that the what they re worried about we see some. sam, tom, thank you for helping us understand what is happening and what is yet to come. so, here s what we know. michael came fast and furious leaving little time for those in its path to seek safer ground. that s just the reality. that creates so much pressure on the first responders and on local leaders. how did they meet an unanticipated need? tonight we have florida s senior senator bill nelson with us next. he ll bring us up to date. rect m you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let s say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com so why not bundle them with esurance and save up to 10%? which you can spend on things you really want to buy, like. well, i don t know what you d wanna buy because i m just a guy on your tv. esurance. it s surprisingly painless.
saturation there already. i have a map up of the track of the storm. sam is saying, look, we know what happened here in these areas along the coast, especially with the continental shelf and the rapid buildup of strength. all of these areas, we don t really know yet how people were affected there. they re rural. they re remote. we re told a lot of people didn t evacuate. that s the primary concern for sam and all the experts. now you have this track. it s coming sblo into place that s already got hit. it is in rough shape. the kids just got back to school. now they have saturation where the ground can t absorb any water. like sam was saying, and all these storm winds. look what we re watching. hurricane here, right? tropical storm all here. they re not ready for it. they can t handle it given what they ve already dealt with. sam, thank you for the perspective. do me a favor, stick around so we can forecast what s to come and what we need to watch out for. thank you, brother. it s g
let s bring in sam and let s discuss one of the coefficients of this acceleration, which is the acceleration is like a catapult. it s like a sling shot. now this thing hits land and it s got more juice, sam. and it s going to have more of a stretch than was initially anticipated. yeah, this thing is going to run and it s going to run at least this strength of tropical storm strength. the forecast is to maintain some kind of rotation, maybe even tropical storm strength by the time it exits near norfolk, near that north carolina border. and if you follow the line, they actually have it intensifying a little bit once it moves out into the atlantic. chris, what i want to tell you when we look at a hurricane develop, for each storm we have a p.i., potential intensity. and we look at the storm and say, what could slow it down? what could speed it up? and when we looked at the beginning of this storm, we just didn t think it had enough time to really make the ramp as it moved into the gul
i m hearing from my fema guys that are down on the ground, he this say, we keep seeing people in places. that the what they re worried about we see some. that means there are more there. sam, tom, thank you for helping us understand what is happening and what is yet to come. so, here s what we know. michael came fast and furious leaving little time for those in its path to seek safer ground. that s just the reality. that creates so much pressure on the first responders and on local leaders. how did they meet an unanticipated need? tonight we have florida s senior senator bill nelson with us next. he ll bring us up to date. chloe. she s so cute. the most loved iphone meets the most loved in wireless. right now, save $300 on iphone xs at t-mobile. rewards me basically aeverywhere.om
this as a cat 3 entering georgia will be a cat 1 as it moves through south georgia. that means they re in for 30, 40, 50 up to 90 mile per hour wind gusts. those 30 to 40 mile per hour winds will be steady. there will be thunderstorms, there will be tornadoes in this all night long. it is going to be a challenging night for people in south georgia. then we begin the process tomorrow in south carolina as you correctly mentioned, chris. south carolina and north carolina still dealing with the flooding and the aftermath of flooding from florence, still could get more than 6 inches of rain in some of those areas, and that doesn t help anybody. no. that water as you were explaining as we were dealing with florence, so much saturation there already. i have a map up of the track of the storm. sam is saying, look, we know what happened here in these areas along the coast, especially with the continental shelf and the rapid buildup of strength. all of these areas, we don t really know yet how