. >> these are live pictures from north carolina, carolina beach, north carolina, florence is a category 1 storm but packing terrain and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power before making landfall, we will have live coverage throughout the morning. cheryl: we are taking a look at your markets this morning, we do have a big kick do you -- kick - kickoff to your friday. hopefully carry that into this morning, looks like we might see that. lauren: we will show you futures this morning, premarket looking decent for stocks at this hour, s&p up 4. cheryl: taking a look at europe, stocks opening higher. lauren: japan gaining 1%. this is a very special edition of early fbn:am, starts right now. ♪ ♪ cheryl: it is 4:01 a.m. in new york, friday september 14th, special edition of fbn:am, i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti, very special edition as we are watching hurricane florence about to hit the carolinas. cheryl: that's the breaking news right now, hurricane florence is pounding the north carolina coast with wind gusts up to 90 miles an hour, terrai

hurricane florence banners the carolina coast from south carolina to north carolina, 200,000 residents ordered to evacuate low-lying areas of virginia. that is the expanse of the storm. really wide. one navy veteran who lives outside the mandatory evacuation zone in virginia beach is staying put. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. how are you doing? >> good morning. heather: let us know about conditions in your area. we heard from reporters in north carolina, south carolina, how are things looking near virginia beach? >> virginia beach has got lucky, we expected three or four days ago to have a real impact on florence, the city and state put a lot of effort in, starting with evacuation of the bay, mandatory evacuation zones. current weather is very calm, very light winds gusted 30 mph but right now we see a different picture than we expected to see three or four days ago. we are thinking about our friends in north carolina and south carolina taking the brunt of florence. heather: you have written out storms before, tell us about the others you have experienced compared to this

carolina: y puede cambiar. escucha esto, se espera que caiga aproximadamente 10 trillones de agua en carolina, para darse una idea,es una cifra demasiado grande. quien harÍa esto 15 millones de albercas olÍmpicas. imagínate la gran cantidad de agua que va a caer, a pesar de que se un huracÁn categorÍa dos, nos conectamos ahora con arantxa loi-zaga. ella esta en charleston, carolina del norte, con la gente que se esta preparando para el impacto de "florence"...hola arantxa!! en donde hay dos contrastes muy interesantes, por un lado podemos ver edificios como esteque ya estÁn protegidos en contra de la marejada ciclÓnica del huracÁn florence, y por otro hay restaurantes como se abiertos, estamos hablando de un bar que nos dijeron que tienen planeado permanecer abiertos para ser una fiesta de bienvenida del huracÁn. segÚn el dueÑo del lugar, ellos van a permanecer abiertos recibiendo a cualquier persona que quiera llegar a tomarse un trago mientras llega y azota esta tormenta florence. lo importante es

of north carolina. it's part of the state, sandra, that sometimes is tucked away in a way because it is at a certain angle that does not take often a direct hit from a storm. it wasn't a direct hit this time but they're feeling the effects as we move throughout the hour now here. so tim scott coming up shortly, sandra, here in wilmington. >> sandra: to quote noaa earlier bill, this is only the beginning and florence is a very slow mover. griff jenkins is live in morehead city, north carolina. what is the latest where you are? >> well, sandra, the winds are still whipping here. when i talked to you from atlantic beach we had to come back to morehead to our safe position. if you look, the water surge is starting to really pick up. this is atlantic beach taking the beating. we could not stay there. the streets of morehead a few hours ago we drove down them to give our viewers a shot but it is just business after business, tree after tree blown away. you can see this sign, street signs flying like a piece o

they will stretch across the carolinas down to south carolina. it weakens as it eventually runs over land, but it is such a slow mover that it takes a wild. places like wilmington couldn't deal with these wins for as much as 60 total hours before all is said and done. pushing that water and creating a storm surge, spots getting up to 8, 9, 10 feet of total storm surge. not just going to beat down on the beach, people who live into some of these inland waterways are also going to be dealing with the storm surge. for one, there's nowhere for it to go. we forecasted storm surges getting up to 10 feet in some of these inland waterways, also. this pushes well inland on top of all of this era because we have been talking about the slow movement of this, taking from this morning to tomorrow night to saturday, a very small amount of movement. with that continuing to pick up a whole lot of moisture, the rain will keep falling. with the storm surge as well as the rain, the flooding is definitely going to be a problem. here's where we are sitting now on top

carolina del sur. los vientos van a sentirse a partir de maÑana en toda la costa con vientos de tormenta tropical y de huracÁn en la madrugada del viernes. la cantidad de lluvia tambiÉn nuevos datos: wimbilton hasta 13 pulgadas y en carolina del sur 12 pulgadas. carolina: cuÁl puede ser la consecuencia de lluvias? albert: las inundaciones repentinas por la combinaciÓn de lluvias y la subida del nivel del mar hacia la costa de carolina del norte. quÉ ocurre cuando llueve tanto y sube el nivel del mar? que tenemos inundaciones repentinas. imaginen que esta es una ciudad cualquiera de carolina del norte y que la marejada sube. tengan en mente que seis pulgadas son suficientes para que si pasan por el agua se caigan. si sigue lloviendo y llega a un pie de altura el coche se puede quedar varado y se lo puede llevar a la corriente si ese nivel va subiendo y el agua tiene mucha fuerza asÍ que lo peor es estar en la calle durante el paso del huracÁn. borja: gracias por estar con nosotros. es escalofria

