cnn's diane gallacher is near camp lejeune.et's start with martin savidge at carolina beach in north carolina. nearly 2 million americans you said mandatory evacuation orders according to fema, the federal emergency management agency. time is really running out for people to take cover. >> reporter: it is almost completely gone, jake. in fact, they are down to just a handle handful of hours in many of the most vulnerable communities, the barrier islands and the beach front communities of north carolina. like here, they're saying this bridge closes at 8:00 p.m. after that, you're on your own. the warnings for this monster hurricane could not be more dire. >> north carolina, my message is clear. disaster is at the doorstep, and is coming in. >> this is going to be, you know, a mike tyson punch to the carolina coast. >> reporter: officials can't stress enough, this is the last chance to get out of its path. >> this is a dangerous storm. we ask that you heed the warnings. today's is the day. >> reporter: this is storm projections s

the band is getting close tore camp lejeune, 68 mile per hour wind. and elizabeth town, we'll start getting a spreading of all of the power outages further inland. it won't be as isolated just to the coast. so as we go throughout the forecast these are some of the peek wind gusts we could continue. 85 new bern, 77, we've already had that. the areas with greatest potential loss of power, 100%, we sperkt to get that landfall, that's where we'll have it 60, 66 hours. it will be weaker as we go into central portions of north carolina and south carolina. we've had reports of 10 feet. as far as the surge high tides, friday at 11:46 looks like the next one of greatest concern. if the storm stalls out enough, we may have to go through another one after that, just after midnight into saturday. and as far as our slosh model. this is our computer model that pretik predicts where we'll see the highest water levels. this has been very accurate. we heard two reports of water up to 10 feet. in the new bern area right here, a ferry location, we heard report of a 10 f

>> in camp lejeune, hans, thank you. of course, camp lejeune, marine corps base. can tell you that the coast guard one point earlier today we were told that the coast guard moved 40 of the aircraft out of the storm zone. 40 of the aircraft would constitute 20% of the aircraft in the coast guard. moved to a safer place. this is the scene right now in jacksonville, north carolina. you can see the flooding that's started there in jacksonville. unfortunately, that is going to be the scene in lots of communities around north carolina and south carolina, as well. over the next few days. 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 we do best. energy lives here. >>> this is the scene in jacksonville, north carolina there. as you can see flooding has started there in jacksonville. flooding has started in numerous communities here in north carolina. a handful in sou

let's go to camp lejeune.there talking about military preparations and evacuations. hans? >> reporter: ali, we are here at camp lejeune. the wind and the rain has just picked up. we're here at a low level. the ocean is about a mile this way. normally they practice amphibious assaults. that's so important here because just up the road they've staged a bunch of amphibious assault vehicles. the aavs. they help you do any sort of rescue. the message from the marines and navy is they are prepared to help out if they get -- they have to get those orders. we see some barracks. they have been emptied. there are normally about 37,000 marines on this base. some of them have left. they've left behind a force to batten down the hatchs and make sure they're in a position to help. i'm joined by commander roche. you are a cb. the motto is, we do the difficult, the impossible. it takes a little bit longer. what your preparing for right now? >> right now we're prepare forward probably about three days of steady rain up to thre

among them, north carolina's camp lejeune.s base on the east coast, and that is where we find nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nichols. are they still running on generators there, hans? >> reporter: they're still running on generators, craig, and the priority is getting fuel to the generators. those are the only vehicles with authorization to be out on the road here at camp lejeune, if you are bringing fuel to one place or another, because they want to keep communication up. you can really see why they were confident, the marines here, that camp lejeune wouldn't be falling to the hurricane, they would be able to hunker down and make it through. that's the new river, right. the ocean is seven miles that way. you see how high it is. all of this water being pushed up, but we are a little bit elevated. we will swing around here and i will show you one of the headquarters buildings. this is elevated. most of the base is about 35 to 40-feet above the floodplain so they always had a sense they would be able to ride it out. why di

