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Flood warnings now in effect across wilmington and across many parts of north carolina. we have been driving around the city. we have seen a lot of cleanup in progress today now that the rain has started to slow down. front end loaders on some major thoroughfares trying to clear big branches, big trees and debris out of the roads so they can get utility crews in to get the power back on. of course, there are roughly a million power customers across the state of north carolina still in the dark. we also saw another area where it appeared that a tornado may have touched down. there was a roof on...

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 ...

Of course, they can't really affect any rescues until it is safe for them to go out. help people who might be trapped. that we expect to see quite a bit in the coming days, and of course, we'll see the utility crews had out because we are hearing at least 150,000 customers without power, that number could rise as well between one and 3 million customers according to duke energy. they have some 40,000 utility crews standing by to go and start preparing the electric outages, but they can't do that either, until things get a little calmer. >> shannon: i know that there have been multiple punches ...

We were concerned it would block our ability from that area so we moved to this area and within 15 minutes from that time we saw multiple utility crews, fire trucks and police going to that area to make sure that problem was solved, not to necessarily put power back on but to make sure people don't get electrocuted, then they went out not knowing what happened. take a look at the latest images from the international space station. you heard talk for the last several days how large this storm is, it is downgraded to a category one, the storm is huge, national weather service issued a flash floo...

With just minor injuries, kind of a miracle so many people did escape out of this house this evening with minor injuries. but again, there was one fatality here. across the region tonight, we're hearing in all from the 70 different scenes about 15 injuries across three different communities, lawrence, andover and north andover, massachusetts. right now, this neighborhood i'm in now pretty much a ghost town. everybody has been told to evacuate. they seem to have listened and they are staying away. there really is no reason to come back at this point. there's no power. there's no gas. there's no...