That away one hurricane. the folks of the midlands of south carolina. coastal areas could see severe flooding. strong tropical storm. lots going on with this system. we will keep you updated at the top of the hour. karen mcinnis, we will keep an eye out for. that coming up, thousands without power and prosecute. after pounding the western part of the island nation. we will have a report from havana in just a few moments.
The trees, signs, street signs have fallen over. people need to stay in place. my sense is that since mid day saturday we d have better idea of damage inland and athe damage along the barrier islands. when do you think we will have a firm idea as to the damage left behind by florence? with the leadership we have, the local government are top-notch. it s municipal, county, state, regional, all are just, bill, worldclass individuals and so we will know right away what the damage is and, but it is, as you indicated, less dire. we were preparing for 18 inches of rainy here in the midlands of south carolina, it s turned out to be about five inches, but we don t take it for granted and the flooding still could occur. yeah, joe wilson, thank you for your time.
Issue. as you see, the weather is starting to clear up here. when we drove in morning, it was very rainy, he very windy. and now it is a lot lighter. but as the storm moves inland toward the appalachian mountains, that is when we ll start to see all of the water that has accumulated upstream flowing down into the midlands area and that is when a lot of authorities here are expecting to see some real problems with flooding. let s move east/northeast now to oak island, north carolina pretty close to myrtle beach. this is a south facing beach. i know a big issue has been the bridges. this of course a town on the intercoastal waterway. what is the latest on the bridges there? reporter: i wanted to give our viewers this view from the south facing beach here in oak island. the wind as you see still lashing out. we re still feeling the effects of this tropical storm because once the storm shifted, the winds changed from west and they
reporter: her in the midlands of south carolina, it is a slow moving problem, kind of a delayed issue for people here in the capital of south carolina. as you can see behind me, it hasn t reached its banks yet. but there is a flash flood warning excuse me, a flash flood watch in effect here in the midlands. but so far south carolina has averted the worst of this disaster that struck mostly as you heard from garrett in north carolina and some of the coastal areas of south carolina. they even lifted some of the mandatory evacuation orders and all of the counties sgecht for two except for two of the most coastal counties. and as you said, we ll be hearing from the governor. but we re hearing that monday is when we will start to see some of the waters rising in the rivers and streams around the midlands region. that is why i m saying this could be something of a delayed problem rather than an immediate
Injuries here in new bern despite all of this flooding we ve seen around town. a lot of those rescues happening in new bern. thank you very much. garrett haake joining any from new bern, north carolina. i want to go now to south carolina s capital, columbia, where matt bradley is tracking the storm as it moves inland. we ve heard how slow moving this storm is, how it s sort of hanging over the center of that state and moving slowly sort of west-northwest. what are columbians being told tonight? what are they supposed to expect? well, as you can see, i spoke to you just an hour ago, david. the conditions have actually deteriorated quite dramatically just in that last hour. that s because we re starting to see here that leading edge of what is now tropical storm florence. as i mentioned, we drove this morning from myrtle beach, from the coast, all the way here to what they call the midlands of south carolina, and we basically outpaced the storm. and now it s finally catching up wit