Cockpit. They attacked the enemy. They until the very end. Shepard 17 years after 9 11. Breaking news, Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news deck. Shepard first from the fox news deck Hurricane Florence is getting even bigger. Thats the latest from the forecasters. Ordered to get out as the monster category 4 storm surges towards the east coast with the carolinas generally speaking in its crosshairs. Folks there havent faced this kind of a hurricane so large and so powerful according to the Hurricane Center in many decades. Not just the coast line either, far from it. Catastrophic flooding and torrential downpours according to the national Hurricane Center could spread for hundreds of miles. Overflowing rivers, flash flooding in the Appalachian Mountains are likely, they tell us. Here is what it looks like inside the storm these pictures from Hurricane Hunters who flew straight into the eye of florence after circling its perimeter to gather crucial information that could save so many lives. This is a time lapsed video of their flight. When they reached the center, its beautiful and sunny as it always is in the eye of the storm. State troopers in South Carolina have reversed the flow of traffic on the highway, so that all leans go out. The locals call it contra flow. Its difficult and many times confusing but can be lifesaving as it avoids traffic jams so people can get out of the hurricane quickly. Even the navy is packing up and leaving. Warships and submarines on the coast of virginia heading out to sea to avoid the storm there are some Major Health Hazards in the storms path, putting Water Supplies at the in the environment at risk. North carolina has pits of toxic coal ash packed with arsenic, lead and other cancercausing metals there are also hog farms with large open air lagoons and ponds filled with poisonous waste. There is also six Nuclear Power plants in the storms forecast one in brunswick county, North Carolina, close to the coast and the forecasters say it could face the full force of this storm. Our Rick Leventhal is live in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina where some of us go on days like this. As is always the case, its a Beautiful Day in the calm before the storm, rick. Yeah, shepard, its hot and sunny. We are just steps from the ocean. Johnny mercers fishing pier right there i want to show you 126unit copped dough under construction just off the beach. I want to show it to you. This is the stuff they are doing now to prepare for the storm. Look at that tractortrailer over there thats the third one fully loaded with lumber that was sitting here on this lot getting ready to help put these homes together. Look over here to your left. You will see the homes under construction. Three tractor trailers full of wood that theyre hauling out of here because they dont want it blowing around in the wind. Anything thats not tied down could very well take off and be a projectile. All that stuff on that back trailer, they are packing up all the extra lumber thats lying around, all the pieces of material that have to be used on these homes, they are packing them up and putting them away. Including those chain linked fence pieces that were circling this property. Those had to be tied down. Anything that could fly, shepard, as you know has to be secured or it will fly. The hotel where we are staying just down the beach, they are taking all the furniture off the ground floor. Anything from the waste down they are storing it somewhere because they know if they dont it will wash away or blow away. And thats a big concern here. Those high winds and the heavy rains in the storm surge, these units are rated about 130 plus miles per hour. They will be tested in the next couple of days, shepard. Shepard there are evacuation orders, rick. Are people leaving . Well, we have seen people leave but we know a lot of people will stay. Wrightsville beach where theweare now they will close the bridge tomorrow night at 8 00. No one else will be allowed on to wrightville beach. Whoever decides to stay will be on their own. I talked to locals who say a lot of folks are going to stay if they are in the low lying areas and they know their property is likely to flood i am told they will get out. A lot of people boarding up and riding out. They see it tracking a little bit further north and they want to be there to protect their property and watch over their property once this thing passes through. Shepard rick, thanks. We will hear from the mayor of Wrightsville Beach who is in the path of the hurricane. I will talk to him about what folks there are doing to prepare for the storm. Thats coming up at the bottom of the hour just minutes away. Lets bring in ken graham now, director of the national Hurricane Center. Ken is live with us. Ken, what sort of changes have you seen and what should people expect. A close eye on this thing as we are seeing some further organization with the system. We are watching real close into the eye and really starting to see, you know, an expansion. Really expansion of some of these winds. More organization. So it really is in line with the forecast being a major hurricane. Let me tell you all the ocean right ahead of it not only warm at the surface but even deep labor warmth. So therlabor deep layer of warmth. Really nothing in the way of the hurricane to the carolinas. Shepard we watch the eye of the storm pretty normal. The suggestion after that it would strengthen and what about forward progress. Are you expecting it to slow down speed up or what . Thats been a big topic. After the eye wall replacement further organization. But heres the big story. Look at these distances between these forecast points and look how they get really close towards the end. I do want to make the point. This right here is 8 00 a. M. Friday. This is 8 00 a. M. Saturday. This is 8 00 a. M. Sunday. Really slows down. And when that happens, think about it, have you saturated soil, wind, still a depression over central North Carolina. Even on sunday. Vow trees down. That compounds the issue with the rainfall and very dangerous rainfall and also the storm surge. Shepard you always hope there will be High Pressure center to steer it away that there will be wind shear to knock the tops off; that something will happen that before it hits land, it will actually diminish in some way and lives will be spared. Is there anything you can find to suggest that might happen . I will tell you, nobody wishes that more than a meteorologist because we have seen this coming. Even since the weekend. We dont see it. We dont see anything in the oceans deep layer, warm water. Nothing in the atmosphere. In fact when you start having High Pressure in the wrong locations and starts slowing down the system. Really the worse Case Scenario coming true. The rainfall rates we keep talking about the impacts here. The rainfall in some case historical very dangerous situation. Not just on the coast. But look i object land inland, d North Carolina and maryland and delaware. By the way the forecast air, some of this could shift back