released at once. you know, that would be great. but it s unrealistic. you know, you typically you try to get a sense of whether or not there were hostages who were in physical or medical distress. you try to get those people released first. whether there are elderly folks or firm or in tougher shape physically. you try to appeal to this person s sense of maybe wanting to pair down or simplify his situation. trying to convince him having one person is just as valuable as four, why not let the sick person go, that sort of thing. andy, thank you very, very much. stand by as we can as wedrop develop this thank you, very, very much. we are watching and monitoring this on the scene. an armed man is holding at least four people hostage. we have the latest next on cnn
hold that before we re expecting to edrop back to category four? i mean this is historic with hugo september 22nd back in 89. the concerns are not just about the initial impact with the storm but the possibility it stalls like hurricane harvey did over texas last year. exactly. you could out-walk harvey, and it was a big concern. once the systems slows down we could be in big trouble. you re looking at 10, 20enches of rain. this is high terrain. piedmont, the smokies, the blue ridge, that s obviously a concern. we have some technical problems with your thing. there s nothing up there. but if you can go back to the original map, though, and talk about the chances that the forecast actually shiflts. okay, that is concern. you can see this cone of uncertainty we call if just north of charlatan, and that s