lithgow to rickjones now in southport in north carolina.f the local residents association. he's decided to batten down the hatches and ride out hurricane florence at home. why did you decide that? when the storm was downgraded to category two that changed a number of residents. 7596 that changed a number of residents. 75% of the homeowners in our area have evacuated but we are approximately 30 feet above sea level. when hurricane hazel came through our town of southport was ground zero at the time of a 17 foot storm surge. so where we are we think is safe for the moment. obviously we need to keep our eyes on it. preparations are you making? we have 15 or 20 of us going from home to home to make sure that all the patio furniture has been armed tied down along with grilles or anything that could be a flying object to damage a home. our neighbourhood has been sanitised of those things. some homes have been boarded up. most of them not that we have made sure, we were under mandatory evacuation here. we are not a low—lying area. by mandatory tha

the intensity of the flooding is supposed to hit southport. from wilmington and that is supposed to hit overnight. it really is no longer safe. we need to count on things like social media. we have homes here with seven days of generator power. we will relocate to those homes if we need to and charge our cellphones and pay attention to media coverage such as yours. thank you very much and we wish you the best of luck. there's a major storm on the other side of the world as well. hundreds of thousands of people are being evacuated on the philippines island of luzon as typhoon mangkhut approaches with winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. it's due to make landfall on the northern tip of luzon over the weekend. up to ten million people are in the storm's path. reged ahmad reports. when the storm was downgraded to category two that changed a number of residents. 75% of the homeowners in our area have evacuated but we are approximately 30 feet above sea level. heavy rocks tying down houses in the north in the hope it might save the roofs of th

we have a water system failure in southport, but we have parts on the way. we think that will be mitigated shortly. we are worried about other water systems as the rivers begin to crest. everyone is watching that closely as well. ,e have equipment on standby because a total water system failure is a big issue. i have not had any significant water systems totally failed yet area i do know that jones county was having some issues. craven county had interconnect , they turned on the interconnects to maintain the water system. things are working. a backup plans are working. no major issues. >> we heard about price gouging. is there anything people need to be aware of? >> i don't have an update to the number. there is a number you can go to for price gouging. our business community as a have really pull together and helped out. thousandshundreds and of smaller businesses that have pitched in to help. most of the business community is doing great work right now. occasionally you will have someone who violates the price gouging law. we are asking people to report t

to reestablish service for first responders and logistics support only from fort fisher down to southport, and then we are also, and you see on this slide to the left, we requested a marine vessel that is coming off a mission in florida to be available to us, to come to the port of morehead. this vessel can handle hundreds of large vehicles, resupply's, fuels, and critical materials. we're opening our ports at wilmington and morehead. by tomorrow, we will be up to support this vessel, 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. i would really like to show our 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 allowing us to consider this. when the final steps of planning for this vessel, and as soon as we get the departments of defense relief from its previous mission, we will be able t

our very own mike bushell has been to southport to try a club session.and wheels give it fresh momentum. no longer are they restricted to getting a large inflatable boards out and finding some pond water, they can out keep paddle boarding through the winter, even when the sea off southport is rough and dangerous. —— some calm water. when it is too windy on the lake, you can still land paddle. just got off one board onto another, and still have fun with friends, and get active and fit. it originated from the states. when paddling followed behind, just like skateboarders did, they took to the streets and are training for the sport. it's much more sensible than skateboarding, mainly down to the longer and wider wheelbase on the boards. you also have extra contact with the floor. with the paddle, you no longer have to take your foot off steer year feet» ~ ~ you the same sort of elegance and grace as you glide along. i'm 70 and this is good exercise. i don't need to use my feet. it'sjust nice and fun. when it's really hot, and you're doing it, it feels really

joining me is mayor dub of southport, north carolina. thanks for joining me. can you hear me? >> yes, i can. >> we all just heard the update from governor of north carolina roy cooper saying how important it is that people evacuate from the evacuation zones. they are expecting violent wind, heavy rain through the weekend, more shelters opening throughout the state today. what can you tell us about residents in south port? >> we have had a mandatory evacuation here. a lot of our citizens have left and some of our businesses have closed up. i'm here now in our emergency operations center along with our city manager, our fire chief and his personnel and law enforcement. we have that so we can coordinate all of our resources and efforts to keep our city safe and our citizens who have decided to stay here. >> we always hear as we cover these huge hurricanes and storms, from residents who will not evacuate. they say i have ridden these out before and i will do it again. what is your message to those folks? >> we do have the mandatory evacuation. we are not going to go and drag peopl

