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Things blown apart hurricane andrew scenario extreme winds. i would be most concerned with the stall. just water. just too much water. when the storm is here, it's throwing walter and rainfall inland and then we have the storm surge on top of that. all the rain falling in the rivers, falls in north carolina and then it flows to the coast. so at the same time we have the water pushing it in and they're wangs out and that water levels -- even inland areas, like the nuse river here new newburn area, there's so many implications for a stalling storm. it's all water issues too much of it. >> prayin...

It's tremendously big and tremendously wet. tremendous amounts of water. >> welcome back everyone. this morning hurricane florence is inching closer as more than 1 million americans rushed to evacuate the coastline. fema is warning it could be the strongest storm to targ that carolinas and virginia in decades. bringing with it a possible life-threatening storm surge, destructive winds and potential catastrophic rainfall as well as inland flooding. for the very latest on the storm, let's bring in meteorologist, bill karins. how far away is it from making land fall and the immediate 24 hours aft...

That's what happens regardless of its category. >> interesting. so that was the perspective from both the radars the maps. let's get the perspective from the ground. msnbc's jay grey is there. what's itting like there this morning? in terms of the scale. >> reporter: the opportunity, that window to get ready or get out quickly closing. we've had a spiting rain. it's going to intensify. then things go from bad to worse pretty quickly here. . >> reporter: time is running out along the south atlantic oes. florence, a category 4 hurricane gathering momentum and growing. >> the waves and wind this ...

To 48 hours, either over the top of wilmington or myrtle beach or off the coast. high tide cycle after high tide cycle. the winds continue to stay high. more wind damage and then the incredible rainfall amount. you can't ask for a worst forecast for jacksonville, north carolina, aunz low county area down to wilmington. it continues to get worse myrtle beach. all of these lines on our computers. this is at 8:00 p.m. thursday. then we take the storm and notice some of the lines linger and drift here? a couple move over areas of south carolina. the forecast has improved from raleigh northward, dr...

Much on the actual land fall. this is going to be a major hurricane that is going to literally stall for 46 to 48 hours over myrtle beach and willeming stn. and the effects of that and the shift has gone further to the south means this forecast has improved northward, virginia beach, hampton roads area to richmond, raleigh. the forecast is much better for you today than it was 24 hours ago. but that means bad news for areas further to the south. myrtle beach has gotten worse, from florence to dillen. fayette vill. and now we're starting to talk about charleston dealing with heavy rainfall and ...