Power. More than 20,000 spent the night in shelters, and the prediction everyone feared the most is now happening, high water is trapping hundreds of people that didnt or couldnt evacuate. And remember, florence isnt stopping soon, moving at a speed not much faster than most of us walk, 5 Miles Per Hour. That means it is dumping all kinds of rain coastal and inland. We are all over the story with cnn teams across impacted areas. Lets start with you, my friend, don lemon, cohosting coverage from myrtle beach. Don . Over to you, my friend. Reporter hey, brooke, how are you. Listen, it is crazy. You get big spurts of rain and gusts and come through unexpectedly at any moment. Sometimes it is still like it is now and a second later, you get a buildup. The concern is flooding, water, rain, of course because it is just sitting on the carolinas and spinning and drawing all of this water. As you said, 650,000 people really without power across the carolinas. Most of those were told in North Carolina. There are 126 shelters all over this region. As you said, 20,000 people spent the night elsewhere, not in their homes, at least those in the shelters now. We have been seeing active rescues across north and South Carolina. Theyre continuing to go on now. We have been seeing flooding as well. Heres the thing, when were out on the beach, theres a long row of hotels here, miles and miles of hotels. That tends to block the wind. You dont see how much the wind is blowing. Then when you get away from the hotels, get on the streets, you can see that there are garbage cans and debris all over, projectiles. Folks are out there need to stay in their homes if you hunkered down, if youre here and riding the storm out, stay in your home. We spoke a short time ago to a woman in new bern, stuck on the second floor of her home, said water is rising. Water in new bern as high as 40 feet, storm surge up 10 to 15 feet. Someone thats now knee deep in water, miguel marquez, in carolina beach. You have been inundated with wind, rain, water there. Tell us whats going on. Reporter florence will not quit. It is just incredible how the storm keeps coming. Got up this morning, we were in the eye of the storm, there literally was not a breeze. Now this. This is myrtle avenue, carl winter avenue in carolina beach. It has actually come down, it is Getting Better now, the tide is going out, but the wind and rain and surge clearly not giving up anytime soon. About 95,000 people across New Hanover County are without electricity. Carolina beach, the town is without electricity. It is not clear how long waters will be this high, when theyll be able to open the bridge back up for people to get into town or out of town. At the rate things are going, it will be at least until tomorrow or sunday before the conditions will improve that they will be able to do that. One thing authorities in New Hanover County are asking for is if you have an emergency at home, make sure it is lifethreatening, make sure it is something that demands Emergency Services help right now because theyre having a tough time. 911 operators having a tough time fielding all of the calls or downed trees, downed wires, things that arent issues that Emergency Services are going to deal with right now. What youre looking at is the marina here in carolina beach. It is clearly filled to capacity, overflowing now. All of the boats are fine there, but it will be awhile before it comes back down. This is an area of town that floods in any event, but what has surprised people that live here is how quickly this came up, about half hour, 45 minutes or so, the storm surge came just about the same time the tide was coming in, and thats what we see now, this water, and it is not going down very fast either. It has come down a little bit. Another tide coming in in the next 8 hours or so. That will be the test for this area, to see how long and how big the surge will be and how long these conditions will persist. Don . Thank you. Migel giving out good advice. Dont call emergency workers unless it is really a dire situation because theyve got their hands full with rescues. Live rescues are under way right now. I want to get to brian todd at wilmington where he is seeing some of that. Brian . Reporter right, don. Rescue workers are frantically trying to reach two people. We have a better angle than before. You see that tree came and split that room in half, thats a back bedroom. There are two people inside there. Theyre trying to extract them. It is an adult and a child. I have spoken to a relative of the adult, says it is her aunt in there. From what we gather, it is a woman and a child in there, and theyre desperately trying to extract them. The call came in a little before 7 00 this morning, were told by local fire officials. There was a man in there with them. They brought in a Surgical Team because the man was pinned, the Surgical Team was preparing to do an amputation, but were able to move and lift some objects. Then they determined