and north carolina today. to date, the corps has over 15 mission assignments, 5.3 million. and additionally over 1.3 million of our own flood control coastal emergency funds that allow us to prepare for and respond to flooding. in terms of missions that we expect to execute, temporary power is probably job number one. we anticipate. with that, we have our specialized power planning and response teams in position in both north carolina, south carolina, virginia if needed. we're there with 249th engineer battalion, prime power, and also augmented by contractors who will actually assist us in doing assessments and installing generators for critical infrastructure where needed. we are prepared to do infrastructure assessments of critical facilities, in collaboration with e.p.a.. assessments on water, waste water, will be conducted. and then we're prepared to conduct other megs missions as assigned, debris, housing, temporary roofing, missions that we normally do in these types of events. additionally, we have floo

conway, south carolina. the cape fear river behind me reached an all-time high yesterday, higher than matthew of from 2016, higher from hurricane hazel from 1954, 64 years ago, florence beat that record yesterday. on the phone, joe wilson, a republican represents the second congressional district in south carolina. in columbia, today, sir, can you hear me all right? >> yes, bill, i can. >> your district covers a big portion of the atlantic ocean, north of charleston. what are you hearing, sir? >> i'm pleased and bill, i want to thank you and fox news, you've been so good to report and alert people to whatever is occurring, particularly now, the potential for flooding and how unuseful it is also for tornados. and also, i want to thank you for what you're doing. and south carolina, governor menry mc-- henry mcmaster, every level of governor was prepared. >> the mary of wilmington put out an urgent message yesterday, he said we want you to tell pooh who have evacuated to give them a day or two to organize the r

and portions of interstate 40 in north carolina. the north carolina department of transportation is urging drivers to stay off of the roads and affected areas. >> with 51 days to go till midterm elections, democrats say they are prepared to take seats back from the gop particularly in the house. a new poll shows 52 percent of voters would vote democrat if the house midterms were today. as opposed to 38 percent republican. at the same time president trump is putting his weight behind gop candidates to drum up support. here to weigh in with california congress met, john garamendi. good to have you. >> thank you.predicting a blue wave? >> we will see maybe five or six seats in california that are open that we could win. across the nation, we will see what happens over the next 50 days. they will be events that will be some heavy campaigning by the president. and certainly, by democratic candidates. but all elections are local so how they stack up against each other? we are quite pleased with candidates that we have and issues that we w

griff jenkins and jonathan siri on the carolina coast in north carolina. ainsley: in myrtle beach, todd pyro. mike: tracking the storm in the weather center, we begin with chris just south of the outer banks. we see what you are seeing, talk to us. >> let me reset things. if you're waking up the conditions are bad, just north of where the eye wall is expected. conditions are deteriorating. the seawall, this is the bay, atlantic beach, yesterday, the chief of police over there, the fire chief, the wind and the surge, the texture of the surge and high tide comes around noon and the water surge in this area is only going to get worse, this continues at the chief of police in atlantic beach, in morehead city, difficult for law enforcement to get around, when authorities tell you they need to evacuate, and power lines, and power lines littering it and the real story we are talking about is inland, 40 miles northwest of here in new bern, 200 rescues have taken place. and talking to authorities all night long and people saying we need help, we are up to our chest

. >> in myrtle beach, south carolina. we continue our live special coverage of now tropical storm florence. the storm that beat on and battered north carolina is now coming south. we're see thing stronger sustained winds here, although the rain has died down. this is not primarily a wind event. the problem will be the water, the rain the storm surge now 900,000 people across the kaur can linaus do not have power, most of them in north carolina, more than 780,000 there. the rest of them here the worst possible five people have now lost their lives sqand they're attributed to this storm in north carolina. we'll check in with them in a moment. we're expecting the latest advisory at the top of this hour. >> we're already see thing rainfall push water up into jacksonville. we talked about new bern all week. they were up to four feet and now -- the river north of jacksonville has risen 20 feet. this is that push up the small little rivers. we talk about two feet, three feet here, the surge, and you push that up the rivers and i

