welcome back to our breaking news coverage in wilmington, north carolina. i'm george howl. we're awaiting the eye wall of the storm. as it continues to track here towards wilmington, north carolina. moving at snails pace. moving six miles per hour. equal to a person walking down the street. as it does that it's dropping a great deal of rain and causing storm surge along the coastline. many hour long events as we continue to stay with you. and bring you the very latest. here's the thing, we're covering the storm right now as it's coming in. after the storm comes through, there will be an assessment of course among rescue personnel. what they need to do to go into the areas where people decided to stay to ride it out. and according to fema here's what we know. they have 1,100 rescue search