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More dangerous. >> north carolina's governor as rain swelled rivers threaten more historic flooding that we're seeing right now. brian: what are we seeing? jeff flock from fbn is live. >> actually yeah, hope mills is where that dam is. i'm actually in fayetteville, downtown faithville which you know now there is man ca mandatory evacuation anywhere near the cape fear river. this is actually not the river. though it looks like flood water coming down what they call cross creek when the cape fear river backs up, that is when this thing starts to overflow and, man, you can see this rushing flood ...

Especially near the cape river. obviously, it is too early really to get an assessment of exactly how everybody is. they have been receiving calls here in wilmington for assistance. and it's really being done on a case-by-case basis. at this point, this actually better than it was when john berman was here even just about 20 or so minutes or so. the rain seems to have slowed down at this point. this is probably one of the differentials in one of the bands of the storm that we keep seeing. we have been watching the marina very closely. it seems to be in good shape. this is what we anticipate se...

In wilmington, which is little bit inland, a little bit up the cape fear river. you can see behind me this is river, not the ocean here. you can see i think the white caps on this river kicking up around the boats here. i was out here when it was still daylight and it was significantly lower. i would say 5 to 6 feet lower. now, it is closer to high tide now. that could have something to do with it but perhaps some surge as this storm moves closer to where we are. i'm in wilmington. about 13 miles down from where i am right now is carolina beach. that's where we find meteorologist derek van dam...

Rained out of the sky and then the wind trying to push all that water back up toward ed, too. >> yeah, it's like a -- isn't it? behind me i have this cape river and this flows down into the atlantic basically. but what's happening is the surge will push it up at the same time that the flooding rain brings it down. and there's concern in the cape fear river, at 10 feet it floods. it could reach 22 if not 24 feet and of course all along this river here there are lagoons, all kinds of live stock that can wash right into this river, right down. the river master told us he simply doesn't know some ...

i'm t.j. holmes bringing you the latest on the massive storm. hurricane irene that could affect about 20% of the population of the united states. here you are getting a look at the path of the storm. the projected path of the storm right now. some 65 million people are being threatened by this storm. it's in some of the largest cities of the country that are under threat of the storm. we are talking about new york, washington d.c., baltimore, boston, philadelphia. all areas not accustomed, necessarily, to being ready for hurricanes. hurricane irene is now a category one storm. it is ...