scenes just like that. more than 500,000,000 hav no power. president trump said he will be visiting the affected areas next week. >> an uninvited brute that doesn't want t leave. >> florence has been downgraded to am tropical st but it is also stalling even more. moving quite slowly and that will be a problem. that dangerous storm surge is continuing. and you can see the srrm ove land and in the carolinas. what is the situation now? >> turning fro the hurricane making landfall to a storm sitting right over the area. ou can see tropical storm allison, of the all time biggest floods in parts of the southeast. that was a storm that had so much rain, that stayed in the me location. that was billions and billions of damage and we'res seeing t

one transfer into something like that with fresh water flooding >> exactly. and the bands of rain keep going over and or the same places that are flooded and that will only continue. it m not be until the weekend's >> take a look and we'll show you what it is doing. here's the satellite picture. i have to change to it a tropical storm because it is. that will be a tropical depression by thi time tomorrow. it does not matter. it is all about the rain and the in continues. you can see how big the storm is. howhe expansive storm. is all the way toward savannah and all the way toward the atlantic ocean. this has made its way from 7:30 this morning right to the west of wilmington in 1 urs. simply amazing. it is just not going anywhere. think of an area like newbe . last night 150 people waiting to be rescued in new bern, north

carolina. .ere it is he look at the rain continuing to come in. earlier it was storm surge. they'll see another area tonight. n continues along the nuese river and other areas north carolina. we'll be with this for a long time. the storm surge was last night he next y, the rain couple days flooding will most likely last all the way through next week.>> right. take a look at the storm team 4 by 4. a little inland. this is othe pamlico river, the flooding is. >> jim handly made his way there. gives a look at i. it looks like the river has pretty much swallowed the entire city. >> reporter: i have to till, downtota it cerly has. this is river water, sound water, it israish now because some water has come in from the ocean.

they suffered to 12 foot storm surge. the next high tide is11:45 tonight. if you can pan off me, this is e river out here. that building right behind me has a first floor tha is almost completely covered. those are medical offices on the first thr floors there. above that building, condominiums, people to have spraek building. if y pan to the left, you can see all the empty boat slips. people were scurrying yesterday to get them to dry dock. that bridge there is a major roadway that will get you into new bern, north carolina. the scene of so many rescues. we have seen rescues here, too, north carolina. i want to bring up if we can our storm tea 4 by 4. one of the biggest challenges is getting around this town. we have a very tough time.ro e dve in from the coast. it said wre two minutes away but it took half-hour because we hadllo dodge of these roads.

and we had to listen to doug, of course. when he says turn arouon, d drown, boy, did we see that today. people are wondering if these roads will be closed until monday or tuesday of next week. talked on number of people who had a very challenging night last night. here's what they had to say today. >> yeah. rescued from river ridge estate. i work at the salvation army. we're trying to get back that wa >> this is the tide water. it was over the brick wall, all the way up to here in this areae and ething this morning. that was the highest it's ever been. it washes in under our house. that's where all this stuff was. and there is another question i

would like to ask the tv people. why do all these storms come at night? al >> reporter: yeah, we'll put that question to doug kammerer. it does see like. that serve on pins and needles it willow much worse get for folks here in little washington, as it is known. back to u. >> you can tell that gentleman that this thing is moving so slowly, it will be there night and day, night and day, another night or so. >> he has ain they do seem to come at night. for some reason, escalate at night. we wake up and say my goodness. what's out righty. of in virginia, a lot people -- actually, we want to get back tom breaking news we told but at the top of the hour. a mother and baby killed. with ter holt spoke firefighters who went to the

rescue. reporter: tonight we'll take you inside a dramatic rescue effort. tree crashed three people for several hours. wilmington firefighters work t feverishly move the tree, the debris, to get to victims. they brought out a voictim on a stretcher. the person wasnd conscious a was talking on firefighters. there was hope the other two could be extricated but instead the firefighters cameit out looks their faces of defeat and disappointment and sadness. they kneeled right where i'm standing and >>ayed. they are under stress and they don't even know the conditions of their own families. it iul diff >> i have three girls. this is hard for all of us. regardless if you have a family or not, it is a human life. people who live in the city that erwe'ree to protect. we just try show up and do all we can. reporter: we'll have that story and a lot more later on

