how many people needed to be rescued? i think we were the last group. they got the elderly first. that s kind of the scene. they all got out with a few belongings and the volunteers are trying to help them now. anderson? kudos to the volunteers who time and time again, we have seen this in so many places in harvey and houston and katrina saving people s lives and reaching out to help and i wonder how it is now. still getting worse.
kind. still waiting for the storm to come. this storm could pass without dramatic damage being done here. much more inland than along the coast anderson is in let s hope they do okay. we will check in with you and introduce you to tim who say local reporter here at the paper. the wilmington star news. you have been sleeping in your office. that s one way to put it. i got 1.5 to two hours of sleep. you have news on the curfew here. that s correct. they said they are instituting a curfew. the first time just to keep
people? anderson, police are checking up on people, but we have come up on the scene. this is a house west of downtown where a tree fell on top of the back of them. the fire chief of wilmington. tell us what s going on. are there victims inside? we have something on the scene here. we had a very difficult extraication. a very large tree tack off the back of this house and it took about three hours to rescue a victim out here. you can tell us how many people are inside? i can tell you that we have work to do here.
win for the special counsel. more proof this investigation is going nowhere any time soon and to michael s question, the question is how is the ark built? we will follow the developments and we are going very important news stories. anderson? . this is the calmest woo we have seen in the last several hours and the last 24 hours or so. the winds have died down and the rain has died down. this is a lull. we are expecting a lot more rain in the coming hours, but it s a little bit of a break from what we have seen. very windy and record seth wind gusts here earlier this morning. the wind gusts they haven t seen that strong since 1960.
there are about 2,000 people have decided to hunker down and so far, so good. we took a drive around a few minutes ago. a couple of downed power lines. no major damage idea, but we haven t seen anything idea. back to you, anderson. kathy, can you explain where you are and how things are? we are in north carolina where you see volunteers and the national guard behind me, working to fill sandbags. just two years ago in hurricane matthew is where water flooded through a gap behind them. it really devastated the southwestern part of the city. they had no water or power for a week.