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Like? >> oh, this is the part that bothers me the most as far as the impact. such a slow motion off to the west that's going to keep bringing these rain bands inland over the same spots. in southeast north carolina and then later today and tomorrow into northeast south carolina. the excessive rainfall is being forecast, i think, is going to materialize. and we'll see record levels of flooding in many communities. and the continuation of the rescues you're seeing today, maybe in other communities, due to that rain. >> you know, the mayor here in wilmington, he's talked about as much as 40 inche...

It was even just a couple hours ago. we just heard from chad myers earlier who is saying that the rain is now down to maybe an inch or two an hour. it's going to go back up, though, he anticipates maybe in a couple hours. maybe even as much as six hours. but this is a rain event. and a surge event all day long. is what people in this entire area are expecting. they're going to just have to deal with. we'll hear a lot more about people being rescued by boats. there's no doubt about it. we'll take a short break in our coverage of the hurricane continues in a moment.

2,000 people hunkered down, trying to ride out this storm. a long and very wet wait until this passes. as you said, anderson, this storm is crawling and dumping all this rain as it moves very, very slowly over the carolinas. anderson. >> yeah, nick, you were saying you were in a house on stilts. do you have a sense of how high those stilts are? and because you know, if you're getting -- if youened up getting a storm surge of 12, 13 feet, even some houses on stilts will have flooding on the first level. >> yeah. i mean, i think we're going to be okay. our stilts are about 12, 13 feet high. then...

There. drew, what's the beach like? >> i think we're finally beginning to feel it, anderson. it's been two days of anticipation here. power in the county starting to go out. 20,000 and climbing. and as you can see, at least tropical force winds are starting to build as a band of rain. i want to show you a phenomenon i really haven't witnessed before in a hurricane. the wind here, anderson, is moving offshore. the hurricane is pushing the water out. and as we go out here, the tide is actually coming in. high tide is at noon. so this water should be well inland by now, but as you can see, it loo...

>> yeah. the whole drive here, we thought we would have some help from other cajun navies. but that wasn't the case. so we showed up. we went out, just two of us, two of the officers, and it's bad hearing about people trapped in attics and on roofs, but going in homes and having to help people out of their attic and knowing the consequences of them being up there, how they're not supposed to go in there, and it's one of those things that they're about to get hit with 30 more inches of rain. low tide helped us out today, and then you have the rain after this stalls and goes north, coming down t...