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Could be more than $1 billion. search and rescue teams today fanned out in neighborhoods across nashville, searching homes. tomorrow, the grim work continues. the images over the last couple of days have been unbelievable. this one from nashville. look at that huge object, look like a truck or something, right? that structure being swept along interstate 24 is a portable classroom, used by students. thankfully no one was inside. that happened saturday. look at these submerged vehicles outside millington. for some, hope is gone as well. power is out. bobbie tried to rescue his 15-year-old daugh...

Side the barrier. it is already coming up. we'll exceed the 51.5. for the buildings in downtown nashville already dealing with flood waters up into the first floor and parking garages, this will exacerbate the problem in through here. four shelters are open. we heard too a little while ago the lp field right across the river is going to cut power. i thought it is interesting that rumor coincided with the report that they were going to release more water for the dams. means a higher river and that whole field will be under water. you wak walk in there and down to the field. that's something the...

We're still talking about -- i was about to say hundreds of people rescued. you're saying the number is higher than that and power is out in several areas. >> oh, yeah. over a thousand people have been rescued now. this is just in the state of tennessee, not to mention what's been going on in some of the other states. a state of emergency has been declared and while the rain may have stopped by now, the flood situation is by no means over and the waters continue to rise. these are pictures from the weekend. this is interstate 24 where more than 85 cars were flooded and people did have to be re...

Upstate new york, pennsylvania and ohio and parts of the deep south here. don, back to you. >> jacqui jeras, thank you very much. listen, we are going to continue to follow this flooding and the situation that is going on, flooding in nashville. you saw the school annex floating down the street. the deluge of rain in tennessee killed five people and put interstates under water. our affiliate in nashville captured this video of a school annex building smashing apart after it was carried down the interstate and into a tractor trailer. on interstate 24 the water was up to the roof tops of cars an...

Emergency responders as well as volunteers helping to have people driving in their cars and low lying areas and road closures are hammering the rescue efforts while the residents are dealing with water that's starting to seep into their homes and some structures are swept away by the rising flood levels. on your screen, you can see a building, that was once on the back of a tractor-trailer. it was later seen floating down what was once an interstate. these rains came very quickly, they caught many people by surprise, drivers on interstate 24 outside of nashville yesterday had to get out of the...