More than half a million customers are without power in North Carolina as Tropical Storm Florence brings heavy, life-threatening floods to the coast.As of 10 p.m., Friday, 788,916 people were without power. VIEW THE OUTAGE MAP BELOW. More outage information here Most of the outages are in Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus Craven, Duplin, New Hanover, Robeson, Sampson, Wake, Wayne, Pamlico, Pender and Onslow counties near the coast. RELATED: What to do if you lose…

A shelter will open Saturday at UNC-Chapel Hill for people seeking refuge from Hurricane Florence and who were in other shelters that have closed. Gov. Roy Cooper announced the arrangement Friday afternoon. “UNC-Chapel Hill has agreed to operate a mass shelter on its campus,” he said. State Emergency Management Director Mike Sprayberry said “several hundred people” will be able to stay there starting Saturday. The university later announced that the Friday Center for Continuing Education…

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) — As Hurricane Florence barrels through the Carolinas, high winds and rain will continue through the weekend. On Friday, winds gusted around 47 miles per hour at RDU and one to two inches of rain fell across the Triangle. Saturday should be similar to Friday. Winds will stay high and gust as high as 30 miles per hour. Winds will be the highest in the Sandhills. It will be wet most…

Tom Johnson sat in a room with his wife of 62 years, who is completely paralyzed except for her eyes, along with more than a dozen other evacuees at a Spartanburg nursing home Thursday. Johnson wanted to take his wife, who is suffering from end-stage Parkinson’s disease, back home to her nursing home in Summerville. But he couldn’t. She is one of more than 2,200 who have been evacuated from 113 healthcare facilities along the…

3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2018

More than half a million customers are without power in North Carolina as Tropical Storm Florence brings heavy, life-threatening floods to the coast.As of 9 p.m., Friday, 791,968 people were without power. VIEW THE OUTAGE MAP BELOW. More outage information here Most of the outages are in Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus Craven, Duplin, New Hanover, Robeson, Sampson, Wake, Wayne, Pamlico, Pender and Onslow counties near the coast. RELATED: What to do if you lose…

Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph winds, Hurricane Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast Friday in what could be just the opening act in a watery, two-part, slow-motion disaster. Florence was downgraded to a tropical storm Friday afternoon, with maximum winds of 70 mph. At least four people were killed. More than 360 people had been rescued by midafternoon Friday, but another 140 were still waiting…

Millions of people in the path of Florence are hunkering down Friday as the monster storm pummels North and South Carolina, bringing catastrophic inundations and forceful, destructive winds. Here are snapshots of people struggling to cope with the slow-grinding storm. SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT AND ‘SCARED TO DEATH’ As Glorious Elting stood on her front porch Thursday, it suddenly got very dark and the wind started howling. It hadn’t occurred to her until then how much…

Final preparations as Hurricane Florence arrives Herbert Robles and his assistants did last minute work on his home in Myrtle Beach, SC along the Golden mile on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, as Hurricane Florence approached. They checked on the house after an alarm sounded.

An ominous tweet appeared on a historic North Carolina community’s Twitter feed about 2 a.m. Friday. It came as rivers swelled, tides crested and the rain wouldn’t stop. And that’s when people found themselves trapped in their homes as the water rose. “WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU,” the tweet said. “You may need to move up to the second story, or to your attic, but WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU.” More than 360…