Its really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. It is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we dont see that much destruction. But it will take days to survey what happened. And there are areas we cant get to. We drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. That means peoples livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. The Boat Captains are out here and they wont be able to make a dive living for a long time. Tucker it takes a long time to know what happened. Leland vittert, thank you. Move now to Rick Leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, North Carolina. Rick . Rick we moved from
wrightsville beach. Two of the four fatalities reported so far was a mother and her infant who were killed by a falling tree on their house. Well, there are trees all over this town. And this state that are coming
carolinas. fox chart s bret in charlotte tonight. we just had an outer rain band move through the area. the winds have been strong all day long. this is a car and a limb fell into it. no one was in it. this tree fell on his car. we are expecting a foot of rain in charlotte in the next couple of days which is something that many places in the area have not seen before. this is just the start of the storm in charlotte. we have had the trees down. but the officials are expecting more power outages. trees down and devastating flooding over the weekend. tucker: a foot of rain. unbelievable. we are going to steve harrigan in topsail beach. how is it?