take you now live to wrightsville beach, north carolina.he surf there is picking up and conditions are expected to deteriorate today. it's not going to be a good day to go in the water. there is a tropical storm warning now in effect over the next 24 hours. they are expecting two to three inches of rain, winds of up to 30 to 40 miles per hour. there's also a chance of tornadoes, and this is not coming at a good time for north carolina. they're used to this, of course, because it is hurricane season but it's a time when the summer season kicks in. tourism season under way. starts to hike there. many tourists will ride it out, wait for the storm to pass and conditions tomorrow might be a little bet perp at the live desk, i'm richard jordan. >>> even a tropical storm could not keep a daredevil from practicing his routine on the high-wire. look at this, blowing in the wind, making everyone nervous. he cancelled the walk because of lightning but yesterday afternoon right back on the tightrope practicing for his walk across the grand canyon later

we take you live to wrightsville beach, north carolina. people are getting ready for carolina. right now estimated to be down to about 45 miles per hour. they are worried about isolated flooding and storm surge over the next couple of days. so definitely something we are keeping an eye on. it is 5:54. time is running out for an opportunity to dine with one of the world's richest men. today is the last day to cast your bid on ebay for a power lunch with warren buffett as of this morning 104 bids have been placed. $775,100. a drop in the bucket compared to what this event usually gets. last year's winner paid almost $3.5 million. experts say last minute bidders will send this price through the roof. it all ends tonight at 7:30. the fund-raiser will benefit san francisco's glide foundation which helps the poor and homeless. >> for a great cause. 5:55 right now. along with president obama, here in the bay area, prince felipe of belgium spending some time in the south bay. he along with a delegation of 300 belgian business men and women will be at cisco in san jose. belgium has very

and nick valencia in wrightsville beach, north carolina. okay, so, nick, how have you seen the storm evolve over the last couple of hours? >> we've been out since the early morning hours, christi. seen wind come up, waves come in. angry waves behind us, and so far, hasn't been much rain. not too much of a problem. and there is a hahnful of residents surrounding us right now. leisurely stroll on the beach. i spoke to the police chief for wrightsville beach, north carolina. and he tells me that the worst of the storm has passed, at least for this area. to put this in perspective, this is an area very accustomed to hurricanes and severe weather. i have spoken to residents that aren't budging one bit. don't want weekend plans ruined at all by severe weather. the weekend may be unpleasant, but storm moving up the eastern seaboard, heading toward the northeast, new york area, but right now, things are calming down as the winds pick up here. sun starting to poke its head out. and so far, residents don't seem to be very -- don't seem to be very unn

i'm jon camp for abc news in wrightsville beach, north carolina. >>> thank you, jon. >>> the forecast from another member of the extreme weather team, accuweather's jim dickey? >> we continue to track andrea, made landfall in florida thursday evening. continues to spin its way off the north. soaking rainfall as it rolls its way up the eastern seaboard by 8:00 a.m. this morning. it will be over eastern south south carolina, then interacting with the storm moving out of the ohio valley so rain comes down in bucks up the eastern seaboard through the day. many spots multiple inches by tonight. john and diana, back to you. >> all right, jim, thank you. keep it here for "good morning america." sam champion is in the thick of it this morning again. he will have the latest on "gma." >>> moving on now to other developing story, new information about another supersecret government surveillance program. >> monitoring activities online apparently going on for years and abc's devin dwyer joins us with the details. >> reporter: good morning. the whistle-blower who exposed the top secret program to

house had to be moved more than four miles to its new location, which is on property owned by wrightsville. >> looks like a smooth ride. >> after some fund raising, the federation got the $1.2 million it needed to purchase and move the 120-ton home by barge. the home is expected to be opened to the public by christmas. i was gonna say, where is mike inouye when you need him? no traffic on the waterways there >> next time we are in the mark forth a yacht, just put a house on some floaties and we are there. party. >> thank you so much for being with us. join us tonight at 5, 6 and 11. all day long online, nbcbayarea.clç(t&háhp &hc& >> have a great day, see you tomorrow. [ male announcer ] so you used the wrong flea killer. but then why is he the one in the doghouse? don't blame him. instead, rely on the number one choice of vets for their pets, frontline plus. the killing force of frontline plus uses two ingredients. one to kill adult fleas and ticks, plus another to kill flea eggs and larvae, destroying the future generations of fleas. and it keeps fighting for a full 30 days. ask your vet

nick valencia is on wrightsville beach. >> hey, christine.to come up since the last hour we spoke and the winds are steadily increasing. tropical storm andrea has caused a mess in florida as you know and now it's moving its way towards north carolina. >> reporter: rain, rain and more rain. fast-moving tropical storm andrea is making her presence known up and down the eastern seaboard. the first storm of the hurricane season will dump rain through the weekend in every state from florida to maine. parts of the northeast seeing rain totals that they haven't seen since superstorm sandy last october. in roadways all across the south, downed trees and closed streets, making it challenging to get around. >> it's pretty bad and the flooding around here is getting worse and worse. >> reporter: in florida, andrea spawned multiple tornadoes. one twister near palm beach. flipping a 28-foot boat, blowing cars off of driveways and snapping trees in half. >> i didn't hear it coming. >> reporter: another reported tornado near fer nan dina beach, florida, tea

