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Contingencies of varying size. we have completed updated assessments of each of our 26 crossing points on the southwest border and already deployed 100 specially trained, special response team operate tors to prepare plans for each location. information on the approach of a large group is available, we have 1,000 cbp officers, including 250 tactical enforcement officers and mobile response team professionals with freining on managing contingencies. between ports of entry, we have an additional 830 border patrol agents on stand by ready to deploy to include 140 special operations ablths, 385 mo...

Garrett in new bern, i know first responders are answering calls for help throughout the night. water rescues has to be the big problem posed there. we know many are still in need. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: alex, in the last two days the neuse river jumped banks and invaded this town, bringing storm surge to the doors of people that have been here a long time. they have seen nothing quite like the water level we got in this town. that's what led to so many people being stranded in their homes, in need of rescue. we're told at least 385 people plucked from homes by boat or by high...

Florence. up to 40 inches could fall on coastal areas. 20 counties remain under tornado watch to add insult to injury. officials say they have 100 outstanding calls from people stranded, waiting for help in new bern, north carolina. they already rescued 385 people since thursday. first responders continue to rescue hundreds trapped in flooded areas at this hour in many corners of coastal carolina towns. and now moving inland. let's go to meteorologist shanna mendiola. show moving storm bringing a lot of rain. that has to be the m.o. >> that's what's happening. if you looked at this yesterday, ...

The death toll related to tropical storm florence is on the decline. at least 385 rescues have been made in pretty hard hit new bern and that number is expected to climb. florence is slowly weakening and will likely become a tropical depression sometime tonight. let's go to kerry sanders in carolina beach, north carolina, where things do not look like a tropical depression or anything close to it. they have not let up where you are. >> florence is just not moving, at such a slow pace, it's brutal here. unrelenting wind and rain, let me step out of the way and show you the surf, you can see how...

But they look pretty solid. they don't seem to be bending at all. so there is a good shot that power is going to stay on, you think? >> reporter: well, like i said, we have power in this area. but earlier this morning we were in north myrtle beach and power was completely out there. earlier before that we were in myrtle beach proper, and there was power there. so it just kind of depends on where you go. power is out in some places and not in others. >> we know there are upwards of a million people now dealing with no power. tammy leitner, thank you for that report from conway, south carolina. ...