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Eric: rick, thank you so much. arthel. arthel: joining me now on the phone is holy baker, ms. baker thank you for taking the time to talk was, if you can tell us how full are the shelters and if you have any room for more people? >> thank you so much for having me. >> yeah, absolutely we, do have hundreds of shelters opened along the carolinas and other states and we have around 20,000 people staying at them, i wouldn't say that they were pull and actually we will never turn someone away, people are always welcome to come to red cross shelter where they will find a place to sleep that's safe, ...

I say would be a record and it is a very dangerous one for conway. it's also the kind of record we are going to see along side other rivers throughout south carolina and north carolina and officials say there are still very dangerous days ahead, arthel, worth remembering as our own rick pointed out continually that in these kinds of storms like florence only around 8% of deaths are caused by wind, something like 75% are caused by flood waters, arthel. arthel: and to see, jonathan, that a lot of the residents haven't fully recovered from matthew. >> yeah, it's true. you talk to anybody around h...

Small town of about 22,000 people and i can see why despite the rigors of living here they don't want to leave arthel. arthel: i don't blame them, that is home. jonathan hunt, thank you very much. >> sure. eric: back to north carolina in wilmington, mostly in the dark, streets covered with down powered lines and debris and the folks who live within one mile from the cape fear river, they've been ordered by authorities to get out and evacuate or they say provide officials with your next akin, it could be that bad, rick levanthhal and residential area, rick, what's the devastation there now? >> ...