north topsail beach. all of that expecting 9-13 feet of storm surge that means above the tide levels, 9-13 more feet. plus the waves on top of that. that is a two story building or a house on stilts, a lot of troubles ahead for all of these. the storm surge during hurricane hugo was about eight feet. this in this area, 9 to 13 feet. just on the context, hurricane katrina in south mississippi in the small town of waveland, mississippi, 28 foot storm surge. imagine that. almost three stories just wiped out all along that coast. it will be bad here, but thankfully not that bad. the power companies are reporting users are out of power. executives have said one to three million people could lose power the next few days. north carolina's lieutenant governor, dan forest is joining us from raleigh where it looks like they could get 6-8 inches of rain. how is the state holding up, the outer banks and beyond? >> we're starting to see the beginning of the storm, shep. we've been tracking this storm a week now. it st

this particular beach closed myrtle beach at 8:00. everyone had to get off the beach. there are stragglers and there is a curfew they put into place starting at 7:30 tonight until 7:30 in the morning. that could extend a little bit. here's what you should know about this area. it's from memorial day to labor day and tourist season and summer season. not here because of the climate. this can go well into november, maybe even later because of the problem here is heat. it's warm. these hotels are usually filled with people. look at this. miles and miles and only a few people here to see. as i was coming in, i saw the clouds and they tell you that something bad is brewing out there in the ocean. i saw it and i felt it. he is in carolina beach riding out the storm. what do you have for us? what are you seeing? >> we are feeling the first pulse of florence that has come through here. the first tentacle of this storm that came across and we are expecting more shortly. the next hour or so, the winds will pick up. the current conditions right now, we are seeing 30 to 35 mile pe

a few people are out on the beach. can see it's low tide here, i guess another 10, 15 yards to the expanse of this beach but just at high tide moments ago. very tiny beach here, you can see it's all coming in. we're quite a bit a ways from landfall but the outer bands are coming in. i understand my colleague diane gallagher is in newburgh and she is s-- new bern and she's seein flooding there. >> don, we have seen an increase in new bern, north carolina. we're north of you where the noose river and the pimlico sound meet. a lot of intercoastal waterways leading to the atlantic ocean. the river has gone through union point park and it's now reaching across the road past the barriers into downtown new bern at this point and, again, you pointed out, we're just now seeing these outer bands. now, we haven't had too much on the part of this severe wind here but in new bern, in craven county, the problem is not going to be the wind. the problem is going to be the water. i am standing on a road right now. and for reference, i

. >> you might be on the beach, but it is not a beach day. i am stephanie rule live in new york city with a lot going on this morning. we're going to be speak background the plea of paul manafort and a huge anniversary, the collapse of lehman brothers which started off the collapse into the great financial recession. but first, to my friend alley velshi. walk me through exactly where we are, what the state of things are in myrtle beach where you're located, but really across the region. >> yeah. well, walk is actually the right terminology because this storm is moving more slowly than i can walk it. it's moving at about 5 miles per hour. to most people, we associate these storms with the fast numbers and the big numbers so people say what's the problem with 5 miles an hour? well, the winds have dropped to 50 miles per hour. in other words, it's rotating. but the difficult is that it is moving so slowly that it is dumping this rain in some regions for more than 24 hours. if we go way up to north carolina where joe friar is they've been seeing

about two feet of sand of beach sand is now gone, and a lot of beach erosion. a lot of rebuilding already is very evident here for carolina beach. don? >> yeah, they're going to, miguel, they'll have issues when it comes to beach erosion. speaking to the spokesperson last night for myrtle beach. they said they were supposed to have a beach restoration project that was supposed to start this week. instead, this hurricane now tropical storm came through and delayed them. it was going to add hundreds of feet of beach to this area. not going to happen right now for at least a couple of weeks because of the storm. i want to get to my colleague ed lavandera in jacksonville, north carolina where he has been witnessing some of the things going on. as i understand you were out with people who were rescuing people earlier. what's happening where you are? >> right, we spent most of our day in the town of new bern which has been the focus of some of the high water rescues and people being evacuated from their homes there in that town about 300 people having to be more than

this is on the beach in myrtle beach.gns that say don't go further than that because this is where they protect the water from coming on board. they try to prevent the beach erosion. it's a serious concern. thanks craig. he's in wilmington north carolina which is inland from where hurricane florence came ashore about 7:15 yesterday mourn -- morning. >> rebecca, you have hundreds of thousands of people who sought shelter in red cross shelters. >> in south carolina we have 5500 people who sought shelter. here in south carolina it's raining a lot. there's a lot of storms and winds going on. the storm is slowly approaching. we're encouraging people to stay in doors and stay away from windows because this storm is coming. >> rebecca, we keep asking and we're hearing about people -- people are tweeting me about the indy intelligent, what about the homeless or people who don't have money to even drive or fill their tank. some of these cities set up mu n municipal shelters. what are you at in terms of capacity? >> we have room fo

