arthel: fox news alert as tropical storm florence continues taking its toll on -- toll on north carolina, new mandatory evacuation orders issued for those living within 1 mile of the banks to have cape fear river amid flood waters expected to rise to record levels. hello, everyone, welcome to brand new hour inside america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. eric: thank you for joining us, i'm eric sean. this comes as deadly storm is now at a near standstill over the carolinas, nearly 1 million customers remain without power, at least 7 people so far have lost their lives. and sadly, the danger from this storm is far from over.

terrain and flash flooding remain major concern for coastal towns and officials expect what they call epic, life-threatening flooding to occur and cape fear expected to crest over 62 feet, fox team coverage, rick standing by in wilmington, let's go to leland vittert who is live in town of new bern north carolina who has been hit hard, hi, leland. leland: hi, eric, new bern, 300 year history. day 3 of it's raining, imagine if this was one of your homes, this was your home behind us and you can see the flood waters are here and the rain just keeps coming down, that means every inch of water is just more and more damage to these homes, we e are waiting for two rescue teams to get back, they have come over

from local marine base here to search door to door, we have video of them putting boats in, they have been working nonstop almost since wednesday here trying to find anybody who -- they think they cleared the area this morning, they pulled about 70 people out of their homes, remember, this was an area that was supposed to have been evacuated. we talked to one man who did evacuate and came back just to look at what had happened to his house. >> well, everything on our house is ruined i would imagine. it's just stuff, we are safe, our lives are here, you know, it's just stuff. it'll be replaced. despair but, you know, what can you do? there's really nothing. until this goes away, we can't do anything about it. >> and this story wayne story will be repeated hundreds and hundreds and thousands of times all over north carolina, eric, it's important to note that

while the storm is sort of moving on from new bern, this is the last of it, there are other cities right in the middle of it so their flood waters will continue to rise there and wayne has a message obviously for what is in store, wayne, eric. eric: leland, thank you so much, arthel. arthel: moving slowly with the center now located about 50 miles west of myrtle beach, south carolina, jonathan hunt is live in conway, south carolina, jonathan, i understand that conway is one of those towns that risk of major flooding, is that the case? >> yes, absolutely, arthel, conway sits around 20 miles inland northwest of myrtle beach, it is on the banks of the waccamau river, we have stood for the last 25 hours or so and

watched as it has come up inches and over the next few hours and days those inches are going to become feet and that is going to become a real threat to the town of conway as we look down the river here you can see on one of the trees nailed to it a blue sign that marks a trail, as you can quite plainly see right now, you need a boat to actually get anywhere that trail at the moment. and as i say, this is expected to reach what could be record levels over the next few days and if that happens the businesses and residences that lie in this side of the story are in severe danger of flooding, arthel. arthel: jonathan, they have been through this before, right? >> yeah, you know this is such a mirror image in so many ways of what happened during hurricane matthew just two years ago almost to the day, in fact,

hurricane matthew came through and went over a coastal south carolina, didn't do the damage that was expected but then over the coming, over the days after matthew this river began to rise and as you look down, you can see the road bridge beyond us, the waters got very close to topping that road bridge, well, if they hit what they say could be those record levels then it could actually this time go over the bridge, we are told that this is a 12-foot, that's described as moderate flooding, arthel. it's expected to reach major flooding around the 15-foot level within the next 24 hours, that's when some of the homes, many of the roads in the conway area are likely to be flooded and on top of that, they say that within 3 to 4 days it could get another 3 feet on top of that rising to 18 feet, that as

i say would be a record and it is a very dangerous one for conway. it's also the kind of record we are going to see along side other rivers throughout south carolina and north carolina and officials say there are still very dangerous days ahead, arthel, worth remembering as our own rick pointed out continually that in these kinds of storms like florence only around 8% of deaths are caused by wind, something like 75% are caused by flood waters, arthel. arthel: and to see, jonathan, that a lot of the residents haven't fully recovered from matthew. >> yeah, it's true. you talk to anybody around here and they all remember matthew and then you go back to 1999 and they went through the same thing in floyd. so it is something that's repeated again and again here sadly with these storms but conway i can tell you is a fine

