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About 500 feet that weighs those over its banks for the worst time in the worst way since 1846 and it flooded neighborhoods like this. downtown jacksonville isolated businesses and restaurants and offices and need transportation yesterday almost impossible. the mayor monday that this is a category three storm surge, which means the rising water was more powerful than the wind. he told me he was worried about this happening days ago even as the fork has shifted west in people's attention and resources became more focused on the cool side of florida. the mayor doesn't know how many people evacua...

Is so far. alabama, georgia, south carolina pounded overnight. irma's storm surge inundating charleston, south carolina and the storm surge from a swollen river in jacksonville causing flooding if record levels that they haven't seen since 1964. the streets were rivers yesterday. hundreds of people rescued from their homes. peter doocy was there to see it all live and he is live this morning in jacksonville. how many were rescued there, peter? let's start there. >> 356 were rescued just in the jacksonville area. local authorities teamed up with coast guard from kentucky, west virginia and tenn...

Surrounded by rising river water the jacksonville mayor did call this a category 3 storm surge, meaning he thinks the water was much stronger than the wind here. mayor curry tells me that water from the st. john's river will be a threat to this northern city for days. >> what i don't want people is to be complacent. i told them when saw it move to the west. if you see flooding in your neighborhood and you can't get out and you think you are going to wait this out and going to recede when the tides go down. there is a good chance it won't tomorrow or the next day. some places it could take up t...

Jacksonville. peter, what's the latest? >> mel, the latest is that officials in jacksonville have lifted the mandatory evacuation order for neighborhoods in low lying areas along the st. john's river that overflowed in its worst way since 1846 yesterday. but just because the evacuation order has been lifted doesn't mean that there is really any way for a lot of these people to get home. there is a sidewalk over there. the street is even further. there is at least a foot of water in dozens of homes down that way. we're told that the water here and in other places like it may be around for as lo...

With all of the crews and our electrical story and assets to make sure to get power restored as quickly as we can. >> reporter: steve, are you from this area? >> i live a half mile from here on the river. >> reporter: have you ever seen this type of flooding before? >> the last time we saw this flooding was in 1846. the st. john's river is flooding near jacksonville. we are in the riverside neighborhood, a great community, a lot of parks. we are by memorial park. but yesterday the st. john's river was overflowing its banks and the floodwaters went up even two blocks from here. >> reporter: and...