>> shepard: i'm shepard smith fly from fox news headquarters in new york, welcome to our viewers on the fox news channel and satellite and cable and on fox television stations across america. this is fox news coverage of hurricane florence. the storm made landfall this morning near wrightsville beach north carolina but fema officials warn, and i'm quoting, this is only the beginning. hundreds of rescues are underway right now. the storm has knocked out power to more than that, and this is the new number, have a million people across north carolina. forecasters say the threat of catastrophic flooding is underway now and they expect the threat of catastrophic flooding for days to come as rivers could reach historic levels.

alive look on a river not far from the outer banks, i'll show you more on this at the moment. if more than 200 high water rescues they are in the mayor said more than 100 people are still waiting for rescues has the entire area is flooded. about 40 miles north and east is belhaven north carolina, also on a river. it's in the upper right of your screen here. the storm surge was forecast to be up to 6 feet in this area and it's proving most likely true. a gas station, a familiar scene or hurricane even though florence weakened to a category four or from a category four to a category one by the time it made landfall. the winds were still powerful enough to rip over this canopy on the pumps and a view from space this morning, hurricane florence made landfall near wrightsville beach north carolina just outside wilmington. over on the welcome i can country the you the latest track for the storm.

the scary part of it now is they told us it would slow down and it has. hurricane florence now moving along at just 4 miles an hour. about the speed that you and i might walk down the street if we were in a hurry to get anywhere. that's how slowly it's moving. the radar loop will show you the worst of where the rain is now, we can switch over to that. the local radar, this is a satellite view. the radar loop comes from ground station and this gives you an idea where the all-terrain is. if peers charleston, south carolina, down here suggest a steady stream of rain everywhere with a counterclockwise wind just pounding the coast to the north and then down below center of circulation because the winds are coming in this direction, some of those rivers emptying into the atlantic ocean as the storm move south which the meteorologist tell us those winds will begin to come from the east and that will fill those rivers back up with brackish water and that's a

serious concern moving forward. if you want to show you the areas of greatest concern on this map. this is obviously the eastern seaboard. here's where the storm is right now. just below wilmington and all of this moisture and all of those rain bands moving in that direction. what to bring even closer now. this is wilmington where the storm is now right here in wilmington. there's a storm and here's little town of new bern with all of this water and wind coming in that direction. if we zoom into new bern. i can show you that it's right on the neuse river. so all of this rain and water has come moving up into the river and there is a town of new bern. alive look now, this is the spot where the mayor tells us there have been more than 200 rescues on this day already and more than 100 people are waiting to be rescued right now. they're trying to get folks in from the occasion may be which has come up a volunteer group

from down in louisiana. a lot of work to be done there throughout the day. look at these rainfall totals. these are official totals from the united states geological survey. 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 i have traveled up and down the highway, there is history's down and power down, storefronts and gas stations destroyed but i want you to look over here. this is the bay we are parallel to atlantic beach, the barrier island here parallel to morehead city and that is the sound. for a 5 feet below those fences and chains which is where the water used to be, you can see it here this is evan street. it is flooding by about a foot, a foot and a half. it is parallel to just about 10a

man here there. that's highway 7, utility truck just looking at that downed power line, 1 of hundreds that are out here and that's takes you all the way to raleigh. that's how i got here coming down from raleigh coming through the inland areas that are suffering the flooding. but here we had a little bit of a low, saw a handful of people coming out to assess their damage as we drove along atlantic beach, we went in the oceana peer, a peer belt by the mayor over there, totally destroyed, the end of it washed away to see. we are clearly going to continue to get the surge because we are just hitting high tide there and that's why this water is coming in as it gets onto highway 70 and we see flooding already on this track, making a very difficult for the first responders, utility trucks

and anyone else to operate out here. of course, we chose to stay here, and they not going anywhere at this point but one thing a little anecdotal of the changing of the storm is a continuation of the deadliness and the danger here, we went down the street with her crew just a shoot a few things. about 20 minutes later, we came back and it had been crumbled. to the wind has been downgraded from a four to a 2, not to be undermined as we continue to see the winds and the surge add to the excessive flooding and rainfall that is already now picked out. we're going to have a much longer day. >> shepard: i believe you are, morehead city with a lot more to come. how in the weather for us, thank you. let's get right to dan outlaw who was the mayor of new bern north carolina, this is alive look it new bern as the water has really overturned this. and dana, it's my understanding that all of this water has come

