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Statewide impact, i mean, im in charlotte right now, we are beginning to get the rain bands that have been taking days to get here. then it is going to move up into the mountains. those are all going to fill river basins that will flow down to north carolina, south carolina or out to our coast. and its very difficult to really understand whats ahead, but i did a flyover about 36 hours after matthew hit the eastern part of the state. and we thought it was bad then. and two days later, we saw dama...

Statewide impact, i mean, im in charlotte right now, we are beginning to get the rain bands that have been taking days to get here. then it is going to move up into the mountains. those are all going to fill river basins that will flow down to north carolina, south carolina or out to our coast. and its very difficult to really understand whats ahead, but i did a flyover about 36 hours after matthew hit the eastern part of the state. and we thought it was bad then. and two days later, we saw dama...

Responders. it really starts ahead of time with things like building codes and how prepared communities are, but it takes unity of effort. everybody all trying to help each other out. and working together. there is no replacement for unity of effort. >> and we see that when we look at all these pictures that are astounding from the aerial views of these neighborhoods and live pictures now as we see the devastation coming in here. and this goes beyond our coverage here. we see what you are talkin...

Of south carolina tracking the storm as it moves inland. matt, columbia a river town like so many we have been reporting over the last couple of days. what is the latest there as rain continues to fall in columbia? >> reporter: as you can see, it is barely raining. it is kind much misting right now. the wind is somewhat high. it is not that bad. we were driving today from myrtle beach all the way here to columbia, the capital of the state as you mentioned, and we kind of moved a little past the ...

Carolina, theres the santee river basin. a little bit further south and the charleston is in the river basin further to the south. all of these river basins filling up. they try to go to the ocean. weve got the storm surge pushing it back on shore, so everything just spills out of those rivers. goes into peoples homes, into peoples agricultural areas, into their growing areas, into their livelihoods. service stations, they have been out of gas for a long time. also, any -- anybody who is looking...

We think by late morning landfall as a category 1, and then meander around areas across the coastal regions of south carolina into the piedmont region, so myrtle beach, paulys island, myrtles inlet, heavy rainfall for charleston, very easily to flood in charleston, precipitation moving on offer to the southern appalachians. there is a lot to consider here, especially when you think about that by monday into tuesday, were still looking at a significant rain event. all right. so what happens whe...

The west, northwest. its moving fairly slowly, 6 miles an hour. weve been saying all along this is not going to be a wind event that is going to be a powerful -- its not going to be 100 plus mile an hour winds. we have seen hurricane force winds along the coast. this is going to be a long-term sustained rain event, wringing out along coastal sections of north carolina into the piedmont areas of south carolina, thats how the computer models are suggesting now. its category 1, sustained winds of 9...

>> water kills more people than the tropical system, by far. >> we didnt mention mobile. theyre going to have a problem. their high tide is not until 2:00 a.m. you talk 7 to 11 feet. there will be water in structures. >> is that because the water is coming down stream as well -- >> sometimes you can get the heavy rain thats falling, and that falls into the river basins, thats trying to escape, at the same time, the water is pushing it in. we had a situation like that in jacksonville, florida. wi...

Dangers that people may not understand as theyre traversing texas roads? >> well, absolutely the unpredictability of conditions right now, particularly in those areas that are being affected by the rain and thats ongoing. even in areas now that have the rain has stopped, what were seeing now is many of those tributaries have flowed into their major river basins, to the west it has been guadalupe and colorado rivers, and then going eastward through houston, sabine rivers, those flood events are g...

This is flash flood watch south of corpus christi. san antonio to houston. now weve included the beaumont area. 12 million people are under flash flood watches. this is for at least four days of rain. the expected rainfall the next seven days. the peak triangle, you make a triangle from corpus christi to san antonio houston, we have the chance of 10 to 20 inches of rain, possibility up to three feet. now we have to figure out what is that going to look like? weve never seen it before. all that w...