land. let s go to bill karins with the latest. where the the storm right now and where are we expecting it to make landfall? we re getting the breaking news stories from this storm. i was saying all along it was from sunset today to sunset tomorrow that a majority of the damage is going to be done from this storm. we re hearing reports that the abc station, newbern area is evacuating. pamlico sound, the winds have been coming out of the east all day long. they re piling the water up. the storm surge is coming in. there s a lot of flooding problems in the newbern area and all the little water inlets and on the neuse river basin. that s a developing story. there will be dozens if not hundreds of water rescues that will have to take place. high tide isn t until midnight. we re at a category 2. one development we just saw, so here, about 20 miles off the coast we just had one of our
reporter: yeah. andy is going to look at the palm tree that s being held up here. an interesting point is i made the point we re ten miles away. when we woke up yesterday morning and said, boy, we re far away from where this storm is going to strike, especially when they were looking at the fact the eye was no longer going to hit miami, our thought was we wouldn t see much of the storm. where we were based at, there s a main water inlet, when you fly into miami you see them, lakes, other water inlets that go up next to these house. that s what we re interested to survey when the sun comes up. on the other side of the street is where that inlet was. it didn t look like a lake yesterday. they were significant waves which contributed to a large degree, 100-mile-per-hour winds which forced this over. it s dark so we can t see waterway right now. as seemed to be the feel across the state, the winds have died
can you see yesterday 99-mile-per-hour winds uprooted trees along the road here around the airport. you can see the roots when we swing back over here, these are significant trees the palm trees stayed up. over here on the other side are the inlets. you can see different water inlets, we saw was suddenly a lake turned into waves. ultimately, that wind pushed these trees up and over in the area. more than 85% in miami, dade county has no power. so a lot of people are using places like these hotels to evacuate. 680,000. the skies are clear right now. it feels comfortable out. so once the sun rises, we will start to see people coming out, being anxious. one man called up to have a cane saw delivered here to take action, himself. let me ask you quickly about the airport. i don t know if you have a sense of what officials there are now
miami sees. if you fly into miami, you ll see the water inlets scattered around the city. to give you perspective of where we are in miami, we re ten miles away from where the coast actually is. we re about two blocks away from miami international airport. yesterday morning when we realized we would be stuck by this tree, we didn t think we would get too much of the brunt of the water wind until the storm came in. 99-mile-per-hour winds, which led to these trees coming down. we are watching what is actually a lake over our right shoulder here. we saw it was waves that were being pushed on, going to land. you saw tires, tvs, debris from who knows where coming down that waterway. right now the sky, while it s still dark out, is pretty clear. we can see the moon. the winds died. there s a little sprinkle coming down but the water has returned to calm. there were 660,000 people under
path of least resistance. it will go around these buildings and these seawalls and head into these access roads that lead back up to atlantic avenue which is the main north-south drive along the coast here in daytona beach and run as far as it will go. the real worry of all of the water inlets leading into the intercoastal waterway. that water is going to head toward the intercoastal waterway and will come up very, very quickly depending on how close that eye is to do daytona beach and how strong the winds are blowing at that hour. that s one hour we re really concerned about here in this area. looking at some of the radar loops here over the last hour or two, i m a little concerned that this eye is coming closer to daytona beach than we were led to believe with that ron, i can confirm that. i can confirm that. i want to leave your shot up and briefly take radar here. you re here in daytona beach. you are only 28 miles to 29 miles away from the actual eye