6 25 p. M. Its at facebook. Com andersoncooper full circle opinion right now i want to hand it over to chris cuomo. Cuomo prime time starts now. You were wondering where the rain is, now you know. Its right on andersons head. Hurricane florence is starting to come around for the coast of the carolinas. Anderson is going to stand by. We have correspondents up and down the path of the storm for you. Here is hurricane florence, very slow, thats the problem with this storm. When she comes, she stays, and shes dumping water in places that dont have a lot of tolerance for it, by the time the wind gets to you, the areas have been soaked. Currently just over 80 miles eastsoutheast of where Anderson Cooper is. Lets go to where were seeing the storm in full effect already. Brian todd is in ham stead, North Carolina. Whats the weather . You have to keep your eye on that situation. We have an assisted living facility not far from the area where were getting pounded right now. Its good, weve been talking to city and county officials. They learned from hollywood florida. There are no assisted living facilities or Nursing Homes in north mert el beach proper. The ones in the surrounding areas, they have generators ready. They have fuel ready, to cool down those areas, if theres any type of trauma to the facilities. Hopefully thats a lesson learned. It was explained to me that florence is working the body before she works the head. For a Boxing Metaphor, the rain is soaking all of the roads, all of the communitieses, all of the areas, saturating them, then once the wind comes with the surge, they will already be too soaked to really absorbed any of the blow. And thats their concerns. So what have you seen in terms
of change . Time is the element. Have you to be able to take about 18 to 30 hours of this. What are you seeing as a rate of decline in this situation. Its been declining rapidly. Its getting more inundated. Can you feel it every 20 minutes or so, can you feel this, you can certainly see the surge coming closer to us, as we get hit with another band here, Whipping Side to side. We have to also point out this area had already gotten a lot of rain even before florence was a threat. This area is saturated. It makes it less able to with stand this kind of thing. The dire nature of this situation cant be overstated right now. Its going to get worse in the next few hours as weve all been saying, this is a storm that is moving very, very slowly. Its taking its time, lumbering past this area, and again, you cant say enough about the people who decided to stay, and
weve been without power for about four hours now 37 and had one Tornado Warning where we all sheltered in closets. Its pretty windy out there. Safety first, rebecca. Safety first, thank you for talking to us. This is no longer a discussion of should you stay, should you leave. Youre here. Do you have food in the freezer. Do you have water. We brought in plenty of water and food and ice. And were good to go for quite a while. Thats your first concern much i know a lot of First Respondersdecided to stay. There was a call out for blood, put in the area today, just in case. So we understand people had to make different choices. Do you have a concern about the time . Usually you have to deal with this for six hours, eight hours, theyre thinking this will last a day or two. We have plenty of supplies to last for days and days. Were more about, i have my three children here. And im worried about how long all of us will be able to stay in the house without going crazy. Everybodys needing to do what they need to do, and well get through it. Rebecca, how old are the kids . 16, 14 and 11, and my girlfriend is staying here, and her daughter is 17. And weve got 17, 16, 14 and 11 and four
have people in the area. Thank you, well get the information out. Thank you guys so much. I know its a little bit hairy for the News Reporters to be out here during all of this too. Thanks for being here. We got it easy compared to you. p. This is about time. Lets bring in tom seder right now. The word went out, there will be no surprise here, will the direction be a little different . Yes. Will the force be air little different . Yes. This is going to be a long time, if youre losing power now. Youre not going to have it for days in all likelihood. Fair assessment . Very fair. Its still 80 miles off shore, its only moving at 5 miles an hour, it really put on the
the actual intensity went up by five Miles Per Hour a couple hours ago, here we go. Starting to see a full circulation around the core. Here we go, its dropped again. We have elements and factors of the environment that are fighting for it and fighting against it. One High Pressure off to the west, this is running fwloo a brick wall like harvey did. It can go down even slower from leer. Will it make its way on shore or not . Other elements . The warm water, sure, you think well fire that engine up, that fuel line is still open, its not over land. The rain inside the core is a cold rain. When it falls, its going to fight that warmer water, thats going to try to fight it. Outer bands over South Carolina right now are creating friction. It tries to kick in dry air,