nbc "nightly news." >> in the meantime, many people came here to get out of the ay storm's in the hampton roads area. in you have newport, our report he found some bad flooding.or >> rr: the concern tonight continues to be the tidal flooding. in most cases, you have to remember the folks thought they would get a strong portion of florence. they left earlier this week and many will be returning this weekend comin home the a house still standing, hardly damaged, maybe a little wet. for the most part people are returning feeling grateful, and for good reas. >> florence, isabel before, a lot of storms. we're alway here >> reporter: the u.s. postal carrier making the rounds. a little rain, some wind. >> reporter: was there a moment when you said i should get out

of here? >> yesterday. it wasn't even rainingut from everything we were seeing, i was panicking. >> i was really glad when i saw that it was turning but then i felt horrible for everybody dn south. >> reporter: mixed emotions for brandy. she and her son taking a walk on a quiet beach. they moved to hampton after losing their house in afire. >> i thought everything would be destroyed and we would have to move again. we had to move here because of a house i thought great, fire and now water. >> reporter: tay it is blocking only daylight. the sandbags piled high, left dry. all that preparation just in case. >> it's great out here. it's nice. >> reporter: as the storm turned south, the fear here, washed away. >> the u.s. navy lifting a mandatory evacuation fromts personnel. hampton roads is a big military town. we'll see aot of folks who

streaked places likeorern virginia, coming back to hampton roads, to come back to homes undamaged.tanding still and we're using the tools to zoom in a little closer to see the outer bands. >> i want to ask but the guys operating the equipment, what are they telling you aboutow it compares to the last few storms they've covered? >> reporter: well, for one thing they can see the severe weather that otherwise you would not be able to see. so this is something thatrings him a little closer to that. the real unique thing abo this, this is a tool that doug can tap into. it uses th storm team 4 meteorologist to come down here and tap intohis and see where the outer bands are going. it is really useful. >> and i'll betl you the pos service is happy you found one

of their guys fulfilling the pledge with the rain, snsleet, and dark of night. >> reporter: getting it do. >> our live team coverage of tropical storm florence continros hout this hour and be sure to download the app to get alerts. we'll keep you posted. >> changing gears a little bit, we're looking into the paul manafort guilty plea and what it means. did he agree to cooperate with prosecutors. for investigating the russian interference, manafort pled t guil two crimes today in washington. admitting guilt as well in the ten counts from his earlierl in virginia, and that trial the jury dead locked. under tea pleal, he agreed forfeit multiple bank accounts and properties and that includes his property in tmp tower, the white house and the

meesident's personal lawyer released statents noting the charges are not lirnged to the president or to his campaign. a terrifying ripple of deadly explosions. still ahead, what set off the blt as we learn more about the young manho died in them? and staying on top hurricane florence. now dumping rain by the buckets continually on north carolina. how is the military handling how is the military handling this barrage of atwer?he

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hurricane florence is pound the state with heavy rain and wind. and we are looking at the damage. the cars areunrwater. power lines are down. homes are damaged ther overflowed its banks. the national guard quickly sprang into action going out and rescuing people from their homes this morning. so far at least rescues have been made. we'll have another update on that from jim handly.

he's in wagton, north carolina, a little bit away from that area. >> right now, the marines didn't evacuate and they are ready to help. >> the key thing here, the marine, the navy, none of the tidal ten companies, the department of defense, army, air force, navy and marines, none them can do anything unt t whyat they do to get ready, the pre stage a lot of vehicles close to the water so these amphibious assault vehicles, they call them tracks. they look like big alligators, they can go in the water, out of e water, that gives them ability to help across the carolinas.

theye behind the hurricane. they're staying a safe distance. as soon they getny sort of tasking order, they're ready to go and they have on ne ofthem, 800 marines. helicopter, surgical, they're ready to go as soon as the those orders. as of yet, nothing. >> all right. are they anticipating that they will be put into play once the storm moves out in couple days and they can assess how bad it is? >> they are. they need to figure out how bad the damage is. the military has a lot of assets. they can see how bad the damage is. and i expect we may get marines more involved. trying to help and rentaler assistance. from this bas here,here are trees, it seems like every third

