because this can come into morehead city. once things go under water, you got a bad recipe, jon. >> jon: and we are hearing that in new burn, that 150 people are trapped and awaiting rescue. the city sending out a notification that their rescue attempt is under way. apparently some fema swift water rescue teams are available. people are told to move into their se second story. the water lefts have raised 10, 11 feet. it's going to be a surprise for a lot of people that the water levels are coming up so high so quickly. >> that's right. the noose river, i'm trying to contact a gentleman that lives there. his name is captain jerry, he's the head of north carolina shrimp fisheries. they preposition, they got a dry run with the flooding. new bern got hit hard there. the problem is battling the elements. i'm having a hard time standing here talking to you. once the water comes up, mobility is greatly restricted. >> jon: everybody has been talking about how this storm is not as intense as it was forecast to be. we can see in the vi

in morehead city, atlantic beach over a mile away, getting hammered by wind and surge. in new bern in land, 40 miles northwest of where i am, a story that is going to grow and become worse and worse and life-threatening as catastrophic as it is and officials saying they will need more assets, more resources. this kind of wind, you have downed power lines, power outages, but the noose river is a major river along with the trent river that circles new bern, cresting at 9 feet. the worst they got was eight feet, they already exceeded that. the calls are coming in. we will work on communication. that is what i want to get out, there is a focus on new bern. it is likely the situation is the same in other surrounding areas like jacksonville and other low-lying areas surrounded by rivers. it all feeds down here. and 24, 36 hours hopefully this stops, the ocean water goes back out to sea, in land that water has nowhere to go, rivers exploding. this water will become very unhealthy very quickly. it will be a situation and a big disaster. heather: i don't think you can hear me so

all feeding down to this area here in morehead city. when this water comes, in and atlantic beach finally is able to have their surge go out, and that's 36 to 48 hours away, they are going to be inundated with the amount of water in those rivers because unlike the ocean where the tide can go back out, well, it can't go anywhere when it stresses those rivers. that noose river you will hear a lot about up in new bern area because back during irene, hurricane irene it crested at 8 feet. at its worse. it's already, as you heard janice earlier talking about already crested possibly 10 feet this early. and we are expecting 40 inches of rain fall. have you four punches that are going to absolutely leave north carolina with a painful history for many days that is the wind, the storm surge, and now the flooding and the excessive rain. as we sort of try and deal with the conditions here. we're hoping, steve, ainsley and pete, to get a little bit of light so we can go out and see some of what is going on in morehead city. we tried to go around in

steve: griff jenkins in morehead city, winds at 90 miles an hour, sustained gusts at 115. ainsley: janice was talking how slow it is moving, it will have her in the area. mike: a los of power will go up quickly. steve: for griff who has electricity via generator the worry is running out of gas. when you run out of gas you run out of power and he won't be on tv. ainsley: he said the gas stations are closed. they need to make sure they conserve. let's move down the coast a little south of where griff was, jonathan siri picks up live team coverage in wrightsville beach, north carolina, where they are seeing wind gusts of 90 miles an hour. what is the latest? >> reporter: right now we are experiencing the worst of the storm we have seen so far, heavy gusts buffeting us and heavy rains coming down as the eye wall gets closer and closer. wrightsville beach, most of the island lost power just after 1:30 in the morning. at last check, statewide, 180,000 customers in the dark. those numbers expected to go up as we go further into the storm. the most frustrating thing about this sto

that's why morehead city is reporting 23 inches of rain. . that's unbelievable. >> absolute >> in 24 hours. >> in 24 hours. we saw these totals in harvey and w said, okay, can we really get 40 or 50 inches of rain? that's what the computer models are giving us. and of course we did. with this storm we are doing 20, 30, and now some are saying 40. we have a long way to go as ir as florenc concerned. it is still just sitting and spinning down there towards the carolinas. let's show you out there right now where the storm is. you can see, this is the infra red satellite picture. you can tell that the storm itself is weakening, the low pressure starting to get a little weaker but it does not stop the rains from come on in here. the storm expanding from philadelphiaown towards savannah, 900 miles that cloud shield. you can see the rain through the carolinas here and into parts of theorfolk area around virginia beach. in and around wilmington, look at this, inside one of the feeder bans, you can see the center around myrtle right now, this is where

connell: you are right along the coast in morehead city. if you start moving north northwest, we saw the terrible video of flooding and greenville more north and a little more west. where are the authorities as you understand it able to move in between and where are they cut off? >> best i understand talking to new bern officials an hour ago is they are able to get people in and out from the south and west of new bern and the area in between, new bern being the heaviest it because of the newport news river that crested at historic levels but to the north there is only one way or out, to totally shut down a bridge, totally flooded out and they cannot do much other than to have both landings to move supplies and when you are doing it in those flat bottom boats it is very slow. not only do they have to get supplies in but they have to get people out because they don't have anywhere to put them. power is another factor. there is no power, power is barely restored. they are getting a little restoration but at the foot of the bridge of atlantic b

