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of the same story. catastrophic flash flooding all across the southeast in what's being called in south carolina a once in 500 years rainfall. five people have been killed by flooding and workers have worked to pull people out of their cars and homes. >> i've been through a few blizzards in my life but this is ridiculous. we're at a total loss. everything is gone. >> our team coverage of the floods with nbc news sarah dallof in columbia, south carolina, we also have gabe gutierrez in sarah, we'll start with you. i was mentioning the record rainfall, we expect the governor to be coming to the microphones very soon. what do you think she will be

talking about here? >> she's going to talk about this is the worst-case scenario. this is what officials were preparing for and now it's here. you can see what that amount of water in such a short time translates to here in columbia. a lake for an intersection and actually this water has been receding over the past couple hours, exposing the tops of vehicles that were stranded there. we talked to one man who was rescued along with two children from the top of his car this morning. they had been driving through the intersection when they said they were overtaken by the water, it happened so quickly they didn't even have time to react. we have seen that scene played out time and time again across columbia. rescue crews have been working overtime to do evacuations, swift water rescues, power outages, downed trees. at one point they had a hundred calls stacked up, people waiting for assistance. part of the problem is that

several dams in this area failed. gills creek, when that creek rose seven feet within three hours that shattered previous rortds. so richard a dangerous very wet situation out here, breaking records no one ever wanted to break. back to you. >> sara, what a difference 24 hours has brought to where you have been been reporting. when you and i were talking just yesterday at this time it was more quiet, shall we say. now if you could describe for us what's behind you i do see the cones in the background. i see the water. do you know how deep it is? >> we can show you to give you an idea. it's dropped down at least two feet within the last hour and a half.

you can see the water going into several businesses. a bidding blocked by the trees is listing from the power of the water. awnings knocked over. we've even seen furniture just fly by in that water. we've seen a table, garbage cans, they're gone in a few seconds so the water is misleading when you look at it. you don't know the speed of it until you see debris go by so quickly. >> and what are residents telling you? >> residents are mixed. there's those whose homes are affected. they're getting out, they're concerned for their lives. they're concerned for kids and pets. then you have another half that's not affected that's coming down here to take pictures, see what's going on. we've met a handful of people who came down here to volunteer. i mentioned the gentleman we spoke to who had been trained in swift water rescue. he and friends came down with kayaks to help the fire department, to see if there was anything they needed. the fire department telling them to stay out, they don't need their help, they don't want to put civilians at risk.

so you have a divide here. you have those who are really affected by it and you have those who are fascinated by it right now. >> fascinated. don't be too fascinated. get indoors and take care of one's self. sarah dallof is in columbia, south carolina. thank you, sarah. let's now -- again, if you're just joining us, we're waiting for the news conference from nikki haley. when that does happen we'll get to it. here we have gabe gutierrez by the coast. we heard the report from sara. she's 100 miles inland. you're in charleston. so you are right there by the shoreline. what does it look like there, gabe, by charleston? >> hey, richard, good afternoon. a lot has changed in the last hour or two. this location we've been throughout a big chunk of the day and right now you can see a tow truck has pulled up to get these abandoned cars out of here. they have been here all day, overnight. drivers got stuck there. in fact, we just saw up with of

the women that had gotten stuck in that car, she is now back. so the waters have receded in the last hours or two to do that, we are not far from downtown and last night it was incredible, torrential rains flooded this area very, very quickly. this was the wettest day on record for charleston, south carolina, and as you mentioned, richard, it got nearly a quarter of its yearly rainfall total in just 4 hours. so residents woke up and many roads were impassable. it was hard to get around in the peninsula and it's difficult to get around. there are many swift water rescues going on on the west part of charleston. we were with swift water rescue as they went door to door checking on folks. there was one woman trapped inside her home. seemed to be virtually in shock as she came on to the boat. traumatic experience for some of the people that had to live through this last night.