small town of about 22,000 people and i can see why despite the rigors of living here they don't want to leave arthel. arthel: i don't blame them, that is home. jonathan hunt, thank you very much. >> sure. eric: back to north carolina in wilmington, mostly in the dark, streets covered with down powered lines and debris and the folks who live within one mile from the cape fear river, they've been ordered by authorities to get out and evacuate or they say provide officials with your next akin, it could be that bad, rick levanthhal and residential area, rick, what's the devastation there now? >> we have breaks news, eric, unfortunately often times in disasters like this you see people who try to take advantage of the situation, we had heard reports of looting in wilmington, we just saw it firsthand in a neighborhood not

far from here, full-scale looting of a family dollar store going on right now, we saw people walking out with arms full of stuff and apparently had been going on for some time, folks going in there, taking what they want and walking out, big crowds watching the people who were looting and no one was stepping in to stop it, in fact, i had a guy just drive by us here at this location and start yelling at us why aren't you telling this story, the story of the looting because, you know, we are paying the police to protect us and protect our tax dollars and they are just driving by and not doing anything about it, in fact, the wilmington police have tweeted about this situation, they said we are aware of the looting occurring at the family dollar store, unfortunately management has asked us not to intervene at this time so the wilmington police know about it but they decided not to do anything about it. eric: it was one of those unfortunate things that happen when people take advantage of

natural disasters, we had warning of price gouging and sadly this happens, while this is continuing the police by request of the management, what else are they doing, how are authorities dealing with it and what have you seen elsewhere? >> well, they definitely have their hands full. this town is a mess. you know, the power is out for most of wilmington, they have 200 roads closed across the county, i show you one of the reasons why, you have street lights, traffic lights that are down on the ground and intersections that are completely unprotected, so you,u it's supposed to be a four-way stopped and there have been accidents but in the meantime there are also trees blocking roads all over the place, we saw

numerous trees blocking roads, on homes and on businesses and they have crews out now trying to clear the debris out of the street and at that point the utilities can get in there and restore power in the areas, some power has been restored outside of wilmington but roughly a million customers without the power across the state. eric: if you have a car, stay home, we saw a guy right behind you, one guy just blew right by, but it can be really dangerous. >> yeah, that's fine -- that may be fine in certain situations where you can see either way where you have good visibility but a lot intersections you don't and that's where the trouble can be caused. we are we are --

eric: rick, thank you so much. arthel. arthel: joining me now on the phone is holy baker, ms. baker thank you for taking the time to talk was, if you can tell us how full are the shelters and if you have any room for more people? >> thank you so much for having me. >> yeah, absolutely we, do have hundreds of shelters opened along the carolinas and other states and we have around 20,000 people staying at them, i wouldn't say that they were pull and actually we will never turn someone away, people are always welcome to come to red cross shelter where they will find a place to sleep that's safe, they'll find comfort and we will make sure that they are fed and it's a place to really ride out the storm and take those first initial steps in figuring out what you're going to do next. >> now, of course, you have your hands full and you're providing a lot of much needed help, is

there any chance that there's any medical care being given at some of those shelters? >> oh, absolutely, we have volunteers at our shlters who are trained nurses, we have emt's, people with a great skill set who have come on board with the red cross as volunteers to help with those health services, those things like preplacing prescriptions, helping glasses, some of the things that you don't always think about. you don't realize i should probably bring my medications and all the things that are so important so we definitely have health service's staff at our shelters to help with that. >> we mentioned that you have four others where you set up shelters, where are those states? >> we have shelters in the carolinas, we also have them in virginia, georgia, tennessee, maryland and kentucky. so we are really -- we are really widespread when it comes to people after hurricane

florence because as we have all seen it's a large area that has been affected. arthel: it's a great idea because not just you do have people who did try to evacuate and they found themselves leaving but then where do they go and perhaps they got half way to where they thought they were going to go, that's actually a great idea that you have the additional shelters set up, we are showing pictures right now of door to door rescues underway, are more residents showing up ms. baker, also is how is everyone holding up emotionally in those shelters? >> absolutely, a disaster is complex and complicated. i have been in south carolina over the past few days and talked to people who went through hurricane katrina and here they are years later going through florence. they are concerned about what their homes would be like and we

