the real fear now is the rising river. it could peak at historical levels from tuesday to wednesday. that could mean catastrophic flooding. it s more than 3000 houses nearby that river. we could see this afternoon, the water start to fill up in a number of backyards. there are more than 30 inches of rain from this storm in part of the coast and lotted of that now is moving inland. to places like fayetteville, city of 200,000. there are real concerns what can happen. as far as the people who live along that river, not a great deal of alarm. a number of houses were sandbagging and also moving their more valuable possessions up to higher flights. they are not evacuating. this that a mandatory evacuation order is in effect. it s been sort of low tech operation in addition to warnings on television and social media. officers are really going from door to door, knocking on doors
rescue operations in low lying areas are still underway. we re hearing with the mt. vernon fire department. as can you see it s a very low tech operation. basically just going door to door looking for anyone who needs help. they have been finding a lot of them. even a day after the storm. ma am, how are you doing? i m doing fine. cold. how was the storm? the storm was terrible. were you scared? scared, not scared, just the baby. more scared for the baby than me. do you feel like came to rescue you. yes. we have been waiting since 1:00 yesterday. [ laughter ] it was a pretty low tech operation. some of those firefighters basically putting people on their backs or over their shoulders and carrying them out. one volunteer at it overnight said to me we are not getting paid for this. this is a privilege. some good news in maryland over the past 12 hours as well, people woke up this morning. there were 300,000 people in the state without power.