cleared out. national hurricane center says all that rain, the flooding and the storm surge that will come, it could be catastrophic. right now storm surge warning is in effect from the south santee river in south carolina up to duck river in north carolina, the northern part of the state. the biggest storms we re told the expect in southeast carolina. the water from the storm surge could rise as high as 11 feet in those areas. the worst, of course, will be at high tide, which will happen between 11:00 p.m. and midnight tonight. if you re having a hard time imagining what that s like and how serious that is, i have to tell you, the weather channel deserves a shout out for having done something super, super helpful, the best i ve ever seen about how to visualize, thou imagine what you are in for. if you are seeing these kinds of forecasts for the storm surge. just watch this. what does that look like when you re actually on the ground? well, consider as this is
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well, and through the last 24 hours, we have been watching lightning strikes in the area, as well, and so that is a very heavy threat and flooding for the next three days as well, and you can see the flash flood warning throughout southeast carolina, and a very wet situation there, and we will continue to get the eyes on there, and get at least 7 to 1 inches of rain for the next three days, and very busy forecast, and let you know all about this, and the next few updates coming up. and from shanna we go out to the field with kerry sanders who is standing out there at the scene. what is it like? well, i m in falls park, and we are driving down the road, and you can probably see us driving down the road, and it is literally getting lower and l lower, and that is the concern, the e low-lying areas. we are fortunate to have the mayor of greenville with us, and knox white is with us, and we
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at 32 past, and welcome back to weekends with alex witt and we have breaking news along the east coast with a severe weather system releasing historic rain and evacuations along the carolinas, andch was and warnings in several areas all of the way north to new jersey. the situation is so bad in the southeast that amtrak has canceled some of the services in the region today. we go out to our msnbc meteorologi meteorologist. what are the areas that you are paying the most attention to? well, it is south is east charleston and southeast carolina as you can see that he i have rain has inundated the area. and we have more rain in the forecast for the next several days. the extent of the rain goes through the southeast, and we will keep an eye on this as w
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