morehead city is on the coast. it's pitch black over there except for one condo building, looks like it may have auxillary lights on. the fire chief is trying to get a handle on everything. the pier is broken in half. it's gone out to sea. let me give you a little bit of news. i got off the phone with officials in new bern. they say they have about a hundred more rescues they are carrying out at this moment. they have done more than 375. one of the challenges they have right now is where to put the people they are rescuing. they have run out of space. because of the epic flooding, they are trapped on where they can take people to. one of the places they have gone is marine corps base. they are taking some of the evacuees from new bern there. but they are flooded to the north of new bern and cut off from greeneville where a lot of first responders are staying. the officials tell me the river is about 4 to 6 feet flooded above their surge which is good news. but they are not happy because they know rain is in the for

connell: you are right along the coast in morehead city. if you start moving north northwest, we saw the terrible video of flooding and greenville more north and a little more west. where are the authorities as you understand it able to move in between and where are they cut off? >> best i understand talking to new bern officials an hour ago is they are able to get people in and out from the south and west of new bern and the area in between, new bern being the heaviest it because of the newport news river that crested at historic levels but to the north there is only one way or out, to totally shut down a bridge, totally flooded out and they cannot do much other than to have both landings to move supplies and when you are doing it in those flat bottom boats it is very slow. not only do they have to get supplies in but they have to get people out because they don't have anywhere to put them. power is another factor. there is no power, power is barely restored. they are getting a little restoration but at the foot of the bridge of atlantic b

but here in morehead we are coastal.nd while the eye starts coming over, it is because of florence's size, remember, she was the size of both carolinas put together when she was a cat 4 and came down to cat 2 and came on as cat 1. the winds we are feeling some upwards of 80, 90 miles per hour are whipping amount of water has not diminished. whether you get this amount of water at 60 or 120 it's still the same amount. when i walk over to the other side of this building away from this sea wall, it's pitch black. but you can see that there are power lines down. there is all sorts of debris in the road, so, it is the four punch. the quadrupled punch that these communities are taking. the wind now, the surge coming in, it's the excessive flooding that's already started in inland communities like new bern that suffered catastrophic flooding in a lot of the recent storms including matthew. matthew came on as a one as well. 28 lives were lost. and it is, of course, excessive rain fall that's going to follow. while we are at this

in morehead city, atlantic beach over a mile away, getting hammered by wind and surge.new bern in land, 40 miles northwest of where i am, a story that is going to grow and become worse and worse and life-threatening as catastrophic as it is and officials saying they will need more assets, more resources. this kind of wind, you have downed power lines, power outages, but the noose river is a major river along with the trent river that circles new bern, cresting at 9 feet. the worst they got was eight feet, they already exceeded that. the calls are coming in. we will work on communication. that is what i want to get out, there is a focus on new bern. it is likely the situation is the same in other surrounding areas like jacksonville and other low-lying areas surrounded by rivers. it all feeds down here. and 24, 36 hours hopefully this stops, the ocean water goes back out to sea, in land that water has nowhere to go, rivers exploding. this water will become very unhealthy very quickly. it will be a situation and a big disaster. heather: i don't think you can hear me so i w

steve: griff jenkins in morehead city, winds at 90 miles an hour, sustained gusts at 115. ainsley: janice was talking how slow it is moving, it will have her in the area. mike: a los of power will go up quickly. steve: for griff who has electricity via generator the worry is running out of gas. when you run out of gas you run out of power and he won't be on tv. ainsley: he said the gas stations are closed. they need to make sure they conserve. let's move down the coast a little south of where griff was, jonathan siri picks up live team coverage in wrightsville beach, north carolina, where they are seeing wind gusts of 90 miles an hour. what is the latest? >> reporter: right now we are experiencing the worst of the storm we have seen so far, heavy gusts buffeting us and heavy rains coming down as the eye wall gets closer and closer. wrightsville beach, most of the island lost power just after 1:30 in the morning. at last check, statewide, 180,000 customers in the dark. those numbers expected to go up as we go further into the storm. the most frustrating thing about this sto

