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We have water from the sound going this way. and the river which flows from the north coming down through the new bern area trying to get out and it's not. it's stopping. all it can do is tile up. it started at 2 feet. it's 10 feet now. the river basin goes here like this. 60 miles northward, that's 60 miles from the coast. some of that is because of back up, the wind, some because of storm surge. that's theish other y that's the issue right now. we had the mayor of moore head tell us, brian, that's where the issues are with the sound side flooding. >> i'll say this first of many times, we're ...

Craven county emergency management. this is important because craven county is at the head end of the river where new bern is undergoing a lot of high water. and, amber, tell us about any rescues that are underway there. >> we've had numerous flood rescues today, and the calls continue to come in. we've had to send crews out to our fairfield harbor area, portions of new bern, the adams creek area, and township 7. we do have crews out there right now and they are working as hartd as they can to get there. >> we're looking at you on radar now. you're entering into another really torrential band ...

Of the river. some of it flew into the creeks and backed up to the downtown area. as we mention, the new bern area located right in here in craven county, and you can see where the eye is. they're going through the northern half of the storm, which is the strong side of the storm which is the wet side of the storm. some of our computer modelling is keeping this east wind and heavy bands of rain at least 24 hours more. the worst the wind is, the worse the rain is, the longer it will take rescue crews to get in to get these people out. current wind gusts. in the dark, emergency crews, firemen, s...

Tuesday and into wednesday on some of the rivers, the northeast cape fear is going to be one of them. we haven't talked about the issues in south carolina yet because it hasn't gotten there. but the p.d. riefr river is one that will peak almost into major flood stage until tuesday night, so this is a story that is going to impact that region for weeks. >> i want to show you nbc correspondent miguel almaguer. how have conditions changed there? >> a short time ago, a county official said hurricane force winds are now hitting the city of wilmington. i can tell you it certainly does feel as though...

About the television station where bill karins worked. but this is flooding thus far. you have an overlay in new burn? >> yes. okay, so the city of new burn actually sent this out on their twitter feed about two hours ago because you know, they're having one of the worst floods they've ever had. this is the noose river, what i call the before picture here. you can see where the border is of the noose river. this is the downtown area here where all the populated areas is, the sheraton, the marinas. the tv station i worked at that had to be evacuated was located up in this area. if you were to l...