Saluta River News Today

Messages to people. the hardest thing we have is keeping up with the road closures because they are just absolutely everywhere within the county. thats why were just urging people to stay put. >> do you have electricity? >> yes. >> so people are able to watch television and listen to the radio. >> not to say we might not have periodic outages here and there. we havent had huge reports of a lot of downed trees and power lines but that could be sporadic, again, throughout the evening. >> but at th...

Not this much rain has hit there in 1,000 years in the river there since 1936. nikki haley is telling people to stay off the roadways, saying that the water is not safe. theres bacteria in the water and mainly reassuring residents that they have all hands on deck, all of the resources needed to take care of the situation down there. >> its just an astounding situation in south carolina. devastation with this floodwater. i-95 closed in one area. school and county offices said they wanted to be cl...

Regards to infrastructure. along those lines are major facility sites. i-26 remains closed at this time. heading into charleston, i-95, the section between florence all the way down to i-26 is in the process of being closed and rerouted. i-126 heading into downtown columbia, the large bridge there over the broad river, were closing that as well and then a section of i-20 along monticello road in the columbia area has already been closed and were expecting the need to close portions of i-77, addi...

Got it. got it. waiting on you. thank you very much. thank you for being here. weve got a full team here ready to give you a lot of information right now. this has been the one thing i want people to understand is when you think about what were sitting in right now, we are at a thousand year level and we havent seen this level and thats what south carolina is dealing with. the river is at the highest level since 1936. thats why we keep telling people, stay off the roads, stay out of the roadways...

Water. you also have downed power lines. water that is mixed with sewage. you dont know when youre dealing with floods that could overwhelm the area and dealing with the drinking water. >> yep. >> its true. they are under a boil water alert right now. steve, i know that the governor said that they are in the process of closing down some of those roads. clearly they havent gotten around to getting all of them. but we will check back with you later, steve, and i can see the water pounding on the p...

Driving along so you can get a view. lets take a look straight out the front of the car. you can probably see were going down. this is the real problem here. the hillary areas. when we get to the lower area this is where the water is likely to collect. weve already had some heavy squalls come through here. the real concern in south carolina, im in greenville, is that were going to get about three months of rain in three days. in fact, were going to -- try to turn here. lets take a turn. were nea...