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Officials say is on the way. jillian: a lot of people evacuated. 700,000 without power. hundreds of rescue operations. connell: a terrible story with that tree coming down and we hope for the best for the next few days. jillian: we have you covered, tropical storm florence creeping slowly inland, the downpours expected to continue for days to come. connell: much of the region under flash flood warnings, rescue workers preparing for potentially catastrophic floods. special team coverage continues...

Carolina into south carolina. the water will continue to rise as this pushes off later this week in. a lot of these rivers expected to peak on sunday, tuesday or wednesday. once this rain wraps up by the end of the weekend, water could still rise. jillian: out of the carolinas people have been talking about how saturated they were from an especially wet summer. >> some areas in north carolina had already seen their typical years worth of rain so far this year. it has been a really wet summer and...

Are seeing all across north carolina, south carolina, this might not happen until monday or tuesday or wednesday, that water has to go somewhere. will run into the rivers and this will be climbing. the other thing to pay attention to our the winds, 50 mile an hour gusts along the coast. but 50 mile an hour gusts happening for 60 hours now begins to wear things down and we could see more downed power lines >> you walk fast. >> challenge you to do that. connell: we have other stories we are follow...

It was only a matter of time. you cant predict that part. connell: we talked about the fact that florence is expected to be downgraded to a tropical depression but also how that doesnt matter anymore. it is about the flooding. little consolation when you hear downgrades when hundreds of thousands of people whose lives and communities have been uprooted by the storm. in north carolina, talking to you throughout the night and early morning about the storm and how it came on shore. you got hit yest...

In new bern they tell me they had so many rescues, they dont know where to put these people so the marine corps air station is up there. one thing is for sure, fair to say the total cost damage will be in the tens of millions if not higher but the troubling thing is while getting a break in the rain, we will get it again around 8:00 and that will complicate things because the bottom line is we have to get energy trucks in here, heavy hardware to get this debris out of here, homes repaired and th...

He has accepted responsibility and wanted to make sure his family is able to remain safe. this goes back many years. everybody should remember that. jillian: the deal allows him to avoid a second trial in washington dc and a virginia jury convicted him of eight counts of bank and tax fraud, donald trump denying wrongdoing in a telephone interview with the wall street journal saying the manafort case has nothing to do with him. avenatti connell: john kerry actively undermining us policy on iran b...

Stay and you get the tragedies that happen like the horrible situation where the tree fell on the home and more people there, more human issues as opposed to where you are. >> you have higher concentrations of people, very small minority of residents who decided to stay, one of the main concerns, you evacuated and have to wait days before you can get back on the island, worry about your property so those few hardy souls decided to stay on the island did so because they didnt want to deal with fi...

They had some old trees behind the house. it was only a matter of time but you cant predict. connell: for the hundreds of thousands left without power and the update we just received from north carolina emergency management agency, more than 770,000 people as of 3:00 in the morning, 17 minutes ago, were without power. many times they rely on their radios, portable radios as a source of information. a correspondent with fox news joins us from wilmington, you are in the business of painting that w...

>> reporter: most of the rescues have been on the northeast area, north carolina. it depends where the state needs us, looking towards the state. connell: in terms of challenges you run into, what are you or your crews worried about in the next few days? >> reporter: we are looking at safety of first responders. we are fighting it out -- we have to do it in a safe way. we are looking to make sure the coast guard does this every day, go out in severe weather every day. connell: looking at video t...

Traveled about 100 miles. it is going 3 to 5 miles an hour. you talk about how slow-moving it is, how much rain has fallen, that will be a significant issue, and the flooding, flash flooding, and -- connell: the fifth district headquarters in portsmouth, virginia, lieutenant amanda falconer, thank you for coming on. lets us know what you think for the next few days. >> the next couple days, focused on life-saving operations for the coast guard. waiting for the storm to subside so we can get out,...