right up river and river and inundated your town. >> had about ten and a half feet, it's gone down some now but the concern is we are waiting to see what happened with the tide at about 1:00. >> shepard: i've just gotten an update that this storm is now moving from a forward progress to 6 miles an hour and a slow but that is, it's half as fast as it was an hour ago so it's on the move, but it still looks like you're going to get rain and heavy winds for the better part of half a day here. you know we got up this morning and took a look and we have so many trees and limbs down and the concern is with the ten and a half feet of water coupled with 20 to 40 inches of rain that the ground is so saturated that other trees are going to blow over and we have power lines already down and we're still trying to rescue about 150

residents that did not affect the weight and now we are going in with water rescues to get these folks to a shelter. >> shepard: the mayor dana outlaw who is with us, the mayor of new bern north carolina for more than 200 people have already been rescued. it's my understanding from local reports that many of these residents have had to hire areas and that means summer in their attics and simmer on their roofs, is that right? >> that's right. i talked with a lady last night, we could not the residence by vehicle. so we have rescued her now, let me know that her mother has been rescued but actually had some situations as morning where they realize they should evacuated. the call 911, we had over 1200 calls and 12 hours.

they call and then when the water goes down a little bit. they're like it's going to be okay. and they cancel 911 and we don't know what this hurricane is going to do. >> shepard: i was going to say, you've got a town of 30,000 people and that many people stayed behind. my understanding is the occasion may be as down there and a lot of volunteers, what do you know? >> they are great, i got a chance to meet some of them. this is not a time to be a riverboat gambler. get in the shelter or go west of i-95 and get out of the storm. people's lives are are much more important than whether or not they take the time to evacuate. >> shepard: since hurricane katrina and the horror show that it was witnessing so many people who very sadly died in their attics because of the water rising so far they didn't have a way out, the first thing you tell people is if you have to end up in your attic, you got

to cut a hole in it to have a way to get out of there. he don't know people who are trapped with water up in their attics, is not that high, right? >> i don't think we have any more of those. i think we've been able to reach that particular case. and there are other ones where people have gotten on the roof. we went out yesterday. we been working this thing for 48 hours. we have plenty of window of tim time. which of the fire truck out, we took the national guard truck behind it. we took two buses. some of them got out and physically knocked on doors and we've done everything from twitter to facebook to media, everything to get the message out that this was a category four, but the storm surge has really been the damaging part. we have about 300 commercial

buildings that have been damaged. about 4200 homes that have been damaged at this point. >> shepard: how many again? >> 4200 homes that we know are probably damaged and about 300 commercial. we had somebody that pulled up and got under a canopy of a commercial building for a few minutes, got in the car, left, came back about 10 minutes later and the whole canopy had collapsed. so this is dangerous time, the power lines are down, they might be energized. we have 22,000 customers, only 300 that have power right now. give the city a chance to get these roads clear and as soon as these winds decide let's get our power crews in weather out of harm's way and get that power restored my get the city cleaned up and be doing business because we are one of the most popular

cities in united states and america. we are rated in every magazine, everybody wants to come to new bern. so come see it. they went on the west bank of the river right off the atlantic coast, experienced storms and plenty of them over time, have you ever seen a quite like this? >> no, sir, i have not. but what happened in new bern is there is a certain place for about 30 years, not been any major hurricanes. i read a couple years ago got seven or 8 feet of water, this we are 3 feet higher. so i think people have just gotten somewhat comfortable with the fact that we do have hurricanes come in, they stayed for a half hour as far as the storm surge. we got 40-mile-an-hour winds or something and they're gone and i guess they're feeling comfortable that they can deal with it but when everything else is telling you that you got a