because this can come into morehead city. under water, you got a bad recipe, jon. >> jon: and we are hearing that in new burn, that 150 people are trapped and awaiting rescue. the city sending out a notification that their rescue attempt is under way. apparently some fema swift water rescue teams are available. people are told to move into their se second story. the water lefts have raised 10, 11 feet. it's going to be a surprise for a lot of people that the water levels are coming up so high so quickly. >> that's right. the noose river, i'm trying to contact a gentleman that lives there. his name is captain jerry, he's the head of north carolina shrimp fisheries. they preposition, they got a dry run with the flooding. new bern got hit hard there. the problem is battling the elements. i'm having a hard time standing here talking to you. once the water comes up, mobility is greatly restricted. >> jon: everybody has been talking about how this storm is not as intense as it was forecast to be. we can see in the video, just stand

that's why morehead city is reporting 23 inches of rain. . that's unbelievable. >> absolute >> in 24 hours. >> in 24 hours. we saw these totals in harvey and w said, okay, can we really get 40 or 50 inches of rain? that's what the computer models are giving us. and of course we did. with this storm we are doing 20, 30, and now some are saying 40. we have a long way to go as ir as florenc concerned. it is still just sitting and spinning down there towards the carolinas. let's show you out there right now where the storm is. you can see, this is the infra red satellite picture. you can tell that the storm itself is weakening, the low pressure starting to get a little weaker but it does not stop the rains from come on in here. the storm expanding from philadelphiaown towards savannah, 900 miles that cloud shield. you can see the rain through the carolinas here and into parts of theorfolk area around virginia beach. in and around wilmington, look at this, inside one of the feeder bans, you can see the center around myrtle right now, this is where

here in morehead it is absolutely dark. the side streets are flooded.ge has gone back out but it is a situation, the energy trucks and first responders saying we are ready, just need mother nature to cooperate. our first break in 30 hours but we have rain in the forecast. jillian: you have been working around-the-clock to let everyone know what it looks like, appreciate it. connell: those are some pictures, that gas station. everyone is talking about it across the carolinas, destroying gas stations, flattening trees and roads and taking down power lines. jillian: 1 million homes and businesses in both states in the dark and that number is expected to climb. more wins, lots of rain to come, stay with us. unmotivated? feeling like you can't keep up? maybe you're tired of the same old workout. then you need aaptiv. aaptiv offers incredibly motivating music-driven workouts led by the world's best trainers. plus our classes are audio only, so you don't have to stare at a screen while you're trying to work out. we have music from amazing artists like britney

a note, we broke the record for the storm surge in the morehead/bmorehead morehead/beaufort area.of the northeast, blowing the water out. as the storm has moved past it now towards the west, the winds turn to the east and the water level shot up in a hurry. i'm sure a lot of people there, whoever is left there -- everyone was told to evacuate. i know we have our crew that's there and obviously the police and stuff are still there, but that water level i'm sure is -- because of that water height, it is in businesses in downtown beaufort this morning right now. we are going past the high tide, but because the wind direction hasn't changed it hasn't been able the release it, so it is still staying high. that water level should be even higher at the next high tide throughout the morning hours. that's kind of some of the stories we are watching there. we have avoided a lot of the horrendous surge problems. remember we were saying seven to 13 feet and the hurricane center went down to seven to 11 feet. we haven't seen those values yet. the surge in areas where it broke the gauge is righ

we are about six hours into the really bad conditions in morehead city.ally that would be good news, the tide is going out but conceivably, there is a whole another tide cycle, 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. these conditions continue, when you have the potential for the storm surge plus high tides inundating the city. you will combine all of this water that we see now starting to lap up with these after 40 inches of rain that is then going to collide tomorrow upstream here up into coastal carolina, where you have the potential for what they are calling truly catastrophic flooding, echoing what steve had to say in terms of the wind, we have not seen those kind of just unbelievable, pounding wins that have the ability to take down h. we did see some mobile homes that were pretty badly damaged, especially over on the barrier island, which is about two or 3 miles out into the black abyss. power has been gone for a long time. you really just don't have any way to see much beyond 50 or so yards with our lights that are operating off of generators. the barrier islands bri