check out the beach at myrtle beach. not a soul on the beach, except for maybe some media and emergency workers or police patrols coming in to make sure people stay off the beach and out of the water. this is too dangerous now to mess around with, not to mention rip currents. the entire situation when it comes to this particular hurricane. it still as last forecasted, category one hurricane, and it is sitting there, barely moving. it will dump a whole lot of water. up the beach, nick watt my colleague in north myrtle beach where he is seeing damage going on with the hurricane. nick, what have you got for us. >> the surf has gotten wilder and heavier. we're still seeing gusts of wind. that wind is what is keeping first responders in the station. they're not going to answer any calls unless it is life-threatening. i got a text from the director of public safety, he said we're lucky right now. let's hope that holds. if i was a betting man, not sure i would put money on that luck holding through the night. the storm moving 6

the beach patrol trying to get people -- that's the beach patrol getting people off of the beach here off of the beach trying to get people off. the beach is technically not closed. the water is what's closed. they don't want people going out there because the rip tides here really, really strong we've been told. so law enforcement has been patrolling, trying to get people out. they've been all over the state of north carolina, all along the carolinas as well. my colleague brian todd has been out and about this as well. he's in hampstead. i understand you're still driving around. what are you seeing? >> don, seeing worsening condition. i mean it's getting worse every few minutes. i was driving along watts landing road. we just learned a short time ago the authorities in pinder county where you are have established two triage centers. anyone out and about has a pretty decent chance of getting injured. tease are the conditions people are facing as they try -- if they try to get out of here. falling trees, falling limbs. we're going to pull over here. i'll show you some of the dangers he

we saw beach erosion, massive beach erosion along carolina beach. about two feet of sand just gone by the end of the day here. and just rain. lots and lots and lots of rain. officials say that they've fortunately not had a massive amount of ems calls or emergency calls here in the city. they have a lot of trees down. they have should roofs torn off, some walls that have collapsed. but so far they seem to have dodged a major bullet. if they can hang on tonight, tomorrow they can get into the neighborhoods and figure out where things stand. the entire city is devoid of electricity right now. most of the county is also devoid of electricity right now. there's about 128,000 people that duke electric serves in this area, and about 108,000 of them are without electricity tonight. so it's going to be a long time restoring light to normal in carolina beach, north carolina, don. >> from your position, miguel, i don't imagine you've seen it because we've been seeing these active rescues going on all day. have you witnessed anything like that? >> reporter: no.

so your areas like myrtle beach and north myrtle beach as well.to point out too, don, mike talked about part of the reason they do this is because they want to go to places where they don't have those weather stations, that they can get data. one of the other things we noticed is even the places where the weather stations exist, they've gone off line because they've lost power. so it is also very important for what he is doing because it gives us that data to know where this storm is going and get that fresh information as well. >> yeah. our meteorologist said because of the power outages some of the information they need has gone off line. they actually get the information from people like you and from your truck, and the national weather service, they use you in their reports, right? >> yes, they've used my data in the past including hurricane charlie when we recorded a barometric pressure of 942 millibars. we were the only ones that recorded that low rate in charlotte harbor. the national hurricane center will occasionally use our data. it is c

because i'm on the beach, what is the situation in myrtle beach in terms of power and downed trees and downed power lines? >> we do have some downed trees, some downed power lines. i think area-wide we are talking about maybe 55,000 customers without electricity at the moment, and that's grown over the last couple of hours. it started out at about 16,000. we have some electrical problems. i'm not aware of any significant property damage at this point, which is a good sign that this storm is not quite what we expected. all week it hasn't been quite what we expected. we are in reasonably good shape. we are hopeful by dawn tomorrow morning we can get crews out and about and survey the damage. >> all right. as michelle was saying, the storm is a little wobbly, it is hard to know exactly where it is going. there's some likelihood as we've been looking at new bern and places on the eastern side of north carolina that these winds and rain, regardless of how strong they are or weak they are, are going to hang around here for a while. this could be a problem for longer than we were expecting. >

beach erosion all the way up and down carolina beach. their beach is just gone. this is what they are dealing with now. for the last 24 hours, we have been in this storm, and it just will not stop. we were at an area today that has flooded pretty badly. the tide came in, and as the rain was coming down, the surge, that water was being pushed on shore. we had waist-high water here in carolina beach. they expect when that tide comes back in tonight around midnight that they will have that same surge, that same issue, and then there will be a test of just how this town survives this. i spoke to the city manager a short time ago. he says it may be saturday or sunday before they're able to open up the bridge so that people can get in and out of this town across the county. there is now several hundred thousand, 800,000 people without electricity. duke energy only serves about 120,000 people in the county, so almost 90,000 people in this county have no electricity. at this point it's not clear when it's going to get better. it will be well into tomorrow. we've been in

