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Stretch of our coastline than just what you have highlighted on your screen. >> that's right, and it becomes potentially even worse as we movin' land because we have, of course, increasing elevation, and when the winds go up in elevation, they tend to drop even more rain. that's why we have this long band, even away from the center. the center is down in here. up into virginia and western carolina, up in the mountains where water can get focused down on the rivers. we're looking at a catastrophic situation not only at the coast but inland, flooding in both places. storm surge at the coast, rai...

It will take us a good amount of time to do the full recovery. >> meteorologist jennifer grey in the cnn weather center tracking florence. i know you're getting up-to-date information. you heard that. officials saying it will take more than days to recover from this thing. what are you hearing? >> right. people could be without power days, weeks, months in some extreme locations. we're seeing the latest from hurricane florence. the latest came out five minutes ago. no change in wind speed. still 130 miles per hour winds, gusts to 160. it is moving a little faster west, northwest at 17. the pre...

Towards the east coast. it is expected to make landfall either later thursday night or early in the wee hours of friday morning. mandatory evacuations are underway for parts of the carolinas. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking florence for us. and allison, tell me more. >> right. so the concern now is how much more intensification does this storm go through before it finally makes landfall? right now, it's a very powerful category 4 storm. winds of 130 miles per hour, gusting to 140 miles per hour. the track still eventually likes to make landfall, somewhere between virginia and so...

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