they did not need to do an amputation, they were able to extract that gentleman and take him out for medical care. We do not know his condition at this time. Don, were told thats about a 30,000 pound tree, thats a back bedroom, fell and split that part of the house wide open. You can see these guys, they have been at this for hours. The battalion chief says these guys are so physically exhausted, but trying frantically to get to the two people. We dont know the condition of the two people. I asked the battalion chief, are you communicating with them, he said not at this time. That could mean a lot of things, don. We dont want to suppose anything. We can tell you theyre trying to get to them. I did just see them bring a stretcher back there but that was a few minutes ago, and theyre still working here. A dramatic rescue situation here, the conditions of two people including one young child are unknown at this time. Brian, stick with me as you continue to monitor the situation. Lets talk a minute. We have been talking about the evacuation orders all over the area and what they have been. What about where you are in wilmington, what were the evacuation orders . Reporter you know what, im not sure about evacuation orders here. Let me pose a quick question to people. Guys, did they say this was under a mandatory evacuation, this area . They did not. Okay. Local resident says they did not say this area specifically was under mandatory evacuation. You know, again, and this is a solid structure, a brick house. Mandatory evacuation maybe not an issue here, obviously something horrible happened here, don. We have been here a couple of hours. These guys have been here several hours. They have cribbing equipment. They had to cut through brick thats fallen, part of a wall that was in the way of them getting to the people. They had to cut through not just wood from the tree but brick as well. And theyre still frantically trying to get to those two people. Brian todd, thank you very much for that. As you can see, brian, theyve got their hands full. Evacuations are happening all over the area, major flooding as well. Listen, this thing is coming down, it is on top of us here. It is going to linger on. Want to get to meteorologist Jennifer Grey at the cnn weather center. The storm is moving at a snails pace, only 5 Miles Per Hour. Still a hurricane. 75 Miles Per Hour winds. And it is still just sitting here. We have still the on shore flow. Showers and storms that are pulling from east to west. It is still pushing rivers backwards. Thats whats causing all of the inland flooding. Still getting storm surge as expected, up to 11 feet in some places. This storm is now 20 some odd miles southwest of wilmington, and you can see the heavy downpours. These bands are starting to train where we get showers one after another in the same location. Thats why places like new bern will see incredible rainfall totals. We have already seen rainfall totals more than a foot or foot and a half of rain. Some of these areas will get another additional foot of rain before it is said and done. You can see very heavy rain there on the South Carolina, North Carolina border. Wilmington, a little bit of a lull now. But thats not going to last forever. The rain will start picking up again, once again, there. Myrtle beach is not quite as bad. Heavy bands are coming for you in the next couple of hours as well. Very heavy winds, still to come, very strong winds, 60, 65 Miles Per Hour winds. At 8 30 tonight, still in wilmington, myrtle beach. It will pick up as this inches to the south and west. Look at the rainfall totals. Oriental, North Carolina, more than 20 inches of rain. Wrightsville beach has gotten more than 18. And like i said, rainfall totals could go up 6 inches or a foot in some locations, so we could have record breaking rainfall here easily. Davis, North Carolina had a 108 Miles Per Hour wind gust. Cape lookout, 106. Rain accumulation still to come. We could pick up an additional ten inches of rain across some of these locations in North Carolina and South Carolina. Don, it is going to determine where the bands set up, of course. The river gauges, major flood stage, moderate flood stage. Well see records broken well inland, well away from the coast, don. Reporter jennifer, you said bands are coming toward us in myrtle beach. The forecast this morning at least earlier was the bulk of it may not hit us until 10 00, 11 00, midnight. Whats in store for us here . We are starting to feel it more. All day you have been getting offshore winds. Thats why the waves arent that big, the surf hasnt been that big. Another on the south or west side of the storm getting offshore flow. Once the eye gets closer and winds shift, youll get not only heavy rain, stronger winds, you get on shore flow. That will pull in more surge to the area, increase waves, and thats when we will see more flooding in the myrtle beach area. Don . Reporter can i ask you, jennifer, you saw brian todd in new bern, the