wanted to come out and make sure everybody was doing okay, there was a troop of boy scouts that were coming out to help people and set up cots because they knew this was going to be a long rough ride, really, we will be there to help people, we have mental health volunteers through complicated time, we are here that are here to listen and a shoulder to cry on and that's what we are going to be here to do in recovery from hurricane florence. arthel: my heart sank a little bit that those folks went through katrina and now this, i can't imagine, is the red cross, ms. baker getting the financial help, is there any way we can help those watching? >> yes, the people that can see this here, whether they live in an affected area or not it can

be really heartbreaking and that's what we are here for and we know that a lot of people want to help so no matter where you are, every dollar really does help and 91 cents of every dollar donated to the american red cross goes back to humanitarian services and programs so, yes, financial donations are the best way to help people affected because it helps them get what they need right when they need it and if you're not able to do that you can always donate blood, you can roll up a sleeve and donate blood, so many blood drives on the east coast have been canceled because of the storm so people in the hospital are still waiting for the blood, so if you can definitely donate blood, you can make financial donation and also become a volunteer for the red cross, you can become volunteer and make difference, you can make a donation by going to redcross.org.

arthel: i will share with everybody redcross.org, you can call 1-800-redcross or you can text to donate $10 and every dollar helps, holly baker, thank you very much for your hard work and dedication. >> yes, thank you. eric: red does such important work in these types of disasters, stay with us as coverage continues including update in a few moments on where the storm is going, janice dean will fill us in with the fox weather center and it is all hands on deck from officials to the cajun navy to volunteers and residents people helping people as the state pulls out all the stops. >> effort by south carolina with the of course, with president trump and his administration. everything and all the talent and resources out there have been brought to bear make a smart choice.

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arthel: we are tracking tropical storm florence as it gradually moves toward inland. janice: arthel, this storm is only moving 2 miles an hour, just think the average person who is walking is about 3 miles

per hour, this storm is pretty much stationary and been that way for the last 12 to 24 hours, you can see the rainfall totals surpassing floyd in 1999, the wettest tropical cyclone on record for the state of north carolina, still a tropical storm as of the 5:00 p.m. advisory, not moving and that's why we are seeing rain moving into the exact same areas over and over and over again, not only the threat for more storm surge potentially but heavy rainfall, we could get additional foot in some of the areas, weak tornadoes, a couple of reports of tornadoeses this afternoon and the rivers are going to be historic in north carolina, that's why there are evacuations taking place near little river and cape fear, look at, this the little river record at 29 feet, it will be historic, historic at over 35 feet, they've never seen

records like this before, this is the northeast cape fear area and 23 feet expected to be 25 feet and it's really the same across the board in all of the rivers expecting crest that they have never seen before over in next couple of days, flash flooding, i mean, we have seen flash flood warnings in these areas for 12 to 24 hours it is just a slow-moving disaster for parts of these areas and unfortunately it's going to kind of remain stationary over the next 6 to 12 hours, finally, we will start to see some movement on sunday afternoon and then eventually pulling north and northeast ward but arthel, it's just -- i mean, it's unfolding disaster in this area, you know, i've covered a lot of the storms but the slow movers are really the worst that you -- that you

can experience obviously with the flooding rainfall, more people die in the floods and the surge from these tropical systems. arthel: that is true. janice dean thank you very much for the detailed forecast there and update for us. >> you got it. eric: important words to remember, more people die in the storm surge and floods after the storm, janice, was just highlighting north carolina, next door is south carolina, that's hit feeling the effects right now, joining me south carolina congressman who has been out looking at the damage. you just heard janice, bigger than floyd, bigger than matthew two years ago, do you think authorities are taking precautions to prepare? >> i think they have, eric as janice dean said, this is a slow-moving disaster for this storm to hoover at and 2 miles per hour, you know, we've got that issue, we've got the issue

of trees, we've got the issue of tremendous amount of water as example in union county which i represent, we've already had a fatality with a tree that fell over the roadway and a lady hit and unfortunately died but the secondary roads are really treacherous and i hope people are not goated into a sense of false security because we haven't had the outages as coastal counties have had. we are going to have anywhere from 10 to 15-inches of rain along with the gust that come with it. eric: that's very important you pointed out because often times you think it's fine, as the poor woman found, you don't know what debris, electrical power could be on the road and could be hazardous.

