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Mission over the next 24 to 36 hours from fema's perspective? >> life safety, we want to make sure that everyone is safe and everyone is on high ground, in a safe space as the storm continues to move west, we are going to see the impacts continue, like was mentioned by your meteorologist, it's not just the rain, it's the flow that's going to be coming down river and the river and flooding will cause extreme impact, this is now a historic storm. the most rainfall that north carolina has experienced, they'll be severe and ongoing impacts. mike: daniel from fema, we thank you for your time, we kn...

In south carolina talking about the water coming in from north carolina and concerns about it coming down, how quickly could the water be rising there? >> well, the water is rising, talking of this river specifically, molly, we have been here a couple of hours and i can tell you that our crew, camera dave, producer kelly burke, we have all noticed that this river has physically risen just in those couple of hours and you're right, a lot of the water that falls in north carolina comes through rivers into south carolina, so a major concern what will happen in the next couple of days. >> thank yo...

Right, the left-bank of the river as you approach the ocean here, you can see that that has topped the bank on the left-hand side, you can see a blue sign on one tree as our camera man takes a look at that, that marks it entrance to a walking trail, clearly you need a boat to take that trail right now and as dave looks up river, the road bridge that you see in the distance there is one that has actually been topped before, a local resident who has been here a very long time was telling us just a few moments ago that that was topped in the wake-hurricane floyd in '99 and also this river reached...

Carolina want residents along the river banks to be very aware of and to heed any warnings that officials give them and if they are told to evacuate, get out immediately, mike. mike: you're a veteran correspondent, how do you rate florence with some experiences over the years? >> generally i would say that people are breathing a sigh of relief that there wasn't more destructive than it could have been and certainly when it was category 4 out in the ocean we feared the worst, it dropped obviously considerably, the winds by the time they came in but i think you have to listen to officials when t...

Serious, these words cannot be reiterated enough, god bless. >> at this time i would like to introduce police chief hopkins. >> so the -- sorry, reiterating that sending out the message as much as possible, we are going to be working to try to get a reversed 911 call where the fire chief and i will be doing our best efforts to get out there on intercoms or door to door as much as possible, but this is a large area that we need to cover, lots of ground. city is also working very hard to try to create a map, a map for the areas to see a visual to put out as quickly as possible. right now you hav...