and forth. If you are on the edge thinking you are okay this can shift. You have to pay attention. Definitely historical rainfall and terrain see pretty bad flash flooding. Shepard because it feels like a levity wolf is on cnn its me here on the fox. I get it but its all good. He probably would have the same question. That is if you are inland say in raleigh, it looks like you are going to get if your models are right, a lot of rain is coming. If you are in raleigh or somewhere inland like that, should you be taking extra precautions. Definitely shep, we will get that right this time. You have to. The rainfall rates we are talking about are going to be the tropical rainfall rates are high. 152020 inches. Some of the bulls eye we are talking 30 inches of rain. Thats just dangerous. Its lifethreatening and even far away from the coast you can get that with the terrain that could be really dangerous flash flooding. Precautions what it is about being prepared. Shepard those who rode out hugo was a wind storm chopped off the top of pine trees. All you heard for a month is chain sauce. This you are seeming to suggest is more of a water storm. Is that right . Or does this pack a onetwo . Probably all of the above. You think about this forecast lingering. Saturate the soils. Whats that is going to do the wind is going to compound the issue. If you stay in the depression well into the weekend start knocking down trees. We are talking a wind storm. We are talking rain and even have to talk about the storm surge because look at this huge area that we could expect, you know, we have this watch up from the North Carolina, virginia border all the way in to South Carolina. Anywhere in there you get 3foot or greater of storm surge. In fact, some of the areas we are particularly focusing on in North Carolina, look at the river in sound where this water gets trapped. These rivers normally flow out. With the storm surge that water comes in and where it gets trapped we could be talking 10foot, 12foot of storm surge. And thats definitely lifethreatening. Shepard so if you are my age or so, 50, 60, and you have been living along the coast of North Carolina all your life, you have never really seen stuff that beat stuff up so bad that you decided to get out. Under a decide to stay today. Whats your advice, kiming ken, there did it. I dont know if were even i think mine was worse. My advice here dont take your chance. If we are talking about powerful system, a major hurricane, we are talking about measuring rainfall and storm surge in feet in both cases its a particularly dangerous hurricane. You cant take aens that. Look, uncertainty is always there people are following the different models, but the bottom line is we have huge impacts from. This life threatening situation and listen to the local officials. If they are saying you are in danger, absolutely listen to them and get out. Dont take a chance. Shepard ken graham, we cant thank you enough. Thank you for working for us. Talk to you in the next couple of days. Shepard locals have said the time has come to go, the time has come to make sure your relatives are safe and that you move on to a place where you can be safe. Because if his first alert forecast is right, the next s right the next few days are extremely difficult. Nobody knows what happens after that. Will there be power in a week . Will there be power in a month . Call puerto rico. Well have the latest on Hurricane Florences path as folks in the carolinas brace for what the national Hurricane CenterCenter Reports could be one of the worst storms there in our lifetimes. A lot of people heading out of town, we hope. Those others hunkering down. But, first, 17 years later, we remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the deadliest terror attack ever on american soil. Its 9 11 in america. And the news continues after this. Pressure . 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Since then, firefighters, police officers, and other First Responders, School Children and others continue to die from cancer and other illnesses because of the toxic dust they breathed in at ground zero. Will be in. In washington the flag lowered in front of the pentagon or outside washington where 184 people died when a plane crashed into it Vice President pence said during a ceremony today he wanted to pay a debt of honor and remembrance to the victims. And at a memorial in shanksville, pennsylvania, President Trump and the first lady melania paid tribute to the men and women of united flight 93. Crew members and passengers as we are told charged the cockpit door to stop the terrorists and the plane crashed into a field, killing all 40 on board. Our coverage begins there with our molly line in shanksville. Mollie . Shep, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump traveled here to this sacred ground the flight 93 National Memorial to honor the brave passengers and crew who rose up against the 9 11 hijackers. A band of brave patriots turned the tide on our nations enemies and joined the immorality ranks of american heroes. At this memorial on this sacred earth in the field beyond this wall and in the skies above our heads. Their plane crashed but those 40 people saved unknown number of innocence preventing that plane from hitting intended target believed to be the u. S. Capital in washington, d. C. Shepard mollie outside washington folks gathered at the pentagon to remember the 184 people owho died there 17 years ago today. Dana was just 3 years old on board American Airlines flight 77 when it crashed into the pentagon at 9 37 a. M. She would be 20 years old today, roughly the same age as thousands of Service Members across the middle east. This morning, all 184 victims names were read aloud. The Naval Academy glee club performed the national anthem. Defense secretary mattis led a task force into afghanistan shortly after to fight the taliban. Mattis led the First Marine Division in 2003 invasion of iraq. We remember the beretry and sacrifice of those who fell here in america and then on farflung battle fields declaring proudly that americans do not scare. And we followed to the end of the earth those who sought to break our spirit. Even before the smoke cleared, and the fires were put out, americans began to answer the call. Step forward to serve this nation. A quarter of all americans were born after the 9 11 attacks. The fight continues today. This year, the u. S. Military has bombed six different countries, iraq, syria, afghanistan, some i cant, yemen and libya. Shep . Shepard lucas, in Lower Manhattan, thousands of victims relatives, survivors and First Responders gathered on this rainy morning where the twin towers once stood that beautiful blue day. Our Senior Correspondent eric shawn was there that morning and he is there for us again today. Hi, eric. Hello, shep. It was another tortured morning of remembrance and deep emotion here at the World Trade Center site as the family members, loved ones and officials read the name of all 2753 People Killed by radical islamic terrorism here and it was a day filled with emotion.