really start making some good decisions on how we can go and get people back into a protected situation but also back into a recovery situation. >> so far some 200 rescues have been performed and over 500 roads and bridges remain closed. over 1,000 national guardsmen are on duty. meanwhile, hurricane joaquin, which did the most damage in the carolinas, has been downgraded to a category 1 storm with up to 85-mile-per-hour winds. the flooding, which submerged almost the entire state of south carolina, is the type of extreme weather event that climate models predict we'll be increasingly seeing more of. which is truly terrifying to think about. as the extraordinary becomes more ordinary with each passing day.