sloane is in wrightsville, florida. sloane, good morning. >> good morning, charlie, good morning, norah. we're feeling the effects, let me tell you. it is rainy, it is windy, and let me tell you, check out those waves. so far no damage or injury. one thing is for sure, andrea has kicked off this hurricane season with full force. >> oh, my god, doug. you might get hit by blowing debris. >> reporter: flooding parts of the state with heavy rains and spawning multiple tornadoes. >> it started sounding like a freight train was outside. it lasted 30, 40 seconds. i run over to the other side of the house and the oak tree comes through the front window. >> reporter: just outside palm beach, the storms knocked down power lines, toppled trailers, and snapped trees in its path of destruction. >> i thought as soon as it's over, i have to go check on my horses. thank god they were okay. >> reporter: harsh winds were a big problem in ft. myers as andrea blew over both and tossed some sailors into the water. >> when i went out there,

our nick valencia in wrightsville beach, north carolina. the surf kicking up behind him.out there right now? >> reporter: hey, john. the wind starting to pick up here in the last couple of minutes. out here since the early morning hours and this is the strongest we've felt the win and also caused angry waves to develop behind us, you can see the sun starting to creep out, trying to make it's way here, officials do expect to get between 1 and 3 inches of rain in the area, having said that, there are no evacuation orders for this particular part of north carolina. residents have decided to get out of town ahead of the anticipated wet weather. otherwise, john, decided to stick around. spoke to one resident coming here for a fun weekend, and he said no weather would impede that, stop that. you have to remember, after all, this is a -- a section of the united states, very accustomed to tornado -- i'm sorry. to hurricanes. very acomed to hurricanes. raining a short time ago, meteorologist predicted sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. we're waiting for weather to get worse as

the wrightsville high school graduation has been postponed. they are expecting more rain and just didn't want to take any chances. >> katy tur, thank you. >>> we want to check on what we can expect from andrea as the day goes on. al is upstairs good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. right now andrea is located 30 miles northeast of savannah, georgia, 45-mile-per-hour winds, it's booking moving no, r northeast at 28 miles per hour. tornado watches until 1:00 p.m., raleigh, north carolina, has a flood warning in effect. here's the path of the storm, becomes a low pressure system late this afternoon, skirts along the coast south of new york early saturday morning and off the new england coastline by saturday afternoon. for today we have qualified watches, flood watches and flood warnings for parts of the carolinas. tropical storm warnings from georgia to virginia, heavy rain, qualifieding and rainfall amounts up to five inches from charlotte to boston and on into portland with heavy rain and new york city has a qualified warning as far a

went from wrightsville beach all the way up through the state.nd that unfortunately was the scene you saw a lot. finally, more from central long island. this is melville the pictures you'll be seeing and more rescues. it was just a mess everywhere ch many here is what i want to show you. we're saying good-bye to the storm today. it's going to leave little bit more rain in coastal new england, especially through the state of maine. it will pull away. by 2, 3:00 we're saying see ya later. more rain for florida. im be detailing this in a couple of minutes and show you the severe weather threat, dan, in the center of the nation. >> great to have you back on the set with us, ginger. >>> moving on, it would be hard to imagine a more high-stakes. overnight, the presidents of the two most pop you louis nations sitting down face to face and hanging over this u.s./china summit. the raging controversy of the government spying our calls and internet. who is leaking all these documents? >> jim avila covering it all. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good mornin

wrightsville beach, north carolina, where the winds are ripping and the search is rough. more details about andrea and our forecast around here when i see you again. now time for traffic. >> very active on the roadways especially the beltway. a new crash, inner loop coming in from bethesda. he already had the crash working on rockville pike. we are monitoring conditions on that one. getting reports that the left lane gets by on route 355 coming in from bethesda, and also a new crash working just pass there, inner loop just after route 20 nine, colesville road and it has the left lane closed. excuse me, right lane closed inner loop just after route 29. the crash among 95, be prepared for that, the ramp to get on the outer loop. that is probably the least of your worries. be delays coming into the 11th street bridge. inbound, left lane closed because of an accident. a vehicle fire at the same area near the exit of the naval yard and monitoring conditions after van dorn, but we are improving. that is the good news. right lane close, but going by that pretty quickly. just lea

