even higher. three navy ships off the coast of new york to help with search and rescue missions and reps from the obama administration are going to fan out across three of the hardest hit states, virginia, north carolina, and vermont. let s go ahead and start there where floodwaters have destroyed roads and bridges and left hundreds of people stranded. amber lyons is in saxtons river, vermont. how are things looking this morning? reporter: not too good out here. you can see from this road behind me, this is one of the main roads in town and the local river just flooded across here leaving a layer of mud and muck and making this road impassible and it s closed down. nearly every road in this state is having issues. yesterday, we just tried to drive about 30 miles west across the state and it took us two and a half hours because we came across so many road blocks. you d see people sitting out on the sides of the roads looking at maps trying to figure out how to get home or ev