but for more on this storm strength, where it's going and how powerful it is, our meteorologist bill karinss here to start us off the top of the hour. hey, bill. >> good morning once again. what a long friday this is going to be. 24 hours of hurricanes-type gusts all the way through the wilmington area, moore head city area. we're getting the brunt of it right now. here's the center of the storm. we just had a new burst of thunderstorms on the western edge of the storm. you can see those bright thunderstorm bands, that's the heavy pry sip tags we're seeing with the radar beam shooting it. this is where some of the strongest winds will be and that's starting to creep into surf city. i'm sure if anyone's still in this area from surf city to wilmington, you're noticing that things are picking up. it's closing in on you and some of those stronger winds are arriving. we've been in it all day long in the moore head city area and he with continue in carter county. that's where 2003 continue to see some of the worst problems. >>> let's go over here. i want to show you some of the current wind gusts

in all to bill karins, to mayor bill saffo and to tammy leitner. we'll be going back to bill for an update on the storm before we go off the air tonight. but on we must go. today 601 as we said of the trump administration as the white house prepares to deal with this storm, after already awarding itself high marks for dealing with this storm. there are mounting questions, of course, about the president's performance. bob woodward's in-depth look at the trump presidency so far describes incidents that have raised new concerns about the west wing. it's just been out since yesterday. publisher simon & schuster says sales of this book have reached 750,000 copies by the close of business on tuesday. the first day of release. earlier on this network bob woodward described some of the concerns among the people around this president. >> people closest to him do not trust him. and the impulse-driven presidency is something the more people know the more they realize we're at risk. what matters to people is the performance as president. and when you dig into

. >> this is meteorologist bill karins here with msnbc. i saw that the water level in new bern is starting to recede. it is still above ten feet so still problems ongoing. always we look ahead to the next high tide cycle which is around 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, what areas are you targeting? as of now, the beach and coastal communities have done okay. it has been the pamlico sound areas. what areas are you concerned on the coast once the winds shift? >> there are areas that have been impacted by the storm surge. it is not going to relax very much and the tidal impacts are pretty minimal for those portions of the pamlico sound because it is not going to allow it to go back out through the inlets on the east. for the ocean side, we're worried about what is going on, especially on the eastern and south-facing beaches of carteret and in the outer bank areas, but though areas are still in -- i believe we're going with seven to 11-foot of storm surge possible. as the storm meanders slowly to the west and southwest, the strongest part of the w

it brings with it up to 40 inches of rain in some areas. >> bill karins is with us.ng? >> we can see where the eye is located and the structure of the eye. you can see the outer bands right here is where we start to get the tropical storm force winds. that's when people start to lose power. right now we just got some spotty showers. here is the eye right here. this is what you want to avoid. this is where the highest winds will be. we'll track that as it moves toward the coast today. the path takes it over the top of wilmington in roughly 24 hours. problems are on the coastal areas from wilmington to surf city to moore head city. from sunset tonight to sunset friday is when i think the peak of the winds, the storm surge and the damage will be done. >>> former trump campaign aide george pop d george papadopoulos suggested that he may have been set up by western intelligence officials seeking to incriminate the trump campaign. democrats on both the house and senate have expressed interest in hearing from papadopoulos. >>> with less than two months until the midterms, p

. >>> and bill karins is here with some weather news. good morning. >> still watchingla the flood threat. just added some areas of ohio. now up to 15 million people at s we gor flash flooding through the weekend. the heaviest rain today will be areas of arkansas, missouri into sarday. the heavy rain goes into illinois into indiana. we'll see some rain in the mid-atlantic and some thunderstorms lingering in areas of texas.im by the we get to sunday the heavy rain threat shifts into ohio, western pnsylvania and to areas of buffalo. sogh it's kind of tht of gordon along with the cold front and that's going to be a recipe for some flooding concerns.oo that's a at the big weather story of the day. here's a closer look at your day ahead. well, we do have some beautiful weather to be had in the northern rockies, northern plains, but there's all that heavy rain today from reas of southern kansas through missouri into illinois. eventually we'll still have a ch tce at some stormsay from west virginia all the way through virginia in the mid-atlanti