carolina: hola, quÉ tal, cÓmo estÁn? con mucho gusto borja voces y carolina sarassa en este lunes 10 de septiembre. comentamos con lo mÁs comentado en las redes: el dia nacional de suicidio y serena williams y el huracÁn florence. borja: vamos a comentar con el huracÁn porque es el más peligroso en tres dÉcadas. se espera que las aguas suban. el centro de huracanes estima que estarÁ maÑana entre bermudas y las bahamas como huracÁn categorÍa tres o incluso mÁs. carolina: pero no es la Única amenaza hasta este momento. pasemos con albert martÍnez para que nos cuente m''as. albert: muy buenas. la proyecciÓn es la que hicimos hace unos dÍas, directo hacia carolina del norte y carolina del sur. pero no sÓlo florence nos preocupa porque tambiÉn tenemos el huracÁn isaac que va camina de las antillas. helen de momento quedarÁn las aguas abiertas del atlÁntico. a helen lo estÁn sobrevolando los aviones y los suben a categorÍa cuatro con vientos de 130 millas por hora, el ojo bien definido y su trayectoria hac

officials are worried about river basin shared with north carolina and south carolina. rivers in south carolina flow into that and the rain from north carolina will come into that basin as well. the area that to be impacted by flooding, that is one of the many places that have been evacuated. in florence people are hunkering down preparing for rain officials say is on the way. jillian: a lot of people evacuated. 700,000 without power. hundreds of rescue operations. connell: a terrible story with that tree coming down and we hope for the best for the next few days. jillian: we have you covered, tropical storm florence creeping slowly inland, the downpours expected to continue for days to come. connell: much of the region under flash flood warnings, rescue workers preparing for potentially catastrophic floods. special team coverage continues at the top of the hour. do you need the most trusted battery in your wireless mouse? maybe not. maybe you can trust that during your fantasy draft, the computer won't autodraft a kicker in the 7th round. or... you could just trust dur

all of north carolina, south carolina. it is as big as three states here and it will continue to potentially grow inside as we make our way to the north and west. t not growing much in intensity. you can see a little eye trying to form but it is having a hard time doing so. i don't expectuch as far as intensity. winds at 105 miles an hour. this is brand new. last hour, at 2:00, it was traveling at miles an hour. now it is going five miles per hour. that's w this isoing to be so devastating. this will creek along the coast here and tomorrow rning, 100 miles right at the coast. it will just batter the shore. and next week cingo int area as the remnants of. b not a deal in our area. i want to show you the radar picture. righ out of moorhead city, defined eye clearly right here. this is a two-hour loop. look at the outer bands coming on. we've seen tornado warnings. the bands all the waynto parts of virginia beach and that's where we have our storm ranger. stormger 4 right there on virginia beach. cking up these very small are

of north carolina. so all of that rain, all of that water that's going to be dumped on the state of north carolina, it will be coming down the cape fear river. we most definitely are going to see significant rises in the river. we may see some record-level rise in the river. and for those that went through matthew two years ago, as you mentioned, we lost several people because they tried to traverse roads, bridges after the storm passed. and their cars got swept away. and what i'm asking our citizens is to make certain, before you approach any kind of standing water, significant standing water, do not try to cross it, because you may be swept away. and we lost several people two years ago, when matthew came through. >> that's such an important warning. standing water is so dangerous. and even that warning is some two days away. we've got to get to the point where that's a major concern, after the wind, after the storm surge, and then we see the rain. what do people need to know for the next 48 hours in

getting close to north carolina and south carolina border. the wind motion here continuing to push all of this energy up towards the coast. so the storm surge came on shore having a very hard time pulling offshore. that will likely be the case a couple days. the storm surge is in there and we have a lot of rain places like new bern, morehead city. take a look at these bands of storms. continuing to bring rainfall rates that are probably somewhere between 3 and 5 inches an hour. this is the spot that is likely seen over 20 inches of rain by this point. we're going to continue to watch that significant flooding threat go on the next number of days. today and tomorrow, heaviest of the rain still across parts of southern north carolina and eastern areas of south carolina. as we move to sunday, that rain moves in across parts of the appalachians, monday, same story. tuesday, by the time we're done with this, we'll see an additional likely 20 to 25 inches of rain in some spots. now, we've seen all kinds of damaging pictures that have come in over t

we're going to take you live on the ground across north carolina , south carolina the entire region here is the latest we could tell you we've got more than two feet of rain falling so far in some parts of the southeast much more is expected that's on the way the storm is expected to trench the area right through tuesday and also rainfall totals could eclipse 40 to 50 inches. authorities involved here think hundreds who decided to stay and stick it out more rescues are underway right now as we speak we'll talk to the mayor of new bern north carolina on rescue efforts. so far florence claimed at least seven lives including a woman and her baby who were killed when a tree fell on their home. nearly a million people are without power at this hour we'll have an update from the region's major power company welcome everybody glad to have you i'm neil cavuto and we're keeping track of all of this as fast as we can. jonathan siri in a hard hit writesville beach, north carolina. jonathan? reporter: hi, neil we're still experiencing some winds, but the good news is that there's really no structura

