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In 1989 hurricane hugo slammed into south carolina as a category 4. 50 people died. in 1999, the category 2 hurricane floyd made landfall in cape fear, north carolina, and it is most remembered for its record rainfall. flooding caused dozens of deaths. floyd is also remembered for images like this, hundreds and thousands of hogs drowning in floodwaters. all of these storms made direct hits on the carolinas just like florence, and about a quarter of the costliest storms in the u.s. struck the carolinas. accuweather is now estimating florence will cause $30 billion to $60 billion in damage and e...

Disasters, fema is on the front line of what promises to be a tough battle with hurricane florence and will remain on the scene long after florence has come and gone. joining us now by phone, former fema official, thomas. tell us about the challenges and agency like fema has to prepare for in for in a situation like this. >> it is a pleasure to be with you. fema does have a significant amount of challenges here. number one, the simple size of the storm, potentially out to 400 square miles, is historic. although it has weekend it to a category one, the deadly aspects still exist, potential reco...

David, thank you for your reporting and your team. quooel we'll keep in touch with you. to japan. rescuers racing against the clock to free people. trapped after days of deadly rain. this in southwest japan. take a look at these homes or quite frankly what's left of these homes in and around hiroshima. they're like many others. hundreds of others that are crushed, collapsed or just destroyed. dragged away by powerful floods and landslides. dozens of people are mission as we understand and rescue workers say it is a race against time now to get to those who are trapped. this record rainfall has...

Thank. toronto has received record rainfall since the monsoon unset. water levels the

St. lucy county, just two counties north of palm beach county, we're already seeing record rainfall. they reported 10 inches of rainfall up there, so certainly not the direct hit that we thought that we were going to get but officials, county officials here certainly in palm beach county and others in parts of palm beach county and martin and st. lucy counties are urging people not to be complacent and not to assume we won't get some damage here. >> yeah. i have family in port st. lucy and ft. pierce. stay safe, people. listen to the local officials. i wonder when the shift happened your sense...