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Not far from this region, youre going to produce a lot of damage. thats the concern across the area with the saturated soil, hurricane force wind gusts. 3 to 4 weeks of rain in 24 hours. hong kong picked up 200 millimeters, 8 inches of rainfall in a matter of 24 hours. all of that now pushes off towards the west around northern areas of vietnam. hanoi gets heavy rain as well and flooding in place. we know the airports across shenzhen were closed. airports also shutdown as the threat here was loo...

Ka days before those flood waters start to reseed for the people of dong dong. the system continues to rain in southern parts of china. they are by no means out of the woods. even though the winds are not a problem any more, thankfully thats the case now. but the flooding threat will remaybe and this could produce more deaths as the days go on. >> matt rivers for us in beijing. matt as always rksz thank you for watching the story. now lets go back to pedram who is tracking the storm for us from ...

Line. as it does it will continue to flood that region. and as a result, you can actually follow the river gauges. were expect ing it to crest sometime, say tuesday into wednesday. so, still a couple of days of rising flood waters before next weekend, well see the waters want to recede across some of the regions. some forecasts were going to follow and hopefully well see improvement in the next couple of days, natalie. >> how many roads did you say were impassable in north carolina alone? >> 600...

The region. lu look at the gauges. over 30 reporting moderate flood stage. the gauges are expected to rise in a lot of the regions tuesday into wednesday before they crest at records and going into the weekend. we see conditions improve a little bit. this is a long drawn out event after the rains stop today, which we think they will later on this afternoon and tonight. the water will continue to rush to the region from the higher elevations back to the west. dave. >> thank you, pedram. in sout...

Continues to rise. authorities say that they expect the lumber river to crest sunday night into monday, possibly even reaching record heights. in the meantime, authorities say that there is still one main levee that runs along that lumber river that is still holding up. it is still doing okay, doing the job that its supposed to do. but officials say and they fear if that gives out, all bets are off. polo sandoval, cnn, lumberton, north carolina. >> and thats not the only place that is under thre...

Rise. dave and christine. >> thank you, . we know hog farms and horse farms. thank you, de derek. we know waters will keep rising for the week. we have meteorologist pedram javaheri in the weather center with the latest. >> lets talk about the system. still plenty of moisture to go around. watching a bit of thunderstorm activity from raleigh to the south here as moisture lingers and pushing off the atlantic and north carolina. eastern north carolina and tennessee. we expect it to pick up forwa...

Precipitation is in the forecast here. dave and christine? reporting from wilmington. >> derek, thank you. florence will dump more rain in north carolina over the next few days. river levels are raising. cape fear river is rising to 35 feet and expected to crest at 62 feet. water flowing into the streets. we have meteorologist pedram javaheri standing by live in the cnn weather center. the pictures are amazing. the water on water and more coming. >> absolutely. unfortunately when the sky turns...

The coast is off the top of the charts when it comes to the rainfall department. that has not changed one bit. regardless, if this storm were to be category one during landfall, this would not change because energy has been moving along with it for a come days. >> very important point. we talk about the wind, but it is the water that does the most damage. pedram javaheri, thank you. we will check in with you a lot today. more than 1 million people in the carolinas have been told to leave. one ...

Rainfall measured in feet and not inches. it is forecast to create life-threatening conditions. the warning officials are giving is leave immediately. more than 2 million people live in areas under warnings. >> states of emergency have been declared in five states. carolinas, georgia, virginia and maryland. airlines have canceled 800 flights along the east coast in anticipation of the storm. the national hurricane center says waves out at sea and the strongest part of the storm are as high as 83...

Nearly 3,000 people died in puerto rico. welcome back to "early start." im dave briggs. >> im christine romans. lets begin with this monster storm here. according to the national weather service the storm of a lifetime bearing down on the mid-atlantic. hurricane florence sill a category-storm -- still a category-four storm but could become a category five today. it is expected to slam into north carolinas coast tomorrow night or friday morning. one meteorologist at the national weather service w...