we are about six hours into the really bad conditions in morehead city. you think to yourself, normally that would be good news, the tide is going out but conceivably, there is a whole another tide cycle, 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. these conditions continue, when you have the potential for the storm surge plus high tides inundating the city. you will combine all of this water that we see now starting to lap up with these after 40 inches of rain that is then going to collide tomorrow upstream here up into coastal carolina, where you have the potential for what they are calling truly catastrophic flooding, echoing what steve had to say in terms of the wind, we have not seen those kind of just unbelievable, pounding wins that have the ability to take down h. we did see some mobile homes that were pretty badly damaged, especially over on the barrier island, which is about two or 3 miles out into the black abyss. power has been gone for a long time. you really just don't have any way to see much beyond 50 or so yards with our lights that are operating off of generat

look at the texture, the harshest we have seen in morehead city. along the seawall, a mile away is atlantic beach but looking at the texture you see how strong, the amount of water over there is unthinkable. i was just texting to the chief of police in atlantic beach to find out how that is, he says we haven't been out for several hours, conditions are too bad, too many power lines down, too much distraction from the wind. his sustained wind is about 80 miles from his recordings but 92 mile in august a few hours ago before making it as we start feeling it but as you were talking to the mayor of newbern, not just newbern but newport members, all these rivers and agrarian farm country dumped down here, the problem with that water is it has nowhere to go. if you are in jacksonville or any of these areas send us an email to foxnews.com, there's a chance that there are a lot of people with rivers cresting, record levels when you get this amount of water and rescues are taking place but the challenges in these conditions are unbelievable. we are little n

morehead city is on the coast. it's pitch black over there except for one condo building, looks like it may have auxillary lights on. the fire chief is trying to get a handle on everything. the pier is broken in half. it's gone out to sea. let me give you a little bit of news. i got off the phone with officials in new bern. they say they have about a hundred more rescues they are carrying out at this moment. they have done more than 375. one of the challenges they have right now is where to put the people they are rescuing. they have run out of space. because of the epic flooding, they are trapped on where they can take people to. one of the places they have gone is marine corps base. they are taking some of the evacuees from new bern there. but they are flooded to the north of new bern and cut off from greeneville where a lot of first responders are staying. the officials tell me the river is about 4 to 6 feet flooded above their surge which is good news. but they are not happy because they know rain is in the for

as you know morehead city and the whole carolina coastal areas big into shipping and boating. this is the capital right here in this area of beaufort, morehead city for the north carolina shrimp industry. it's going to be interesting to see if you come over this way just a little bit i'm going to turn you mike towards. this you see the tug boats pulled into shore. you see those cranes that are sticking up. those huge cranes which is what offloads a lot of the shipping, the fishing, the bigger ships that were pulled out. you know, it's a rare thing, shep, for a storm to come for fishermen to really pull the big industrial fishing vessels out. but that was done before this storm because they looked at florence's size and if you look, just here, you can see what was really more recreational docks, some people this their own fishing vessels and can you see these docks are still under water. so the surge is certainly there. here in bogue bay. as i have talked constantly to the last 14 hours to the chief of police jeff harvey atlantic beach along with the fire chief adam snyder, the

morehead city north carolina, 3, emerald isle 31. in linda here, 13. this is surfside beach, 14 and a half inches down in the wrightsville beach area, almost 19 inches of rain and in wilmington close to 17 and a half inches of rain and there is lots more to come throughout the state. the storm is moving so slowly. what other thing i want to show you before we get out into the field where correspondence are, one more time on the location of the storm. the location is right here in wilmington and it is overland at the moment. remember, hurricanes get their energy from the warm water. the storm is now headed in this direction so it will be over warm water sometime in the next couple of hours and that means more energy for the storm and more rain to be dumped on this entire area. want to get right out to a reporter who is live in morehead city north carolina across the sound from atlantic beach. you've had a whale of the day there. >> we are still getting what you are describing, that northeast side of the shore, but what you've got mixed with the wind and

. >> glor: in morehead city, what was a building became a pile of rubble. a rising building in belhaven nearly swallowed the floor of this house. the lights were still on, it was hard to tell if anyone was home. and the high winds blew transformers, dropping wilmington into darkness. by daybreak, we could finally see what until then we could only hear and feel. and this is some of the worst of florence now. it is friday morning. this is the cape fear river, which is just raging. and we're right in the eye wall, the eye wall winds, which is the worst. at one point, the 350-mile-wide, slow-moving storm packed wind so fierce, we all but lost contact with our new york studio during our morning forecast. >> we may in fact have jeff now. jeff, can you hear me? >> glor: apologies again for some of the communication issues here as we deal with some of the worst of florence as she arrives now. rain is coming sideways, down and up. florence drove more than a million people from their homes, and more than 700,000 lost power. rain ranging from one to 3.5 feet has alrea