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this is north carolina. let me take you to the governor of north carolina, roy cooper, giving an update right now, i believe, to everyone. let's listen. >> it will be unbelievably damaging and they can't emphasize that enough. violent winds can blow down power lines and trees. heavy sustained rain can flood our rivers and low lying ground. expect this storm to batter our state for days. flood plain experts at the north carolina emergency management have been modeling the storm's projected impacts. from the storm surge alone, tens of thousands of structures are expected to be flooded in north carolina. we are sharing that information with local officials so that they can prepare. shelters began opening yesterday with more opening today to take people in who have been displaced by evacuations. there are at least 16 shelters that are open now. we are truly grateful for the volunteers, the red cross and others who are helping us. i have authorized more north carolina national guard soldiers to report for duty. b

let's go to north carolina now to carolina island. again, up the shore here where kerry sanders is standing by. what is the situation on carolina island? >> here in carolina beach, first of all, we have pounding surf. the wind is continuing. just to remind people we we had the eye pass over us when it was a hurricane. the thing is, this is unrelenting. it is not giving up. we're at low tide right now. i'm going to step out and let you take a look at the atlantic ocean that is still pounding the beach here. as it's pounding the beach at low tide, traditionally we would have at least 25 yards of sand between the sand dunes and the atlantic. but it's right up there right to the sand dunes. the sand dunes, that natural barrier that protect the area but, of course, it's low tide. let me take you up the beach. if you take a look at some video here, you can see not only flooding, but on the northern portion of carolina beach, there is a pier there. well, this pounding surf took out what the chamber of commerce says is about 70% of that pier.

we are in greenville, north carolina. jim handily, news 4. >> andur coverage on tropical depression florence continues in about ten minutes. more on the paorm's imct plus we will check back in with doug. >>> in other news tonight,ot th way the redskins were hoping to open up in front of their fans. a head scratchin loss to the colts erases the optimism from their week one. w sherree burress is at fed ex field with more. >> reporter: the home opener exciting here for the redskins and they lose their first game at fed ex field. they were playinghu cawith the colts all afternoon. the redskins trying to start 2-0 for the first time since 2011. let's skip ahead to the fourth quarter, colts up 14-9. colts are up 21-9. the redskins trying to drive for their first touchdown of the day. alex smith for a good gain but he loses the ball. it was a bad fumble for there dskins. colts win it 21-9. a tough loss for those hoping to give the fanson ad straight win. >> we had ahance to come and dothat and did get it done. at the same time i

in south carolina. and earlier this week, major carriers began to wave their rebooking fees and cancellation licy in advance of this storm hoping to get travellers away from the potential harm this storm could e. the hope the airlines seem to have operations, resu bounce back by the weekend, hopefully as soon as saturday. now back out live, we are seeing some flights coming in,lightly delayed here. the question now is will we see more delays as a result of this storm? that remains to be seen at this time buthw sot, for example has cancelled a flight into and out of charlotte so you may want to check withour carrier if you intend to fly anywhere, especially the east coast and southeast today. back to you. >> thank you. lucky dog animal rescue had to step in to transport more than 40 dogs from south carolina to here in d.c. but during the ride the van's alternator failed. >> that left thels ani stranded in north carolina for hours. the community stepped in. more than 55 people helped good et the anima int

now at least six arirports in te carolinas are going to be closed. five in north carolina. mostly regional airports and one in south carolina. charleston, international. now southwest is going the extra mile of cancelling flights out of charlotte as well. but that airport is remaining open this morning. major carriers are waitiving booking fees and rebooking policies as a result of this storm doing what they can to get pass fgers awaym this storm. back out live what we're watching right now are residual wafects. as it makes it across the east coast as well. that's a very real possibility. what we hop right now is that flights will bounce back from these cancellations. but with close to 2,000 flights cancelled you can imagine that will be a slow moving process moving forward. back in to you. >> thank you. be sure to stay with us for all the latest on hurricane florence. you can check out our nbc washington maps for apps and the severe impact it will have. it will be updated as we get more information. 5:11.'s breaking news out of the boston area, one person is dead and dozen

the south carolina, there is a basin in north carolina and south carolina. the pd river basin. rivers flow into that, from south carolina. also rain and rivers from north carolina as well. officials here in south carolina say that is their highest priority right now and has been for the past couple of days. they're worried not only will all the rain coming in this way head to that basin, but also the rain that north carolina is getting as well. that basin is near zones evacuated like georgetown, south carolina, a little south. that is what officials are watching. we expect to get an update from them in about 15 to 20 minutes. trish. trish: ellison barber, thank you very much. joining me is south carolina congressman tom rice. he is on the phone from myrtle beach. congressman, sounds like you didn't evacuate, you're there in myrtle beach? >> i am. i'm in a high-rise building where my congressional office is. trish: all right. what are you seeing elsewhere in myrtle beach? are people heeding warnings that you and governor and everyone there are putting out? >> oh, yeah, the vast

you get to the south carolina/north carolina border 4 to 9 feet. where the water gets funneled and trapped and pushed into these places where the water can't escape you start to get the high values 9 to 13 feet. it could be to the right of the center and where the onshore flow is pushing that water into all these little areas where it can't move anywhere. 4 to 9 feet we start getting areas well inland and flat and rivers, you see the big storm surge value. very dangerous situation. if you think about it, we need to talk about needing to wrap everything up today. you'll start getting rain bands and tropical storm force winds will arrive tomorrow. so we need to wrap up all preparations today. ken graham at the national hurricane center. >> bill: we get the updates every three hours. that was live. i think he is describing from yesterday to today a worst case scenario, a storm that doesn't come on shore and blows out in 10 or 12 hours but lingers for a day or two or three days and changes direction. that's a big difference. >> sandra: let's go to jani