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our meteorologist bill karins here with us in the studio and at the board to start us off. hey, bill. >> good evening, brian. i was just able to quickly go look at some of the 11:00 p.m. advisory. obviously the headline is it comes down to a category 1. great news for anyone that was worried about wind damage, has very little effect on storm surge. there was already a ten-foot storm surge reported near moore head city by the cherry point terminal, the ferry that goes there out to the island. so that's nothing to sneeze at. we already have a 7-foot water rise that's been reported and the noose river near the new burn area where a considerable portion of the downtown is under water. there is a report the police had to relocate to the hospital which is a little further inland. so there are serious problems ongoing already because of the water that is accumulating on the coast. remember, we still have a good 60 to 80 miles to go until we get on shore with this thing, too. so this is just a slow-motion disaster. and the water is the huge concern here. so, the center of the storm,

what's going to happen over the next crucial hours, we're joined now live by nbc meteorologist bill karins, thank you very much for being here tonight. i'm looking forward to you getting us up to speed. >> yeah, good evening. and speed is the whole key word. this is a drift, a jog, a walk. this is the long duration period of the storm where we have a slow-moving, strong hurricane inching towards the north carolina coast. it's going to take about 36 hours to finally get completely inland and for the destruction to stop, and then we still have to deal with the rainfall and the rivers right through the weekend, anyways. currently the storm is located due south of about morehead city, atlantic beach, the beaufort area of north carolina. you can see the outstandinger bands. we've seen significant gusts inland. already one spot around atlantic beach around where my fingerer is located here already reported a foot of rain, and we've just begun the storm. that's why someone could get three, maybe four feet of rain. how about this buoy near the center of the storm? just had a wind gust to 112 miles

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>>> and bill karins is tracking this storm. >> two days left for preparation. still a category four. the rapid intensification has stopped for a while at least. four or five as it approaches over the next two days, then it should weaken slightly right before landfall. they have 150-mile-per-hour winds wednesday evening. thursday evening, hurricane has it at about 140. our greatest concern is from camp lejeune, jacksonville, morehead city, cape hatteras and inland areas, like newburgh. and the rainfall could be excessive, the tar river and the moose river which had horrendous flooding in 1999. feet of rain if it does stall out in this region. our american model and european model, everything is getting more narrowed down. both are targeting eastern north carolina. from myrtle beach to cape hatteras are the greatest areas of concern for now. >>> the white house is struggling to turn the page past the controversy stirred up by bob woodward's new book which hit shelves today. the veteran journalist defended his book, accusing president trump of waging war on truth.

let's go right to bill karins with the storm's track, timing. any changes, bill?changes overnight, especially with the stall and maybe going not just stalling but now drifting down the south carolina coastline. big implications for areas like charleston and myrtle beach, georgetown. we still know myrtle beach to wilmington that's the areas that's going to be hit the hardest. right now 130 mile per hour winds, still a category 4, still has a well-defined eye. it's moving quickly, 17 miles per hour towards the north carolina coast, about 500 to 550 miles away, here is where it stalls, it races towards the coast in the next 36 hours, hits the brakes friday morning, all day friday it's going to be lashing the coast, high winds, high waves, torrential rainfall and then it will slowly weaken as it drifts possibly over myrtle beach and into georgetown. because of the area that's going to be hit the hardest, that initial when it gets closest to the coast, we don't even know if we will get an official landfall or not, the storm surge 9 to 13 feet writesville beach, that wi

. >> bill karins is here tracking gordon. what else can we expect? >> the winds are no longer much of a concern. down to 40 miles n per hour, going to see more wind damage. we will see a chance of an isolated tornado, winds to watch. the rain slo ty moves towar northwest as we go throughout the next three days. flash flood warnings continue from jackson, alabama through pensacola. flash flo risk into areas of arkansas. additional rainfall the next three days, many areas have a tednce of 3 inches, iso areas could get 5 inches including southern areas of arkansas. we have rainfall concerns. the storm surge and the wind concerns are now diminishing. >> all right, good news there, bi. thank you,ir. >>> bob wood wards sploes. new book fear is gripping the white house. president trum unloading overnight on the legendary washington post journalist mous for breaking the watergate scandal. the president claimed in a tweee incendiarys attributed to mattis and kelly were, quote, made up frauds, a con on thepu ic. wood wards responded by saying, i stand by my re

