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Were lye in the cnn newsroom. Thanks for being with us. It is a storm for the record books. Harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nations fourth largest city. Around 3,000 National Guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. Some families desperate to get to Higher Ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. Pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. The two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and its only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. Cnn was there when an a dramatic
rescue took place in dickinson. Were live. Ed, wh ....
Do, we have a Customer Service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and weve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and its not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. Most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. W we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, were prioritizing them. And also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. Because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the
typically shelter in beaumont. We have three shelters open, they will not at capacity until they started to get at capacity, well look at opening another shelter. A shelter, you dont just put up there and ask people to come. You have to have supplies, cots, blankets, and someone that knows how to run it. And the red cross, because of all the devastation in texas is very, very limited resources ....
Storm florence. All of our crews are out in it. Well be bringing all of this information to you. Our breaking News Coverage our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac360. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening. Im Anderson Cooper in willing, North Carolina. The story has been wailg rain and rain and more rain. Were seeing the heaviest band of rain just in the last ten minutes or so hitting this area down by the cape fear river. Five people have died so far in this storm. Five people. Five lives lost. Hundreds of people have had to be rescued from their homes. Some here in wilmington. Others in new bern and elsewhere. There have been rescues going on last night throughout today and no doubt will continue tonight. Well be talking to some rescuers in the n ....
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People are being asked to evacuate, because the river is going to keep rising through the dark of night. this community seeing its third such water event in as many weeks, and preparing for a fourth. corey nielsen staying put, but ready to flee if the water gets too high. we ll row up the street and get out that way. reporter: governor murphy here today urging vigilance. we have no injuries or fatalities. and i hope it stays that way. reporter: and from the south, surveillance video showing the moment an ef-2 tornado struck bamburg, south carolina, on tuesday. winds up to 125 miles per hour. that twister up to five football fields wide. david: five football fields wide. that s an extraordinary size for this twister. let s get to rob again tonight, in new jersey. and you can see the water there. we mentioned dangerously high across much of the northeast with more rain, significant rain on the way? reporter: it is. and this river still hasn t crested yet, david, so, these vac ....