southport sits right in the hurricane's path. good evening to you. you have a mandatory evacuation for your residents that started at 8:00 a.m. wednesday morning. are you preparing for the worse? >> we are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. we met with our emergency staff and all of the agencies that combine to help us to make our city and our citizens safe. >> it seems that you are calling for this evacuation early here, this mandatory evacuation. are you expecting everyone will be able to get out? >> well, we are just following suit. our governor was down here, governor cooper was in wilmington. we are about 30 miles south of there. everyone in all of the models -- from what we hear this will be a very terrible storm. we want to be prepared. we are planning for the worst and hoping for the best. >> we are just following suit. our other coastal towns are right close. they required mandatory evacuation, also. >> you talked to me about the governor. what else are people in your community doing to prepare for the hurricane? >> at 2:00 we

that is brunswick nuclear plant located near southport, north carolina where the cape fear river runse atlantic. it can power a million homes. even if they shut it down, it's uncle unclear how high a surge it can handle. let's go to david from duke live for us from rdu. good to see you. what about that plan? is it going off line? >> you know, if we expect to have sustained hurricane force winds, we'll follow our procedures to ensure we have a safe planned shut down of the nuclear unit itself. we'll monitor weather conditions and shut the plants down as appropriate within two hours of when if storm is expected to make impact. we will continue to have personnel onside and continue to monitor wind and water conditions as well as the weather forecast and certainly work closely with nuclear regulatory commission, local and state officials as well. our plants are very safe. we've got well-trained personnel. they're well-designed and we certainly have multiple backup systems in place as well. >> shepard: if you look across the grid, the serious concern is about this saturated ground that you

out and finding calm water, they can keep paddle boarding through the winter even when the sea of southportboards and the surfboards. it's much more accessible because of the longer and wider wheelbase. you have extra contact with the floor. with the paddle, you no longer have to take your foot off, you are pushing with your foot off, you are pushing with your arms your foot off, you are pushing with yourarms and your foot off, you are pushing with your arms and steering with your feet. if you are one of the many who have tried it on the water, you will find this a doddle. it's also much more stable than skateboarding because you have the stability of the stick. it gives you the same sort of elegance as punting on the river, you can glide along. i'm 70. it's good exercise. i've got a fused ankle and! it's good exercise. i've got a fused ankle and i can use a stick with my arms to push myself along. i don't need to use my feet. it's nice and fun. when you are doing it and it's really hot. it's really good. i don't skateboard but i do this and it's really fun. it's because the paddle makes yo

just got confirmation that a dam about six minutes from southport is about to break. police department telling me they've started evacuating people. it's a pretty big dam. it's going to cause all sorts of problems tomorrow. there's a nuclear plant near that area. they're already having to close some of the major roads and it's very likely that tomorrow a lot of the major roads around the area will be closed. we hope to bring you some of those updates as the sun comes up. it seems like this area, the southport area, not out of the woods, still feeling the effects of this hurricane now turned tropical storm. >> we'll count on you for those updates you as the night goes on. >> i want to go back do the home of jay tatum. as we learned last hour, he's built a small bar in his backyard. entertaining members of the local community there. among them. what are you hearing from folks who remained in wilmington, returning to their homes there, having a drink with jay tatum? >> reporter: a lot of people here are happy they left, even though the storm got downgraded. this storm is

what a shot of southport.nitely. you don't have the instability of the waves, you know? a big weight can come along and knock you off your board. but out there, i don't think i saw anybody fall, and they were mostly beginners. i always found skateboarding and the difficult. but that looks, with their poll... yeah, because you don't have to keep stepping up to push yourself. skateboarding, nothing wrong with it, it is going to be an olympic sport. at much more challenging than that. looks fun. thank you, might. so, it is that dreaded moment, back to school. i used to love going back to school. i used to love going back to school! as an only child. seeing all my little friends. well, parents might be worrying. this weekend's big shop will include trying to buy nutritious food for their children's school lunchboxes, food that they will actually eat. a new survey suggests that many parents feel guilty that their child's packed lunch isn't healthy enough. we've been asking some of you what food you send your kids t