forecasters have been saying it would be historic and while residents are used to floods, residents say they've never seen it flood like this. many of them are surprised when they woke up this morning. again, the waters are receding a bit. it's allowed tow trucks to get these cars out of here. good news, but the concern around the state is these these rivers could swell. that they are swelling and that they could reach record flood stages by tomorrow. >> gabe, flash flooding has been the words of the day. over the last two or three hours how have the skies been different? i know we were talking with sara it was still opening up there in columbia. >> well, what you just saw happen right behind she this car came by. that could haven't happened this morning. there was too much water here. is the water was waist high or maybe chest high as we walked into this car. the waterline was right up near

the window. you see that fire truck behind me coming out and clearing this debr debris. some of the roadblocks around charleston v been taken away. it's easier to move about but officials throughout the state and governor nikki haley in the press conference will probably say if you don't have to be out stay inside. stay dry and what's changed in the last few showers that it stopped raining or tapered off. it had been raining off and on throughout the day, light rain sometimes but a big change from last night when it really came down at an incredible clip and you can see the charleston fire department has been going on performing these checks and really these swift water rescue teams that have been coming from around the state. we spoke with one group from columbia that is here hand has spent all night and into today trying to check on these residents, make sure everyone is okay. thankfully no injuries or deaths reported here in charleston overnight but as you mentioned richard, this has been a deadly couple of days n n the

carolinas. at least five people have died in these 2re7b shl raintorrenti. so residents are on edge and they are watching these rivers that could crest very soon because of this record rainfall. >> talking about rivers that can crest, gabe, just nrt of you at the coastline at myrtle beach we're seeing wave action there it looks tough to tell that we're seeing low waves at the moment. do you know what the shoreline is looking like by charleston? historic and beautiful city you're very close to that area. >> certainly very beautiful city most people will agree with you on that. i haven't spent too much time it has been difficult to get to different parts of charleston we spent a lot of our day in this

neighborhood, went to the west part of charleston and spent time in those neighborhoods over there. high tide was concerning? terms of waves in the last few hours, thankfully the waters have been recreting here. we feel a few sprinkles right now but it seems to have gotten a breather. >> when you look at the last 24 hours, we saw the fire truck people have been reacting to the need of the community. that has that increased in frequency? what have they told you in terms of their ability to react to emergencies that might be happening? as we know nikki haley will be coming to the microphone soon and she'll probably talk about how quickly they are able to get to those who need help.

>> again, forecasters had been predicting this for several days so local officials say they know to expect a very massive rainfall a that they were prepared for this. hundreds of emergency calls pulled into dispatch centers here in the charleston area. as you mentioned there were dozens of swift water rescues just for the charleston -- in the charleston area 37 of them overnight and several hundred of them throughout the sedate. so the officials, local officials here this is an area that's used to flooding. you can't be in a peninsula without experiencing some coastal flooding but this is something that especially many residents we've talked to have never seen. some are making the best of it, though. some are in their neighborhoods and they're trying to make the best of a bad situation and trying to just stay home and enjoy times with their families on sundays but this has been a

devastating ordeal for many others who had water comes in their homes and spent the night in emergency shelters. several have opened up in this area. as i talk to you right now, the skies opened up again and we're feeling light rain again. this is something residents don't want to see. richard? >> gabe, on a sunday where most of it might be going to church, instead they were probably going to get away from what are situations that are quite difficult for them. gabe gutierrez in charleston, thank you so much. i appreciate all of that. for the latest on the storm's track, let's go to meteorologist chana mendiola. so as you've just heard, now, we went from columbia to charleston and myrtle beach, we've covered that 100 by 100 by 100 triangle. we still have rain coming down. what does it look like for that area we were just talking about? >> well, richard, we've seen the center of this storm yesterday

surrounded by the charleston area. now it's moved up north into the columbia area, myrtle beach will continue to see rain there. but this is a historical amount. we can't say this enough. i have not seen this much rain in north carolina. we're continuing to see numbers rise. i recall a couple years ago in boulder, colorado, they had 18 inches of rain. that was historic. i'll take you to live radar where we've been tracking this. you can see the heaviest part of the band is now heading towards myrtle beach and then we can see that rain here on the streets. also just inundating the roads. they're telling people to stay home, you can't drive through the roads. even as little as two feet of rain could be problematic so stay home and don't call 911 unless it's a emergency. we'll take the live radar on the big screen and i'll show you where this rain is, how long it will last. we'll see this band move north

