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Towns are lower. youre in a coastal town. youre at slightly higher elevation. that kind of damage hits a place like wilmington that isnt going to flood like other places. you know in this part of the country there are rivers that flood in normal rain stormins. thats what were looking for. >> sure. >> these are people bracing for catastrophic flooding. >> i talked to my folks the last hour, they live in columbia. its raining lightly. there have been folks in the northeast part of columbia who alr...

Coastal areas, as you guys are covering flooding into columbia. theyre expecting flooding across four states, north carolina, south carolina, virginia and west virginia. our teams will be trying to make sure we help as many people as possible. >> some of the damage that was done a few years ago in south carolina has not been repaired. so were hoping they can cope. but i think we have learned to some degree with harvey not to think the worst is over. but the fact is, do you think people are bette...

There is a car mostly submerged with the drunk open. theres a car barely peeking out around the surface of the flood waters. it was just a half an hour ago, about six deer crossing through the waters here. this city sits along the new river. so even though were about 20 miles from the ocean, it is a town along a river. it is a river that is prone to flooding. so they knew there would be some sort of flooding here. the question was just how much, how bad was it going to be when you add the storm ...

In time, depending on where you are in one of these valleys, next to a river thats taking a water out to the ocean. people will see flooding that theyve never seen before. and the challenge now for the weather service and predictions is where is the the flood going to be in the next six, 12 to 24 hours. youve got people sitting in their house watching football today that could be flooded tonight. >> so you come from louisiana. you know a thing or two about low lying land as they have along the c...

Im in new york and ill take you to my partner ali in myrtle beach. >> the winds have died down. its now a tropical storm. we talked to joe fryer in jacksonville, south carolina and theyre still getting hit with these winds. t the winds will topple trees and there will be flooding. we are a few hours away from high tide. look at the surf behind me. this is picking up and the tide will come in probably another 50 feet. theres a little surge thats going to come and thats where the power outages wil...

Jr., ivanka and others. to the extent they were involved in dirty business deals in new york or conduct in the campaign, that could at the end of the day prove more dramatically damaging to trump and the organize says a -- organization and the family. >> he was the trump family fixer. thank you so much. up next well take you back to ali for the latest on hurricane florence. flooding is soaking the carolinas. we just learned of two more deaths blamed on the storm. stay with us.

Going to create flash floods and its nothing like a flash flood. ive seen them in the deserts and ive seen them on the east coast of the united states. where that water is trying to make its way back out to the ocean. that is where we need the help with the weather predictors to run the models and see where is the flood going to be in the next six, 12 to 24 hours than to get into the low lying areas and get the vulnerable population out. >> right. and thats what were counting on these first resp...

I want to go to tammy lightner. its one of those situations where you may have a tree or a sign or a pillar or a power pole that with stood a 100-mile-per-hour wind but that was before it was raining for 24 hours and now that ground has softened and the dangers have increased. it might be more dangerous now and youre not out of the woods because the worst of the storm is beyond you. >> exactly, ali. what a different a few miles will make. myrtle beach seems to have been spared. im just up the co...

Rain. we have to remind our viewers, even if the winds have died down, that rain pounding down hour after hour. we got serious concerns about that water rising. thanks so much, ken. up next, were going to take you back to my partner, ali velshi who will give us the latest on the ground on florence as a catastrophic flooding is soaking up certain areas in the carolinas with fema just out with this warning. the flooding is far from over. special live coverage on this saturday edition of velshi and...

Well see weaker wind but still a lot of rain embedded in this storm as it slowly moves through the carolinas, as it does, dumping rain, fresh water on the ground on already saturated soil. the problem is when it gets to columbia and mountainous terrain, it will cause a threat of flash flooding in some neighborhoods, maybe mud slides. sunday, 2:00 a.m., columbia, south carolina and up to the north into asheville. thats going to be 2:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. again, you can see it will bring rai...