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Equipment. route clearance requested. all the way down to muck out and gut out of flood affected homes and everything in between. ed: that's awesome you are still serving our nation and helping so many people. talk a little bit about working with the federal government and local authorities. on one hand you have the president talking about this for days, the governors in the affected states have been getting people to evacuate and warning everyone. but despite all the warnings and preparations, we keep hearing from our reporting this is unprecedented in terms of rainfall, over 20, 30 inches in...

Area down to morehead city where i was was the noose river that's caused all the flooding in new bern, more than 100 people under rescue right now according to officials telling me this morning 375 yesterday. and then, of course, the newport river that the is main one that dumps into the boat bay in morehead city where i was standing on sea wall yesterday. this is the newport river over in this distance right here and it's overtaken this highway 70. now we are watching in a distance really with tremendous uncertainty as this woman drags her literally her life belongings through this floodwater...

We obviously are hoping for the best for you and all the residents still stranded there waiting for officials to help evacuate. best wishes in the hours ahead and we will check back in with you later. pete: george, thank you. it's important to remember can you watch these images and say it's not as big and huge for everything you have ever seen. for those on the ground it's impacted them. katie: a tough decision to leave or stay. ed: fema keeping a close eye on florence's path of destruction as it focuses on how to respond in the hours away. fema's deputy administrator is going to join us live...

You can't dry it out and think you are going to be fine. immediately worried about bacteria, viruses, flu seasonal is coming. being in these tight quarters people are going to get sick unless they get this cleaned. katie: how can they prevent themselves from getting sick in situations like this where resources are limited and they don't have a lot of supplies to stay safe. >> if you are in the shelters washing hands. try not to touch other people. try not to cough on people. get your flu shots if possible because it's available now. once you get home. decontaminate everything. inner which's to...

Number one reasons why people die in storms. pete: that's not clean water. >> we saw a snake there. you also have metal debris in there with tetanus. cuts, abrasion and staph in that water and infection. that water is touching people's homes, bottled water and food. people think i'm going to open a bottle of water and fine once it's dry. there is bacteria, viruses. everything is contaminated and sewage systems may be overflowing like we saw in houston. contaminating things even further. that water is touching everything. and everything it touches is extremely dirty. extremely dangerous. katie:...