i heard you say morehead city is already at 31 inches of rain. about 79, 80 miles north and east of our position here in wilmington. we watch that place get smacked all day yesterday and all night last night. you can understand how they can tally up 40 inches. 40 inches of water. where does that go? that's really hard to say. >> shepard: it's going to take a while. bill hemmer braving it all for us, thanks so much. i want to show you the town of new bern we've been watching. i want to show you where the storm is, the storm is right here. moving in a westward way, here's bill right along there. and here's this town of new bern. although winds and rains go in this direction, counterclockwise. it's all coming to a head in the town of new bern on the west bank, all of this area has flooded. we've been showing you this torrent of water just coming into this town right here around craven terrace. let's bring in sabrina, a city official there in new bern north carolina. i understand there have been more than 200 people rescued, have they been able to ge

he is in morehead city, north carolina tonight. john, what have you seen in your travels? >> hi, brian. stuff not unlike you have seen many times in your past. here in morehead city we have been waiting for the surge because it has been one of the biggest concerns we've had all day long. we have had wind, right now it is in the mid 30s, gusting into the 50s here, but earlier with the anometer on the truck we measured a guest of 105 miles per hour. we will give it in high the high 90s to say there might be error in the measure. we had category 1 storm-plus winds for a good while here in morehead city and the gusts into the category 2 range. after hours of thinking it was going to happen, the surge is starting to come up in morehead city on the waterfront and waves are breaking from the sound on to the road. >> i was looking at some of your video showing roofing and masonry and insulation. what was this that collapsed? >> reporter: yeah, brian. that was a pizza parlor, and i think it was the awning or the canopy that may have had some outdoor seating. concrete blocks, bricks

morehead city, north carolina is getting battered by the storm. that's where we find leland vittert. what is going on there, leland? >> it's hard to imagine this part of north carolina has been getting this for 24 hours. when we talked yesterday, the winds had picked up. this is about the strongest that's felt them so far. it's almost unprecedented for a storm to stick around this long. that's how slow florence has been moving. we're inside morehead city off of atlantic beach. you cannot see atlantic beach behind me. in one of the lulls that these squall lines have had, we were able to venture out and get a sense of the damage that people are looking at when they come back. take a look. this is the main road of atlantic beach and parts, it's not quite a river yet but certainly a small stream. the rain obviously continuing, which means the waters will only rise. especially as the tide comes back in. this is one of the businesses that is completely destroyed here. you can see top rows of windows blown out. the roof according to the fire department h

the surge has finally come over the docks here in morehead city. not nearly as badly as we heard right now up in newman, north carolina. but we can see the debris in that water, and being where we are 7 to 11 feet of surge still possible. and then as you're going to have to worry about flooding rain possibly of historic proportions in this part of north carolina. >> yeah, it is raining and raining hard here. right now the winds here as you've said have kicked up. the boats behind me they are rocking, they're beginning to rock here, and this is river. not even the ocean. i can't even look that way because that's the way the wind is blowing right now. and john, you were talking about the duration of this storm, and that is what makes it so dangerous, and you talk about the trees. a tree maybe can sustain winds in tropical storm force, cat 1, cat 2 for an hour. but if it keeps on blowing for 8, 12, 20 hours which is what's happening here, that's a real problem. >> sure. you know, sometimes when the winds are sustained it's not that big a deal for a wh

(pam) morehead city, north carolina has picked up 23 carolina has city, north morehead (pam) (pam) morehead city, north carolina has picked up 23 inches of rain more heavy rain coming. (grant) joining us on the phone from morehead city.. meteorologist craig weber craig - craig webermeteorologist craig weber craig -florence is a now a tropical storm - what's it like out there right now... especially vs when we talked to you yesterday.. ? (grant)(grant) (grant) if you would like to help those affected by hurricane florence - log on to kron-4- dot-com.we have set up a link to donate to the red cross relief effort. (pam) a big (pam) (pam) a big story we are tracking... a redwood city man is accused of sexually abusing children he babysat. (grant)kron 4's hermela aregawi spoke to investigators. she joins us live in redwood city with details.. hermela, do we know how many victims there are? (her) detectives tell me.. they detectives tell me.. they know of at least five victims. all boys under 14 years old.and at least some of them.. children that the suspect was hired to care for. a babysitter wh

the ports of wilmington and morehead city in north carolina and the port of virginia remain closed at this time. the coast guard and army corps, noaa and other port partners are prepared to restore port operations with assets that had already been prestaged as soon as it is pofpblet for those of you in the path of the storm, we continue to urge stow stay off the water -- urge you to stay off the water. one other thing is that social media is a poor distress calling system for a number of reasons. we can't stress strongly enough that people in distress need to call 911. some of the lessons we learned during last year's hurricanes is the use of aggregate social media to find hot spots and vector in resources. however, for one-on-one rescuing of personnel, it's not efficient enough. so please, we urge you to use 911 if possible. finally, once the storm has passed, hazards may still be present. stay in a safe location while the coast guard and other state and local authorities assess damage and disperse additional resources. thank you. >> good morning. my name's ray alexander. i'm from th

