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It is not if, but when the river behind me overflows. it was four feet past the flood level with the expectation it will go up to 21 or 22 feet and crest on monday or tuesday. in fact, city officials were going door-to-door and over 900 home had doors knocked on to warn residents to evacuate now while they can. some areas were overcome by flash flooding from hurricane florence. that flash flooding receded long after residents went into the homes and collected their belongings. more flooding is o...

Cnns nick valencia has more from conway, south carolina. >> reporter: dave and christine, this has been described by residents here as the slow-motion disaster. as hard as the residents have been hit with flash flooding, officials warn it will get worse. it is not if, but when the river behind me overflows. it was already four feet past the flood level with the expectation it will go up to 21 or 22 feet and crest on monday or tuesday. in fact, city officials were going door-to-door to warn resid...

Expectation it will go up to 21 or 22 feet and crest on monday or tuesday. in fact, city officials were going door-to-door to warn residents to evacuate now while they can. some areas were overcome by flash flooding from hurricane florence. that flash flooding receded long after residents went into the homes and collected their belongings. as i mentioned, city officials mention more flooding is on the way. dave and christine. thank you. lets get a check on cnn money. what trade war? s&p 500 an...

A full week after florence hit the carolinas, the impact is still felt. look at the satellite images. polluted water carrying sediment and debris into the ocean. you see the water color changes from light blue to dark blue as it is dumped into the atlantic. >> the death toll up to 41 across the carolinas and virginia. 31 of the deaths in north carolina. the states governor roy cooper says nearly 74,000 people still dont have power. rivers in north carolina have crested and are falling, several s...

Rising. nick valencia has more from conway, south carolina. >> reporter: dave and christine, this has been described by residents here as the slow-motion disaster. as hard as the residents have been hit with flash flooding, officials warn it will get worse. it is not if, but when the river behind me overflows. it was four feet past the flood level with the expectation it will go up to 21 or 22 feet and crest on monday or tuesday. in fact, city officials were going door-to-door to warn residents ...

There. >> reporter: jim, this has been described by residents as a slow motion disaster. the water is slowly creeping into the neighborhoods and the residents here. at wa waccamaw river, the flash flooding from floerns the first time around. the local management team here tells me it is getting progressively worth. they are doing the worse they can to prepare. there is giant sandbags here as well as pumps to get out that water that eventually is going to come in. they are particularly concerned ...

Quote political situation is stabilized and expects more advanced results. in a series of late-night tweet said, president trump praised kims diplomacy. i got caught in a torrential down pour. its unreal and you say now theres more rain heading to the midwest. >> yeah, sorry about that. i know a lot of people probably got caught unthat rain. we knew it was come canning. and we are looking at the potential for heavy rain and the midwest today. we had so much rain last month that any sort of rai...

Happen to the people in the next few days, weeks and months. it will take a very long time to get back to normal. >> thats right. good questions. the storm has been different than most storms. most last about between eight and 12 hours. they cause immediate flash flood. that we have to respond for. and swift water rescue. those waters will subside for a couple days and rivers rise. and the rivers cause sustained flooding. it happened in 2015 after hurricane. it happened in 2016 after hurricane m...

And then the rivers will rise and the rivers will cause sustained flooding. it happened in 2013 after hurricane juaqin and now its happening again but florence is different because the rain event lasted days. it lasted three and a half days with heavy rains coming over and over and over again, and what that caused is the immediate flash flooding of those other events that happened in the first 12 hours did not occur until today after the rain subsided. we had areas of the city flooding today aft...

>> reporter: craig, locals describing this as a slow motion disaster. i want you to look over to my right. this is a neighborhood called lake land drive in orie cou hor county east of the mississippi. this is just from flash flooding, craig. what is most concerning here is that a lot of the water that is accumulating north in north carolina in places like lumberton, it is making its way down here, creating slow motion disaster. weve seen a lot of urgency on the ground here in conway, south carol...