report them immediately. be caution as you light your homes with candles. we urge floridans to be careful and our thoughts and prayers are with nose currently experiencing the storm right now. [ speaking spanish ] okay, so so far we have gotten a updrat on the tropical storm, elsa, making land fall there.
it is raising awareness about how bad it can be. a lot of people have left and they want to know what s going on in town that they evacuated from. we in a very safe way and as safe as we can to bring folks information. that s why we are here. sure. we ll not do anything that puts us in danger and we ll play it as safe as we can. that s what we ll continue to see. thank you, dylan and mariana. msnbc continues with our coverage of florence as the storm is getting closer making land fall. thank you for being with us.
it s tremendously big and tremendously wet. tremendous amounts of water. welcome back everyone. this morning hurricane florence is inching closer as more than 1 million americans rushed to evacuate the coastline. fema is warning it could be the strongest storm to targ that carolinas and virginia in decades. bringing with it a possible life-threatening storm surge, destructive winds and potential catastrophic rainfall as well as inland flooding. for the very latest on the storm, let s bring in meteorologist, bill karins. how far away is it from making land fall and the immediate 24 hours afterwards? there s a chance it doesn t even make land fall until saturday. we are expecting the stall. it could stall on the coast or off the coast. so i m not going to focus too
before, this one is different. don t bet your life on riding out a monster. reporter: evacuations started tuesday and will continue today. more than a million from virginia through the carolinas. gathering sand bags, boarding up, pang up pulling out. many wered about what they may find when they come back. just hope everything s still standing and not too much damage. but again this is a very significant storm. reporter: still lorraine and mike taylor say they ll tried out. a home like so many in the strike zone in the path of what forecasters are calling a catastrophic storm now closing in. wie expect land fall be early friday morning. that means really historic
responsible for those attacks. that will be addressed as well by secretary mattis and vice president pence. okay. ryan will be watching for that ceremony, honoring those again 184 lives that were taken on 9/11 at the pentagon. thank you for being there. also breaking news this morning as we continue to honor 9/11 and the memory of all of these. all of these mandatory evacuations because of hurricane florence. it is now a category four storm and could strengthen very soon to a category five storm. we re talking about in the next few hours as we re getting a clear picture of where it will strike and when it will strike. one million americans have been ordered to evacuate from all of these coastal areas leading up to florence, making land fall. here is another look at why that is the look at florence from the international space station. look at the intensity of that eyeball.