into the border of south carolina and also northern carolina and we'll see what heavy rain move into columbia. some of that break area is around charleston so they'll see that break for now but more rain is in store for tonight. i'll show you the futurecast as we were wondering okay, when is this going to go away? how long will this last? we're seeing the heaviest band through myrtle beach. georgetown getting a lot of rain, at least four feet of rain already on the ground. people are reporting in certain spots that that rain moves down through the rivers and inundates the roads here. we'll continue to see this through 8:00 to want and restrengthen the storm closer to the georgetown area north of charleston right around 1:00 a.m. this morning. so the rain is not going to stop but the good news here is we are one quarter away from this being over. we'll see the heaviest rain move out of the area and pull away around tomorrow afternoon and then some scattered showers are still possibility through the charleston area and along the coast so it's not over just yet but the worst i think will be over in just a few hours.

as for rain total amounts. we'll see from six to ten inches of rain anywhere from the heaviest spots charleston inland into columbia. that's what we're looking at by the time this is over and we'll continue to see these flood threats with a flash flood watch for many parts of the area continuing throughout the area. also keeping our eyes through the coast as heavy on shore winds will create problems from tides and millions of dollars in damages to beaches and dunes. we're keeping a close eye on this. we'll have update this is afternoon. richard? >> joaquin with that one-two punch not necessarily here in person, shall we say, but we are feeling it. the key thing is we'll see the worst of in the the next two or three hours. >> we'll keep an eye on this. >> shanna, thank you so much. we'll stay in that part of the country, south carolina, that's where those group of microphones are at. we expect nikki haley, the governor of south carolina, to tell us what is the situation rand they able to keep up with

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. the other major story we're following today, of course, is the story coming out of oregon, but first i want to show you these pictures coming out of south carolina. we've got on the left hand 150id what we expect to be nikki haley, the governor of south carolina to be speaking and the right-hand side we've got the pictures and the pictures are telling the entire story how cars are strewn around the streets that are normally bustling because this is 3:00 in the afternoon. a church day in south carolina but not the case today. we'll continue to watch what is happening there. when nikki haley does come to the microphones we want to get to her to find out what's the latest. as i was saying, we're going to get to the story out of oregon because now we are just three, four days after since the

tragedy hit roseburg, iowa. a new twist today in the oregon college shooting that left nine people dead. the roseburg news review reports the emergency alert system at umpqua community college failed to notify students and faculty thursday morning as an armed man stalked the campus. the college's board of trustees says it plans to investigate the claim but it's one of many questions still unanswered about 2 massacre. msnbc's morgan radford is there today. what do you know? >> reporter: we're standing out side of mercy medical center where two survivors are being treated. three more are being treated at sacred heart hospital and we're learning more details not only about the shooter but the circumstances of that day's attack. for example, the emergency system that was supposed to go off apparently did not work in fact, on september 21 there was a trial run and supposed to be a

crawling message that would come across the computer screens of students and faculty alike and there were supposed to be text messages so at least a student or faculty member's phone would vibrate. on thursday that didn't happen. so now we're investigating the story to find out if, in fact, that could open up the school for potential lawsuits. we're learning more details about the shooter himself. we've spoken to the family of lacy scroggins who was 18 years old. she was in the classroom that the shooter entered. according to her father who spoke with miguel almaguer, he said this student was in the classroom just days prior and was talkative, verbal, speaking not only to the faculty members but also students asking lots and lots of questions. so you can imagine, richard, lacy's surprise when he came into the classroom and, according to her father, shot a bullet through the ceiling and after which began to shoot students. in fact, one of those students who was shot and killed was