category four or five on top of 20 to 40 inches of rain, it's time to hit the road. >> shepard: hope for all their sakes that people are able to be rescued and i'm guessing they won't take it lightly again. that's been my experience after living through it. mayor dana outlaw, 30,000 or so along the river in north carolina. we sure do appreciate it. his life pictures coming to us, multiple life pictures as you can see here in the water just keeps coming. in that initial storm surge is the tendency he was talking about and then along the coast, is not on the coast, of the river, but on the coast, they also had about 15-foot waves on top of that so i see a lot of you on facebook and twitter saying it's only a category one but it was a category for not long ago and the meteorologist told us the energy that came with that is still there. the storm surge from that is still there. all of that water has come to

shore and it will continue to come to show her for hours and days on end. the fox business networks is live, myrtle beach, south carolina, she's been getting blown around and really wet, hurricane first timer, how does it feel? >> i don't want to admit that it is exhilarating to be out here but we are keeping a very safe because it's very dangerous. the debris has started to start flying everywhere. fortunately i just spoke to some police officers that were on the street and they said they haven't had in the accidents just yet. you are seeing some boarded property me. the recorded miles per hour in terms of the wind is at 51 miles per hour in this area. you can even see if you look up, the shingles on this roof here, a cabana shack next to the beach for partygoers that come here in the summer, clearly not here right now because it would be out in the rain except for reporters from fox business and fox news? what you're seeing right now,

ocean. he does mention some people are saying is not that big of a deal because it's been downgraded to a category one but this hurricane is moving incredibly slowly. when it was over the ocean, it was accumulating moisture. now it's moving inland and we are expecting to get it way worse than this in just a few hours, expecting flash floods, so far within justice district, there's about 15,000 homes, the latest that i saw an hour ago. 10,000 homes of lost power in the entire south carolina. we're looking at at least 54,000 homes out of lost power. people have been asked to stay inside. there was a massive police vehicle before it was white writing around and he didn't know i was a reporter and got mad and told me to get back in the car's speaker because of the danger of the debris so overall we are seeing is his torrential rains and i was speaking to sandra smith on fox news earlier this morning, wasn't even that bad, barely even rain but now

it's coming. we lost power at our hotel, the generators are going and that's why we are out here trying to give you the latest from myrtle beach right now. >> shepard: live for is in the rain in that storm is headed in that direction. the latest coordinates in the latest information from the national hurricane center is this, still a powerful court category one storm with maximum sustained winds at 80 miles an hour, now the forward speed has picked up to 6 miles an hour and we believe it should crossover the water along that little bit of a jut in along the carolina coast within the next hour and continue south and west, you can see on your screen it's believed that the storm surge and heavy rain will continue today, tonight, tomorrow into sunday and beyond. it will return you to your regular programming, for our

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>> shepard: hurricane florence continues to turn to the south and west on a line coming south from wilmington. of the eye of the storm has passed wilmington, the next thing south of there is carolina beach is a heads outback over the ocean and jeff flock in the middle of the worst of it there from the fox business network, windy and wet. >> no kidding. we did get the eye, we had almost an hour, almost had sunshine that we actually got in the eye. that's where it came in the eye just north of us, but then we got it as it bumped down the coast, bizarre track on the storm as you know, to have it come this way along the coast typically never does. here's the thing right now i carolina beach. we've got the eye of a category one storm. the wind that i'm standing out in is not tremendous, it's going good but it's not terrible. the problem now in addition to the flooding that's already taken place because there is a storm came back down south, it

bluewater and from the sound side, now we're getting from the ways behind me the surge from the ocean side and that's eating in the sand dunes that you see him standing on here. the fear here at carolina beach as we just talked to the mayor is that it eats away and we get storm surge in there. frankly, i don't think that's going to happen but if it goes as low as it's been going, continue to pound that dune, who knows what could happen? i think we are past the worst of it. i say that with fingers crossed. >> shepard: as we look at the coast, if you go 80 or 90 miles north of where you are, those huge vans are just bringing in so copious amounts of rain and i wonder if that's not coming your way. >> i think some of it will in some of it will peter out by the time it gets to us. that would be the place to be up there as you know the last two