>> reporter: we're getting an aerial tour of camp lejeune so the ee general can how bad the devastation is community as well as the surrounding area, and what they are seeing is a lot of floodthg. continue to say that the worst is yet to come. now, in terms of marines, they are waiting for authorization. they are wng for tasking from the department of defense to go ahead and deployei r assets because ot of see a water, and they see a lot of damage. they are just waiting for the orderso go ahead and help. >> further nbc's kerry sanders is in fayetteville, north carolina, about 90 miles from where i'm standing here watching a dangerous situation potentially unfold. kerry, good evening. >> reporter: well, good evening, kate. tonight, fayetteville is in crisis, and it's only going to get worse. the cape fear river and cross creek raising more than 2ch an hour. as we look from above, you can see downtown fayetteville fm a drone shot. you can see a good portion of the citis under water. it started out theca fear river was at 35 feet. it's now at 40. it will go up another a2 feet by tuesday, c

nbc's hans nichols got an aerial tour of the damage around camp lejeune. hans, what was that like? >> reporter: marlie, here at camp lejeune they've done the initial assessment of how bad the damage is to the base and also the surrounding area. earlier yesterday they went up on these big ospreys, the commanding general trying to get an aerial view, a lay of the land. just what sort of recovery they're going to have to do on base before they start helping with the rest of the community. the navy also sent some helicopters up. overall, the military wants to get an assessment of the area. and then they're going to move forward and try to see how they can help the civilians. but before they help the civilians they've got to make sure their own people are okay. this is a base of some 40,000 marines. just as many civilians. you put it all together, you get close to a city of 100,000 here right on the shore. and they did take quite a bit of damage. so they're trying to figure out just when marines can come back. so the facilities here are ready for them. and when the marines who stayed he

hans, what is the situation at camp lejeune? >> reporter: we are under a curfew here.see why. it's very dangerous. trees have been snapping, breaking all morning. you get the sense across this base a lot of roads could be impeded and that's one of the reasons why when they were preparing for the aftermath and recovery, the cleanup, they stage a lot of assets close to the water. if and when the marines get the call to start rescuing people, helping people, they're close to the water with a lot of amphibious vehicles and two big navy ships offshore. they're close behind the hurricane. they want to stay out of harm's way and get there fast. you got 800 marines aboard the "uss kirasarg." they're ready to go with surgical teams, helicopters, heavy lift, medium lift. they have all kinds of assets. the only thing to be moving right now on this base are vehicles bringing fuel around. they need to keep the generators up and running so that you have communications so if and when you get the call coming in from someone up at a higher authority go ahead and start rescue operations

our greatest ccern is from camp lejeune, cksonville, 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 i this region. our american model and european gettingverything is more narrowed down. both are targeting eastern nth 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 wawo's new book which hit shelves today. the veteran journalist defended his book, ausing president trump of waging war on truth. he echoed that again on the late show with stephen colbert. >> i'm willing to put myself out here. i'veone the work. this is the boaestting that you can do or that i can do. and for him to get up. look, he has his first amendmeni ts. he can say anything. but the great editor at the "washington post," ben bradley, s ring watergate used to alw say, when there was a contest back and h forth, said the truth emerges. and

marine corps base camp lejeune. hans nichols, normally our pentagon correspondent is there tonight. >>> hans, the marine base on their social media last night talked about being anxious to get in the fight against this storm. given that it's a marine base, didn't mind them calling it a fight. looks like it's given you all that it has right now. >> well, i'm not fighting back. i think that's one of my problems out here tonight, brian. the marines wanted to stay here and batten down the hatches, shelter in place as they say because they want to be in a position where they can respond if they're called upon, if they get orders. so what they're trying to figure out right now, they've got a lot of assets here. they have some 100 aircraft, rotary aircraft. those are helicopters at the air station here. and they've got a bunch of ships at sea. mainly two amphibious assault ships. what navy meteorologists are trying to figure out, how close behind the storm they want to follow owe. how closely they want to get to the storm

you see sonited states marines were just up the road from camp lejeune. we went out with those marines earlier today. 7they have their ton trucks. the staff sergeant says they're waiting for more orders. an>> how much more the marines do. >> anythin give them, they're capable of knocking it out. >> i'm expecting a lot of flooding water possible power lines down, things of that nature. >> now, they've done more than 150 rescues of individuals there. that number can climb throughout the night. they have helicopter assets out there, everyone here is expecting more rain,e ew river is already breached its limits of 25 feet normal.ts it's expected to go all the way 28 maybe even to 30. they're expecting more rain, more flooding, dangere biggest is if people come home too early, roads are still rivers and there are downed power lines everywhere. stay home until they get the all clear, then they can get back. >> all the local government officials saying the same thing, thank you. ec>>ons of two major interstates by the way in north carolinai-95 and i-40 have sect