as the storm moves further in land, unlike houston and harvey, north carolina and south carolina have mouninous terrain, so i could see mudslides, landslides, and even in some of the urban areas arnd the carolinas, flash flooding as well. this is a long-term, phase a, phase b event, and phase b is really just geing started. rajini: let's move to the pacific, typhoon in the philippines. i have covered a typho the philippines before and i have seen the devastation that can result what are we expecting when comes to thi typhoon? marshall: we're talking 160-plus mile-per-hour winds. if you have seen the satellite imagery of the typhoon, the eye of that storm is tremendous. we are keeping an eye on that part of the globe as well. the tropics are not just active in the atlantic, they are active across the globe, and we ar thinking and watching for colleagues and friends and citizens over in the philippines. rajini thanks for joining us. let's take days other news. the pla series of gas ions has set fire to dozens of homes in the state of massachusetts. at least one person has n ed and more

and south carolina. the coast guard is bringing operations and mission support teams and personnel from miami, cleveland, really all around the country, to be able to move in as soon as we understand what the impact of this ever-changing catastrophic storm will be. >> captain, can you talk to us about the port conditions now? >> absolutely. thanks, don. the port is actually servicing its last -- its last cargo vessel as we speak. after that vessel departs, we are not anticipating and we will close the port of charleston. that vessel was really a team effort of the ila, the ports authority, and the pilots to get that in here and get it serviced overnight with the american-made vessels that are outbound from the port of charleston. >> mm-hmm. so are you having to prepare for this hurricane any differently than how you have prepared for other storms? >> you know, i don't think so at all. this is my first one here in charleston, and we've been through preparations for other storms in south florida as well. b

north carolina. some of the rain is spreading into south carolina right now. the pattern will grow to the west the next couple of days. by the time that's all through, we are still looking at totals that can be -- we are already seeing as high as 20 but as high as 40 inches over the southeastern part of north carolina and a large area 6-10 inches covering the northern part of south carolina and almost all of north carolin north carolina. again, we have several threats still in play, although the winds have increased a bit. we have rain in the inland areas floating down toward the coast, and we still have storm surge ripped along the coast though the wins have come down typically up the rivers still threat of storm surge as ted 8-12 feet, higher values north and south. risk for rainfall in in land areas. at the national hurricane center, i'm ed rappaport. >> live look, new bern, north carolina. one thing we've noticed the last 24 hours or so, the worst of the storm has seemed to come in the inland are

center getting near the border of south carolina and north carolina. myrtle beach gets into the strong rain bands and set up the rain fetches coming in off the water here. between wilmington and jacksonville. we watch this that's so p.m. tonight. 10:00 p.m. tonight. let's go to 10:00 p.m. saturday. torrential rain to wilmington to jacksonville. and starting to get fayette ville too. raining as the storm moves and weakens. down around myrtle beach. and let's go to 10:00 p.m. saturday. notice that fetch of heavy rain shows signs of seventying up and stalling over the wilmington area. to fayette ville. this computer model is saying the greatest flood risk as far as the rivers and fresh water flooding will be in this area. from wilmington to fayette ville. that same computer. this a si dishl rainfall. additional rainfall. sunday p.m. we could be adding another six to 12 in some cases maybe 20 inches of rain in the area. that's going to be the story. throughout the remainders of the storm. it will be such a slow -- thinking we're talking in going to reporte

derek in carolina beach, north carolina. and derek, i understand one resident telling cnn this day was worse for him than the other day. talk to us about what you're seeing and experiencing there. >> well, 36 hours of hell basically, george. we've got brutal conditions at the moment. i'm protected by a reinforced concrete wall just to my right. but if i step back 10 feet we would be in the thick of very strong tropical storm force winds. every little while we'll get a little spin up in the winds and it'll knock me off my feet. we continue to brace ourselves. we know this is long duration event. we've been talking about that so, so long and how this is moving at a snail's pace. and carolinas beach and the coastal areas north carolina to south carolina are really going to be in the thick of it at least another day to a day and a half. and we don't expect tropical storm force winds to drop off until saturday evening for this particular location. in terms of the damage that has happened here, we've had roofs that have blown off

