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Statewide impact, i mean, i'm in charlotte right now, we are beginning to get the rain bands that have been taking days to get here. then it is going to move up into the mountains. those are all going to fill river basins that will flow down to north carolina, south carolina or out to our coast. and it's very difficult to really understand what's ahead, but i did a flyover about 36 hours after matthew hit the eastern part of the state. and we thought it was bad then. and two days later, we saw damage that was far surpassed what the initial impact of that category 1 storm. so people need to tak...

Statewide impact, i mean, i'm in charlotte right now, we are beginning to get the rain bands that have been taking days to get here. then it is going to move up into the mountains. those are all going to fill river basins that will flow down to north carolina, south carolina or out to our coast. and it's very difficult to really understand what's ahead, but i did a flyover about 36 hours after matthew hit the eastern part of the state. and we thought it was bad then. and two days later, we saw damage that was far surpassed what the initial impact of that category 1 storm. so people need to tak...

Responders. it really starts ahead of time with things like building codes and how prepared communities are, but it takes unity of effort. everybody all trying to help each other out. and working together. there is no replacement for unity of effort. >> and we see that when we look at all these pictures that are astounding from the aerial views of these neighborhoods and live pictures now as we see the devastation coming in here. and this goes beyond our coverage here. we see what you are talking about, the response to these kinds of things goes long after the skies clear and the sun comes out...

Of south carolina tracking the storm as it moves inland. matt, columbia a river town like so many we have been reporting over the last couple of days. what is the latest there as rain continues to fall in columbia? >> reporter: as you can see, it is barely raining. it is kind much misting right now. the wind is somewhat high. it is not that bad. we were driving today from myrtle beach all the way here to columbia, the capital of the state as you mentioned, and we kind of moved a little past the storm. we almost outpaced it and now it seems to be kind of still here. this storm is moving so slow...

Carolina, there's the santee river basin. a little bit further south and the charleston is in the river basin further to the south. all of these river basins filling up. they try to go to the ocean. we've got the storm surge pushing it back on shore, so everything just spills out of those rivers. goes into people's homes, into people's agricultural areas, into their growing areas, into their livelihoods. service stations, they have been out of gas for a long time. also, any -- anybody who is looking for food, going to find it very difficult to sustain any of this. if you stayed behind in your ...