they will be chained off as of 9:00 tonight. so that s when the concern start sths these folks we are watching are okay? absolutely. the concern starts at 9:00 tomorrow night actually. okay, good. certainly good to give yourself a buffer of comfort there. we heard from the governor that he s been in touch with fema. really ready to secure resource that is might be needed after this storms passes. are you certain that you have the resources you need now ahead of the storm? yes. we have been in touch with fema and our emergency management backup. we are certain. thank you, bill rich, hyde county, north carolina, manager. we appreciate your time. thank you very much. one of the nation s most famous fourth of july celebrations is being moved up a day to avoid being rained out by arthur. chad was right. it could affect things in the area. this was just announce thad the
right there of the storm and it s had an eye for quite some time today, but now that eye is what we call breathing. literally it s suck air down at the surface and rising it up through the eye wall and expanding or expelling that air at the higher elevations and making those cirrus clouds blow off of the now increasing in strength hurricane, soon to be hurricane, the hurricane center saying within 12 hours this will be a category 1 hurricane. the danger is for north carolina, parts of south carolina as well. there will pounding surf and there will be waves 6 to 12 feet tall and eroding the beach itself and it may be completely gone in some areas and also the rip currents that we ve told people over and over and over today to please stay out of the water and yet, i can look right here and i can look at a picture, here it is this is jacksonville beach and waves 6 to 10 feet, where are the people? right there along the shore playing in the water.
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outer banks if that decision is made and we re also just warning people about getting their supplies ready and also, as i said earlier, don t put your stupid hat on and get in the water before the storm or during the storm just because there are good waves and don t get near high flooding or after the storm leaves if we have down power line, don t get near the power lines. that s usually with we have casualties right before or after the storm as opposed to during storms. very similar to the ice storms that we had this past win thor. let me ask you this because i m hearing mixed messages and we re hearing from our severe weather expert chad myers. he s saying stay out of water because if there is a sandbar break you could be just swept out even when you think everything is fine and everything is fine. he said people aren t doing that. we just heard in our reporter joe johns piece there, officials are saying come out and enjoy it. at what point do people need to start exercising cauti
holiday weekend and the question is how much they re going to adjust their plans until they figure out what the storm is going to do. brianna? joe johns, thank you so much. he has already warned beach goers not to take chances and you heard him there, joining me now is north carolina pat mccrory. thanks for being with us and let us know exactly what s being done to prepare for this storm on such a busy weekend. we just had a good conversation with the fema representatives in washington to ensure that if we need any recovery help from the federal government we get it. we ve opened up food supply areas with water and supplies especially in any flooding occurs in eastern north carolina. we ll be making decisions tonight and each of the county officials will be making decisions tonight on whether to do mandatory or voluntary evacuation in the morning at the time of daylight. that most likely, if it does occur would occur most likely from all indicateds that the