as you know morehead city and the whole carolina coastal areas big into shipping and boating.his is the capital right here in this area of beaufort, morehead city for the north carolina shrimp industry. it's going to be interesting to see if you come over this way just a little bit i'm going to turn you mike towards. this you see the tug boats pulled into shore. you see those cranes that are sticking up. those huge cranes which is what offloads a lot of the shipping, the fishing, the bigger ships that were pulled out. you know, it's a rare thing, shep, for a storm to come for fishermen to really pull the big industrial fishing vessels out. but that was done before this storm because they looked at florence's size and if you look, just here, you can see what was really more recreational docks, some people this their own fishing vessels and can you see these docks are still under water. so the surge is certainly there. here in bogue bay. as i have talked constantly to the last 14 hours to the chief of police jeff harvey atlantic beach along with the fire chief adam snyder, the n

when the final steps of planning , we will be able to bring it into morehead city. i want to reinforce one more time to the citizens of north carolina, please do not return to new hanover, brunswick, or pender counties as of yet. the trouble conditions are much too risky for our citizens. onlyoutes that we have support for first responders, they are not safe routes. they have risks but they are to respond tos this event. thank you. i am with the north carolina state highway patrol. motoringy of our public remains our highest priority. resourcese to serve to support local law enforcement in the impacted areas. travel in these areas is still very dangerous. there are no safe routes in and out of the affected areas. since our last briefing over the last 24 hours, our troopers have responded to 126 collisions and 370 calls for service. these are the troops that encompass the most affected storm areas. we continue to urge motorists, do not try to cross flooded roadways. if you find yourself in a flooded roadway, we encourage you to follow the following tips. if you are t

i heard you say morehead city is already at 31 inches of rain.bout 79, 80 miles north and east of our position here in wilmington. we watch that place get smacked all day yesterday and all night last night. you can understand how they can tally up 40 inches. 40 inches of water. where does that go? that's really hard to say. >> shepard: it's going to take a while. bill hemmer braving it all for us, thanks so much. i want to show you the town of new bern we've been watching. i want to show you where the storm is, the storm is right here. moving in a westward way, here's bill right along there. and here's this town of new bern. although winds and rains go in this direction, counterclockwise. it's all coming to a head in the town of new bern on the west bank, all of this area has flooded. we've been showing you this torrent of water just coming into this town right here around craven terrace. let's bring in sabrina, a city official there in new bern north carolina. i understand there have been more than 200 people rescued, have they been able to get

look at the texture, the harshest we have seen in morehead city. along the seawall, a mile away is atlantic beach but looking at the texture you see how strong, the amount of water over there is unthinkable. i was just texting to the chief of police in atlantic beach to find out how that is, he says we haven't been out for several hours, conditions are too bad, too many power lines down, too much distraction from the wind. his sustained wind is about 80 miles from his recordings but 92 mile in august a few hours ago before making it as we start feeling it but as you were talking to the mayor of newbern, not just newbern but newport members, all these rivers and agrarian farm country dumped down here, the problem with that water is it has nowhere to go. if you are in jacksonville or any of these areas send us an email to foxnews.com, there's a chance that there are a lot of people with rivers cresting, record levels when you get this amount of water and rescues are taking place but the challenges in these conditions are unbelievable. we are little n

morehead city north carolina, 3, emerald isle 31. in linda here, 13. 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

(pam) morehead city, north carolina has picked up 23 carolina has city, north morehead (pam) (pam) morehead city, north carolina has picked up 23 inches of rain more heavy rain coming. (grant) joining us on the phone from morehead city.. meteorologist craig weber craig - craig webermeteorologist craig weber craig -florence is a now a tropical storm - what's it like out there right now... especially vs when we talked to you yesterday.. ? (grant)(grant) (grant) if you would like to help those affected by hurricane florence - log on to kron-4- dot-com.we have set up a link to donate to the red cross relief effort. (pam) a big (pam) (pam) a big story we are tracking... a redwood city man is accused of sexually abusing children he babysat. (grant)kron 4's hermela aregawi spoke to investigators. she joins us live in redwood city with details.. hermela, do we know how many victims there are? (her) detectives tell me.. they detectives tell me.. they know of at least five victims. all boys under 14 years old.and at least some of them.. children that the suspect was hired to care for. a babysitter wh

