Hurricane Floyd (CNN) - 1999-09-16 - 3 a.m. (E)
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[0:04] Hurricane Floyd delivers its most
[0:05] powerful blow in the Wilmington, North
[0:07] Carolina area. The center of the storm
[0:10] moves ashore.
[0:12] Powerful winds [music] whip the coast of
[0:14] the Carolinas, knocking out power to
[0:16] hundreds of thousands of phones while
[0:18] heavy rains and searching seas flood the
[0:20] streets.
[0:21] In Texas, [music]
[0:22] tragedy of another sort. Eight people
[0:24] dead, seven others wounded in a church
[0:26] shooting.
[0:28] Good morning from CNN Center in Atlanta.
[0:30] I'm Gene Randall
[0:31] >> and I'm Brian Nelson. We're following
[0:33] two major stories [music] this morning.
[0:35] In a moment, the latest on last night's
[0:36] shooting at a teen prayer rally in Fort
[0:38] Worth, Texas. But first, Hurricane
[0:40] Floyd.
[0:41] >> And at the weather center, Orland Sydney
[0:42] Orland.
[0:43] >> Well, a much awaited landfall is
[0:45] happening now across parts of the North
[0:47] Carolina coast. Let's call it the
[0:49] southern southeastern North Carolina
[0:51] coast. How about south of Wilmington?
[0:52] We're seeing about 15 miles to the south
[0:54] of Baldhead Island is where the center
[0:56] was last reported. That was just about
[0:57] an hour ago. So, the center of the storm
[0:59] is probably indeed just about to work
[1:01] its way inland. We did have a correction
[1:03] that came out of the Wilmington National
[1:05] Weather Service office. The winds are at
[1:06] 110 miles an hour as of 2 a.m. this
[1:09] morning. So, that still places us at a
[1:11] category 2 storm. And it looks like the
[1:13] trend is continuing for a northnortheast
[1:15] movement about 18 miles an hour. The
[1:17] problem has been the rain. You've got
[1:19] really saturated grounds across the
[1:21] region. For examp