days, just got pounded completely. we just got it bad today and now south of us is getting it. but those guys have been just getting nailed and that the old story. you stay on the north side of the storm to make you stay on a sloppy side of the storm if you want to see the worst conditions and that's what they've gotten up there. >> shepard: thanks very much, he's just reached as he put it the sloppy side of the storm because he was the hurricane. going in this direction. there is carolina beach. that's where jeff flock was just there. go up this curve about 40 miles, our correspondent steve harrigan is there. >> [indistinct] it's slowly coming to the ocean as the water comes over here and

it's forming a small river. a couple of things to note, the wind power has not died down at all. it's worse. people are beginning to try to assess the damage just looking around. i can show you over here, all along this road as you go, you can see pieces of people's houses. if you look at this house over here, parts of the roof have come off. if you look down this road, you just see rain coming inside, the ocean washing over and bits and pieces of wooden houses all the way down this road. we've heard reports that emergency wreck rescuers can't go out in situations like this. actually try to get off this

island, no tower here, no satellite dish, no cell phone communication some hats off to the team here. this hurricane has not gone awa away. little by little, we are watching it actively destroyed, bits and pieces coming off. you heard about the water in the surge, that's exactly what we're seeing it now there was a 15-foot piece there, that's gone now. the water has come over the main road and now it's taking the river here. the damage from this flooding is going to be really something.

i'm noticing a lot of open garage doors. just going to toss it back to you. >> shepard: >> shepard: incredi, for those who don't know steve, when he first came to work for is more than a decade ago, he was covering the war in afghanistan and has been a wartime reporter for many years. doesn't mess around with dramatics or histrionics and when you see him walking that way and talking about those conditions in that way, you can rest assured he is underplaying, not overplaying. steve harrigan is not one for drama. they have a very serious situation in the beach area at this time it is easy to understand why they do because of the exact positioning of the storm. anytime you look at hurricane, if you put it in the center of

your vision, if you were to make four quadrants, that upper right quadrant, the northeastern quadrant of the hurricane is where the worst of it always is. that's where the worst of the wind is, that's where the worst of the rain is, the energy has taken that to the north and every hurricane, the northeast quadrant is the worst part. that's where you add the forward wind speed to the winds of the hurricane all of the water coming in that direction and that's what's happening right now. imagine the coast of north carolina kind of curved there, the storm is just below that beach. as of the eye of the hurricane, the outer eye walls of the hurricane, the one closest to him is about 20 miles, maybe 25 miles, not even that, to the south of him. 25 or 30 miles to the south of him so the worst of these are hitting the beach right now. in a normal hurricane, and

hurricane andrew when it came ashore in south florida, you would expect this kind of wind and rain and the worst of the storm for about 15 minutes. when hurricane katrina came ashore in south mississippi that 28-foot storm surge that just walloped past mississippi. when i tell you there is not a single structure standing and in some cases the concrete foundations of homes along the beach, the concrete had been removed and pushed inland to train tracks a couple of miles. that was that southern beach there along the mississippi coast not far from the louisiana mine in the sleepy little town of mississippi. that's what happened in the storm surge there and that didn't last for about an hour. the worst of it here, the worst that we have to deliver this storm will go on for eight to nine hours from now.

because of the forward speed. so whatever you see now, if we were to go back there in an hou hour, the feeder vans of course come and go, but the heavy wind, the storm surge, the rain, what is pushing these power lines over, all of that will continue into the 1:00 hour in the 2:00 hour and then when the sun finally goes down tonight, it will still be raining in the wind will still be blowing. i want to show you really quickly on the map. here is the area where the storm is about now. there is the i come in and headed generally in this direction. and that means it could very well go over the water here at least for a short period of tim time. and with all of those wins coming in this direction so the surface pushing ashore and it is just getting slammed and it will throughout the morning. went to get to the national hurricane center, the main man there i believe is online for us and we will go to him. he will be ready for a live