flooding for those people, a lot of issues had to deal with flooding. Theyre going to get much more. This is sadly for them, this will get worse. Right. Theyre stuck in a band, what we call training. Think of a Railroad Train on the tracks. Keeps going over the same location over and over for hours on end. Thats where you could see locations with the heaviest amount of rain. New bern is in a band training for hours, some of the highest rainfall totals, and doesnt look like it will be over for them anytime soon. Rain is coming down at a rate of several inches an hour. All right. Jennifer grey with the updated forecast. Jennifer, thank you so much. I appreciate that. I want to get back in the elements and go over to drew griffin in myrtle beach as well. Drew, were getting bands of wind and rain. It is coming and going, comes and goes. What are you seeing . Reporter and the wind has gotten to a point that many of the official responders in this county have decided theyre only going out in lifethreatening cases right now, don, but i think the big news right now for us in myrtle beach is what jennifer was talking about, that were on the backwards spin, offshore flow. Even though we have high tide happening pretty much right now, tide is going out, there is no storm surge. So youre not seeing any pelting or overtopping of the first ocean boulevard which weve seen so many times before. We did take a drive. I want to show you some of the video. The damage around myrtle beach, not that great, palm fronds certainly on the streets, seeing a lot of awnings down, and a lot of police able to drive around, check on property and people that might be out. Not a lot of damage. The real problem for South Carolina, don, is going to be inland and it is going to be river flooding coming down from the rain, not necessarily the storm surge. Even though were expecting stronger winds coming, this hurricane will eventually be less of a wind event and more of a rai a rain event. Certainly well see that in the coming hours. This storm will go further inland, come ashore, move further down the coast south in the carolinas. Drew griffin, thank you very much. Well get back to drew and our crews out here. The issue again as drew said, as jennifer said, brian todd, its the rain. Its flooding. People are stuck in their homes. Flood water will rise. Thats where the dangerous situations will come in. Brooke, you know, hurricanes most of the time come through quickly ashore, but when you get the ones that come through and they sit there and spin and bring in all that water and surge, what have you, thats where the big problem comes in. Thats where peoples lives really become effected by that. Were going to be here watching it. Well come back to you. I was listening to your conversation with craig fugate saying this is the end of the beginning. Don lemon, stand by. Well come back for special coverage in myrtle beach. Meantime, the other breaking story today, Paul Manafort. The former Trump Campaign chairman pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy. Heres the biggie. Agreeing to cooperate with department of justice and talk to special Counsel Robert Mueller. Those details are next. Dont forget that the past can speak to the future. Im going to be your substitute teacher. Dont assume the substitute teacher has nothing to offer. Same goes for a neighborhood. 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Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today welcome back. Im Brooke Baldwin. Well have more on the storm and flooding in carolina in moments. But three words in washington sent shock waves through the capital. I plead guilty. Paul manafort uttering these words less than two hours ago in a washington courtroom. The plea deal is another massive win for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team. Now the scary part potentially for the president , manafort agreed to cooperate on any and all matters. Prosecutors say that includes interviews, briefings to special counsel investigators, testimony and other proceedings and turning over documents. So i have Gloria Borger and elie honig, analyst jennifer rogers. I want to begin shimon. Tell me what this cooperation means. This is the guy by all accounts that the special counsel wanted to cooperate from the beginning, right around the time gates was cooperating. They wanted Paul Manafort. They finally got it. Took some time. What this essentially means, he has to do everything the special counsel and department of justice wants him to do. It is clear that he has information that they wanted. They met with him according to documents just filed on september 11. Special counsel met with him, spoke with him in a proffer meeting where he has to tell them about crimes he committed, crimes that others committed, and it was after then about two days later they entered into the plea agreement. This is a game changer for sure in the investigation, in this story and how things go from here. Really everything