you know, you said morehead city. now we are at 24 inches of rain and counting as more rain continues to come down. certainly when we left you last night at this time, the conditions were far worse. things are improving, but it is telling how slow they are to improve. normally been about 8 to 12 hours of really intense conditions. we have had 24 hours of it one of the reefns that this storm is going to be so destructive, it may not have the wind speed but it certainly has that unbelievable amount of flooding and rainfall. it has the storm surge and it sticks around for so long that this is there is this exponential effect. we have seen that as we just drove a couple of miles around here. that's as far as we could go as far as looking at the damage. a number of businesses destroyed. homes crushed. trees to toppled. blocking highways, you name it, sean. >> sean: stay safe. thoughts and mayor's to all the people impacted. us be fair and balanced. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham. >> laura: good evening. i'm

the storm surge in morehead city receded with the tide a little bit, we are along the coast. behind me atlantic beach, only one apartment building has emergency lights but this entire area, the scene as we walked around continuing to pound us, trees ripped out of the ground, roots ripped from the tops and gas station collapsed, power lines down over in atlantic beach, the wind damage worse, that are we recovering ripped off and gone to see. the rescues were happening, where this flooding is a problem. because that water cannot go back. the national weather service for this area has given us some photos of the bridge between here and newburn, it is impassable. getting around as first responders are trying to get in. a big problem with flooded roads. in newburn where officials tell me they are trying to carry out more than 100 rescues, they have rescued 375, they say the rec center, all vacancies basketball goals protruding from the rain flooded water and the noose river is down to four to six feet storm surge so they are cautiously optimistic that rain is in the forecasted thi

from myrtle beach to morehead city. potential landfall sometime late friday night or actually friday morning for that landfall. and then continuing into saturday. so we are still looking at a very powerful storm system. overall, five to 15 inches of rain. that will produce flooding, isolated amounts of 20-plus inches. a storm surge of five to ten feet. i'll talk also about a storm hitting hawaii and what that could mean in about 15 minutes. >>> a jury in san mateo county found a man guilty of child molestation. investigators believe there may be more victims. prosecutors say he molested a 7-year-old relative about a decade ago and lured them to his bedroom with a chocolate bar. others have come forward as well, but their cases fall outside the statute of limitations. deputies are asking any one whose children have been in contact with lavaaky to contact them. >>> a strange set of circumstances. a boy looked happy and healthy running&the police department. he was reported missing around 1:00 in the among. she was arreste

through camp lejeune area, surf city, emerald isle, morehead city, atlantic beach, those are the areas of great concern. this is newbern here up on thes into rivenoose river. that east wind is going to pile up that water. then we get the rainfall on top of it. i think we'll have more water rescues for people in these little rivers and the tributaries that go into the sound than we will at the coast. a lot of coastal people left. it isn't even a mandatory evacuation for people in pimlico sound. so as far as the rainfall goes, let me show you this, this is one thing that was interesting. the predicted water height tonight is supposed to be 7 1/2 feet at beaufort, morehead city. half a foot higher than 1954 when hazel hit. water in homes and businesses starting in areas around morehead city and buford. then it will continue from there. here's the rainfall predictions. this is 20-plus inches of rain from myrtle beach to wilmington. these problems with that much rainfall will last well into the weekend. the cape fear river is supposed to break the record crest sunday night into monday. neve

live doppler out of morehead city. that is heavy rain starting to fall. there is so much more to come over so many hours. in fact, let's track it. it is 170 miles east-southeast of wilmington. it will be there during the overnight hours and come in as a category 2 with 105 miles per hour manipulate winds. it makes the right-hand turn. heads between florence and myrtle beach, drops to 60 miles per hour. it will be raining like crazy. one to two inches per hour. over columbia, unwinds at 30 miles per hour. it dumps heavy rain. it moves up the spine of the appalachians. 3 million people under a flash flood watch in the carolinacaro. we could get up to 40 inches of rain. storm surge up to 13 feet. flooding coasts, sounds, rivers, inland. we'll have damaging winds and tornados. back at home, low to mid-50s. pretty quiet weather wise. no fog, drizzle, low clouds. comfortable temperatures. those coming up. how about the commute? >>> yeah, it hasn't been terrible today, honestly. if you compare it to yesterday, especially the bay bridge commute, things are lookin