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call now tow to learn more. >> shepard: alive look again as we see a short time ago, very similar conditions all up and down the barrier islands from wrightsville beach which is right along wilmington up for great i'll along the coach there, and then salute point often surf city in north carolina, the seaview pier there. all the way up to the sea turtle sanctuary, these are the kind of conditions that they are experiencing now as the storm has maximum winds of about 80 miles an hour headed to the west southwest now up to 6 miles an hour and a bit of good news, not surprising, the energy of the storm comes from over the water, the center is now over

the land and the central pressure of this, the lower pressure, low pressure center. the lower the pressure, the stronger and more energy but when it was is that energy source which is the warm water because it's sitting overland partially, the central pressure goes up and that's happened now. can graham as a director of the national hurricane center in miami and is live with us as bad as all this is, there is tim good news from the clouds. >> when you get that center on land, targeting cited ability. the slow movement, we are focusing around that center moving left, at the same time, really interesting if you watch this. you think these showers and really heavy rain areas, looks like it's moving fast when you step back from the radar but the reality is training over the same area as over and over moving at same speed at the center and the rainfall totals

already 3.53, 13.8 inches of rain so still despite the wind coming down, still going to have a lot of impact. the when those totals really are incredible. we all rely on them, they've got it up to 40 inches of rain, it's exactly what you predicted. is there more to come do you think? >> when you look at these rainfall totals, we have dealt with the storm surge and was pretty scary and dangerous with this, you pile up the water with the storm surge but then all of a sudden you have to drain all of this rain so you still have all this rain to come right around the center, 40 inches of rain, even while in lynn, we still have a ways to go, into the weekend getting these ten to 156 to 10 inches to not just coastal but inland, some flooding that could last a week.

>> shepard: that eye of the storm heading towards columbia and greenwood and anderson in gainesville in that direction. >> it is, seems like the forecast is pretty close to on track, really slow movement, even becoming a storm or so weakening with the wind, 8:00 a.m. sundays that's not a lot of real estate, still having the center in south carolina but an important point to make here, some areas in charleston as he had offshore flow. if you move the center in lynn, the flow around that can actually bring some people hire and water and some flooding even days after landfall so you have to be careful, have to keep watching for this if you haven't seen the impacts further to the south, it still to come. >> shepard: do when you think the storm is no longer a proble problem? >> we are waiting on his trough and we are not going to see that until it over the weekend. if you start going north by the time you get a sunday morning

but you start going into monday and even tuesday and it's got a long way to go. by the time we get that next system to go, you're still going to have a lot of rainfall in lynn's was going take a while so we are looking at the entire weekend dealing with some of these issues. so we can see this flooding potential from all the rain. >> shepard: they still might be getting rain monday tuesday or wednesday? >> definitely. look over the last 20 some years of doing this, if you think about even on monday when you have a depression located in this case could be a forecast even in kentucky but anywhere in this cone two-thirds of the time we can expect the center when the winfield expands. there can be a lot of heavy rain and those of the areas will have to watch out for for the flash flooding. the when the main guy at the

national hurricane center in miami, can't thank you enough for your tireless work, appreciate it. fox news alert now, wilmington, north carolina, population about 115,000 has just instituted a curfew from 10:00 at night until six in the morning until further notice. the rescue people and emergency workers, the electrical workers and all the rest are going to have to get in there so wilmington has added to the list of cities that have put into place a curfew, so that is a situation in wilmington. do we need to hit a commercial? i want to get right to wrightsville beach. just offer wilmington's wrightsville beach which is the spot where the storm came to shore and the mayor there is with us. how is your coastal town held u up? >> that came across about six this morning and to be honest

with you, a pretty big win. the damage was moderate, little bit of structural power, but what happened to us as the storm came across and it moved in odd direction. and now we have a pretty significant flooding issue from a surge in a five-minute. , which i've never seen before. the high tide was 11:00, so now waiting for the tide to go slack so we can get back on the island to try to figure out what we've got. >> shepard: you've got a somewhat unique situation with water from banks channel on the left of you and atlantic ocean on the left and it looks like on both sides of your island, the water has been coming up. >> you'd be amazed at all the