you even see some united states marines were just up the road from camp lejeune. we went out with them today. they have seven ton trucks able to get to hard-hit areas. the staff sergeant in charge of that mission, he says they are waiting for more orders. how much more can the marines do? >> anything. anything you give them, they are capable of knocking it out of the park. i am expecting a lot of flooding water, possible power lines down, things of that nature. >> reporter: now, they have done more than 150 rescues of individuals here. that number could climb throughout the night, even by the coast guard. they have got helicopter assets out there. everyone here is expecting more rain. the new river has breached its limits above 25 feet above normal. it's expected to go to 28, maybe to 30. they are expecting more rain and flooding. the biggest danger is if people come home too early. there are downed power lines everywhere. they are telling people stay home until they get the all-clear and then they can get back. kate. >> yeah, all of the local government officials

the same standards that you applied, the same standards you had me apply in development of the camp lejeune legislation and the burn pit leg apply here. >> i also want to thank you. with hurricane florence we received a call and we were concerned with the storm headed towards wilmington and other areas like your hometown of fayetteville with very high veterans' populations we were concerned about whether or not those receiving care there, dialysis, a number of other things, if we were going to have continuity of care and the department was well ahead of it. i dmend you for doing that. that hasn't always been the case in every disaster response. one question i would have for you is that after action if you take a look at the areas that are most prone to these sorts of storms they happen to be the states with some of the highest concentrations of veterans. so what did you learn from that? what other things should we look at in terms of authorities or things that we can do to be as prepared for the next storm as you all were prepared for florence? >> i do want to say that i was amaz amazed, be

there are downed trees throughout camp lejeune and most of the base doesn't have power.ing the birth of her twins last week. unfortunately it there there was another special delivery heading here, hurricane florence. so the military couple tried to outrun the storm. >> i was so far along and i was worried that i wouldn't be able to have the medical treatment because of the hurricane. >> danielle digregorio was 37 weeks pregnant as hurricane florence churned toward her home state. she and her husband saw two options. deliver the twins in the hurricane, or make a run for saint augustin, florida, where their parents live. they went south. >> the drive was very nerve racking but it also came with a relief the closer we got to home. >> a drive that normally takes about eight hours took them 12. >> when we got in the car i was praying that we made the right choice and everything would fall into place and we would make it home with our family and our babies would be okay. >> reporter: their babies held on and less than 24 hours of arriving, she went into labor. meet the newborn

. >> camp lejeune set up shelters with the department of defense, the marine base doing toiletries and days of food. officials warn the accommodations may be hot and crowded. those are sturdy structures. this marine base weathered many hurricanes over the years, and in north carolina, south carolina and virginia at of hurricane florence. >> we are going to be search and rescue, our number one task is search and rescue and recovery. >> here on wrightsville beach most people, residents and visitors have evacuated the islands, it is like a ghost town. we have electricity but we anticipate we will lose that is the winds pick up. heather: we appreciate it. they are for some dissipate russian bomber jets flying near alaska, the second such incident this month. the military says the nuclear capable jets never entered us or canadian territory. the exact location of the incident is unclear. russia recently launched its biggest military exercise since 1981. the 5 new mexico compound suspects will remain behind bars, a federal judge denying them bail ruling the muslim extremists are a, quote, dan

. >> reporter: camp lejeune set up shelters for anyone with the part of the fence id, the marine baseheir own toiletries, games and 3 days of food. military bases have been moving aircraft to protect them from the storm and volunteer organization sending 1000 people to north carolina, south carolina and virginia ahead of the storm. >> number one priority is search and rescue. the number one task search and rescue and recovery. >> reporter: most residents and visitors evacuated the island, the police told us they would escort us off the island if we don't get off the beach right now and that is what we're going to do, cooperate with them. jillian: cooperate with the officials, stay safe. the five new mexico compound suspects will remain behind bars. a federal judge denying them bail. will it be muslim extremists, a danger to the community? the group taking charges for transporting firearms with ammunition from georgia to new mexico in 2017. they are accused of training starving children are the dead toddler was found. they all pleaded not guilty. rob: the long time executive producer o

you told us about camp lejeune, 45,000 men and women? >> at fort bragg.er camps? you have a huge concentration of military power already to go. >> here are the bases that are right in the vicinity. fort stewart, georgia, fort gordon, georgia, for the jackson, south carolina, paris island which is marine corps training base. myrtle beach air force base. fort bragg, north carolina. pope air force base. camp lejeune, major marine corps base, north carolina. norfolk naval station. not all of those have capacity to help but the truth is a lot of them. stuart: right. >> there are some bases outside of the area itself like fort campbell, kentucky, 25,000 soldiers there. there are fema assets there. there is other prepositioning. there are a small mountain range away. there is a lot of capacity here to back up what the governors are going to do with first-responders, what they will do with national guard. this is a major, major flooding event where there is people who are in need of rescue like we had katrina, then these forces could come into play. stuart: could

