captain poe peel of the coast guard joining us live in north carolina. how is it looking? >> it is getting pretty good stiff breeze as you can imagine. she did is the thinking on how bad this is going to be? >> we are preparing for the worst as if it was going to be a direct hit. we've moved our resources to storm shelters trying to preposition to locations where we can get underway and come back out as soon as the storm moves out to conduct assessments and provide assistance. >> shepard: has it been your observance, thus far and those of others in the coast guard that small craft are staying in port and for the most part people are heeding the advice? >> yes. we saw one boat out at about 8:00 this morning. we did go to condition zulu which shuts down the ports in north carolina for traffic. we shutdown the ferry system a little after that. so far the boaters have heeded the warnings and stayed off,