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
areas. tributaries are flowing out. when you think of 20 feet above your normal flood stage, your normal high levels for this river, that you know they re in danger from here in wilmington, all the way upstream. i am standing here on water street here in downtown wilmington and i m standing in some water the storm surge has pushed the river into this area. the river is just beyond the pylons there. you can t see it now but when we could see it a few minutes ago, white caps all over the place, the current was just furious. the weather forecasters keeping a very close eye on this part of the cape fear river. when we talk about the flood stage setting record levels. that was for this part of the river where it meets the atlantic ocean. that s where it is.