i got a little bit of rain. i got a little bit of wind. it was gusting to 45 miles per hour. that s not the situation where beth any richards is. you don t have power right now. we do not have power. we re running off a generator. not really sure how we are. but the generator s running. so we have limited right now. bethany, you re whoa, hang on. you re about a mile and a half north of town. you are you can t really get out of your house right now? i understand your stairwell got ripped off? we have three stairwells to different access points of our house, and two of those stairwells got ripped off last night. we do have one that goes all the way to the top and we have a ladder so we have an exit strategy. we had a pretty rough night last night. a lot s happened. a lot of downed trees. we re in an island here. we re in the middle of noos
it s wet. we are safe at the moment. all right, bethany, we re going to stay in touch with you and see how this rides out. keep your phones charged. keep yourself safe. bethany richards in new bern, north carolina. i want to go to matt bradley. i last saw matt two days ago in north carolina, in wilmington. he was headed out down here to south carolina. i don t even know where you are. you re in south carolina? hey, ali, i actually couldn t hear what you said, but i ll go ahead and respond anyway. the situation here, it s deteriorated quite a bit in the last couple of hours. now what we re seeing actually is some really strong gusts. i know it looks like there s a lot of rain but really the rain is well, probably a little lighter than where you re at right now. what we re really feeling is 60 to 80 mile an hour winds with gusts of up to 100 miles an hour. that s what we re hearing. the fact is, that s what makes it so dangerous for rescue
bethany richards, mayor pro tem is standing by there. let me see what you ve got going on in new bern. have you got people trapped there? yes. good morning. thank you for being here and thank you for talking to us. it s been a rough night for all of us, all of our citizens. bethany, shout out to her because she s awesome. i know her well. i m glad she s safe. but we currently have 4,325 residences that have been damaged. that equates to about 10,000 people. we re still working on our rough commercial numbers so i don t have that as of yet. we are on a curfew from 7 a.m. this morning until 7 a.m. tomorrow. that s because the storm is not over. as we heard in the fema update, it will swirl around. we will have more wind. we will have more rain.