juan: fox news alert. wilmington, north carolina. one road is open, allowing access to the city it was previously cut off my massive flooding. sadly, dozens have died from the nap now tropical depression florenc florence. let s go to rick who was live in ogden with the latest on the open road, allowing access to wilmington. the governor is saying that what happened is a monumental disaster. what you are seeing behind me as evidence of that. this is middle south loop road in ogden which is a few miles north and east of downtown wilmington. this stretch of road here was washed away late thursday into friday morning when the storm was reaching its peak. you see some of the workers here surveying the damage. they are getting ready to do with they need to do to try to
power lines coming down, and treacherous roads which are responsible for some of the deaths. people drive into floodwater and they wind up losing their lives. this can be repaired and will be repaired, but the person who lives next to it isn t confident it will happen within weeks, maybe months. juan: rick, thanks so much. good reporting. now to steve harrigan who was on the ground in north carolina. steve. juan, we are along the cape fear river. it is flooding backyards. you can see how swiftly is moving. big trees and pieces of debris flying down the river. the real concern is how high is going to get? tuesday or wednesday, it could reach peak historic levels here, that s a real concern. it could produce catastrophic flooding for 1 mile around the entire area. now there is mandatory evacuations that have been, police going door-to-door telling people they would not be rescued in the peak of the storm.
be farther south. if you re in south carolina don t think because you don t see it here it won t happen this. is just a model run. we don t know exactly where it lines up. i pulled out for a zoomed out version. people ask what happens after this, towards sunday and monday you get the sense that s the track. so, we will see moisture across southern parts of canada and new england. we won t see it there across the i95 corridor. i think it will go primary around it the official track the next couple of days does not move much. saturday and sunday, monday then it moves quickly eventually. the next few days is the hard part. at least through saturday with the torrential rain falls. that s why we will see the flooding. thank you, rick, for the hard work. back to you soon. now to leland. i don t think you have dried out all day. no. won t driveway out for a couple
you combine all of the water coming down, so all of the flooding. all the storm surge that is coming and all of the rain, getting the power back on will be a goliath effort over weeks if not months. we re in the beginning hours of the storm. as rick said it will stall here. that will increase the misery factor so, so much for the folks who stayed and those inland who evacuated. all they can do is watch the destruction here from the wind and rising water over the next couple of days, guys. leland, i have a question. you re heading into the evening and over night. how do you continue to track and monitor when it s dark? great question. we have a incredible crew we re out here with. we have generators and lights. we will pull back a little bit from this position here. it s pretty hard to see all the way out this distance at night. we have a low cation we scouted out for a sense of the storm
farther to the south. i point that out, because this brings parts of south carolina in the mix. we don t know exactly were the numbers will set up. we don t say h 45 inches in that exact spot. somewhere here will see those totals and some spots over here over a foot depending where the bands are. this water here will want to make it s way to the coast eventually. the flooding will be e exacerbated. this will be a long term flooding event. water that stands for a long time. more destructive then water that comes in and moves out. water until about sunday evening. thank you, rick. that s your 5:00 o clock carolina time update on hurricane florence. more tonight on fox news channel. after a quick commercial break