don't want to leave it. >> randy said it is hard to leave so much of your life behind. >> they are going to stay until they are told to leave. a few you will have to make them leave. >> he has never seen flooding like this. or than 10 inches of rain fell. >> as soon as i seen the water rising, myself, a couple of my neighbors that live around >> choi taylor walked through floodwaters to get to safety. >> i have five kids. did not know what to do. i was thinking lord help us just let us get out of here. so we are safe. >> by leaving behind personal belongings is tough those things can be replaced but your life can't. >> get out while people are helping you. do not stay. >> just take a look at how much water is over there. it is almost up to the windows. i just spoke with the person who is part of the resource team and they said they are not going to be out here much longer live in lumberton. derek lewis. cbs north carolina. governor mccrory toward several areas working to recover. mate? >>reporter: yes. we have seen several people throughout the day in downtown fayetteville trying to survey the area to see the incredible pact. this is unbelievable. behind me this is cross creek. i am counting one, two, three, five trees that have flown over the bridge and you can see as the waters were going trash and bins and other items. as we walk further into the bridge you can see just how incredible the storm was. >> a lot of them were not in floodplains so why would they have flood insurance. >> it is unbelievable. >> miss lewis is talking about flood insurance here at the zion church. fellowship hall is soaked after several inches of water entered the building. directly across the street this massive sinkhole and another church's parking lot. >> a lot of people are hurting. >> assessing flood damage mccrory said at least $12 million would help north carolina recover. >> police make money available for us and quickly. >> bobby swan says flooding destroyed's office of more than people asking for give out their handouts but we do need some help and we don't need delays. >> one big obstacle is the number of trees down throughout the county. look at this one on top of a home on sherman drive. the governor says we have not seen the worst of the storm yet and he urges registered -- residents to be safe. >> don't put your family in harms way or a first responder in harms way >> there remain several roads and bridges throughout the county that are close. also at the height of the storm there were 40,000 power outages. at last check about 1500 outages remain and crews are working to get the outages restored. nate rogers. cbs north carolina. >> edgecombe county, the concern is the tar river. evacuation. princeville is no stranger to this and we have beau minnick. bo? >>reporter: sharon, this town suffered devastating flood from floyd in 1999 and you can understand why a lot of eyes around the tar river to see how high it will get. for a lot of people with been here they've been there for decades and they what can happen. >> i hope we don't get the water. >>reporter: calvine has called rinsed -- princeville home for 30 years. he can see what happens when the dike can't hold water. 1999 homes were destroyed or severely damaged from hurricane floyd and a lot of his neighbors took on second mortgages. >> a lot of people are gone and of matthew. >> i just wonder how much help the people will get. >>reporter: he is staying with more than 200 other people at a red cross shelter at tarboro high school. there is a mandatory evacuation for the town emergency officials know the water level is already high and it's only going to get higher. you can see how the lights are partially underwater. the questions are how high to the point where the dike cannot hold the water. >> we are expecting it to not reach that point but it is too close for us not to be cautious. >> until then all people can do is wait and hope. this man is worried he will lose what he has. >> i don't know how i will get back if i lose all that. >> the water of the tar river is supposed to crest sometime between 8:00 and 10:00 tomorrow keeping their eyes on the river to see how high the water will get. live in tarboro, beau minnick. >> there are still several others that have yet to crest. i am with chief meteorologist wes hohenstein. what can we expect? >> if you go back to your water cycle days, it takes a while for the rainwater to get to the river. despite us do not have the worst behind us. let's talk about the tar river. tarboro and princeville specifically. normal river levels under 17 feet. you get to minor levels of flooding about 19 feet. they are just under 31 feet right now. it is considered major flood at 32 and they are just about their. as beau said it is expected to crest another five feet higher. just a little bit less than what happened with hurricane floyd by a couple of feet. major flooding cresting tomorrow and lasting through thursday. it doesn't come down immediately either. 