Storm florence. All of our crews are out in it. Well be bringing all of this information to you. Our breaking News Coverage our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac360. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening. Im Anderson Cooper in willing, North Carolina. The story has been wailg rain and rain and more rain. Were seeing the heaviest band of rain just in the last ten minutes or so hitting this area down by the cape fear river. Five people have died so far in this storm. Five people. Five lives lost. Hundreds of people have had to be rescued from their homes. Some here in wilmington. Others in new bern and elsewhere. There have been rescues going on last night throughout today and no doubt will continue tonight. Well be talking to some rescuers in the next hour as
well as some people who have been rescued. And the stories they tell are harrowing of water coming into their homes. Of sending their children up into the attic with what they thought was to save their lives, an
released in the surge. we ll see what happens. thank you. i want to go to todd at the river. we ve all been watching this river as it starts to rise. brian, what are you seeing? reporter: the cape fear river, aptly named at this hour. officials are very concerned about the krefgt levels of this river, the high tide records, all the records this river is now setting. i just spoke to our cnn weather center. they told me a couple hours ago at high tide, this river has broken all the records. it was 8.28 feet at high tide. that is breaking all the records. and upstream in the northeastern section, it will go to 20 feet. the river has a different contour there. it is shallower in some of those
58.28 inches of snow. do you think we re going to beat it? reporter: it could. it could happen, alex. we had a first wave of snow that came overnight, ended midmorning left about an inch of snow. but forecasters say an even bigger wave is going to come this afternoon and last until monday morning. as you say, if that brings 6 inches of snow, 6 more inches will break that record for indianapolis. ait will have its snowiest season on record. this has already been a brutal and unrelenting winter with the snow and cold. there have been some thoughts, people were looking eager for this to end. about two weeks ago it was 60 degrees here in indianapolis. a lot of the grow that was on the ground melted. but now, it s back yesterday, the high was 49 degrees. right now, in indianapolis, 19 degrees. 24 hours a drop of 30 degrees. so it says march on the