hardest hit. dams have been breached, dozens of roads are closed, water lines ruptured leaving many residents without drinking water and the city's fire chief says there have been too many rescues to even count. for the latest we bring in jay gray live from columbia, south carolina. jay, very dangerous conditions down there. >> reporter: yes, they really are amy and it's going to continue for quite some time, along with the curfew there's a state of emergency in place here right now. there's been so much water so fast that many of the flood gauges along the congaree river behind me have either been damaged or washed away but you don't need a gauge to understand the water is still rising. floodwaters continue to rush across the carolinas, running through or over everything in their path. >> cars are submerged, cars washed up against the porch and everything, never seen anything like it. >> reporter: in many areas there's never been anything like this. rain for three days straight at times more than two inches an hour. >> the rising water collapsed bridges, overcome dams and destroyed roads, whole neighborhoods have found themselves underwater and precious lives have been lost. >> reporter: at least five people have died as a result of the storms, hundreds more -- >> the house is flooded and they can't stop it. requesting sandbags or assistance. >> reporter: -- pushed from their homes by a relentless current and rising waters. >> we have lost everything. what i got on my body is what we have, pretty much everybody down that hill there has lost everything this morning. our vehicles, our clothes, everything. >> reporter: as many scramble to higher ground, forecasters say at some point today the rain should finally begin to ease. the first responders and officials warn the problems will not. >> this challenge is not over and the danger to life and property does not end when the rain stops. >> reporter: still it will be a welcome sign for so many, anxious for the recover troy begin here. the congary river is already above flood level in many areas. including here in columbia. the rain is letting up right now. it's going to continue throughout the day but even so, the water is still climbing. a flood warning along the river has been extended through tuesday evening here. that's the latest live in columbia, amy, back to you. >> thank you so much. let's bring in nbc meteorologist bill carkarins. almost biblical in proportions. >> yes. the storm system itself sat there and lingered. still raining in the state right now. as far as some of the maps go the current radar in the region we finally ended a lot of the rain around columbia and charleston, light showers in orangeburg. torrential rains in myrtle beach. flood warnings and roads additionally being flooded throughout that region. this map is probably the one that i'm going to record this for myself. this goes over four days and it shows there's joaquin and shows this consistent flow of moisture being drawn from the south into south carolina, and the thunderstorms along with it, that's four days' worth offer represential rain so that's why we saw all the horrible problems there. as far as the pictures go it's not just one spot. that's what makes it so historic, columbia, charleston, georgetown, sumter, conway north myrtle beach. water was everywhere. i feel horrendous for a lot of people. lot of the houses prnt in flood areas. it's required if you're in a flood zone to get flood insurance. the people that don't have flood insurance their claims probably won't be heard from insurance companies. thousands of people with water all in their home. we'll continue to watch that heavy rain threat through the morning, as we go through the afternoon the rain tapers off and we're all done with this. lot of the big rivers are already peaking now and going down so we're heading in the right direction. >> bill karins thank you so much. doctors without borders is calling for an independent investigation after explosions which may have been caused by a u.s. air strike killing 22 people, including doctors and patients. the nonprofit is calling the attack on its facility in kunduz a war crime. nbc's john yang has the latest. >> reporter: doctors without borders awon donned the bombed kunduz hospital declaring it a total loss. >> there's no such thing as collateral damage. this is human beings, a tremendous loss of life, staff and patients. it's a disgusting event. >> reporter: firsthand accounts emerged of the horror of the hour-long bombardment. nurse at the hospital, he said "there are no words for how terrible it was. in the intensive care unit, six patients were burning in their beds." in an operating room "a patient was there on the operating table dead in the middle of the destruction." this man described how one of his sons was wounded in the chest. military officials tell nbc news an ac-130 gunship armed with multiple cannons like this one was over kunduz at the time. the pentagon said an air strike targeted taliban militants shooting at u.s. forces advising afghan troops. doctors without borders says no one reported any fighting in the compound before the attack. >> the main hospital building where our medical personnel were caring for patients was repeatedly and precisely hit. >> reporter: the charity says to avoid being targeted accidentally it gave the pentagon the hospital's precise gps coordinates. and a u.s. official said the military takes every precaution to avoid civilian casualties, so how could this have happened? >> fighting in an urban area using smart munitions but human people calling them in results frequently in a tragedy. >> reporter: defense secretary ash carter spoke to reporters on his way to europe. >> this is a tragic loss of life. your hearts can only go out to innocent people who were caught up in this kind of violence. >> condolences and apologies aren't enough. we need to understand why this happened. >> and on the heels of last week's mass shooting in roseberg, oregon, authorities