morehead city has seen two feet, not raining right now but more is on the way. griff jenkins is there and some of these images, looks like part of that town are devastated. >> reporter: i will get to the flooding in a moment but the wind damage along highway 70, the main thoroughfare, this gas station totally destroyed come middle and steel ripped from the ground and it is indicative of the entire strip, houses with roofs ripped off, businesses destroyed, trees ripped out of their roots and you see over here gas boxes absolutely crushed. that is very telling, to see destroyed ice boxes because the resources that we are going to need when things get difficult, we have more flooding, 40 miles northwest, officials telling me they are rescuing 100 people, they rescued 375, but the major road behind me is flooded in several places. up to greenville, major resource city totally cut off from that, movement is getting difficult, resources are getting thin before we have a chance to come in, to get to people's houses and that sort of thing. it is a tough weekend for nort

along the morehead city and down just to the west of wilmington. a lot more rain to be had as we move forward here. radar pictures still picking up really big rain bands on the outside of it. there is the center of it and you go and see these heavy rain bands. very reminiscent to what we saw with hurricane harvey. very far away from the center in houston. we saw all of the rain that caused the significant flooding beer these rain bands have been pummeling the area all year long. heavy rain going over the same area time and time again. over the next couple of days, we will see some spots, bret, 20 inches of rain. eventually the rain will move to the shore. the rivers pressed sometime monday into tuesday. >> bret: will watch it, rick, thank you. senior correspondent rick leventhal is on wrightsville beach north carolina. good evening, rick. >> good evening, bret. we are still getting whipped by winds and getting pelted by raines as you can see. the main drag here is virtually deserted because it was eventually underwater earlier today. much of wright

they say it is 2 feet of rain here in morehead city. that has two effects. obviously, the flooding here in the city, but also you have the immovable force, the storm surge coming end, and the rain coming down. the only thing for the water to do is to go up, and much like what you heard from steve, it's been dairy difficult for us to move much more than a couple of miles to see the damage. we stop with the wind damage, water damage, especially about two or 3 miles from us, just over there, you see some flashing lights behind us, that is atlantic beach. take a look. >> this is the main road of atlantic beach. in part, it is not quite a river yet but certainly, a small stream. the rain obviously continuing, which means these waters will only rise, especially as the tide starts to come back. this is just one of the businesses that is completely destroyed here. you can see top rows of windows blown out, the roof according to the fire department is blown out. and there was a front door. now anyone can walk through. it becomes the bigger question for some money of

still now 24 hours since the really bad stuff started in morehead city. you can still at times lean against the gusts of winds. if nothing else just to

it is round morehead -- around morehead city. some storms could rotate. the surge coming up in new bern and washington and into the neuse river and the pimlico sound. maximum surge i found is 11 feet. that is where the forecast was located. emerald isle, surge is 6.8 feet. if your house is less than six feet above sea level, you are wet. i want to take you to a graphic. it really tells the story. this is the live radar. the nexrad level two. this is john berman. right there. that's wilmington. here is topsail beach. all the way up to emerald isle and morehead city. this is going to pop power lines. john, you will see a blue flash as transformers pop. you may have power off. it may come back on. i tell you what, that 285,000 for people without power, that will go up rapidly as the eyewall comes onshore. chris, you are here with the offshore flow. as the eye works down the coast, something like that, you will eventually get to this side of the eyewall. it may take 24 hours to get there. when you do, that's when you will see the surge and your beach will flo

kind of between new bern and morehead city, dry right now. more rain to the north of it that is going to rotate in. incredibly heavy band coming in around the jacksonville area and raleigh as well. that's why we think the flooding is going to go on for a very long time. take a look at this. we have got river flooding going to go on right now. projections for river flooding. we have four gauges today currentfully flooding. this is five days from now. we have gotten toes of rivers that are going to be a lot of them at their record level flooding that they have ever seen and they have seen a lot of flooding here from other tropical storms. this is five days from now. so, that flooding event that is coming at least the river flooding event is not here yet. this is the future radar, take a look at kind of those dark red bands. this goes through tonight 11:00 tonight. still down there along the coast. we have got the rain coming. in and now it's spreading a little bit farther inland. charlotte by tonight. also moving toward the southern appalachian

morehead city, wilmington will get the back side. flash flood watches and warnings posted in north carolina and south carolina where we think the storm will track next and the potential for tornado because of the counter clockwise motion with these landfalling hurricanes and interaction with the upper level winds and wind-shear. we have the threat of tornadoes that could cause damage. we're getting information from jacksonville, north carolina. because the storm is moving so slowly, it will be the legacy of this event because we'll be talking about it for days. here are some of the rainfall totals. you can see in excess of 30 inches. 20 to 30 inches already and this storm just got onshore. it is going to be a long duration event. on top of that, we still could see the potential for 7 to 11 foot storm surge, the wall of atlantic ocean moving in with the counter clockwise winds to the tributaries, streams and rivers and it is overwhelming them. new bern got a report of over 10 feet of storm surge with people that still need to be rescu

