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Hit florida ten years ago. they're all different. this one will definitely have a story to tell and make history. >> but the thing is the sitting is the problem, especially when it comes to flooding. >> right. the sitting, the constant rain, you know, just rain. the water has nowhere to go. the ground is very saturated and, again, that's what i saw with the giant trees that were coming down. it may not have been so much the strong wind as much as the soil was so soft and then just a little bit of wind would knock 'em over. >> all right. so how do you -- tell me what you do here. how do you fig...

Quickly. >> that ubiquitous radar loop is relentless, spoke after spoke, spinning off that hub soaking rain bands, hitting the same places where it has hitting 24 hours. if some communities along the coast, there is nowhere for that water to go. rescues have been going on all day, they continue tonight and into the morning. power outages are widespread, beach erosion is severe, there have been structural failures. sadly the death toll from the storm has risen to 5 as of our air time tonight. moorehead city north carolina one place on track to break the record for hurricane rainfall at 24 inche...

Piling it up, it is a matter of waiting it out. we keep looking at the radar loop, we have meteorologists, experts telling us, we know the tick tock of the slow moving storm, flo is going to hang around awhile, as much as everybody wants to see her go. >> we are looking at a radar loop, that's not going anywhere too fast. i'm sure we'll see you again from your perch in carolina beach. thank you so much for that. joining me now, former head of fema during george w. bush administration, joe alba. talk about the circumstances, what should fema be doing now to help the communities hit by the storm...

Former hurricane florence is now a tropical storm and the problem with that otherwise good piece of news is it has no parent plans to go anywhere quickly. that ubiquitous radar loop is also relentless, spoke after spoke, soaking rain bands hitting the same places where it has been raining for 24 hours. in some communities along the coast there is nowhere for the water to go. rescues have been going on all day. they continue tonight and into the morning. power outages are widespread, beach erosion is severe. there have been structural failures. sadly, the death toll from the storm has risen to ...

The scary part of it now is they told us it would slow down and it has. hurricane florence now moving along at just 4 miles an hour. about the speed that you and i might walk down the street if we were in a hurry to get anywhere. that's how slowly it's moving. the radar loop will show you the worst of where the rain is now, we can switch over to that. the local radar, this is a satellite view. the radar loop comes from ground station and this gives you an idea where the all-terrain is. if peers charleston, south carolina, down here suggest a steady stream of rain everywhere with a counterclock...