than in myrtle beach. we wanted to see what we're dealing with. this is the first time we've seen daylight today. this is the river here. this is the waccamaw river, a tributary of one of the local lakes in south carolina. and as you deal with the wind there in myrtle beach, the story here in conway is really the steady rain that's been falling which is why emergency managers are very concerned. they're doing exactly what we're doing this morning and traveling throughout the area, trying to find local flooding to see if anyone needs help, if anyone's in any dangerous type of situation. we mentioned the curfew. the 7:00 a.m. curfew that was lifted. the only cars besides our own were police vehicles going around to see if there is significant damage. we have yet to see any significant damage. the story of the day, how lucky the state got compared to north carolina. the situations, major situation that's our colleague, diane gallagher, is reporting on. terrific work all week long. this is the steadiest rain w

there was a 60-yard beautiful beach there. that beach is gone. it's come over the sand dunes now and over the road. it looks like just complete kage down the street. you can see some from the interior of houses, furniture. the houses are torn apart by the wind, shepard. >> shepard: anybody that says it's a category one storm, it can't do that much doing, it certainly can if it beats on you and beats on you for 24 hours. that's what's been happening, steve. >> yeah, there's no way in or out when you're on an island here. the police closed down the island at 8:00. no cars in or out. the danger from the wind crossing the bridge. there were police checking on breaking and entering. there were a few incidents. a lot of people choosing to monitor their houses remotely. they can see initially some looting, but then after that, some destruction. so those cameras are probably capturing rooftops of the houses beginning to get torn off but not the structures themselves, shepard. >> shepard: yeah, i've been zooming in on a map of that whole area of north top

. >> in myrtle beach, south carolina. we continue our live special coverage of now tropical storm florence. the storm that beat on and battered north carolina is now coming south. we're see thing stronger sustained winds here, although the rain has died down. this is not primarily a wind event. the problem will be the water, the rain the storm surge now 900,000 people across the kaur can linaus do not have power, most of them in north carolina, more than 780,000 there. the rest of them here the worst possible five people have now lost their lives sqand they're attributed to this storm in north carolina. we'll check in with them in a moment. we're expecting the latest advisory at the top of this hour. >> we're already see thing rainfall push water up into jacksonville. we talked about new bern all week. they were up to four feet and now -- the river north of jacksonville has risen 20 feet. this is that push up the small little rivers. we talk about two feet, three feet here, the surge, and you push that up the rivers and i

here on wrightsville beach most people heeded the warnings. many went to wilmington just over the channel on the mainland. some people have gone far in land. today, charlotte mecklenburg county schools, 200 miles in land in the city of charlotte and mecklenburg county, they canceled classes to accommodate evacuees all the way from the north carolina coast. heather: thank you so much, stay safe, we will check back with you for an update. the worst of hurricane florence may be yet to come, we heard jonathan talking about where the i will pass. we are tracking the latest on that. >> reporter: here is the eye of the storm spinning 30 miles off the coasts of wilmington. if you are talking about the coast, 30 miles from wilmington, the coast is a little closer, likely the center of circulation no more than 10 or 15 miles from the coastline. we will see the winds that are most intense, lots and lots of rain along these areas, flash flood warnings across the entire coast, the winds have been picking up and will continue to do so as the eye wall gets c

cheryl: todd piro in myrtle beach, good morning. >> good morning, guys.the area where we were we could have been trapped, nobody coming if for a while. we moved to another location that had light the power outages were following us more and more as we made our way down till we found an area, shelter, pretty windy as you can see behind me here, take a look, tropical storm warnings, tropical lancaster, lexington. showing how expansive the storm s more evidence of that, check this out, more amazing, international space station images of a wildly far-reaching storm that's going to lingering and while winds are always a concern in a hurricane, huge worry with florence in south carolina is life-threatening water. >> something else that you may not have heard before is that we may have landslides in the up state as a result of this and that's because i think it's about 7-inches of rain maybe expected in up state, so this is still a very, very dangerous storm not only on the coast but also in the interior of the state and the very unusual part is going to last ab

we have not been able to move about in these beach towns top sail beach, north top sail beach.ll of those areas that are north of wilmington, north of that area. we have not been able to move arranged there and do any assessment of damage because the authorities said, look, stay off the roads, if you can. so, through that whole area they will have to be an assessment that happens. hopefully before "special report" with bret baier this afternoon, 6:00 eastern, 5:00 central. but between now and then, we will go back to our correspondents. coming up next on fox news channel, we'll go to the fox extreme weather center to get an idea of where it is, where it's going and what it means. that's next on fnc. ♪ if you use some of these moves way too often... then you might have a common condition called dry mouth... which can be brought on by many things, like medication and medical conditions. biotène provides immediate, long lasting relief from dry mouth symptoms. it is clinically proven to soothe and moisturize a dry mouth. plus, it freshens breath. biotène. immediate and long lasting

