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helping each other here until help from more than 35 states arrives. tucker, back to you. tucker: we ll assess the path of the storm and the damage that it s wrought with hurricane expert brian norcross who joins us for the third night in a row. good to see you. tell us the status of the storm. the storm is gathering strength again. this is going to be a big rainstorm and big flood event for south carolina. then up into the piedmont and mountains of north carolina and virginia. so there s much more of this storm to come. phases three and four, so to speak, as the floodwaters are just going down in north florida. that s phase two. then we get down to the original disaster, the biggest part of this disaster, in southwest florida. this was the storm at landfall. what happens with storms is it depends on both the strength of the storm and the direction of
farther south down here, you can see that the 100-mile-an-hour winds were pushing water into fort myers beach, all the way over the barrier island there. that s why that place is just devastated. it s going to take a long time before that s actually a workable community again. here s on sanibel, you get water from a bunch. different directions. this is where the sanibel causeway hear was knocked out. there s a lot going on here. then just to the north, gasparilla, water coming the other way. all the areas around that eye, tucker, took this ultrahard-hit from this category 4 hurricane. tucker: brian norcross, thank you so much. you saw fire in the picture from sanibel there. of course that s a feature always of storms like this. fires break out. some of the damage, some of the pictures you have seen, is from burning, not from flooding.
tough thing as well with all hee cell phones down right now, really, it s neighbor helping each other here until help frome more than thirty five states does arrive. tuckern 35, back to you. are steve harrigan in pursuit of florida? e that we re going to assess the path of the storm and the damage that it s wrought with hurricane expert brian norcross, who joins us now for the third nightoss w brian , good to see you. tell us the status of the storm now. . tell us the storm streell, the storm is gathering strength again. rainstor this is going to be a big rainl. storm and a flood event for south carolina, then on up into the piedmont in the mountains via and virginia . so there s much more of this storm to come. e floo phases three and four, sdwo to speak, as the flood waters are just going down in north florida. so that s phase two. and then we get down toe bigg the original disaster and the biggesest part of this disaster, which is in southwest florida, this was the storm at land
get around without communication. many roads, and many bridges down. and this is to an agingpopula population. more than 40 nursing homesto across the state have had to be evacuated. as far as the storm itself, it s not over yet. it s been reenergized as it s moving north. so s expected to hitd the coast of south carolinuta friday, midday as a category hur one hurricane. seanrica , back to you.th all right, steve harrigan,wih thank you for that report.le ofl our prayers are with the people in florida.arolina look and if you re in souths like carolina, it looks like it sto r on a direct path to your coast ,the entire coast, and then aimed right at charleston. and we ll have more on that in a second at this hour. re-ss our restrengthening into another category, a category one hurricane. and for the very latest on where the storm is headed,wee south carolina, we bring in fox weather hurricane specialist brian norcross. brian , frome wha t i m seeing and observing, this is going to hit t