6 25 p. M. Its at facebook. Com andersoncooper full circle opinion right now i want to hand it over to chris cuomo. Cuomo prime time starts now. You were wondering where the rain is, now you know. Its right on andersons head. Hurricane florence is starting to come around for the coast of the carolinas. Anderson is going to stand by. We have correspondents up and down the path of the storm for you. Here is hurricane florence, very slow, thats the problem with this storm. When she comes, she stays, and shes dumping water in places that dont have a lot of tolerance for it, by the time the wind gets to you, the areas have been soaked. Currently just over 80 miles eastsoutheast of where Anderson Cooper is. Lets go to where were seeing the storm in full effect already. Brian todd is in ham stead, North Carolina. Whats the weather . You have to keep your eye on that situation. We have an assisted living facility not far from the area where were getting pounded right now. Its good, weve been t
we re tracking florence, the worst is yet to come, but we re already seeing things that are bad enough. let s go to brian todd in ham stead, north carolina, we saw him in sheeting rain before, what s your situation now? chris, we were just at the edge of this old landing road where the intercoastal waterway was flooding the road, now we re going to show you what it s like for people who live near that storm surge and decide we need to try to get out. look at what people are going to go through on these roads. we have a vehicle, this is what they re going to dr. to deal with, chris. a lot of people have elected to
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thank you and good luck to you and all of your forecasters at the national weather center because it gets crazy in the next few days. as forecasters were tracking florence, president trump was talking up his administration s hurricane history and preparedness. at that briefing in the oval office today, he was asked whether the government has learned any useful lessons from hurricane maria which, of course, ravaged puerto rico about a year ago. i think puerto rico is incredibly successful. puerto rico was actually our toughest one of all because it s an island. i think probably the hardest one we had by far was puerto rico because of the island nature, and i actually think it was one of the best jobs that s ever been done with respect to what this is all about. i think the puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. the best job we did was puerto rico but nobody would understand that. we ve gotten a lot of receptivity, a lot of thanks for the job we ve done in puerto
it, and i m hard pressed to think of a more vulnerable stretch of our coastline than just what you have highlighted on your screen. that s right, and it becomes potentially even worse as we movin land because we have, of course, increasing elevation, and when the winds go up in elevation, they tend to drop even more rain. that s why we have this long band, even away from the center. the center is down in here. up into virginia and western carolina, up in the mountains where water can get focused down on the rivers. we re looking at a catastrophic situation not only at the coast but inland, flooding in both places. storm surge at the coast, rainfall inland. ed, we wanted to talk to you before it got too crazy. you ve always been very generous with your time. good luck to you and all of you forecasters at the national weather center because it gets crazy in the next few days. as forecasters were tracking florence, president trump was talking up his administration s hurricane histo