he's joining us from morehead city. what's it like where you are? >> reporter: hi, wolf, we're on the northeastern quadrant of this storm where you see the strongest winds and heaviest rains. right now we're in a rather dry spot as the bands of the storm have been lashing against this coast. the winds are definitely sustaining at much higher speeds now from what we've seen over the last few years. the intensity of those wind, you can see out here in this cove as it pushes out towards the barrier island from morehead city, and you can see just the whitecaps off those waves and how much intensity there is off of those waves. it's all being created by the wind here. that's essentially where we are pushing out of the north down to the south, and if you look across this cove, you can see here over the course of the last few hours the winds have battered some of these sail boats that were left in the cove and pushed up against that bank on the other side toppled over because of these winds. the rains at times have been very intense. we've been reaching ou

still now 24 hours since the really bad stuff started in morehead city. you can still at times lean against the gusts of winds. if nothing else just to demonstrate how long the storm is taking to move on. it's really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. it is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we don't see that much destruction. but it will take days to survey what happened. and there are areas we can't get to. we drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. that means people's livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. the boat captains are out here and they won't be able to make a dive -- living for a long time. >> tucker: it takes a long time to know what happened. leland vittert, thank you. move now to rick leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, north carolina. rick? >> rick: we moved from wrightsville beach. two of the four fatalities reported so far w

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we do not want to get trapped and we will egress to morehead city where we will ride it out as the storm approaches. >> good for our viewers to know you are doing that. take care of yourself. today officials in south carolina making their final push to try to get everyone out from that of the deadly storm. >> we are going to knock on your door and ask you to leave so i just want to encourage everyone to go ahead and leave now, you have time to prepare. >> todd pyro live in myrtle beach talking to people refusing to evacuate. >> good morning, those doorknobs will begin at 8:00 this morning but police cannot force you to evacuate. as for conditions right now a little bit of a breeze but one of those cool ocean breezes that is nice and calm. all that will change in the next 24 hours. a tale of 2 cities, you see over here nobody. a light on but nobody home, take a look behind me, we have some cars, these individuals refusing to leave. a number of people despite the warnings are defiant right now. >> why are you staying? >> my whole family is staying. my mom and dad are close by. my mom can't

we were just talking to the mayor of morehead city. we've got this county around us, we actually have a bigger problem here in that there are highly populated areas in this region in southern virginia, in north carolina, in south carolina and in some cases going into georgia where major population centers are in danger from these heavy rains and these floods. we have to sort of think about it that way, too. >> yeah, i mean the statement from the national hurricane center like the second paragraph says life-threatening catastrophic flash flooding. this will not be a coastal storm. you're going to have coastal impacts, but well inland, that term catastrophic life-threatening flash flooding. here's another factor, as much as we talk about wind, 88% of the deaths from hurricanes from direct impacts is caused by water, inland flooding storm surge. that's why these evacuation orders are given early to give people time to move to higher ground, and this will be an impact well inland. we're not just talking about the coast. we're talking about

the ports of wilmington and morehead city north carolina as was the entrants to the chesapeake bay have been closed and in preparation also for the storm we pre-staged shallow water response boats as well as bring an additional search and rescue aircraft and air station savannah georgia and we moved aircraft out of the air station to be ready to come in behind the storm as it has it is safe to fly those missions. coast guard is pre-staging of the deployable specialized forces with additional law enforcement, security and oil and hazardous materials response resources to be ready and all coast guard small boat and cutter could be outside the store the right to move in as soon as it is safe to do so. for those in the path of the storm we urge you to do the following. stay off the water. coast guard search and rescue resources will be to greater or unavailable before, during, and after the storm. when member social media is a great way to stay informed but please don't use social media in order to call for help. please call 9/11 or channel 16 to reach out to get help. once the storm has pa

it doesn't -- this outer band continues to pour through more he morehead city. we know emerald isle. north of atlantic beach with 22 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. there is the satellite. it is not moving. it is sobering. it gets down to chris cuomo. people in north carolina are in danger. you need to try to evacuate because the water is still going to go up. there is no relief in sight. get to the highest piece of ground you can. that's is all you can do. if the water is on your door step, do what you can. go up on your roof. john. >> chad myers, i keep looking behind me because something is shaking on one of those boats. i see a sail that's come loose. i don't know if you can see it here. a sail has come loose on one of the boats behind me there. it is really blowing. chad, actually, if you are still with me, explain why it is -- this is the northeast cape fear river. it flow into the ocean. from inland -- it flows into the ocean. from inland. the wind is coming up stream down toward the ocean. explain. >> you are still on the west side of the eye. here is yo