, a beach that has been eroded. perhaps you can tell by the sand that is just blasting off the beach. more importantly, the dune and the berm eroded. that is the thing that is keeping the storm surge at bay and not having it overwash and come in to the town of carolina beach. it's already got as i'd show you on fox business, it's already got downtown flooding. but these waves as you can see right now are being fed by the storm. they're doing a good job of pushing this water in. i do think fortunately we're at low tide now, near low tide. your last guest just said, as you get passed the high tide tonight, maybe we're good. i suspect we're good. but again, i never expected we would get this kind of intensity on the back side of the storm that we're getting right now. as you know, this is up and down the coast. we're not alone. it's not catastrophic in terms of wind but it's a very strong blow and it's causing damage and potentially surge to cause further problems. neil? >> neil: thanks, jeff, very much. the winds are

chris cuomo in north myrtle beach, south carolina. chris. >> you are our future, j.b. 5,500 people without power in south carolina and nothing has happened. the winds have picked up. it is in the tropical storm or tropical depression range now. 35 or 40-mile-an-hour gusts. enough, however, to push the tide out. what should be high tide is 150 feet back from where it is. that leads back to the vice effect that you were talking about and what were you seeing there. it will be duration that is the concern. how much wetness over how much time and once the wind chwhips , how much damage. what we are seeing in new bern is a reflection of those who decided to stay behind. putting stress on the system of first responders. how many more communities will be like new bern we'll be seeing? according to the radar, we should start seeing some kind of wetness here within the hour. i'll keep you apprised of the situation, j.b. back to you. >> chris cuomo in south carolina. chris, we are starting to get the wind gusts. 90mil miles an hour and 100 mil

north myrtle beach 49.t is hitting between myrtle beach and south of florence it drifts southward. this is south of wilmington. but the slow moving nature of this and the feed are bands. you get the feared bands coming off right there. you can see it right there. that is going to give the torrential rain. the atlantic beach is right there by moorehead city. as it moves inland still category 1 and then a tropical storm. but it will take the whole weekend. and then it will move to greenville and bristol, tennessee sunday night. 40s and 50s. we had low clouds and higher clouds. so if you took the dog out, a little chill in here there, is. the low clouds were in place. they were not there yesterday. and the low clouds will come back. so we have some partly cloudies in there. and tomorrow, a little system going to swing through. i think it brings additional cooling. 50s, 60s and 70s on the temperatures today and tomorrow. >>> 7:49. sal is here and tells us this. >>> the commute is moderate. it has been very good

the sound in morehead beach. we had to get off atlantic beach.ere at morehead city, you see the water, the surge spilling into the streets. things on the docks becoming on board starting to become part of the unbelievable -- all the trees down. guys, five minutes ago on my phone i got a tornado warning. this is a buoy from one of these docks and now it's going down the middle of this street in morehead city. you see the structural damage, the infrastructure really starting to suffer greatly in this area because of the high power lines. so many of them down, trees down. roofs being torn apart. of course with the last few minutes a tornado warning in this area. the wind event here is certainly far from over and as we sit here and try and brace for these winds, the elements that took the first brunt of it before we had the lull are now getting a second punch from this but it's complicated by this surge. we're pretty much hitting close to high tide now on atlantic beach side and why this water is starting to come in and plug these streets. it is now

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

but as you mentioned with the other beach down in myrtle beach, this is pretty much deserted.here are mandatory evacuations for all of north carolina's barrier islands and the message tonight is clear. time is almost out. with sand bags fully loaded, bruce and his mom terry griffin are finishing last-minute preps on their beach house before evacuating to virginia. >> if we have all our valuables loaded up and sand bags, we've boarded up the windows already. >> reporter: but it's not the structure of this 60-year-old house they're worried about. it's the potential for life-threatening storm surge. >> the house

there is top sail beach.e think the landfill point is going to be top sail beach up toward surf city. north of the wilmington area. that's where the eye, the calmest part of the storm is going to come to shore probably in the next hour. the worst part of the storm is the eye wall that's on shore right now where they are getting the worse of the hurricane force winds. worse of the rainfall. we have had reports, of course, all morning of over 10 feet of storm surge new bern, hundreds of people having to be else are could you you had and 100 people needing rescue us. many of these people are on their homes in at least tropical storm force winds waiting to be rescued. and that's why we had the evacuations. the national hurricane center by the way did a great job of forecasting. this we are not done yet. we won't really see the damage until next week. this is going to be a flooding and surge event. a flooding and surge event. not a wind event. certainly we will see prolonged winds. it's thought about the category