20-year-old trevin aunsbach. his blood spilled on to her and she sat there frozen but because of that it caused the shooter to ask the woman "is she did?" at which point he assumed lacy was dead and shot the student beside her. >> as it reads, the father said "i truly believed trevin saved my daughter's life and these stories continue to, of course, strike a very emotional court for so many. morgan radford live in roseburg, arkansas, thank you for that. the u.s. coast guard has found a number of items in the water searching for a cargo ship. the life jackets and containers have not been confirmed to be from the missing "el faro." kristen, how significant are

these discovery ies? >> richard, they're trying to figure out what this means to the fate of that ship is. what happened to the el faro. what we nose is they are calling it a debris field so multiple pieces consistent with what would have been on the ship found floating in the area near where it was last seen. they confirmed yesterday that one of the life rings was from the "el faro." they've found more today. they found life jackets and the shippi shipping agent here tells us they also found a container, one of their sister ships moved into this area and has been searching. it found a container which appears to be from the "el faro" and also an oil slick in the area. this is where the families have gathered here at 5:00. they are just waiting for any

word. earlier one of the mothers came out, danielle randolph. her mother tells us she gotten a e-mail from her daughter and ed read about the storm that they were going directly into the hurricane, that the seas were rough. she also then went on to say that her daughter always told her if something happened to her while she was at sea she would have died doing what she loved. that said, her mother is holding on to hope, remaining positive. the families still believe that they are going to be found. they know these were experienced sailors. they know that they were led by a captain with more than 20 years experience so they are hopeful that search will find their loved ones. richard? >> this is a gargantuan ship. we've all seen them. the possibility of those syncing, giving the information

that it may have been listing to and fro, what's the possibility of this happening? >> they were clearly having problems. the ship was listing 15 degrees, they reported that back before they lost communications. the crew had lost water. they were trying to troubleshoot this loss of propulsion. basically they still had ste steering but without forward motion you can't do much to avoid a hurricane. we know the waves were upwards of 50 feet as the eye of joaquin was passing by. very rough conditions. the coast guard says it needs to continue searching to try and see what type of things they can pull out of the water. >> kristen dalghren, thank you so much for that.

also developing, in the city of kunduz a humanitarian crisis growing more dire by the hour. it comes after a suspected u.s. air strike blew apart a doctors without border yesterday. the humanitarian group is pulling out. the pentagon acknowledges a strike happened there and is not ruling out the possibility of collateral damage. jon yang is following the latest. conflicting reports about why this happened and who's to blame. what do we know? >> defense secretary ash carter told reporters traveling with him that the situation in his words is complicated and confused. and that's an understatement we know at the same time the united states report that they were

fired on. this doctors without border hospital came under fire for about an hour. every 15 minutes there was precisely targeted bombardments. the afghans stay there were militants firing from the hospital building. that they're the ones firing on the u.s. special forces troops. doctors without borders says that can't happen. that it's standard procedure gate closed once the sunsets and doctors without borders has a strict no-gun policy. they treat anybody, no matter which side they're fighting on. but there is a no gun policy. you have to leave your guns at the door before you go in. the investigation that the pentagon is carrying out is to see whether that air strike targeting the hospital h.

doctors without border says this is a presumptive war crime that took place and they want an investigation by an independent agency. they say the pentagon can't do a fair job of investigating this because they may have been involved. this is all going to go on for a while and one point is that any investigation is going to be hampered by the fact that kunduz is still a battle zone. there's still fighting going on between afghan forces trying to dislodge the taliban. it's going to be very difficult for investigators to interview anybody. so there is a great fog of war here but what we know is that the doctors without borders hospital has been destroyed. they've pulled out. they say it's beyond repair. 22 people are dead, 10 staff member members from doctors without borders and 12 patient, including six intensive care

unit patients and three children. richard? >> john, we have to go but very quickly. how important is this hospital. because you just said it. this is a war zone, this is a hospital. they had patients, it's been described as one of the only advanced hospitals in the area. >> it was the only trauma center. trauma treatment center in the area. fighting is still going on. people are still wounded and there's no place for them to turn for help. >> john yang live in london on the story of the hospital struck in afghanistan. thank you so much. devastating floods in the carolinas. thousands underwater. homes swept from their foundations. motorists trapped in their cars. we'll take you live to areas hardest hit and the news conference we expect very soon from the south carolina governor. we take you there live. what's ahead? we have the forecast. nobody told me to expect it... ...intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. it's not likely to go away on its own.