10 inches in rocky mount, 10 inches in tarboro goes from your backyard to the creek and then to a medium-size lake and a bigger stream and a bigger lake and eventually to the river the ocean. it takes a while for this trickle-down rain and did we get a lot of it but none tonight . no clouds and no humidity. it will be chilly from 60 with fall through the 50s we have the coolest morning and five months coming tomorrow morning and i will tell you that will feel like. and the latest outage map shows hundreds of thousands of people across the state without power. crews are working around the we caught up with the duke energy crew and raleigh working on a downed line. spokesperson jeff? tells us the burden 6000 workers from across the country to help and could bring in more if needed. >> we will evaluate that on a daily basis to determine if we need additional resources but we will not release resources until we have an adequate handle . >> some rural areas could be without power. if you have a power outage make sure you report it and text out to 57801. >> in horry county first responders are asking you to stay home. i-95 is closing down and traffic being rerouted. many traffic lights are also still out. drivers are being reminded to be patient and cautious. the trial of a student who we thought we'd get some wind and rain but we got way more. text messages reveal the former unc student, he told friends he loved to drive for he was high. one of the fraternity brothers reed the test -- kaine is facing three counts of second-degree murder after he caused a head-on collision that killed darlene mcgee, felicia harris and harris is six-year- old granddaughter. kenya had a blood alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit and marijuana in his system at the time. one of keeney his friends said he has seen kenya smoke while driving several times. >> have you ever ridden in the >> yes, sir. >> would you say it has been on more than one occasion? >> yes, sir. >> would you say it's more than five occasions? >> yes, sir. >> last week kenya pled guilty to -- a handful of charges. if convicted on the second- degree murder charges he could face up to 60 years in prison. this is steve fraser and how does goody's work so fast? here's how. goody's powder races right to your pain to deliver relief...fast. and now collect four of my trading cards inside specially marked boxes of goody's narrator: look up the facts on richard burr. the insurance industry gave richard burr's campaigns one-point-one million dollars. that's public record. and richard burr wrote a plan to privatize medicare. sixteen to twenty-six billion." but seniors would pay nine percent more for medicare. richard burr is looking out for himself and the insurance industry... not you. reported due to hurricane matthew. three in johnson county. first responders were out responding to even more calls. we are in smithfield with recovery efforts there. steve? >>reporter: standing in the middle of highway 70 it's like highway 70 lake. officials tell us it's going to be several days before they are le floods before the waters recede. as you indicated it's a day of frustration for first responders with had to deal with all kinds of people tried to drive through floodwaters that have caused problems. >> since saturday we have been called to over 200 water rescues and we continue to receive those calls today expect the problem, say officials is that people are trying to drive through floodwaters that began high and rise as the -- as it goes downstream. we will deal with flooding as we are today and we worry about that going into tonight into tomorrow. >> the owner of mitchell concrete is dealing with floodwaters which inundated his business just off u.s. -- u.s. 70 near downtown. >> how long have yee business, my friend. >> since 1970. >> have you ever seen the river way more than we expected. >> this water has a bid -- a bit of a current as it recedes back towards the moose river but one thing we really have to emphasize is even though matthew is gone and even though it is out to sea the fact is this is a disaster in slow motion. the runoff takes time to get from the ground and the tributaries into the big iv and you should not fool around because the floodwaters will be intense. reporting live, steve sbraccia, cbs north carolina. >> this was my backyard. >> many of you are sending in videos and photos. paul shared this video and northwest rocky mount. you can share your photos and video as long as it is safe to be out taking it send it to the wncn.com. there is a little science behind it but doesn't always seem after our biggest disasters the few days after bring us the nicest weather? i think back to the tornado outbreak five years ago it happened on a saturday as well and sunday and for several days after as we waited for the power to come back up the weather was great. and same thing this time. we need some dry a and we have that including today when our high was only 68 and it is the second week of october. 