which good because their beaches are south facing beaches. and all of that beach front property from which we were reporting yesterday. but we won't really know until we see that punch that florence is going to pack here on the north carolina coast. >> in oak island, north carolina. thank you. >>> now to south carolina. saying she was in the greater metropolitan area. gabe, it seems rather quitlt still where you are. talking about how it seems like projections indicate it's going slightly north. what are you seeing on the ground? >> we are expecting rain later on today. we really are seeing much wind. there's still power in this area, obviously. this is a hotel where a punch of the media is staying. myrtle beach is expecting powerful impacts from the storm, dozens of emergency vehicles ready for any rescues that may need to happen over the next several days. they're expecting more than 20 inches off rain potentially and there was a lot of concern over what could happen. the mainefects of the storm being felt in places like newburn and wilming

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myrtle beach, south carolina. this time of summer typically teeming with tourists to enjoy the last gasps of summer. thank you, gabe. be safe. i want to send it back to chris jansing with breaking news in the trial of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. hey there, chris. >> yeah. takes a lot for us to go from the amazing work you guys are doing but we have a stunning development. president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort has done what he repeatedly swore he would not do. agree do a deal. he'll cooperate with the robert mueller investigation. just a short time ago, manafort pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy against the united states, tied to money laundering, and a count of obstruction of justice. manafort is already back in jail. the white house reacting in a statement claiming this had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 presidential campaign. it is totally unrelated. nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken delanianen is in washing

getting a lot of sand down here blowing down the beach. obviously beach erosion.ast of anybody's worries at this point unless they erode the berms enough to cause overwash. we also have flooding in town already that is coming around back the other way as all the water was pushing in there. we'll continue to watch the surge though. it is coming pretty good right now, stuart. stuart: well-done, jeff. we wanted you to show people what it is like to be in the middle of a storm like that. you did a great job. we'll get back to you very shortly. on the phone with us now, gene hodges, craven county, north carolina, assistant county manager. gene, your county includes new bern and we were told earlier this morning there was serious flooding in that town and there was a rescue of over 100 people underway. is the rescue still going on? >> yes, sir. we still have quite a number of people that are actively trying to be rescued. it is north of 100. we have effected over 100 rescues already. we're doing everything we can to help these folks. we have five swift-water rescue team

this is second street, close to the beach. the beach is to my left. it is a south facing beach. hurricane start coming this way. you can start to see some toppled trees, some debris start to fly around. the good news for people here is because this storm ventured north at the very end, it looks like the beach will survive, but we still have not seen the worst of it because, as we were discussing before, once the eye passes us, the winds are going to change directions and that is where we are going to feel the brunt of it. we are feeling florence lash out. the wind, the sand, according to the weather app, the wind gusts that i'm feeling are up to 50-60 miles per hour. the good thing is, i haven't seen anybody walking around. that is good news. it is unlike other hurricanes that we have covered where you have people wandering about. here, this island under mandatory evacuation order. as you can see, it's a ghost town. people are hunkering down because this hurricane is coming and high tide is coming in two hours. i probably won't be able to do these walking shots that i'm doing no

myrtle beach is not quite as bad. heavy bands are coming for you in the next couple of hours as well. very heavy winds, still to come, very strong winds, 60, 65 miles per hour winds. at 8:30 tonight, still in wilmington, myrtle beach. it will pick up as this inches to the south and west. look at the rainfall totals. oriental, north carolina, more than 20 inches of rain. wrightsville beach has gotten more than 18. and like i said, rainfall totals could go up 6 inches or a foot in some locations, so we could have record breaking rainfall here easily. davis, north carolina had a 108 miles per hour wind gust. cape lookout, 106. rain accumulation still to come. we could pick up an additional ten inches of rain across some of these locations in north carolina and south carolina. don, it is going to determine where the bands set up, of course. the river gauges, major flood stage, moderate flood stage. we'll see records broken well inland, well away from the coast, don. >> reporter: jennifer, you said bands are coming toward

let me show you the beach here at carolina beach. these are communities that survive on their beaches. there's an 8 foot drop here. there should be 30 or 40 feet of beach there. that ocean is coming up to it. it has destroyed beaches for miles here, up and down the coach. these are communities that survive on their beaches. it will be a long time of recovery. there are trees, power lines, roofs, fences, walls, tons of small damage like that across a wide swathe of the area. authorities now trying to go through, assess everything. there's also lots of flooding in the area as well. trying to assess everything, get the power back on. you see lots of crews from duke energy. lots of emergency services operators trying to get out there, figure out who is out there, how will they survive, and what do they need, if anything, at this point. the town of carolina beach is still under evacuation order. they still haven't opened that bridge into town. can't figure out when they'll do that yet, until winds come down to get people on and off the is

and carolina beach. it may be making you feel a little more refreshed than you normally would in a storm like this. >>> kerry, it's going to be interesting -- you're still projected from the hurricane center -- right here is the red center line. it's supposed to go right over the top of where you are in wrightsville beach at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. maw be able to go through an eye even though it's a category 1. in a storm like this for you, as you know and for our viewers, if it was a category 3 or 4 we would bring you in and put you in a safe spot. category 1, if you're in a safe location, you don't have to worry as much. we may see you ride through the eye wall, throughout the eye and through the other side come tomorrow morning. >> well, i have been through two other eyes, so this would be the third eye. and just for our viewers who are wondering, because you see that big map and you see the eye, it's a very strange occurrence to be in the eye because it is so calm in that eye. depending on the s

