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Karen, thank you so much. in the week ahead search and rescue teams will be critical. certainly over the next 24 to 48 hours. one of those teams is the navy. you'll remember the volunteers rescued countless number of people during hurricane harvey vi in texas. and of course katrina in louisiana. and the same thing now with this tropical storm florence. the work you do cannot be under stated. it's important work after the storms. tell us your thoughts about the after math of this storm. and the work you have ahead. >> we're still going through storm right now. we're sitting in our vehicle. and ...

Mike: correspondents doing great work, how are you holding up, rick? >> we are okay, mike, but the city of wilmington is dealing for a lot of problems and primarily right now is from all the tree damage, you see crew down there, they are working both sides of the street trying to get the debris, the trees, the branches an all of that out of the road, they have to do all that before the utility crews can come in and get power back on. all the rain that's been falling, we can show you where some of it is going, the storm drain right here, listen to this and at some points the describes will get ...

Tidal surge, that's the problem they're having here. we know in wrightsville beach, we can't get in there now, the bridge remains closed. only first responders can get through due to high winds. tropical storm force winds. some gusts are very high. we know there is some flooding coming from intercoastal or from the atlantic ocean. that we have seen from imagery coming from the wrightsville beach area. but the authorities have said because of high winds, they can't go out and investigate. they say there is some structural damage and especially on atlantic side, beach erosion. it is hitting the ...

Is only going to throw. a couple hours ago, 165,000 customers in north carolina without power. that number could reach 1 to 3 million customers before the storm is done. it starts here in wrightsville beach. tough to stay if there is flooding yet on the main roads. we can't really tell, we can't tell if there has been any significant tree damage or trees down, but that is also likely to happen because as you know, the ground in this part of north carolina has been saturated. wilmington set records this summer with the amount of rainfall. 20 or 30 or more inches of rainfall on top of that. that...

Ground is saturated. it's been a wet summer. now throw in more rainfall and a lot of wind, there are going to be lots an lots of trees coming down. >> that is true. since it is saturated, tree damage is going to be huge. i have seen houses where the big ones can go through a small house or trailer. i would be concerned about that sort of thing. >> jon: we certainly wish your home state well as it and south carolina continue to battle this storm. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> jon: our coverage of hurricane florence continues in a moment as forecasters renew warnings of catastrophic storm surge....