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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m kristie lu rescue crews strangling to rescue those stranded the national hurricane center says that the category one storm has regained some strength and is now expected to make landfall near myrtle beach in the coming hours. in florida, the hurricane has killed at least 19 people with that is an early figure. the u.s. president has warned that the loss of life could be substantial. hundreds of people have already been rescued, millions are without power. some of the damage was almost indescribable to see a house just sitting in the middle of a sterile bay. literally must have gotten picked up, flown because of the massive wind speed, the storm surge, and deposited in a body of water. there were cars floating in the middle of the water. some of the homes were total losses. the governor has called the storm surge and santa belle biblical. it s america s emerge ....
Make its way across the florida peninsula. but i want to show you right now what is going on. we are starting to pick up a little bit heavier rain bands. more so along the georgia coastline, the south carolina although it is going to be picking up. rather nicely going into the next few hours or so. most of what we have seen has been light precipitation, light rain fall, we have seen some of the heaviest winds reported right around hilton head. south carolina, beautiful area. every area around the coast and south carolina is gorgeous. it s beautiful. but it is very very vulnerable. it is low country, and therefore summertime rains can really flood this region. in charleston, it is very vulnerable. it is always been vulnerable. but it has charm, it is history, a lot of history! and a system like this is going to be devastating for charleston. here is its position about 175 miles to the south, southeast ....
Sometimes we see kind of this lag. we did see it with the last update at 11 pm eastern time. most of the have a deep convection is still offshore, most of what charleston and the entire coast of south carolina is experiencing its mostly light precipitation but the winds have been gusty. i saw reports of the past hour where the wind gust in hilton head to about 41 miles an hour. so there s this gradual uptick as far as the wind speeds are concerned. now i think this is fascinating. we haven t really talked about these spaghetti models but look at this, the majority of the now kind of rains in this region kind of splitting the difference between charleston and myrtle beach. now these can change as we all know if you remember ian was supposed to make landfall right around tampa. but no, it was much further south, so devastating there for so many people at one time almost 3 million people without power, down, trees downed power ....