. >> check camp lejeune will be in the middle of the storm surge are they part of the rescue effort or are they going to have to find a way out? any sense of getting the ship comfort underway or how long will that take it necessary? >> we have trust and confidence in our in station command and the decisions they make relatively to evacuation . we have faith that that is the right decision to make and we will stand by ready to support them and on the positive side, because of their proximity and their capability, that will also be part of therelief effort we can bring to bear quickly . >> we are fully coordinated with them, we understand the capability that i have and we are working with them to find when they are going to be able to be part of that response. >> i didn't just add a note to that. all installation commanders have what we would call immediate response authority if there are life-threatening circumstances in the city and community that they are in, they have preauthorization to provide direct support to that. a number of these installations also have mutual aid agreements w

corporal and his wife welcoming twin girls in florida after long drive from camp lejeune. >> i was nervousike praying the entire time. i was like please don't go into labor yet. >> amazing baby scarlet and sadie are doing just fine. >> next the bad. more than 20 people, including kids roller coaster 50 feet in the air. trapped for more than two hours. everyone is okay. jillian: finally the ugly. the world's most popular video game is wrecking hundreds of marriages. fort knight blamed for 200 divorces this year. could that be true? todd: be better, america, then that. jillian: even if you win the game you lose in life. todd: "fox & friends" begins right now. >> florence turns deadly. devastating winds and flooding move inland from the carolina coast. >> the worst may be yet to come as record levels are approaching. have you upwards of 18 people that have died. have you 15,000 people in shelters. >> as the storm moves west, so do the floodwaters. so do the rescuers, including the military who are lending a hand. >> i might lose my house. that's my big thing out. >> kansas deputy shot and kil

he, a marine at camp lejeune. she, a college student studying business.re your hopes back then? >> have a family and have a story. >> reporter: but their family's story, the kind every parent of a teenage girl fears, begins on an unseasonably warm october night in 2015. it's joe and emily's 18th wedding anniversary. they're enjoying a rare night away from their four kids, celebrating with a romantic weekend in new york city. but meanwhile, back in alabama, another celebration. an 18th birthday party for one of the spanish fort seniors. how did this party come about? >> everyone was texting about it. >> reporter: haley and aly, popular high school seniors, say word spreads like wildfire. even to those outside their usual clique. >> this was a little bit bigger, and it was lots of different kind of people all mingling together. >> it was not a typical weekend party. it was probably, like, one of the biggest parties i've ever been to in spanish fort. >> reporter: savannah too hears about the party and begs her parents, long distance, for permission. >> i had

along topsail beach, north of wrightsville beach, up to sneeds ferry and camp lejeune still getting battered. >> yeah, we've had 24 hours of nonstop rain. this wind is the strongest that we've seen. i'm watching bits and pieces of this roof come off the house here and in to the grass here. 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 th

it is also home to the marine corps camp lejeune and it's where the new river comes inland, one of the rivers officials say might not fully crest for another few days. so as we say, cnn's ed lavendera has been in that community. the water continues to close in. ed, how are people coping tonight? >> reporter: hi, marty. it's a third night of steady downpour. the sounds of frogs croaking in this neighborhood, that's about all you hear as people are huddled in their homes on this third night of steady rain, anticipating what exactly is going to happen to this river. the neighborhood we're in, marty, 7:00 a.m., residents came outside and noticed that they banks of that new river that you're talking about was spilling into this neighborhood. it came, encroached about 3 or 400 yards into this neighborhood, putting underwater, three or four feet of water, several dozen homes around here. many people scrambled to move to higher ground. this is a neighborhood that many people didn't expect that they would have to evacuate. it's stayed dry in previous tropical storms and major hurricanes. many o

