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it s really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. it is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we don t see that much destruction. but it will take days to survey what happened. and there are areas we can t get to. we drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. that means people s livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. the boat captains are out here and they won t be able to make a dive living for a long time. tucker: it takes a long time to know what happened. leland vittert, thank you. move now to rick leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, north carolina. rick? rick: we moved from wrightsville beach. two of the four fatalities reported so far was a mother and her infant who were killed by a falling tree on their house. well, there are trees all over this town. and this ....
also tonight, after president trump told millions that the government is fully prepared for this hurricane, the president tweeting today, questioning how many really died in puerto rico, saying 3,000 people didn t die after hurricanes hit puerto rico, and the president now says that number was raised to make him look bad. we are also following several other breaking headlines tonight. more than a dozen explosions outside boston in several different communities. authorities are urging some residents to get out. and paul manafort, tonight news of a key meeting. is manafort about to plead guilty? is he striking a deal with robert mueller? and good evening from wilmington tonight. and as we come on the air in the west, millions along the coast here and inland are bracing now for this monster hurricane. the cape fear river right behind me here. we witnessed some of the very outer bands of the hurricane. the winds, the rain of course here already. and there s a good chance tha ....
still moving very slow. in fact, the latest information that we had with the aircraft and also looking on radar moving west at only 5 miles per hour. so moving very slowly. so around that center you can see that intense rainfall and also some still gusty winds with the latest information still remaining at 75 miles per hour. so, still a lot of gusty winds and, you know, very dangerous situation right center. let s look away from that. these rain bands can be particularly dangerous as you have areas like this. i want to draw it like that because this is important to look at because really when you look at it on the radar you start seeing this rain moving really fast that s really because the rotation around the hurricane. but, notice, that entire band stays within the lines that i drew. that means repetitive rainfall over the same areas and that s where we are seeing incredible rainfall totals. radar estimating 15 to 20 inches in some of these areas. that s a very danger ....
shepard: hurricane florence is the news from the fox news deck today. don t underestimate the storm. that s the warning from federal and state officials this afternoon as hurricane florence closes in and the outer bands have begun lashing the carolinas. we want to take a look at the latest satellite images. the store is not yet ashore. it s right at 100 miles east southeast of wrightsville beach and wilmington. that is the spot where they believe it will come ashore sometime overnight. the hurricane force winds are already battering the coast from wrightsville beach and myrtle grove, topsail beach, atlantic city, moorehead city, all the way up to cape lookout. all that area along the north carolina coast experiencing the beginning of the hurricane force winds and could go on for many hours. according to the national hurricane center, the report of deadly flooding and storm surge has not changed even though the storm s winds have slowed down to 105 miles an hour. meteo ....
and good evening, once again, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 601 of the trump administration. as this white house is preparing for a storm that would test any administration while the ongoing political and legal anxiety continues to hang over this west wing, between the mueller effort, let s not forget the approaching midterms. first, to this approaching storm, it is poised to complete an intercontinental journey from the coast of west africa to the east coast of the united states. by this time tomorrow night we will be covering the hammering of the north and south carolina coastlines that florence will deliver. the international space station today used their widest-angle lens to fit the entire storm in one frame from 200-plus miles above the storm. it was hard to shoot that picture out the window. about preparedness, the president talked about that tonight while engaging in some self-congratulation at the same time. we have some really big situ ....