we're opening our ports at wilmington and morehead. by tomorrow, we will be up to support this structure, and it can move large amounts of goods and services and to wilmington in case our primary routes we are servicing in those areas are closed by river flooding. ouruld really like to show appreciation for partners who are helping us get the ports open, supporting this request for the marine vessel, the coast guard, u.s. army corps of engineers, getting established in two major ports, and u.s. dot and maritime administration for element as to consider this. we are in the final steps of lanning for this vessel, and as soon as we get the departments from itse relief previous mission, we will be able to bring it into morehead city. i want to reinforce one more time to the citizens of north carolina, please do not return to new hanover, brunswick, or hinder counties as yet. travel conditions are much too risky for citizens. the routes that we have only support first responders. they are not safe routes. they have risks of their own, and w

. >> glor: in morehead city, what was a building became a pile of rubble.ising building in belhaven nearly swallowed the floor of this house. the lights were still on, it was hard to tell if anyone was home. and the high winds blew transformers, dropping wilmington into darkness. by daybreak, we could finally see what until then we could only hear and feel. and this is some of the worst of florence now. it is friday morning. this is the cape fear river, which is just raging. and we're right in the eye wall, the eye wall winds, which is the worst. at one point, the 350-mile-wide, slow-moving storm packed wind so fierce, we all but lost contact with our new york studio during our morning forecast. >> we may in fact have jeff now. jeff, can you hear me? >> glor: apologies again for some of the communication issues here as we deal with some of the worst of florence as she arrives now. rain is coming sideways, down and up. florence drove more than a million people from their homes, and more than 700,000 lost power. rain ranging from one to 3.5 feet has already f

it is round morehead -- around morehead city. some storms could rotate. the surge coming up in new bern and washington and into the neuse river and the pimlico sound. maximum surge i found is 11 feet. that is where the forecast was located. emerald isle, surge is 6.8 feet. if your house is less than six feet above sea level, you are wet. i want to take you to a graphic. it really tells the story. this is the live radar. the nexrad level two. this is john berman. right there. that's wilmington. here is topsail beach. all the way up to emerald isle and morehead city. this is going to pop power lines. john, you will see a blue flash as transformers pop. you may have power off. it may come back on. i tell you what, that 285,000 for people without power, that will go up rapidly as the eyewall comes onshore. chris, you are here with the offshore flow. as the eye works down the coast, something like that, you will eventually get to this side of the eyewall. it may take 24 hours to get there. when you do, that's when you will see the surge and your beach will flo

morehead city, wilmington will get the back side. flash flood watches and warnings posted in north carolina and south carolina where we think the storm will track next and the potential for tornado because of the counter clockwise motion with these landfalling hurricanes and interaction with the upper level winds and wind-shear. we have the threat of tornadoes that could cause damage. we're getting information from jacksonville, north carolina. because the storm is moving so slowly, it will be the legacy of this event because we'll be talking about it for days. here are some of the rainfall totals. you can see in excess of 30 inches. 20 to 30 inches already and this storm just got onshore. it is going to be a long duration event. on top of that, we still could see the potential for 7 to 11 foot storm surge, the wall of atlantic ocean moving in with the counter clockwise winds to the tributaries, streams and rivers and it is overwhelming them. new bern got a report of over 10 feet of storm surge with people that still need to be rescu

the surge has finally come over the docks here in morehead city. not nearly as badly as we heard right now up in newman, north carolina. but we can see the debris in that water, and being where we are 7 to 11 feet of surge still possible. and then as you're going to have to worry about flooding rain possibly of historic proportions in this part of north carolina. >> yeah, it is raining and raining hard here. right now the winds here as you've said have kicked up. the boats behind me they are rocking, they're beginning to rock here, and this is river. not even the ocean. i can't even look that way because that's the way the wind is blowing right now. and john, you were talking about the duration of this storm, and that is what makes it so dangerous, and you talk about the trees. a tree maybe can sustain winds in tropical storm force, cat 1, cat 2 for an hour. but if it keeps on blowing for 8, 12, 20 hours which is what's happening here, that's a real problem. >> sure. you know, sometimes when the winds are sustained it's not that big a deal for a wh

