6 25 p. M. Its at facebook. Com andersoncooper full circle opinion right now i want to hand it over to chris cuomo. Cuomo prime time starts now. You were wondering where the rain is, now you know. Its right on andersons head. Hurricane florence is starting to come around for the coast of the carolinas. Anderson is going to stand by. We have correspondents up and down the path of the storm for you. Here is hurricane florence, very slow, thats the problem with this storm. When she comes, she stays, and shes dumping water in places that dont have a lot of tolerance for it, by the time the wind gets to you, the areas have been soaked. Currently just over 80 miles eastsoutheast of where Anderson Cooper is. Lets go to where were seeing the storm in full effect already. Brian todd is in ham stead, North Carolina. Whats the weather . You have to keep your eye on that situation. We have an assisted living facility not far from the area where were getting pounded right now. Its good, weve been t
the actual intensity went up by five miles per hour a couple hours ago, here we go. starting to see a full circulation around the core. here we go, it s dropped again. we have elements and factors of the environment that are fighting for it and fighting against it. one high pressure off to the west, this is running fwloo a brick wall like harvey did. it can go down even slower from leer. will it make its way on shore or not? other elements? the warm water, sure, you think we ll fire that engine up, that fuel line is still open, it s not over land. the rain inside the core is a cold rain. when it falls, it s going to fight that warmer water, that s going to try to fight it. outer bands over south carolina right now are creating friction. it tries to kick in dry air,
stay, and this is what they re being warned about we re going to pull the vehicle over, and i m going to show you what the people are going to have to go through. i can point out some of the area dangers here. when you get out, we re used to this having covered the storms. we re getting hit with a really heavy band of wind and rain here. i can feel the trees really starting to bend and be compromised. you try to pull out of here too late in your situation and try to escape, this is what you re going to be dealing with, also on top of it all, we ve had tornado warnings not far from here. these are tree lined roads, any kind of tornado that whips through here is going to bring down these trees, cause debris to fly all over the road, and then people are really going to be trapped. this is how people get trapped in these neighborhoods. if people are going to stay
comes the rain and bands have a lot of time between them, that s all about the pace of the storm, right? yeah, and, you know, i think there s a lot of people right now, who kind of think, maybe this thing isn t going to be that bad, and certainly let s hope that s the case, but i think this is really deceptive. this is you know, we re so used to paying attention to what category it is, a cat 4, cat 3, it s now a cat 2. this is really as you ve been talking about, going to be a long event. we re talking about days, 24, 36 hours of nonstop rain constant rain and that storm surge. in wilmington, as you know, chris, they re expecting eight months worth of rain over the next three days. they ve already had a huge amt of rain all year long. so it s really the last thing they need plus with that storm surge on the river like cape fear river behind me, which
be safe rather than sorry. it s not too bad. what is the risk? you re right, the storm is going to last a long time we re looking at 30 plus hours of 50 miles an hour or more, starting after midnight, actual hurricane hours, probably 9 hours of hurricane strength rain, and storms. that s devastating, plus with all the rain, 30 plus inches of rain, that s going to compromise as you mentioned earlier, the soil, trees are going to fall, they re going to knock power lines down, they may hit houses. we re going going to be able to respond. our response protocols say at 35, we re very limited on where we go. at 50 we shut it off. we will evaluate the calls, if there s a critical call coming in after 50 miles an hour, but that will be a case by case