let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning.ntinue to watch the heavy rain now from florence or what was florence moving through the northeast. overnight we had flooding on highway 79 in the southern tier of new york. we had a water rescue overnight because of florence in southern new york. we had a lot of heavy rain in the baltimore area. you're still under a flash flood watch and we'll still having areas all the way to boston and providence with 23 million people under flash flood watches. it's pouring right now around albany and schenectady and troy. these are the thunderstorms that rolled through baltimore, then they head eed through philadelphia. if you're on the i-95 corridor through upstate new york, definitely bring the umbrella and be prepared for slow commutes. here's the rainfall forecast. some of the heaviest rain will be in the southern mountains of new hampshire and the higher terrain. providence possibly two inches. other areas that we could see some airport delays, chicago and minneapolis. this is the beginning o

. >>> let's get a check on the weather with bill karins.racking some flooding in the ohio valley this morning. >> yes, the big concern heading through the weekend will be flash flooding. i know a lot of people want to talk about florence and how it could impact the east coast, i will get back to that in the next half hour. what was left of tropical storm gordon and a depression still spinning over arkansas with heavier rains to the south here. there's a stalled front in the middle of the country and the combination of the two will lead to heavy rain. the worst of it is arkansas, missouri, illinois, indiana and into ohio, a portion of west virginia and northern virginia is under a flash flood watch. here is how much rain will fall. so the chart here shows you the green is one inch, two inches the blue. when you get to the red, that's five inches of rain. the pink is seven inches of rain. the bulls eye is between st. louis and indianapolis, a possibility of getting a widespread seven to eight or nine in total. when you get this much rain in t

. >>> okay, bill karins. take it away. >> we'd need like 2,000 million characters.oding, we updated you earlier in the show. it's still ongoing. it was a week ago today that the rain from florence arrived in north carolina. many rivers are still in major flood stage, but a lot of them are beginning to crest and are coming down slowly. over the weekend they do get dry weather in this area. that's a little piece of good news. overnight flooding and han has been -- rain has been a problem in northern iowa and southern minnesota. this is the worst weather in the country by far today here in the northern plains. not only are you getting the heavy rain and the thunderstorms, but you're going to get round two later this afternoon and this evening. we have an enhanced risk of severe weather. this does mean we have a chance of a few tornados today. watch out in lacrosse to rochester. tomorrow, we're going to bring this threat all the way to the east. looks like the northeast will have a chance of strong storms. about 26 million people at risk from ohio all the way through no

i want to go back to bill karins. bill, first of all, i'm getting gusted of wind here. if you look at the surf behind me, it's not much. we're about an hour and a half from high tide over here. but then suddenly a gust, a band will come through. and then i just heard fema saying that a place like columbia, south carolina, is going to feel the effects of whatever is left of the storm overnight saturday into sunday morning. so this thing is moving more slowly than i could walk. >> you probably could keep up with it. by the time you got to sunday, you'd probably be there at the same time. your wind gusts currently at the myrtle beach airport, just went to 45-mile-per-hour gusts. as soon as we get to the 50-mile-per-hour range, that's when you can get winds strong enough to knock down trees and branches and power lines. the buoy just hit 63 mi 63-mile-per-hour gusts. so the 50s are not too far away from you. that was one of the highest wind totals we've seen anywhere as the storm was close to the coastline. and further up the coast, we've lost a lot of our gauges here. they

bill karins, thank you so much. let's go down to wilmington. we heard what bill said wilmington is experiencing mgt experiencing the first bands in wilmington, take it away, craig. >> reporter: we are experiencing them indeed, chuck. one point ever clarify kapgs. i heard bill's report. i spent the last 30, 45 minutes or so with the mayor of wilmington and the power outages have started here. roughly 11,000 homes are without power right now in wilmington, north carolina. the mayor telling me he fully expects that number will approach somewhere near 100%. they fully expect that virtually all of the homes here in wilmington will lose power. upper left-hand portion of your screen there's a new graphic and it's connected to this wind monitoring contraption that we have at nbc for this storm. so far we have not seen, we have not seen it get north of i'd say 25 right now. we should also point out that we are being blocked by a building here, so right now it looks like it's reading somewhere close to -- per hour. there are parts of north carolina as you

