together, we re building a better california. we re take a look at radio island, north carolina. about 150 miles to the northeast of here where they are getting this isn t the worst of it. the winds, sustained winds, michele gross man will tell me in a second. upwards of 150 miles per hour. let s go to michele and find out about the dangers of storm surge. michele gross sman our meteorologist. she s in new york. first i want to say you re doing awesome out there. you re explaining it so well. putting it in life perspective. so our biggest concern from day one, five days ago tracking this is storm surge and that s because of this. where you see these numbers in terms of causes of death from
we have the next hurricane update coming in two hours. bottom line this remains a serious storm. some people are breathing a sigh of relief it s a category 2 hurricane. but still a very powerful storm that will dump a lot of water and create serious storm surges. i want to bring in meteorologist michele grossman to tell us about this storm. we re focusing on water. we re to concussion on the life threatening surge. this is what it looks like right now. a big storm about 300 miles wide, even 400 miles wide. it s moving fairly slow right now but really slow down as we head towards the overnight hours. these are the latest numbers as of 2:00. ali mentioned we have one coming out at 5:00. category 2 storm. it s a strong category 2 storm. but this is what we re seeing already. ali mentioned this depends where