This rescue continues. i want to go to the commanding officer for the u.s. coast guard, charleston sector. good to talk to you again. when we lost talked it was not entirely clear where this hurricane was going. but tell me what activities the coast guard is taking now. thank you, ali. as you mentioned, the with the changes in the forecasted weather, the forecast track of the storm, we ve actually started to reposition assets closer to the impacted area moving search and rescue capabilities back toward georgetown, as well as repositioning those shallow water rescue teams from georgia into south carolina this evening. and we ll be standing by ready to make the rescues happen as soon as possible. also, we ve repositioned aircraft from air stations clearwater and miami up to air station savannah. those air crews are taking familiarization flights right
Now up into south carolina to get those crews ready to respond as needed. what s the main work you ll be doing? is it logistic support or rescues? ali, based on what we heard from the state which is historic levels of flooding, i anticipate that the majority of our work will be involved in life-saving missions. saving people from flooded areas as well as responding to any environmental issues we have in the overswollen rivers. all right. we re going to be watching very closely. thank you in advance for the work that we know you do every time we cover one of these hurricanes. we know the men and women of the coast guard, the national guard and the active military are always the ones we count on for that support. john reed is the commanding officer for the u.s. coast guard charleston sector. we ll be talking again. here s our situation. here in myrtle beach, we have not seen the worst of this.