quickly. that ubiquitous radar loop is relentless, spoke after spoke, spinning off that hub soaking rain bands, hitting the same places where it has hitting 24 hours. if some communities along the coast, there is nowhere for that water to go. rescues have been going on all day, they continue tonight and into the morning. power outages are widespread, beach erosion is severe, there have been structural failures. sadly the death toll from the storm has risen to 5 as of our air time tonight. moorehead city north carolina one place on track to break the record for hurricane rainfall at 24 inches, 2 feet of water on top of what they already had. back with us tonight as he was for our live coverage last night meteorologist bill kierans, hey, bill. good evening, brian. we re maybe halfway through this story. i mean, it s absolutely
sadly, the death toll from the storm has risen to five as of our air time tonight. morehead city, north carolina is on track tonight to break the all-time record for hurricane rainfall at 24 inches. two feet of water on top of what they already had. and back with us tonight as he was for our live coverage last night, meteorologist bill karins. hey, bill. good evening, brian. we re maybe halfway through this story. it s absolutely incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland and we are like how bad was it. we are starting to see the pictures of damage from the surge and the winds. now we have to get through water issues with the rainfall. they will last until the middle of next week. there will be new homes going underwater on tuesday of next week as the rivers continue to rise. and all that water flows down toward the coast. there are pictures from when we had the surge problems.