i go over to north street -- north beach a couple times a week. i work as a gardener and i worked in central park and the shakespeare garden. my question, or my concern with some of the renovations to the park, is the conversion of asphalt to concrete. especially in south park, which sort of change the park from a park land to an urban plaza. it is successful, but it has changed the look quite dramatically. also, the upper level, which had an asphalt, sort of, trail circling, now is a rather hard concrete circle. it's kind of overkill. otherwise, the renovation of the park seems to be very sensitive. in this case, i was concerned with the conversion of concrete asphalt paths to concrete. asphalt, again, is more trail like. it has a very soft edge. it is dark. it blends in with the soil. concrete reflects the light, even when it is tinted. you are shooting it, you would use a different exposure. i think that is as any change to existing type of paving materials should be addressed in the procedures for review of alterations. and the second thing is

many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i

the north beach community has -- the patrons have expressed that they have the idea. the possibility of having a safe place to go, maybe after they've been drinking at the other bars after 2:00 come into our club and hangout for a while until they are going to get in their cars and go home. it's one of the reasons. for the employees, it's important because we do need more shifts. we need more money to support ourselves here. we all know how high the rent is. i think it would be a good change for the north beach community. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. my name is emma henley. you can call me ms. emma. i am coming here today not as an employee of the club but as a representative of both nightclub culture here in san francisco and the nightclub industry. i also have worked as a producer and performer internationally and i've been tracking international nightclub trends for quite some time. i've been in this industry my entire adult life. although i get up earlier in the morning these days. i am here most

north. they are no longer around in southern new england. it is one example. i see our beachesre -- which are not nearly the size of what they once worked when i was a kid. and we see what happens this week. i just wanted to throw this out there as food for thought about the kinds of things that mayors deal with. mayors on the east coast of the united states have to be mindful of hurricanes. mayors from miami all the way to new bedford. and this week i was asked on an am station, what about the storm , florence that is in the middle of the atlantic? i said, you know, we are keeping an eye on it. we always do. i should probably take a closer look. i had my team take a closer look at it and i did my own google research. i found a washington post case. this is three days ago that said that the storm, florence, where was the atlantic three days ago was in a place where no storm had hit the united states since 1851. out of 67 identified storms in that time. sixty-seven, not a single one hit the united states. the folks in the carolinas are about to learn clock you will shortly -- an

in georgetown, north myrtle beach, light? then you begin the rest of the coast. this is ground radar, this is showing precipitation. you can see north myrtle beach is about the cut off. and then all the way up the coast to kill devil hills inland, to keensville and kinston and the rest. all of this will experience rain now the next 8, 10, 12 hours. and then they believe the storm will meander its way to south carolina for some low country food. for now though, hardly moving. the last official update from the hurricane center was at 2:00 eastern time. the next is at 5:00 eastern. it was then moving 10 miles an hour. it's not anymore. rick reichmuth says it's fallen to a crawl about the speed that you and i walk. coming up at the top of the hours, we'll be on facebook watch, facebook.com/foxnewswatch for an update from the national hurricane center. "your world" with neil cavuto is coming up here in three minutes. this is fox news channel. keep those shrimp comin'! endless shrimp is back at red lobster. with all the shrimp you want, any way you want them. try delici

officer alvarez, or alvarez, as he's known throughout north beach, went to st. charles and the mission, then everett junior high, lowell, then to city college, all of which informed his love for san francisco, and its mottly cast of characters -- motley cast of characters, and he knows every one in north beach. his first job was at the ripe age of 12, sounds like child exploitation to me. but that began his lifelong love affair with reading, and it's not often that you can actually find a cop on his day off dressed just like you see mark there w his cowboy boots on sitting in the cafe reading james joyce's "ulysses," i kid you not. he's always been a music aficionado and went to work in the various punk rock and music clubs, starting at the fabled mabuya in north beach and later in the dna lounge and oasis in the '80s, all the background that you need to join the san francisco police department, which he did in 1990, when he entered the police academy as a member of the recruit class number 166. he served at mission station, at engleside station, and for as long

