. >> 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

carolina: hola, aquÍ estamos en wilmington, carolina del norte. justo frente al rÍo cape fear, que en estos momentos se ve el movimiento del viento que lo estÁ empujando. y ha crecido muchÍsimo en las Últimas horas, me atreverÍa a decir que varias pulgadas. sabemos que se ha reportado que incluso han caÍdo unas tres pulgadas de lluvia en el promedio de una hora en algunas zonas de carolina del norte. esto por el impacto del huracÁn flores que estÁn todas aquÍ en la zona. quiero caminar hacia acÁ un poco para que vea lo que hay en la zona. hay unas embarcaciones, varias de ellas que estar estacionadas he estas embarcaciones han salido volando, afortunadamente no han sido muchas, estÁn bastante estables. y es qse hanimos esta maÑana a de las siete l empujaban. necesitÁbamos que alguien nos estuviera. a mÍ me tenía que sostener mi productora porque sino, podÍa incluso caerme. en cuanto al efecto del huracÁn en estos momentos, se ha reportado que muchas personas estÁn necesitadas pidiendo auxilio porque se han quedado varadas en inun

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

florence wit s thehts on south carolina is still pummeling north carolina with rain. bringing with it the potential for catastrophic flooding. neighborhoods under water this morning. hundreds ofcu reses as rising flood waters trap people in homes and sending tany to meroofs. so residents wishing they had listened to the warnings to get out ahead of the storm. >> a bad decision. >> and the slowoving storm and effects are still far from .over we have days of rain ahead f us. how bad is it now? we are live ifthe middle the storm. "today" saturday, september 15th, 2018. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today the fury of florence." live from studio 1aro in efeller plaza. >> good morning. welcome to "today." f thank yo joining us. peter alexander is with us. dylan i in wilmington, north carolina. hurricane florenceade landfall friday morning. >> we are 24 hours later and the winds not as powerful, but winds no less punishing. in the same neighborhood, still churning over much of north carolina and a lot of south carolina too. >> i tsnk what importa

that is north carolina, south carolina and that's georgia. that whole coast is in the eye of this storm. nobody in that area can stop paying attention to this storm. it's going somewhere. the question is where. more new updates. the central pressure is up five points, 948 millibars. that is a slight improvement. it was a 943 this morning. 948. this is a low pressure center. what you want it to do, the pressure to go up. it's up, not down. that's good news. still obviously an extremely dangerous storm and it's going to get worse. to give you an idea how massive this low pressure center is, this is what it looks like from space. astoundingly large. bigger than the state of michigan, almost as big as the two carolinas put together. 83 foot wave in the atlantic. 83 foot waves. think of that according to meteorologists. they have buoys out there and they've been charting it. fema sent out a dire warning, this is the last day to get out. >> this is not a glancing blow. this is not a tropical storm. this is going to be a mike tyson punch to the caro

in conway, south carolina. they say winds hit 63 miles an hour. we are in florence, south carolina. we haven't seen anything quite like that just yet. but the wind just did take off. the wind -- branch next to me was snapped off the tree next to me. governor mcmaster said this will be the beginning of a very long weekend. they're most concerned about the fact that the storm is expected to linger for the next couple days. they say it will bring heavy rains. they think there is the potential for flash flooding, particularly they're worried about a lot of rivers across the state and various basins potentially flooding. they're telling people if those flooding conditions do develop we will see those in the next couple of days and they're warning people to stay in place and be prepared for a lot of potential other bad weather coming their way. so far again we have seen people coming in and out in this area because things have not gotten as bad as we've seen in say north carolina but a lot of people here, david, are

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 supply and gasoline in the affected areas. until the normal supply to the region can be restored. currently epa's a bitter at headquarters in washington, d.c. and epa region three philadelphia and epa region four atlanta, georgia, are all activated. we have teams on scene coordinators and equipment ready to deploy. we will continue to coordinate with and support our federal-state, tribal and local government partners as the needs arise. thank you. >> and then last of our fema spanish-language update, daniel. take it away. >> grassi us -- [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] >> questions in regards to florence? yes, ma'am. >> you have estimates yet? do you all have an estimate yet of what sort of damage this hurricane will do? >> no. we don't have that, but the storm is almost a combination of hurricane hugo and hurricane floyd, you know. it brings elements of bo