the bridge between here and morehead and there is flooded in numerous places. let me show you this gas station on highway 70, absolutely pummeled. it is not like the roof collapsed. look at the steel and metal rods ripped out of the ground. not just this corner at the base of the atlantic beach bridge but every tree along the street ripped out of its roots, entire homes having their roofs ripped off, power lines down everywhere. we haven't seen anyone here except a few police cars, if you power trucks. power remains totally off, across the barrier island. the police chief telling me things are really bad. a lot of flooding, a lot of structural damage. that. is gone. what they need here is a little help for resources to set up shelters. they themselves have 36 rescue sidestreets flooded and structural damage like this gas station, generators, caught and a lot of other supplies will be needed here. that is the challenge as the rain sets in not just on coastal areas but moving inland. we will try to get to new bern. the absolutely extensive flooding around this ar

morehead city, north carolina is getting battered by the storm.ere we find leland vittert. what is going on there, leland? >> it's hard to imagine this part of north carolina has been getting this for 24 hours. when we talked yesterday, the winds had picked up. this is about the strongest that's felt them so far. it's almost unprecedented for a storm to stick around this long. that's how slow florence has been moving. we're inside morehead city off of atlantic beach. you cannot see atlantic beach behind me. in one of the lulls that these squall lines have had, we were able to venture out and get a sense of the damage that people are looking at when they come back. take a look. this is the main road of atlantic beach and parts, it's not quite a river yet but certainly a small stream. the rain obviously continuing, which means the waters will only rise. especially as the tide comes back in. this is one of the businesses that is completely destroyed here. you can see top rows of windows blown out. the roof according to the fire department has blown o

the ports of wilmington and morehead city in north carolina and the port of virginia remain closed at this time. the coast guard and army corps, noaa and other port partners are prepared to restore port operations with assets that had already been prestaged as soon as it is pofpblet for those of you in the path of the storm, we continue to urge stow stay off the water -- urge you to stay off the water. one other thing is that social media is a poor distress calling system for a number of reasons. we can't stress strongly enough that people in distress need to call 911. some of the lessons we learned during last year's hurricanes is the use of aggregate social media to find hot spots and vector in resources. however, for one-on-one rescuing of personnel, it's not efficient enough. so please, we urge you to use 911 if possible. finally, once the storm has passed, hazards may still be present. stay in a safe location while the coast guard and other state and local authorities assess damage and disperse additional resources. thank you. >> good morning. my name's ray alexander. i'm from th

you know, you said morehead city.e at 24 inches of rain and counting as more rain continues to come down. certainly when we left you last night at this time, the conditions were far worse. things are improving, but it is telling how slow they are to improve. normally been about 8 to 12 hours of really intense conditions. we have had 24 hours of it one of the reefns that this storm is going to be so destructive, it may not have the wind speed but it certainly has that unbelievable amount of flooding and rainfall. it has the storm surge and it sticks around for so long that this is there is this exponential effect. we have seen that as we just drove a couple of miles around here. that's as far as we could go as far as looking at the damage. a number of businesses destroyed. homes crushed. trees to toppled. blocking highways, you name it, sean. >> sean: stay safe. thoughts and mayor's to all the people impacted. us be fair and balanced. let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham. >> laura: good evening. i'm laura ing

from myrtle beach to morehead city. potential landfall sometime late friday night or actually friday morning for that landfall. and then continuing into saturday. so we are still looking at a very powerful storm system. overall, five to 15 inches of rain. that will produce flooding, isolated amounts of 20-plus inches. a storm surge of five to ten feet. i'll talk also about a storm hitting hawaii and what that could mean in about 15 minutes. >>> a jury in san mateo county found a man guilty of child molestation. investigators believe there may be more victims. prosecutors say he molested a 7-year-old relative about a decade ago and lured them to his bedroom with a chocolate bar. others have come forward as well, but their cases fall outside the statute of limitations. deputies are asking any one whose children have been in contact with lavaaky to contact them. >>> a strange set of circumstances. a boy looked happy and healthy running&the police department. he was reported missing around 1:00 in the among. she was arreste

president, i am jerry jones, mayor of morehead city. on behalf of a grateful community, not just talking about morehead, talking about coastal north carolina. your presence here today means a whole lot to us. it means we are not left stranded alone on this island. the federal government is here helping us, along with the state government and many local governments. being the mayor of a small town and having been boots on the ground, walking the food lines with my constituents, and not just my constituents, but people from outside the county, just building up something you said earlier about community pride in spirit. the community spirit from what i've witnessed is as high as it's ever been. and what i've learned also is that communities aren't just in neighborhoods and towns and states. i'm talking about a national community. people from all over the nation have come to assist us. and just on my way up here, i had three phone calls from people throughout the state who wanted to bring provisions to carter county. i am helping organize t

