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Any of these people? ? well, first of all, being from louisiana, we have a lot of airboats with night vision. we have the capability to rescue the people at night because we have the equipment. secondly, a lot of it is we're getting called out over social media in our app called patriot emergency response team perch. people can go into it and basically put out a 911 request for a rescue. and that is where we have been getting them from. but right now it is basically word of mouth, we're going door to door. >> well, your group is really amazing. the cajuns for the international viewers are from...

Picking up, they have never flooded before. many people have been in their houses for years and they have never flooded. so they are in shock right now. >> with over 500 rescues behind you at this point, how are all of you holding up? >> we're tired. this is the third night we worked all through the night. we haven't slept. so it's been definitely wearing. we are going to try to go throughout the day today and try to get back out there again. right now we're working on three days of no sleep. >> yeah, todd, god bless you all. thank you so much for everything you're doing. we're wishing you and...

>> we're going to have a long day tomorrow. not sure what we're going to wake up to. a lot of tree damage, a lot of tree down so far from what we're seeing. when we wake up in the morning we're going to have water and trees down everywhere. >> you know, todd, one thing that officials are doing certainly here in the wilmington area, they're asking people to stay off the roads, especially overnight. there is a keffer, you know. they want to make sure that people stay off the roads, because we've been out there. we've seen the downed trees. we've seen the flooding associated from this storm. talk...

Filling into these various rivers. how bad is this one? and how much work do you suspect you have ahead? >> this one could have been a lot worse. it's slowed down pretty good. that's what happened to a lot of people. once it slowed down that. >> thought it wasn't going to be as bad. but it has been really bad. and i think the worst is yet to come. >> todd terrell there speaking to us about the rescues that are so important, rescues that will be in play for the next certainly 24 to 48 hours as this storm continues to progress over the southeastern part of the u.s. our breaking news coverage con...

You also have the risk of flash floods. right now we know they are closely monitoring the storm surge along the northwest coast that can lead to deadly flooding. so that's a major area of concern. when you're talking about the mountainous evening this, certainly you could anticipate there could be further reports of landslides. those are certain often deadly events in the aftermath of storms like the one who came through here for about 12 hours, starting in the overnight hours. >> alex field, we appreciate the update. many thanks for that. george, it's back to you in north carolina where you'r...