direction, were only about 423 miles from the coast, a little further to wilmington, moving at this kind of speed, you get incredible rainfall totals. Over a foot already at atlantic beach. When we look at these models weve been talking about, it still wants to bring it on shore south of wilmington, thats why theyre in that core, the stronger winds. Carolina beach. The winds will start to shift, this model now rides the coastline, its a landfall when half of it is over land. But i cannot give you a time period right now. Because there are so many factors if its going to be on shore at what time. This could be late tomorrow, believe it or not. But because its riding that coastline, youre still getting that surge of Moisture Feeding into the back of that eye, this is going to be going in for some time. Theres a world of things that we can talk about. Its just beginning. The pictures were seeing are nothing about like what were going to see. Unfortunately. Look, thats the truth, tom. You dropped a lot of science there, but youre right, we have a lot of time to talk about it, because shes moving so slowly that theres going to be a lot more fatigue in the audience than there will be in the storm, and youre going to have the backside of this storm where we are, right in new myrtle beach, South Carolina, about 9, 10 miles inland. Its going to take longer for her to get here, because of the track south. Shes going to be carrying more things into a Funnel Effect here. The concern is, people will have 8, 10, 12 hours of this, they havent seen a storm in 20 years of anything like this kind of proportion. We were right. Soon as the number went down, the threat went away, and all along theres another 15, 18 hours of water and wind coming behind it, so for the people here at new myrtle beach and parts south, whats the word of warning . The word of warning, it comes north mert el beach and parts south. The worst of it will start to move in tomorrow morning for you, but its not until the winds start to shift later in the day, that youre going to see the worst of it, you get down it myrtle beach, that main drag im drawing a blank. Where you have all the high rises. The winds are going to increase at height, floor by floor. Even if its a category 2, anyone whos on the 30th floor, the winds are 20 higher. Its going to get worse as we go through the day tomorrow. Its not going to get better for the outer banks until tomorrow, it will improve from the north to the south. When you look at this increasing Surge Heading in one direction. All the water is coming out on the southern flank. Visually those who have stayed lindh say this isnt such a bad thing, because the winds are on the back edge here. You havent even gotten into that main flow thats going to
push all of us through. Typically, these storms will come through with one high tide cycle. Thats what we originally thought a few nights ago, now theyre going to go through 2 maybe 3, and the low tidewater never comes out. Just so people remember how the tide cycle works. Its six and six. From low tide, you have six hours until you have low tide. Theres a little period of slack in between. High tide can make a big difference especially for places that cant tolerate more saturation. Just after midnight tonight, and then after noon tomorrow, and then 1 00 in the morning. And 1 00 p. M. Thats about your time period. Right, so those are the high tide cycles, were going to see several. The story of this storm is going to be duration, impact, only time will tell. Its one of those cliches we hear in storms, especially with
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hours by the time you get the Big Bands Of Win from whatever category the storm is, even if its a tropical depression at that point, it will be more than enough to create real problems. How do i know . Ive been told by local officials who have been educating me on the process here. Lets bring in jay fernandez. So far so good. Theres a false since of security, we saw it on the beach today. Yes, thats very true. We started evacuating when the governor issued the order on tuesday. And weve aggressively been putting the message out. Were probably at about 85, 90 evacuated that means about 1,000 are still in town. My wife evacuated with our son to alabama. I was happy they got out of town. Youre going to protect your family, do the right thing. Be safe rather than sorry. Its not too bad. What is the risk . Youre right, the storm is going to last a long time were looking at 30 plus hours of 50 miles an hour or more, starting after midnight, actual hurricane hours, probably 9 hours of hurricane strength rain, and storms. Thats devastating, plus with all the rain, 30 plus inches of rain, thats going to compromise as you mentioned earlier, the soil, trees are going to fall, theyre going to knock power lines down, they may hit houses. Were going going to be able to respond. Our Response Protocols say at 35, were very limited on where we go. At 50 we shut it off. We will evaluate the calls, if theres a critical call coming in after 50 miles an hour, but that will be a case by case