or fourth tree is down. there's a lot of damage. >> all right. thank you. >> lester holt is also in the field as you have seen the last few days. he is ahoring from wilmington, north carolina on nbc "nightly news." a couple former marine veterans with a boat decidedo do their own search and rescue and they ended up with a mother cat and her>> look at that. you can see, ts givesou an idea of how flooded the neighborhoods are. there's well over knee deep water. these guys understand, animals need rescuing, too. they found these drenched cats and took them on safety. they found some other animals along e way. we were going to new bern and

there are people still on these side streets. in the process, we find a few dogs held up on people's porches. >> the thing is we don't know if they're someone's pets that didn't make it o or if they didn't have time t on get everybodytogether. the crew that found these guys doing this work didn't get their names so wan c give them all the credit we would like to. but they said s theyt their families inland and then went back out to help. >> i wasatching this raw video and the guy that he was getting antsy just sitting around. i have aoat and a cool jeep so we got to help i'sople. heomething do you know if you're getting antsy and you want to help, seriously. t we need clear the shelters this weekend. the humane shelter alliance is putting out an s.o.s. a lot of the shelters are sending their animals up here so ey don't drown. if you are considering adoption,

please do so this weekend so we can make room for these animals coming up here coming north from the path of the storm. >> we have a lot of fol with big hearts. >> we cleared the shelters a month ago so we can do it again. let's get the latest on the forecast for here.and down th >> i just looked at another model. i see 20 inches or more. some computers say 20 to 30 inches more, on top of that. >> yeah. this thing will sit and stall over the carolinas and just drift, literally drift slowly inland. >> it is only moving at three miles per hour of the it is crawling. at 7:35 in the morning, the amazing thing about this, guys, the hurricane center had it cong ashore. close to wrightsville beach.

five daysanago. extremely good and extreme had you well forecast ed storm here. you can see the storm center. down around myrtle beach, myrtle beach on the south side so they're getting the offshore flow. all the storm surge will come with the flow onshore. some of thereas hit the hardest, up around the more head city area, 20 inches o rain down around wilmington,too. wilmington along the cape fear iver, now at record flood levels. and the rain just started. it made its way throughow and they'll see the fresh water coming down the river. they saw i coming from the

atlanta starting to see some shower activity. we're not seeing this here. storm surge along the carolina coastline with a little more, why it is so devastating. we'll have moreat on >> yeah. and i was reading a paper from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. they did a study with all the atlantic cyclones, tropical storms, hurricanes, the number one cause of death by half is storm surge followed close second by flooding. fresh water flooding. so again we are going t see some storm surge that continues on roll into the areas. especially north of the circulation. d g said, some of the fwrarngs the carolina coastlin myrtle beach, they have beenft but take a look. the wind is blowing from

offshorend in it is blowing the water up into our area. so again, we are seeing in thel north ca area, this happening. you're getting the storm surge and this water hashe n to go. it is flowing from the atlantic into the rivers that doug was talking about. the cape fear river. up by new bern. they overloaded with water. so it spills out into the tributaries. this is where we have some deadly situations. this is only going to continue as i along the carolina. >> the rivers will come up because of the rain right through tuesday into wednesday of nt week. for us, tuesday happens to be the day that we see the remnants. monday into tuesday. we could see a couple inches back to the west. i'm not too worried about it. sunday is not a bad day for tns redsgame. one thing we all need, sunshine. we finally get itate next

week. >> a good deal. thanks. so florences now a monster of a storm and the system far from done. where it goes next and who could see feet of rain in the next few days. >> how police caught a local man accused of doing t unthinkable. attacking elderly womenre

w keeping a close eye on storm florence. a suspected serial rapist is off the streets after years of breaking into women's homes and violently attacking them. in one case he raped an 86-year-old woman in an assisted living facility. rek ward h new details about how they tracked him down. >> repter: police say marlon michael alexander broke into an apartment and tried to assault a woman. she fought him off and he ran. that was in august of 2007. pvestigators with the montgomery countice department say alexander was beginning a dangerous and brazen string of sexual attacks. >> theec sus dna was recovered. >> reporter: that would be his undoing. would it link him to three other

sexual assaults in 2010 and 11. two of those assaults on the same victim, about a year apart. other on an 86-year-old woman in an assisted living facility across theet st each time police say he left dna at the scene of the ime. a company would crack the case. they had the rights to a family member's dna. how did they get it? >> there are a lot of services that people use now to, i guess, look at their family history. >> reporter: your gentle fingerprint becomes part of the public record. the same dna was used. a distant relative in georgia recovered the case in montgomery county. an 11-year-old cold case got hot quickly. >> an officer who got interested in doing the family history w le to identify mr. alexander. >> reporter: they got a wardnt

