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Of new bern, dana -- i'm sorry. dana outlaw. pa me. mr. outlaw, listen, i know that you have had some major flooding in the area. you've had some -- many rescues. i have spoken to you quite a number of times throughout our broadcast here. what's going on now? have you been able to get all of the people out of new bern that you were trying to rescue? >> there's probably still about 30 residents that are not -- have not been rescued. we have gotten about 300 that have been rescued. three days prior to the storm we really mobilized the ideas about how we were going to get out and get the word out...

It is these first responders, these rescuers now being deployed in incredibly life threatening conditions. the nature of the need in these rescues, are people trapped by the rising water in their houses? >> well, yes. and we've been out today, the board of ottoman have been out, all types of boards have been out. we've all been transporting folks to shelters. i transported a lady this afternoon and on the porch next to her were folks just sitting on the front porch that nobody believes this water was going to get this high. now, we had our fire trucks over in the area to kind of get your atten...

150 plus residents were rescues in the last 48 hours. joining us on the phone the mayor of newburn, north carolina and tell us more about these rescue what you're seeing. >> we're working really hard to get these folks to shelters. we had a 48-hour camfine encourage evacuations. in addition we've been door to door. i actually witnessed today -- i was in the area trying to get some folks to a shelter and i witnessed a policeman going door to door and fire trucks and recreation buses that were ready to take these residents to shelters. so between putting brochures on their doors and any type of