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>> yeah. the whole drive here, we thought we would have some help from other cajun navies. but that wasnt the case. so we showed up. we went out, just two of us, two of the officers, and its bad hearing about people trapped in attics and on roofs, but going in homes and having to help people out of their attic and knowing the consequences of them being up there, how theyre not supposed to go in there, and its one of those things that theyre about to get hit with 30 more inches of rain. low tide ...

Residents there. explain where you are and what youre seeing. >> so anderson, i am in a community called river bend where a few miles away. it took us almost 40 minutes to get here because of all the downed trees and flooded roads. you can see these rescue operations. they have got lots of people. they say theyre not exactly sure on the number right now trapped in homes. i cant show you where the water begins just yet because they asked us to stand back. what i can tell you is that there are eig...

They call and then when the water goes down a little bit. theyre like its going to be okay. and they cancel 911 and we dont know what this hurricane is going to do. >> shepard: i was going to say, youve got a town of 30,000 people and that many people stayed behind. my understanding is the occasion may be as down there and a lot of volunteers, what do you know? >> they are great, i got a chance to meet some of them. this is not a time to be a riverboat gambler. get in the shelter or go west of i...

Name it. what do you tell people that are stuck? a lot of them seek out shelter out of harms way or away from the water. you go to the roof. what do you tell them? >> first of all, if you get in trouble, call 911 so we know youre in trouble. call 911. we ask you dont go in attics and enclosed supposes. we cant rescue you. call 911, let the local emergency responders know youre in trouble. that information gets funneled through the coast guard. >> neil: admiral, youre always in a tough position. ...

To cut a hole in it to have a way to get out of there. he dont know people who are trapped with water up in their attics, is not that high, right? >> i dont think we have any more of those. i think weve been able to reach that particular case. and there are other ones where people have gotten on the roof. we went out yesterday. we been working this thing for 48 hours. we have plenty of window of tim time. which of the fire truck out, we took the national guard truck behind it. we took two buses....

Residents that did not affect the weight and now we are going in with water rescues to get these folks to a shelter. >> shepard: the mayor dana outlaw who is with us, the mayor of new bern north carolina for more than 200 people have already been rescued. its my understanding from local reports that many of these residents have had to hire areas and that means summer in their attics and simmer on their roofs, is that right? >> thats right. i talked with a lady last night, we could not the reside...

Will be just fine. the water is not coming into our houses. that was yesterday. they know better today. lots of people there hundreds and hundreds of residents of this town of a little more than 6,000 were up in their attics or up on their roofs waiting to be rescued overnight hours and into the morning. they got a storm surge, the locals tell us the mayors of alderman tell us the storm surge is about 9 or 10 feet. they have had it bad. things are improving at new bern. look back at steve harrig...

We are back live at 3:55 here on the east coast. a few things we have updated on. ongoing rescues as many as 90 people calling into one center. its not clear how many of the folks have been rescued. some of them in attics and roofs. water rescues of people in cars. well continue to follow that. the latest number we got from the duke energy company was 181,000 people are without power right flou now. that could go to the millions. nearly 5 million people in the path of hurricane florence. could g...

>> we have our fire rescue team out there trying to save people from homes and vehicles. >> amber, now we heard reports from the more head city mayor there were people on rooftops. is that situation similar to where you are? or people have stranded in their homes with water surrounding. >> its alyle bit of both. we have reports of people on rooftops and people in attics. people in their homes and water coming into the house. its a different level of water. and reports of water breeching vehicles...

That we have been experiencing here in the last 24 hours or so. >> and thank you, garrett haake. do we want to go back to ali vels velshi? we have you back. >> yes, the bands are coming through, and starting to affect us a little bit. thank you for that, chris. i want to go to amber parker, and she is the craven county emergency management person who is helping to coordinate some of the rescues that we have been showing you all morning, and amber, i think that there are more of those than expect...