John Berman Rain News Today

Like? >> oh, this is the part that bothers me the most as far as the impact. such a slow motion off to the west thats going to keep bringing these rain bands inland over the same spots. in southeast north carolina and then later today and tomorrow into northeast south carolina. the excessive rainfall is being forecast, i think, is going to materialize. and well see record levels of flooding in many communities. and the continuation of the rescues youre seeing today, maybe in other communities, d...

It was even just a couple hours ago. we just heard from chad myers earlier who is saying that the rain is now down to maybe an inch or two an hour. its going to go back up, though, he anticipates maybe in a couple hours. maybe even as much as six hours. but this is a rain event. and a surge event all day long. is what people in this entire area are expecting. theyre going to just have to deal with. well hear a lot more about people being rescued by boats. theres no doubt about it. well take a sh...

2,000 people hunkered down, trying to ride out this storm. a long and very wet wait until this passes. as you said, anderson, this storm is crawling and dumping all this rain as it moves very, very slowly over the carolinas. anderson. >> yeah, nick, you were saying you were in a house on stilts. do you have a sense of how high those stilts are? and because you know, if youre getting -- if youened up getting a storm surge of 12, 13 feet, even some houses on stilts will have flooding on the first ...

There. drew, whats the beach like? >> i think were finally beginning to feel it, anderson. its been two days of anticipation here. power in the county starting to go out. 20,000 and climbing. and as you can see, at least tropical force winds are starting to build as a band of rain. i want to show you a phenomenon i really havent witnessed before in a hurricane. the wind here, anderson, is moving offshore. the hurricane is pushing the water out. and as we go out here, the tide is actually coming ...

>> yeah. the whole drive here, we thought we would have some help from other cajun navies. but that wasnt the case. so we showed up. we went out, just two of us, two of the officers, and its bad hearing about people trapped in attics and on roofs, but going in homes and having to help people out of their attic and knowing the consequences of them being up there, how theyre not supposed to go in there, and its one of those things that theyre about to get hit with 30 more inches of rain. low tide ...

Well, just as chad myers had predicted or told us to expect, winds picking up here. rain also now just starting to pick up a little bit. we anticipate obviously even more rain in the coming hours, as much as, you know, in five or six hours, even greater bands of rain as the storm continues to just slowly churn over this region after making landfall early this morning. i want to check in with our nick watt, who i think is in north myrtle beach. nick, explain -- correct me if im wrong if youre not...

Because theres still a lot of people here, even though a lot of people have already left. is it rain all day long? because right now, the rain has subsided somewhat. >> yeah, you know, ill go back to this radar because i think this shows probably the best we can do. there is a small break back out here, anderson, to dry air that came from columbia, all the way across into the storm. and that cut off this normal, northeast quadrant, but this entire thing is going to slide this way, so this part o...

40 inches of rain falling over the next three days. they are expecting eight months worth of rain over the next three days. and with the potential for storm surge. but that storm surge may not even bring this river to a crest until tuesday, according to the mayor. so it gives you a sense of how long a timeframe people here are going to be focused on water on the ground. i want to check in with brian todd, who is elsewhere in wilmington. hes been out and about. brian, have you gotten a sense or h...

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Because the water keeps rising. so we are going to send it back to you real quick here so we can maybe assist some on getting this through the shallow area if thats all right. >> okay, well check in with you a little bit, because really, the area youre in is where we have seen at this stage the most number of people who have been in need, as you heard from those volunteers who came down here from maryland. they were working all night, only took a couple hours off. they have a long day ahead of t...