with army exposed to flooding, they're repurposing for response efforts, the marine corps with camp lejeune, paris island where recruits are trained, it was evacuated earlier in the week. you can see the sites on the wall the next guest focuses on restoration and recovery after disasters. they have been involved in cleanup for hurricane katrina, harvey and now focused on florence belfor, the world's largest property restoration firm. thanks for joining us today. >> thanks so much for having us. >> you're very focused on recovery and reconstruction efforts. i imagine you have many boots on the ground and a lot of resources being deployed ahead of the storm what does that process look like, what are you bracing for in terms of impact of the storm? >> we do as you said, we have rounded all our people up throughout the company in rocky mountain, north carolina, all our tractor-trailers there with our equipment, our mobile command centers there, we have approximately 1200 people on the ground from about 32 belfor offices from around the country. tomorrow, 150 leaving, and each day the next six d

it goes right into wilmington, if you're familiar with onslow county, the marine base there, camp lejeune, that's one of the areas that could be right through the eye, all the way up to north thompson beach, the emerald isle area, atlantic beach, ocracoke island. that could be in the northern eye for numerous hours as we go throughout tomorrow evening. that's where the worst destruction and damage will be, storm surge and wind. and then as the storm continues then we'll start to deal with other problems like rainfall. here's the rainfall forecast. isolated totals up to 40 inches. you do not need a category 4 or 5 to have a devastating flood event. you can get that with tropical storms if it stalls out long enough. so it's really this area from kinston to new bern. if you're familiar with that area that's where the noose river spills into the pamlico sound. when the wind is piling up into here, up into the sound, at the same time this water's trying to go out, we could see flooding, brian, that is worse in areas like river bend, the trenton area, new bern, up to kinston than we do at the c

marines at camp lejeune and they've got swift water rescue teams from indiana here to help.hey're going to need all these resources, guys. >> brian, you were mentioning, too, i know you have been in touch with emergency officials there. have they given you a sense of the number of calls that they've been receiving from people, especially in these last few hours as the water's beginning to rise? >> you know, they won't quantify the number of calls but they're saying there are a lot of them. they do have more than 300 people in a couple of shelters. and about 200 of them have had to been either pulled out of their homes or have made their way themselves from their homes to the shelters. so it's pretty drastic situation here. some of the water is starting to recede a little bit. they're clearly not out of the woods yet in neighborhoods like this where they have to have high-water rescues. >> brian, with the latest for us from onslow county. local residents telling us they cannot remember flooding of this magnitude. some can remember terrible flooding because they had to deal wi

it's the home to camp lejeune. what does this place look like geographically and who lives there?this is a military town without a doubt. here you have a very young population. that's because so many of the people here are in their 20s and they're here with their families. so here at the hotel, the people who are working with us at the hotel, their husband is on the base. that makes up a good portion of the demographic. because of that, one thing county officials mentioned is a concern that a lot of the people aren't really from here so they don't have much history here. people here who have been here for a while will talk about hurricane fran in the '90s that's when jacksonville saw a pretty good amount of flooding. most of the people who live here aren't familiar with that. that is one of the concerns they have, which is why they were trying to educate people about that. there is no mandatory evacuation for the camp, but obviously they know what they're doing and they're trying to keep things safe and also perhaps ready to help out with any rescues with necessary. >> joe fryer,

farther south, heaoding also hit jacksonville, next door e camp lejeune. eye of florede landfall just after 7:00 this moing in wrightsville beac north carolina, uprooting trees and flooding streets as it moved slowly iand. but wrightsville beach police chief dan hous have been much worse. >> in the grand scheme of things so far we've gotn away really lucky. there wasn't a lot of damage, there were a few downed power lines, some building damage on a few buildings but certainly less than what we expected. rm reporter: in the hours just before landfall, sands battered wilmington, about a dozen miles inland from wrightsville beach. wind gusts reached 105-miles-an- hon, the highest recorded i the city since 1958. most houses and buildings withstood the winds, but a woman and her baby were killed when a tree was blown down on their home. blacked-out traffic lights swung wildly from their wires, over empty streets. >> having come out, in the morning, i've been out a couple times, i'm not surprised to see l this devastation. i watched th sign on the building fly o

look at some of the numbers here. 66 at camp lejeune. we are looking at near hurricane force winds already and this is the clincher. we will see hurricane source winds for 24 hours in some spots. so if you are in houses that have not been evacuated, you have no power, you will hear that wind battering on your house. you are going to hear the rain falling as well. right now we are looking at winds around 59 miles per hour, wind gusts in wilmington. as we go throughout time, look at the numbers really tick up. 72 miles per hour, this is friday by 5:00 p.m. hatteras, 50 miles per hour. tropical storm force winds. 73, that's just one below hurricane force wind, in myrtle beach. it will start in north carolina and kind of move down to south carolina as we go throughout the day, later on today since we are into friday already. as we go throughout time into saturday, it doesn't end friday. we are talking saturday and even into sunday and there will be problems well beyond this. this is not a story that will end this weekend. we will be talking

