florence as it bears down on the carolina coast, that wraps of this hour of "fox and friends first," be careful, stay tuned, much more coverage for you. "fox and friends first" continues right now. rob: this is a fox news alert, hurricane florence has arrived unleashing the fury of 90 mile an hour winds and drenching rain on a crash course to the carolinas. jillian: the worst is yet to come, it hasn't made landfall yet. rob: while you were sleeping the outer band of hurricane florence were pummeling the carolinas hours before it is anticipated to make landfall. jillian: the most vicious part is miles from north carolina and could create the most deadly flash floods the area has ever seen. >> team coverage, janice dean tracking every movement of this slow-moving storm. jonathan syria and todd pyro live in the storm zone.

jillian: already feeling the theory, you got to be careful up there. >> reporter: a lot of the wind here in morehead city, we are just across the bay from atlantic beach and the fire chief telling me all night long they are getting pounded with the wind and storm. it was downgraded and we are getting ghosts in excess of 80, 90 miles an hour, maybe more. you have seen the water watching the surgery, such a concern. the real story, 40 miles northwest of where we are. 200 people all night long saying i am on my roof, please come with me, and assisting fire

rescue folks, the boldest fire rescue unit in north carolina but they are overwhelmed. 150 people stranded. authorities say let washington know we will need more assets. even though we will get whipped with this wind and surge for the next 24 hours. when you had hurricane irene in new bern, causing catastrophic flooding. they crossed tween 9 feet of crest flooding this early with more to come. when you do the combination of wind, making roads impassable, and flooding along with the excessive rain in these rivers, nowhere for the water to go. they have a situation not only life-threatening but

catastrophic and we are hours before daylight comes up. one of the hardest hit areas of north carolina has been out for more than 12 hours. even law enforcement, in atlantic beach the fire chief, their firehouse taking a beating over there. no idea where that is but if you look over here quickly you can see the texture of the water. this is the wind and surge that is expected. high tide will not hit until noon and that means a lot more of that, these signs that were above water now flooding, and pressure coming up to move inland and this is a fishing community. those are docs everywhere. we are seeing images online, social media of buildings and the typical wind damage you get.

highway 70 runs to the coast, a lifeline and they are getting flooding in all parts, power lines, a very long night. >> you are north of wilmington in morehead city, your as close to the eye as you can be while being on land. how tough are those winds to handle? it looks like you are battling to stand up straight. >> reporter: it is an interesting dynamic. when these winds was downgraded from four to two, a lot of residents chose to stay. from experience you have a situation in new bern and other cities likely to develop, they

ride out this, this is a strong amount of wind because they didn't want to be separated and get trapped outside or able to get back down here in this area so this wind will be a problem. the outer banks, we are hitting the dirty side of the storm because the eye is right off of wilmington from what i can gather, we are getting the northeast corner and it comes down by the barrier island of atlantic beach with no way to get over and the wind will go shooting down and cause it to accelerate. if you have 75 miles an hour, 92 miles an hour, the north point, and just knock everything out of

its way. >> we can see the wind and water behind you. in the last hour you mentioned the shingles you saw flying off roofs. have you seen anything else so far? >> reporter: we have seen shingles. if you look out there a lot of these docs, to lift the boats off of. they are made -- off enough of this, that to breeze there. we went to get a shot of the parking lot. it is too dangerous. i drove my car down here with my daughter on monday. everything is airborne with the wind coming down. the building next to our condo which is very secure, we are

seeing a lot of that roof being ripped off. heather: please stay safe down there. heather: thank you. rob: thanks for being out there. what it is a category one storm but still talking wind speeds of 100 miles an hour. if you have are brennan and a car going fast and stick your hand out the window we are talking series wind, hard to stand up even in a cat one. jillian: our reporters know how to handle it but if you haven't been, that is the scary thing for a lot of residents. we have jonathan siri picking up team coverage. >> reporter: we are on wrightsville beach, getting heavy wind and heavy rain. griff described the wind very well. he is on the bad side of the storm, on the right side of the

eye where the winds are driving water in. directly above the direction of the eye we have been getting wind blowing across this barrier island. we are not experiencing the same storm surge they are further up the coast. the storm is battering buildings with heavy winds and it is too dark, the power has been knocked out since 1:30 so we can't get a good survey of potential damage on the buildings but this constant battering wind is likely to cause some structural damage the residents on this island have done a great job boarding up with secure belongings and preventing things from getting picked up by the wind and becoming projectile's. this island has become a ghost town overnight. most people have evacuated to wilmington on the mainland or further inland.

