Winds down 248 miles an hour. Still a category 4 storm. We had that rapid it got to that and incredibly strong storm. We are seeing these bands that have actually moved all the way through to parts of west florid florida. We are seeing some of the showers. In fact, we had a Tornado Warning earlier with that. You can see the center of it, still, its battering the bahamas, where it has been for the last 24 hours. This is a new model run from our american model, the gfs, we call it. It has also nudged it just a tiny bench towards the east. They are in the 3inch range all along the florida coast. But then, you notice that its in the 10inch range on the entire South Carolina coast. Cuts into areas of North Carolina, virginia, and up into the outer banks. A little into maryland. There are a lot of people that are going to be impacted by the storm. This is the center of it. This is the last three hours. You see that little northerly jock, it looked like it was taking . It drives down to the s
in mandatory evacuation areas like this one to take those orders seriously. people in flood-prone, low-lying areas have been ordered to go to higher ground. first responders don t have to be put at risk, but nevertheless, those crews are in place in the case they have to make those rescues. customs and border protection sent highly trained teams to areas in the path of the storm, including this one, preparing for air and marine operations, blackhawk ella doctors are staged in miami so they can come in when conditions allow the high water vehicles are in place all along the coast. the florida national guard has more than 4500 soldiers and airmen ready with boats and generators. they also have a helicopter team on standby with eight different airframes like blackhawks ready to do search and rescue operations along the barrier islands in areas that are low-lying like this one that are seeing a lot of damage from this surf. local officials, the priority has been for them getting vulnerable