say 60 miles per hour absolutely for sure. what happened to new bern? new bern is right there, up the noose river. there is not a drop of water all the way on the east side of pemblico sound. you can see the ground of pemblico sound if you re on the outer banks. it is dry right there. all the water getting pushed and the water not getting to fill that water in. it s already picked up 6 inches of rain, but the wind is pushing the water the other way. that s why that 10 1/2 foot storm surge is already there, and it s not stopping. the rain is continuing and the wind is continuing to push that rain back up the river. so it could go up another couple feet and that would verify the 13 foot storm surge without a doubt. here s the inner eyewall, down to about 70 miles per hour. don t let that fool you because
i m john berman in wilmington, north carolina. chris cuomo is standing by in myrtle beach, south carolina. christine romans in new york. this is special live coverage of hurricane florence. here in wilmington, a serious band passed through here. a wind gust of 90 miles an hour at least. the outer eyewall is beginning to get ever loss closer to the carolina city. this storm is a category one hurricane. don t be fooled. sustained winds of 90 miles an hour. the size of the storm is a huge storm affecting thousands of people up and down the coast. that means huge storm surge up and down the coast. the rainfall totals are staggering. atlantic beach off the beach with 22 inches of rain already. the rains will continue to fall. that is the gust there. you see the boats behind me.
7:00, and right now with lines down please don t be going out until we get these lines back up. they could be interogizenergize don t want anyone to get hurt. if you are in your home at this point, you have to stay there because going out could be an even bigger threat with the power lines down and the standing water. thanks very much. in wilmington right now, you can see the rain around me, me getting swayed by the wind gusts. i think they probably feel like 60 miles per hour. let s see if we can get an exact reading for a sense where this storm is. the center is still about 20 miles from you. but what you re in, john, is an outer eye wall. there are two eye walls in a storm. the inner eye wall and the outer where all the rain is. you re in the outer so i would