some people from the coast evacuating as far in land as charlotte, 200 miles from the coast, charlotte mecklenburg public schools canceled classes so they could use school buildings to house evacuees. power statewide, 180,000 people without electricity, duke power the leading provider, could be days or a week or longer before power can be restored to all the customers and all the rain is going to make this storm a serious threat far beyond the coast. it will be dumping rain in areas that are not used to getting this much rain causing flash flooding throughout the carolinas. rob: jonathan siri to the west end and south where it will keep getting worse over the next couple hours.

>> that gas station and transformers blowing, i understand we have seen storm surge in some areas of ten feet so far. >> reporter: new bern. that is where we have rescues going on, 150 people stranded in new bern and rescue crews doing their best to get out there but we did warn you in advance that if you don't heed the warning it will be very hard for first responders to get out to see you. we are going to see this amount of rain and wind for the next several hours. the core of the strongest winds about to come onshore in north carolina and we will get a landfall. landfall is a technical point, the lowest pressure pushing across land. it is a historical perspective. it doesn't mean much. we will see rain and wind and storm surge for hours. that is the take away.

the fact this is a category one, do not pay attention to the category. hurricane sandy when it made landfall was a one with 80 mile-per-hour winds and by the time harvey made its way to southeast texas it wasn't even a hurricane. the results we are going to see over the next hours and days will be rain. it is going to be a water story and the surge continues to push in land as the storm is only moving 5 miles an hour and it will continue it's very slow progression across land. typically with these storms we see the make landfall and they weaken. we are going to be talking about this storm for days and that is why we have not seen this scenario unfold yet. flash flood warnings in effect, there is the eye at the center of the storm making landfall in the next couple hours but that shouldn't be the story. the story is the massive amount of flooding and storm surge

inundating the coastline. wind gusts, some of these areas not getting reports of wind gusts because the towers will not be reporting but over the last several hours we have seen at least hurricane force windss which i have seen reports of 110 mph and storm surge in some of these areas they have never seen this type of storm surge. that is why 7 to 11 foot storm surge is over-the-top or at least halfway up towards the roof of your house and that is why people are told if you can evacuate you have to have a plan, get to the roof of your home and away to get out of the roof of your home. that is the problem. 20 to 40 inches, upwards of close to four feet of rainfall. storm surge, we heard reports of 10 foot storm surge in new bern where we have people that need to be rescued, 100 people needing to be rescued.

it will be hard for first responders to get to you at this point. that is why you were told to evacuate. here is one of our reliable forecast models on top of the water they received. this will be a historic storm for a lot of folks. cat one, it will make landfall in the next couple hours and then stalling. this is 8:00 pm, hasn't moved 100 miles. that is where we have the risk of the water damage, catastrophic water and surge over the next 12 hours and it will eventually push through south carolina. we could get upwards of 60 to 10 inches well in land and finally as we get into next week, monday and tuesday it will push northeast. for now i cannot stress it enough. it doesn't matter about landfall, doesn't matter about category, this is a water issue that will last hours if not days and we won't know the damage of the storm until probably next week.