gin, greg scott, north beach pool, mr.urnalism teacher, and my washington high school peer resource counsellor. and all of them made me feel respected, believed and included. they made me want to do for others what they did for me. they allowed me as a child to feel free to explore, have opinions, take a stand, and to grow. and so, of course, i grew up to become an educator, returning to the same environments that i learned so much from to help raise the next generation of leaders that will, in turn, be the holders and advocates of their community. and the mission district in many ways reminds me of north beach in the '80s. children in my neighborhood feel connected to it much the same i i felt last then. loving adults do their best to steer kids in the right direction. to wrap their arms around the entire family and help them grow. and school for me is still a welcome and inspiring place. at my school, the staff is guided by feelings of great love and a commitment to building our students into strong bilingual, multicultu

made it too dangerous for first responders to venture out for much of the day, and here in north myrtle beachwolf, we're actually still waiting for the worst of the storm to reach us. tonight hurricane florence beating down on the carolina coast. the storm making landfall in north carolina early friday morning, bringing sustained winds of over 90 miles per hour -- ripping through structures -- washing out roads. soaking the north carolina coastline as it slowly crawls to shore. the center of the storm is expected to linger over the coast of north and south carolina for another day, bringing life-threatening storm surge, dangerous winds and torrential rains, endangering the many residents who stayed behind. >> hurricane florence is powerful, slow and relentless. it is an uninvited brute who doesn't want to leave. >> trestle is almost under water. >> reporter: in new bern, north carolina 150 residents were trapped overnight while awaiting rescue. >> it got real -- it gol real heavy real fast. >> reporter: the storm surge reaching ten feet in that area. >> the water on the wall, you can see how

>> reporter: wolf, the conditions are changing very rapidly here at north myrtle beach. stating images coming out of north carolina. that flooding is now spreading to south carolina. this is ocean boulevard where about ten blocks of residential street have now gone under water. you see it is about three to four feet deep, coming up on mailboxes and covering front yards. >> how dire are the circumstances for folks that decided not to evacuate? >> reporter: wolf, for the last 12 hours this water row rapidly. it is almost up to my knees and this morning it was dry, so that's a very dangerous condition. the good news here in south carolina is that many did heed evacuation orders. we haven't seen any fire/rescue or boats or high-water vehicles coming into this area and we hope that continues and everybody got out before the water came in. >> do you expect the situation at least over the next 24 hours to worsen? >> reporter: yeah, wolf. we're starting to see those winds switch around on the storm. that can push additional high surf and storm surge into the beaches here of north

sotlombardo/works in north beach: "i definitely can see it being an issue for the peopley, especially the people who live above these bars here on grant">among those standing firmly against extending the hours of alcohol consumption is carson benowitz-fredericks of alcoholjustice.orgsot the bill features a five year pilot program. it also allows in choosing which neighborhoods, nights of the week or times of the year the law will be active. san oakland are california interested night life governor brown signs law it will go january francisco haaziq madyun kron4news (pam) still ahead: donald trump jr is getting involved in the new nike advertisment conversation. how the president's son claims he quote - 'fixed it' with a new picture. (ken)and next: pipes, syringes, human waste.. just some

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sotlombardo/works in north beach: "i definitely can see it being an issue for the people by, especially the people who live above these bars here on grant">among those standing firmly against extending the hours of alcohol consupmtion is carson benowitz-fredericks of alcoholjustice.orgsot the bill features a five year pilot program. it also allows for flexibility in choosing which neighborhoods, nights of the week or times of the year the law will be active. san francisco and oakland are among the nine california cities interested extending night life hours. if the govenor brown signs the bill into law it will go into effect january 2021...in san francisco haaziq madyun kron4news (catherine) a big story we're following... a man opened fire in downtown cincinnati today..in a shooting that