situation. Dont have anyone believe were going to come. Were not going to come unless its a critical critical. People dont think about the lives of the First Responders when they make the decision to stay. They confuse bravery with temerity. Once you get above 30 miles an hour, 40 miles an hour, you cant safely send people out and guarantee their return. If you have 12 hours of 50 miles an hour, thats 12 hours a lot of people may have to wait. Thats correct. Youre right, i have about 135 policemen and firemen on duty right now. We do not want to risk their lives because somebody chose to stay. Thats not going to happen. One of the things were going to do is, while were here locally, were starting a phone tree. Were checking in on people, spreading numbers, so as they have problems, theyll be able to contact us. If you have information people need to hear, let us know. Im glad your wife and child got out safely. What kinds of things are we dealing with in the storm . Theres a wide variety of concern. The buildings falling down. Power being down. People being stuck in their house. Then there are these X Factor Considerations you have to deal with. Right now we have someone on the phone, jennifer gordon. She works with an organization. Its good to have you on the phone, we were talking to you earlier. You were trying to move animals from a sanctuary, away from the harder areas of the storm. And there was a mishap, and we started to see it all over the place online. What lapped with the transporting of the animals . We had a all right, i dont have jennifer. Try to get her back on the phone. And let me tell you the story quickly. And well get jennifer back on. Jennifer, can you hear me now . Hello . Hello . Jennifer, can you hear me . No, i cant hear you. I can hear you, can you hear me . Yes, were good now. Tell us what happened with the animals. We had a couple hundred animals at a sanctuary on the coast. We lined up multiple transports to get the animals out of the hurricane area. Theyre right in wilmington where the hurricanes going to make landfall. We had the cajun navy and a few of those Volunteer Sites where people volunteered to help. Over the course of the few days, weve had quite a few
transporters, we moved the donkeys and goats and emust and swans out of the sanctuary. We had three different transports leaving there today, we were running out of time. And the people were having trouble getting in, and the wind was the rain was already coming in. And so we were beating the clock trying to get out. And we strapped the animals down, the transporter that was there, they were evacuating people and had some room for animals in his truck. He put some crates in the back, he strapped them down, but the force of the wind we think is so strong, while he was going over the bridge. That usually will give you a gust. And it pushed the strap loose or the crate out. We dont really know what happened. And it fell out. We heard that as a result,
some of the crates wound up falling out, and there wound up being calls to find the animals, and there was a search area brought out. You started to get reports from local farms of animals being dropped off. There was a pelican on a box waiting for rescue, and ultimately you ended up getting back all of the animals except a hawk . Yes, were missing a red tail hawk, its a male, his name is achilles. Hes an ambassador for a Wildlife Refuge on the coast. He relies on people to survive. He cant survive on his own in the wild. Half of his wing was amputated. Were glad you got just about all of them back, well stay in the loop with you if anything happens. You keep us apprised of the situation. Thank you for having us. Pets always end up being part of the equation. We know our pets are part of the family. They wind up part of the safety calculation, your decision about what to do. Many of the shelters dont allow dogs, what do you do . Are you going to leave your pets when theyre a part of your family. A lot of People Choose not to do that. Youre going to hear the stories about the wild horses in the outer banks that live on beaches. They say instinct will keep them safe from the storm. Will that happen . The longer this storm is here, the more variability of outcome, were going to see. Rear going to leave you with a picture of whats going on in different areas. You saw in newburg North Carolina they have power down, increasing flooding there, and about a day and a half of storm and Hurricane Type Conditions to go. So when we come back, well take you through the latest on hurricane florence. Shes just getting started. The worst is yet to come. All right, here we are, were watching hurricane florence, shes now about 65 miles eastsoutheast of wilmington, North Carolina, the effects are starting to be felt. Lets go to someone who is literally chasing this storm. Reid ti