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Target. as wilson levels continue to rise so too will the number of bangladeshis internal migrants the question is what will be waiting for them when they reach their destination and we can speak to christina cloud from unicef which issued that report warning about the dangers facing millions of children in bangladesh and she joins us from dhaka hi christina why is that that children in particular are affected by climate change. hi thank you for the opportunity to speak with here in the children...

Runway at the air force base also covered in floodwaters. nebraskas governor touring the state evaluating the damage. >> this has probably been the most severe, widespread flooding weve had as far as parts of the state thats been impacted weve had in the last half century. >> reporter: sandbags stacked high outside homes. as a last ditch effort for residents here. some people already losing everything. their belongings spotted floating in the murky overflow. for others already evacuated, the fea...

Damaged. county buildings, city buildings. theres a lot to clean up in the next several days just to get the basic things up and going. and some of those infrastructure items will take longer depending on the extent of the damage. >> for people who did eravacuev is it time to come back or would you like them to wait longer? >> weve actually lifted the evacuation order for our area. the problem is going to be for folks that evacuated many counties away, there are other river systems in north caro...

Or is there another phenomenon or dynamic in effect? >> chris, youve got the mountains in western north carolina. as florence continues west, theres going to be heavy rains tra progress with her. this significant flooding has to go somewhere and most of the time its going to go into the river systems. the easiest drainage will be going down to the atlantic coastline. youre going to see that go south and toward an outward motion toward the coast. thats going to cause problems with the river syste...

Creek basins, it will fill up rivers like this one and send all of the water cascading back down states towards the coast where it will add stress to river systems that have already been stressed by hurricane florence as it swept over the state on its way here. so thats why this river is actually being swelled right now. this river has risen not because of hurricane florence. it rose deliberately because people here, authorities, tried to release some of the dams, tried to release some of the pr...

The devastating flooding from the 20 plus inches of rain, may be up to 30 inches as it comes a lunch for >> shannon: jay, having written about this and having an historical context for these kinds of storms, a north carolinian yourself, what message do you have for the people of the carolinas as they try to survive this and start over? >> you are hearing it consistently from the reports tonight, just because the storm has dropped in intensity on the simpson scale, we cant ignore the fact that th...

>> all right. as michelle was saying, the storm is a little wobbly, it is hard to know exactly where it is going. theres some likelihood as weve been looking at new bern and places on the eastern side of north carolina that these winds and rain, regardless of how strong they are or weak they are, are going to hang around here for a while. this could be a problem for longer than we were expecting. >> correct. this may become a flood emergency, not a hurricane emergency. were concerned about that....

Just as we have been talking about and its going to inundate these communities. its going to sit here for 24 to 36 hours with that track making landfall possibly not until tomorrow afternoon. could be later if this sits offshore longer and its going to shred that coastline all across the north carolina coast, south carolina coast and then bring lots of rain. i was reading one report that was showing an area between wilmington and myrtle beach could receive 40 min inches of within 48 hours. thats...

Way down, jake. >> whats the best case and whats the worst-case scenario for those who are bracing for this hurricane? >> well, i think the only best-case scenario would be for it to go somewhere else than where you lived, right? but with this storm, it is basically all worst-case scenario, because the storm is going to basically come to a screeching halt. and it is going to dump a lot of rain across interior sections. the storm surge is going to be a huge concern. 6 to 12-foot storm surge in th...

True? >> youre starting out with something thats a small percentage of the whole land area of ohio and it goes into the river systems. even if some of it goes, it dilu dilutes. could some things go wrong? theres always that possibility. would it dev state the fishery? i dont see a way you can do that. >> its not hard to find people who disagree. >> i was a typical red neck kid who came up here and thought everything was so incredible and there was very little government. almost unlimited resourc...