sotlombardo/works in north beach: "i definitely can see it being an issue for the peopleecially the people who live above these bars here on grant">among those standing firmly against extending the hours of alcohol consupmtion is carson benowitz-fredericks of alcoholjustice.orgsot the bill features a five year pilot program. it also allows for flexibility in choosing which neighborhoods, nights of the week or times of the year the law will be active. san francisco and oakland are among the nine california cities extending night life hours. if the govenor brown signs the bill into into effect 2021...in san haaziq madyun kron4news lawrence karnow: low clouds hugged the coast today with plenty of sunshine in the bay and valleys. highs today were in the 80s inland with 70s and 80s around the

we have rick leventhal in wrightsville beach, north carolina. we begin with jeff flock in carolina beach. we just talked to town manager there, jeff, and he says they feel prepared. >> i think they are. there's still a lot of people here. you never know. we're 17 hours away as you look at a very angry atlantic ocean. this is low tide right now. so we're nowhere near what we're going to get later tonight and as the storm comes in. the national hurricane center says 8:00 a.m. tomorrow the eye or eye wall or part of the hurricane is on us here. we're a long way away and still getting the outer bands. i want to show you pictures of flooding already here. i think that's the story when this is said and done. harvey last year in houston. you know, that's one that was not so much about the hurricane. it was about the water. that may be the story when we're done here. for now, still weighting for the onslaught. that's the building we'll be in, we hope so, before it's over. >> dana: thanks, jeff. first responders and rescue teams on the ground there making

chris cuomo is in north myrtle beach. y important news where you are as well. >> true. you are going from a political storm to a real storm headed where we are. this is north myrtle beach, south carolina. i will give you the equation of the moment. you take the information that florence say category two. people look up at the sky and start to see what they believe are the storm bands and it equates to a sense of false confidence that create this is scene on the beach that jay will show you right now. humans of people hanging out on what is a beautiful breezy beach day here on some 10 miles of north myrtle beach coast. the waves are amazing and it's all going to change. that's why we have chief spain with us here doing the preparations. thank you and thank you for your efforts in staying here to keep everybody safe. this worried me. there are too many people out here. this is a mandatory evacuation zone. what do you know to be the situation some. >> when people hear the storm has slowed down in intensity, they try to move m

north myrtle beach. n tells you that north myrtle beach and myrtle beach will see florence later and with more energy than you'll see in other areas. so we've been showing you early impact from morehead city and other places around north carolina so you can get a sense of what low-power impact can do. 50 and 60 miles an hour winds can be more than enough if sustained with surge and precipitation. we're worried that when we come here, people sleeping on the strength of this storm, oh, it's a category two or three or four, what about matthew? what about hugo? it's a mistake. that number doesn't tell the whole story. the size of the storm matters. the speed matters. 30 inches of water will change what this community looks like. this is a beautiful day for people but they're not supposed to be here. this is a mandatory evacuation. so what happens if all of these other aspects of florence are made manifest? that is the concern. that's the concern for first responders who once you get out over 30 miles per hour

and he's in north myrtle beach here with me. now, ben, if you can hear me, it seems that things have just changed. i was looking at the radar before we went on and i wasn't expecting it to pick up like this. what is hitting us right now? >> well, chris, as you mentioned, we had the wind shift and the winds were blowing the ocean out to sea and then it switches and pushed the water inland so you are dealing with the surge at the height of florence, flying debris was a huge concern and you could see this huge tree fell on top of a steakhouse. tha thankfully it was closed but numerous hazards here in the north myrtle beach area. >> ben, let me ask you o-- one more thing, while ben is talking, give us the shot from above with jake and i'm fairly familiar with the ocean and dealing with the tides, it seems like it moved five or six feet toward us in the last 25, 30 minutes. is that what they're expecting now? do you have the combination of high tide and energy being released and the picking up of the winds working in concert? >> chri