. >>> maria yaiana is in north carolina. what's the update on that pier, on damage that you've seen there on oak island? >> reporter: david, we don't know. the police department could not confirm if, in fact, those reports that i was seeing on social media were true. i can tell you that that oak island pier already collapsed with hurricane matthew in 2016. that was a storm that sort of came and went. with florence, it's expected to linger and keep dumping inches and up to 40 inches of rain in this area. we don't really know what it could do to the structures here, because really that historic flooding that will start to inundate some of the buildings here and really cause the most damage. i'm standing about 150 yards from the intracoastal waterway, about a mile from the beach. this is the largest beach in the state of north carolina. it is very vulnerable to this monster storm. it is under mandatory evacuation, a barrier island, after all. the police department did confirm that all the bridges were closed so nobody gets in o

he's the town manager for carolina beach in north carolina. good to have you on the phone. how do you feel preparations have gone down there? >> honestly, i feel very prepared. we've spent quite a bit of time on drills and preparation for this type of an event. we've spent the last week or so trying to get the community prepared for this storm coming. we're feeling very good, although we're naturally very cautiously optimistic about the future. >> dana: absolutely. tell me how many people you estimate in your town have evacuated? >> about 90%. we have 6,000 residents here and we expect that there's probably about 10% that are still remaining on the island at this point. >> dana: i know we've had meteorologists here explaining the wind won't be the problem. is the rain and storm surge your concern as well? >> yes. the storm surge is first and foremost. we're feeling the effects of it now. we don't have a lot of wind at this point but we do have some waves overtopping our dunes. coming in to town. we also have tidal surging from our sound that is starting to build up. >> dana

carolina. what's happening there now? >> no rain yet but the winds are picking up. if you look behind me there are battering waves coming in from the ocean. look at this video from earlier this morning. wrightsville beach looks like a ghost town. police are keeping everyone off the beach and streets during this very dangerous storm. most people have already evacuated this island community. many of them going to the mainland to wilmington where bill is. but for military families, the largest marine base on the east coast has set up shelters. camp lejeune is opening up its doors to military i.d.s and families. bring toiletries, games and non-perishable food. the conditions will be hot and crowded but very safe. more than 200 miles from the coast in charlotte, north carolina, the public schools have canceled classes today and tomorrow in part to free up school buildings to house evacuees from the coast. back to you. >> sandra: jonathan serrie, we'll see you again soon. thank you. >> bill: again, s

catastrophic flooding for the carolinas. coming up next the story of one city bracing for the worst. >> new details on water rescues as tropical storm florence stalls over north carolina. they're responding to the city of new bern. they rescued 385 people there. joining me now is tammie. let's get the latest from there and what it looks like. i know dawn is on approach but looks like at least there's not a ton of water that you're standing in. that has to be good. >> yeah. hey, alex. it really looks like myrtle beach dodged a bullet. we spoke with police a few minutes ago and they said they have had no major damage in town. we have been driving around all morning. this was the extent of what we could find for damage. police also said they had no calls for rescue. you can see the power is still on where we are. about 160,000 people in south carolina have lost power. they still do have a curfew in place. but not a 24 hour curfew. it's from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and that curfew will be coming up soon. now the rain is going to

epa has issued four fuel waivers in north carolina, south carolina, georgia, and virginia. the purpose of the waivers is to help ensure that there's adequate fuel supply and gasoline in the affected areas until the normal supply to the region can be restored. currently, epa's emergency operation centers at headquarters here in washington, d.c., in epa region 3 of philadelphia, epa region 4 atlanta, georgia are all activated. we have teams on scene coordinators and equipment ready to deploy. we'll continue to coordinate with and support our federal, state, triable, and local government partners as needs arise. >> last up, our fema spanish language update. [ speaking in a foreign language ] [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> questions with regard to florence? [ inaudible question ] >> do you have a cost estimate yet of what sort of damage this hurricane will do? >> no. we don't have that, but, you know, the storm is almost a combination of hurricane hugo and hurricane floyd. you know, it's, you know, it brings elements of both. hugo brought high winds and inland impacts an

kerry sanders in carolina beach. we just got the update from north carolina power, 156,000 customers out. and sadly for the storm, the night is young. weather channel meteorologist mike seidel has surfaced in wilmington, north carolina. mike, i know that every spaghetti strand projection for this storm passed right through wilmington. what have you got going on right now? >> well, as you would say, brian, some pretty sporty conditions. we got into the heavy rain band an hour ago and it's been unrelenting. the airport which is inland has gusted to 63 miles an hour. also, rainfall coming down at about 1 to 2 inches an hour. we've already had one report up the coast, atlantic beach has had almost 13 inches of rain. it's only thursday night. and the problem with the storm, even though thank goodness the winds, brian, have dropped considerably from 140 cat-4 down to 90 cat-1, that lowers the threat of destruction on these beach properties and inland. we still have enough wind to knock down a lot of trees and knockout powe

there are several more days of very heavy rain in parts of north carolina and south carolina. it's going to be incredible inland flooding. our crew has been out there flying all day in incredibly challenging conditions. we have coast guard air crews that are the world's best. they fly in the most extreme conditions. some of the ones i talked to today told me stories about some of the conditions they flew in today with 40 miles an hour winds, driving the rain sideways, bringing water into their helicopter and even taking their internal communications systems out. these are very challenging situations but we prepare for them. arthel: when the internal communication system goes down, what happens next? >> they resort to team training. they train for that type of thing. just makes it a little more challenging. arthel: i wanted to ask you a personal question, if i may. do you get a chance, you as well as the other men and women out there working very hard, get a chance to communicate with your family? you have families at home and they are waiting for your safe return. >> my family