that weve known all along in this case is that they really wanted Paul Manafort to cooperate. The other thing here, brooke, this is what a lot of defendants want in these type of cases, Paul Manafort faces a substantial amount of jail time, the rest of his life perhaps in jail. What the government agreed to do for his cooperation is write a 5k letter. Filed a plea agreement moments ago. In this plea agreement they say if he cooperates, if he is truthful, and if he provides them with good information, theyre going to write a letter for him. It is a motion theyll file with the court, and therefore he could eventually be released and not face any jail time, go on with his life, and live free. Right now, he is sitting behind bars, facing potentially the rest of his life. So thats a substantial load to cooperate in this case as well. And brooke, when you think of this and where the story goes, we dont know. Who else is left. So many people are cooperating with the special counsel. So many charges have been brought, indictments have been brought. The question is what else is about to drop here, perhaps where Paul Manafort is going to provide that information. Thank you. Let me turn to you, jennifer, elly. This is a pretty big fish. A pretty big fish. Why is this so significant . Federal cooperation is a proposition, it is different in state systems. Someone comes in to cooperate with feds, they have to tell us everything. Jennifer and i have done this. You start. Did you shop lift when you were a teenager through the campaign and what you did yesterday in jail. It is an all or nothing proposition. Everything manafort knows should become or already is in muellers mind now. Walk us through. Skip past shoplifting in high school, skip to this was former Campaign Chair for the Trump Campaign, a man sitting in the trump tower meeting. What kinds of questions will they be asking, and does this mean theyre going to get the goods . Elly said he has to talk about everything he has done but has to talk about everything he knows other people have done, right . So it is not just things he was involved in, it is what he heard, observed, all of that stuff. Theyre going to take him through from day one to the end of his involvement with the Trump Campaign. How did he get involved, how did that come about, who did he deal with, what was he involved with, what are the russian connections, what he may have done in that. Thats where he is important. He is one of the ones with most of that. How will they know if he is telling the truth . Thats a great question, something we struggle with as prosecutors. You compare what he tells you to all of the other evidence, emails, financial documents, what you know from other witnesses. I have a laundry list of what i would ask about. Trump tower meeting, tell us everything, how did it come about, who knew, why did it come up, what followup. Why was the gop platform changed on the shipping of arms to ukraine a month after you came on board. Why were you hired in the first place, having incurred 10 million of debt to this oligarch. And this is a guy close enough to trump, inner circle, papadopoulos and other cooperators werent inner circle, and he has the russian connection. Gloria, one of the biggies, will this touch trump. Sarah sanders says this had nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 president ial campaign. It is totally unrelated. Thats their story, theyre sticking to it. Rudy guiliani is saying the same thing. Evan perez and i talked to a bunch of people affiliated with the sort of trump side of this, all saying the same thing, and they dont know. How do they know . When you look at this agreement and it specifically says your client shall testify fully, completely and truthfully about anything we want, they own him, okay, they own him, he cant plead the fifth. He has to tell the truth. He is going to go in and talk without lawyers. And of course it will be malpractice not to ask about everything he knows about the Trump Campaign during the time he was there, and that of course when you think about it preinauguration is the collusion part of the equation. So its not surprising that Sarah Sanders and Rudy Guiliani are coming out on the record and saying this, and by the way, trumps attorneys said this all along, they werent worried about manafort, but manafort had not cut a deal yet. And he has cut a deal as shimon points out to save his life basically, to try to get out of jail free. And hes got to tell the truth in this or else it is completely useless to him. He is 69, he was sentenced to 8 and a half years. This could be a game changer for him, depending on what he is able to offer up. Gloria, thank you, jennifer, elly, thank you so much. Coming up next, were going to take you back to the carolinas where Hurricane Florence is lashing the coast. A member of the navy helping with the rescues joins me live. Billions of mouths. Billions of problems. Morning breath . Garlic breath . Stinky breath . Theres