we re going to take you to one of the hardest-hit areas where almost an entire island was decimated. and her rescue during the hurricane made headlines. a nurse desperately trying to get to work was caught in the rising floodwaters. thankfully a nearby reporter was there, saved her and saw her. and that is my guest tonight. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, ian s fury still remains an extremely dangerous storm making its way through the carolinas tonight. let me show you this powerful video showing a pier in north myrtle beach torn into pieces as the hurricane came ashore. the storm surge ripping through neighborhoods like the ones i m showing you here, leaving even more destruction of homes in its wake. even these homes built up on sticks. so many of them deeply damaged. and parts of charleston s historic downtown also underwater. and tonight there is still concern for life-threatening floods as the storm could dump up to 12 inches of rain as it moves no
Hello, you are in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. The disaster from Hurricane Florence is most likely only beginning. Damage from the wind is over, cleanup will take weeks or longer. But more urgently right now, floodwaters are rising. Emergency officials are warning people in parts of North Carolina to get to Higher Ground or they are risking their lives. The flood threat is already proving deadly. In just the last hour the death toll from the storm went up. It now stands at eight. The latest victims of florence are two people caught in flash flooding in fast moving water just north of wilmington, North Carolina. Again, eight people now dead from this storm. And forecasters say conditions will continue to worsen as long as this massive weather system just sits and dumps rain, refusing to break apart or to move faster. Cnn teams are in place where the water is rising and where people are being told to take these floodwaters seriously. Cnns Martin Savidge joins us from wil
At Carolina Beach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. Theres an 8 foot drop here. There should be 30 or 40 feet of beach there. That ocean is coming up to it. It has destroyed beaches for miles here, up and down the coach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. It will be a long time of recovery. There are trees, power lines, roofs, fences, walls, tons of small damage like that across a wide swathe of the area. Authorities now trying to go through, assess everything. Theres also lots of flooding in the area as well. Trying to assess everything, get the power back on. You see lots of crews from duke energy. Lots of Emergency Services operators trying to get out there, figure out who is out there, how will they survive, and what do they need, if anything, at this point. The town of Carolina Beach is still under Evacuation Order. They still havent opened that bridge into town. Cant figure out when theyll do that yet, until winds come down to get people on a
Could dump as much as 40 inches of rain. Listen to the power of the storm. Florence is sure to take its time calling at a speed most of us could outwalk, just two miles an hour. So far in its wake, florence has knocked out the power for more than 700,000 people, sent boats into downtown streets, decimated docks into kindling, and tore up this church like it was paper. Im not going to lie, i broke down this morning and cried. Im accepting it, it is what it is, we cant control it. We just pick up and continue, thats all we can really do. Cnns Martin Savidge is joining us from wilmington, North Carolina. Give us the latest. Reporter the weather has been off and on as far as rain and winds. Some of those rains have been heavy. I looked at the radar, ana, before we came to air. Just five miles away from us there is a virtual river of rain in the air. And that is just dumping unknown amounts of water into the inland areas. Its the inland flooding problem that is the onehat is the most urgent
Our top stories, two massive storms causing Serious Problems simultaneously but have a world apart. Monster typhoon mangkhut is bearing down on china after leaving a trail of destruction in the philippines. Well have more on that story in a moment, but well start here in the united states. Florence was just downgraded to a tropical depression. It may be weakening and moving away from the carolina coast, but the danger is far from over. This storm has already killed 13 people. And officials warn the massive flooding could just be getting started. Florence is dumping enormous amounts of rain as it moves inland. And all of that water is pushing rivers to record levels. The city of jacksonville, North Carolina, is warning people who evacuated their homes ahead of florence to stay away for now. Widespread power outages, impassable roads and flooding are making it dangerous for them to return home at this moment. Cnns ed lavandera says people who did not evacuate are worried the flooding cou