that was a live shot from carolina beach, north carolina. look a the size of that storm. you were saying that the storm itself is as big as north and south carolina? >> that's right. as it makests way onshore it's going to, obviously, weaken a it's cut off from its energyur . there is plenty of energy around that. you have been out on these hurricanes. as the morning wears on and the wind picks up, for safety's sake our satellirucks have to put their dishes down. so we'r of our correspondents. >> craig is in there getting it. craig,rnood g. >> reporter: good morning, guys. nhis is actually the mildest it's b in about 90 minutes. the winds have died down. at one point about0 or 30 t .utes ago we were gett this was a full tree hours ago. we continue to lose parts of that tree. this branch fell off about 20 minutes. a so that's been part of the, over the last 20 or 30 minutes, of this story. trees starting to come down. f and folks who know wilmington, north carolina, you have some really old big oak trees here. starting to lose some of those trees. f00,000 plus people witho

you're looking at carolina beach, north carolina. the sun just about to come up. that shot should improve, the wind, rains and storm surge beginning to come into focus if you wondered how much storms impact shipping and commerce behind us on the screen may be a perfect way to visualize it. this is a live look of the satellite positioning of all the ships in the carolinas you can see this is the virginia/north carolina border here south carolina is here to this side here shg, charlest south carolina wilmington is here i want you to focus on this giant hole this is where hurricane florence is centered now. you can see all the ship traffic, green are freighters. generally tankers. those are the big ships. they have all but left the entire region where hurricane florence may be. you have a port here in moorehead city, north carolina you have the poor of charleston and savannah those ships will stay there, in particular up in virginia, those ships are in condition zulu. as we talked about yesterday, if you're in port, for the most part the navy left, but a lot of ships

but our team coverage continues here along the carolina coast in south carolina and north carolina of hurricane florence. time now for me to hand it over to "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. it's a blockbuster day of news. and we're going to bring it all to you. hurricane florence is pounding north carolina with rain and devastating floods. it's a slow-moving soaker that still threatens homes and lives in that state and beyond. we'll bring you the latest. but we start with that jaw-dropping breaking news from donald trump's one-time campaign chairman paul manafort who today uttered the words, i plead guilty, and became the latest trump confidante to join team mueller as a cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. what this means for that investigation, robert mueller now has eyes and ears inside that trump tower meeting and any other coordination or communication between the trump campaign, the president's family members and the

and south carolina. that could be 3,000 customers -- i'm sorry, 3 million customers, who could be in the dark. they are saying it could be notches two days, but weeks for a lot of these folks. they do have an army of utility workers on standby, we are told 40,000 utility workers have been staged with heavy equipment but they can't obviously respond to the outage here or anywhere else until the worst of the storm moves through. it's going to be a while before they can get into start making the repairs and those repairs could take quite some time. >> shannon: as a brick just reported, a couple minutes before that, a couple of major transformers blowing behind that location where he is. that is going to be the full effect. rick, we'll check back in with you. thank you very much. brand-new official update on the latest florence track where the spring and the deputy director of the national hurricane center, ed rappaport. good evening. >> good evening. >> shannon: what can you tell us now about coming out tha

over the carolinas. they have driven hundreds of miles to be there. how many volunteers do you have on the ground? >> oz as of right now we have 3 volunteers on the ground, and that's from nine different states. >> and what conditions are they seeing right now? >> right now we're in fnew bern and we have made 57 confirmed rescues so far this morning. we are working with the local authorities to make rescues. that's what i know of so far, but we have more than that. we are dealing with the tidal surge, and the eye is coming close to that area. the tide came up really, really strong. 5 to 8 feet just about, and a lot of the people could not get out. they tried to drive out, and a lot of them got stuck in ditches pop so a lot of those people we were rescuing from the tops of their vehicles. >> do you know how many people you have rescued so far? >> i don't have 100% confirmation, but out of the 57 rescues we had, they said it was at least two to three, so 160 to 170 people at least. >> you do by any means n

north carolina into south carolina. south carolina will get its own rain, but it's really the draining into these rivers that is so important. and those rivers that we wanted to show you quickly, just to see that spiraling, look at that. look at all the rivers and that >>> all that weather was sponsored by edward jones and again, folks, we're going to be talking about flooding well into the middle and the end of next week for those communities. same communities. >> danger is not over by a long shot. sam, thank you very much. >> waiting for those rivers to crest and then waiting for them to subside. >> right, difficult. >> big impact. >> absolutely. again, thank you, sam. >>> coming up on "gma," the wild story out of massachusetts. the homes that simply exploded. as many as 80 of them catching fire and how officials now tell us they prevented an additional catastrophe. >>> and floodwater dangers, the hazards that could be lurking beneath the surface. urface. underneath the surface. [ phone rings ] hey maya. what's up? he