>> i was talking to an airline pilot and he was saying that a commercial airliner is built to land in 24 miles an hour, we have gust that are 30 to 40 and have yet to come in our area and i average people to stay off the record particularly the secondary roads and you're going to see down power lines. i went through cruising the areas in my district and there are so many lines now that have trees, limbs overhanging them and that's going to affect it and we will have more outrages than the 4,500 that the three counties in my district have now. eric: what's amazing 95 miles from the coast and you have very similar problems and flooding, devastating, flooding of of epic proportions officials expect over the next few days. >> the other thing that you see is water undermines our asphalt roads, the water has to go somewhere, i think you will see roads that are collapsing and

it's not a good time to be out, it's not a good time to take chances and don't play russian roulette, safety is number one concern. eric: how have you found the administration's response and fema and what happens after you rebuild? >> they have been phenomenal, all along through this process and as i mentioned earlier, the sheriffs, chief of police, the mayors have had 3 and 4 meetings a day, the united states custom and border patrol has gotten involved, the national guard, they've all worked to make sure that we come through this in a safe and as timely and getting prepared as we can, i don't know what the damage is going to be but it's going to be a huge amount of dollars that will have to be allocated but right now is getting through it and making sure our citizens are safe as we could be but fema and our governor have held press conferences, in fact, i listened to one about an hour ago before

i came up here and he's been phenomenal with information and evacuating the people that he needed to that were in harm's way but it's a -- south carolina and north carolina have not seen this type of disaster in a long time. >> that's the best advice, if you're not in danger stay home, listen to authorities and, of course, congressman, you know our hearts and the hearts of all america are with with the folks of your state. >> appreciate it. arthel: the white house is keeping close eye on florence and how the president and cabinet are responding this weekend, also update of hundred senior citizens evacuated along the coast of carolinas earlier this week. if you think this sale fare is low, you should see what we charge you for two checked bags... or overhead bags... or carryon bags.

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because flood waters, flood waters are expected to rise to historic damaging levels as those downpours are continuing throughout our whole weekend, the storm so far has sadly killed at least 7 people and has caused widespread power outages. steve from north carolina. >> strong winds are gone from this part of the coast up north carolina but the heavy rains continue, hour after hour more than 20-inches of rain have fallen here and we could get another 20, that makes a very dangerous situation on the roads. this morning we saw damage firsthand with the police going back to coastal area trying to check out the people who tried to ride out the storm, the damage from the wind is visible, parts of houses litter the road t-mobile homes were hit the hardest, right now the problem, the most serious problem is moving inland with flooding, police have carried out at least 4 to 500 rescue operations, the

military playing a role too, both the national guard and soldiers using high-water vehicles and helicopters to perform those rescues, the problem now is also electricity, several hundred thousand people without power, power crews are working around the clock to try and get that back up as quickly as possible be with all of the debris on the road and down power lines that's till a very dangerous job, back to you. eric: that it is, steve, thank you, arthel. arthel: and eric, hundreds of elderly people evacuated before the storm taking to the conway medical center in south carolina, the facility has a generator and weeks of food, let's see how it's holding up, joining me on the phone is brian argo, chief financial officer for conway medical center, mr. argo, first of all, thank you for taking time to talk to us, a lot of people want to know that the elderly residents are in good shape and if you could tell us how many people are at

the conway medical center right now. >> thanks for having me, right now we have about 72 eldery folks in nursing home, they decide today shelter in place and that facility is holding up very well and the hospital right now we have about 150 patients and we have seen approximately 250 emergency room visits here today alone. arthel: emergency room visits, could you give us an idea of the range of the illnesses there that you're dealing with? >> absolutely, everything from heart, broken bones from fallen debris, cuts from trying to clear the fallen debris, you know, really just all types of injuries associated with cleaning up the area outside of your home. arthel: how many doctors, nurses? >> 250 nurses, about 30 physicians, dietary staff, environmental services, so all in all we had about 300 folks that we were keeping here. arthel: and i know that you have

stockpiled food, you have abundance of food there in anticipation, what about medical supplies ahead of the storm, what were you able to stock up on? >> so we were able to get about 30 days of inventory on hand for medical supplies, we had a few things that we needed to get from some of our partners and worked with county officials to make sure we could get those things that were in high demand, blood plalets. arthel: blood pressure medication, cholesterol medication, medication to treat diabetes, how are you on medical supplies? >> absolutely, we are running little low as pharmacies in town closed. we did what we could to help keep those in stock on medication. arthel: do you know how the shipment will get there? we've had conversations with our suppliers and we are being told to expect the shipment on monday.

