category. certainly it was a major hurricane for a number of days, category 4. as it weakened, as it moved inland, it became a cat 1 but remember, here in the northeast we had sandy that did devastating damage. that was an 80 mile per hour wind storm and it was the flooding and storm surge that caused all the damage. then harvey last year for southeast texas, people don t seem to realize that although it was a 4 when it made landfall, by the time it got to houston it was a tropical storm. these tropical storms can dump incredible amounts of rain if they are stationary or not budging, and that s why we have these incredible storm totals. this storm has not moved over the last 24 hours and it is not expected to move over the next 24 to 36 hours. not only do we have the flooding threat, but we have a tornado threat, we have had several reports of weak tornadoes. they are fast-moving, they do cause some structural damage. they re not particularly really strong tornadoes, but they are
rain bands moving over the exact same areas and that s why we are seeing these incredible storm totals and people are urged to evacuate along the little river and cape fear, if you are one mile away living near those rivers, you are urged to evacuate. the rivers are coming up, they are rising and they are going to crest at historic levels. here s the additional rainfall on top of the 24 or 30 inches we have already seen. six to 12 easily in and around the wilmington area up towards fayetteville, then easily inland here, we will see the potential of six to ten inches of rainfall. so this is going to be a widespread event for not only north carolina, south carolina, up towards virginia. those river flood gauges again are going to be very impressive, reaching major flooding, catastrophic flooding in some cases because the storm is moving so slowly. i will wrap up by saying we have a lot of activity in the
wilmington, up in new bern, up in the pulmicort sound. you will see water in their going up 12 feet, and the way they storm stalled south, we ll see the water stay there probably for about vehicle about away from the highest storm surge. exactly it. i m so glad you saw that. people think the coast is the storm surge. but north carolina, it s kind of this flat plane, it s what makes it a beautiful area for people who boat. martha: low country. that s exactly it. all of the water gets pushed up into the inlets and it can t get out. there are a lot of little towns as you go up there and those are the towns that are the biggest concern for the storm surge that we are going to have. all these inlets are where the water wants to come out when the rain falls. latest model, it shifted earlier to the south. early models showed 41 inches at one point. we will see storm totals,
you are along the carolina coast. some seeing terrible weather. ali not seeing terrible weather but will be. this is what we re looking at. radar is active. it s lit up. lots of colors. darker colors indicated the heavier rain. buford has been seeing rain for hours and hours and we re looking at those darker colors. we ll look at those storm totals in a little bit. see that pink line that s a tornado watch and also something we have to worry about as we go through the overnight hours. the worst will be sundown tonight into sundown tomorrow night. rain and wind gusts. winds gusting very high in some spots, not very high in others. you want to stay vigilant, stay focused on your forecast. we re seeing tropical storm force winds. category 2 storm, a strong one tonight, 110 miles per hour and then it slows to a crawl. almost to a walking pace. so we ll see this moves so, so
there is our nor easter. we are going to be tracking it throughout the day today to get those storm totals on track. really if you live across the northeast pay close attention to your local forecast. we will keep you up to date. we will be outside tomorrow. back inside where it s warm. wave, everybody, wave. how are you? nor easter tomorrow. florida? ainsley: i hope they are not flying out tomorrow they will not get out tomorrow. steve: thank you, janice. high school basketball team won their game 93-7. and now the superintendent is apologizing for. ainsley: for winning. steve: we will tell that you story. brian: jeb bush and president trump had a major robbery on the campaign trail. i don t know if you heard about that. now president trump is endorsing jeb bush s son to george p. in the primary.