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

carolina national guard. albi lewis, fema federal coordinating officer along with grasha check. and commander peggy britton of the united states coast guard. and major general lusk will introduce lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan of the united states army who's also with us. now i'm going to turn it over to director sprayberry for an update. >> thank you. >> you have been listening to north carolina governor roy cooper. his message, this is not done yet. urging any evacuees to stay put. you want to venture out when you talk of days of lane and you're cooped up in homes. that's the safest place to be. he said the rainfall being measured as we know now and breaking records in feet. he is urging folks further inland, this has been a concern from the beginning, talking specifically about charlotte, asheville, mountainous regions of north carolina, that they need to be on guard. the rain is coming their way if it isn't there yet and flooding will be a major issue. part of that issue is we won't know what's there

he was in north carolina, now he flew by helicopter down to south carolina. he's continuing his tour of the two states. he's been meeting with flood victims. he's been thank the first responders, surveying the damage left behind by hurricane florence. now, the president earlier promised folks that they're not alone and that together as a country we are going to get through this. fox business' connell mcshane is standing by live at the white house with the very latest as we monitor the president's every move. connell? >> reporter: it's a full-day trip for president trump. he left a little after 9:00 in the morning and will not arrive back here until this evening with the two states being covered and the earlier stop that you referenced in north carolina was justin hopping on marine one and arriving a half hour, 45 minutes ago or so in south carolina. but after a motorcade ride over to the town of conway, the president began what he's doing right now, which is taking a neighborhood tour, his second of the day. this one in conway, south carolina, which for those

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

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

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

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

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

even if southern virginia, definitely north carolina and south carolina, they have to take the storm just as serious as we did in florida with irma. we can't tell exactly who will be affected. we know a large mound of the population will be. we'd rather get a little more you know people out of the way. we want to push people inland. that's what we want to do. we don't want anyone to be theri never met anyone that esaid i lived through the hurricane, can't wait to do it again. >> thank you, stay safe. still ahead, more than a million people are under a hurricane evacuation. not everyone is choosing to lead e leave. i will show a woman with seven rescue dogs, her home directly in the path. another high profile executive leaving cbs amid inappropriate conduct. the second in less than a week. that story coming up. after months of criticism that he has been too soft on russia, president trump is now taking steps to punish those who interfered in the 2016 elections. you are watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance

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

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

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 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

north carolina. jacksonville is an area getting hit hard as well. >> absolutely, the city's high school is heavily -- has been heavily damaged and saw video of that. water in the school. just dousing that school and their equipment, of course, the school just got started just a little while ago and this is what they're already dealing with there in jacksonville, north carolina. you can see the debris there. >> abc's victor oquendo is in jacksonville. >> reporter: the winds here are only getting stronger and the rain has just been relentless. the last reported wind gust here in jacksonville, north carolina, 76 miles per hour. this rain, you can see it, we're feeling it for sure. it's just whipping, helping us, as we step out here, we're about 20 miles inland from the coast. you can imagine what they're dealing with as the eyewall is very close to them. the major concern here in the jacksonville area in onslow county is that storm surge. possibly around 11 feet. a lot of that seawater will get pushed i

. >> 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. 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

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

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

. >>> in wilmington, north carolina, chris cuomo down in north myrtle beach, south carolina. kristine romans in new york, and this is hurricane florence. it is bearing down on the carolina coast. about 25 miles, the center of the storm off wilmington where i am right now. but don't pay attention to the center of this storm because it is so big. a huge storm with tropical storm force winds and hurricane force winds spanning 70 miles away from the center. the big fear of this storm is the storm surge, which is already putting hundreds if not thousands of people's lives at risk. a lot of rescues going on at this very moment. this storm is a triple threat. if the rain you're seeing right now could top 34 or 36 inches over the next two days, it's the winds and, still a powerful storm with gusts up to 120 miles per hour, and again that record storm surge. we're just past high tide. storm surges in some places that could top 11 feet. that is enough, it has been enough as we've already seen to flood significant communities. people trying to get through this night, but that's just the

