19 states second being swift boat teams. Whats the mission . We have got to get it accomplished. We are pulling side by side able to save peoples lives. We begin this fox friends with a fox news alert. Catastrophic flooding. Slamming the carolinas, turning towns into raging rivers. Almost 1 Million People in the dark. Power is out. Massive Power Outages across the coast. Tropical storm florence now deadly, unfortunately. Claiming at least five lives, including a mother and her infant child. Katie fire firefighters praying after finding crushed by a tree. Ed dozedozens under estimated the monster storm. The rains were so hard. Waters were so hard that trying to get out we got thrown into trailers. We got thrown into mailboxes, houses. Ed there are people still there waiting to be rescued. Pete Live Team Coverage across the coast. Griff jenkins and todd piro in the disaster zone. Katie we begin with griff in Morehead City just south of the outer banks. Griff . Good morning, guys. We are
Rainfall rainfall. Lets listen in live. If you arent watching for them, you are risking your life. I have several important warnings this morning. First, to the people who have evacuated, if you are safe, stay put. We know people are anxious to get back home. Dont go back until this storm passes and you get the official all clear. Second, know that water is rising fast everywhere, even in places that dont typically flood. This system is unloading epic amounts of rainfall. In some places, measured in feet, not inches. Many people who think the storm has missed them have yet to see its threat. Residents of charlotte, asheville, fayetteville, statesville, sand hills, the mountains, rivers will rise days after the rain has stopped. In the east, they will crest monday, tuesday and wednesday. Remember, most storm deaths occur from drowning and fresh water, often in cars. Dont drive across standing or moving water. Emergency management is sharing flood projections with local officials. If the
Has begun. In north and South Carolina, millions of residents sent scrambling for Higher Ground to escape potentially lifethreatening floods. Reports now some who stayed behind are on their roofs and water rescues have taken place. We have reporters in place up and down the carolina coast. As the situation gets worse, some areas are bracing for fourfeet of flooding. Tammy leitner joins us now to begin our coverage. Tell me what you are looking at. How is the situation where you are, tammy . Reporter chris, it is not bad here compared to were getting some wind. We had a little bit of rain, but mostly it is just wind here. I can tell you that 60 of this county evacuated and, unfortunately, people are calling and asking to come home. People are asking calling the Emergency Operation center and asking if they can return. There really is a false sense of security here because people have had so much time to prepare for this storm and it is just creeping along. Myrtle beach is just it has re
Strength, where its going and how powerful it is, our meteorologist bill karins is here to start us off the top of the hour. Hey, bill. Good morning once again. What a long friday this is going to be. 24 hours of hurricanestype gusts all the way through the wilmington area, moore head city area. Were getting the brunt of it right now. Heres the center of the storm. We just had a new burst of thunderstorms on the western edge of the storm. You can see those bright thunderstorm bands, thats the heavy pry sip tags were seeing with the radar beam shooting it. This is where some of the strongest winds will be and thats starting to creep into surf city. Im sure if anyones still in this area from surf city to wilmington, youre noticing that things are picking up. Its closing in on you and some of those stronger winds are arriving. Weve been in it all day long in the moore head city area and he with continue in Carter County. Thats where 2003 continue to see some of the worst problems. Lets go
Center of this storm because it is so big. A huge storm with Tropical Storm force winds and Hurricane Force winds spanning 70 miles away from the center. The big fear of this storm is the storm surge, which is already putting hundreds if not thousands of peoples lives at risk. A lot of rescues going on at this very moment. This storm is a triple threat. If the rain youre seeing right now could top 34 or 36 inches over the next two days, its the winds and, still a powerful storm with gusts up to 120 Miles Per Hour, and again that record storm surge. Were just past high tide. Storm surges in some places that could top 11 feet. That is enough, it has been enough as weve already seen to flood significant communities. People trying to get through this night, but thats just the beginning. There could be two more days of this where i am in wilmington, North Carolina. Want to check in with chris now down the coast in north myrtle beach. Chris . All right, john, looking at your situation that i