>> not so much in myrtle beach.getting out until in the morning to do our damage assessments. we don't have a lot of people in town right now, so that hasn't been an issue. >> a curfew, as you obviously know, has been extended for the area. are people heeding that curfew? >> we have very good voluntary compliance with our curfew right now. we're happy with the percentage of people that have left the area, but, again, our concern right now is the river flooding in the inland areas outside of myrtle beach that could potential cut off access in the days to come to our city. >> so what is your advice for those people who are hunkering down in those areas right now? >> the best thing i can tell them right now is to be patient, and just be patient. this is going to take a couple of days for us to figure out. the governor has not lifted the evacuation order, so -- and we're in constant communication with our county partners and state partners in reference to that. but we just want everybody to be patient, be calm, and just

today patients were rushed out of this facility in myrtle beach. more than 1,700 medical evacuees across the state. this touching picture capturing the grueling journey to safety. >> it affects the elderly because they don't have the means to be assisted. >> reporter: edward is spending his second night at this emergency shelter. he's 83 years old and needs oxygen. >> i'm not crazy about hotels and it cost me a lot of money and i don't know how long i'll be in there. >> reporter: his daughter mary says the biggest challenge is finding somewhere that wouldn't lose power, critical for his health. >> i want to make sure my parents are okay and they are well protected. >> reporter: in katrina, 60% of deaths were people age 65 and over. last year heartbreak as harvey flooded this nursing home. after irma, a dozen elderly patients died at a facility in the stifling heat. the conway medical center is staying open and taking patients from myrtle beach. these generators can power the hospital for up to five days. >> we've been ordering for days preparing. w

the good news is right now myrtle beach appears to be spared. crews will get out here in a short while on the ground and start assessing the damage. we have not seen a whole lot of damage at this point which is good news. power is on in this area, about 160,000 without power in south carolina. one thing this happens when a storm passes through, wildlife can be displaced. some reported seeing an alligator crossing a road in a residential area which actually is quite a serious thing, can be dangerous. wildlife officials are concerned about snakes coming out of waterways if they flood. and they're very concerned about waterways, the rivers in this county flooding that they could crest in 3 to 7 days and wash out the main road coming into and out of myrtle beach, and that will cut off all supplies coming in and out. the mayor is very concerned. we have spoken with her. >> those rivers if they were to crest and flood, would it hit the area you're in? i know she's concerned about residential areas, but the commercial district as well? >> reporter: not

as you can see, the winds are not too severe here in myrtle beach, beach, and you starting to see the minor damage, and the awnings blown off of the structures and the trees down on the roads, and ali. ali, can you hear me? >>> so we obviously are having some difficulties, but let's go to garrett headacaik who is in bern. >> chris, it is a while since i had anything positive to report from new bern, but watching this debris, all of this was pushed up from the storm surge and the high tide the around 11:00 last night. that means that the water had pushed down the street forcefully enough to move this here, and we are on the high tide here on the back side of the storm, and the water is a good 70 to 80 feet down the street. what that tells me is that new bern has gotten through the worst of the storm, and we won't see the heavy rain or the heavy strong winds that they are seeing further down the coast, and we are dealing with what is likely to be the last high tide that the town is going to face while it is in the meat of the storm. and good news for new bern, and that is cold comfort f

derek van dam in carolina beach. wilmington, where i am got its average annual rainfall at the beginning of august. so a month and a half ago they already reached the normal amount of rain they get. and anow they're getting eight months of rain around here. rivers behind me are going to flood but inland going down. tonight and tomorrow is the storm surge pushing up. on the phone with me is zack whicker with the new hanover county emergency management. zack, if you can hear me give me a sense of what you're hearing tonight, how are people doing here in hanover county? >> hey, good morning. we have positive reports from our shelter locations. we've also do not have any current rescues going on. so we're very fortunate in that right now. but we will start seeing with more rainfall, we're going to see inland flooding with the projected numbers. surging also a major concern, and we want to make sure people are staying safe and staying inside. >> you have any reports yet of flooding or standing water in any of the streets

