. >> 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

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

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 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

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

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

y tu carolina aranza me vas a abandonar temporalmente. --- carolina sarassa, me vas a abandonar temporalmente. carolina: es que la ediciÓn digital tendrÁ su ediciÓn en inglÉs con todos los temas que te interesan y con los corresponsales de la cadena de univisiÓn pero en inglÉs. es una excelente manera de mostrar las historias de superaciÓn de los hispanos en estados unidos. pero no voy a estar sola porque estarÉ con andrea linares quien estarÁ tambiÉn con nosotros. quÉ mensaje manda a los millennials, los jÓvenes que en casa hablan mÁs inglÉs pero que quieran saber lo que pasa en su mundo. andrea: muchas gracias por tenerme aquÍ. para mí serÁ un gusto trabajar contigo, carolina, que no de nuevo proyecto. aquÍ continuamos creciendo en este debo noticiero de "fusion tv". es mÁs que nada para los millennials quienes quizÁs no dominan muy bien el espaÑol y, de esta manera, podrÁn informarse de todos los temas que mÁs le interesan a ellos sobre inmigraciÓn y tps y ellos podrÁn obtener esta informaciÓn en inglÉs. yarel: un agente fronterizo podrÍa ser un asesino en serie

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

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

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

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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

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

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

we're going to have much more from north carolina and south carolina coming up here shortly in the broadcast. but for now, we want to go back for more news in new york and dana jacobson is standing by. dana? >> reporter: jeff, thank you. coming up next on the "cbs evening news": manafort flips. the president's former campaign chairman is cooperating with the special counsel. plus, what caused the explosions that wiped out dozens of homes. r prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. i'm begging you... take gas-x.ed beneath the duvet your tossing and turning isn't restlessness, it's gas! gas-x relieves pressure, bloating and discomfort... fast! so we can all sleep easier tonight. >> jacobson: president trump said he doesn't like flipping, he thinks maybe it should be illegal, but his former campaign chairman just did it. paul manafort agreed today to cooperate with the special wunsel's russia investigation in a plea deal that will spare manafort his second criminal trial this year. here's paula reid. >> a tough day for mr.

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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

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

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

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

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

the center of the storm is still right on that north carolina/south carolina border. it is not going to move much over the next couple of hours, considering that it is only moving at three miles per hour. we're also going to see the flooding continue as we go through tomorrow, even into sunday. so the river flood joutlook is something we will be concerned about as we go through the middle part of next week, long after the storm is gone. the river flooding is what we will be talking about because the rivers will still be rising. we could see record river levels in some of these rivers. here's the cape fear river at wilmington. it is going to hit record levels, or it is expected to by the time we get into friday. so that's next friday, wolf. we will be talking about this long into next week. >> this is really bay. jennifer gray, our meteorologist. thanks very much. the breaking news continues next. florence stalls over the carolinas, ravaging the region. we're live across the disaster zone. drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it

you're in south carolina? >> hey, ali, i actually couldn't hear what you said, but i'll go ahead and respond anyway. the situation here, it's deteriorated quite a bit in the last couple of hours. now what we're seeing actually is some really strong gusts. i know it looks like there's a lot of rain but really the rain is -- well, probably a little lighter than where you're at right now. what we're really feeling is 60 to 80 mile an hour winds with gusts of up to 100 miles an hour. that's what we're hearing. the fact is, that's what makes it so dangerous for rescue workers here. that's well above the level -- which rescue workers, the fire departments, are willing to go out and brave the storm and try to rescue people. that's important information for some of the people that you are talking to who are trapped in their homes. as you said, the rescue workers, they're not going to put their lives entirely on the line to rescue people who are so reluctant to leave when given a fair warning and a chance to leave earl

