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A lot of floods still on the way. wind is a problem knocking down trees, 50 mile an hour gusts. the good news, this is a future forecast, this wind field will be falling apart not so much today but sunday you see the winds back down in a big way. i will leave you with the forecast track, real slow mover through the day. you get into sunday and this thing takes off. real slow and a big speed up which we finally do need. connell: even when it stops monday or tuesday we keep covering that up. jillian: forecasters predicting more rain and flooding for coastal areas of north and south carolina. mor...

Notice once we move across south carolina this wind field falls apart. it's good news for folks further inland. we are unfortunately going to be paying attention to this for a while longer. the movement overnight stays in slow early and then it really picks up more on sunday and becomes a quick mover. actually here in new york city, it's probably going to ruin my plans on monday and tuesday -- this system is going to be moving to the northeast. >> shannon: you might need a nap for a couple of days based on the hours you're working now. thank you very much. tonight, "the new york times" admits ...

Wind, bringing in all that moisture off the atlantic ocean, that's going to produce amazing rainfall amounts. so even after we kind of get past this coastal version of a hurricane, it's going to transition to perhaps record-breaking rainfall for some of these people. >> they have been talking here in wilmington of eight months of rain in the next three days. >> almost unimaginable. when you have to bring up the yard stick to measure rainfall, you know it's a problem, and these people are going to have extreme wind in the first place. like we said, the wind field is so large, so maybe they're d...

Churned up. all of the waves there, it is just what we expected and what forecasters have been promising and what john berman has been experiencing and hoping that there is no one else there where he is in north carolina. let's go to brock long now at the headquarters of fema in washington, d.c. tell us what you are seeing from your vantage point. >> unfortunately florence is doing exactly as predicted. the most devastating part of this hazard is the storm surge and because of the expansive wind field and the slow down in the speed, we're seeing a lot of flooding back in the back way and the i...

Logan poole, an extreme meteorologist, is with me. with all the storms you have covered, how does this compare? >> a little different, anderson. the pressure actually stayed fairly low for a storm of this magnitude. we talked about, oh, it's dropping from category 4 to 3 to 2, but barometric pressure, which is one way to measure the intensity of a storm, stayed fairly low. in the 950 millibars up until landfall. that being the case, it allowed the storm to expand the wind field instead of being so concentrated. that's why even now, portions of the eastern north carolina are still experiencing ...