nbc news meteorologist bill karins joins me now with the latest. bill, how are things looking? >> we're halfway through the marathon. that's sad. we're through 75%, 80% of the part where the winds will do the damage. now the rain, through wednesday of next week. here's the storm walking itself across the border from north carolina into south carolina. and the poor people up here in carter county and craven county areas, new bern, the story last night with all the water rescues. but this feeder band has been over them for 24 straight hours. they can't believe how much rain has been falling. they're under a flash flood emergency. we've had reports of almost 24 inches of rain already and it is still pouring. so for that reason the map here shown in red is where we have flood warnings. we have flood emergencies in place. and that's almost the entire eastern half of north carolina. and we'll watch those rivers coming up. we don't care too much more about the winds. they're not going to do more damage. the path, it's moving to the west a little bit and then flooding threats to areas

i want to go to bill karins, who is tracking this thing. bill, the when, the where, the what. lay it out. >> we had changes and huge impacts for norfolk, virginia beach, richmond, raleigh, greens borrow, the north of that, central virginia, your forecast improved dramatically overnight because of this stall and hook and possible bend toward north carolina. worse forecast for myrtle beach, georgetown. you are going to get nailed. you are not going to avoid it. the area that gets hit the hardest, you will see it blowing through friday and saturday morning is from the bald head island area through new hanover county, jacksonville, wrightsville beach and through carter where we are talking emerald isle to atlantic beach. that's where the storm surge is going to be and the strongest winds. the storm will weaken itself out and talk about the problems with the mountains in western north carolina and south carolina and north georgia could get additional flooding concerns there. the most life threatening thing is water. with the storm surge that could last multiple high tide cycles. if

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we'll hear more from bill karins in the 11th hour with brian williams.> the breaking news we're covering tonight, a storm en route that would test any presidency. with this president assuring the american people we are ready while his fema commanders fear what they call a mike tyson punch. we're live in the carolinas with the latest. >>> plus the president being described as shifting into a kind of salvation mode, readying himself for the worst if democrats indeed take control of congress. >>> and a man who knows the independent counsel business, ken starr, has been there and done that. and tonight we get his take on the mueller operation as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night.

for the very latest on the storm, let's bring in meteorologist, bill karins.making land fall and the immediate 24 hours afterwards? >> there's a chance it doesn't even make land fall until saturday. we are expecting the stall. it could stall on the coast or off the coast. so i'm not going to focus too much on the actual land fall. this is going to be a major hurricane that is going to literally stall for 46 to 48 hours over myrtle beach and willeming stn. and the effects of that and the shift has gone further to the south means this forecast has improved northward, virginia beach, hampton roads area to richmond, raleigh. the forecast is much better for you today than it was 24 hours ago. but that means bad news for areas further to the south. myrtle beach has gotten worse, from florence to dillen. fayette vill. and now we're starting to talk about charleston dealing with heavy rainfall and a little bit of a storm surge too. the element of the storm, the surge, then we'll get the wind and then we'll have the rainfall. so for the surge, the worst will be north o

and back with us tonight as he was for our live coverage last night, meteorologist bill karins. hey, bill. >> good evening, brian. we're maybe halfway through this story. it's absolutely incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland and we are like how bad was it. we are starting to see the pictures of damage from the surge and the winds. now we have to get through water issues with the rainfall. they will last until the middle of next week. there will be new homes going underwater on tuesday of next week as the rivers continue to rise. and all that water flows down toward the coast. there are pictures from when we had the surge problems. the worse of it the neuse river, the trent river all the way up into areas even washington had some problems too on the tar river. the new burn area. they were having people volunteering to line up and bring boats in to help people. at one point they had 150 people on a waiting list to get rescued. the storm continues to spin. the emerald isle, this band has been pounding them relentlessly for about 36 hours now. that is where the two