one more point here on north myrtle beach. just want to show you, dana, this is the cherry grove pier. it was completely destroyed by hurricane hugo in 1989. it was rebuilt. the end of it, the observation deck, badly damaged by floyd in 1999. they rebuilt it again. everybody hoping that the cherry grove pier, this iconic pier on north myrtle beach can survive hurricane florence. dana, back to you. >> dana: thanks, jonathan. let's bring in michael cramer. he's the town manager for carolina beach in north carolina. good to have you on the phone. how do you feel preparations have gone down there? >> honestly, i feel very prepared. we've spent quite a bit of time on drills and preparation for this type of an event. we've spent the last week or so trying to get the community prepared for this storm coming. we're feeling very good, although we're naturally very cautiously optimistic about the future. >> dana: absolutely. tell me how many people you estimate in your town have evacuated? >> about 90%. we have 6,000 residents here and

we will see what the beach flooding looks like. i went and looked at all of the predictions for the next high tide cycle which will be tomorrow morning 10:00 a.m. to noon, and we are still expecting that to be the highest water marks for the beach communities. so if people are wondering about their favorite beaches, how they're going to fare, up to this point it has been okay. we will see what the winds do in the next three to four hours and what the high tide does tomorrow morning. >> there's some benefit to having daylight. things are scarier in the middle of the nierkts and of course the last high tide cycle at 11:00 eastern time. when we come back we will be joined by telephone by the mayor of new bern, north carolina where they've got all of the storm they can handle tonight. who would have thought, who would have guessed? an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it's a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less. improving efficiency is what

one of our reporters was out on the beach in carolina beach and he says that what he was feeling at theme of the strongest winds that he has seen. that's probably exactly what you guys are feeling right now. i mean, this would be kind of a second night of these conditions for you. i mean, you've ridden out hurricanes before. how is this one different? >> well, this is -- this one's a whole lot longer. by now, usually, it's well finished and, you know, you're sweeping up things. but this is a pretty long, and i hear we're going to have another day of possibly weather like this. so, you know, extended like this, it really wears on your nerves. i can't really explain to you how stressful it starts to be and the fun sort of gets out of it. >> billy, please stay safe. really appreciate it. >> thank you. i appreciate you. >> thank you. >>> i want to get over to dianne gallagher in new bern, embedded with the north carolina national guard, i believe. what's going on right now? >> reporter: erin, we're out here with the north carolina national guard. we were on our way to a rescue. i'm sorry we

wrightsville beach included. 4 to 6 feet, myrtle beach. those barrier islands will go under wie.oming up some time late thursday morning. here are the high tides for wrightsville beach. 11.47. the worst case scenario is this system coming in just about that time, pushing the storm surge on top of the high tide. and that's the problem. rainfall. again, we're talking catastrophic flooding from this. life threatening flood conditions. all-time record rainfall's possible. look at how far inland this rainfall goes. a 10-inch band could be higher. could be 10 to 20 inches. we cannot rule out isolated -- i don't know it's going to be that isolated, of 30-inch totals or more. so -- and if this thing sits, we're going to be talking about it probably monday, tuesday, maybe wednesday. >> that's going to be the concern, the rainfall, the flooding over the weekend into early next week. all right, al roker, busy man. >>> today of course marks 17 years, 17 years, since the september 11th attack. many of the heroes who were first on the scene to help dealing with long-term health problems from t

what a difference a few days makes here at the beach.arolina beach right now being pelted with rain, winds at around 90 miles per hour remember, the eyewall of this storm is still 30 miles off the coast of wilmington. these are still considered outer bands. it's not even the heart of the storm just yet i saw some folks moving and walking to the beach grabbing sandbags earlier thinking to myself if you don't have your sandbags by now or you're just realizing how serious this storm is, it is probably on the late side to be making those kinds of preparations right now here on carolina beach i see lights on. we have power. so that's a positive sign, but there's still a lot of people in north carolina that are starting to lose their power. the latest number is almost 300,000. as you know, in these situations when power goes out it makes conditions even more threatening and dangerous. >> jackie, we understand north of you not everybody heeded the warnings to evacuate that there are more than 100 people in new bern, north carolina waiting to be

so from where we are in north myrtle beach, next is myrtle beach, all right?t as the storm moves, and she's doing so very slowly. but there's already been plenty of wind and water there softening her up. a meteorologist told me yesterday this storm is working the body. if it were a boxing match, it's working the body, soft ping you up. then when the big wind comes, those are the potential knockout punches. don lemon has been living in as a reality all day long and through the night. don, what's it like now? >> yeah. hey, chris, you're right. it's just sort of just sitting here, just punching, punching, punching at the gut and not moving. you've covered as many as these hurricanes or storm systems as i have. i don't know if i ever remember one just sitting this long and dumping so much rain for so long. you have been talking, chris, about the beach and about high tide, and you said for you where you are -- i would call it a berm, not really dunes. the water is up over that berm, and the flooding is going to start. here the beaches, we haven't quite reached high