a therabreath for you. Therabreath fresh breath oral rinse instantly fights all types of bad breath and works for 24 hours. So you can. Breathe easy. Theres therabreath at walmart. Beach, South Carolina. This is our special coverage of Hurricane Florence. It is really on top of us now, the worst where i am wont happen for a couple of hours. Were still getting bands of wind and rain and gusts of wind up to 40 Miles Per Hour. Thats the issue here. The wind, yes, a little bit. Theres projectiles and things blowing around, rescue workers, emergency workers are concerned about that. But the big concern is the water and the flooding. Not much of a storm surge where i am, but theres flooding happening all over new bern and many areas in the carolinas. The problem again will be water. This thing is sort of sitting and spinning, whipping up all that water that collected out in the atlantic. We have witnessed many crews in the areas are witnessing live rescues going on for people that chose to stay and ride this particular hurricane out, which emergency officials warned dont do it. People decided to stay in homes. We have also been seeing issues for flooding in new bern, flood waters up to 40 feet. Imagine that. 40 feet. On top of that, you have surge of up to 15 feet, and thats major. Thats going to go on for quite some time. Our meteorologists have been telling us this is really the end of the beginning here as you can see the wind now picking up where i am as well. My colleague, nick watt, has been watching this thing, not far from me, a couple miles up the road, ten miles or so in North Myrtle Beach. I dont know what youre getting there, but were getting a band of wind and rain now where i am, nick. What are you seeing . Reporter yes, don, bands have been coming through all day. My worst fear was high tide. It just passed here. I thought i might be underwater where i am standing, and im not. Thats probably because the eye of the storm hasnt started to move southwest towards where you are and where i am. Here in North Myrtle Beach the local authorities have stopped sending out First Responders on 911 calls unless it is a lifethreatening situation. Theyre worried about gusts of winds which here are picking up all day. Through the night we started hearing them, our house which was on stilts was hard to sleep, the house was moving around in the wind. Today gusts got stronger and stronger. An hour ago, maybe longer was the first one that i thought could take me off my feet. The issue we might have here is were on a sliver of land between that ocean, intercoastal waterway, water on both sides, water coming from above. And if that storm keeps on going at the slow jog of a pace and keeps dumping all of this water over where we are, this townhouse could flood. It flooded in the past and could again. Wind and rain, and also the issue with the wind here, the longer the storm hangs around in a place, if youre getting 50 Miles Per Hour winds for 24 hours, that will damage buildings. 135 Miles Per Hour storm does damage, sure, but a slow moving one of sustained 50 plus Miles Per Hour winds will cause damage. Here so far we havent seen the worst of it yet. Few downed power lines, about half the customers in the town do not have power now, but no serious flooding so far. As you and i know where we are, the worst is still to come. Don . Nick watt, thank you for that. Officials, governors, emergency officials have been giving updates through the day and throughout the evening in the carolinas, updating us on the number of people without power. At last check, about 650,000 people without power here and thats going to go on quite some time as the storm continues to turn here. Also, at least 12,000, up to 15,000 people as a matter of fact who spent the night in shelters, 126 shelters in North Carolina alone. My colleague, Martin Savidge is watching this thing. He is in Wrightsville Beach where it made landfall this morning. Martin, i cant see you but i can only imagine what youre dealing with. Whats going on . Reporter let me be clear, don, we are right at the edge of the intercoastal and Wrightsville Beach begins on the other side. We cant get there because the bridge is closed. It is closed because of the fact were still dealing with very high winds. Probably not hurricane, Tropical Storm i would say. Every now and then gusts are really strong. We have been dealing with this for 24 hours now, the wind load on buildings as nick was pointing out is a marathon kind of thing. They can take it for awhile. But when you Start Talking about a full day and beyond, the weak n nls weaknesses will show up. We are looking at the water at Wrightsville Beach. We cant see far inland. We know from talking to authorities there that there is tidal flooding occurring in there. It seemed to happen around mid morning this morning when we were approaching high tide. Looks like theres still water that inundated certain areas, close to the inter coastal. We want to get there as soon as