while the marine corps is conducting rescue operations out of camp lejeune. keeping a sharp eye out for those in danger. in jacksonville, north carolina chris ray has already returned to find his home destroyed. >> hopefully, fema helps. not just me but every other citizen around here gets the help that we need. >> reporter: by the time this storm ends, florence will have dumped 40 inches of rain on southeastern north carolina. mandatory evacuations have been ordered for hundreds of people who live within a mile of the cape fear river in wilmington. that river expected to crest at 62 feet tuesday morning, nearly double its normal flood stage. >> this storm has never been more dangerous than it is right now. >> reporter: there is so much water in the coastal city that no one can get to it. >> our roads are cut off. there's no access to wilmington today. >> reporter: the city now basically an island, cut off from the world. i surveyed a flooded neighborhood with new hanover county commission chairman woody wyatt. >> where'd all this water come from? >> this is

the fortunate part for these folks, they live near camp lejeune, we are in a convoy of high water vehiclesthere are a couple vehicles following us. we're going to a place where high water rescues are necessary. we're told there are people in need, possibly a medical emergency. don't have much information on that. we can tell you that they've had at least 30 rescues needed to be undertaken, most from homes. some from vehicles. and they're trying to get to as many as they can. this has been happening since midday yesterday. they have about 300 some people in shelters here since yesterday afternoon. some of them made their way to shelters themselves. many of them had to be pulled out of their homes and cars. one official told us a short time ago, they had an ambulance pickup overnight with a cardiac arrest patient. the ambulance got there, picked up the patient, and the ambulance took on water. these are some of the risks that rescuers and first responders are going through. they're not accessible by truck or other vehicle. they have three coast guard helicopter units deployed here, and swift

you cannot launch rotor aircraft in this, v-22 ospreys, any of the helicopters they have at camp lejeune >> 60 to 80 miles per hour wind gusts, firefighters in these rescue boats, think of the logic ticks, 60 to 80 miles per hour winds, you are in beat and with people on a roof top and you are trying to get them into your boat safely at night. that's what is happening right now in eastern north carolina. those are the heroes out there doing that work right now, and, you know, those people will be grateful for the rest of their lives to be plucked from their roof tops. it is unfortunate they got caught in that situation, but it seems to happen for every storm. >> meteorologist bill karins. our thanks. we will take one more break here. back with more of our live coverage right after this. what's inside? a moment of joy. a source of inspiration. an act of kindness. what will it bring? an old friend. a new beginning. some welcome relief... or a cause for celebration. the help you've been looking for. what's inside? possibilities. what we deliver by delivering. >>> i want to show you somethin

we are looking at two-foot rainfall footprint just north of wilmington to jacksonville, camp lejeune. possibly 20 inches as it heads towards florence, south carolina. we have a lot of things to play out. the concern with the wind on a minor, major record scale i put it in the moderate rain for wind damage. storm surge is major, possibly into record and the rainfall definitely is going to be record. we'll deal with that on the rivers sunday, monday, maybe into tuesday, talking about homes, new homes being flooded and damaged. >> i don't want to say 2 feet of rain is good news, but yesterday we were looking at 30 inches, looking at 40 inches. i take it that's the forecast is down a little bit there. >> actually i was just kind of pinpointing the footprint where the few feet would be. inside of that there is still a chance of isolated 30 to 40 inch totals. i'd be surprised somebody would get 36 inches of rain. >> here i was looking for silver linings. >> the wind is the silver lining. water which kills 75% of people in storms that's our huge concern. >> absolutely. bill karins, thank you

through camp lejeune area, surf city, emerald isle, morehead city, atlantic beach, those are the areas of great concern. this is newbern here up on thes into rivenoose river. that east wind is going to pile up that water. then we get the rainfall on top of it. i think we'll have more water rescues for people in these little rivers and the tributaries that go into the sound than we will at the coast. a lot of coastal people left. it isn't even a mandatory evacuation for people in pimlico sound. so as far as the rainfall goes, let me show you this, this is one thing that was interesting. the predicted water height tonight is supposed to be 7 1/2 feet at beaufort, morehead city. half a foot higher than 1954 when hazel hit. water in homes and businesses starting in areas around morehead city and buford. then it will continue from there. here's the rainfall predictions. this is 20-plus inches of rain from myrtle beach to wilmington. these problems with that much rainfall will last well into the weekend. the cape fear river is supposed to break the record crest sunday night into monday. neve