in northern california say they've stopped a plot among high school students that wanted to "shoot and kill" as many people as possible. four male students at somerville high school in tuolomee, california were arrested friday after police discovered a detailed plan to carry out a mass shooting at the school. according to the county sheriff he says the four students were in the process of securing weapons but the plot was foiled when fellow students overheard them discussing the plan and reported it to a teacher. >> their willingness to get involved and report what they saw prevented what well could have been another needless tragedy. the suspects' plans was very detailed in nature and included names of would-be victims, locations, methods, in which the plan was to be ka areried out. >> this all comes just days after last week's massacre at umpqua community college in oregon that left nine students and the gunman dead. today the campus will reopen but classes won't resume until next week and now disturbing new details are emerging about what played out in one of those classrooms before the gunman killed his victims, this account comes from the father of one of the survivors. >> she remembers another lady that was called to the front and the shooter says "if you will beg for your life, you will not die." lacy's hearing all of this. the lady began to beg for her life, and apparently wasn't good enough, he shot her and he called for another young man to come up front and said "you're the lucky one, you're going to live today." everything that you need to know about me and what i'm doing is my backpack there's a flash drive in there and it will give you all the information you need. she then heard another lady say to the shooter "i'm so sorry for what you've gone through. i'm so sorry tt you've been hurt" and he said and as lacy would say i quote "i bet you are but it's not good enough" and with that he shot her. >> and now the father of the shooter is speaking out as well over the weekend. he reacted to a police report that says his son brought six guns to the college and had seven more in the apartment where he lived. >> the only thing i would like to say, the question i would like to ask is, how on earth could he compile 13 guns? how can that happen? you know? they talk about gun laws, they talk about gun control. every time something like this happens, they talk about it and nothing is done. i'm not trying to say that that is the blame for what happened but if chris had not been able to get a hold of 13 guns it wouldn't have happened. >> officials say that all of the guns that mercer had purchased were purchased legally and that nothing from his past would have disqualified him from buying them. now let's shift to politics. donald trump's lead in the early nominating states is shrinking according to a new nbc news poll, ben carson cut trump's lead to five points among potential iowa caucus goers. carly fiorina in distant third at 8%. in new hampshire trump dropped seven points while carly fiorina has gained ten and yesterday on "meet the press" trump talked about how polling could potentially drive him from the race. >> i'm not a masochist and if i was dropping in the polls where i saw that i wasn't going to win, why would i continue? and it's funny maybe it's like not like me because it's the power positive of thinking and i'm a very positive person and positive thinker. the truth is i'm a realist. i'm doing great in the polls. i'm not saying anything, i'm leading everything. >> leading every poll. >> by a lot. >> in the republican primary. >> not only leading by -- >> the elections aren't there yet but that's a different story. >> i believe in polls. how many elections where you see the polls were wrong, you see them but not that many. if i were doing poorly, if i saw myself going down, if you would stop call me because you no longer have any interest in trump because he has no chance, i'd go back to my business. i have no problem with that. >> trump adding to that statement yesterday with this response on twitter "i'm leading by big margins in every poll but the press keeps asking would you ever get out? they are just troublemakers. i'm going to win." to the democrats and a record-breaking weekend for senator bernie sanders, more than 20,000 people turning out to see sanders speak at the boston convention center on saturday. the boston globe reporting it's the largest rally for a presidential primary candidate in recent massachusetts history topping the 10,000 people barack obama drew to the boston common back in 2008 and it comes as our new nbc news/"wall street journal"/marist poll shows sanders lead over hillary clinton holding steady in new hampshire, still ahead by nine points in the first in the nation primary state. in iowa clinton leading sanders by 11 points 47-36. polls from both states showing it's vice president biden runs, it only helps senator sanders. turning to business, the man who chaired the u.s. central bank during the 2008 financial collapse now says more wall street executives should have gone to jail for their roles in the crisis. cnbc's jeff cutmore joins us live from london. jeff, ben bernanke is still defending the bailout. >> absolutely. cynic might look at the comments amy and ask is this all about selling his new book "the courage to act" which hits book shelves this week? so finally ben bernanke is saying we think some more executives should have gone to prison but hey, wasn't he part of the system that used taxpayers' money to bail out many of these banks? ben bernanke saying that when he saw some bumper stickers saying "where's my bailout" he felt bad about that but at the end of the day no many executives did go to prison for what happened and the argument is well you don't go to prison for just running down a bank. and unfortunately that's what happened and in many cases it was low level employees like in the libor story that were actually found guilty of manipulation rather than the executives