bill karins.hank you very much. >> let's introduce our panels, i believe you are an alabama fan, right? elise jordan. >> i am 30 minutes away from home. >> we brought you home elise. eddie glaud is with us and mike barnicle is with us on wellington road and wily has the top political story this morning. >> hold on. eddie, another mississippi guy. >> which by the way, speaking of hurricanes, we would come over from pensacola for about everyday africa trinter katrina you feel for the people. >> absolutely. >> it is frightening. >> like you, i have lived through three others. it is a horroring experience. >> this one looks like it is going to set up shops over the weekend. >> the flooding going through and not reaching its peak until tuesday. sometimes we get to the category system and you wake up thinking it is cat one and it is not the case as all. >> the power of water. >> yeah. >> and eddie, it appears that i have three choices of mississippi jersey to wear. >> i think you look nice. >> i picked

let's turn to bill karins to find out the latest. bill, you're the expert. what's coming? >> look at garrett and we all have the lights on him later on, about midnight tonight. the high tide of the noose river there is going to be about 30 minutes past midnight. the water level there is expected to be three to four feet higher than where he's standing right now. think how close that water will be to going in those homes. there's a picture of the beautiful homes there. that water in the road is going to go up about three or four feet additionally. that will be into the first floor level of those homes there. that's one of the big concerns there on the noose river basin, the trent river, the river bend area there. i lived in new bern for a couple years. i was standing there when bertha hit. it's already at those height levels. tomorrow we're going to do it again at the morning high tide 12 hours later. so let me get into the latest with the storm. still a category 2. it's been wobbling around a little bit here. we're stuck in this outer band with tropical storm force winds.

. >>> let's switch gears here and get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins.will be a slow morning in the northeast with the rain moving through. we've got severe weather to worry about and a lot of stuff going on. we also have this little thing spins off the coast here. of course, we still have ongoing flooding in areas of south korea. there are still homes underwater that people can't get back to. it's been ten days since florence. this is a soaking rain that's in new york, the entire state of pennsylvania, still raining in west virginia and still rain through tennessee. this is 98l. this one was leslie, this is kirk out here in the open atlantic. these are not any issues at all. the hurricane center says this one labeled 98l and found it could have a 50% chance of development. but the path takes it northward and away from the east coast. the other story today, there's enough heat that's going to build up for some severe storms. 43 million people from chicago to st. louis to indianapolis and later this evening detroit and cleveland at risk of severe storms.

let's turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> it's going to take a while.g time for it to gather and head to the big rivers and head out to sea. most of the damage has been done with this storm. i'd say maybe 90-95%. there are still areas that will see new flooding concerns and new flash flooding too. here's how it went in north carolina. swa swansboro had almost three feet. we set rainfall records for landfall and tropical system in south carolina and north carolina. never in recording history have those two states seen this much water from any one storm. we still have the tail of the storm with thunderstorms in north carolina this morning. the heaviest rains are out of the flood zone, but we still have a little bit of problems to the north. any time you get rainfall in the mountains, it doesn't take much to get flash flooding. roanoke is under a flash flood warning this morning. all of these red counties are all flash flood warnings that continue. that equals about 5 million people. because the storm is heading north, it still has a lot of moisture. we ha

. >>> let's get a check of our forecast with bill karins.ow quickly is it going to get cold >> this weekend we clicked into fall and now it's cooled off dramatically especially in new england along the i-95 corridor. it was a cloudy weekend. the clouds continue around philadelphia back here to the west, we have a lot of rain this morning in tennessee and kentucky this is the same storm system that soaked dallas with over eight inches of rain this weekend. today's flash flood threat is in areas of tennessee the red or maroon color is a moderate risk along the kentucky area and southern ohio we could see enough rain to give us some problems we have 7 million people under flash flood watches today from tennessee, through kentucky and areas of west virginia the rainfall totals, the blue is one inch of rain that's a good soaking rain and then that's today. then tonight it pushes into pennsylvania tomorrow it moves all through portions of new england and the northeast. about 1-2 inches pretty much widespread, a soaking rain on tuesday. airports wi

