south carolina. tonight savannah and charleston are girding for a big nasty high tide, just after 1:00 a.m. eastern time. there s already been a gust of 60 miles an hour south of charleston this evening. we will see the definition of the term storm surge along the coast. they are expecting their second-highest water levels ever in that city. as this storm churns around that coastal bend, the rain bands then start the inland expansion. they cross over i-95, they push the wind and rain inland for miles. tomorrow afternoon eastern time, myrtle beach, wilmington, north carolina, the outer banks will be getting all they care to handle from this storm. hatteras is going to be busy at this time tomorrow night. and a reminder of where this storm has been and the damage it has done. in plain english, the bahamas will never be the same. there is great fear in places like abaco that the death toll
hour. it intensified tonight. it s going well along its way. its long drive up and along the coast. currently lashing the big bend there between florida, georgia, south carolina. tonight savannah and charleston are girding for a big nasty high tide, just after 1:00 a.m. eastern time. there s already been a gust of 60 miles an hour south of charleston this evening. we will see the definition of the term storm surge along the coast. they are expecting their second-highest water levels ever in that city. as this storm churns around that coastal bend, the rain bands then start the inland expansion. they cross over i-95, they push the wind and rain inland for miles. tomorrow afternoon eastern time, myrtle beach, wilmington, north carolina, the outer banks will be getting all they care to handle from this storm. hatteras is going to be busy at this time tomorrow night.
whipping here. at the moment we ve got a rain band coming in. this is the window of the control center room. this is where apollo managers watched the moon shot rocket go up to the moon in the 60s and where artemis managers will watch the first woman go to the moon. you can see the rain coming in right now. we re in a hurricane hardened facility cat 5, this can withstand. so this glass is super strong stuff. and you can see some of the rain coming down on the glass right now. i see the feeder band moving in. our conditions are still windy, very rainy. so we re going to wait before we send our emergency response team to go out and start surveying our launch infrastructure here. where we have a lot of high value space flight hardware. yeah. i could feel one of the rain bands coming over me right now up the coast from where you are right now. 12,000 acres at the kennedy
still a 110 mile per hour windstorm with gusts of 130 and the wind field is expanding and that s interesting because tropical force tropical storm force winds extend 175 miles from the center so the storm is just sort of spreading out a little bit. you can see these rain bands pretty heavy on the rain on the west side of that storm and that s pushing all the rain bands, the rain, the wind into portions of florida and getting some very heavy rain right now. that s going to continue. we ll have the potential for flooding in florida, as well as very gusty winds. tropical storm forced winds. this is going to move up to the north and eventually bend back to the east and that s where it gets very interesting especially for the carolinas anderson. so do you expect it to continue picking up speed as it moves up the coast or is it going to kind of get slower? well, it is expected to pick up speed and that is good news for the carolinas. yes, we could possibly see a landfall there. it coul
well, it looks like the sound bite is not working, he s a native here and done this for a long time, it s just what you do when they have the storms, it s scary for them, they are here to serve the community and what bud and gary do, they will be staying in the office of emergency management building, they will be on the radio coordinating with volunteers that are at shelters in the area, those are the unsung heros of the situations when you weather events, you have police, firefighters, volunteers out here so they can do the best to protect the communities, so we just we wanted to give ewe the one angle of it and show you what some people are doing that they really don t get credit for that, as far as preparations go, as i said most of it is pretty much done on the barrier islands, mandatory evacuations start at 8:00 o clock this morning and we ve already seen some of the rain bands coming through, it s only going to get worse from here on out, guys. carley: jillian, thank you so