the pressure is still very low. it just doesn t have more than a category one wind in the eye. that s the only difference between this storm and a category three is the eye wind. everything else is exactly the same. wilmington, north carolina normal to date. you should have 42 inches. right now you are up to 63. that is so much water in the room. you have the trees coming down, the roofs that are wet. so we have 17 moderate stage floods and 14 major floods going on right now and obviously it s still raining. if it gets back in the water tonight, that could be our next step for chris cuomo in north myrtle beach, which is where it is going. chad, appreciate it with. i m going to take a quick break. when we come back, we will have a live press conference from
buildings. there is a lot of customers, more than 300,000 customers in north carolina without power right now. that number is only likely to increase. i think there is a lot of people who are just going to be spending the day inside, can t even watch it on tv anymore. and all they have to do, though, is look out the window. it is miserable. when i spoke up this morning a couple hours ago and looked outside, you can feel the windows, the buildings kind of rattling. you can feel the gusts of winds. so it is a big difference from what it was when i was last on air about midnight last night. it certainly deteriorated. it s definitely got a lot stronger. the storm has made land fall. as we know, it is going to be sitting for 12, 24 hours. so there is some long hours ahead. i want to go over to dianne in new bern where there are people trapped in their homes. a very dangerous situation for
little rubber boats with winds blowing 60 miles an hour. it is nice to see that has calmed down a little bit for the people that were there. so wilmington airport, a brand-new record for you, 105 miles an hour. looking at you compared to where we were looking at with john berman, it is like you are either in two different spots or he was outside and you are inside because it has changed significantly because the eye has gone down. all morning long where john was the wind was blowing offshore, down the river. now it is beginning to turn around and it will blow up the river stopping that rain from coming down. there is a lot more rain. that s still 20 inches of rain to come. it s still there. this is a big storm.
everybody else to get a sense of what we should be anticipating. chad, what are you seeing in. what you are going to see depends on where you are, north of the storm or south of the storm. what i m seeing right now is that the center is right over carolina beach. if there is an eye and it still appears that there is an eye with the storm, it would be directly over carolina beach. earlier today when john berman was getting so wet, it was here. it has been traveling toward the south and toward the southwest. and what s southwest of here? ocean. the land ends right there. so this could quickly be back in the water, maybe in that warm water trying to strengthen. i ll take you to new bern. you have been in this band of weather right through here and right now you are not. so it was really amazing to see the live shot right there with very little wind because the shift water rescues today were going on with wind gusts to 60.
especially near the cape river. obviously, it is too early really to get an assessment of exactly how everybody is. they have been receiving calls here in wilmington for assistance. and it s really being done on a case-by-case basis. at this point, this actually better than it was when john berman was here even just about 20 or so minutes or so. the rain seems to have slowed down at this point. this is probably one of the differentials in one of the bands of the storm that we keep seeing. we have been watching the marina very closely. it seems to be in good shape. this is what we anticipate seeing all throughout the day today, this grinding, slow moving storm moving about 6 miles an hour. last i heard electricity is out pretty much everywhere in wilmington. the hotel here, most of the