With florence moving slowly and stalling the surge will be a bigger problem than normal. Because as one expert put it the water just keeps piling up. We have reporters in places up and down the coast. The winds keep coming and the rain keeps falling and millions continue to brace for the worse. Hello, everyone its 3 00 on the east coast. We have a busy hour ahead. We start with the situation in North Carolina. Brad johnson in wilmington. They started getting hit with Hurricane Force winds just after midnight. Hows it feeling there now and how does it compare . Do you find major changes from the last hour . The strongest bands that we have seen come through wilmington. It has been an extremely fickle storm as you know. Thinking that a cat 4 was probably coming on shore. To a 3 to a 2 and it started crawling to a one. In wilmington woef seen some of the strongest bands where it looked like the power was going to ramp up and that would dispate. Its closer to the on shore with the eye were
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you have a sense is there a point that s coming up it will be too dangerous for those crews to continue to go out and do the rescues? it s already too dangerous. in some areas. we look at things such as the amount of water the speed of the water. the wind. downed trees and electrical issues. really they re out there getting to everyone they can. give us a sense, are we talking handful of calls. a dozen. a hundred? what s the wait list. just in the craven county center we have logged over 90 calls for assistance. so far. how many rescues? i don t have information on the rescues. we re in rescue and response mode. and the reports haven t been sent my way. once the rescues take place where are the folks taken? we have a number of shelters. we have five shelters in craven