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At sea. >> you find yourself in a bad place, i can't guarantee you based on what i told you earlier that we're going to be able to respond. we do have highly trained crews and i'm very proud of them response capability. based on what we're doing trying to make sure we are ready to respond after the storm we might have diminished ability to respond. >> camp lejeune has set up shelters for anyone with the department of defense i.d. and their families. officials warn the accommodations may be hot and crowded but very safe. the marine base has weathered many hurricanes in the past. volunteer organ...

>> take your family and move. >> prepare for the worse and hope for the best. lisa: we are back with a fox news alert and a final warning to get out. hurricane florence now hours away from reaching the east coast. pete: this infrared video shows the category 2 storm headed toward the carolinas threatening to unleash 110 mile-per-hour winds as well as catastrophic storm surges. steve: jonathan serrie is live in writesville beach, north carolina this morning where the coast guard laid out its plan for the hurricane. jonathan, tell us. >> yeah, good morning to you. right now the rain is still jus...

>> neil: this is writesville beach north carolina. we were showing you south carolina before. needless to say north carolina, south carolina, virginia, maryland have all declared states of emergency now ahead of this monster of a hurricane florence now packing category 4 winds in excess of 130 miles per hour. and moving very, very slowly. that worries a lot of the folks including our own meteorologist here saying the longer it hangs around the more flooding that will follow upwards of 2 feet of rain that could hit most of the most populated areas of this country. so we will keep you posted on ...

Agencies. steve: oopsy daisy. we thought we would set the record straight. hand it over to jillian to has headlines for us. jillian: we want to get caught up on what you need to know before heading out the door. amazing rescue by the coast guard after a boat carrying five people including a child capsizes. hang on for dear life as you can see here, rescue team getting the five people out of the water. all of this haps happening miles away from writesville beach in north carolina. it is unclear why that boat capsized. tennis star venice williams is at fault for car crash that left an elderly ma...

Making roads very treacherous for travel. they will try to help people as waters to continue to rides acrowfs the straight i. now let's get to rick leventhal in wilmington, north carolina. rick? >> i wanted want to update those numbers there are more than 800,000 without power. everyone here in wilmington, writesville beach where we were for the last few days. today highest it's ever been almost 5 feet above high tide. roads were flooded for hours today and a lot of homes put at risk. we drove from there into a neighborhood just on the other side of the intercoastal and saw dozens of trees tha...