74 is our average high and we are below that tomorrow. most importantly the radar is shut off because there is no rain. one side effect, of the many side effects from hurricane matthew, the winds and the rain and the flooding knocked down some of our weather sensors. missing a few towns and we will keep an eye on those as they come back online in the coming weeks but most of us in the 60s and some of us in the 50s. once the sun goes down we drop into the upper 50s by 8:00. falling to the 40s overnight and you're out the door tomorrow morning. coolest morning we've had since may and that will be 42 degrees. and one of the reasons why is our humidity -- humidity levels have bottomed out. today the low 40s and this number is usually where our temperature and the going and that is what is happening tonight. high pressure and control of the entire east coast. there are a lot of us that need to dry out and this will ensure that there is a cold front that will be here late this week but no rain and just a reinforcement of cool temperatures. don't get too worried. system but tropical storm nicole is in fact tropical storm nicole might become hurricane again and went at 60 miles an hour and a slow mover like matthew was but it is going to stay out there so we do not need to worry about that. can you believe nicole is already the 14th named stormed -- storm this working season. if we do make it to our next letter it's otto, paula and richard. th for another two months. >> back home drive. no rain and hardly clouds and tonight we top out at 69 and 71 in fayetteville and it's a degree warmer than where we were. we're up to 73 wednesday. 76 and thursday is the north carolina state fair gets underway and we will cool it off a little bit friday, saturday and sunday low 70s are 60s and 70s and overnight lows in the 40s and 50s. >> we have breaking news. president obama declared 31 counties a disaster area and that will help us get money in the state faster. we're talking about the panthers tonight. >> that's right, guys. it is game day for the panthers and since it is game day we are going to introduce you to tonight starting quarterback and it's not cam newton etsy state head coach has a message for fans -- for fans arsenic, mercury, lead. that's what you got. duke energy endangered the drinking water of 1.6 million people in north carolina. and what did duke energy get? a sweeter deal from pat mccrory. mccrory got thousands in campaign contributions from duke energy executives. and what will you get? when i was one year old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. but i spent my whole life fighting back. so you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say... "i don't know what i said, ah, i don't remember!" "that reporter he is talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms." i don't want a president who makes fun of me. is advertising. the slip and slide for sixer maybe just the rainbow. i don't know what they are going to call over notre dame -- notre dame on saturday and one thinfor sure i think it should get a nickname and i think the fans named -- needed nickname too. i'm working on carter friendly crazies. it takes just the right amount of crazy to go out there at the team are glad the crazy fans did just that. >> we would like to thank our it was a tough day to say the least weatherwise and really challenging. i know on the field it had to be challenging and in the stands to endorse it so thank you. >> the wolfpack take some clemson. and it looks like a muddy scene we just saw it and state is just exactly what ecu wants to avoid. the pirates were scheduled to host navy decided to reschedule for november 19 after winning the first two games the the have a chance to get back october 22nd against cincinnati. to the nfl and panthers fans we've been trying to slowly warn you today is the day your team will be forced to take the field without cam newton. the panthers best player sits out with a concussion while anderson gets his first start. he's a veteran which means he's been there and done that -- and even though he's not cam newton -- schedule and i do the same things and trusted and understand and know of covered my bases and gone through everything. obviously the situation last week, it helps me confirm i'm doing the right things. >> he came off the bench and through for 172 yards and two touchdowns in less than a quarter and better than cam newton put up in 3.5 quarters. buck newton's law legalizing discrimination. a national embarrassment. it was my honor and my privilege to carry house bill 2 through the north carolina senate. and newton stands defiantly behind hb2. my opponent calls this buck's bill. and you know what? i say, bring it on! buck newton is wrong for attorney general. we're better than this. i'm josh stein. strengthen our comnities. together. captioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: a party divided. the top elected republican says he will not defend or campaign for donald trump. and the sunday debate exposes a rift with trump's running mate. >> he and i haven't spoken, and i disagree. >> pelley: also tonight, after by floodwaters in north carolina. >> you slept on the roof? >> pelley: and samsung puts production of cell phones on hold after the replacements overheat. look over and my phone's on fire. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: the storm is gone,