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Historic flooding in the carolinas caused by the record rainfall there. residents are being told to stay home, even skip church as they continue to rescue people trapped in flooded cars and homes. the rain is only going to get worse. lets get a check on things from gabe gutierrez from charleston. how bad is it there? >> hey there, alex. weve been looking at this all morning. this is what residents in charleston woke up to. cars submerged. many roads impassable. and water rescues are under way. j...

>> everyone -- we need to leave. we need to get out. thats the indication. how long have you lived here for? >> ive been here a year. never seen anything like this in my life. >> have you been in the columbia area longer? >> 49 years. >> 49 years. do you ever remember this? we talk about hugo. >> i remember hugo. oh, yes. >> would you compare this to that? >> hugo wasnt quite this bad with the flood. this takes the cake. this takes the cake. ive never seen nothing like this in my life. >> our ph...

>> appreciate that, sarah dallof. lets bring in our meteorologist who joins us from los angeles knbc. shes come here in studio. what are you seeing in columbia and the rest of the region? >> were seeing incredible photos. south carolina is getting inundated with this rain. its almost overcoming some of these homes. were going to see more rain as we continue and a lot of that rain will head into the rivers and streams and creeks. thats going to overflow and create some issues. you can see these...

Garden hose of water straight into south carolina. yesterday, today, and thats going to make an axis tilt toward the north. these incredible pictures and video from south carolina. a lot of the roads inundated. back to the radar. were expecting a tilt to the north later on this afternoon. a low pressure trough right along the east. thats causing the axis of this moisture to tilt up. a lot of the problems will be for myrtle beach and areas to the north into the afternoon and evening. and continui...

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Those, hamper efforts and the fact the whole side is so steep there, the wreckage side is over several hundred meters. thats a concern. access is really only by helicopter. weve seen those helicopters sitting on the ground here throughout the day and the question when daybreaks in the morning, how low is the clouds and will the helicopters be able to fly and get access to the site? the rain has been coming over some of the high mountain passes here. particularly strong also that. falling rain or...

Winds and fast falling rain in worcester, massachusetts, a clean-up is under way after a tornado tore through nearly two miles there, toppling trees, tearing down power lines and damaging homes and cars. >> most frightening thing i have been through. >> it was pretty wild, man. >> its incredible. you dont expect to have tornados in worcester. i mean, we dont live in kansas. >> reporter: a different kind of wild weather in kansas. 70-mile-an-hour winds and pounding hail forced drivers off highway...

Winds and fast-falling rain. in worcester, massachusetts, a clean-up is under way after a tornado tore through nearly two miles there, toppling trees, tearing down power lines and damaging homes and cars. >> most frightening thing i have ever been through. >> it was pretty wild, man. >> its incredible. you dont expect to have tornados in worcester. i mean, we dont live in kansas. >> reporter: a different kind of wild weather in kansas. 70-mile-an-hour winds and pounding hail forced drivers off h...

Were still watching the red river as well. were expecting to see almost a record crest early into next week. so well keep you posted and keep you in tune with all of those watches and warnings throughout the evening. back to you. >> indeed. falling rain, melting snow, a double whammy for those people. thank you. >> okay. search for survivors in bangladesh. pulling 30 people from the rubble of a collapsed building. the garment factory suddenly coming down this week, killing almost 350 people. s...

Have clung to guide ropes along the way. there will have been a several-mile-long oxygen tube, if you like, to try to help them along. but underfoot, you know, terribly difficult. you know, some of the boulders inside that cave system weve been told, you know, are as big as vehicles and trucks. so an extraordinarily dangerous, perilous trip. so four out, nine still to go. again, we dont know if the adult is still inside the cave. you would assume that the coach would be the last one to leave, bu...