6 25 p. M. Its at facebook. Com andersoncooper full circle opinion right now i want to hand it over to chris cuomo. Cuomo prime time starts now. You were wondering where the rain is, now you know. Its right on andersons head. Hurricane florence is starting to come around for the coast of the carolinas. Anderson is going to stand by. We have correspondents up and down the path of the storm for you. Here is hurricane florence, very slow, thats the problem with this storm. When she comes, she stays, and shes dumping water in places that dont have a lot of tolerance for it, by the time the wind gets to you, the areas have been soaked. Currently just over 80 miles eastsoutheast of where Anderson Cooper is. Lets go to where were seeing the storm in full effect already. Brian todd is in ham stead, North Carolina. Whats the weather . You have to keep your eye on that situation. We have an assisted living facility not far from the area where were getting pounded right now. Its good, weve been t
hours by the time you get the big bands of win from whatever category the storm is, even if it s a tropical depression at that point, it will be more than enough to create real problems. how do i know? i ve been told by local officials who have been educating me on the process here. let s bring in jay fernandez. so far so good. there s a false since of security, we saw it on the beach today. yes, that s very true. we started evacuating when the governor issued the order on tuesday. and we ve aggressively been putting the message out. we re probably at about 85, 90% evacuated that means about 1,000 are still in town. my wife evacuated with our son to alabama. i was happy they got out of town. you re going to protect your family, do the right thing.