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Jillian: curious if you had to take patients from neighboring towns to the north or if you anticipate doing that as rain comes down in some areas that continue to get hit. >> we have seen patients in the north from north carolina, no power up there is what we are being told, they are coming south of the border and continuing to blow in. connell: speaking of power, we deal with it and report on natural disasters, many areas especially in north carolina dealing with power outages but certain areas in south carolina are or may in the future. how are you set up as a medical center to handle the lo...

Three homes on the island that are damage? >> there's lots of minor stuff, but only about four roofs. we've got one house with a tree kind of knocking it down, but it's not as-- it's not like wilmington. they had a lot of trees here and just getting here was tough. i mean, there are a lot of trees down here. we are working right now to try to bring our water and sewer systems back up on generator power and whenever the winds die down we'll get new power in here and try to get the power back on, i don't know how long that's going to take. bill: florence was 100 miles per hour? was that the wind...

Rain is pretty surmountable for any municipality or city in the country to handle that kind of water. >> bill: we're working off generator power. your cell phone is still working. that's not bad, right? you look at this storm three days ago 140 miles an hour sustained winds and we dropped to below 100 last night. if you look for silver linings perhaps that's one of them. it doesn't take away from the storm surge and flooding. that is one thing we can point to. >> absolutely. it all helps. when we were looking at a 4, knowing the amount of rain this was going to carry and the wind velocity, we ...

>> bill: the cape fear river which you can't see now because it's dark. there is no electricity. we are using generator power in wilmington now. i reached all-time record high today, martha. higher from matthew from two years ago in 2016. higher from hurricane hazel in 1954. think of that. 64 years ago. historic storm such as hazel has been topped now by the cape fear river and the rain that continues to be pushed up the rivers here in north carolina as a result of florence. you go up and down the coast, that is the big concern. my sense is midday tomorrow, so many reporters have descended her...

National guard headquarters. total different situation, but the plan is the same. get out and is save lives where you can. >> reporter: all right, we've been hearing from local authorities all night and all morning that, look, we'll help you when we can, but at some point the winds are too strong. the rains are heavy. we don't know if power is down. there are going to be some positions where we're not going to be able to do that. general, stay there for a second, please. i want to go to wilmington, north carolina. lester holt is standing by there. last we checked in wilmington, it had calmed d...