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Flooding in this area. ill show you some of it. weve seen some bits of localized flooding. you saw where nick valencia was last hour. it is only going to get worse. they have -- it could be wednesday, it could be thursday, it could be beyond that by the time we truly see the worst of it. as we come up here, ill show you where the water is just coming out of the roadway. again, this is just the first one -- one of the first signs of localized flooding that were starting to see in this area. but, ...

Help in these rescue efforts. were closely monitoring the situation of course in north carolina as well. krp ace brian todd is in onslo county, north carolina. this is the point where were starting to see some of the initial damage. and this flooding, brian is really something to see. >> absolutely it is. take a look at this apartment complex. this is the web apartments in onslo county. i heard some voices a second ago and i called out to see if they needed help. theyve evacuated people from thi...

Waters. the majority of them were in a single nursing home and across the county here. many more people have had to be rescued can more expected today. we can tell you in onslo county here, in the unincorporated areas, there was a mandatory evacuation issued a few days ago. they just wanted to get people out of the county. they didnt even initially open up shelters here. the message was just get out of the county, get to ground that might not experience as much flooding. here in jacksonville, it...

We are back with the arrival on the coast of the carolinas of hurricane florence and this is going to take awhile. the good news, were down to a category 1. the bad news, this still retains a lot of the moisture and characteristics in terms of storm surge of the category 3 and 4 that it once was. that means a huge challenge for localities on the water. one of whom is holding to talk with us. c.j. jordan is with us tonight, community indications director with the oem, the office of emergency mana...

Ripped off of homes and schools, downed trees striking homes and businesses. and now with all that wind, now we have huge reports of power outages. right now with the emergency operations command center in oslo county, we are dealing with our own problems with our internet connection being interrupted, so our i.t. is working very hard to get that restored so we can continue to monitor everything. >> well, we are sorry its going to be a long night for you guys, and im afraid probably a long day t...

Even though weve already broken the record, the difference between the old record and the new record is likely going to continue to be a bigger spread. wilmington has picked up over a foot. elizabethtown has picked up nearly 2 feet. morehead city has picked up nearly 2 feet of rain. the key thing to note, its still raining. so a lot of those locations, widespread, are still going to pick up an additional 6 to 12 inches. there are some places that are likely to pick up at least an additional foot...