the winds have picked up here. within the last two hours in myrtle beach. so this is what folks are dealing with. the inundation of water and wind. and dealing with it for quite sometime. this has been sitting on top of the carolinas for days. it will be continue to sit and just dump water. that is it for our coverage here. in myrtle beach. i ll hand it over to my colleague george howl. and pick up the coverage from here. and zero minimums to open an account. we have fidelity mutual funds with zero minimum investment. and now, only fidelity offers two zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. because when you invest with fidelity, all those zeros really add up. so maybe i ll win, saved by zero
every year. most of the people are gone. 85% of the people in north myrtle beach we re told have evacuated. some toughing it out. we wish them the best of luck. live for us. good to know that so many people did make the call to evacuate. we ll stay in touch with you. live in north myrtle beach, south carolina. we bring in our meteorologist. if you can tell us just the intensity of the storm. we re feeling it here in wilmington. these storm bands that are coming through the wind gusts coming and going. and the rain from what we can tell, it is substantial. george, if we were to come to you six hours from now, 12 hours from now. you would be saying exactly the same thing. because florence is moving so slowly. it kicked up a notch it s 6
welcome back to our breaking news coverage in wilmington, north carolina. i m george howl. we re awaiting the eye wall of the storm. as it continues to track here towards wilmington, north carolina. moving at snails pace. moving six miles per hour. equal to a person walking down the street. as it does that it s dropping a great deal of rain and causing storm surge along the coastline. many hour long events as we continue to stay with you. and bring you the very latest. here s the thing, we re covering the storm right now as it s coming in. after the storm comes through, there will be an assessment of course among rescue personnel. what they need to do to go into the areas where people decided to stay to ride it out. and according to fema here s what we know. they have 1,100 rescue search
in the carolinas. i ll be back tomorrow. our coverage will continue with my colleague george howl. take it away. thank you again. several hours of coverage today. so much involved in the storm. we will continue to cover it live here from wilmington, north carolina. the wind here is hitting strong and the rain coming down. keeping in mind right now this storm it s been downgraded from a 2 to kate goir 1. lt eye of the storm sill on track towards wilmington, north carolina. 50 miles from where we are now. 85 kilometers. the wind gusts at this point around the eye wall, 90 miles per hour. sustained. wind gusts getting up to 120 miles per hour. and again storm surge is a major concern with the storm. as it continues to push in land. storm surge we understand can
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