i always point to north beach. there's some allies in north beach that have zero street trees and they're some of the most amazing, quaint allies that you see. the sidewalk is three feet wide. we just need more room for our street trees and we're trying to be better advocates to make sure what we're sitting in will survive long-term. >> are there no species with a tall enough trunk to alleviate the issue of parked cars offering even when there is a no-parking situation cars that would come by and swap the tree on their way by. >> it is a little challenging. it's counter intuitive. but for a narrow sidewalk, we need a very up right species. a lot of our small stature species that are small in maturity tend to be oval and round-forming like a japanese maple or something like that with a lot of low branching. there are a lot of up right species that are large stature, where they're like we'll be very narrow up and right but it's also going to be getting much bigger. the trunk, the root base, reall- >> like a palm. >>

nick watt, north myrtle beach, south carolina. >> nick watt, thank you. h myrtle beach important tourist area, so this is certainly an inconvenience for sure. but a lot of people watching to see what happens as this storm pushes through that area. you can see right behind me here, i'm sure you can see it, this storm chasing truck. i want to bring in mike tice. this is mike's truck. mike is a storm chaser and also a photographer with national geographic. mike, what is it like for you to drive around in a situation like this and get important readings, understanding of the storm? >> i feel like it's my passion in life and my purpose and that is to collect scientific data in hurricanes. i've always been passionate about them since a little kid so i developed the herb, which stands for hurricane eye watch vehicle. windows can't get smashed out. i have calibrated anomometers. i recorded it earlier today. adds the eye wall comes in, which is very close, we'll see if i get a higher wind gust than that. might be 90 mile, 100 range. the big thing is the surge and i

. >>> the top of the hour, i'm anderson cooper in wilmington, north carolina, along with don lemon in myrtle beach, south carolina, chris cuomo in north myrtle beach. this is our special coverage of hurricane florence. today it begins. after days of warnings, the carolina coast are feeling the first band, just the first inkling of what could be the worst storm to hit this area in 30 years. this is a huge, huge storm. moments ago a new paper out on where the winds are. the area is predicted to pummel, it's now gotten bigger. it's doubled in size from fish forecast. listen to what winds sounds like at just 55 miles an hour. winds are just one of the storm's triple threat. this area could see catastrophic storm surge. the downpour is expected to be relentless, estimated 10 trillion gallons of main. in wilmington, they're talking about getting eight month's worth of rain over three days and they've already had a lot of rain this year. we're covering hurricane florence up and down the coast with crews all over. >> the storm has winds of over 105 miles an hour. moving to the northwest at 10. it's expect

it was this morning that the storm finally came ashore in wrightsville beach, north carolina, which is just off of wilmington. beach community there where, man, they've just gotten a lot of wind and rain. rick reichmuth is live. hi, rick. >> i'm rick leventhal. rick reichmuth is your chief meteorologist. >> shepard: very similar. >> true. the governor called this a 1,000 year storm around it's true. the wind has picked up. the hurricane hit us overnight, shepard. it came ashore at 7:00 a.m. the house was rocking that we rented a few doors from the beach. it was rocking all night. so we could feel it being pushed by the wind. far less wind than they originally expected. it was blowing at 140 at one point and then down to -- i don't know -- 90, 100 last night. this is the main drag here in wrightsville beach. i know you're familiar with. north lumina afternoon and south lumina avenue. the water has receded. they set a record in wrightsville beach with almost five feet above the high tide level. that was a record by more than a foot. so nearly five feet of water above high tide. it was co

. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhoodhat hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get bett

