President trump claims his administration response to hurricane maria and in puerto rico last year was what he called an unsung success. a year after the storm it turns out much needed help and rotting on a run way. millions of bottles of the water sitting there untouched. more from san juan. reporter: just for a moment imagine you spent months getting water from a pipe into a creek. or collecting rain water to keep your family alive. and now imagine you discover all the time there s been millions of bottles of water fresh water sitting on an airport runway unused. that s the story that s out raging so many people this week. after a local law enforcement
Kates a dangerous storm. dictates a dangerous storm. it moved tremendous amount of woert ahead of it. there s not enough time before it makes land fall within the next 28 hours that it will have energy displaced or reduced because of that. the cloud field associated with this from the coast near bermuda. 950 miles. you put it over places such as the western united states and san francisco. to denver. the area it would em compass. massive. and tremendous amount of energy. the water it displaced and the number one weather killer the storm surge. the numbers are measured in feet. and haven t changed one inch. so certainly the energy already in motion. the rainfall forecast measured in inches typically. we re going to feet. the numbers haven t changed. category 2, 3 or 4. of the damage of course will be similar when it comes to the storm surge and the heavy rainfall. the top two killers in tropical
Is because of the wind speeds lessening. the power outage coverage the immediate impact across eastern north carolina now we have widespread outage but not much for south carolina. it becomes minor. the wind speed being less improves the trees not coming down as much. less power outage concern flt everything else is the same with the system. all right. terrifying figures. that hurricane expected to come ashore in 24 hours. thank you so much. now more than a million people in the carolinas have been told to leave. carolina beach the only bridge connecting the island to the mainland is closed. officials fear 1,000 of the 6,300 residents are planning to ride out the storm. in town. which is less than five feet above sea level. you heard that storm surge could reach over 12 feet. we have meteorologist live in carolina beach. this morning. what are you seeing and hearing?
That we re impacted last with hurricane matthew. a couple years ago. on the lumber river. and the pd river. so it s a double dose of that. when you look at the preparation that have been made. we heard the president touting them. did the federal government the agencies have done everything they can ahead of the storm? i believe so. the national weather service we have brought in extra people. we ll be around the clock and doing the best we can. and to provide information and warnings to the public. and provide help to provide safety to the people. all right. 24 hours until land fall. thank you so much. we ll talk again. we ll watch the updates this morning. hurricane florence has the potential to be one of the expensive to strike the united states. 759,000 homes in the path of the
Not inches. forecast to create life threatening conditions. the warning officials are giving residents. leave immediately. ten million people live in areas under warnings or watches for hurricane or tropical storm force winds. states of emergency have been declared in five states. georgia, virginia and maryland. north carolina south carolina. airlines have cancelled 800 flights in anticipation of the storm. waves at sea are as high as 83 feet. now seven nuclear power plants are right in the path of the storm. you can see them on the map. meteorologist is tracking florence for us. in the cnn weather center. this is a category 2 but that there s still some dire predictions out there. absolutely. people fall in love with the category and think that kick