we have water from the sound going this way. and the river which flows from the north coming down through the new bern area trying to get out and it s not. it s stopping. all it can do is tile up. it started at 2 feet. it s 10 feet now. the river basin goes here like this. 60 miles northward, that s 60 miles from the coast. some of that is because of back up, the wind, some because of storm surge. that s theish other y that s the issue right now. we had the mayor of moore head tell us, brian, that s where the issues are with the sound side flooding. i ll say this first of many times, we re going to get into next week. we re going to get into the workweek next week. it s going to feel like a normal week in america. we ll have water levels still rising, river flooding going on in north and south carolina. and people losing everything they have. we will have people on
craven county emergency management. this is important because craven county is at the head end of the river where new bern is undergoing a lot of high water. and, amber, tell us about any rescues that are underway there. we ve had numerous flood rescues today, and the calls continue to come in. we ve had to send crews out to our fairfield harbor area, portions of new bern, the adams creek area, and township 7. we do have crews out there right now and they are working as hartd as they can to get there. we re looking at you on radar now. you re entering into another really torrential band of rain. yes, i did receive a call from the national weather service and they did alert me that in areas we have already
of the river. some of it flew into the creeks and backed up to the downtown area. as we mention, the new bern area located right in here in craven county, and you can see where the eye is. they re going through the northern half of the storm, which is the strong side of the storm which is the wet side of the storm. some of our computer modelling is keeping this east wind and heavy bands of rain at least 24 hours more. the worst the wind is, the worse the rain is, the longer it will take rescue crews to get in to get these people out. current wind gusts. in the dark, emergency crews, firemen, sheriffs rescue, we heard reports of marines with their swift water rescue teams, too. and one more question about rotation. the nice term you guys use for
tuesday and into wednesday on some of the rivers, the northeast cape fear is going to be one of them. we haven t talked about the issues in south carolina yet because it hasn t gotten there. but the p.d. riefr river is one that will peak almost into major flood stage until tuesday night, so this is a story that is going to impact that region for weeks. i want to show you nbc correspondent miguel almaguer. how have conditions changed there? a short time ago, a county official said hurricane force winds are now hitting the city of wilmington. i can tell you it certainly does feel as though the wind speed here is increasing as well as the lashing rain that is now blowing sideways. just in the last few minutes we saw several new bolts of lightning in the area. our hotel and much of the city has lost power. fortunately we have generators here at our hotel so the power has come back up. we know much of the city is in the dark. 160,000 people across this region are in the dark right
about the television station where bill karins worked. but this is flooding thus far. you have an overlay in new burn? yes. okay, so the city of new burn actually sent this out on their twitter feed about two hours ago because you know, they re having one of the worst floods they ve ever had. this is the noose river, what i call the before picture here. you can see where the border is of the noose river. this is the downtown area here where all the populated areas is, the sheraton, the marinas. the tv station i worked at that had to be evacuated was located up in this area. if you were to look at it on any map this is what they send out with the 100 year flood plain. the water comes in through the jack smith creek into the downtown area. this is near where the medical center is here. this is the trent river. it s pretty amazing how it has swollen up and swallowed portions. and since they sent this out, the river has gone up another