. >>> nbc news meteorologist bill karins is back with us. bill, what's the latest?ll, we're waiting for the 11:00 p.m. advisory come in from the national hurricane center. get a track, see how slowly the storm is moving and how long it will take to get out of here. just starting to see some of the new information. sometimes our computers update when they start getting the new information in. the first thing we picked up on is that the category 1 at the current time, we've gone from a category 2 to category 1. just trying to get the confirmation from the public advisory on that. right now i have the forecast advisory came out first. so that you will really means, again, the wind with this storm was never going to be the huge headline-making storm. once we knew it wasn't going to be a cat-4 which three days ago we thought we would see a cat-4 land call. once we knew that wasn't going to happen, we knew it was going to be a water story as far as the storm surge and the rainfall. so i don't want to even pay too much attention to that because a lot of the problems with t

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. >> bill karins, we'll check back with you a little bit later on. >> cal perry is driving around northarolina. they expect 28 inches of rain in wilmington, north carolina. the cape fear river there on the west, the atlantic ocean on the east. how does the weather vary as we get from one to the other? >> reporter: it totally varies by geography. as you follow that river to the north, you get to a more rural area north of the airport. then along the coast, moving from topsail beach, the further north that you get the worse it is because the storm is just stalled in wilmington. downtown wilmington is starting to see increased winds just varying above that hurricane force. the other thing we're going to be looking at is as this storm slows down, it's just going to hover over this area for up to 48 hours. if you're in a position of vulnerability or without power, it's quite likely you're going to be in that situation for a day or two. it's really the length of the storm and the time the storm is going to spend over wilmington that's quickly becoming the story in addition to that storm surge

manychievements under his belt, including the winningest mlb pitcher, >>> andmeteorologist bill karins. >> we vecold front that's going to sliels through the ohio valley and great lakes. mostly the wind damage is the biggest thing with these storms. low risk for large hail. that's the chicago, st. louis detroit area and that cold front will come through the northeast. so that means the airports could have delays and boston as we gog tloout the eve now here's a closer look at your day ahead. >>> well, today we're going to s and thunderstorms also. a l of tropical moisture heading up from the gulf and there's a chance of strong thunderstorms today in iowgh right thrllinois and indiana. and rohind that we're going to see temperatures drop in a little bit. >>> this is a bazar story. it involves an argument over a bruno mars song and ended in violence between two life-long friends. allegedly hitting his friend with a loaded gun and firing a shot when it turned physical. they could not agree that the song they were singing to was by bruno mars. he got pistol-whipped becausetia swram. >> and

we are in new bern, bill karins is here. what are you seeing with respect to rescues? of the storm surge was midnight at ten feet. the water level dropped to six feet above where it should be. it's still extraordinarily high. we have a ton of water in place. we have homes with water surrounding them and we also continue to watch the problems there with the wind and the rain. garrett, i know you are near the national guard trucks. give us the latest. >> hey, bill, yeah, we are watching the national guardsmen. they are going block by block, house by house, peeking in windows, making sure no one gets left behind. the water depth is hit or miss. in some places over my knee. in some places you can walk down the street in flip-flops. folks have gotten trapped in neighborhoods like this, surrounded by water in the low lying areas and by the river, which is a few blocks back behind the camera position. they have found folks who have been here for various reasons. they have pets. they have elderly neighbors. i talked to a man who has been here 30 years, thought he was going to

let's go to bill karins with the latest. where the the storm right now and where are we expecting it to make landfall? >> we're getting the breaking news stories from this storm. i was saying all along it was from sunset today to sunset tomorrow that a majority of the damage is going to be done from this storm. we're hearing reports that the abc station, newbern area is evacuating. pamlico sound, the winds have been coming out of the east all day long. they're piling the water up. the storm surge is coming in. there's a lot of flooding problems in the newbern area and all the little water inlets and on the neuse river basin. that's a developing story. there will be dozens if not hundreds of water rescues that will have to take place. high tide isn't until midnight. we're at a category 2. one development we just saw, so here, about 20 miles off the coast we just had one of our bouys that had a wind gust of 112 miles per hour with the outer eye. in about five to about eight hours from now those winds will be moving on short of