we've also been in communication with fema and they've made a commitment that they are going to help to if we need to. arthel: finally, how long will the generators will last now? >> we have been off 5 hours and we still have pretty good reserves left. arthel: pretty good reserves. >> about 5 more days. arthel: we hope full power is restored before that runs out. is there any way, is there some way if there are folks watching with family there, how can they contact you, is there any way to do that? >> sure, they can look us up on the website, they can reach out to the operator and they'll get you in touch. >> what's your website? >> it is conwaymedicalcenter.com. arthel: chief financial officer for the conway medical center in south carolina, thank you. >> thank you. eric: president trump has issued disaster declaration for the state north carolina, the federal government's aid can

include grants for for temporary housing and home repairs as well as low-cost loans all this as the president plans to visit the storm-torn region sometime in the coming week, kevin corke live at the white house with what we can expect, hi, kevin. >> good afternoon, my friend, suffice to say the president is showing support for those who are battling hurricane florence and are along the front lines doing the work that really has to be done to secure the health and safety of so many americans impacted by this storm, in fact, within the hour we've received this photo, the president and the vice president, one of many photos taken, receives calls cas from multiple agencies, notably, eric, the president tweeted his support for fema and administrator brock, thank you, brock, it is my honor that tweet in response to what administrator brock said we at fema we never have had the

support that we have had from this president. now that tweet is a sample of what the white house public posture has been as the storm continues to royal the southeast, despite having the full weight and support of the administration, fema leaders are wisely cautioning those in the storm zones to play it safe. >> wait on local officials for citizens to return, that opens lines of assistance and other declarations will -- we anticipate to follow. >> jeff is so right, the eastern part of the state in the northeast quarter in particular really hammered by those blistering winds, obviously down power lines, a lot of damage possible, don't take it for granted. even if you feel like in your neighborhood things are back to normal, be careful, be safe,

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arthel: i have unfortunate update as the death toll stands at 11 as a result of storm florence including a south carolina woman who is -- her vehicle was struck by a fallen tree, officials reminding everyone to stay off the road as danger has completely past.

11 lives in total have been lost to the storm and joining me now, south carolina highway patrol, trooper bob, i'm just given the vuirers updated and listeners this unfortunate update as at that time toll now standing at 11 there from florence and eric was speaking with congressman ralph norman and telling eric the sad news and turning deadly in your neck of the woods about this woman where her car was struck, can you clear that up for us and tell us more about it, sir. >> sure, the driver drove into a tree in union county. arthel: if you would talk about then the potential danger that lurks as residents try to drive to see their homes or their loved ones? >> sure, especially in the area that's affected in conway, the myrtle beach area you discourage

anyone from driving around there especially if night falls, we had over 100 trees down last night that we responded with the assistance of department of transportation we were able to remove a lot of the trees out of the roadway and we saw power lines come down with those trees in some areas, as nighttime falls, still raining, we have steady rain and expected to go tonight into tomorrow night, so roadways may start to flood, we are constantly checking those, so we definitely don't want people wandering out in those areas because the roadway may be under water on the way home or a tree across the road or power line that you may not see in areas that don't have power still. arthel: right, there's a possibility of live power lines being in the water, so that's definitely a deadly potentially deadly situation. thousands without power, tell us about that situation? >> absolutely, i checked long ago well over a hundred thousand people without power in south

carolina, in those areas that you don't have power, you will not be able to see where the power lines are, by looking at the lines, you are not going to be able to tell whether they are charge or not charge, we are trying to get the power companies in there to get the power lines out of the roadway and get the trees out of the roadway, they continue to fall and make sure the roadways are safe for emergency personnel first before we the public out in roadways. arthel: what would you say is the most concerning aspect of this storm at this point for the south carolina highway patrol troopers? >> you know, it's the rain, steady rain falling over 23 to 36 hours and continue to fall into monday, all the water, the mass water that fell in north carolina and it'll start coming down in our state and the water in up state will start flowing down in rivers so we will see these rivers start to rise over the next couple of days, you know, water is unpredictable.