she flew southport chicago out over glenview road and lake avenue. she was trying to save the people on the ground and she was struggling to gain elevation -- elevation and altitude to save herself. everyone now from the field and chicago was watching the little red plane in the sky know when one of two things is about to happen. she is going to bail out from the dangerously low altitude or she is going to crash. either way it probably wasn't going to end well. that woman's name was florence kling and smith. you probably haven't heard of her. most people haven't. when we think about women in aviation in the 1920s and 30s we tend to think about one woman, amelia earhart as if she was all alone. flying so low in the sky but in a time of earhart other women were flying with her forming

it's why cities like bolivia, southport, disconnected to wilmington, making the authorities efforts topplies to the area, rescue and help to communities that are stranded behind me even possible. something else we have been following is a developing story, a couple miles south of here is a dam in boiling springs lakes. it's the sanford dam, built in the 1960s. withstood every storm prior to florence, but breached sat night due to foodwaters. that water -- i hope we are showing the images now. >> yeah, we are. >> went over the road in the dam, eroded the soil and that dam completely gave way, wreaking havoc in the state of north carolina. there's a water line in this sownty, one of the largest counties in size -- 850 square miles. the main water line, totally damaged because of the dam breach. of the five districts here, two have no water. it just shows you how complex the recovery efforts are going to be in the next couple of days and weeks for the folks down here in south carolina. >> that sanford dam u.s. intelligence officials incredible. the road washes out. even if you have a car

and law enforcement tells me that they've had to close, to shut down highway 211 that goes from southportecause of the rising water levels here. that is what is making law enforcement job so difficult right now because it is beginning to just be hard to get around all along the eastern part of north carolina. i was on the phone with the police department as well. they tell me they haven't even begun to assess the damage because of the heavy flooding here, and there have also been some rescues, mostly people that have gone out in their vehicles and then all of a sudden you get stuck in these bands, and water just starts rising quickly, and they've had to be rescued by police. that's why this island is still under 24-hour curfew, and the bridges are closed indefinitely. david? >> mariana in oak island, north carolina, for us. i want to turn now to wilmington, north carolina, which is a little farther up the coast. flooding there a huge concern as rescue missions are still under way. my colleague, cal perry, is live there. he's been talking to residents who have come back to their homes, res

i came to southport shortly after hazel left. i remember people floating out of their houses on mattresses. so there was very, very terrible times. >> thank you so much. >> can i say something please, quick, quick? >> quick thing. >> the heavens declare the glory of god and the earth shows his handiwork. i've live heardd here 41 years, this is heaven. >> a lot of people praying. >> all right, a colorful character there, but we hope everybody is safe. i want to go to nbc meteorologist bill karin. what are we really dealing with? >> this has a chance to be a combination of two worst nightmares. it could be a major category 4 or 5 hurricane. i don't think it's going to be a 5, nor a 4. maybe a 3. plus the wind damage which adds the storm surge. then if it stalls, you get the flooding problem. like you saw with harvey. we borrowed ourselves a little more time. instead of 8:00 p.m. landfall, now the hurricane center has it more towards friday at 2:00 a.m. i think it could go slower than this into maybe friday at 8:00 a.m. we bought ou

here we go down to southport and you get to carolina beach in wilmington, the barrier islands ant the intercoastal and a high bummer and you're still talking over six feet. further to the north though, you're starting to see six to nine, maybe ten foot, and that's up not just the cape fear risk but you've got the noose river and the tar river. that is well inland. if this storm stalls off the coast, that's hour after hour of just pushing more and more of this water in than just making its way inland, so once the storm surge reaches this spot, the heavy rains fall. that, too, then, all that flooding will come back out from the rivers to this area, so they are going to get flooded on both sides. extremely vulnerable. >> that whole area of the country, if you want, just to give yourself some confidence in what you're hearing, look at the coastline, the south coastline of long island, and it got hit by one bad storm. i'm not talking about sandy but back in the 1930, and it changed the topography of the area. it created massive bays and inlets and the need for engineering that is still the

marshy and it may do that, with but some of these areas we're watching, from wilmington down to southport to 10-feet surge smooumoving into the area staends upward. the angle of the coastline is what's most detrimental to this part of the u.s. >> tom, thanks for laying it out, i really appreciate it. >>> "outfront" for us next, bracing for a national health crisis. how north carolina's pig farms could lead to a toxic sludge. be right back. keep those shrimp comin'! endless shrimp is back at red lobster. with all the shrimp you want, any way you want them. try delicious creations like new crunchy fiesta shrimp tortilla chip crusted then topped with a creamy blend of three cheeses and finished with pico de gallo. and there's new sesame-ginger shrimp. grilled and drizzled with savory soy-ginger sauce and sprinkled with asian seasoning. and don't forget the favorites you love, like garlic shrimp scampi! but endless shrimp won't last endlessly, so hurry in. be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i