. >>> bill karins is here with our friday forect. >> good morning. problematic for areas around new york city atr rugsz hd southern new england. d.c. about to exit. and now about to arrive over the top of new york city.ll we save a flood risk. we have a couple rive.flood warnin our computers are really targeting new york city and from providence south down towards the cape with as much as two inches of rain right during the morning commute. plan that accordingly. now he's rr a closer look at your day ahead. so the temperatures are continuing to tumble in the northern plains. a high of 57 degrees. we're going to end up with one evof our warmest september. and thunderstorms through the southeast. weekend forecast can does show great improvement for a few areas. >>> the018 ryder cup is officially underway with the openi opening ceremony kicking things off. d looking like a super bowl lf time show, team u.s.a. still searching for their first n on foreign soil since 1983. you can follow all of the live action right now only on the golf channel. >>> just a

. >>> bill karins is here with our friday forecast. >> good morning. problematic for areas around new york city at rugsz hour and so d.c. about to exit. anow we still have a flood risk. we have a couple river flood warnings. our computers are really targeting new york city and from providence south down towards the cape with as much as two inches of rain right during the morning commute. going to end up with one of our warmest septembers ever. and thunderstorms through the southeast. weekend forecast can does show great improvement for a few areas. >>> the 2018er officially underway with the openi openinger and looking like a super bowl half time show, team.a searchin win on foreign soil since 1983. you can follow all of the live action right now only on the golf channel. >>> just ahead a jolt for tesla's ceo. why they're suing. and your sister-in-law's... tennis partner's... chatty coworker's... youngest daughter's... entire judo class. one shot can make a world of difference. walgreens has specially trained pharmacists, that know which flu shot is ri

. >>> nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with an update. good morning, bill. >> good morning. all our weather problems today are now in the midwest. we're getting soaked with just a ton of rain and thunderstorms, and we have flash flood problems in this area and even some flash flood warnings near iowa falls and just north of dubuque. the heaviest rain will be as we go through this morning. then another round later this afternoon and evening. 6 million people at risk. even a few tornadoes. then tomorrow we the severe weather threat into the northeast with 26 million peoplu have to go all the way up to north dakota today. high only in the 50s. and a look ahead at the weekend forecast coming up. >> that's what we like to hear, bill. thank you. >>> to the diamond now where jason kipnis just lived every baseball player's backyard dream as a kid. bottom of the ninth, indians down one against the white sox. bases loaded. ian hamilton throws one to kipnis right over the middle, and he whacks it dead right center out of the park. that was a walk-off grand slam. not only gave his team

let's turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. i know you're looking still at the carolinas. a lot of threat of flooding still. >> still raining near wilmington for 16 million people. flash flood warnings include 5 million people, go from wilmington all the way to very s weather and rain conditions and flooding conditions that exist. now, s continue now in areas of eastern north carolina. look at these thunderstorms now rolling up here through the raleigh area and also splitting fayetteville. we still have additional rains, but this should be the tail end of it as we go through this morning. then the rain finally moves to the north during the day today, and you're going to get soaked tomorrow from the catskills all the way through the berkshires where we could see two to three inches of rainfall in a short amount of time. maybe some additional flash kuip a little cooler today from washington, d.c. to richmond to roanoke. we'll be done with lawrence not until wednesday when all the rain will finally be off the east coast. >> those rivers are cresting. >> some of them won't pea

. >>> and bill karins is here with some weather news. good morning. >> still watching the flash flood threat. just added some areas of ohio. now up to 15 million people at risk for flash flooding as we go through the weekend. the heaviest rain today will be areas of arkansas, missouri into saturday. the heavy rain goes into illinois into indiana. we'll see some rain in the mid-atlantic and some thunderstorms lingering in areas of texas. by the time we get to sunday the heavy rain threat shifts into ohio, western pennsylvania and up to areas of buffalo. so it's kind of the ghost of gordon along with the cold front and that's going to be a recipe ally we'll still have a chance at some storms today from west virginia all the way through virginia in the mid-atlantic. when we come back, we'll talk about florence, which could be a problem along the east coast next week. >> see you in a bit. thanks, bill. >>> two young boys in maine had a reunion for the books this week. >> there's someone here to see you. >> hi, jake. >> master sergeant daniel