we can, but of course not until the Authorities Say it is all clear. You should know the Atlantic Ocean is battering it heavily from the oceanside, and we heard theres some heavy beach erosion as well. As far as this particular area where the storm came ashore, the buildings are doing okay but right now it is still blowing hard. Thats the amazing thing. It is still howling through here. The rain continues to pour down and it is driving a lot of water for the intercoastal onto shore. It eased some as the tide backed off. It is amazing the longevity of it. Ill take it. Thank you so much. You can feel it watching your shot, the cameraman wiping off the lens, you and the helmet and life jacket in Wrightsville Beach. Thank you so much. Well come back to don lemon in a bit. Well talk to a member of the cajun navy, commander here dealing with all of the high water rescues, getting folks high and dry and to safety. My live interview with him up next. Lilly. She pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. But once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. I use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. You are free to go. Tide and downy together. When we switched our auto and home insurance. With liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. Hey oh, thats my robe. Is it . When you switch to liberty mutual, you could save 782 on auto and home insurance. And still get great coverage for you and your family. Call for a free quote today. You could save 782. Liberty mutual insurance. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Impassable roads, washed out, maybe land slides in the mountains. Do not drive around the barricades. These are the same urgings we have been doing throughout. Be careful, be smart. If you have any questions, call the authorities. Go to scend. Org, get in struksz the instructions there. Call the sheriffs office, 911. A lot of numbers are still operating that have been given before, but dont take things into your own hands and take a chance. The last thing we want to do is lose lives in South Carolina because of impatience and because of not being smart. We have been in constant communication as you have noticed over the days with these conferences and talking to people around the state. And were not for getting any part of the state. Point out in marion county, nichols really was hit last time. Theyre likely to be hit again. I talked to the county administrator, current and former house members and senator, and i assured them and they knew because they have been in constant communication as well that we are pulling for them, praying for them, working with them, want to keep damage to a minimum, keep loss of property to an absolute minimum. The whole team in South Carolina is backing them, not only them but every other part of South Carolina. Populated, tensely populated and sparsely. We have been on the phone, those of us, talking face to face with coastal mayors, Coastal Council members, sheriffs, emergency officials and all on the coast. South carolina Governor Henry Mcmaster there with an update for people in his state. We want to get back to wilmington, North Carolina as brian todd and his crew has been essentially posted up at this home for hours, witnessing a rescue in progress. Brian, when you were talking last time, you spoke of a potential amputation for someone in the home, i saw a stretcher. Tell me whats happening. Give us an update. Reporter brooke, they just moved us to this part of the street. We had a better vantage point, we could see the rescue going on. They moved us to bring in an ambulance. Thats coming through right now. As it comes through, i will tell you what the update is. Yes, there was a situation where they had a potential amputee, but they brought a Surgical Team in, they thought they may have to amputate his leg. They found out they could move some objects and didnt need to amputate the leg. They extracted that person. We are told it was a man. They took him for medical attention. There were two other people as far as we know trapped in this house. It is just over my right shoulder. You cant see it from here, but just to the right of the Emergency Vehicle with flashing lights, massive tree fell on the house this morning early, three people inside the house. Two people trapped. We do not know their conditions. We probably are going to be finding out pretty soon. The noise you here, youre going to see it in a second, the ambulance backing up. This thing is coming to some kind of resolution, obviously. What we can tell you is there was a woman and child still trapped in there. When i spoke to the battalion chief a short time ago, i asked are you communicating, he said not at this time. Dont know what it means. They have been at it for hours. The 911 call came in roughly around 7 00, maybe earlier than 7 00 a. M. They got here, have been working at this for hours. Theyre physically exhausted, brooke. They are bringing in large cutters, chain saws, cribbing