ithin days he was arrested and charged. the police chief says this is an emerging technology and a useful tool. and the technology that he says willikely be use again. especially in a cold case. sadly, the elderlyoman who was attacked has died. the other two victims are alive and will help with the prosecution and d.c. in court on monday. outsid police headquarters. back to you. >> all right. thank you. thank you. tropical storm thank you. tropical storm (music throughout)

tropical storm florence is being referred to as it slogs through the carolinas. reporting five people are now dead. a mother and her baby among the first victims killed when a tree fell on to the home if wilmington. the situation is quite dangerous. >> wendy, that was the key word she used, slog. the miles an hour. >> they're not out of the woods yet. >> human walks three miles an hour. when it is dumping rain over and over again, this satellite

showing how effective this storm is. the clouds all the way from philadelphia toward savannah, georgia. an incredibly large storm. take a look at where this storm on the radar picture. here's wilmington, north carolina. it came onshore right here 12 hours ago. about 11 hours ago. now it is right there again. hours and hours and hours of extremely heavy rainfall including an area around newbe rn along the nuese river. jimhand l in washington, north carolina. into seen it first hand that area and you know how bad was south of you around new bern. >> reporter: you're exactly right. this is the pamlico river. the sound is upriver behindme. it is blowing in brackish salt water from florence and the ocean. they saw storm surge from 10 to overnight. this is an area they call the

historic district. their promenade. cars park here. there is a sidewalk that you walklong theiver here. i can tell you, since i game 2:30, there is a top of a trash it. bj, if you can see you congress that was a trash can from where i am now. it is almost completely submerged. we got a lot of good pictures today. let's look aof som them. people who were stranded and being rescue the national guardsmen were out. ey were in monday tune boats going door to door through various neighborhoods. it was tough to go down streets. so many streets blocked off. because of high waters. we saw a number of submerged cars. some cars just floating down the streets. out andaw some kayakers about checking on their neighborsful that's really the only way to gun a in some neighborhoods. it is very tough and it may be

through next monsdy or t before a lot of the roads you saw will be open again. >> absolutely. it will stay that way. you're dealing with storm sur l buer it will be the inland flooding that comes in from all the rain. >> can you elain why it is, that's further inland than wilmington. why is it so bad there? >> the storm surge flooding along the nuese river went up 6i s. that's how long the atlantic water went all the way up. and this is why. the flow around the ghnthe houurndri necathere. as weou move t, here are the two rivers. here's n tse river and here's the pamlico. the water came all the way in from the atlanti ocean and points beyond. they'll see this for every tide

cyight through tomorrow again as far as the storm surge is concerned. then once the incredibly heavy rainfall, especially those portions of north carolina. they've already seen upwards o 12 to 20 inches of rain. you will add another 20 to 30 inches of rain. now they're saying close to 50 inches of rain. 've been talking about, that's close to harvey. harvey was nea 60. we could have something similar there in north carolina. >> it is still bad. it will be bad for a while. we're keeping an eye on it. back to you. >> all right. thank you. places like alexandria, old town, they're expecting another round of flooding. it doesn't take much. >> reporter: the waters have calmed down but a huge ss. we met one college student who

ha to evacuate if north carotena. >> rep he is a student. he came to stay with his family in alexandria. >> i know a lot of people were stubborn and didn't evacuate. >> reporter: throughout the d.c. area, people gettingeady to evacuate another round of rain. the flood gates are up in georgetown and you can see signs saying danger. did you know you were supposed to go there? >> no. there were a bunch of people walking so i figured it was fine to cross. >> reporter: police want people to know those vines there for a reason. >> we don't want to come is that rescue you. we're always ready and willing and trained but why put yourself in that position? why put first responders in that position? >> reporter: and inalexandria, neighbors are also getting ready. >> it is time we have the city

do something about stopping it from happening. it keeps happening o over andver again. >> reporter: in the meantime, he says there is nothing he can do but it >> i can't even give an estimate when i'm going back. don't know what's happening. >> reporter: and first responders say even a few inches of water can be enough to float your car away. so as you are driving through the rain, turn around, don't drown. >> and looking bind you, there is so much debris that has piled up against that wall. what will they do to clear that out? that can't be good. that can't be allowed to float out and hit people's things. >> reporter: that's a tough situation. each day, the water pretty much floods the street and turns it

into ariver. until the rain stops and ty can get it under control, there is not muchhey can do to control the flooding. up next,afety changes on some local school buses. and we're going down to my lle beach tok at the threat. it is a little different than what people were expecting. >> and a

