Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation from 'storm of a lifetime

Highways in US East Coast areas braced for Hurricane Florence are congested with motorists fleeing "the storm of a lifetime".

Up to 1.7 million people have been ordered to evacuate across South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
South Carolina authorities have turned four motorways into one-way routes away from the coast to speed the exodus.
The category four storm with 130mph (215km/h) winds is forecast to make landfall early on Friday.
Hurricane Florence could wreak more than $170bn (£130bn) of havoc, according to analytics firm CoreLogic.
Its projection suggested the storm could damage nearly 759,000 homes and businesses from Charleston, South Carolina, to Virginia Beach, Virginia.
A National Weather Service forecaster in Wilmington, North Carolina, said: "This will likely be the storm of a lifetime for portions of the Carolina coast.
"And that's saying a lot given the impacts we've seen from Hurricanes Diana, Hugo, Fran, Bonnie, Floyd and Matthew.
"I can't emphasise enough the potential for unbelievable damage from wind, storm surge and inland flooding with this storm."
As well as in the Carolinas and Virginia, states of emergency have been declared in Maryland and Washington DC amid concern over flooding.
Jeff Byard, of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, urged people to flee before the hurricane hits.
"This is not going to be a glancing blow," he said.
"This is going to be be a Mike Tyson punch to the Carolina coast."
But while many coastal residents have complied with mandatory evacuation orders, others are boarding up their homes and vowing to ride out the storm.
In a video posted to his Twitter account on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump warned residents in Florence's bullseye to heed official warnings.
"Get out of its way, don't play games with it, it's a big one, maybe as big as they've seen, and tremendous amounts of water," said Mr Trump.
"Bad things can happen when you are talking about a storm this size. It's called Mother Nature. You never know, but we know. We love you all, we want you safe."