Them morning. You were live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News this Morning Disaster in Western North Carolina as one North Carolina official put it the devastation is quote biblical large swaths are completely cut off in that area. Official say, all roads there are considered closed. These are exclusive pictures coming into cnn showing the destruction in asheville. What you are looking at is the main Road And Biltmore village near the famous biltmore estate. Its a five lane road, usually full of cars now, its covered in debris and mud. People walking down the Middle Of The Road looking for supplies that as a comment in sight these days, helene tore through the historic village, the floodwaters. You can see right here rising to Roof Level and pushing trailers and to buildings, Power And Water are out in much of the city. This is a transform where you can see it right there just lying in the Middle Of The Road leaking fluid. Its been there f
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people really can t leave their houses because there are no routes to go because of the road washouts. what are the biggest threats to public health and safety at a time like this and do you need any extra support and who from? well, one of the interesting things that is happening, that this is a statewide emergency. not just here in montpelier. i think the floodwaters are not clean. they have oils in this, sewage, all sorts of con tam 24taminant them. people seem to want to wade in them. we were pretty distraught watching almost like sight seeing tourists coming up and taking pictures. it was really kind of like get out of here, this is dangerous. so not a good situation. so that is a big thing. and then once the waters recede, we re concerned about electrical