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

. >> 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

he's on carolina beach, north carolina. i guess you're right in the middle of the rain and the wind again, jeff. yes, you are. go. reporter: yes, sir. it's about, almost the same level that we experienced on the front end of this, we are getting now on the back end. it didn't look like there was that much there to me on the radar, but you can see obviously i can't read the radar very well. we are concerned, as you heard from the mayor just a short time ago, of carolina beach, they are concerned now about the beach erosion that will take place as a result of surge. if you look at these waves, you saw them earlier, they were coming either straight in or from the other direction. now with the wind shift, they are coming in this way. eventually they are coming straight in, and that's what causes the erosion. i'm on a fairly high berm here that protects the town. if that were to fail, as you pointed out to him, that puts a lot of water in a lot of places, and puts a lot of people in jeopardy, the ones that have remained. we're j

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

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

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

in newborn north carolina at least 150 people -- in new bern north carolina alleys 150 people called to be rescued. rescue efforts have stalled due to windows there. trapped residents are now being told to head to the highest parts of their home. >> once the wind is starts blowing at that tropical storm rate it will be virtually impossible for the rescuers to get into rescue you. >> more than 300,000 customers in north carolina have already lost power. hurricane florence is producing a life-threatening storm surge and the threat of a freshwater flooding will increase over the next several days in both north and south carolina. >>> we will go right to steve paulson who is going to give us a lot more on this. >> the wind is part of the story, but this is based on the stafford simpson skill. even though it's 90 miles an hour wilmington is now getting gusts over 100 miles an hour. the storm surge is one of the issues. that is rising water associated with the hurricane. or the area of low pressure. as that moves onshore it starts to go from deeper water to shallow water and the intensity

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

carolina. there have been rescues going on in new bern. 80 miles from where i am right now. 200 people rescued already. 150 in need of rescue. they had huge storm surge issues there. a cause of great concern. as the storm moves down, more and more communities will face what new bern has begun to face. we are in the middle of it right now. this storm is crawling. 6 miles per hour. crawling toward us. after it hits here, it moves down the coast and heads to south carolina. chris cuomo in north myrtle beach, south carolina. chris. >> you are our future, j.b. 5,500 people without power in south carolina and nothing has happened. the winds have picked up. it is in the tropical storm or tropical depression range now. 35 or 40-mile-an-hour gusts. enough, however, to push the tide out. what should be high tide is 150 feet back from where it is. that leads back to the vice effect that you were talking about and what were you seeing there. it will be duration that is the concern. how much wetness over ho

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

>> south carolina. griff: you came from south carolina? >> something i come down three years ago for a, the floods in columbia, south carolina, and i heard this one come up and jeffrey actually called me this morning or yesterday morning asking to come here so i figured we would come up here and do it all over again. griff: why did you come? >> i love helping people. that's all i've ever wanted to do with my life is fire and rescue. i grew up in it so just doing what i love. griff: and what have you seen out there on the water? >> other than the three rescues we had at 4:00 this morning there's been some places that's been pretty steady moving water, some places we couldn't even get through ourselves, but this morning, it was good to help the three people we did. it felt good. i wish we could have got a few other of them but some of the apartments water was already up to the roof line and there wasn't much we could do but we tried everything we could over there. griff: and as you get the forecast, that there's more rain coming, how concern

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.

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

, south carolina, virginia. the total, more than a trillion dollars of value at risk according to cillo. look at hotel stocks moved to the upside, this as they're fully booked. people are running to hotels even with their pets in order to get somewhere safe, out of harm's way. here is a look at home depot, lowe's. people run to get things they need for their homes, protection, repairs, materials, all of these things. we've seen home depot and lowe's hitting highs as well as a name like generac generator. that is a four 1/2-year high. we're watching car rental companies, neil, moving to the upside. people are rushing to rent cars to get out of harms way. even afterward, neil, they will have to rent cars because their own cars will have been damaged. these are stocks on the move. first and foremost we have everybody stay safe. neil. neil: thank you very much, nicole petallides. let's go to rick reichmuth right now following this storm very, very closely. as you have been reminding us speed of this thing. >> intere