steve from north carolina. >> strong winds are gone from this part of the coast up north carolina but the heavy rains continue, hour after hour more than 20-inches of rain have fallen here and we could get another 20, that makes a very dangerous situation on the roads. this morning we saw damage firsthand with the police going back to coastal area trying to check out the people who tried to ride out the storm, the damage from the wind is visible, parts of houses litter the road t-mobile homes were hit the hardest, right now the problem, the most serious problem is moving inland with flooding, police have carried out at least 4 to 500 rescue operations, the military playing a role too, both the national guard and soldiers using high-water vehicles and helicopters to perform those rescues, the problem now is also electricity, several hundred thousand people without power, power crews are working around the clock to try and get that back up as quickly as possible be with all of the debris on the road and down power lines that's till a very dangerous job, back to you. eric: that it is, st

borja: en los estados de carolina del norte, carolina del sur y virginia ha sido ordenada la evacuaciÓn de 1 millÓn y medio de personas. tambiÉn el presidente trump declarÓ estado de emergencia para las carolinas. el mandatario ordenÓ que se brinde asistencia federal para reforzar las respuestas estatales y locales a este fenÓmeno natural tan amenazante. carolina: sabemos que la guardia nacional estÁ lista para irse a cualquiera de los cuatro estados que podrÍan verse afectados tan pronto como el jueves en la madrugada o el viernes. pasemos directamente con nuestro expertoalbert martÍnez que tiene toda la informaciÓn. albert: muy buenas, carolina y borja. avanza muy deprisa, se mueve en direcciÓn noroeste. aquÍ veÍamos el ojo de Éste huracÁn hoy con las primeras imÁgenes del satÉlite visible y la trayectoria ha cambiado de rumbo. se mueve direcciÓn noroeste, va de prisa 16 millas por hora y se va a meter en una zona del atlÁntico muy caliente lo que podrÍa intensificar de nuevo un poco mÁs. el impacto estÁ claro que puede ser en carolina del norte pero el cono de in

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

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

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

you are talking all across north carolina into south carolina. the water will continue to rise as this pushes off later this week in. a lot of these rivers expected to peak on sunday, tuesday or wednesday. once this rain wraps up by the end of the weekend, water could still rise. jillian: out of the carolinas people have been talking about how saturated they were from an especially wet summer. >> some areas in north carolina had already seen their typical years worth of rain so far this year. it has been a really wet summer and spring and they're getting an additional years worth. jillian: hard to comprehend that water. avenatti connell: two years of rain. already a terrible year. talking about how florence is moving at a glacial pace and it has been but packing quite a punch as it continues to lash north and south carolina, torrential rain, intense storm surge, looking at the damage in its wake and we will have more in a moment. jillian: 17 minutes until the top of the hour. tropical storm florence claiming four lives in north carolina. the firs

we are in constant contact with both north carolina, south carolina, and also virginia. at the state level. we also have teams that are embedded at our state emergency operation centers and are in contact with our local emergency managers. both states have activated their national guard as well as their emergency operations plan. as you know, our national guard does tremendous work across our nation and they just do a wonderful job both at the national level and also their state duty protecting the citizens of their representative states. we've also partnered with our good friends and partners as you see on the stage, but heavily engaged in the department of defense, as we get ready to respond to this. we have what we need. we have what we need staged throughout the area, both as far as manpower and teams, as well as commodities, resources, communications. we've also heavily engaged with our partners at the private sector. our focus, as being see, it's going to be life saving, but it's also the effort is going to be stabilizing the critical life lines and very expedited

carolina. where a boat is going down a city street as we await the brand new update from the national hurricane center in miami. there are changes to report on this hurricane. direction change, central pressure change, wind speed change. for all of it, let's go straight to miami and the director of the national hurricane center standing by live now, here is ken graham. >> walking back to the national hurricane center, this is ken graham in operations with the hurricane specialist behind me continuing to look at several different systems. one in particular hurricane florence. right now it's 2:00 eastern. this is your update on florence. you can see the center is still moving very slow. in fact, the latest information that we had with the aircraft and also looking on radar moving west at only 5 miles per hour. so moving very slowly. so around that center you can see that intense rainfall and also some still gusty winds with the latest information still remaining at 75 miles per hour. so, still a

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.

