issue. as you see, the weather is starting to clear up here. when we drove in morning, it was very rainy, he very windy. and now it is a lot lighter. but as the storm moves inland toward the appalachian mountains, that is when we'll start to see all of the water that has accumulated upstream flowing down into the midlands area and that is when a lot of authorities here are expecting to see some real problems with flooding. >> let's move east/northeast now to oak island, north carolina pretty close to myrtle beach. this is a south facing beach. i know a big issue has been the bridges. this of course a town on the intercoastal waterway. what is the latest on the bridges there? >> reporter: i wanted to give our viewers this view from the south facing beach here in oak island. the wind as you see still lashing out. we're still feeling the effects of this tropical storm because once the storm shifted, the winds changed from west and they