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And our leadership getting on the ground to really see the damage and bringing that sense of confidence and optimism to the area is really important. >> bill: talk about the numbers. they're astounding. the cape fear river cresting in fayetteville, north carolina inland three hours from the atlantic ocean at 25 feet above flood stage. 61.4 feet, which is just hard to get your mind around a river that can rise that high and when it overspills the banks and where that water goes. water has a mind of its own. matthew hit that area just two years ago. many people are dealing with this twice in two...

Very difficult long, drawn out period. and people will start getting impatient as they get through the shock of what just happened to them. >> you were the governor when matthew hit back in 2016. what kind of resources did you have to bring to bear for that recovery as you mentioned? and has the state ever been by anything like florence? >> i would say florence is very similar to matthew, but a little bit stronger and a little bit more water. so kind of similar trends in some of the same areas are being flooded m flooded. i'm especially concerned about the pembroke area and you have a lot of p...

Saw with houston and katrina, people that immediately days of impact communities but if they haven't experienced that it has to be hard and unsettling for a lot of people. >> it sure is. two years ago when matthew hit, it flooded jillian: we will find out in

But as we have been saying all along, it's not about the wind, it's about the rain, it's about the water. and that's what's different about this hurricane to others that have hit here in the past year. matthew hit here, 2016 killed 30 people in the carolinas but the rainfall totals was a maximum of 30 inches then. we're talking now about 40 inches. and of course there was hurricane hugo back in 1999. but again not this volume of water that we're expecting. where we are here, the beach, the shore is about 3, 400 feet behind me. and basically there's nothing to stop the water to come into the to...

70 miles an hour, but the big problem is going to be the rain. when matthew was here it dropped 15 inches ora 15 inches of rain. this is going to be historical can 20, 25 inches of rain sitting in that area. so we're going to have a lot of problems from egress and veins coming in from place like this to get back into the beach. >> you've seen this before and know how unpredictable this can be. generally you know where it's going, the wind speed. it can move fast, do a lot of damage with winds or go slow and bring a lot of water. this appears to be a water event and you've gone through that. >>...