in response to the investigation the long beach police department issued a statement saying that the use of the app would be suspended effective immediately pending further review of whether the use is consistent with the city's record retention policy and as part of the review of internal communication practices the city will be reviewing best practices and current case law. simon bozeman joins us now on sat he's an investigative reporter for al-jazeera we're also joined in san francisco by eva galperin the director of cyber security at the electronic frontier foundation and in los angeles by mohammed taps are national security staff attorney at the american civil liberties union that's the a.c.l.u. of southern california welcome to the stream everyone now simon as we saw in your piece there are your basic ation has had immediate fallout and has led to more investigations which we will get into today questioning who should use these self deleting messaging apps before we get into it though i want to go to eva for a breakdown some of the terminology we're going to get into today clar

beach erosion, i talked to the deputy mayor of wrightsville beach two days ago.illion tons of sand. it's been four or five million dollars on sand for wrightsville beach. the deputy mayor saying they were fully prepared to redo t t that. they're expecting high tide on 11:00. wilmington nestled between cape fear. we have the atlantic ocean on the other side, the mayor of wilmington telling me a short time ago that there is concern in low-lying areas especially that they were going to see flooding. they see flooding in wilmington after a bad rain storm so when you start talking about 24 hours of persistent rain, they are prepared to have serious problems with regards to the flooding. that half million figure you guys have been talking about without power, the lion's share of those people in north carolina, 200,000 of those in and around wilmington as well. they are expecting to be in the dark here in wilmington for some tim time. >> a new track happens around 11:00. >> it basically parallels the coast inland so it doesn't take it offshore. it's moving west/southwes

this is where we go anywhere from topsail beach to emerald isle to atlantic beach to morehead beach.because they are flood warnings. i can't get them off. john, what you have going for you is the eyewall itself. here is the eye. right there. you are on the worst part of it right now. eyewall coming your way. surf city, you are in it now. we are beginning to push water toward atlantic beach and over top of the islands. we are over washing the barrier islands. that is water in the back bay and water flooding places that are not on the water. you are on the bay side, but not on the ocean. you never expected water to get that far in. you are right here in wilmington location. that is -- i'll try to make this bigger. it will be jumpy. that's live. there you go. here is wilmington. that's where you are right there. under that white spot right there. right there. the wind coming around and coming around will get stronger before it finally stops. surf city. topsail beach. you are almost into the eye itself. don't go outside and look for it. even if the winds die done, don't go outside. there

blackwell in myrtle beach. what are you experiencing now?in wrind still coming here but we've learned from meteorologist chad meyers that the worst of the wind for at least myrtle beach is style come and rain is coming the next few hours. but we just got this in from my team in washington. president trump has now apruchbed a declaration, an emergency declaration for eight counties in north carolina. this will help with assistance for repairs and small businesses who have been impacted by florence. so that's good news for them. we'll see if that's extended to other counties. and what they seen. i've on the phone with us now, mayor of myrtle beach, south carolina. madam mayor, good to speak with you this morning and your assessment of how your city has faired in the storm thus far? >> good morning. at first glance it looks like myrtle beach faired pretty well so far. we're doing damage assessment starting this morning. we have crews on the road right now. but very little from what we can tell. the thing we're most concerned about is the floodi

in two thousand and fifteen long beach police were the fifth most murderous billions of residents tax dollars have been spanked covering up their systemic abuse of those cases need to be reopened investigation of their tiger takes used to discard evidence is merely an affirmation for why we want our tax dollars better spent in long beach so mohammad while don may not have been surprised some of our community members are this is one person who tweeted in wait why are police departments using self deleting apps isn't that a violation of the freedom of information act and as a public servants are they required to preserve any and all communications. that's exactly right i think the. our principal problem they feel you with what the city of long beach was doing was that the use of these applications violates basic records preservation rules that ensure that the public has access to important records and information about how the governments function and these rules exist across the united states and are designed to provide a basic accountability mechanism for what the government is doing

victor blackwell in myrtle beach right now.t of different weather already just in the last hour, hour and a half. >> reporter: yeah. a mix of wind and rain. add a little more one, take a little less of the other. that's what we've been seeing for the last 90 minutes. sunrise expected at the top of the hour. i want to focus on north carolina. the governor there, roy cooper, said the storm is relentless. they've been going through this for days now. and there will be days more of this even after the rain and wind degrees down. there will be major flooding across north carolina. the water is coming here to south carolina. i want to talk to skippy winter along carolina beach, a community being cut off because of the bridge into and out of the community, it's inaccessible because of the wind. skippy, good morning you to. i understand the community lost power but you have a generator. how are you holding up? >> caller: we're holding up fine. just sitting here hanging out. >> reporter: just hanging out in the middle of a tropical stor