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Messages to people. the hardest thing we have is keeping up with the road closures because they are just absolutely everywhere within the county. that's why we're just urging people to stay put. >> do you have electricity? >> yes. >> so people are able to watch television and listen to the radio. >> not to say we might not have periodic outages here and there. we haven't had huge reports of a lot of downed trees and power lines but that could be sporadic, again, throughout the evening. >> but at the moment, you feel workers, crew members, you guys all have the necessary resources to help the p...

Not this much rain has hit there in 1,000 years in the river there since 1936. nikki haley is telling people to stay off the roadways, saying that the water is not safe. there's bacteria in the water and mainly reassuring residents that they have all hands on deck, all of the resources needed to take care of the situation down there. >> it's just an astounding situation in south carolina. devastation with this floodwater. i-95 closed in one area. school and county offices said they wanted to be closed also tomorrow. it's amazing, they were saying that still they are expecting 2 to 6 more inche...

Regards to infrastructure. along those lines are major facility sites. i-26 remains closed at this time. heading into charleston, i-95, the section between florence all the way down to i-26 is in the process of being closed and rerouted. i-126 heading into downtown columbia, the large bridge there over the broad river, we're closing that as well and then a section of i-20 along monticello road in the columbia area has already been closed and we're expecting the need to close portions of i-77, additional portions of i-26 and additional portions of i-20 in and around the columbia area due to ris...

Got it. got it. waiting on you. thank you very much. thank you for being here. we've got a full team here ready to give you a lot of information right now. this has been the one thing i want people to understand is when you think about what we're sitting in right now, we are at a thousand year level and we haven't seen this level and that's what south carolina is dealing with. the river is at the highest level since 1936. that's why we keep telling people, stay off the roads, stay out of the roadways, stay clear. we're going to talk a little bit more about that but i wanted to give you as much...

Water. you also have downed power lines. water that is mixed with sewage. you don't know when you're dealing with floods that could overwhelm the area and dealing with the drinking water. >> yep. >> it's true. they are under a boil water alert right now. steve, i know that the governor said that they are in the process of closing down some of those roads. clearly they haven't gotten around to getting all of them. but we will check back with you later, steve, and i can see the water pounding on the pavement there as you're saying, you can't believe folks are coming out in it. have you spoken to...