ET near Keaton Beach, roughly 75 miles southwest of Tallahassee, Florida's capital city, according to the National Hurricane Center. Idalia made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast at around 7:45 a.m. Where did Hurricane Idalia make landfall? Juan Manuel Barrero Bueno/Bloomberg via Getty Images Residents walk through floodwaters from Hurricane Idalia in Gulfport, Florida, on Wednesday, Aug. "We're still assessing what is all going on on the ground in the places that had the initial impact," said DeSantis. But CBS News senior weather and climate producer David Parkinson says, "The primary flash flood threat in North Carolina concludes today by around noontime, and the rain is done by about 7 p.m.," with the storm moving farther an farther out over the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center said Idalia was bringing heavy rain and "life-threatening flash flooding" to parts of eastern North Carolina early Thursday. It moved into South Carolina Wednesday night, then continued on to North Carolina on a path forecasters said would keep it off North Carolina Thursday before it heads out to sea. Idalia declined in strength as it moved across northern Florida into Georgia and was downgraded to a tropical storm late Wednesday afternoon. After rapidly intensifying on its path through the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and briefly registering as a Category 4 storm, the hurricane hit Florida's Big Bend area with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning as a powerful Category 3 hurricane over Keaton Beach, located along Florida's Gulf Coast near Tallahassee. Idalia isn't finished with the Southeastern coastal states yet. Idalia leaves trail of destruction in Florida 03:04
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