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Sadly, the death toll from the storm has risen to five as of our air time tonight. morehead city, north carolina is on track tonight to break the all-time record for hurricane rainfall at 24 inches. two feet of water on top of what they already had. and back with us tonight as he was for our live coverage last night, meteorologist bill karins. hey, bill. >> good evening, brian. we're maybe halfway through this story. it's absolutely incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland and we are like how bad was it. we are starting to see the pictures of damage from the surge and the winds....

Moorehead city is on track to beat record rainfall at 24 inches. back with us tonight as he was last night, meteorologist bill karens. >> we are maybe half way through the story. it's absolutely incredible. usually at this point the storm goes inland and we are like how bad was it. we are starting to see the pictures of damage from the surge and the winds. now we have to get through water issues with the rainfall. they will last until the middle of next week. there will be new homes going underwater on tuesday of next week as the rivers continue to rise. there are pictures from when we had the...

Able the release it, so it is still staying high. that water level should be even higher at the next high tide throughout the morning hours. that's kind of some of the stories we are watching there. we have avoided a lot of the horrendous surge problems. remember we were saying seven to 13 feet and the hurricane center went down to seven to 11 feet. we haven't seen those values yet. the surge in areas where it broke the gauge is right to the four to five-foot range. again, this is the fatalities, from all of the storms in the u.s. when they went back and compiled and show why people died, stor...

The dirty side of the storm. new orleans has, by far, seen the worst of this storm along with their friends all the way down here along the plaquemines parish, the pretty rural areas down there. so far about 4 1/2 inches of rain to as much as 7 1/2 inches of rain. so those pumps are working overtime. this is a big test for them. so far, so good, but they still have to go probably another 12 to 24 hours of all of this rain. flash flood warnings, that's who's been hit the hardest. surge problems in this next high tide cycle. probably shouldn't be as bad as the last one, but we'll still see water...