Efforts. Hospitals in the path of the hurricane rb transferring patients. With nearly 2 Million People heeding evacuation orders, emergency shelters are filling up fast with some folks preparing to stay for at the least a week. Lets get over to bill carin ka with a look at the forecast. This is a huge storm. Its a big storm. Its able to push more water and water is going to be the huge issue with this storm. Maybe we have less extreme wind damage, but the water damage will be historic, anyway. So it doesnt really matter. The damage will be done. Here it comes. Theres the eye of the storm and here is the North Carolina coast. It will be closing in on you during the day today and that sunset tonight is when the Hurricane Force winds will be with us. This time tomorrow morning, i think the eye could be right over the top of wilmington, North Carolina. Here is the latest hurricane path. This is 2 00 p. M. This afternoon. They have it as a strong category 2. Its going to do the same amount
Wherever you are especially if you are in the eye of the storm, the threat for Hurricane Florence is a reality as conditions worsen by the minute. Fox news live Team Coverage, Griff Jenkins and Jonathan Siri live on the coast of North Carolina, todd pyro in myrtle beach, South Carolina and adam plots tracking the new path in the weather center. Lets begin with griff in Morehead City just south of the outer banks and you have been taking a beating. Hold on. Reporter it is picking up. We are getting the brunt of the wind coming in here and we are really watching the storm surge coming up over Atlantic Beach. They are getting hammered with wind and surf. I have been on the phone with you officials, Fire Department and rescue folks in new bern 40 miles northwest of here. They have are redone 200 rescues, 150 underway, two fema teams, the newburgh Fire Rescue Team is the oldest charter Fire Rescue Team in North Carolina. They are working frantically to get the number of calls coming in. Whe
Me here or there . Sandra safe in our studio. Good to see you, bill. Im sandra smith. The president will be traveling to North Carolina to bear witness to rising floodwaters threatening homes in the state. Bill an attorney for the accuser now saying her client will not testify on monday unless the f. B. I. Opens an investigation into her claims. There should be an investigation. Thats the right thing to do. If there is not an investigation would she appear on monday . She is prepared to cooperate with the committee and any Law Enforcement investigation. That has been her position and continues to be her position. She will cooperate with the committee in whatever form that takes. Sandra peter doocy is live on capitol hill this morning. If dr. Ford does not testify monday, how much longer will the kavanaugh confirmation be delayed . Not long. The republicans say they gave her a weeks notice. If she doesnt show up its time to move on. Corker says this, after learning of the allegations ch
Ground. Leland vittert, Rick Leventhal, and steve harrington. First, adam klotz with the latest on this massive storm. Hi, adam. Hey there, shannon. He continues to be a big one. 90mileperhour winds, category 1 storm. At this point, looks like it is sitting on the coast, not there yet but some of those real heavy bands of rain or moving in. There is your center of circulation, it still off the coast about 80 miles. Take a look at the very happy bands of rain. They are our strong winds within these. It is really pushing the water up along the coast. Flood concerns have been on the coast from Central North Carolina burning you all across the outer banks. Winds have been there also, looking at wind gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour in some locations, the mid 50s, these are all right along the coast and Communities Just inland. Out a little farther, closer to the eye, which eventually will work its way closer to the coast, wind gusts up to 81 Miles Per Hour. Wind gusts of 112 miles an hour. Ou
Could dump as much as 40 inches of rain. Listen to the power of the storm. Florence is sure to take its time calling at a speed most of us could outwalk, just two miles an hour. So far in its wake, florence has knocked out the power for more than 700,000 people, sent boats into downtown streets, decimated docks into kindling, and tore up this church like it was paper. Im not going to lie, i broke down this morning and cried. Im accepting it, it is what it is, we cant control it. We just pick up and continue, thats all we can really do. Cnns Martin Savidge is joining us from wilmington, North Carolina. Give us the latest. Reporter the weather has been off and on as far as rain and winds. Some of those rains have been heavy. I looked at the radar, ana, before we came to air. Just five miles away from us there is a virtual river of rain in the air. And that is just dumping unknown amounts of water into the inland areas. Its the inland flooding problem that is the onehat is the most urgent