wind gusts, chad was telling us, 90 miles per hour. behind me is the northeast cape fear river. i can't turn around and look at it because the wind is coming off so fiercely and blowing the water in your face if you turn around. it blows down past wilmington, and there's concern the storm surge could push the rivers back up into wilmington even as the tremendous rainfall, three inches of rain per hour creates a flooding situation with the rain coming down with the rivers. over 400,000 customers without power right now. we have seen the explosions, the bursts of light that indicates people will lose power and lose power quickly, as chad was saying the outer eyewall over us now in wilmington, and we are feeling it and the wind is coming down. what happens, as our satellite loses the feed, the rain is