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

steve harrigan live in north topsail beach, north carolina.teve, you look like you are getting pummeled. >> trees are beginning to bend as we are seeing the first tropical storm force winds. police just shut down the main bridge. if you are on this island as we are, you are pretty much stuck for the duration. there is no one on this island. the police and authorities have given a clear message to people to get out early. that's what footer large part they have done -- that's what for the large part they have done. the concern will be not only from the wind, we could see sustained gusts. but from the rain, we could see 20-30 in some areas. and perhaps 40 inches of rain that ask produce catastrophic flooding. 12,000 people in shelters. the national guard has been called up. swift boat rescue teams from 19 states are here and the army is ready with a large presence in north carolina. we just lost our power now, so conditions are continuing to worsen. the farmy will have high-water rescue vessels ready. kennedy: these people of course are well tra

right now in carolina beach. north carolina. we have our nick watt in northern myrtle beach. south carolina. and our meteorologist at the cnn weather center. starting with you, there in carolina beach the wind is hitting you there. the rain hitting you. tell us about the situation as it is now. >> good morning to the viewers. the full story of hurrican florence still yet to be written. one thing is for sure. we know that where we are here at carolina beach on the coastal region of north carolina, we will be feeling the full brunt in the full fury of florence. as a projected land fall will move across the region in the over night and early morning hours of friday. something as a meteorologist i am looking forward to. this is an incredible event. we have seen the storm slow down tremendously. at snails pace. that's why the storm is so different to any other storm that people have lived out here along the coast. it is moving so slow, this is going to be a long duration event. it's just starting to show its nasty face to us now. wind gusts get this, over 60 kilometers per hour. g

i want to check in with our nick watt, who i think is in north myrtle beach. e if i'm wrong if you're not in north myrtle beach and how are things there? what's it looking like? >> anderson, i am in north myrtle beach. you're right. and the conditions seem to be similar to what you're getting up there. the wind is picking up. i would say gusts right now of about 60 miles per hour. they are forecast to rise to about 90 miles per hour this afternoon. now, we are staying in a house on stilts on the beach. i tried to grab a few hours sleep. it was hard because you could feel the house moving in the winds. it was blowing in the wind. now, the issue here is going to be the water. that storm is going to turn south-southwest, so at some point later today, we're basically -- we here in north myrtle beach are going to be between the eye of the storm, the intercoastal waterway, which is big body of water, and the ocean. now, that tide is supposed to be out right now, and i can tell you, it is not. we're going to get high tide at about 2:00 this afternoon, so storm surge i

up on the north of wrightsville beach, flashes on the mainland side. l reaches, coverage is only going to throw. a couple hours ago, 165,000 customers in north carolina without power. that number could reach 1 to 3 million customers before the storm is done. it starts here in wrightsville beach. tough to stay if there is flooding yet on the main roads. we can't really tell, we can't tell if there has been any significant tree damage or trees down, but that is also likely to happen because as you know, the ground in this part of north carolina has been saturated. wilmington set records this summer with the amount of rainfall. 20 or 30 or more inches of rainfall on top of that. that is why they are so concerned about the flooding, the catastrophic flooding that they are predicting, because as the storm moved across the state, it will dump rain on areas of the state that already seen far too much of it. the situation in wrightsville beach is good as far as residents are concerned because most he did the mandatory evacuation. i was told about a handful of r

you're looking live at carolina beach and north carolina as hurricane florence inches closer. the storm weakened slightly to a category three but it is still extremely dangerous. from space, watch how this monster hurricane churned across the at scientist at 130 miles an hour atthat time of the picture. we have team coverage first. mary lee is tracking the storm. mary? >> reporter: all eyes are on this powerful storm. you can see the outer bands now reaching the carolina coast there. i want to show you the latest on hurricane florence. as michelle mentioned, it is a category 3 storm with sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. it is currently 435 miles southeast of wilmington north carolina to the northwest at 60 miles per hour, it does not look like it strengthened. this is the projected path with hurricane florence. strengthening backup to a category four storm before it reaches the carolina coast. likely it will make landfall as a major hurricane. we are lookro storm surge as well as damaging flooding. those are the impacts associated with hurricane florence, as much as 10 f

this is north top sail beach in north carolina.his is upcoast from storm came ashore 40 or 50 miles as the crow flies. can't get that far by car. as the crow flies it's that far north. they have taken a beating throughout the dale. early in the morning it started midnight, 1:00. the winds and rain and sea just pounding and pounding and it did so for the better part of, i don't know, it seems like 16 hours. it certainly is degree creeinrecedingnow, significant,. we have not been able to move about in these beach towns top sail beach, north top sail beach. all of those areas that are north of wilmington, north of that area. we have not been able to move arranged there and do any assessment of damage because the authorities said, look, stay off the roads, if you can. so, through that whole area they will have to be an assessment that happens. hopefully before "special report" with bret baier this afternoon, 6:00 eastern, 5:00 central. but between now and then, we will go back to our correspondents. coming up next on fox news channel,

