6:25 p.m. it s 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. it s right on anderson s 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, that s the problem with this storm. when she comes, she stays, and she s dumping water in places that don t 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 east-southeast of where anderson cooper is. let s go to where we re seeing the storm in full effect already. brian todd is in ham stead, north carolina. what s the weather?
what are your furry family? what different people? what different types of animals do you have? oh, gosh. we have a wide variety. mostly are pit bulls simply because they re very misunderstood breed and i try to work with them and get them back to 100%. we have shar-peis, hound dogs. we have cats, we have chihuahuas. throughout my whole family we have a huge variety of different breeds. all right. amber, keep everybody, you know, upbeat and happy, and hopefully you have the provisions you need to make it through this period. if you get in a state of distress we ve got the phone tree working here. please call us and let us know so we can get the information out. be well. okay? definitely. thank you. all right. miguel marquez is in carolina beach. they ve been seeing bands of weather as well. let s check in. miguel. yeah. it s starting to come down here. the wind is picking up. the rain is coming down in much
all right, here we are, we re watching hurricane florence, she s now about 65 miles east-southeast of wilmington, north carolina, the effects are starting to be felt. let s go to someone who is literally chasing this storm. reid timer at topsail beach you re getting pelted. give us the latest. i don t hear him. . tell reid to get back inside so he s not getting beaten up like that, let s go to anderson cooper. i don t want to leave him out there soaking, thinking he s being heard. when he s just getting punished by the beginning of this hurricane. you ve had what they re calling a signature experience of florence. hey, it s not that bad, and then
there will be space for you. drew griffin thank you. important work at that shelter all afternoon long. let s go to anderson cooper who is in fort myers. a little bit of rain starting, the first rain we ve seen over the last several hours. but again it s not much to get the people who were walking around, get them scurrying for cover but again a small taste of what is to come. i should point out people in fort myers getting to shelter, the buses stopped running to shelters at 3:00. the city said they did that to allow the bus drivers help take care of their own families and deal with what they need to get to. if people are going to a shelter, the difficult is how to get there. police say they will try to help if you call 211, but that number has been inundated throughout the day. i want to check in with miguel
the majority. keep that in mind when trying to predict how this referendum vote might pan out in ten days. let s go to anderson cooper, he is standing by live in kiev. anderson. reporter: jake, as if the diplomatic efforts could not get anymore difficult right now, this move by the new crimean parliament has certainly thrown a wrench into just about everything on the ground here. i can tell you reaction here in kiev has been universally to condemn it, among the political leaders and protesters and just among ordinary residents here. i was talking to a woman earlier who started to cry saying she could not imagine the idea of ukraine without crimea, that the idea of the nation which is what people here in the square say they fought for, the idea of the nation of ukraine breaking up is something that they find simply unthinkable. and it certainly has made it far