and of course, the search and rescue operations are underway. first responders, they have been mobilized. emergency crewd ems doinge tr everything they can to rescuent those that are trappedinue as residents. now continue to suffer under the devastating storm surgesurg from naples to sarasota, forts o myers, beyond the storm is now barreling towards the coast of b south carolina. dsit looks to be headed straight towards charleston, will have full coverage throughout the night tonight. but first, as we have shown you on this program night after night, your presiden aftert, its the president of the united states of america, joe biden,tae is not weln is il. he is weak, is frail, frankly decrepit. is deteriorating cognitively p at a pretty rapired pacetty . and he s not fit to be the commander in chief yesterday. whankly,mmander- may have been joe biden s lowest moment yet,ic which is kind of saying a lot during a white house event on combating hunger, which honored the late indi
at it at charleston. orm su rg and from my understanding, there could be a storm surge of, what, nine feet? well, they re forecasting four to seven feet on and it s going to be close toston w charleston. we can crossith th our fingers e and hope it goes just to the north because charlotte hiarleston is very, very low country. i mean, it s called the low country and the historic cityooe of charleston floods even inve high high tides, which we have this time of year called the king tide season. we think o f the southwest coastphase of florida and that destructionn is being phase one .in centr the record flooding in central florida as being phase two. e ps and now we re on to phase three of ian .re take a look at the satellitenow. picture here where it is now. it looks like this very disheveled storm , but very eve strong winds, maybe evenst stronger than the 75 miles perth hour of the hurricane center was estimating back at eight o clock from the hurricane hurrice as i just. at their
into charleston. bu t it s just too close toe my call. and , of course, high concercern for the folks that are up the coast with that onshore winds aln onshorl the way into n carolina. sean, if it does hit there, that low country, as you call a it, in the charleston areaan and you have a storm surge, t let s say, seven feet on top of the rain that you re talking about, wha meant would that mear charleston? well, the problem is that the old city of charleston, down by the battery, is very low. the have these king tides that are higher than ever, it actually floodsds thern regular high tide. so this is a stunning threatg e to the old paratt of the city of charleston and that low country. like i said, i hope it misses there. but there is a lot of otherna ca south carolina coastts and sullivan s island and i love palms all up the coastificn there. t and the the threat is significant for those people. t ho people and localand the local ae have been talking about this all day and i hope
strong. and look at the directiohe direr they are pointing. they re pointing at the coastini of south carolinng anda and geo. so there is storm surge there. that is expected.tide now, it s got a lot to do with the tides and so let s time this out. so here s the idea. maybe up to storm strengthens a little ,w b maybe up to 80 miles an hour ori now based on the observationsstg i ve seen, maybe a little biter stronger, but not a crazy strong storm . the atmospheric conditions are just not conducive for that. and thenr arriving at the south carolina coast tomorrow, it says p.m. but i think middayrigi is about the right time frame to think about that and then mov moving north. now we re talkininh our talkg at the wind part of the storm first. and loo k this here. this red area is where tropicalo storm forcpie winds are expecte. in the purple area is whereforc hurricanwie force winds are possible. a herein tblis are as well, tornadoes tomorrow. so this is going to be ae terrible day acro
country of the carolinas there. n it moves up into the mountains and of course, tropical moisture and the mountains. a terribl are e combination. here s what the rainorecas forecast is . so whet n his first rain to second and this corridor of rain going up to at leastof the winston-salem area, if not up ints ofo the mountains of noh carolina, is going to be a significant flash flood threat.h the national weather serviceer has identified this region as very likely to have flash flooding identified, identified central florida yesterday. and that s what we had, tremendous flooding, record flooding there today. his area of raleigh up to the so it s this area of raleigh up into the mountains and back downand back to around columbiaa charleston. that s a high threat area.re a forfor flooding. strong winds and tornadoes tomorrow. and now let s talk about storm surge. so storm surge storm is the watr being pushed by the wind? so it s all about the direction of the wind. he so