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Target. as wilson levels continue to rise so too will the number of bangladeshis internal migrants the question is what will be waiting for them when they reach their destination and we can speak to christina cloud from unicef which issued that report warning about the dangers facing millions of children in bangladesh and she joins us from dhaka hi christina why is that that children in particular are affected by climate change. hi thank you for the opportunity to speak with here in the children affected firstly because of the sheer numbers for example in bangladesh you have a 1000000 children...

Runway at the air force base also covered in floodwaters. nebraska's governor touring the state evaluating the damage. >> this has probably been the most severe, widespread flooding we've had as far as parts of the state that's been impacted we've had in the last half century. >> reporter: sandbags stacked high outside homes. as a last ditch effort for residents here. some people already losing everything. their belongings spotted floating in the murky overflow. for others already evacuated, the fear of returning them to nothing, unbearable. >> you see it on the news for other people and you c...

Damaged. county buildings, city buildings. there's a lot to clean up in the next several days just to get the basic things up and going. and some of those infrastructure items will take longer depending on the extent of the damage. >> for people who did eravacuev is it time to come back or would you like them to wait longer? >> we've actually lifted the evacuation order for our area. the problem is going to be for folks that evacuated many counties away, there are other river systems in north carolina that are cresting and flooding. so i would encourage folks if they don't have to travel to st...

Or is there another phenomenon or dynamic in effect? >> chris, you've got the mountains in western north carolina. as florence continues west, there's going to be heavy rains tra progress with her. this significant flooding has to go somewhere and most of the time it's going to go into the river systems. the easiest drainage will be going down to the atlantic coastline. you're going to see that go south and toward an outward motion toward the coast. that's going to cause problems with the river systems for several days. but the biggest factor is until this system can really pick up some speed,...

Creek basins, it will fill up rivers like this one and send all of the water cascading back down states towards the coast where it will add stress to river systems that have already been stressed by hurricane florence as it swept over the state on its way here. so that's why this river is actually being swelled right now. this river has risen not because of hurricane florence. it rose deliberately because people here, authorities, tried to release some of the dams, tried to release some of the pressure on levies here to try to stop flooding that had happened back in 2015, to try to keep a repe...