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. never have river levels higher than floyd in '99. go google what the floyd river flooding looked like from '99. it was horrendous with homes under water. just because it went down to a category 2, the water issues with the storm will be life threatening and we will have immense destruction of property because of the storm surge and the river flooding. >> never say never. so to all of those people in the region, please heed the evacuation warnings. calls. if a flash flood comes through, you cannot protect your home. let's head to wilmington. right in the storm's path. joining me is a man who is very busy these days, the mayor of wilmington, mayor, it's impossible to say is your city ready for this hurric

it doesn't -- this outer band continues to pour through more he morehead city. we know emerald isle. north of atlantic beach with 22 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. there is the satellite. it is not moving. it is sobering. it gets down to chris cuomo. people in north carolina are in danger. you need to try to evacuate because the water is still going to go up. there is no relief in sight. get to the highest piece of ground you can. that's is all you can do. if the water is on your door step, do what you can. go up on your roof. john. >> chad myers, i keep looking behind me because something is shaking on one of those boats. i see a sail that's come loose. i don't know if you can see it here. a sail has come loose on one of the boats behind me there. it is really blowing. chad, actually, if you are still with me, explain why it is -- this is the northeast cape fear river. it flow into the ocean. from inland -- it flows into the ocean. from inland. the wind is coming up stream down toward the ocean. explain. >> you are still on the west side of the eye. here is yo

live doppler out of morehead city. that is heavy rain starting to fall.uch more to come over so many hours. in fact, let's track it. it is 170 miles east-southeast of wilmington. it will be there during the overnight hours and come in as a category 2 with 105 miles per hour manipulate winds. it makes the right-hand turn. heads between florence and myrtle beach, drops to 60 miles per hour. it will be raining like crazy. one to two inches per hour. over columbia, unwinds at 30 miles per hour. it dumps heavy rain. it moves up the spine of the appalachians. 3 million people under a flash flood watch in the carolinacaro. we could get up to 40 inches of rain. storm surge up to 13 feet. flooding coasts, sounds, rivers, inland. we'll have damaging winds and tornados. back at home, low to mid-50s. pretty quiet weather wise. no fog, drizzle, low clouds. comfortable temperatures. those coming up. how about the commute? >>> yeah, it hasn't been terrible today, honestly. if you compare it to yesterday, especially the bay bridge commute, things are looking much, much b

along the morehead city and down just to the west of wilmington. a lot more rain to be had as we move forward here. radar pictures still picking up really big rain bands on the outside of it. there is the center of it and you go and see these heavy rain bands. very reminiscent to what we saw with hurricane harvey. very far away from the center in houston. we saw all of the rain that caused the significant flooding beer these rain bands have been pummeling the area all year long. heavy rain going over the same area time and time again. over the next couple of days, we will see some spots, bret, 20 inches of rain. eventually the rain will move to the shore. the rivers pressed sometime monday into tuesday. >> bret: will watch it, rick, thank you. senior correspondent rick leventhal is on wrightsville beach north carolina. good evening, rick. >> good evening, bret. we are still getting whipped by winds and getting pelted by raines as you can see. the main drag here is virtually deserted because it was eventually underwater earlier today. much of wright

if conditions get too bad, we won't come get you, that is the situation that's unfolding here in moreheade debris flags in the wind, it is about 75 to 80-mile an hour winds, we are north of where the eyeball is expected to come on in wilmington, separates the barrier island out to sea, the chief of police telling me that it's pounding them with wind and storm surge but the story you're going to hear about all day tomorrow and the next few days is the amount of rainfall and the flooding, the community of new bern, they rescued over 200 people, active rescues trying to get to 150 or so people, they are getting calls constantly, i'm up to my chest in living room with water, come get me, the authorities telling them to get high ground, get on the roof, you may have to wait a while, that area new bern 40 miles west in morehead city, the dangerous are the river, the river that during hurricane irene caused catastrophic flooding, we have a whole lot of florence to come because she's so big and the amount of rainfall, this could be similar in terms of the water damage to hurricane harvey, you hav

