want to stay off that, away from the coast, listen to the mandatory evacuati evacuations, 25 coastal adjo adjoining counties in the state of emergency. let's go to alina machado in stormy wrightsville beach, north carolina. you're there and we look at it and a lot of people say that doesn't look like a hurricane. we know all the way up here in new york from sandy, these things come fast and they come strong. are people there taking the storm seriously enough? >> yeah, poppy. we've been talking to people around here, people who are staying here on vacation this week and there is some anxiety among some of the tourists, people who are not used to hurricanes and even among some of the locals. the bottom line is that right now, we're in a break, but earlier today we saw one of those rain bands come through and we saw very heavy downpours, lots of wind and things change very quickly. you can see the surf as well. just take a look. nobody's really in the water. there's maybe a handful of people. they should not be in there. we've been hearing from officials, they want to keep people out of the