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The bahamas have years to regroup. we'll be all good in a couple of days. >> reporter: i have to ask you with so many hurricanes like this impacting business for days at a time, do you ever have second thoughts about staying here and operating your business? >> no, it's a great place. charleston is a great place. 99% of the time it's beautiful and sunny and everything is perfect. >> reporter: brett, thanks very much for joining us. good luck to you. i hope you can get that business back up this weekend. he says he's going to be back open this weekend, we're hoping he can. just about every othe...

The storm stays on its track or further to the west. to add it to your point, this is the summer rainy season. the ground is already saturated. so mother nature is not going to be able to absorb that extra rain as it falls. any shift to the left that brings up that expected rain total will be problematic. but we're going to be able to get through a tropical storm or a category 1 hurricane winds especially with the way the people of port st. lucie have prepared. >> what do you want the people in your city to know this morning, mayor? >> let's not get caught off guard if something as powerful as...

Packing winds of 65 miles an hour. it's getting stronger as it goes along. it is expected to develop into a cat one hurricane by this afternoon. and parts of new orleans are under water. barry is expected to dump about 20 inches of rain total in some areas. tens of thousands of residents are without power, and they're under a shelter in place advisory. and joining me now to look at what is happening on the ground is the acting deputy administrator of the federal emergency management agency, peter gainer. peter, thank you for joining us. >> good morning, jo, thank you. >> what's your main con...

Wastes could wash into the river and flow downstream to the cities. this storm is a triple threat. it's the category wind force about 90-mile-per-hour right now, and it's the three inches of rain per hour, and some 40 inches of rain total by the end of the weekend, and then the storm surge. the storm surge has created the most acute danger so far. a storm surge of six to 10 feet in new bern has led to all kinds of rescues overnight. more than 100 rescues overnight in new bern. new york citi forced evacuations, and even more calls coming in as we speak. i think we have diane gallagher, who spen...

It will mean more people are going to be in this flooding area. so if are you evacuating the coast going inland, you need to be very careful about the place you choose to sit this storm out. because a lot of places well inland will get possibly ten, 20 inches of rain and we are now, like you said, a concern for georgia. now inside the cone. it could be in this for some flooding as well, so look at this, this area has widened, this 20 to 30 inch of rain total. can you see stretching now down to include myrtle beach, portions of south carolina. this area was a little smaller last time i talked t...