north carolina, today, it's been about eastern north carolina. that was the same thing yesterday, as florence made its way onshore. tomorrow, it will be western portions of north carolina. you see the satellite picture. anywhere you see the reds here, those are thunderstorms just blowing up over the atlantic and moving onshore, continuing the onslaught of incredibly heavy rainfall. you notice the storm north of charleston. this stayed to the north of them. myrtle beach noteeing much as far as the heavy wind theres th. but some rainfall. the i area came onshore, wilmington, north carolina. look at this. thevy hea rains still in the wilmington area, around oak island re won, asl they're trumping four, five, inches per hour at times. there's a tornado watch in effect until 7:00 tomorrow morning for this entire area. as the storm moves to the west, you will continue to see the feeder lobands. how long with incredibly heavy rainfall. look at the rainfall totals. this was the feeder band yesterday. and these are thean feeder today that are coming acros

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

size of north carolina, south carolina combined. i was listening to you talk to dianne gallagher earlier. she was talking about seeing transformers light up the sky in that kind of bluish ominous kind of creepy blue light. we haven't seen that here. there's still lights on in a lot of buildings here in wilmington, they're in the hotel here. some buildings have generators, as well. a wind gust right there. but obviously, power outages is something we'll be watching very carefully and obviously, they are expecting it, there are already power outages in the state. they're expecting much more over the next couple days. we've talked about it before. with that much water on the ground, power lines potentially down, it's a real danger for people which is why the mayor, the county commissioner are telling people to stay inside. there's five shelters. you were giving the number statewide. there's five here in wilmington. they expanded capacity last night because they started filling up. so people this is the point we're well past the point o

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

mola lenghi is in wilmington, north carolina. >> reporter: florence wasted no time attacking the carolinas. thirst outer bands of the slow-moving storm quickly brought a surge of water inland. the rushing water toppled a cameraman in topsail beach in north carolina and then made quick work of the garage. the storm's powerful winds toppled this gas station canopy. florence has already knocked out power to thousands throughout the region. >> our power just went out instantly. we weren't expecting it. it was way too early. we were trying to charge our things for the storm to come and it already went out. >> reporter: officials say millions of people may be left without electricity and it could be weeks before it's all fully restored. but it's the flooding that's expected to reek havoc over the next few days. >> surviving this storm will be a test of endurance, team work, common sense, and patience. >> more than 1.5 million people mr. wondering what will be left when they return. >> we're concerned. we don't know what we're going to go back to, you know what i mean? >> in south carolina, eddie

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

in north carolina, south carolina, virginia, and georgia, millions of residents are bracing for today's arrival of hurricane florence, which memeteorologists a are warni cod unleasash life-teatetening stotm surg a and htotoric flooding acroross a wide swatath of t eat coasast. while florence has now been downgraded to a category 2 hurricane, experts are still warning its impact could be catastrophic. this is north h carolina governr roy cooper. , notis momonster of a storm one to ride out. when you're lookingng at storm surge of t this magnitude where the national weather service has said that the damage is going to and that theye cannot emphasize it enough, we know that is a messagege that we should listen to. amy: hurricane florence is also expepected to cause widespread damage, including waste spills. in north carolina, the billion-dollar pork industry is clustered in the eastern part of the state, directly in the line of the storm. many of these factory hog farms store their waste by spraying it on nearby fields and neighborhoods or by depositing it in lagoons that can overflow duri

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

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

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

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

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comenzamos con el recorrido del presidente trump por las carolinas!!el primer punto a donde llego fue a carolina del norte y desde un hangar de aviones elogio a los trabajadores de emergencias. agrego que el pais esta de luto en referencia a las familias que perdieron a sus seres queridos durante el azotador paso del huracan "florence". el administrador de "fema" brock long, quien estuvo presente en esta rueda de prensa, dijo que aunque la lluvia paro, la devastacion no termina. funcionarios deben abrir carreteras para que los equipos de energia puedan y a las areas inundadas... para conocer como avanzan las labores de recuperacion en las zonas mas afectadas... nos conectamos en vivo con angie sandoval en wilmington, carolina del norte!!q1 angie, cuantanos de la nueva alerta que hay sobre la subida de los rios.. este es el dato del dia!! "florence" no solamente ha dejado perdidas humanas y materiales de consideracion, sino que tambien mato a 3.4 millones de pollos y pavos ... asi como a por lo menos 5 mil 500 cerdos en las zonas agricolas de carolina d