. >> reporter: a soaker drove many visiting wrightsville beach home early.d ride despite the storm bearing down. >> a chance to come out have fun. we actually get some waves and stuff out here. >> reporter: one park closed. a fireworks display canceled. and a warning from coast guard issued to boaters -- "stay off the water." for others here who have seen other more serioormsl andrea may not seem like much of a threat at all. >> we got hit, had to evacuate the island. then we -- we were no power for several no hot water for two weeks. >> reporter: while there is almost no chance of andrea bein almost no chanceal odinrea bein southeastern north carolina. rth john camp, wrightsville, >>> some areas can expect up to 8 inches of rain. tropical storm andrea joins another weather system. >> millions in harms way. our coverage continues with meteorologist jim dickey at accuweather. good morning, jim. >> good morning, john, diana. we continue to track andrea. made landfall in florida thursd continu o sts w off to the north. soaking rainfall. the primary concern head

he is live right now in wrightsville, north carolina. jay, take it away. >> hey, maria.re. overnight into the early morning hours, a driving rain along with fierce winds, at times gue s gu close to 50 miles an hour. is surf still cresting at eight feet. at the height of the storm, it was over ten feet it was an angry surf at times. very heavy. and there has been some problems with flooding, obviously, tornadoes, from florida through the outer banks here in carolina. and this is a storm that now is going to move up the east coast. it is going to continue well into saturday, probably spinning out somewhere near cape cod. it's just been downgraded a touch to posttropical storm andrea, now, still, though, packing quite a punch and will continue to through the night and into tomorrow. tornadoes are a big problem, following the system, which is large in scale, may not be as powerful as a hurricane. but a massive system, as it moves up the east coast and, again, big issues with flooding, big issues with tornadoes and, of course, that driving rain that's causing problems. maria?

here's what it looked like in wrightsville beach, north carolina. and, of course, we saw plenty of rain right here in the new york area. nbc meteorologist dillon drier is here with all the details. good morning. >> good morning. yesterday in central park it was the second wettest june day on record. we picked up nearly 5 inches of rain in central park, parts of north carolina picked up to 8 inches of rain and parts of florida more than a foot of rainfall out of this system. all tropical storm warnings have been discontinued now that this has become an extra tropical low. see the bulk of the rain is only up in the maine and parts of northern new england. this whole storm system is a fast mover, although it did dump a lot of rain in parts of the east coast. basically the whole i-95 corridor. you can see the heaviest of the rain is falling through central and southeastern maine, even southern new england is already starting to clear out right now, and it's going to turn into a pretty nice weekend. couple of showers back through roanoke and moving throu

sloan heffernan in wrightsville beach, north carolina.ood morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. good morning, norah. a tropical storm warning in effect in north carolina. and we are feeling the affects, let me tell you. it is raining, windy, and check out those waves. so far, no reports of any injuries or damage here on the north carolina coast, but one thing is for sure. andrea has kicked off this hurricane season, with full force. >>> oh, my god, doug. you might get hit by falling debris. >> reporter: tropical storm andrea barrelled into the florida coast thursday afternoon. flooding parts of the state with heavy rains and spawning multiple tornadoes. >> it started sounding like a freight train outside. lasted about 30, 45 sections. run over to the other side of the house, and there's oak tree comes through the frond window. >> just you outside west palm beach, the storm toppled trailers and snapped trees in the path of destruction. >> as soon as it was over, oh, my gosh, i have to check on my horses. thank god, they were okay. >

we show you a picture live this morning from wrightsville beach. good news once the center passes you, the weather condoleezza clears out in a hurry. the storm is centered over the top of charleston, south carolina. we do have a tornado watch up for eastern north carolina. pretty much from the raleigh durham area and the storm itself is a big rain soaker up i-95 all day and raining from boston to new york to philly and not associated with andrea. the rain from andrea moves in later today. you notice that by saturday afternoon this storm is starting to exit maine and heading up into nova scotia. rainfall totals 3 to 4 inches and boston and harvard and providence. it's a slow commute to work today in d.c. and the way home should be even worse. you're watching "morning joe," brewed by starbucks. i'm the next american success story. working for a company where over seventy-five percent of store management started as hourly associates. there's opportunity here. i can use walmart's education benefits to get a degree, maybe work in it, or be an engineer,

in wrightsville beach, carolina, katie has more for us. >> reporter: good morning. we just started to feel rain and heavy winds here. the worst part of the storm passed here at 3:00 this morning. the heaviest bands of wind and rain are off the coast contributabling to the heavy surf here. andrea has left her mark. the hurricane season is just seven days old and already this morning andrea, the first named storm of the year is wreaking havoc. >> everybody laughs about it in jacksonville because they always act like they are going to come toward us and they don't and it is actually coming toward us. >> reporter: they weren't laughing in florida on thursday where winds and rain battered the area forcing some to fill sandbags. >> the biggest risk is tornados. >> reporter: the governor warned residents to stay safe. >> reporter: eight tornados were spun off by andrea, one not far from west palm beach was strong enough to topple trees, twist metal, buckle walls and move a large cargo container. an 85-year-old woman in this house was injured. >> knocked her out of bed and