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Fingernails, do i need to put my hurricane shutters up? do we need to plan on evacuating? when can we come back? it's thursday/friday for areas of south and north carolina. storm surge problem in florida and up the coastal areas, we'll talk about the problems maybe being a little bit more wind. not georgia but in south carolina, north carolina, we could get more wind impacts out of that. chris, i've been looking at some of the new model data. it's all in excellent agreement. i do not expect any shifts from the hush center at 11:00 p.m. >> that is good news. thank you so much, bill karins. you ...

That got damaged. yeah, that's what we could be watching tuesday night into wednesday morning for areas from volusia county, flagler county, duvall county. the brunswick, georgia, area, look at a map the way georgia is, this little pocket, see the indentations here, backwater areas, that's where the water is going to pile up and could see problems with storm surge and would be more wednesday morning. if it coincides with the high tide cycle, it would be worse. south carolina, the only difference i have here is because of the potential at least to be closer to the coast, i have you in the moder...

It is one of the wood pylon piers. a storm will decimate structures like that. >> we're hearing about the storm, it could have wind speeds like irma, could drop rain and stall and sit over land like harvey. what are you hearing? >> reporter: that's exactly what we're hearing and what we're seeing. we are watching live up to date radar satellite information coming from the air force reconnaissance hurricane hunters. the storm is so large like you mention, hurricane harvey dropped tremendous amounts of rainfall in texas last year, and irma and hurricane maria had wind impacts. this one may be di...

In this forecast. the real question is: when does it turn to the west? if it drifts further north, you will see storm surge, greater wind impacts and increased reason fall. >> causing flash flooding and mud slides. >> i never seen anything like this in 43 years. >> sirens sounded as lane floats close to the hawaii islands. tourists were warned to leave the beach. >> some surfers rode out the storm. other locals are taking no chance. >> don't let your guard down. it's the one time you don't expect it when it hits. >> the good news is the storm seems to be breaking up from what was a cat-4. the ...

Hurricane, is it the storm surge? >> the storm surge in the rainfall, water is what kills most people in hurricanes. that is life-threatening storm surge, 6 feet tall, double my height. you are talking 12 feet of water in your house, on your street. harvey is going to move very slowly into the portions of next week, it is going to meander here. we have a catastrophic rainfall flooding, 25 inches of rain, the combination of the rainfall flooding which includes the houston-galveston metro area, could affect millions of people. we are going to be dealing with a lot of water for many days from the...