mile per hour wind gust. cape lookout, ft. macon, sust n sustained hurricane winds are occurring at cape lookout, to ....
Go to escape these flood waters. so again, i ve got four questions in total. first one is how certain are we about where it s going. the second one is, is the storm that big that it shouldn t matter where it s going. what should nonmeteorologist people look at? here s my last question and this goes back to that scary chart where hurricane allen in 1980 is the only storm we ve seen in this country with higher sust n sustained wind speeds. i have to say i find it personally unnerving to look at that chart. i look at those little dots on that chart representing storms and i think of all the other hurricanes that we have been through as a country and all of the damage that has been done by these incredibly powerful storms. if you just picture what we ve been through and then to see that this one is right at the top in terms of its sustained wind speed, just as a mathematical matter i find that scary. but as a practical matter, i want to understand how much ....