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re more cameras coming to more school buses after the arrest of a bus driver accused sexually assaulting a special needs student. >> reporter: good evening. the county is speeding up its plans t equip every bus with a camera after the shocking arrest of the bus driver last month. you might remember the story, he was charged with a more th dozen counts of sexual known as mr. steve by some students, police stay assault s captured on a school bus camera. tonight, school districts officiay they're speeding up the plan to have more cameras. they expect to have every specialon educa bus equipped by january and all buses by june and they're looking to see if they can have more memory on the

camera. we'reold at this point the cameras are deployed for 30 days. the camera operates whenever the bus operates. they would need to buy new technology to save the footage for longer. our live team coverage of tropical storm florence continues up next. rain and storm sgeffecting communities for days. >>nd doug and lauryn comingo back t take us through each back t take us through each zone of the area and show us the

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. back to hurricane now tropical storen fl. the storm continues to lash the carolinas. this is new bern, north carolina. it has been one of thereas hardest hit. >> we're going to take a trip

around the carolinas. gabe gutierrez is in myrtle beach but we'll start with akmariana in island, north carolina. >> reporter: now we're seeing the flooding that we've been predicting near the beach. i want to show to you my left, for exple, these streets, these mailboxes, you can see. i want my camera man to pan to my left, how high the water has risen in some streets. v it iy hit or miss but it is what we've been talking about. as we keep getting pounded by this rain, this flooding is what we're going to continue to see. it is what many residents who left the island feared about not teing able to come back. i was j on the mayor of oak island and she said bh bridges will remainlosed so nobody can get on or off the islandt the moment. we're starting to see treeson fl top of some cars and some

homes.n, age're still getting the brunt of the water. the brunt of the flooding. and we're still a couple hours out from seeing the worst of hurricane florence. >> reporter: here in myrtlebe h we're just beginning to see the outer bands of the stor and there's there is some damage. we expect to see more rain throughout the day. he major concern intloo mdi.eyr dozens of emergency vehicles are positioned at the convention center ready to deploy as soon as the worst of it dies down. this has the potential to have huge impacts for the popular touristat destn. we expect conditions to deteriorate in the next few hour t we'll ha very latest on this developing story coming up on nbc "nightly news." >> rae minder for you about lester holt from "nightly news." he is in the storm zone and he'll be reporting live with a

full team of journalists. that comes your way right after news4 at 6:00. >> and things change. they change meteorologically, we don't need to keep spewing out storm surge and things like that. what do we need to worry about? for us, nday, tuesday. >> for us, monday, tuesday, maybe a couple of thundershowers and heavy down pours. i'm not worried about that at all. by the time it gets here, it will be moving30, 35 miles an hour. so it will be quick for us. i'med not worbout flooding in our area. coastal flooding will be a big issue through next being it's been over the last week. nothing more than we've seen to the uth, a completely different story. here's the storm. i just measuredthis. 900 miles from the top of the storm, fromlp philaa to the bottom of the storm, around the savannah area.

that's 900 miles. the rain, the heaviest rain is abou 300 miles wide and encompasses the entire state of north carolina. the storm surge was anue i the center is now passing to the north of myrtle beach and look the flow. it is offshore. very good news for them. yes, they did see the storm surge. to the north, this is where the storm surge is and this is whirt has been bad the ente time. upwards of 18, 19, 20 inches of rain. around new bern, the morehead area, and we'll continue to sight around jacksonville, too. look at this rain band. right there, very hvy rainfall. the four inches per hour into some of these. where is th storm going? tropical storm, winds of 70 miles an hour moving west at three miles an inhour. the no, longer a huge