i want to go to camp lejeune where hans nichols is standing by with their preparations. hans?ines. they've been here for 77 years. they weren't going to leave because of this storm. they wanted to be in a position to help with the recovery as soon as there is the relief efforts started. they haven't gotten those orders. it's interesting that president trump may be coming down to this region next week. what they are waiting for here is what they call tasking. that is that someone from fema, someone makes the request that goes up the chain of command and comes down the chain of command. they have all kinds of assets at the ready. you can see some of the devastation. the only vehicles that are technically allowed to be driving around this military installations are vehicles delivering fuel because the power is out here. they need the fuel for generators to stay in touch with each other to have good communications internally and with the ships at sea. we didn't break that rule but bent it a little and drove around and got a sense of how much devastation there is on this base. tree

talked to some local residents and came back and helo'd down the coast, would have flown over camp lejeune, seen some of the devastation along the coastline, and then down to north carolina and south carolina itself. this is a tale of two storms, the tidal flooding up here and down there the river basins and all those watersheds still draining. some of those rivers haven't crested yet. we got a good sense of this just flying over the state for the last three days in various military helicopters. they do have a lot of assets and that's what the national guard has been stressing. they have over 13,000 national guard and federal troops here. ali, to put this all in perspective when you look at the number of generators the national guard alone used, they had seven generators they needed to bring in. down in puerto rico 1,500. these are very different storms and this hasn't been as severe as many feared. >> any other comments on brett kavanaugh from the president while he's been down there? >> reporter: not on kavanaugh. this is the split screen presidency and this is always a challenge for any

fortunately, we have camp lejeune with 40,000 marines in our community, and they are serving as a tremendous partner. they are deploying assets on our behalf, amphibious vehicles. we have the coast guard currently coming with a helicopter. so we're not going to stop until we reach all of these folks and get them to a safe shelter. >> you know what it sounds like, and i'm relieved to hear this, that you have tremendous resources available to you, but i would imagine if i'm putting myself in your shoes that it would make you a little bit frantic to know there are potentially hundreds of people out there who need rescues and you're just waiting around to see if you can get to them. >> right now we are actively in the process of rescuing those that we can reach and we have a plan to reach the rest. we are in communication, thankfully. we do have phones and folks are able to communicate with us. so the most life-threatening, of course, are the ones we are going to first. >> we have lived through, both of us, i would assume, many, many major storms, and every time there are those people who simply

we are close by camp lejeune.cause we're part of the community here, they can assist with search and rescue. earlier in the day we were out with them helping to move people from one shelter to another. >> according to the mayor, those rescues still going on. going to be crucial to do that, get as much in before the sun goes down. hans nichols for us in jafl, north carolina. thank you. >>> a last check with nbc meteorologist in the weather center. where is the storm now and what is it doing? >> it still will be a tropical storm. we are waiting for it to be downgraded bei want to show you the rain folts. swansboro coming in at 30.58 inches of rain. that's over two feet of rain that has fallen, breaking the record of the most rain from a tropical system in that area. we will continue to follow the reds, the heavy rain this afternoon. coming up i will show you the radar and the track of the storm. >> thank you. msnbc coverage continues when we come back. e wrinkles. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on

and it's in a town that houses camp lejeune.ere going through everything, but mobility, floodwaters we almost got stuck fortunately. downed power lines, officials want -- the storm is passed, but officials want to get into recovery mode, but they can't get started because you can't get around. we're going to try and get a little more light and let you just see how unbelievable it is. but a marina on the other side of the river is totally underwater. they've been doing rescues up and down, all along here. some volunteers as well work in the area. it's a fluid situation, and people are getting real tired of the rain. pete: appreciate it. a lot to cover. and now we're going to rick reichmuth who's tracking the slow-moving storm. rick, i'm hearing 2 miles per hour, is that right? >> reporter: now it's up to 8 n2olprdoúÑúj@vo0ao<(>1km;n1j8 ) really changed yesterday throughout the day pretty dramatically as a lot of the rivers started to rise. this first video that you're seeing is out of new bern. some of the first images we're gett

