Proportions in South Carolina. Flood levels seen every 1,000 years. Swamping huge parts of the state. We will have the latest on the damage and the question of how much more is on the way. A woman in the classroom during the shooting massacre at the Oregon Community college speaks to cnn. What she says happened and how she escaped with her life. A huge controversy and Big Questions after a u. S. Air strike in afghanistan apparently hits a Doctors Without Borders hospital. More than 20 patients hit and staffers. What the pentagon is saying happened. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is october 5th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. Deadly unprecedented flooding in South Carolina. The governor deploying 600 members of the National Guard with the state experiencing rainfall totals never seen before. The governor calls this a once in a 1,000 year weather event. It has triggered more than 200 water rescues. Roads all over the state shutdown by flooding. Cars and trucks washed away. Look at the aerial view where water levels rising so fast that the coast guard had to air lift this mother and 15monthold infant to safety. Look at the folks in columbia. I cant get over the water. Raging waist deep waters. Holding on to a stop sign. Rescue operations set to begin in the state capital today. The torrential rain and floods leaving some with no choice but to completely rebuild. We have lost everything. What i got on my body is everything. Pretty much everybody down that hill has lost everything. Vehicles, clothes, everything. The best thing is we still have our lives. More than 18 inches to 24 inches of rain in places in that state in a day or less. You can just see how powerful the force of that water is right now. Catastrophic flash flooding. There is more rain in the forecast. Lets get the latest from meteorologist pedram javaheri. One of the more impressive rain events. You look at the numbers. 24 inches out of mt. Pleasant outside o of charleston. 65 billion gallons of water. That is the same amount that falls over the Niagara Falls in a weekend. You calculate the average rainfall amounts in a wide area where we saw up to 20 plus inches. You do the math and you are talking about 6. 7 million olympic sized Swimming Pools. That is how much water came down on top of South Carolina. That is equal to taking every person in the state of massachusetts and giving them an olympic size Swimming Pool and filling it up. Some areas could still see upwards of 1 to 2 inches across the northern portion of South Carolina outside of myrtle beach and some models not far from columbia with additional 1 to 2 inches in the next 24 hours. The vast majority will taper off tuesday morning. Flood watches and warnings in place. The concern is so many roads have been damaged or destroyed. If anyone tries to get outside, they make the wrong turn and they go down another road, they could enter a dangerous place. Pay attention to all of the advisories. Pedram, thank you. Columbia, they are looking at the hospitals there and thinking about if they need to evacuate the hospitals because they dont have fresh water. The water has knocked out fresh water system. All of the Emergency Management people with their hands full. One of the hardest hit areas is georgetown. Ems workers and National Guard stretched to the limit. A man drove around a barricade and his car swept away. He had to be rescued by boat while he was clinging to a tree. Lets get more from cnns boris sanchez. Reporter john and christine, georgetown is one of the hardest hit areas in South Carolina. Part of the reason for that is the city lies at the bottom of a geographical bowl with rivers all around town. This keeps happening. An inlet to my left where the water keeps rising. It has risen into the businesses more than once. One of them is getting pumped right now, but it is likely not to make a huge difference. The water is expected to rise again as the rainfall continues into the day. When we arrived, there was a Police Barricade not letting anyone through. A lot of the roads are disshelved. We had gas leaks as well as several structure fires here. So authorities are really rushing to emergencies left and right. We spoke to two ambulance workers who had been going for more than 24 hours and every ambulance in the city is out attending to emergencies. Fortunately, it appears most people are safe. The mayor of georgetown, i spoke with him. He told me it is better for people to just stay home and be safe and go against that natural curiosity to come out and see what is going on. Just dont be stupid. Thats the thing. Keep saying dont try to drive through flooded areas. You dont know how deep it will be. We are supposed to get more rain later today. High tide will be about 4 00. It could be worse in two or three hours. Reporter that was right near city hall which was submerged. In places like this in georgetown, it will take several weeks to clean up the mess. John, christine. Boris, thank you for that. The u. S. Coast guard has discovered a 225 square mile debris field in the Caribbean Sea in the search for the missing container ship. The jacksonville, florida cargo ship was carrying 23 americans and 5 polish nationals. It was on the way to puerto rico when it went missing last week. Crews finding wood and life jackets and oil sheen in the debris field. Still no positive