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Were still rescuing. we've just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal but 30 kilometres north, here, it's still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets. and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that's turned into a river, a lake, call it what you like. 100 metres down there, the water is at knee level. even further it's at chest level. so the rain has stopped for now but this is still a crisis. from above, the huge scale of what happened here becomes clearer. the electricity supply and mobile phone c...

Ijust dug my clothes out. the water was up to my chest. we ran for our lives without taking anything. her bed tonight is the floor. one of the 1.2 million people the government here said was affected by these floods. out of the city, north, the rain was still coming down and the rescuers were still rescuing. we've just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal but 30 kilometres north, here, it's still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets. and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that's turned into a r...

Guns being fired at people, you know, at the foot level, knee level. >> which is designed to sort of sting, scare, and intimate. you don't want to get hit in the face with that. >> but no injure anybody. >> here we have a little bit more. >> when you see running, you really start to worry that the situation is deteriorating rapidly. we saw at least one protester who they can't into a scuffle with an officer who was eventually taken down. i hope we don't see a lot more of that situation. but as you said, the protesters are not backing down. there's another man now. >> flex cuffs being put on hi...

Work workers. florence is estimated to be the 10 costliest hurricanes to hit the country. and nbc's gadi schwartz is in lumberton, north carolina, and how are things looking there? not so good. and the floodwaters are up to knee level at least. >> yeah, and andrea, as bad as it is looking right now, the floodwaters are starting to go down and the relief for this neighborhood that was basically under water for several days, and you have these cars right here, and these cars are looking like they were just stopped and possibly the person inside of them had to get out, because they were looking l...

Edge. now this street is completely under water up to knee level for me and down the block five or six houses, really into the next block. most of the homes along this street, this is an older community. some of these homes have been here 200 years. they've been through other stor storms. the house that we're using as our shelter right now was built in 1790. the gentleman has owned it for 30 years. he said he's leaving, going to raleigh with his wife. the only thing you can do in your house when the wind speed hits triple digits is die. he's not interested in doing that. so some of these folks...