trying to keep posted. find out what the storm is doing, is it going to stick on us a little bit? yes, it is going to stay over for awhile, could be a couple of days. the worst where i am, i m in myrtle beach, the worst won t happen until maybe midnight hours. at least we won t get the beginnings of the storm, but then it will continue to sit here and circle. i have to ask you, in wilmington we re getting first confirmation of two people that died, a baby and a mom. oh no. due to a tree falling. i m wondering what conditions you re able to see where you are now? there s a tremendous amount of trees down. i have three down in my backyard alone which crushed a chicken coop, a well house. looking out the backyard, can see probably nine or ten trees, big trees, that are down.
oriental and wrightsville, north carolina. that storm is located about 30 miles northeast of myrtle beach. it will continue to drift to the west at 5 miles an hour, and then it will turn a little to the west-southwest as it moves to south carolina. then by tomorrow evening, it should be in central south carolina. we have problems with heavy bands of rain, the yellow indicating the heaviest rain bands, high winds and torrential downpours. torrential downpours not just in the coastal areas, right? so decently inland and the incident with that rainfall, no matter where you are near the coast or the river? it will be spilling over the banks? it will be spilling over the banks and eventually the water will run to the coast. the soil is so saturated that it doesn t take much wind to knock these trees over which causes more power outages.
on. again, they were working so frantically and exhaustively trying to get these two people out. unfortunately a sad outcome in the end, don. yeah, that s a really awful outcome. brian todd, thank you very much. you heard the warning from brian todd, you also heard it from miguel marquez. unless it is a dire situation, they re asking you not to call rescue workers or emergency workers or dial 911 because they have their hands full. they re dealing with people who have flooding issues, dealing with people that may have trees down, people that need immediate medical attention. there s an update on florence. i want to get to meteorologist jennifer grey at the cnn weather center, she has it for you. jennifer? this is still a hurricane, 75 miles per hour, winds are still gusting. seeing torrential downpours. unfortunately see rain bands set up to where they re training. storms are just hitting the same spots for hours and hours on
if i was a betting man, not sure i would put money on that luck holding through the night. the storm moving 6 miles per hour down southwest, behind us. we will be in between the eye of the storm and the ocean with all of the rain pouring through the night. so far in north myrtle beach, a few trees are down, power lines are down. beyond that, not too bad. the water is beginning to puddle and pool. i just tested a bit of earth there, and the ground is just saturated. all of this rain that s now falling is sitting on the top, so we can expect to see some flooding later here today. this place is susceptible to flooding. it flooded before, it is expected to flood again as the storm moves behind us through the night into saturday morning. as i say, right now officials here are saying we are feeling lucky now. let s hope it holds. back to you. lucky for the moment, you re absolutely right. let s hope it holds. we still have a long time to go
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