been done. we took a similar ride in a rescue helicopter take a look. we are on board a black hawk helicopter are customs and border protection air and marine agents. and as we look outside right now have the vantage point of this chopper, you can see just how bad the flooding is we have two pilots up front by the way. four rescue specialists in the back here with us. what they are doing right now is a search and rescue mission. we are essentially going across the entire region north of wilmington, checking out all of the houses that you see below us that are so badly flooded, making sure that nobody is left in there in need of help. we have also seen rescue boats out on the water. they are going house to house. they are checking the you
here. as you look out there, you see a church almost flooded up to the roof and homes around it in water standing all the way up to the roof of some of them. this is a scene that we have seen repeated again and again as we have flown across this region today, shep, with these customs and border protection agents. we have not seen anybody in need of rescue so far today. but, yesterday, these agents did, in fact, rescue a man, a woman and their dog from a boat that they were stuck on. right now, this is a continued search operation. you mentioned that in all, some 2,600 people have been rescued in the days since hurricane florence hit. those rescues will continue, although these agents tell us that unless these rivers go a lot higher, they believe that most of the
shepard: for north koreans the sun is shines. the rivers are still rising across the state even days after hurricane florence made landfall. that s the warning from the governor of north carolina today. some communities still swamped by the floodwaters. rescuers have pulled more than 2,000 people to safety so far. the storm blamed for 34 deaths now. most of them right there in north carolina. our chief correspondent jonathan hunt is right now flying along the cape fear river in a black hawk helicopter, jonathan? shep, we are aboard a black hawk helicopter with customs and border protection air and marine agents. two pilots up front. four rescue specialists in the back here with us. and as we look out now, we are very near the small town pretty much a direct shot up the i-40 north of wilmington. and as you can see, there is some very severe flooding
astonishing pictures of the flooding, shep, you realize exactly why. now, as you have been reporting, president trump is set to tour this area tomorrow. and what we are giving you now is essentially a preview of what he will see via helicopter when he comes here. thousands, upon thousands of people, shep, have lost their homes as you can tell. as i say it s a scene repeated everywhere. as look down to the left now can you see one of the rescue boats. they have been going watching them as they go house to house obviously checking welfare checks. making sure nobody is in these homes. nobody is on the you were floors of them. or in the attics of them. these agents customs and border protection by the way, shep, are veterans of hurricane harvey in houston last year, they are veterans of hurricane maria which hit puerto rico, of course last year and these guys say that