awesome guardian. give me five, brother. well, mandatory evacuations have been lifted for special people like eli who were living in these low-lying area, but still people are trying to figure out exactly when they will get that power back. chris. what an adorable kid. i love his attitude. but it s going to be a long haul for a lot of people, no doubt about it. thank you, morgan radford in jacksonville for us. meantime, rehema ellis is in charl son, south carolina. the flooding and the winds were so intense, and i know a lot of people there were surprised by just how strong the storm was when it hit. they really were surprised. and it even took the folks who worked the waterways around here by surprise. not necessarily because they were listening to the forecast. the news we can tell you right off the top is the coast guard has reopened the port of charleston is that is good news. there are people in this area who don t have it so good right now. the water is receding. this is ti
hilton head tluld new brunswick. this is the st. river s river where we have the highest river levels already recorded there. the city recorded its highest sim or 11 hours ago. they re supposed to go up another foot or two the rest of the afternoon. record flood and major flooding is taking place in areas near jacksonville. there s one little river the records go back to the early 1900s. it broke that record an hour ago. now it s supposed to go up another two feet. off the chort river levels because of a foot of rain and high tide happening now and the storm surge. it s like a triple whammy over this region. that s the storm surge in jacksonville. four to five feet still happening. rainfall 8 to 128 inches. high tide 12:36. we just went past high tide here in jacksonville. here s the thing. all that water piled up in this river, this is the st. john s river from south to north, see the little arrows moving?
but they re okay. what about in terms of people not in shelters, people in their residents, just standing by. obviously, the emergency relief people can t get to them this this kind of floodwaters. right. well, we ve we haven t had any injuries, deaths or incidents where there was concern for loss of life. we ve been fortunate in that regard. but we re expecting another surge between 12:00 and 2:00 this afternoon of up to 6 feet. we have low-lying neighborhoods in jacksonville beach that were flooded in matthew. we re watching very carefully to make sure we re available to help them as best we can should those surges continue. mayor, thank you so much for being with us. we wish you and everyone down there in jacksonville beach the best of luck as you get through this flooding. the high tide as it s just begun to hit appreciate it. is obviously a critical time. we ll continue to monitor that flooding in jacksonville,
that the worst of it here wasn t going to happen till about 5:00 this evening. we expect to see the winds pick back up. the rain continue and flooding will be a concern or at least something to watch especially downtown where the flint river runs right through the center of town. definitely not out of the woods here yet in southernya. garrett, thank you so much. coming up, we ll monitor the latest on irma including that flooding in jacksonville, florida. stay with us right here on andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc.
that s the wind direction from irma. now the water is blowing with the river. so the water piled in and now it s flowing out. that s why they re worried about the areas in jacksonville. the water will go higher as it blows out of the river. they ordered a mandatory evacuation zone a and b. the only thing you need to know is this is downtown jacksonville and red and orange mandatory evacuation, get out. all the red is where they re telling everyone, you got to go. they had the bridges closed and reopened the bridges to get the people out of the region. we ve still got bands up here, maybe isolated tornado threat in south carolina this afternoon. the worst of it is this afternoon. once we get past this high tide cycle this afternoon, we ll see how much damage was done to all of our friends from jacksonville along the st. john s river up through savannah into charleston. some areas did better. we didn t have the that horrific