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Mayor of new bern, north carolina. one of the areas hardest hit. 42,000 homes damaged, not all of them flooded. there are people waiting to be rescued from their homes. mayor, thanks so much for being with us. let's come back to south carolina now. my colleague has moved inward some and as we continue to feel the rain coming down, we know there are hours f not days more of rain to fall on south carolina but already esome serious flooding in this part of the state. nick, what are you seeing? >> reporter: victor, we're looking at what is potentially the future for much of south carolina with thi...

Boats can get to them. again, we can't see it anymore here, anderson, what heroes these people are. the wind is strong and the rain is coming down, which means the water is continuing to rise. we have had at least seven inches of rain fall in the new bern area and a storm surge of 10 feet as the water just keeping coming down and rising up. now, they are going around the entire county and doing this at one point in new bern. this morning they had more than 150 people who needed rescuing. now, the city said we will come get you. we will rescue you. stay where you are, get to higher ground. but ...

This is a county under mandatory evacuation and they have hundreds of people that have already been rescued. this is why you need to listen to those evacuations. you don't know if your home is going to be the one that has you up on the roof waiting for rescue teams to come get you. the navy is here as well helping with rescues. but the situation right now, it is dire. we're going to continue here in river bend. we're going to attempt to get a little bit closer. maybe go with these water teams to get a firsthand look of what it is out there. but our main goal is to observe. it is not to impede ...

Little rubber boats with winds blowing 60 miles an hour. it is nice to see that has calmed down a little bit for the people that were there. so wilmington airport, a brand-new record for you, 105 miles an hour. looking at you compared to where we were looking at with john berman, it is like you are either in two different spots or he was outside and you are inside because it has changed significantly because the eye has gone down. all morning long where john was the wind was blowing offshore, down the river. now it is beginning to turn around and it will blow up the river stopping that rain fr...

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...