She slowly treks across the carolinas bringing torrential downpour that will linger for days. You can see they are dealing with a mess. The images and numbers are devastating, four people dead, nearly 1 million without power. Hundreds of rescue operations, dozens remain trapped at this hour. Residents are told to expect the years worth of rain before this deluge is over. Connell correspondence on the field covering the storm zone, how long this will last. One thing we know is it will take months if not years for victims of florence to recover. Jillian a break in the rain from Morehead City, North Carolina after two days that dropped two feet of rain on the city. Griff jenkins is there. You have been there this morning. You have been showing us the damage. What are you seeing across that area . Reporter a welcome more free from the rain. A few drops coming, much like everyone else that is not good news. There is a lot of wind damage at Morehead City where we get you to the videos coming
Catastrophic flooding across the carolinas. If we look at the images already devastating. Jillian stranded victims, homes destroyed. We keep getting updated numbers. So far nearly 1 Million People without power. Forecasters predict the area will get a years worth of rain before it is over. Pretty scary. Some of those 100 mile an hour gusts were frightening to watch at 6 00 in the morning as the sun was coming up. The street had the worst damage i have seen so far. Connell lets go to adam plots in the extreme weather center. We have been trying to deemphasize the wind all along and focus on what really matters, all this rain. And the longlasting nature of all this rain. When it came on sure there were spots that got 100 mile an hour gusts, that is no longer the case. As we look at the storm, it was a tight i will, now it is spreading out, the winds will keep weakening but everything you see behind it, more rainfall and such a slowmoving storm, the circulation passed into South Carolina