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Interstate 40. just completely submerged. same thing is happening along a 60-mile stretch of interstate 95. i-95 is the all the way up and down the east coast artery that runs through the heart of the carolinas. officials say there are as many as 16 rivers at major flood levels tonight. president trump is expected to visit the storm zone, expected to visit north carolina tomorrow. we shall see. as fema is saying, the next 48 hours are critical. we are thinking and praying for everybody in the ca...

The number of people, it allows hundreds of folks to at least head to higher ground. right now, at least 1300 people in shelters. the main levee itself along the river bank seems that its doing its job, according to officials. seems that its holding up okay. the main issue here now will be access. portions of interstate 95, one of the main roads in and out of the city of lumberton, it is flooded out. these floodwaters will be hanging around for quite some time now. the floodwater not expected to...

Weve got cities of people in their homes now will be flooded tomorrow. because the worst part of this thing may be tomorrow, not what we have seen so far. that is the danger of this big runoff water going back out to the ocean. as far as recovery, we are going to have to find new ways to do that, because its taking too long for people to get back in their homes. >> dana: you right in your book of a compromise infrastructure across the united states is a serious threat to national security. and i...

The storm is slowing moving saturating the southeast coast with experts saying the flooding will produce catastrophic flooding for days to come. >> nearly 800,000 people in the carolinas dont have power. authorities in north carolina telling drivers who are trying to use interstate 95 from the north, go around. yes, go around the entire satat. look at what theyre dealing with there in tennessee. look at what people are living with in the carolinas. the wind has really picked up. the rain has g...

The severe weather center. it is tremendous, all of you in the meteorologists told us that it looks like catastrophic flooding. and it looks like thats bearing out. yes, apparently in the beginning it was thought how would this weather system, this hurricane that looks nothing like some of the historic currents that were very familiar with dont look anything like that and it is so much damage. it is so pervasive. we talked about a portion of interstate 95 shut down. they are telling people to ...

Great interview with captain bob beck. reminds us that there were so many business owners i have a lot to do as well. the high wind and massive amounts of rainfall also causing major travel delays in the sky on the road, 11 airports have closed during the storm. forcing more than 3300 flight cancellations throughout this tuesday.heavy rain also forced officials to shut down interstate 95 in north and south carolina. and portions of interstate 40 in north carolina. the north carolina department o...

95, both of those have big chunks of it flooding is going over the highways or the interstate so theyre closed down as well. heavy rains still in the exact same area right arent wilmington right where the storm came on shore over 48 hours ago. almost 72 hours ago it was out here across areas like moorehide and the southern side of hatteras. a big chunk of the state has had over 20 inches of rain almost across the board with isolated spots over 30 inches. probably get into that 40-inch range. the...

City. polo sandoval has this report for us. >> reporter: everyone after the rain stops, the flooding threat will remain for the community inland throughout the carolinas. including here in lumberton, north carolina where on friday we witnessed something truly incredible where neighbors came together to try to defend their community against potential flooding from florence as we saw strangers came together filling sand bags, creating a barrier under an overpass along interstate 95. you see that l...

Inland throughout the carolinas, including here in lumberten, north carolina. on friday we witnessed something truly eincredible where neighbors came together to try to protect their community from potential flooding. we saw strangers it filling sand bags, creating a barrier along interstate 95. that location had been identified as a problem spot hurricane matthew swept through the region. that is when water essentially flooded much of the community can, particularly on the west side of this kmu...

Surface not to be intense as we discussed or as expected, this is not the case, the worst is yet to come as the flood waters from other areas are accumulating north of the county and filling the river basins beyond capacity. mandatory evacuation shall commence immediately and all persons in evacuation areas shall be evacuated by 3:00 p.m. september 16th, 2018. all persons who refuse to fail to comply with mandatory evacuation order shall do so at their own risk and put on notice that emergency a...