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In harvey last year in houston, is that people just think i have still got time i can get out. im moving. water comes um and can you get 2, 3, 4, 5 feet of water in literally a matter of minutes. and that is why it is so dangerous. you know, been given the stats the past few days days about 75% of fatalities occur from flooding and surge waters, only about 8% occur from actually wind damage of hurricanes. that is a telling number. and now you can see how it happens. this gentleman has found a hi...

City the mayor texted me a few moments ago saying griff, i want to give you a little bit of good news while we have catastrophic flooding could a ton of damage. we had zero casualties and very few people were even injured. its going to be a nasty clean up and really with the emergency crews and power companies, right now they just hope mother nature will cooperate some. but, as you are going to find out we have a lot of rain in the forecast. by the way we are all morning long from more head goin...

Here tell us what you are seeing on the ground and as the sun comes up some of the damage that has occurred overnight. >> absolutely. thanks for having me the team here with me in faithville north carolina made it down here yesterday. confirm where the made landfall. where the highest winds are reported. we got to see what the wilmington area looked like before the rains picked up again in the later evening hours. and there is significant damage, significant trees down all over the wilmington, n...

Staying at that stage all the way at least through wednesday. so these are guys. pete: thats a sleeper story. its not the wind. its always later on. >> its the flooding. the first thing you get is the rain that falls where you are. that rain, gravity wants to pull it down to a stream or sort sort of a creek or river. thats how that eventually all feeds out towards the ocean. the problem is then that ocean water is being still pushed on shore. doesnt allow that water to go out. thats one of the p...

John pinkum just lost his livelihood. his ability to do lawn service. he doesnt know what he is going to do. he lives not far from here. his mobile home was flooded. stayed with his sister in morehead city where we rode the storm out. come back this morning as you try explore. see this very difficult situation. watch this woman. i didnt want to invade her space. you know, when we were in houston last year, guys, do you work hurricane harvey. i ran into several people like that and really getting...

We are seeing reports up to 170,000 customers without power here. north myrtle beach where we are really out of all of south carolina, i should say, has gotten hit the hardest. when they are expecting though hasnt yet happened. they are expecting massive amounts of flooding. we have driven around and been in touch with the town. we asked hey where is the major flooding and quite frankly so far we havent seen it thats the good news. the bad news, if you look at any forecast, the rain that were ex...

The marine corps air station cherry point nearby as a solution right now. but, the highway 70 that im on right now is flooded in several areas. just north of new bern the major stiff cut off from a major resource center. we got those videos yesterday, guys. this one woman sadie holt the video of her being rescue you had tells the story what it is like to be in this situation. take a listen. >> stay id because we didnt an tuition pate it to be as bad as it was. we started getting flooding in the ...