We have correspondents throughout the area. We go to Diane Gallagher in new bern, North Carolina. What are you seeing . Reporter its continuing to rise here. Im in downtown new bern right now, in the middle of a street here. Just for frame of reference, im a little more than 510. Its some up over my knees now, this water. Were again in the middle of a road here. Im going to see if my photographer can pan out. We still do have power in new bern. You can see the lights reflecting off of the water. A lot of people here in Craven County do not, though. In fact, its one of the top counties at this point in North Carolina to lose power. Weve been experiencing some of these larger gusts of wind in the past half hour or so. In fact, we got into our vehicle to move it to a safer location, and it was a little difficult for my producer, jay, to drive. We started seeing debris in the air. For the most part, its been things in the water. This isnt necessarily the ocean that im wading around thats c
Can kill. Today the threat becomes a reality. We have live Fox Team Coverage. Leland vittert and Jonathan Hunt are in the hurricane path, first, we go to rick reichmuth. The storm is slowing down in its progression. Thats why we think the rainfall totals are so extreme. You get the idea that its a large storm. Ly tell you, even though its weakened, it still looks organized and has moisture all around the storm on all quadrants. That means its wellorganized and a lot of moisture moving on shore. We always have tornado concerns. You can see the red box there. Thats a tornado watch. I expect to see them going through sunday because of the rotation from the storm causes a little spinup of smaller tornadoes. Not the Oklahoma City kind of tornadoes, smaller ones. Well see a lot of power outage. This takes us through saturday afternoon. As far north as parts of virginia, areas of georgia. Here along the coast because of this prolonged period of time where we add winds and hurricane force, tha
With a storm surge, that water reverses and flows inward. It could easily go 30, 40 miles inland with this. Well handle it. Were ready. Were able. Get out of its way. Dont play games with it. Its a big one. Maybe as big as theyve seen, and tremendous amounts of water. The message to citizens is clear. Today is your last day to get out of the areas that have been placed under evacuation orders. Its going to disrupt services. Its going to destroy homes. It it going to destroy infrastructure. Disaster is at the doorstep, and its coming in. Its going to be a monster, so were like, yeah, were worried. Its important for us to evacuate. We dont need to take chances. We dont need to put personnel on the line to save us. We get 14, 15 inches of rain, all this is going to be under water again. Im worried about my clients, the older people that theyre being very well taken care of. This is our home, and were just going to stay here and protect our own stuff. I think puerto rico was incredibly suc
Bill we have done our best to be safe so we bring you this story. Here we go. Sandra, good morning to you back in new york city. Sandra thank you, bill, for your reporting on the ground there and still blowing hard. Ill take it back in new york city. Hurricane florence now officially sweeping through the carolinas, the category 1 storm slowing down and packing a big punch. Over 400,000 people without power in North Carolina. That number is expected to go up and at that hour were awaiting three big events. An update from fema in about 15 minutes. Also at 11 00 a. M. Well hear from the governor of North Carolina as well as the National Hurricane center. Well look forward to the big update at the top of the 11 00 hour there. Meanwhile senior meteorologist janice dean is tracking the hurricane. What are we looking at . Now getting reports of 500,000 in North Carolina without power and were also getting reports of over 30 inches of rain in Atlantic Beach where Griff Jenkins is. This is a st
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