at the top of the tree. so ben bernanke finally feeling it's time to move with the people and talk with executives who should have gone to prison. >> geoff, new details continuing to emerge in the volkswagen emission scandal. what is the latest? >> so we have a supervisory board meeting on wednesday, we're expecting the finance chief hans dieter puch to be made the man at the top of the 20-person committee so a new steering committee head for volkswag volkswagen. we also have a number of engineers who have been suspended not least two gentlemen, the audi chief engineer, ulrich hakkenburg and wolfgang hartz, fingers being pointed as investigations continues. highlights from nfl sunday including an amazing game winning touchdown in overtime, and the premiere of "saturday night live" with a special appearance from hillary clinton. we'll have the highlights which include the donald, plus another check with bill karins on the historic flooding that continues to hammer south carolina. 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[ laughter ] >> fantastic. why don't you just put like a bunch of puppy dogs fleeting down a river and toss to me. thanks a lot. i just got a new update, we have a new leader if you want or whatever you want to call t the highest rainfall total we've seen cainhoy, 26.88 inches of rain, that's like snow totals. this is the map right now trying to travel through south carolina, virtually impossible, if not difficult at worst. we are watching the red dots here road closures. the blue are bridges washed out. numerous locations across the state still have flooding. we're about 98% done with the event. if we get additional problems it's around north myrtle beach and myrtle beach. >> the season premiere of "saturday night live" makes it just in time for trump mania. >> you want to know my plan? here's my plan. i got the smartest guys. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax constipated? use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax, designed for dependable relief now lets get a check on the morning's other headlines. to are that we head to the control room with the newly wedded louis bergdorf. withal come back. >> i got the hardware to prove it. thank you. it feels so good to be back now. "saturday night live" is also back this season. the premiere was this weekend and the cast wasted no time taking on republican front-runner donald trump. >> no i asked milonia to be here to clear up some of the lies the losers and morons are saying about me. how can i hate women when i have the world's greatest woman right here? >> he's always saying that woman is knockout, that woman is a ten, that woman used to be a ten but hey she's still a seven, you know? >> all of this stuff's been blown out of proportion. the megyn kelly stuff. >> he was worried he said she's bleeding everywhere, she's need to go to hospital. >> i was afraid she was going to die honestly. i love megyn kelly, i love her, i think she's great. she's talented and beautiful, but she's a heffor who is always on her period and i hate her and i hope she dies. >> that's why i don't get how critics say he has no ideas or plans. he has so many. tell them your plan for economy. >> it's very simple. you see i get in there, taxes go down, everybody gets a job, salaries go way up, with he build a wall. it's huge over in china they're going to say now that's a wall. >> it wasn't only about trump. hillary clinton also made a surprise appearance, the real clinton came face to face with her "snl" doppleganger kate mckinnon. >> how about you? >> i'm just an ordinary stit zen who believes the keystone pipeline will destroy our environment. >> i agree with you, it took me a long time with you i decided i am against it. >> nothing wrong with taking your time. what's important is getting it right. >> mrs. clinton sorry to interrupt. my sister is gay, so thank you for all you've done for gay marriage. >> well, you're welcome. >> it really is great how long you supported gay marriage. >> i could have supported it sooner. >> well, you did it pretty soon. >> eh, could have been sooner. >> fair point. >> it looks like they'll have a really, really terrific season on "snl" amy. back to you. >> thanks so much, louis. that does it for me and "way too early." coming up on "morning joe" the very latest on the 1,000-year storm now hammering south carolina. the big question, how long will the flooding last, even after the rain stops? we're live in the hardest hit area, that and much more coming up next on "morning joe." we live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you. real madrid have about 450 million fans. we're trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. the microsoft cloud gives us the scalability to communicate exactly the content that people want to see. it will help people connect to their passion of living real madrid. when broker chris hill stays at laquinta he fires up the free wifi, with a network that's now up to 5 times faster than before! so he can rapidly prepare his presentation. and when he perfects his pitch, do you know what chris can do? and that is my recommendation. let's see if he's ready. he can swim with the sharks! he's ready. la quinta inns & suites take care of you, so you can take care of business. book your next stay at lq.com! la quinta! the internet of things. what we're recommending as your consultants... the new consultants are here. it's not just big data, its bigger data. we're beta testing the new wearable interface... ♪ xerox believes finding the right solution shouldn't be so much work. by engineering a better way for people, process and technology to work together. work can work better. with xerox. irresistible moments deserve irresistibles treats. new from meow mix with real salmon chicken or tuna. the only treat cats ask for by name. i'm very, very, very glad to present to you the next president of the united states bernie sanders. >> austin, thank you. what a huge crowd and let me thank the many