Good morning, everyone. Its thursday, september 28. Im ayman mohyeldin. Its been just over a week since Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico. Theres been delays in getting aide to the island. Department of defense reiterated yesterday that nearly half of the residents remain without drinking water. Locals say they are increasing worried about a looming Public Health crisis. Fema says its delivered more than 6 million leert liters of and supplies. The problem isnt getting enough trucks and drivers to reach people throughout the entire island. Nbc news correspondent has been in puerto rico for the past week and has the very latest. Reporter good morning. More than a week after murmz hue maria ripped through here, the magnitude of the disaster is sinking in. No power, no water, no phones. Many people heard help is on the way, many havent seen it yet. Its been one week, still looking for water for her children. Its hard because we dont have anything. Shes among the many desperate for help. The
Terrain and flash flooding remain major concern for coastal towns and officials expect what they call epic, lifethreatening flooding to occur and cape fear expected to crest over 62 feet, fox team coverage, rick standing by in wilmington, lets go to Leland Vittert who is live in town of new bern North Carolina who has been hit hard, hi, leland. Leland hi, eric, new bern, 300 year history. Day 3 of its raining, imagine if this was one of your homes, this was your home behind us and you can see the flood waters are here and the rain just keeps coming down, that means every inch of water is just more and more damage to these homes, we e are waiting for two rescue teams to get back, they have come over from local marine base here to search door to door, we have video of them putting boats in, they have been working nonstop almost since wednesday here trying to find anybody who they think they cleared the area this morning, they pulled about 70 people out of their homes, remember, this was
6 miles per hour. Crawling toward us. After it hits here, it moves down the coast and heads to South Carolina. Chris cuomo in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Chris. You are our future, j. B. 5,500 people without power in South Carolina and nothing has happened. The winds have picked up. It is in the Tropical Storm or tropical depression range now. 35 or 40mileanhour gusts. Enough, however, to push the tide out. What should be high tide is 150 feet back from where it is. That leads back to the vice effect that you were talking about and what were you seeing there. It will be duration that is the concern. How much wetness over how much time and once the wind chwhips , how much damage. What we are seeing in new bern is a reflection of those who decided to stay behind. Putting stress on the system of First Responders. How many more communities will be like new bern well be seeing . According to the radar, we should start seeing some kind of wetness here within the hour. Ill keep you ap
Next couple hours. As far as the radar, you can see where the center is right now. This is the western and northern eye wall now coming on shore here. We have a very heavy band up in cart carteret county. By far the worst damage that has occurred has been in Craven County and carteret counties up to this point. Heres the wilmington area, heres am i righting grove. You will be the first ones to go into the eye. We went get the first landfall call until its halfway. The eye has to be halfway onto the coast. That could be one, two, maybe even three hours away now. Heres the new forecast path from the hurricane center. As it goes over land, it begins to weaken. It will be until saturday at 2 00 a. M. , still a hurricane. It wont be until saturday morning that it will drop down to a Tropical Storm. Then the winds arent really going to be an issue at all. The winds will be less of a story as we go throughout the day today. Then the focus will really be on the fresh water flooding and the ama
The canopy off of a gas station. And the relentless rainfall flooding roads from the coast to miles and miles inland, making many roads impassable for rescuers and First Responders. Rescuers, though, working through the night and through the day to save hundreds who stayed behind. Especially in hearthit newbern, North Carolina, with over 100 swift water rescues in this town alone and forecasters stay worst of the flooding could be still yet to come. We have reporters fanned out across the region to cover this massive storm for you. Lets begin with Miguel Marquez outfront right now in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. Miguel, i hope you can hear me because youre getting thrown around right now. What are you feeling . Reporter a shockingly enough, i can hear you. It is amazing how this storm will just not quit. Florence is thrown everything at us for the last 24 hours and it just keeps going. The sad situation with this woman and her child that was killed in wilmington, it is very understa