The front half of the day, and clouds can be increasing by this afternoon and there will be a chance of a few drops arriving by about 6 00 p. And our rain drops will be here before tomorrows commute. And the focus shifts to cleanup efforts, and the storm pummeled six states. Jay gray reports from hardhit boston. Reporter the wind and snow has finally stopped and across new england the focus has turned to what will be a difficult recovery. The state police and the National Guard have been out in force and working in tandem. Reporter but these are the most important teams right now. Crews working through brutal conditions to try and restore power of hundreds of thousands, many still without any heat. Were working 16hour shifts, so i mean, in this weather, thats tough. It has been tough to dig out dozens of cars most abandoned at the height of the storm. Across the region, still hard. Those that want to get around have to be creative. Trying to ski in boston for the first time in my life.
We dont need take chances. We dont need take personal oon the line. We need go. Reporter and thats the point. What officials are saying if you decide to leave, you do that at your own parl. Were not going to send First Responders out during the storm to help you. Hopefully people are getting the message. Times running out. Indeed it is. Live for us in North Carolina. From that perspective. From the perspective of the weather and its path, lets bring in bill karnz. Were inching closer and closer by the hour. See destructive impacts at the coast. Did drop down to 130 mileperhour winds. A category three four. We think it will be a category three as it approaches the coast. Again we care what the intensity when its near the coast for the wind and surge. Sethe path, the new one. This is friday at 2 00 a. M. Could be just off the South Carolina coast and then look at this, 24 hours. This thing lingers, drift, loops, stalls, right near wilmington as it sits in the same spot of the friction of
Cockpit. They attacked the enemy. They until the very end. Shepard 17 years after 9 11. Breaking news, Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news deck. Shepard first from the fox news deck Hurricane Florence is getting even bigger. Thats the latest from the forecasters. Ordered to get out as the monster category 4 storm surges towards the east coast with the carolinas generally speaking in its crosshairs. Folks there havent faced this kind of a hurricane so large and so powerful according to the Hurricane Center in many decades. Not just the coast line either, far from it. Catastrophic flooding and torrential downpours according to the national Hurricane Center could spread for hundreds of miles. Overflowing rivers, flash flooding in the Appalachian Mountains are likely, they tell us. Here is what it looks like inside the storm these pictures from Hurricane Hunters who flew straight into the eye of florence after circling its perimeter to gather crucial information that could save
Hurricane florence. Willie, theres a United States senator that is saying to the good people of South Carolina and North Carolina right now that if that is the president of the United States idea of how you respond to a hurricane, get in your cars and leave. I mean this seriously not as a political dig. If youre in florence and considering riding it out, your president just said that a hurricane response where 3,000 died is his measure of get success. Get out of there. Of course, there are those that die in natural disasters that, of course, die because of nature, because of the storms themselves. But in puerto rico, so, so much negligence. Such a delayed response and, again, such an unpresident ial response from a man picking fights with leaders in communities there that were struggling just to get power and water back. Yeah. Obviously, were going to be focused on whats happening or whats about to happen with Hurricane Florence. Weve got the forecast in just a second. But this is the
Feel air coming from above. Then all of a sudden i heard stuff flying around all above me. My walls and my furniture. Kansas City International airport shutting down temporarily to clean up debris littered on the runway. And to the east, take a look at this. Ainsley gosh, in workers county, pennsylvania, will wind so hard a tree actually uprooted right out of the ground. Brian every single county in oklahoma is under a state of emergency as it braces for more severe flooding. Pete more is coming and tragedy in arkansas overnight where a man was killed in the flooding. Thats where we find our own matt finn, he is in fort smith. Matt, this flooding could be indeed even more historic, correct . Yeah. Unfortunately, pete. We have witnessed thunderstorms and rain storms over the past couple hours which means more precipitation has fallen here exactly what that looks like will probably be seen as the sunrises. We have been in arkansas for a few days. We have seen the raging Arkansas River ri