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I lived through hurricane andrew. i just never a thought wrd i'd that again. >> reporter: she road out in kentucky. and once he heard that pounding rain on his house, he instantly refwreted his decision to stay and if he dood it again, he would have got out of town. they're still in search and rescue mode as they try to get to some of the more remote parts of these counties. they expect the death toll will rise. >> thank you so much for bringing us what's happening there. and i know as we sit here and watch and you think i want to do something. i don't bow what to to. please go to cnn.com/impa...

This major metropolis is home to 7 million people. this place has been effectively shut down because of typhoon mangkhut. earlier today, we reported on the conditions and feeling it as well, pounding rain, huge gusts of wind, clocking at speeds anywhere between 60 miles an hour to 130 miles per hour. that also introduces a threat of storm surge, peak storm surge today on the iconic victoria harbor as well as outlying areas in hong kong. hong kong is chinese territory and no stranger to typhoons. every season, every summer we get big storms, but this storm is different because this storm was bi...

Stuck and is just pounding this state, south carolina as well. i want to go to chris cuomo in north myrtle beach, north carolina. how are things there? >> reporter: this is witching hour. everything is conspiring together this storm right now. this is the thickest ban of rain. the tide is coming in behind me. all the energy the storm has been storing up. it is now being released. the wind has shifted and it is coming in onshore. this is what they're worried about and we'll see how all these hours of pounding rain that you're pointing to. it will make it easy for flooding. 650,000 people are wi...

>> thank you. typhoon manghkut roared ashore saturday. packing tajing wind and pounding rain. it's moving offshore after cutting a path through the northern philippines. next land fall will be here in southern china. it will likely strengthen. manghkut lost its typhoon status passing through the philippines. it's still an extremely powerful storm system. many of the country is north are reporting rising flood waters. debris and damaged buildings. we're watching this. at the atlanta cnn severe weather center. give us the latest. >> it's still a monster system. we're not referring to it as a sup...

Time. let's go to wilmington. a resident there, john, did you stick this out or what did you do? >> yes, sir, we decided we were going to stay because we prepared as best we could. we've been through many hurricanes in the past, but i've got to tell you, this one was worse than anything i have been through and i've been through a hurricane many times in my life. in 1985 i drove a fire truck for nine hours in hurricane gloria, in the hurricane itself and this was far worse than that, devastation-- >> what was the worst about it? was it the rain, the pounding rain, that it didn't move, that it s...