as we heard from the governor of north carolina as well, we're hearing from south carolina and from local officials here in the state that the concern is going to be in the coming days for potential flooding as rivers begin to crest. one area that's watching this closely, lumberton, north carolina, where we find polo sandoval. one of the reasons they're watching it closely, they remember clearly what happened two years ago after matthew and some of the damage. they have still not referred from. >> reporter: just about everybody we have been speaking to remembers what matthew caused in lumberton, especially with respect to public utilities. this is the water supply. five gallons of water in a giant tank. officials raided this barrier with concrete barriers, tarps, soil. they want to keep water from reaching here. what happened two years ago, water flooded this entire facility. people had to wait up to 30 days before they had water service. not only is that happening but also they're receiving all sorts of support and help, including from national guard. you see them lined up here. we are t

, south carolina coastline. again, we are going to see rain out of it. just nothing like they had seen down te carolinas. the rain shield, the outer rain shield right now, florence, still down to the south. we're talkingd aro the richmond area. we're seeing clouds out of here, out of the outer most bands. a little bit of drizzle. a little bit of light rain. that's it for our area. justs florence right now creeping along. 3 miles per hour. those winds are at 50 miles per hour. heavy rn continues to push inland as the winds wrap around it, take t water offshore and push it right into area rivers. stm surge warnings still up for a lot of eastern northse carolina becll of this water comes off the atlantic, moves right into the rivers, ann tht has nowhere to go. storm surge definitel b a problem down there. even through washington, north carolinahich is where jim is right now. again, storm surge is going to continue not only for a day or so, but we're going to continue to watch flooding arou t this region come. we co

different times here in north carolina. i'm in south carolina. but i've never seen anything be so consistent for so long. what are they telling you about their concerns on this level? >> the problem is the combination of the ocean surge that we're getting, the storm surge from the sea on top of the relentless rain that we're having. there is really nowhere for the river water to go. it discharges into the ocean. but the surge is backing it up. rain on top of that is causing massive flooding and the flooding is going to occur for several days because the rivers are going to continue to rise. water is our main problem right now. and we know that floodwaters kill and we're urging north carolinans to stay in place and unless you're told to evacuate, and if you are, go. get out of there. get to higher ground. >> we heard the one horrible story -- heartbreaking about a tree falling and crushing a home taking a mother and her child. a man survived in that situation. that is the -- that is the rarity in hurricanes. people think it is the wind. but it is

north carolina is reporting more than 180,000, south carolina with more than 4,000 and virginia skyrocketing in the last hour with 2800. duke energy, the major power supplier for north and south carolina estimates up to 3 million customers to lose power. they are sending out equipment, resources and crews. officials have been warning of the possibility for extended outages. most power equipment can't be used in high winds and flooding will delay response time. >> it's the largest contingent we have had for the storm. we'll be ready for it. >> a storm surge warning is in effect for several counties. there is a danger of life-threatening flooding. scary statistics from the north carolina department of public safety. six inches of water cannot down an adult. 12 inches of water can carry a small car and two feet of water can carry away most vehicles. the public water systems are experiencing problems and they have issued boil water advisories. >> jon: jackie keeping an eye on the storm. thank you. hurricane florence is a category 1 storm now. top sustained winds 90 miles an hour. that doesn't ma

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it looks awful. >> reporter: wolf, this is carolina beach, north carolina. the wind is whipping stronger than it has in the last 24 hours. it is unbelievable. this storm, florence, will not quit. they call this the category 1. it is the strongest category 1 winds that i have certainly seen. most of new hanover county is now out of electricity. no electricity to almost the entire county. our cellphones have gone down. all communications are down. we are now using a satellite phone and other technology to get this live shot out. it is absolute pandemonium here. the emergency services have just basically hunkered down for as long as possible, hoping that they can get through this storm. at midnight tonight there is another tide that will come in, and that's when it will be make or break for people here. they expect a very strong storm surge, and with these winds i cannot imagine that there will not be a lot of downed trees and damaged homes and problems in this town. this is a city of 6,200 people. about 600 people or so decided to stay. this may be the greates

right now jeff flock joins us from carolina beach in north carolina. kirstin: the situation changed a bit. >> reporter: this happens in the eye of the storm. this is something i haven't seen her years. it is rare to get into the eye. remember what it looked like earlier. we are now dead calm. almost seeing sky up here as compared to what happened half an hour ago, 45 minutes ago, birds flying around out here. it is an interesting piece of nature to have the eye of the storm be right in the midst of the chaos that we saw and now we have this break. the fact is this thing is moving so slowly, 5 miles an hour, we are going to be in the art for a while. you can see the damage to the buildings, not catastrophic damage by any means but we saw piece of the roof up there that came off, all sorts of minor pieces of damage, there may be worse. we will look around. right in the midst of this, here we are in almost sunshine. you can almost see through the clouds. in a well-defined are you could see blue sky. in hugo, saw stars. pretty amazing. peter: you are right