." >>> all right, let's get a check of our weather now and turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. i'm really hoping the carolinas can get a break here soon. >> it startedniago from this st still raining in some spots. we still have flash flood warnings all the way from south carolina through north carolina, up into the mountains of virginia now. and now, because the storm's heading north, we have flash flood watches up through washington, d.c., and then through new england, so still have two more days of this mess. and we still have a couple areas of heavy rain in the eastern north carolina. this will be the end of it today, then we'll watch the mountainous areas get in the worst of it this afternoon and this evening. so, any time you get heavy rain in the mountains, it could be a problem, including the appalachians through central pennsylvania. then we'll try to bring some of those issues into new england come tomorrow. rainfall totals, we're just about done. i mean, we've almost hit 36 inches in swansboro, north carolina. that was the highest rainfall total. maybe another inch,

. >>> let's turn now to nbc meteorologist bill karins to see what's in store for the hope you had a wonderful weekend. over the weekend, heaviest rains were in the dallas area, 8 inches of rain. now we've shifted that focus through kentucky, who had some flash flooding yesterday, all because of this slow-moving storm and the surge of moisture coming off the gulf. so the worst weather this morning is around the nashville area, heading up through lexington, louisville and right into nashville. as far as the flash flood risk, a moderate risk. grounds are already saturated. we'll get a couple inches of rain on top of this, and that's why about 7 million people are under flash flood watches this morning, from nashville, including louisville, lexington and cincinnati. that's one of the areas of great concern. and tomorrow the heavy rain threat will move up into the northeast, so we'll getir the f to summer easily. rmestir in the country focused in the deserts. 104 today. week ahead forecast going to feature more dry weather in the west. not quite getting to the rainy season yet. >> all right, bill,

. >> we want to turn to meteorologist bill karins who is track thing storm. certainly the concern is very much still there. >> that's where all the damage, all the destruction has been. this was sentute couple hours ago by the city of newburn to show where the water levels were. the water is supposed to flow down the river the trent river comes into it like this and all of this is supposed to head down to the south but this was not allowed to happen. all the storm surge the wind were forcing up the nuse river it went from looking like this to like this. that's how far inland the river went and so all of these little blue dots were areas requesting water rescues and it was into many areas of the mainstream. trrs the downtown region where the marina and a lot of the business in the downtown. water in the basements and first levels there too. and across the river in orient they had similar problems. now as we go throughout the next stage of this storm we have two stories, the incredible rainfall flooding. off the chart type flooding and then we veto deal with th

bill karins, thank you for that. we are in north carolina, one of the areas bill talked about there. let's talk evacuations there. they are leaving mandatory evacuations to the locals. where you are, they are recommending voluntary evacuations. fill us in. >> reporter: just in the hour that i have been here, we have seen the weather turn. we have seen those waves get bigger. we have seen the clouds hover over this area. the city manager told me by tomorrow morning, the evacuations here are going to be mandatory. he said by wednesday at 8:00 p.m., no one will be able to go in or out of this island of 2500 people. so, he said, if you can get out, get out now. that is increasingly hard to do. as we were driving over here, gas station after gas station had no lines. because they had run out of gas. they ran out of service. we saw people hovering around the streets, bunkering down, deciding to board up and tie down whatever can be hazardous, if they are going to stay or decide to leave. the city manager told us, also, they

. >>> nbc meteorologist bill i karins here with an update. good morning, bill. >> good morning. all our weather probles today arow in the midwest. we're getting soaked with just a ton of rain and thunderstorms, and we have flash flood problems in this area and even some flash flood warnings near iowa falls and just north of buque. the heaviest rain will be as we go through this morning. then another round lhis afternoon and evening. 6 million people at risk. even a few tornadoes. then tomorrow we take the severe weather threat into the northeast with 26 million people at risk mostly o wind damage. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. here's a closer look.s where it' not stormy, it is down right hot. temperatures continue to be well above average for time of year. much of texas, louisiana, right through the southeast. if you want a taste of fall, you have to go all the way north dakota today. high only in the 50s. and a look ahead at the weekend forecast coming up. >> that's what we like to hear, ll. thank you. >>> to the diamond now where jason kipnis just lived ev