trying to get to safety. this house right here they started experiencing flooding yesterday morning and it rose so quickly and it caught them off guard. they had to jump into this here to get to higher grounds. this is a neighborhood that have never seen flooding before. now that the water is going down a little bit. the folks that live here, michelle ray and her family has gone inside to assess the damage. so some things damaged and destroyed and things that were higher are okay. jacksonville in all got 18 inches of rain and more in isolate spotted spots. it goes along the new river five feet above flood stage. thank you joe fryer, thank you. is there a national security cost? the details on that fight, next.
the rain that s hitting me now. it is from the rain that florence dropped up north and all converging as it is making its way down here. it is flowing everywhere from the cape fear. another interesting note here, up river, there are three dams that were damaged by matthew. those three dams, they have not been fixed so those dams if they had been fixed would have been able to stop some of the waters and sort of channel the flow but because those dams are broken. it is out to the sides already there, too. oh boy, kerry, we ll be checking with you. you and your crew take care out there. let s go to joe friar. what s the situation like in our area? some roads are passable. reporter: fayetteville is getting ready of what jacksonville have been experiencing. the water was chest deep and people walking through and
ashore at the marina, and pushed most of the boats out to sit in m mud. miguelle is back at that same marina in punto gordo, and what do you see? so different and a it is blowing my mind how powerful this storm is. i was about in the same place, and about 12 feet over, and this entire marina was nothing but mud, and the people who have lived here their entire live s have not seen this, and even when hurricane charley came through here, that did not happen here, and irma is still raging. reporter: slamming florida with heavy winds and strong rain, and still making its way up the southern edge of the u.s. now weakened to a tropical storm the danger ist not yet over. the streets flooded from the florida keys to south carolina. tonight, more than 6.5 million are without power in florida alone. jacksonville hit with a record
me that this curvature of the st. johns river behind me is one of the narrowest points of the river, and so not surprise ing that this is an area of of storm surge pulling the water up, but nobody anticipated it to come up this far. with the waters being as unpredictable as we know they can be the local officials are saying go up but not out, and many of the people are not heeding the warnings and folks here to my left taking the photos and takeing in the sights downtown. what we have learned from a lot of people in the aer rea, and l said, i m just outside of the omni hoteling because people came here thinking it is a safe place to shelterer, and people down south whether it is polka raton, or ponte vedra is not far from here, but these waters are rolling up right here onshore, jake, of what jacksonville will be seeing next. than you, kaylee hartung, stay safe. and now i want to go to cnn
and here is what we are seeing, the records broken northward as we are starting to see, and i mentioned it jacksonville, jacksonville, because it is so broad in the storm that the winds coming in from the ocean were pushing in the winds for a longer duration, day after day. now the records of jacksonville are now surpassing matthew last year, and dora since the 196f 0s and since the records started in 1846 they have not seen this type of flooding from the st. johns river. and the now, savannah missed by 0.2 of an inch where we are seeing there and just going into charlotte. at the charlotte harbor, it is half a foot above the record of matthew last year and starting to recede, but a flash flood emergency remains in effect in this area, and that is more than the flash flood warning which means it will continue. and for the first time in history, from georgia in towards atlanta getting a storm warning and that has never happened.