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 you right there. here is cape fear river going through there. because the cape fevar river is not filling up. the

i live in north beach. i walk and bike the embarcadero at least once a day. right now, embarcadero's kind of the worst of both worlds. it's very, very crowded. when i walk, i'm always scared that bikers are, like, flying around me. as a biker, if i take the bike lane, i'm just terrified that a car will just pull right in front of me. and from those pictures, they show cars, like, jumping in front of you. but even -- even when they're standing still, you don't know if somebody's going to open a door right into you, and i've had many, man ae close calls where i'm just riding my bike straight along the bike way, and i have to react, and if i would have just reacted a little bit slower, i would have just been on the floor. this is -- i understand it starts oh, like oh, let's do a shared lane here. it's incremental, but based on the traffic we have on the embarcadero, it's time. it's time to give bikes a dedicated lane, give pedestrians their own space. it just makes so much sense. and the near term improvements, we need those posts, we need protection. like, we k

myrtle beach will be lifted, which suggests local officials, state officials are confident that northach has already seen the worst of this storm. there is one more high tide in the early hours of the morning. and north myrtle beach survives that, then it has survived hurricane florence relatively unscathed. there were power lines down, some trees down. some localized flooding, but not what people feared this storm might bring. people will start coming back, they have already started coming back on saturday. and one woman who saw her house standing said you up don't understand the feeling and joy it is to see my home standing, particularly when i have been through devastation before. her house was completely destroyed in 1989 by hurricane hugo, hurricane florence and then tropical storm florence did not bring the devastation here that some might have feared. it is an area very prone to flooding. it has flooded many times. and this time, just localized, they really dodged a bullet here. now, the story is finding to move further inland, it's going to be fresh water we're talking about,

just about on top of top sail beach, north carolina. carolina beach you'll see a repo from jaygray, farther down the coastline here but the eye wall now is starting to come over the top of top sail beach. this is goingt to be a hard for a big piece of eastern north carolina where the winds have been consie.ently on sh the water has been piling up fast and furious. some reports storm surges as much as 10 feet high or more. yo say well what does that mean? onyou were to go to a beach calm day and stand at t water's edge, add ten feet on top of that and then on top of that large battering waves. several cycles left to go. the forecast models in high agreement as the storm continues to wobble southwest ward and then get picked up in the mid latitude westerly wind. that will bring the impacts around here as you get into monday. storm now just off theoast of top sail beach, north carolina. rainfall amounts still looking at morehan 20 inches of rain for a big piece of norna caro could even get several independence from lands of rain here monday

beach. then when you have north myrtle beach, they've got a long stretch of beach as well. but now this is -- in the northeast, you have -- usually the season is from memorial to labor, and then people go back to work and they leave the beach towels. not here. i was talking to the former mayor last night and he said their season can go all wait th up to november. so the people are losing money. everything is closed. when we were just out front on ocean boulevard here, not a store open, not a soul to be seen. they're dealing with it physically and fiscally as well, jake. >> don lemon, stay safe, my friend. >>> florence is now battling the coastal city of beaufort, north carolina where 100-mile-an-hour winds and powerful rain. how is your city holding up? >> we just had some uprooted trees. for those who did not evacuate and stayed in place, stay in place. i also want to mention -- >> mr. mayor, i'm sorry for interrupting. you're breaking up a little bit. i don't know if there's a better part of wherever you are. obviously we want to you stay safe, but if there is a better pl