last week, a town that was on the brink of flooding. i have to be honest. i was a bit skeptical when people told me the flood waters were coming. they told me this entire town would be flooded over the next several hours. take a look at these images. the images are the exact same town, now completely covered by warter. you have to get there by boat. the water comes fast, furious. think about the river and all the force sweeping away so many towns. it is still happening now. when you look at that water, as a doctor, oftentimes i think of the potential disease it can cause. people being forced to drink that water, millions of them. it s killer water. i want to take a look at the impact on human bodies. stay with us. [ female announcer ] you use the healing power of touch every day.
you mentioned has some evacuations under way. hurricane watches are posted and warnings likely to be posted later on today. regardless of how close this storm gets, the water out there, although it is beautiful and calm now, dangerous rip currents. hurricane danielle was hundreds of miles away. much, much smaller. and hundreds of water rescues had to be happened over the weekend. from that storm. can you imagine as labor day weekend approach over the next several days, as this storm comes up and churns up the water, how many lives are going to be in danger of all those people in the water as we wrap up summer? that s a huge concern. the other thing that s huge is that this area, at least in the delmarva and chesapeake bay area, they really haven t seen a big storm in here since hurricane isabelle. there haven t been many people i talked to that are worried. and that s a little bit troublesome for sure. we will be tracking it live over the next couple of day. on that point if you ca
category 3. do not let that fool you. that means absolutely nothing if you will because it is still churning up 125-mile-per-hour winds. it is threatening the east coast. you see the track. it is on right now. it could gain strength. again, category 3, 4, doesn t make a difference now. this is a powerful, powerful monster. even though it is on its way, it is already having some effects, dangerous rip currents out there for swimmers, also expected to be north carolina s near north carolina outer banks by sometime. ocracoke island, we heard them talking about a moment ago. it is being evacuated and talking about tourists being evacuateded right mao. you can only get to this particular island by ferry. they are trying to make sure all the tourists get out there. there are people that live there as well p.m. 800 people that live there year round. some of them hunkering down and trying to ride this thing out no matter what. but they are being warned they need to stock up on food, water and