municipal offices and emergency personnel. also all state offices that have been previously closed, all state offices previously closed will be open for business on monday. so i ll say again evacuation order is still in effect for the evacuation zones, all of them in orie county and georgetown counties, and that does include the entire county. however, school closures and state office closures are still in effect in the entire counties of orie and georgetown. again, all school closures except those in orie and georgetown counties are now, right now, immediately returned to the local school authorities. and all state offices previously closed will be open for business on monday.
us. those evacuation orders for those zones are still in effect. all state offices we re told will open monday. schools will be open as well, except for those again in those evacuation zones. but the governor is clear that the threat is not over here, talking about some areas, including areas of orie county that could get another 8 to 12 inches of rain, the fact there are still significant wind gusts that are lashing at several areas of the state. there are flash flood watches in effect. there s a lot of concern about lumbar, waccamaw, pee dee rivers and where they will meet in the coming days. as we heard from the governor of north carolina as well, we re hearing from south carolina and from local officials here in the state that the concern is going to be in the coming days for potential flooding as rivers begin to crest. one area that s watching this closely, lumberton, north carolina, where we find polo
edisto beach. they came out from under the evacuation order at noon today. charleston, berkley, dorchester, and edisto beach. that evacuation order is still in evacuation for zones in two counties, two counties only, orie county, zones there, and georgeto georgetown county. school closures and state office closures are still in effect in orie county and georgetown county. that s the entire county. again, all school closures except those in orie county and georgetown county are now immediately returned to the local officials. all of these orders, of course, are done in close concert and constant communication with the state officials, county offices,
to see if anybody needs any help. we continue to coordinate with our department of defense, homeland security, and fema partners to prepare for floods that are coming and those consequences. and we are repositioning other assets to handle that. i think as we look, right now, we have had no calls for rescue. and that is a good thing because i think the governor s evacuation order helped. we would rather evacuate than rescue. we have been listening to an update in the state of south carolina. you heard no calls for rescue. here s what we can tell you. a number of evacuation orders have been lifted in south carolina, except for the evacuation zones in orie county and georgetown county. this includes the area we are now in myrtle beach, north of
they had found her body. he had no idea what had happened to his mother s body. it took months. ethel freeman didn t die in the storm. she died in the days after the storm. and yet she was killed by that storm and by neglect. and so for the president to it s disrespectful to the dead and to the living. yeah, it s a new low. anderson, very well said. anderson, you stay safe. we ll get back to you. our coverage will continue. anderson cooper in wilmington, north carolina. here in myrtle beach, we re bracing for the storm that is on the way here. i want to bring in now chief joseph hill. he is the police chief for orie county, south carolina where myrtle beach is located. i ve been here since this morning. curfew is in effect the police department tweeted out the