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>> absolutely. stay safe, my friend, kerry sanders, thank you very much. the dogs we were talking about with joe fryer in the last hour, there were two dogs, we see them there. they're on their way out of the water. they were in sam o'leary's house, the guy in the orange shirt. we interviewed him. he's the one who lived in an area that was right along the edge of the bern river. he didn't think his house would be affected because it's on stilts. you can see dog food, cold cuts, because they were all heading to higher ground to stay with the dogs' owner, mr. o'leary's girlfriend. the dogs are...

Ankle to knee-high, and i was talking to a gentleman earlier today telling me that yesterday he was in waist-high water in these neighborhoods. that shows the necessity of the national guard using those high water vehicles, those trucks that can get to these neighborhoods and go door to door, because this is not something that is confined to the river or just to the houses that are built to handle this kind of water rise off the ground. you see everything from more sturdily-built homes to trailers. you get the sense of just how expansive and just how spread out this problem is in just one comm...

Type of folks who were not prepared for the duration of this storm as opposed to the intensity of it. this was not pulling people off of roofs but getting people who had run out of medication, or run out of power, water, and food in their houses and decided they couldn't wait this out for the duration. we had an opportunity to put a drone up in the neighborhood i'm standing in, to get an idea of how expansive the flooding is. the floodwaters here, we're probably i would say at least a mile from the river itself where the storm surge was at its greatest. this is floodwater that comes because we...

Them. by the time we got close enough for us to talk to them, we were having some technical issues because of the rain. but we talked with them, sam o'leary with his girlfriend and another woman, i didn't get a chance to find out her relationship to them. the three dogs belong to the girlfriend. he lives along the river. his home is actually on stilts because of the history of flooding in this area. his sewage wasn't working so it was time to get out and get to higher ground. take a listen to what sam had to tell us. >> i've lived in this county for 28 years. i'm down here for 16. >> reporter:...