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Local emergency officials watching Florence closely

Powerful storm could make a dip southward

This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station on Wednesday as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. Hurricane Florence is coming closer and getting stronger on a path to squat over North and South Carolina for days, surging over the coast, dumping feet of water deep inland and causing floods from the sea to the Appalachian Mountains and back again. - photo by Associated Press

Florence from Space.jpg — This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station on Wednesday as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. Hurricane Florence is coming closer and getting stronger on a path to squat over North and South Carolina for days, surging over the coast, dumping feet of water deep inland and causing floods from the sea to the Appalachian Mountains and back again. - photo by Associated Press

Hurricane Florence isn’t behaving as expected. Earlier predictions had the southeast Georgia region in the safe zone, but an expected dip southward prompted Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to declare a state of emergency in all 159 counties.

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