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Of south carolina tracking the storm as it moves inland. matt, columbia a river town like so many we have been reporting over the last couple of days. what is the latest there as rain continues to fall in columbia? >> reporter: as you can see, it is barely raining. it is kind much misting right now. the wind is somewhat high. it is not that bad. we were driving today from myrtle beach all the way here to columbia, the capital of the state as you mentioned, and we kind of moved a little past the storm. we almost outpaced it and now it seems to be kind of still here. this storm is moving so slow...

Has never happened before. having said that, south carolina's moving. we have all the people we need. >> and joining me now in columbia, south carolina, nbc's al roker. al, we're reading about 40,000 people without watering, seeing incredible rainfall totals. is the worst over down there now? >> well, the rainfall, when it comes to the rainfall, yes, the worst is over. however, what remains is the run-off from all of that. and there are a number of small and larger lakes in this area and ponds that all feed into the congaree river. we have a number of dams that are in danger of breaching or ha...

Hardest hit. dams have been breached, dozens of roads are closed, water lines ruptured leaving many residents without drinking water and the city's fire chief says there have been too many rescues to even count. for the latest we bring in jay gray live from columbia, south carolina. jay, very dangerous conditions down there. >> reporter: yes, they really are amy and it's going to continue for quite some time, along with the curfew there's a state of emergency in place here right now. there's been so much water so fast that many of the flood gauges along the congaree river behind me have either...

Dam, that may overtop as well. and it all runs down through this area. this is the gill greek arcreek . those fire trucks two days ago, if they were there now, they would be under water. there's a concern that's going to happen again. and as a matter of fact, it all feeds into the congaery. we were down there, and had drone video this morning of the congaree river at its peak. it was flowing 1.4 million gallons per second. that would fill two olympic swimming pools and then some per second. down a little bit today, but with all the water that may break through with the dams, they may have more...