our correspondent paul blake is on the line now from morehead city, north carolina. to make landfall on friday? that's right, we got the latest advisory from the national hurricane centre here in the us and its moving north—west of about six miles per hour, no commenters per hour and they say interesting, here in morehead, the storm surge could be ten feet, that's the rising sea level brought in by this storm, seawater being pushed inland and where i am sitting, i'm ankle—deep, going on the deep. the window and the rain had been battering this area of the past couple of hours. certainly feeling it here in more head. we are going to start viewing it in the coming hours. millions of people affected by this. authorities there have been warning residents across the south—east to get out of the way of the storm. earlier in the week, there was a category 4 storm. they were worried about flying debris or even structures being blown down, blown around by the strong storms. it's been downgraded. the gusts are much higher, the sustained wind at about 90 miles per hour. the big

and can you see these bands moving through the morehead area. and then around hatteras. rain.ely heavy some of these bands coming in with ones of 100 to 8 miles an hour. that's the biggest winds that i saw right here at the point, around the morehead city area. what about current winds? well, 81-mile-per-hour one hes, this a buoy close to the eye. 81 miles per hour. 69 in beaufort. 51 in jacksonville, 59 in wilmington. the strong windsng are only g to pick up as we move through the night tonight. all right, hurricane florence, a category 1 storm mov ag northwes 6 miles per hour. only at 6 miles per hour. only 60 miles away.so you're looking at ten hours before it makes its way onshore here as a category 1, but still, i75-mile-an-hour winds ais making its way inland, we'll continue to see it down grade to a tropical storm, but the rain is just going to sit here for tadays. we'reing, 20, 30, potentially even 40 inches of rain. now, for us, it does come back and, yeah, does come back up our way and a chance for showers and thunderstorms monday and tuesday. but we're going t

they say it is 2 feet of rain here in morehead city. that has two effects.bviously, the flooding here in the city, but also you have the immovable force, the storm surge coming end, and the rain coming down. the only thing for the water to do is to go up, and much like what you heard from steve, it's been dairy difficult for us to move much more than a couple of miles to see the damage. we stop with the wind damage, water damage, especially about two or 3 miles from us, just over there, you see some flashing lights behind us, that is atlantic beach. take a look. >> this is the main road of atlantic beach. in part, it is not quite a river yet but certainly, a small stream. the rain obviously continuing, which means these waters will only rise, especially as the tide starts to come back. this is just one of the businesses that is completely destroyed here. you can see top rows of windows blown out, the roof according to the fire department is blown out. and there was a front door. now anyone can walk through. it becomes the bigger question for some money of th

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still now 24 hours since the really bad stuff started in morehead city.mes lean against the gusts of winds. if nothing else just to

kind of between new bern and morehead city, dry right now. that is going to rotate in. incredibly heavy band coming in around the jacksonville area and raleigh as well. that's why we think the flooding is going to go on for a very long time. take a look at this. we have got river flooding going to go on right now. projections for river flooding. we have four gauges today currentfully flooding. this is five days from now. we have gotten toes of rivers that are going to be a lot of them at their record level flooding that they have ever seen and they have seen a lot of flooding here from other tropical storms. this is five days from now. so, that flooding event that is coming at least the river flooding event is not here yet. this is the future radar, take a look at kind of those dark red bands. this goes through tonight 11:00 tonight. still down there along the coast. we have got the rain coming. in and now it's spreading a little bit farther inland. charlotte by tonight. also moving toward the southern appalachian. goes throughout the day tom

he is in morehead city, north carolina. >> it's been a long day for all of us, sean.hy they are calling this this form of a lifetime. we talked to the police chief earlier, he said, the first couple of hours are like any other storm of these conditions standing for so long, hours upon hours of hurricane-force winds, still a couple of hours from high tide. you can see the docs continuing to rise. pretty soon they will be lifted up and they will become barges of destruction throughout this town. the marine, they don't have any power there. he said, all we got as flashlights and mr es. anyone who stayed to write it out is on their own until it passes and police and first responders had once again had back out. they have a long couple of weeks ahead of them as the flooding begins. >> sean: leland vittert to come up stay safe north carolina. we'll have a continuing coverage of hurricane florence throughout the evening. let not your heart be troubled. we are always fair and balanced. we are not the destroyed truck media. laura ingraham is standing by to take it away. a lot