heather: jillian: we kept saying people had time to prepare but we are already seeing people stranded because they didn't leave. >> a terrible story, the national hurricane center has the cone of the storm on top of north carolina. the warnings were issued to. people were told to evacuate. this has been a very well executed plan with the governor and the state all the way up to the white house, they have done a great job making sure people know how serious and potentially deadly this storm is. there is no excuse for not heeding those warnings. they knew days in advance. rob: it was a well predicted storm. four or five days ago they knew where it was going to go. that we are seeing the consequences of that. first responders endanger too, that is the sad part. we appreciate it. >> millions leaving everything they own to the mercy of florence as they evacuate their

homes. rob: aaron ehrenberg and her kids flood 150 miles to escape the storm and she joins us live by phone. thanks for calling in. you guys live in south carolina and sounds like you headed to florida to get completely out of the path of this storm. it has somewhat fallen apart over the last couple days, now just a category one but this is going to be a water event. what made you leave? >> we were under mandatory evacuation and we took that seriously. we have three little kids. we just moved to south carolina from los angeles, california although i have family in hilton head. we saw the evacuation warning, we heated it. the kids are really anxious, they were hearing about hurricane at school. and were asking a lot of questions about it. we wanted in an abundance of caution heed the governor's

warning, get on the road before the traffic and take care of our family. we view it as a vacation and trying to help their anxiety but certainly it is scary watching the cone even as it moves up above us, i went to school in north carolina, have friends there. it is scary. jillian: have you spoken to your friends in north carolina? have people evacuated? >> i have. i have a good friend there whose father recently had a heart bypass surgery. i was immediately thinking of everybody in hospitals and people having new babies. we had circumstances that were stressful to leave but nothing like that. that has been in my mind, lots of prayers in those areas this morning. rob: you came from los angeles so you're not used to this type of thing. did you call back to the

neighborhood where you are living now? did you check in within 30 who stuck around? >> absolutely. we have good friend there, their plan was to not leave and the hospital closed. they have been through several hurricanes. we have family there so we had gone through matthew and the devastation matthew caused especially from the water and that remains to be seen. if it takes a turn and we get a lot of rain that is still an issue in the low country. we do have friends who can take a look at our house and make sure everything is secure which we did before we left. it is funny, people handle this in a range of different ways. my family i grew up with tends to be the last to leave, don't go down with the ship and all that. my husband is really cautious and in this case with our three

kids it was nice to take the cautious approach to take her mind off of it. >> reporter: better to be safe than sorry. we hope once you finally get home everything is okay. >> thank you so much, appreciate that. rob: live team coverage of hurricane florence when we come back. this wi-fi is fast.

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roofs. jillian: 200,000 customers without power throughout the state and in morehead city, life-threatening storm surge turning businesses into debris. the marriott on the coast could see 40 inches of rain. first responders saving 100 people that found themselves stranded in new bern, north carolina. rob: joining us by phone with an update is dana outlaw. you came on yesterday and told us what you were expecting and sounds like you were the epicenter of the problem. what are you seeing in new bern? >> trying to make every effort to get them to shelters. at the same time we provide a safe working environment for first responders. our power is down, 14,000 customers out at this time but

we feel the winds. jillian: how frustrating is this? you have been warning people to get out and get to shelters, don't stay, get to safety and now you are already seeing all these people that need to be rescued and putting first responders at risk. >> the most important thing is to get folks safe. it doesn't matter if they heated our advice or not. we still want them safe. we want our cities secure. we have a curfew from 9:00 to 7:00 in the morning and a lot of folks did the right thing and evacuated and we want to make sure properties are safe and secure when they are out of town so we are stepping up our security and the curfew helps our police department and i tell

you this afternoon i watched the fire truck, two recreational buses in newbern and police officers knocking door-to-door to still get folks who had not evacuated out and the majority of them left but we still have some folks that don't believe you can have a tenant a half foot surge of water. our biggest priority is the safety of our citizens and that is what we are doing now. rob: for people not familiar with these types of storms, we are talking a 10 foot storm surge. amanda in the ocean rising 10 feet and you live on the coast. that is what people in new bern are dealing with. what are the specifics your hearing from residents? the first floor of the home is full of water? it is coming through the windows and doors? >> my daughter next door has

water in her house. we have been here in this area for 18 years, we have never seen this. my parents talk about hurricane hazel and you can't help but think sometime there could be another one and we have got it here. we had another one that was a little higher in new bern. i read was pretty tight, 7 to 8 feet so this one was three feet higher than irene. the thing with irene, it came and went. this one will be here for a while. conditions are such that we went first responders to be safe and have to wait on this whether a little bit. cruising from out of state, we

