officials here are telling us that people have to be wary of, even as this storms moves away from charleston, the danger is trying to come back here home too quickly and encountering situations like this. that s right. a lot of the fatalities occur after the storms have already passed. brian todd in charleston, thanks so much. let s go now to cnn meteorologist tom sater for the latest forecast. tom, tell us where hurricane dorian is now and where he is headed. well, at the last couple of days, jake, dorian stayed approximately 100 miles off the coast of florida, parallel, the entire coastline. now it s closest approach, it s now 60 miles just south of myrtle beach. it s about 110 from wilmington. but it s those strong eye wall winds that are within 20 miles now. so we re still seeing a surge threat. the good news for charleston, they were looking at near-record levels of water just behind hugo of 1999, didn t quite get to 10.3, because at high tide at 2:00 p.m., those strong winds
jillian: hurricane dorian upgraded to a category 3 as it turns to the carolinas. rob: millions in the crosshairs, many people scrambling to evacuate before a possible landfall. jillian: janice dean tracking the storm. todd pyro in wilmington. rob: we begin with aishah hasnie in charleston, south carolina. reporter: we are in the bay area where streets are flooded already. i will show you how deep it goes, the power in this neighborhood just went out. i don t want to walk in there if there are power lines out. transformers have been blowing for the past couple hours lighting up the sky and you can see it is dark. we are using the headlights of our car so you can see these
those transformers pop. we have team coverage all morning long. meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio. she has been tracking this storm s path as you know. griff jenkins is live in folly beach, south carolina. but we start with aishah hasnie in charleston, south carolina where they are worried about the flood surge and aishah, it s already started. it has. people are saying time is running out. guys, time is up. we are in the thick of it. this is where it begins. it s raining down really hard on me right now and the wind gusts that keeps slamming me sometimes i lose my balance sometimes up to 40 miles per hour already. we are seeing some of those tree branches and palm leaves come shooting down on top of us. right behind me you see one of the many, many flooded streets in charleston. and i m not even going to try to go in there to show you how deep it is. i can tell you it was ankle deep about an hour and a half ago. i m not going to go in there now because as you can see
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places like it. north carolina is in the eye of the storm right now. it is where the storm is headed. so we are going to be keeping a close eye on that. i m in south carolina in charleston. our coverage continues after this. big dreams start with small steps. .but dedication can get you there. easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. chase. make more of what s yours®.