boulevard. it s pretty close to right there where we re camped out, that s the front area of our hotel. the scene where we re shooting right now. back out here to me in the rear, right we re right next to the beach. water started coming up. we moved in a little bit closer so we re closer to shelter. nick watt is a little bit further up in north myrtle beach to see what the scene is like there. what do you have for us? reporter: well, don, we re about 15 miles north of you. all day, we ve been having winds coming offshore. then about 6:00, winds turned. they re coming on shore and this is the result. now, we re about an hour away from high tide. the water is already past the normal high tide mark. and it may come further. this is the potential for the storm surge. this is the potential for this water to wash into north myrtle beach. if you wan around here, now, back in 1989, hurricane hugo swept through here and pretty
bit. i ve been able to walk in the neighborhood and get a tour with police. also with the storm chaser earlier. there is some damage around here. i ve been seeing trees down, some damage to roofs and buildings and what have you. what s it like in north myrtle beach in the surrounding area where you are? pretty similar situation i there to you, don. we drove around earlier. there were power lines down, some trees have fallen over on to power lines, some pretty big trees have fallen. asphalt off roofs. but nothing major major so far. but you know, as you and i know, we ve been waiting for the storm to arrive all day. so the real damage we might see will probably be over the next few hours as this storm crawls down this coastline behind us at what three or four miles an hour dumping all of this rain and about pretty strong winds. it s not a hurricane anymore. but strong winds over a sustained period of time is
get. but it s always ironic when the east winds stop blowing, the on shore winds start it blows the fire right back into our face. chief, you and everybody in your county, everybody up and down the southern california coast line are in our thoughts and prayers tonight. can t thank you enough for the work you ve all been doing. thank you very much for finding time to talk with us. thank you very much, brian. we appreciate you sharing our story. happy to do it. mark is chief of ventura county fire department. coming up for us, south koreans trying to sell the quickly approaching winter olympics are not getting much help from the white house. we ll explain when we continue.
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we re still dealing with tropical force winds and pounding rain here. we are in high tide. the water behind me inching closer but as you can see we have not witnessed and we are probably not going to see any catastrophic storm surge here, which is excellent news for people in this area. this was a part of the mandatory evacuation zone. we have been here now for about 24 hours and very little humans in sight. people abided by the evacuation. in fact, one of the fire chiefs here saying that people evacuated so well they were able to do a second sweep in this area. so this place is practically a ghost town. janice was mentioning those on shore winds and we are definitely feeling them right now. the water inching closer to the land but it looks like we are just not going to see any terrible flooding. sun is coming up here, so we are not able to totally survey the damage in this area, but the manager of the hotel that we re staying at sent us some pictures and said there is a howard johns