have some rescue, water rescue teams in town so they are working with the fire department, leaving it to the emergency operations center, we are going to keep working on getting our citizens safe and to a shelter. >> the city of new bern center tweet, you may need to move to a second-story erratic but we are coming to get you. if anyone who is stranded right now, most are without power but if they are able to watch on their phones, what do you want those people to know? what is your plan to get them? >> call us at 252-636-4000 and we will get somebody over there to get you. rob: are you expecting more a we had griff jenkins on his live report saying you are asking anyone in washington, anyone around to help in new bern, do you need that help or do you

have an advantage? >> yes. the state has been great, donald trump, we appreciate the emergency declaration. all the agencies are working well, the county, city, staff. this is what new bern is about, we are tenacious, resilient, we were founded in 1710. take a look, there will be trees down and the sidewalks will be cleaned up and ready for business. jillian: we had a lot of time to prepare for this, we talked to you yesterday, you felt you were as prepared as you could have been given all this time. now that we are seeing it play out, we still have days of rain to go, do you feel you have been and continue to do everything you can? >> we have worked hard with the emergency operations center in

the county operations center and state agencies. so yes, we continue to do that until the last citizen is in a safe haven. rob: you have 150 rescues so far. have you had anybody hurt? >> i do not have that information. that would be confidential because it would involve probably -- rob: no injuries you know of. okay. the mayor of new bern, north carolina, thank you so much, dana outlaw. i have no idea this was going to turn in this direction for you guys when we talked to you yesterday but appreciate your time and we will follow this and keep an eye on it. jillian: a tough situation. hurricane florence stalling before coming ashore. rob: a slow-moving storm, very

slow-moving, widespread flooding between the rain and the storm surge, something like we saw in houston with hurricane harvey. what can we expect in coming hours and days? jillian: the latest forecast plus live team coverage from the coast of the carolinas when we come right back.

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create the most of the last floods this area has ever seen. jillian: team coverage with griff jenkins and todd pyro. >> here the take away messages through the weekend, the slow duration of this event will bring heavy rain and storm surge. i've got reports of 20 inches of rainfall already on parts of north carolina, close to 20 inches already. the storm has not even made landfall. wind gusts of 100 mph, storm surge of 11 feet, reports of 10 feet in new bern and the slow movement of the storm will keep the flooding threat across the carolinas and appalachians with mountainous terrain which squeezes the moisture out and potentially have more flooding issues, mudslides, rockslides, that kind of thing. we are not going to see the damage from the storm until next week.

we are in the thick of it. the eye wall is coming ashore. just a matter of hours. that landfall is just a historical point on the map where the lowest pressure arrives, nothing to do with wind or rain or storm surge, just a historical point. the worst of the rain and wind is in the northeast quadrant. we have a tornado watch in the next couple hours and we will be getting new updates from the national hurricane center, 90 mile-per-hour storm, category one, hurricane sandy was a category one when it made landfall and we had catastrophic damage. when harvey moved into southeast texas it wasn't even hurricane and we had 50 inches of rainfall. that is the take away message. it is not about the category, not even really about the wind speed. it is about the water. reports of close to 20 inches of rainfall, widespread areas of 50 to 30 inches inland even towards

virginia and south carolina and someone has a bull's-eye of 40 inches. that is for sure. flash flood warnings, the worst of the storm in the northeast quadrant where we have the worst of the storm surge, all that ocean water pushed against the shore and they will see the offshore flow. willington will see strong gusts in the next matter of hours in the center of the storm is right there. we are an hour or two from official landfall but the strongest winds coming on sure right now, some of these wind gusts are not accurate because we are not getting reports out of here. the take away is the storm surge and rainfall. that will cause the catastrophic damage and that is why we told people to evacuate low-lying areas because you can't get away from that amount of water. rob: look at those numbers for the storm surge, 7 to 11 feet,

thank you. rob: in a short amount of time. hurricane florence pounding north carolina and leaving a lot of water in the path of destruction. the eye wall starting to reach the coast bringing 90 mile an hour sustained winds. jillian: griff jenkins is live in morehead city where it is hard to stand up. >> reporter: it is. 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 north of where the eye wall will come on but because they are getting northeast dirty side they are talking about it is pounding through here and high tide we expect to hit around noon. this seawall causing damages, only going to grow. i am not sure exactly what emergency crews can do in this area because it is impassable on the street side, there is debris, when the sun comes up, a better look at the damage out here already, guys.