surgery you're getting now forgotten hour and a half ago which was the came up pretty quick. little bit more than a foot of surge because we had to get off the aisle. we had places where we couldn't actually drive so it's being closed for three days. we tend to go back there around four. we didn't have any watch from the ocean mainly because we just put 700,000 cubic yards on the beach in february from the program that i suspect when all said and done will lose most of that. >> shepard: money well spent. without it, you'd have had a worse problem. >> that's exactly right. >> shepard: what you telling locals? >> to stay tuned because this flooding thing that we have now is going to take a while to assess because it was in a lot

of houses and a lot of garages. not much do we get back on there this afternoon. >> shepard: just all the best and good luck to you, appreciate it and let us know what happens when you get back in there at 4:00. >> will get after it. >> shepard: going to show her viewers at home who may not familiar with this, a gorgeous place. if you want to chill, unpretentious, nice great place to take the family for a weekend, this is it. here is wilmington with a new curfew. here is banks channel he was talking about, the main causeway 105-mile-an-hour augustine wilmington, highest since 1958 and all of this is filled up and flooding all of this area with a surge back out now.

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>> shepard: live pictures in new bern which is right up the river, and they're just having a whale of a time with water still coming in, high water rescue still underway and some of those doing the high water rescues her from the cage and navy. we first experienced the occasion may be on a national level the most recent her again especially when the big storm came into houston, the occasion navy came in with all their boats and help save people. it's a volunteer group and the founder is on there.

if you go back to the top, i'll be able to get the name. todd terrel is unaligned with us with us, are you there? >> yes, i'm here. >> shepard: as a mississippian, we appreciate and admire the work you're doing, what have you been doing today? >> we started this morning in new bern, started to get some calls earlier this morning, the water came up so fast that a lot of people were stuck in their vehicles. a lot of people were trying to get out of their cars because they had drove in the ditch. from there, people were being told to get up in their attic. >> shepard: one thing we learned in katrina is that in less you can poke a hole in it, that attic is really good place to be. >> that's correct, and that ends up being a big problem because we went by a lot of houses come

as it was pretty hefty for a little while. speed when you said cars were floating into ditches, is that right? wreck i think they were trying to get out of the way and they were trying to get a last-minute escape and they just got trapped. >> shepard: have you been finding water in the people's homes by the inches or by the feet? >> it's by the feet. we haven't seen any of the inches, coming up fast. came up fast at the high tide throughout midday, coming out more and more. >> shepard: depending where you are, somewhere between 11:00 a.m. and noon today, had a high tide and a surge from the hurricane at the same time, i'm guessing that was just hell on earth. >> that magnified it. >> shepard: how many people do you have up in the carolinas and how did you get them up there?

>> we have more than that, and we have it coming and where we have louisiana boys in texas boys, doubled that much coming up right now and these are all guys that have been dealing with this since 2005. >> shepard: can't thank you enough, i remember them during katrina and we all saw them again over in houston when houston just got daily used and now they've made their way all the way up to carolina coast. nothing like pitching in and helping your neighbors no matter where they are in a condition like this. our bill hemmer has been overworking himself, just waterlogged and will go back to him in a second. we're ensuring americans have the energy they need, whenever they need it nextera energy.

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from ground radar and this is the area that is most affected at this morning and of course it will not move. but here is an area right around the cave all the way up to virginia beach where the rains have stopped. look at these rainfall totals, morehead city north carolina, 42 and a half inches of rain, emerald isle 33 and a half inches of rain approaching 20 inches of rain down in wilmington and new bern where they are affecting all of those rescues already 12 inches of rain plus that enormous storm surge. so what's to come? that the focus as we begin a whole new hour of coverage on fox news channel. america's choice for news and information on cable right after this. ♪motorcycle revving

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♪ >> shepard: it's 10:00 a.m. on the west coast, 2:00 p.m. in north carolina. new bern is being inundated with water as it has throughout the day, these are live pictures and authorities are looking to rescue more than 100 people who are still stranded inside their homes in the wake of hurricane florence. this storm is now a powerful category one storm, lots of rain pounding the carolina seashore. moving due west at 6 miles an hour. forward speed has picked up