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Continuing live coverage of hurricane dorian. i'm erica hill in charleston, south carolina. we're really feeling the effects of this category 3 storm as it moves closer to shore. moving at about 8 miles an hour. what we're really feeling too is the stronger winds. we're expecting high maximum sustained wind gusts at different points of 75 miles an hour. we can tell you, we're going to be feeling a lot of it through 6:00. the national weather service updated the flash flood warning for this area. for the city of charleston, north charleston and mount pleasant. it was to go through about now. th...

Trees up and get through some power outages. i didn't think this would be a huge wind event with it being offshore. 52 in myrtle beach and georgetown. these regions can handle that. scattered power outages, about 200,000 right now. as far as the new path and track goes -- remember, it's a tight south koreale that you want to avoid. it's going to be a very close call for our friends in wrightsville beach, wilmington area here, as we stick to this point. this is going to be close to that western eyewall throughout this evening's hours after sunset. overnight, like 2:00 a.m. this red line goes ov...

Eastern coast where you are and the effects for the carolinas and all of these states of emergency in effect for your state and north carolina and south carolina and what have you. sounds like from the latest tracking models, mayor, to your point, that is the region that could get the brunt of this. >> absolutely. look, our beaches right now are on a hurricane watch and a storm surge watch. our inland area is on a tropical storm watch. both of those are incredibly dangerous situations if that event happens. whether it's a wind event, a rain event or water event, if you're in an evac zone, you ...

Canals, bayus, back waters and the beach that will rain on top of it. a lot of times we'll have this is wind event or surge event, well, this is all three. there will be surge, wind, all of those things depending on where it hits. i won't say it's going to be north of miami but that's the middle ground at this point. and the storm is still getting stronger. we know that because the hurricane hunters are in there, they're finding lower pressure and higher winds, and this is not what we need. this is big event for what could be millions of people. >> we're going to share more with you at home. w...

Put. this is a category 1, but the storm is strengthening quickly. we currently have two hurricane hunter planes. this is actually a new figure that just came out. 106-mile-per-hour wind found within the center of the circulation. it is likely by the 11:00 update this evening we'll see this bumped up to a category 2. this is the projected path. look how large the cone is by the end of the four and five-day period. this indicates to the meteorologists they're expecting a stalling pattern to take place. on monday at 2:00 p.m., here's its location right around the east coast. only 24 hours later ...