what are you seeing in southport?lderman powell and we're in the situation where the power has been off for several days down here. however, we've got power back on to about half of the city. but our main concern now is water. our water has -- we haven't got water service and we're working on that right now. we may have to transfer some reserve water reservoirs in town to put on our main system. >> bill: you are breaking up a little bit. we'll try to hang on and reestablish the signal. if you need the water i'm curious to know what else you need and if you'll get it. what's your plan? >> we have tanker trucks. we had one that is plugged in already and made it through. taking water to the hospital. that was one of our main concerns there at the hospital because they need water for a number of different things. >> bill: mayor -- >> can you hear me? >> bill: it's a little difficult, sir. here is what i want you to know if you can hear me. give our very best to everybody you are trying to take care of and we'll get the wo

the british nationals in southport. it is really fun. you go back to seeing..., do you. it is indoors. well, if you are going outdoors after your competition, stav will tell you what is going on. looking warmer this weekend, the first weekend of meteorological autumn, looking pretty warm, especially on sunday. some cool spots, especially in the south—east, some mist on richmond park and the sunshine will be abundant in the south—east, temperatures will be creeping up with dry weather today and tomorrow. high pressure driving warm air up from biscay and france. this weather front will remain out across the far north—west of the uk, keeping the cold air with it but more cloud across scotland and northern ireland and even some spots of rain, mainly in western scotland and pabst west and wales on and off through the day. after that cool start in the south—east, lots of sunshine this morning, into afternoon fairweather cloud will bubble up ——, go mike perhaps... for northern ireland, north—eastern parts of season eased of breaking through and we could see 19 or 20 de

wilmington, oak island through southport, that's wrightsville beach.h'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 be the first day offa fall which will be o geico has over 75 years of gr

and hillary came in for me twice, and bill came in, and we were down in southport, martha, the cook -- >> martha stewart? >> gave me a party. and the president was coming to it. and martha was martha, and the president came in, in a helicopter, and they weren't ready. martha wasn't ready. she was changing all the seats, and she doesn't like me so i hope she doesn't see this. anyway, i went out to meet bill and the secret service took me out to meet bill and i walked across to that helicopter and oh, what am i doing here? where is my husband? and we got in the car and martha still wasn't ready, and so we drove around the town, and on every corner, you know, the people were all out, and he said to me, barbara, you know you're not going to win. and i said, i know. and he said, just keep your dignity and keep going, and i'll take care of you. and of course having been on ways and means, you know, that nice thought. and i thought, oh, you know, maybe trinidad or one of those places, i could play golf. so, after i lost, i made an appointment to go down to personnel and they were talking to

and the southport transit  center opened a month ago and served as the original bus depot. it is a steel beam that supports the center's rooftop garden and a second crack was discovered in and adjacent steel beam. and thursday, the light fixtured were removed to prepare for the suring system. workers will going put up the suring system design on sunday to relieve the weight on the two cracked steel beams. >> once the sureing is in place and we offloaded all of that support on that beam, and they can start our analysis of what happened. >> reporter: officials speculate that the beams' crack could be to the installation or the design and they will conduct a peer review of that permanent repair plan and then another review of the entire building. a web portal was set up where the public can access the peer reviews, the inspections and the design report. but it will take another week till this center and this portion of fremont street will be opened. mardi gras, ktvu news -- leigh martinez, ktvu news. >>> san francisco mta just got a grant. it will help with bus infrastructure.

. >> bill: bruce oakley, southport, north carolina not for from our location in wilmington.sandra, it continues to blow here. the back side of the storm should be here i'd say 45 minutes to an hour from now and we'll see what we get then. >> sandra: we're awaiting official update from the national hurricane center at the top of the hour. the nhs tweeted out hurricane florence is just inland near cape fear, north carolina. important to point that out. the last update we saw from nhc was that it had made landfall near wrightsville beach, north carolina at 7:15 a.m. eastern time. as fema reported at a conference earlier florence is a slow mover. but don't let that fool you. this may just be the beginning. a live shot up at myrtle beach, south carolina as the wind continues to blow there. we're awaiting the update from the north carolina governor and the national hurricane center. all that coming up at the top of the hour. our eyes are all on hurricane florence as it storms through the carolina coast. keep it right here for continuing coverage on fox news channel. ods child-guar