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Defuscie island, we have 100 people and the last ferry left out at 6:00 yesterday. we did another at 10:30 this morning. we have national guardsmen there and dnr there with boats and helicopters to lift people out. if you know of anybody that is staying, it is going to be under water. so we have to get these people out. it's very important that we spread that message. we are now in all of the areas where we are seeing could be possible really dangerous areas, we are either doing the reverse 911 calls or going door-to-door to try to ask people to get out. that is what our law enforcement and co...

The death toll from the deadly flooding stands at 19. nbc's kerry sanders is joining us live from columbia. kerry, what is the very latest, the status of those dams and the reinforcements? do they really think it's going to work? >> reporter: well, thomas, right now the state has 62 dams that they are monitoring. there are 13 that have failed. they are watching the others very closely. among the ones that they are watching extremely closely is the beaver dam. last night under the cover of darkness they sent out what are known as reverse 911 calls, that means people with cell phones in their ho...

Breaking tonight dramatic news out of cleveland, ohio where an illegal immigrant is accused of a horrifying crime spree. the cleveland sheriff's department says they stopped juan ramirez on july 7 and when they called immigration officials word came back to let him go. what happened next is adding new fire to the debate over illegal immigration in the country. >> reporter: his 14-year-old niece called police claiming he tried to rape her at a park. when police and park rangers began searching for him they got a call about a shooting a 40-year-old woman riding bikes shot and wounded in the arm....

Everyone will have gone home peacefully. >> are you prepared to arrest hundreds if not thousands of people if out after the curfew? what kind of charges will they face? what does the night look for somebody? >> we can put out the wording for the criminal charges, that's something we can make available to everyone. i don't want to speculate about how many people we may or may not have to arrest. our hope is the messages we're putting out that we've been talking about this all day, the public address to people through our police cars through the helicopter, the reverse 911 calls. we truly hope t...

People there. one last thing in terms of how people on the street know that the protest -- that the curfew is going into effect police spokesman described that there are essentially loud speakers there are p.a. announcements being made from baltimore police cars that are circulating throughout baltimore streets. they're also making public address announcements from baltimore police helicopters that are flying over the city streets. he also said they've activated reverse 911 technology in the streets of baltimore which means they -- in his words they are calling every single landline in the cit...