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Over the next three days, it could get eight months eight months worth of rain. Thats on top of the 90mileanhour winds we are beginning to feel. The eyewall fwinibeginning to p over us right now. This is the sign of what is to come for the North Carolina coast down into south carolina. Thats where we find Cnns Chris Cuomo in north myrtle beach. Chris. John, you are our future. We are just getting our first taste of florence here. That is the concern with hurricanes, you think 6 hours or 12 hours maybe. This we hear could be a day and a half or 30 hours or more. The gusts for hours and hours ag...

Water rescue here. the winds are gusts and whipping around. it is very unsafe conditions. including the flying debris in the air. we all have safety gear and helmets and night lights and all that stuff. we are worried about the electricity and, of course, where we can deploy safely and get out there and be the most effective with the elderly and those out that cannot stand another hour of this. >> all right. clyde, we will let you get back. this is clyde with the cajun navy. responding to some 500 calls already from the new bern area. we heard of rescues of 100 plus rescues. so many outstandin...

We have united cajun navy. we have the camp site up and they sent boats out. we should have full deployment by dawn. >> clyde, do you have a sense, i know you just arrived on the ground, but the flooding situation. how much water is there? >> we have been going through standing water on the streets. not as bad as what i experienced in houston. of course, we are about to venture in more. i will get more accurate information for you in 35 or 40 minutes. >> talk to me about the process of responding to these calls. how is it done? what are the risks for your volunteers as they respond to people i...

A group of volunteer responders on the ground in new bern. up the coast from where i am on the neuse river. we had extreme storm surge. there have a been water rescues. clyde, if you can hear me, tell us what is happening. we have not been able to get very many reports from the ground there. tell us what the situation is for you. >> we just arrived about 35 or 40 minutes ago after inundated with calls and finding out they called what they could rescue with vehicles. we have our duck boats inbound from over in lumberton where we were staying. further down in fayetteville. they are inbound right...

They are down right now because the winds offshore. it will come onshore and the river goes up rapidly. john. >> we just had our first gust, j.b. a real gust. we had the first one that shook the porch that we're on. it will be impressive to me if the structures of the houses behind us can stand up to the wind they are getting. this is now several hours on and we're already seeing the bend in the palmettos. a tree doesn't snap in half. it weakens from the root system. that is what we see happening here. we are nowhere near your location in terms of intensity of the storm. >> no. we are feeling ...