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Residents that did not affect the weight and now we are going in with water rescues to get these folks to a shelter. >> shepard: the mayor dana outlaw who is with us, the mayor of new bern north carolina for more than 200 people have already been rescued. it's my understanding from local reports that many of these residents have had to hire areas and that means summer in their attics and simmer on their roofs, is that right? >> that's right. i talked with a lady last night, we could not the residence by vehicle. so we have rescued her now, let me know that her mother has been rescued but actua...

Will be just fine. the water is not coming into our houses. that was yesterday. they know better today. lots of people there hundreds and hundreds of residents of this town of a little more than 6,000 were up in their attics or up on their roofs waiting to be rescued overnight hours and into the morning. they got a storm surge, the locals tell us the mayors of alderman tell us the storm surge is about 9 or 10 feet. they have had it bad. things are improving at new bern. look back at steve harrigan again who doesn't know we are there. he is just wandering about in the streets and trying to find...

We are back live at 3:55 here on the east coast. a few things we have updated on. ongoing rescues as many as 90 people calling into one center. it's not clear how many of the folks have been rescued. some of them in attics and roofs. water rescues of people in cars. we'll continue to follow that. the latest number we got from the duke energy company was 181,000 people are without power right flou now. that could go to the millions. nearly 5 million people in the path of hurricane florence. could get ten inches of rain or more. this is a slow moving storm. we'll keep on it. all throughout today...

>> we have our fire rescue team out there trying to save people from homes and vehicles. >> amber, now we heard reports from the more head city mayor there were people on rooftops. is that situation similar to where you are? or people have stranded in their homes with water surrounding. >> it's alyle bit of both. we have reports of people on rooftops and people in attics. people in their homes and water coming into the house. it's a different level of water. and reports of water breeching vehicles. >> how many people do you have out there. what's the size of the crew you have actually deployed...

That we have been experiencing here in the last 24 hours or so. >> and thank you, garrett haake. do we want to go back to ali vels velshi? we have you back. >> yes, the bands are coming through, and starting to affect us a little bit. thank you for that, chris. i want to go to amber parker, and she is the craven county emergency management person who is helping to coordinate some of the rescues that we have been showing you all morning, and amber, i think that there are more of those than expected and what is the situation right now? >> yes, we have currently had over 188 calls for rescue of 4...