rob: we had video that showed in land a street, water halfway up a stop sign on a street, there it is from one of our viewers, tremendous amount of water. are you seeing this storm surge where you are standing? looks like you are on a dock. >> reporter: i am on a seawall. over to atlantic beach, it goes out to see and seeing damage to the dark, the water and surge we get right here, it is only going to get worse as the tide rises, a lot of water in the capital of north carolina. a lot of boats being taken out of the water. i not sure they will not be

damaged as well, and as this water makes it into the street, and that would complicate the situation when people wake up with a lot of water in their house. something you got to point out when you cover the storms, when the worst part hits in the middle of the night some people go to bed wondering if they are going to make it and then they wake to water levels and flooding, it is very dangerous, so all i can say is if you are having trouble in new bern or jacksonville or any of those towns reach out to us as we continue to relate to federal officials. >> a lot of people ask why you have reporters covering this? we want to show you what it is

like and you are doing what you can to stay safe. how does this feel, what are you feeling? people might be waking up not knowing how bad this has hit while they have been asleep, we don't want them to go outside to see the storm. >> i got most of that. as people wake up, it is that inland water danger because they may have gone to bed watching scenes like this. report is taking every precaution, we want to show you the surge but it is inland, you think there is no problems with that river but the noose river already exceeded the water flooding of hurricane irene, and we are on the front of the bad stuff that will go all day so

that flooding will only get much worse and these winds are not letting up anytime soon, 36, 40 miles northwest, they are going to be feeling these bands as well and the storm moves, these bands will hit as well. whether they are cat one or tropical storm it is enough to put power lines down and debris all over the road, makes it difficult for emergency crews to get around and we have to make sure shelters are open. as federal officials rescue these people you got to take them somewhere, shelters begin to fill up. people that did not expect to spend the next several days in a shelter will be doing that. one of the important things to

note, the power lines down. if you are at home hunkered down. rob: griff is getting the worst, todd will be getting it soon. i expect the wind to pick up now. >> the rain started 5 minutes ago. that is the main concern but right now over the last hour the main concern has been the wind. live shot location is different from earlier because we have to move power out in the entire area, we need room to do our job. the structure must be on a generator. this is the only area of light on the entire major road in myrtle beach, we have been hanging out last 3 days talking to people, it is pure black, not a like to be seen except where we are right here. the earlier area, the reason we had to move his power poles started sparking.

we were concerned it would block our ability from that area so we moved to this area and within 15 minutes from that time we saw multiple utility crews, fire trucks and police going to that area to make sure that problem was solved, not to necessarily put power back on but to make sure people don't get electrocuted, then they went out not knowing what happened. take a look at the latest images from the international space station. you heard talk for the last several days how large this storm is, it is downgraded to a category one, the storm is huge, national weather service issued a flash flood warning through much of the state from now until sunday night a while from now. some rain projections could go up to 30 inches throughout the

area in north myrtle beach. one interesting note as the wind starts to pick up, the projections are for the storm to extend 140 miles west of where we are. that means another concern, landslides no one has been talking about until now. another thing for residents to worry about. >> stay safe out there. ashore and we are seeing dramatic rescues in new bern, north carolina. how much worse will it get?

