Trump urges Carolinians to flee record-setting Hurricane Florence: 'Get out of its way. Don't play games'

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• President Donald Trump issued a video warning urging US citizens in the path of Hurricane Florence to "get out of the storm's way" as the category-4 storm looks set to drop record-setting rainfall on the area. 
• Hurricane Florence is forecast to hit North and South Carolina as early as tomorrow, and is predicted to bring up to 40 inches of rain and 13 feet of floodwater, levels deemed "catastrophic" by experts.
• Trump simultaneously waged a war of words against San Juan, Puerto Rico's Mayor after a new report found 2,975 people died in hurricanes there last year. 

President Donald Trump issued a video warning urging US citizens in the path of Hurricane Florence to "get out of the storm's way" as the category 4 storm looks set to drop record-setting rainfall on the area. 

"Hurricane Florence is fast approaching, it's going to be here over the next 48 hours and they say it's about as big as they've seen coming to this country, and certainly to the East Coast, as they've ever seen. We'll handle it," Trump said. 

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