more and what is happening, let's go back to fox news correspondent leland vittert, who is still moreheada, still holding onto the lamp post. leland, still you are friends with the lamp post. >> still very good friends, about to part. much to the happiness to both you and my mother on this one. the storm surge keeps coming and if you are really getting a sense of the power of the water here. that is what is the destructive nature that florence will bring bright not only here, but farther inland. what makes it the unusual is how does curving end. the barrier islands are just about two or 3 miles that way but rather than acting as a barrier, they are acting as a final for this water, as it continues to slam in here. the longer that florence turns, it could be a total of about 24 hours of hurricane conditions. the worst is going to get, not for the people out on the islands, it's bad they are, but the water levels will continue to rise here, and up the streams, farther inland, sometimes up to 100 miles inland. you could get really catastrophic flooding, which means water rescues are going to

he's joining us from morehead city. what's it like where you are?porter: hi, wolf, we're on the northeastern quadrant of this storm where you see the strongest winds and heaviest rains. right now we're in a rather dry spot as the bands of the storm have been lashing against this coast. the winds are definitely sustaining at much higher speeds now from what we've seen over the last few years. the intensity of those wind, you can see out here in this cove as it pushes out towards the barrier island from morehead city, and you can see just the whitecaps off those waves and how much intensity there is off of those waves. it's all being created by the wind here. that's essentially where we are pushing out of the north down to the south, and if you look across this cove, you can see here over the course of the last few hours the winds have battered some of these sail boats that were left in the cove and pushed up against that bank on the other side toppled over because of these winds. the rains at times have been very intense. we've been reaching out to e

still now 24 hours since the really bad stuff started in morehead city. you can still at times lean against the gusts of winds. if nothing else just to demonstrate how long the storm is taking to move on. it's really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. it is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we don't see that much destruction. but it will take days to survey what happened. and there are areas we can't get to. we drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. that means people's livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. the boat captains are out here and they won't be able to make a dive -- living for a long time. >> tucker: it takes a long time to know what happened. leland vittert, thank you. move now to rick leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, north carolina. rick? >> rick: we moved from wrightsville beach. two of the four fatalities reported so far w

we were just talking to the mayor of morehead city.ve got this county around us, we actually have a bigger problem here in that there are highly populated areas in this region in southern virginia, in north carolina, in south carolina and in some cases going into georgia where major population centers are in danger from these heavy rains and these floods. we have to sort of think about it that way, too. >> yeah, i mean the statement from the national hurricane center like the second paragraph says life-threatening catastrophic flash flooding. this will not be a coastal storm. you're going to have coastal impacts, but well inland, that term catastrophic life-threatening flash flooding. here's another factor, as much as we talk about wind, 88% of the deaths from hurricanes from direct impacts is caused by water, inland flooding storm surge. that's why these evacuation orders are given early to give people time to move to higher ground, and this will be an impact well inland. we're not just talking about the coast. we're talking about whe

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much rainfall that they've seen swansboro, north carolina, over 30 inches of rain. 25 inches in morehead city, north carolina coming up at 6:00, we'll talk more about the records back to you, brian. >> we will see you then, kaylee. thank you very much. >>> florence's rainfall is not only raising rivers, it is making rescue and recovery efforts all the more difficult because many roads are simply too dangerous to pass. contessa has more on this story. >> where the heart stopped off of i- 5. this is going to hamper the movement of resources to get to these flood damaged places to say nothing of the fact that the evacuation orders in south carolina have been lifted and people are trying to get home and even when they get off of i-95 as they're forced to do, you can see the lines of utility trucks doing that, then they encounter massive road closures on local highways and local streets as well. let me show you the map from north carolina that shows you more than 100 roads closed every black dot represents the road clothes >> i have resourgss frrnl i-95 the rivers aren't expected to k continu

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