factor. ?ill we see some trees do yes. the structural damage is just about done as far as that storm is determined. it goes from here to here on sunday. it does not move much. and then it gets on its horse and it is out of here monday into tuesday. localtalk about the effects monday, tuesday. lauryn has that bag in the storm center. >> we're talking about a few showers throughout the weekend andda then m and tuesday. we'll have to watch the rest of the track.r model has been pretty consistent from the appalachians to the ohio valley. a lot going on mid semi. ry similar to today. expect periods of itshowers. on't be a washout. a lot of people didn't see rain. they did see some breezy conditions. that will be the name of the

game. any outdoor parties, similar to today.i n't even know if would cancel them. the redskins' home opener. a chance of showers, humid, a little breezy. any weddings, we've had people ask about that, happy light showers to make for some gorgeous pictures. the forecast for monday and tuesda h possibvy rain. and again we'll to have watch this. this will be monday and tuesday. the farther west you had from d.c., theetter chance you have of seeing some moderate to heavy rain. here in the d.c. area, "columbicolumbia maryland, coastal showers and flooding on monday and tuesday.

but there wednesday. you could see some flooding along the coast. thathe most part, a lot of may stay just to the west. we'll to have watch it to the and then we get to wednesday. looking a lot better. >> a lot betr for sure. take a look at the rain. not much. going we have some shower activity along fredericksburg.lv spotia county. it is no worse than what we've d this past weekend and that we've had every day. the wat front. toward georgetown. annapolis. saint mary's county. if you've seen flooding the last couple days, you will see it again the next coupledays. maybe a tad higher but this is not going to be a huge concern even though we have the coastal

flood warnings. cloudy is that breezy. a few showers. not a wad day. most games tomorrow should get in. baseball still a tough one. but socker and lacrosse. 81 on sunday. we're playi the redskins taking on the colts. 80 degrees monday. a good chae of rain late monday into tuesday. at least early rmesday. the s moves out. it gets rather breezy and boy, is it nice. tuesday, wednesday, thuray, friday, a little front comes through and really cools things ofsunshine. i know what i'm doing. sitting on my front porch and taking it all in.ha >> p with a refreshing beverage. >> i was going to say, lemonade. >> keep it clean. y >>'ve been watching thought coverage of florence and you may to doike you want something to help out. donating blood or platelets

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overpressurized gas lines but there is a question about what caused it. the state can take over the recovery effort. all ri st. tropicrm florence not the only major storm we're monitoring. there is the typhoon in the trics that is the strongest storm in the world this year. >> all of our oceans are active. bus the threat of tidal floodingause

we're working for you on hurricane florence. >> i has been downgraded to a tropical storm which is a good thing but it is a bit stalled. doug is back atl:00 to t you about the forecast. >> to another ocean. typhoon mangkhut is gaining speed and shiftinglightly toward more densely populated areas. a report on the massive evacuations. >> reporter: as the hurricane batters the beaches of the carolina bringing the winds and rain to the east coast, another stronger storm threatens the

other side of the world. the super typhoon known asng ut is bearing down on the philippines. the fierce storm egive tloenlt a category 5 hurricane. coastal communities are bracing for impact. >> w need to prepare for the direct physical impac of the typhoon and the consequence. >> reporter: the storm already powered through the u.s. territory of guam bringing damage and knocking out power. the band of rain clouds spans 560id milese bringing sustained wichblds 127 miles per ur and gusts nearly 160 miles per hour. forecasts warn of a devastating storm surge of up to 20 feet as it approaches the philippine >> that was a report on the most powerful storm to hit this year

there are reports political threaten taiwan, hong kong and china. coverage on tropical storm florence continues now at 6:00. damage as the slow moving system, now down graded to a tropical storm but drenching the area with rain. this could go on f days. the big concern. catastrophic flooding and the storm surge we've been warning you about. >> asloodwaters rise, five people are now reported dead. among victims, a mother and baby killed when a tree fell on to a home. >> crewsavigate water t try to get people to safety, north carolina is getting the brunt of this storm so far. communities up and down the east

ldast are affected. >> what it c mean for us next week. >>ly extreeasy. it is not moving. it is literally moving at three miles an hour. it has weakened to a tropica storm at 70 miles an hour. it came onshore. this is a 12-hour loop. it went from thest c just inland. and the big deal now has been the storm surge and the inland flooding. you notice the outer bands coming over the same areas over and over again. areas like new bern which saw ten feet of water and downtown new bern last night, they're continuing to see more storm surge and more of this heavy rainfall. how much rain has fallen? it is over a foot of rainfall. especially around the