you don't know where it's going to go and we continue to check roadways, if you see a barricade, please don't go around the barricade. arthel: if you see a barricade, please don't go near the barricade. >> right, don't go around the barricade because you might not see water on the roadway but the water could have washed the under bed and there's a reason why the barricade is there and when it's safe to drive through there we will certainly remove it. arthel: thank you very much trooper bob and good luck to you, sir. eric: very important advice that you never think about, if you see a road with no water, do not disobey authorities or police. controversy between mike pompeo and one of its predecessor john kerry, accusing kerry of undermining the white house by sitting down with iranian prime minister but the secretary of state is firing back at that criticism. >> every secretary of state former secretary of state

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massachusetts experiencing its first fatal shark attack in more than 8 decades. police say a shark bit a 26-year-old man riding a boogie board in cape cod and later died at the hospital, second shark attack this season, local authorities are closed beach until further notice. eric: secretary of state mike pompeo is slamming one of his predecessor former secretary of state john kerry over several private meetings kerry has had with iranian prime minister, kerry sit-downs says are normal outreach to world leaders, the folks who he has known but the revelation is outraging other who is think mr. kerry is trying to sabotage the trump administration. >> we don't negotiate, we are not involved in interfering with policy but we certainly have reasonable discussions about nuclear weapons, the world.

>> what i wish is former secretaries of state all of them from either political party not to be engaged in actively undermining u.s. policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of. eric: as you heard mr. kerry denies what he is doing is wrong, washington examiner chief correspondent susan joins us, susan, president trump was stronger than secretary of state. nation that killed our troops in iraq with ied's, funds terrorism, chants death to america, is building a new continental ballistic missiles, executes and imprisons people for political purposes, he's no longer an american official, can you tell me what exactly he is doing? >> well, one thing is clear here is that this definitely casts some bright light on theory that

the trump administration has long had that the obama administration is working to undermine his administration since before he even took office, it's after the election and that's what this tension is really about, i think, is that the trump administration has always felt that obama officials who are now former white house officials are working to undermine him and that's a case he's making, whether it's illegal it's a really -- that's another question, kerry -- eric: that's the logan act that we know all about, he's a private citizen, you can't represent the united states, kerry, he's just talking, he's known him for years. >> not only that, he said he made the state department aware of his conversations with iran and iran officials and he did so before pompeo became the new secretary of state and after he became secretary of state, so he is sort of contradicting what pompeo is saying that this came as complete surprise but i don't think that should cover up the

fact that he definitely seems to be working to undermine what trump is trying to do which is get america out of the iran nuclear deal and i think he admitted just as much on fox news the other day on dana pranino show where he's having iran wait out the trump administration and other foreign leaders should wait out the trump administration. eric: is that if your view undermining the trump administration or is that appropriate? >> it just sounds like -- sounds like he's trying to delegitimize the presidency, don't work with him, don't help him achieve agenda. eric: will it work? let me read you something for the major opposition group, look what they say, engaging in dialogue is useless as he is merely a functionary of the regime supreme leader. if history is a judge in regime will lead to nowhere as they

will never abandon suppression of iranian of people, export of terrorism and ballistic missile program, yes or no s this even going to work? >> one of the reasons why the president is trying to get us out of the iran deal is he felt it wasn't going to benefit the region and it wasn't going to stop the terrorism that iran is sponsoring there and it wasn't going to stop the nuclear program. eric: all right, we have to stop there, susan, thank you. >> thanks a lot. eric: we will be right back.

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arthel: and i does it for us. jon scott up next. eric: full continuing coverage of florence in the massive flooding did. have a good night. jon: hello, i am jon scott and this is the fox report. lawrence made landfall as a category one hurricane yesterday morning and though its winds are weakening, the rain still falling at an alarming rate. with the story moving at only three miles an hour, essentially sitting still over the region. the water threatening to top 3.5 feet in some areas. rivers and streams arising to unprecedented levels. >> the flood danger from this norm is more