they've been getting the brunt of this as well as morehead city since yesterday. it's not going to come to an end any time soon. that's going to continue as this storm just inches to the southwest. and this is going to continue to rain all day saturday and then finally by the end of sunday, possibly seeing some of this wrap up and lift to the north. the winds will continue to be an issue, but the big problem is really the storm surge as well as the rain. we have already had rain reports of more than a foot and a half of rain. some areas are getting close to two feet of rain, with oriental getting 20 inches and another update to those numbers are supposed to be coming out any moment. they are going to be much higher than 20 inches because it's been raining nonstop. davis, north carolina got a 108-mile-per-hour wind gusts, so the winds were there, but the main threat was that storm surge. the scary part is this river flooding. as we go into next week, the rivers are going to rapidly rise between monday and wednesday. a lot of these rivers in eastern portions of nort

as the wind and rain begins to lash the area, morehead city and much of the area, morehead city and much of the region looks like a ghost town as people have either moved into shelters or they are hunkering at home. people in the low—lying region have been watching the forecast for days, stockpiling supplies and deciding on whether to evacuate from what many people fear is a storm of a lifetime. officials are concerned many people have decided to stay at home and have not heeded evacuation orders. there was a powerful bull —— couples is of relief when it was downgraded from major hurricane status. there is the anxiety over whether it could stall out, bringing major flooding and a destructive storm surge to the area. we'll be taking a closer look at the impact of hurricane florence as it moves closer inland with matt later. the most powerful typhoon this year is roaring towards the main island of the philippines, with wind gusts of 160 miles an hour. super—typhoon mangkhut has gathered strength since monday, tearing down trees and power lines and leaving thousands of people homele

city, up near 20 inches of rain. eastern carolina 5-10 inches, the rain is going to be spreading to the west, 2-3 inches as far as the west of lumberton 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

city, look at the debris flags in the wind, it is about 75 to 80-mile an hour winds, we are north of where the eyeball is expected to come on in wilmington, separates the barrier island out to sea, the chief of police telling me that it's pounding them with wind and storm surge but the story you're going to hear about all day tomorrow and the next few days is the amount of rainfall and the flooding, the community of new bern, they rescued over 200 people, active rescues trying to get to 150 or so people, they are getting calls constantly, i'm up to my chest in living room with water, come get me, the authorities telling them to get high ground, get on the roof, you may have to wait a while, that area new bern 40 miles west in morehead city, the dangerous are the river, the river that during hurricane irene caused catastrophic flooding, we have a whole lot of florence to come because she's so big and the amount of rainfall, this could be similar in terms of the water damage to hurricane harvey, you have low lying inland water, farming communities that are sr. the rivers not just the n

the ports of wilmington, morehead city, and georgetown south carolina remain closed. a team of goes guard, army and other personnel in conjunction with partners are assessing the damage and beginning repairs in order to open the ports when it is safe to do so. our priorities are reopening the river, support -- and the north carolina ferry system. like to remind people to stay out of the waters. there may be submerged hazards. stay in a safe location while coast guard and other authorities assess the damage and dispersed resources to help. you need assistance, dial 911. i like to introduce the army corps. >> thank you. good morning. the u.s. army corps of engineers -- i would like to share our priority is to support the american people. we have over 6500 soldiers to ploy to virginia, north carolina and south carolina. then additional 2900 ready to deploy as needed. provided aircraft, fixed wing, and 1300 high water trucks. the corps of engineers and support of fema, we are ready to respond and are responding. we have over 131 personnel deployed. fema dollarsin with 16

this one comes live from morehead city, north carolina. it's bringing lots of rain, flooding, even some lightning. check out this three-daytime lapse. all that yellow indicates lightning strikes. this is just the beginning. the eye of the storm not even here yet. we're joined by rob mayeda. you have an updated timeline? >> the timeline is the big story. even though it has weakened, it is moving very slowly, only 5 miles per hour. a slow-moving hurricane becomes the worst-case scenario. hurricane gusts touching the coast near wilmington as we show you the time lapse. over the next 48 hours, look how it moves from wilmington to central south carolina by saturday afternoon, almost 48 hours of very intense, heavy rainfall that once again is breaking the color table in terms of rainfall expectations. unfortunately, a lot like whe sw with hurricane harvey. it could yield 20-30 inches of rain or higher. and an ongoing, prolonged storm surge with substantial flooding. we are tracking high rainfall rates per hour. one to two feet of rain, more than

lillian ballard live in morehead city north carolina. just north of wilmington. lee linda, we've been watching you throughout the day. definitely picking up in the intensity you are. >> certainly is, martha. we are one of those people getting their hurricane/near hurricane gusts and it's picked up right there. it is hard to state -- if you are outside, you can turn your face into the wind, it gets pretty painful as it's now whipping across here. the island, atlantic beach, is beginning to get flooded. it's difficult to get across the bridge, very difficult for any kind of movement. you can see behind me a lot of the shingles starting to rip off the roofs. we drove through the town. there are a number of signs blowing around, power is out not only on the island but also back here on the mainland as well as we are getting another one of these gusts coming into the wind we are standing at is an impressive visual but as he can see the torrential rain coming down, that's going to combine with this storm surge potentially what's a catastrophic storm notches for the bar

