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President
She adds his trip will take place "once it is determined his travel will not disrupt any rescue or recovery efforts."
Aides say Trump has been monitoring the massive storm from the
The storm, blamed for at least three fatalities, has inundated parts of the Carolina coast with heavy rain and high winds.
A mother and infant in
The hurricane came ashore early Friday, pounding the state with torrential rain and high winds.
Forecasters have been predicting catastrophic flash flooding.
A weakening Hurricane Florence is almost at a standstill over southeastern
It just barely has Category 1 hurricane strength with top sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph).
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Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (55 kilometers) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 170 miles (280 kilometers).
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Weather Prediction Center senior forecaster
He said that the heavy rainfall for southeast
"Plenty of heavy rain remains in the future for this region," Roth wrote in the weather center's rain forecast discussion.
Flights are grounded at several airports in the Southeast as Hurricane Florence barges through the region.
By midday Friday, airlines had canceled more than 2,100
The region's two largest airports, in
That's not much compared with last year's Hurricane Harvey, which flooded runways at two major airports and caused airlines to scrub more than 11,000 flights in
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Meteorologist
That doesn't quite measure up to the 25 trillion gallons Harvey dropped on
Still, 18 trillion gallons is as much water as there is in the entire
That much rain is 2.4 trillion cubic feet (68 billion cubic meters). It's enough to cover
Maue calculates that 34 million people will get at least 3 inches, with more than 5.7 million getting at least a foot and about 1.5 million getting 20 inches or more.
Homeland Security officials say
The Trump administration has stepped up arrests of people living in the country illegally, but during this storm they say they won't enforce immigration laws unless there's a serious public safety threat.
Immigration officers have been dispatched to help with response and recovery as
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Gov.
He said parts of the state have seen storm surges as high as 10 feet.
Transportation Secretary
Cooper said the state hasn't seen any
Forecasters say the center of Hurricane Florence is hovering just inland near
It remains a Category 1 hurricane with top sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph), but stronger wind gusts have been reported.
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Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles (110 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km).
Rising water forced a North Carolina TV station to evacuate its newsroom in the middle of Hurricane Florence coverage.
Hours before the storm made landfall Friday, workers at
A spokesperson for the
The weater service later measured a storm surge 10 feet deep in the city, which lies on the
Video posted on Twitter showed a meteorologist telling viewers they'd be taken to coverage from sister station WPDE in
Just after midnight, the station tweeted that everyone had safely evacuated.
Rivers are rising on the north side of Hurricane Florence as the storm swirls counter-clockwise, pushing a surge of ocean water far in from the coast.
Rainfall also is swelling waterways: Meteorologist
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Federal officials are urging anyone who ignored orders to evacuate from Hurricane Florence to hunker down and stay put until the storm passes.
And they say people who are truly in an emergency should call 911, not just Tweet about it.
The disaster area was expected to get about as much rain in three days as the 1999 Dennis and Floyd storms dropped in two weeks.
About 9,700
Wind speeds are kicking up far from the coast in central
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That's about 220 miles (354 kilometers) from
Wind gusts as high as 60 mph (96 kph) were recorded in the
Forecasters say the eye of Hurricane Florence is wobbling slowly southwestward just off the coast of southeastern
The hurricane's top sustained winds have dropped to 85 mph (140 kph), while it moves slowly toward
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Energy Secretary
Speaking during a visit to
Perry says his department has been in contact with power companies and gas pipeline operators. He says that "over the years the state government and the federal government have become very coordinated in their ability to manage the pre-deployment of assets (and) the response to the citizens of those states, and we will soon be into the recovery."
More than 415,000 homes and businesses were without power, mostly in
Hurricane
The center of the eye of the hurricane made landfall in
Coastal and river communities on the north side of
More than 415,000 homes and businesses were without power Friday morning according to poweroutage.us, which tracks the nation's electrical grid.
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Forecasters say the center of the eye of Hurricane Florence is about to make landfall near
It remains a Category 1 hurricane with top sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph), but a gust of 112 mph (180 kph) was reported just offshore.
The barrier island of
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It's about the water, not the wind, with Hurricane Florence making an extended stay along the
Forecasters say "it cannot be emphasized enough that the most serious hazard associated with slow-moving
Top winds were holding at 90 mph -- that's just a Category 1 hurricane -- but some communities were already submerged in more than six feet of water as the storm drenched the coast.
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The city of
Officials found a basketball-sized hole in the hotel wall and other life-threatening damage, with some cinder blocks crumbling and parts of the roof collapsing.
None of the people rescued were injured.
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The city warns that people "may need to move up to the second story" but tells them to stay put as "we are coming to get you."
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Forecasters said conditions will deteriorate as the storm pushes ashore early Friday near the
Life-threatening storm surge is being reported along the coast of the Carolinas.
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Forecasters say the combination of a life-threatening storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline.
The now Category 1 storm's intensity diminished as it neared land, with winds dropping to 90 mph (135 kph) by nightfall. But that, combined with the storm's slowing forward movement and heavy rains, had Gov.
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Forecasters say the combination of a life-threatening storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline.
Hurricane
Screaming winds bent trees and raindrops flew sideways as
The storm's intensity diminished as it neared land, with winds dropping to 90 mph (135 kph) by nightfall. But that, combined with the storm's slowing forward movement and heavy rains, had Gov.
Forecasters said
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