>> you get 24 to 46 hours more of worse. it is always bad when people, you got to leave, it is dangerous and why are they sitting there with 7 dogs? some brave rescue people have to go in and help people who wouldn't come out 24 hours ago. what is happening is cities and states have done practice exercises and learned from the last two major events in texas, florida and puerto rico, fema and the department of defense learned because of the last event how better to do this. for this war, we call it a fight, you now have 7000 repositioned soldiers and

equipment which was not done in houston, texas or puerto rico and that is your 911 issue. fema coordinates, states and cities don't have large assets to help people which is why the federal government, fema, was formed but there 911, the part of defense, marines, army, navy, air force, coast guard to get their heavy equipment in. a lot of boats and amphibious stuff, the navy has large ships off the coast with equipment that can go in land. you pre-position that so those organizations don't have to fight their way through so from my standpoint we are in very good position and starting to rescue but it is a massive effort but it will take a week to two weeks to get people back into their homes because of the size of the storm.

>> i asked the mayor of new bern when you were talking to him, curious about your take on this, it is bound to be frustrating hurricane after a cane when you warn people to leave, at some point you will not be able to rescue them and we are seeing people who need to be rescued and so many lives are put at risk when that happens. >> having done those kinds of risk use, the people doing the rescue go to help people but their lives are in danger, they have families, they live in this area and is massively frustrating but this is a free country. unless you are going to arrest somebody for leaving they have that choice. in the united states of america we, when somebody raises their hand and says i'm drowning over here on sixth street and i want my roof nobody's going to say we told you to get out, have a nice day, see you when we can. we go and save their lives.

of the impressive thing about houston and certainly florida was this asian navy and other groups, neighbors helping neighbors but these things are so large the federal government and department of defense have to be involved because of the effort it takes to recover. rob: thank you for your time and perspective. we will see how this looks as the sun comes up. >> neighbors helping neighbors, whatever it takes. live team coverage of hurricane florence when we come right back. this wi-fi is fast.

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jillian: welcome back. the president of the carolinas riding out the storm.

hurricane florence in full force along the coast. rob: jeremy decided not to eat evacuation warnings and joins us live. good to see you are doing all right, you have a smile on your face, what does it look like outside your window? >> it is really dark and pretty strong winds, trees are bent over pretty good. jillian: why did you stay? >> for the most part to stick around the house here and make sure nothing happens to it and also to try to work and help out after the storm. rob: there's a picture of your house, you say it is dark, you're about to get the brunt of the storm in wilmington at this point. are you nervous? you have seen the reports from places east and north of view where the storm is sitting right now. >> at this point i am writing out whatever they throw my way and hope it works out for the

best but looks like the eye of the storm is pretty much right over my house, the storm is pretty intense right now. jillian: do you have a plan in case something goes wrong? >> my initial plan if something crazy went wrong like a massive tree goes through the house or something like that would be to make it to my next-door neighbor's house. rob: how did your house very in flooding? you get a lot of rain, you had storms, you in a low-lying area? >> we are on a little hump. some people have issues with letting nearby but i never had any issues. right now we have no water issues around my house. hard to say what is going on in the area. i will know more about that later. jillian: are you prepared with food, water, anything you may need to stay for a week or two weeks? >> oh yes. i have a lot of supplies.

if something dire did happen i think i would be able to ride it out for quite a while actually. rob: a lot of people want to stay with the house and feel they can protect it. we appreciate you calling in and good luck to you. the storm is just about coming your way at this point. >> thank you. jillian: so happy. rob: he is in a good mood, given credit for that. live team coverage of this hurricane. lcome. ordering custom ink t-shirts has been a really smart decision for our business. - [narrator] custom ink has hundreds of products and free shipping. upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com.

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>> in wilmington, north carolina, people without power. >> florence is about to make landfall. wind speeds 60 miles an hour at this point. look at this, transformer blowing in wilmington. across the carolinas, 1 to 3 million people expected to lose power at some point during this hurricane, and nowhere near to being over, it is expected to get worse as we go. rob: the storm is heading your way. any minute it will be over wilmington.

jillian: we start with "fox and friends" right now. steve: the fury of hurricane florence in full effect and it will get worse, current category one storm, powerful high wall starting to reach the coast of the carolinas. ainsley: winds reaching 90 mph turning businesses into debris. steve: catastrophic flooding trapping people who are forced to wait for help on their rooftops, live fox news coverage. 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