equipment to try to get to these people, try to just at thmove t. Anyway, they have been frantically trying to get at them with heavy equipment. Chain saws, cutters. Let me cut in. I want you to listen. This is the information we just have gotten. I dont know if you have this. My executive producer got in my ear and said the mother and baby in that home have been killed. So we have two storm related fatalities there in wilmington, North Carolina. Do you know, was there anyone else in the home . Reporter right, brooke. Theyre going to bring those two out then at this time, looks like actually you can see it is a bit of an obstructed view. We saw a stretcher being carried to the ambulance. Confirming then as you did that the lady and child in there were deceased. We had gotten unconfirmed reports of that, we couldnt confirm it, now we can. The first known fatalities of the storm. It is the mother and the baby in that home. Obviously our hearts go out to this family. We have also learned that the father has been taken to the hospital, so thats the status in wilmington. So tragically, we have the first two fatalities in wilmington related to Hurricane Florence. When people cant or dont evacuate during a hurricane, First Responders are inundated with emergency calls, volunteers from the cajun navy stand at the ready to help. They already carried out more than 100 rescues in North Carolina, many in new bern. Tony wade is the commander of the cajun coast search and rescue, he is with me on the phone. We are looking at pictures of all of this water, commander wade. Are you in new bern now . Tell me about the rescues you have been involved in. Yes, i am actually in route as we speak. We have teams on the ground now, had teams on the ground all day. Multiple groups have come together, fascinating to see all of this happen. Once again, see it year after year, but it is fascinating. Reports i am getting is a lot of water, a lot of calls from people for help. Guys are doing a wonderful job trying to get responders out to the calls. The bad part of it, we have to watch for our safety close, take calls and respond to calls as it is safe for responders to get out there. We want to get to everybody we can, as fast as we can, but it is a horrible situation with the amount of water and people that stayed. Rescues will go on quite some time. Do you know how many rescues you have been in involved in since the storm hit . Like i said, teams are dispatched all over, working with other groups. My communication with my lead guy has been sparce this morning. Last i heard there were hundreds of rescues throughout. Hundreds. How many my guys were involved in, i honestly cant tell you. Communication has been sporadic. Sure. Let me ask you this. I read one of your fellow commanders said if people can go to the highest point in their home to make sure they have something to penetrate the roof for ventilation or escape, can you talk a little more about that . Yes. First off, we dont advise anybody to go through the attic if possible. A number of things can happen. Not have equipment to bust a hole through the roof, you have to get out. If trapped and watch water rise, unfortunately they have nowhere to go. Like to see if you can get on top of the home, get to the highest point. If you have to stand in water, at least youre not in a situation youre trapped. You have to have an escape route in place. Never close the door if theres no way to get out. Asking everybody to bear with us. Well try to get there. Get as high as you can. Make sure you have an escape route to get out of there, if you lock yourself in a room, make sure you can get out. We dont want the water to rise and trap you in there. Dont know how much it will rise at this point. All the precautions you can take. If you have a cell phone, call 911. If you think youre getting in trouble, make the call now. We can try to get to you before it gets lifethreatening. 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We have gotten the first confirmation of the first two fatalities here in the carolinas. Thats the issue when it comes to these particular storms. You dont know, you dont get all of the information in right away, you dont know whats happening, fatalities, injuries and what have you until sometimes after, a long time afterwards. Were continuing coverage. Well continue to follow it sadly. We have the first confirmation of two deaths, an infant and mom sadly. Well continue coverage in the carolinas. I am don lemon. Be right back. Since joining nine months ago, my priority has been to listen to you. To cities and communities, and to my own employees. Ive seen a lot of good. Weve changed the way people get around. Weve provided new opportunities. But moving forward, its time to move in a new direction. And i want you to know just how excited i am, to write ubers next chapter, with you. One of our core values as a company, is to always do the right thing. 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