confirmation it came from the missing ship. The air force and navy are assisting the coast guard in the search. They covered 70,000 square nautical miles. The father of the gunman in oregon says he has no idea how his son got the weapons. He said he was stunned his son owned 13 guns and says the guns are to blame for the massacre. He wants to know how anyone can get so many weapons so easily. It has to change. How can it not . Even people that believe in the right to bear arms. You know, what right do you have to take peoples lives . Thats what guns are. The killers. Its as simple as that. Its black and white. What do you want a gun for . Cnn exclusive. Tracey hugh was in the classroom. She suffered a put wound to her hand. She spoke to cnns sara sidner. Reporter john and christine, this is the first time we are hearing the firsthand account from someone inside umpqua Community College in classroom 15 at snyder hall when the gunman came in and started shooting people one by one. I was sitting in the front of the classroom. Facing the teacher when everything happened. He just came in and shot toward the back of the wall and told everybody to get to the center of the room on the ground. Did he hit anyone when he first shot that first shot . He just got everybodys attention and everybody looked over to the door and he had gun was him and he was armed. He had a bulletproof vest on. He didnt seem like he was anxious or anything. He seemed like he wanted to do that. He seemed happy about it. He didnt seem stressed. He didnt seem nervous. When he came in, he told everybody to get on the ground. Everybody tried to huddle to the ground and the girl in the wheelchair got off and tried to get on the ground. Wait. There was a woman in a wheelchair . Yeah. She had a dog with her. The dog was just on the ground. She got off the chair and she went on the ground. He told her to get back on the chair. Then she tried to climb back on the chair. He shot her. Reporter she says after she witnessed that, she knew he would have no mercy. Not on anyone. She said she lived because the person next to her was shot in the head and the blood ended up covering her body. He thought she was dead and she played dead so she could live. Christine, john. Harrowing. Hillary clinton expected to release her plan to curb gun violence today. Her proposal expected to draw discussion using executive action to close loopholes. Democratic frontrunner wants to label anyone selling high levels of guns in the business to close the socalled gun show loophole. After that, she wanted to lead a National Movement to counter the nra. Outrage in afghanistan this morning. The group Doctors Without Borders demanding an independent investigation after the deadly bombing at the hospital in kunduz. 22 People Killed. 10 staffers and 12 patients. The pentagon says it may have accidently hit the hospital during an operation. Lets go live to cnns nick r roberts robertson. Reporter john, Doctors Without Borders is coming out swinging at the statements. Doctors without borders say they are disgusted and there needs to be an independent investigation and the government can imply that u. S. And Afghan Forces fighting side by side would go into the compound knowing it was a hospital and target people inside the hospital. They are saying they are disgusted and say it utterly contradicts that this could be collateral danger. What we know is nato is trying to accelerate the investigation process. They will have an international investigation, they call it a Casualty Assessment Team, that will have results potentially early assessment within a few days. What they say is this strike was called in when u. S. And Afghan Forces came under direct fire from the taliban. They say that happened close to the hospital, john. A lot of questions, nic. The investigation and integrity of the investigation important. Nic robertson, thank you. Lets get an early start on your money. A disappointing jobs report means good week to the stock market. The conventional wisdom is the setback on friday means the fed will not raise Interest Rates. Ben bernancke said more wall street bankers should have gone to jail. He says the bailout was the right call in 2008. He said everything that went wrong or illegal was done by some individual, not by an abstract firm. There should have been more accountability at the individual level. 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It would be his only touchdown of the game. Packers go on to win snapping a fourgame losing streak. We have the packers and broncos and bengals and the panthers and my falcons and john bermans patriots are 30. They have a bye this week. Teams who started 40 made it to the playoffs 83 of the time. Maybe the play of the day came in the bills game. Hosting the giants. Giants running back rashad jennings. A 51yard catch and run and a stiffarm takes his man card. What a play. The giants would go on to win. 2410. Both teams at 22. Finally in baseball. It took 162 games to figure out who would wear the American League west browcrown. The victory meant the astros clinched a wild card berth. Astros and yankees and winner take all in the American League wild card. Then on wednesday, the pirates host the cubs on tbs. John, your red sox are not making the playoffs, but good news. Your manager john farrell is back in the dugout. That is great news to start