president, i am jerry jones, mayor of morehead city. on behalf of a grateful community, not just talking about morehead, talking about coastal north carolina. your presence here today means a whole lot to us. it means we are not left stranded alone on this island. the federal government is here helping us, along with the state government and many local governments. being the mayor of a small town and having been boots on the ground, walking the food lines with my constituents, and not just my constituents, but people from outside the county, just building up something you said earlier about community pride in spirit. the community spirit from what i've witnessed is as high as it's ever been. and what i've learned also is that communities aren't just in neighborhoods and towns and states. i'm talking about a national community. people from all over the nation have come to assist us. and just on my way up here, i had three phone calls from people throughout the state who wanted to bring provisions to carter county. i am helping organize t

morehead city, highest rainfallo ls. close to 2 feet of rain in the system. in wilmington, we had 5 inches of rain because we have be in the in between bands. there are several rivers in moderate to major flooding right now. as all of the wonernues to fall and trickles to the ground, it has to go somewhere. it gs to the rivers and the continue to overflow. the winds gusting up to 30 per hour. we still have tornado watches across the area. this is an involved storm. there is still the possibility of some spin-up. an additional of 5 to 10 inches of rain and up to 15 is still possible putting storm totals u to 30 to 40 inches. the storm is now a tropical storm, but there is still a way to go before t effects of this storm will finally move out of here. it will last perhaps all the way to the middle or end of next week with the flooding. peter. >> dylan, thank you very much. >> good information. dozens of people rescued in jacksonville, north carolina. that is where joe fryer is thisn g. joe, good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning. this really is the

my heart is bleeding for the people right now in new bern, morehead city area and wilmington also. whiteville. these are small towns that there are no cameras there right now and there are people possibly on the roof right now as we speak. we have farmers losing not just their crops but their animals. this is going to be a three to ten day event for the people along these rivers where computer models actually show which neighborhoods will flood and which towns will flood. there could be people as we speak that are fighting for theirife and worried and panicking right now. that's about the only good news i'm hearing. >> yeah. we have been speaking to some of those first responders on the ground. they are staging. they are prepared to help as soon as they can. they have to wait for the winds to die down in some cases. we have heard of some rescues that died down. but you know from experience when you were a governor of this state, hurricane matthew, that when these rivers flood, that can be life threatening. tell us about that. >> well, just two years ago in october of 2016, we lost

called morehead city. we're looking due south on to the storm but the top part of the hurricane, the bands of rain and wind are whipping down on us. the winds are pushing the water, you can see how strong from this dock the currents are and the waves are. that one boat has taken on a good amount of water and it doesn't appear to be going anywhere. there's two other boats that have been pushed back into the bank of land. this boat to my left has been whipping around. this is the dock area that for the most part has been cleared out and this city has gone quiet, we were speaking with the emergency director. he told us they believe most people had evacuated but they are concerned because of the low-lying nature of this particular county that the flooding will be an issue the next couple days. there's an elderly complex here, a retirement community we saw several days ago had buses lined up moving people out. so the flooding that we'll see, there's so many waterways and trip-- tributaries and creeks, that wate

when the final steps of planning , we will be able to bring it into morehead city. i want to reinforce one more time to the citizens of north carolina, please do not return to new hanover, brunswick, or pender counties as of yet. the trouble conditions are much too risky for our citizens. onlyoutes that we have support for first responders, they are not safe routes. they have risks but they are to respond tos this event. thank you. i am with the north carolina state highway patrol. motoringy of our public remains our highest priority. resourcese to serve to support local law enforcement in the impacted areas. travel in these areas is still very dangerous. there are no safe routes in and out of the affected areas. since our last briefing over the last 24 hours, our troopers have responded to 126 collisions and 370 calls for service. these are the troops that encompass the most affected storm areas. we continue to urge motorists, do not try to cross flooded roadways. if you find yourself in a flooded roadway, we encourage you to follow the following tips. if you are t

our greatest ccern is from camp lejeune, cksonville, morehead city, cape hatteras and inland areas, like newburgh. and the rainfall could be excessive, the tar river and the moose river which had horrendous flooding in 1999. feet of rain if it does stall out i this region. our american model and european gettingverything is more narrowed down. both are targeting eastern nth carolina. from myrtle beach to cape hatteras are the greatest areas of concern for now. >>> the white house is struggling to turn the page past the controversy stirred up by bob wawo's new book which hit shelves today. the veteran journalist defended his book, ausing president trump of waging war on truth. he echoed that again on the late show with stephen colbert. >> i'm willing to put myself out here. i'veone the work. this is the boaestting that you can do or that i can do. and for him to get up. look, he has his first amendmeni ts. he can say anything. but the great editor at the "washington post," ben bradley, s ring watergate used to alw say, when there was a contest back and h forth, said the truth emerges. and