while the marine corps is conducting rescue operations out of camp lejeune. keeping aharp eye out for those in danger. in jacksonville, north carolina, chris wray has returned to see his home destroyed. >> hopefully fema helps. not just me but every citizen around here gets the help they need. >> rep florence who dumped 40 inches of rain on south carolina, mandatory evacuations have been ordered for hundreds of people who live within a mile of the cape fear river in wilmington. that riv expected to crest at 62 feet tuesday morning, nearly double its normal flood stage. s thisrm has never been more dangerous than it is right now. >> rep much water in the coatyal no ae can get to it. >> our roadsre cut off. there's no access to wilmington today. >> reporter: the cy now basically an island, cut off from the world. i surveyed a flooded neighborhood with newhanover chairman commission woody white. where did all this water come from? >> this is rainfall over the last 12 to 20 hours. >> reporter: we found chris trying to jump start a flooded truck. it stalled out wh

the same areas are getting impah these heavy rain band w jacksonvillere camp lejeune is, they're seeingt. wilmington, oak island through southport, that's wrightsville beach. th're seeing heavy rd e raven h charlotte where they could pick up doubl digits of rain as this moves to the and west and it will make that turn later tonight. tropical depn right now, winds at 35 miles an hour so it will hug the west virginia border. head out towards pen wylvania anare looking at rain in our area as we get into monday and tuesday so let me show you that quick, stray showers out there today and a better chance of rain into this afternoon, late this afternoon into tonight as florence makes the turn up to the north. showers and thunderstorms possible any time during the day tomorrow. best chance of thunderstorms will lie west but we still could have a few isolad around the d.c. area. but i think the further east you are away from the cenr of circulation the better chance you will be to seeshowers. heavier rain along the shandoah valley for mondaytu and day. sh fr nice conditions, next ch of rain will

while the marine corps is conducting rescue operations out of camp lejeune, keeping a sharp eye out for those in danger. in jacksonville, north carolina, chris wray has returned to >> hopefully fema helps. not just me, but every citizen around here gets the help we need. >> reporter: by the time this ends, florence will have dumped 40 inches of rain on southeastern north carolina. mandatory evacuations have been issued for hundreds of people who live a mile from the cape fear river in wilmington. that river is expected to crest at 62 feet on monday morning.ha now. >> reporter: there is so much water in the coastal city that no one can get to it. >> our roads are cut off. there's no access to wilmington today. >> reporter: the city, now, basically an island, cut off from the world. i surveyed a flooded neighborhood with new hanover county commission chairman woody white. where did all this water come from? >> this is rainfall over the last 12 to 20 hours. >> reporter: we found chris tyner trying to jump-start a flooded truck. it stalled out when he was trying to drive his family to safet

some of the stuff that you see like camp lejeune and some navy bases will be used.tional guard. but the point is, the d.o.d. is the 911 part of this kind of federal emergency response. neil: couldn't ask for a better 911. thank you very much, my friend. i appreciate it. all right. to myrtle beach, south carolina, where you will find christina. how are things looking there? reporter: i don't know, it's getting worse and worse right now. we just actually pit-stopped for a moment at a doughnut shop because it's the only place open to use the washroom. i did meet wendy, who just had to evacuate your home right now. can you just tell me what happened? what happened to you just moments ago? >> i woke up this morning. well, i couldn't sleep and i heard something banging, banging. i live in a mobile home maybe 25 minutes inland. and i brought my daughter off the beach to live with me and i just heard something banging so i woke my boyfriend lee up. when he went outside, my roof was in the front yard with all the insulation. so then in a matter of maybe less than 15, 20 minu

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camp lejeune set up shelters for anyone a department of defense i.d. and families.base is asking for their own toiletries, games and three days of non perishable food. the accommodations may be hot and crowded but very safe. the marine base has weathered many hurricanes over the years. in south carolina, residents of foley beach have been preparing for the storm as they are all up and down the coast of both carolinas and virginia. back to you. maria: thanks very much, jonathan. we'll be watching. joining us right now by telephone to talk about how old dominion is preparing, virginia congressman scott taylor. thank you for joining us. what is the out state doing as this storm creeps closer? i know yesterday you visited the local emergency management center in virginia beach. what can you tell us? good morning. it'>> .i can tell you we're tako chances in in the old dominion. the state, local, federal government, everybody came together to coordinate. i was pretty proud to see the efforts that came together. our community, of course, has come together and everybody's p