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Nbc has a team of reporters on the ground tracking this storm as it continues across the carolinas. i want to go now to one of the areas hardest hit by florence, that is new bern, north carolina. garrett haake usually covers the u.s. capitol for us. he s covering what was north carolina s colonial capital. that being new bern. garrett, what s the latest? reporter: i m glad we finally found the intersection point between my two beats on this story here, david. look, the latest here is actually pretty good news. there is no one in the city of new bern who is going to have to spend the night in a flooded home tonight who doesn t want to. the city says that over 400 calls for rescue have been answered. they have gotten everyone who was trapped in homes around this town out of those homes and into shelters. that s the good news. the bad news is there are still lots of neighborhoods in and around this town that are inundated with floodwaters. some of it had come from the river behind me, t ....