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moving north. the video you see here is new from a drone. you get a sense of what the streets are looking like now. not so good. cars are submerged in charleston right on the coast. thousands are without power as rains continue to pound that region. a dark 3:30 hour. driving in many areas, you can't do it because of water that's two, three feet deep. the roads throughout the state, including i-95, have been closed and everyone is being advised to stay home and off the roads or get to shelters. we continue to wait for a news conference. we expect the south carolina governor to walk through that door very soon. that's nikki haley and if there's any indication about what she's going to be saying, that they need to stay inside if you're living in the states and this the government services there are certainly facing some

challenges on this sunday. and we'll get to that when it happens. south carolina not the only state getting hit by this weather system. up and down the east coast residents are getting cloppered by high winds, heavy rains and rough surf. the weather channel's mike seidel in virginia beach. mike, i was watching your reports earlier on and you were getting inundated, sea foamed as you described. and that sea foam behind you, is there more of it, less of it? are you seeing bigger or smaller waves from two or three hours ago? >> these waves, richard, have not backed off and they won't until sometime tomorrow. we're looking at 10 to 1251 footersment you can see what's happened. it's taking out the fence. about two days ago we were out here and we were standing about here at about this high up. so we've lost a lot of beach. not only here but from the jersey shore all the way down to the carolinas there are big cuts

in the beach. these waves here, offshore buoys checking in with 18 footers. as far as the wind it's right at my back from the northeast. around 30 miles an hour, gusting at times as much as 50. look at that wave come in and hit that barrier of sand. you can feel the force of the water and feel it running in. the highest tide of this entire event since late last week is occurring right now. after this the tides will slowly back off. here's the reason we've had so many issues. persistence. with a tropical storm or hurricane it will go by, you have strong winds for a day. but this is day nine out of the past 12. we had five days last week and this is day four tomorrow winds will back off north of here but the virginia/north carolina coast will get battered through midday monday.

a lot of sand has been lost. property damage has been minimal and we haven't had the rain like they've had to the south. but you can get a sense of how worked up this atlantic is and this high tide has rearranged the coastline on virginia beach. fortunately the water is still warm, mid-70s and the air temperature the 74 so it's not as uncomfortable as it may seem from the pictures here as i get hit by the sea foam. >> that's always a question, how warm it is, how cool it is, you said you were there the last two or three days. can you walk to wear the shoreline was two or three days ago and where it is now? >> i can tell you when we came out here on thursday -- what is this sunday? i've lost track of days. it was out to about here. we've lost from that fenceline here we've lost about 15 to 18 feet of beach.

we've lost a lot of elevation. i walk over here and maybe you can get a sense of the cut in the beach up here. this is about a four-foot cut. this is some of the sand the corps of engineers threw up here in the springtime. they didn't get a full beach repleni replenishment. sand bridge? they have plenty of sand 2. .1 cubic million yards by the core in twart and the beach walk n the bard walk in virginia beach, that's plenty wide but even at high tide two-thirds of that is underwater, another day half of this and the locals will be happy to get rid of this wind. >> make, 74 degrees right now and the wind speed. does that tell you we're moving towards the end? what are you watching when you're measuring the temperature in the air? >> what we're watching is the pressure gradient. the reason we've had this wind

ott only in here but along the east coast on the beaches is we've had high pressure to the north and that is very realistic this time of the year. as you get into september and october these highs build in and they become arctic. then we have low pressure to the south. even though joaquin is real off the coast we have general low pressure so we have gene play around joaquin, around high pressure. joaquin will go hundreds of miles offshore tonight and tomorrow but we have that pressure gradient and the atmosphere likes to adjust everything. the atmosphere doesn't like a change in pressure so it creates wind. so this pressure gradient -- there goes another wave will be will fall apart and relax itself tonight and tomorrow. as a result, those ie so bsobar be farther and farther apart. the winds will back off so by wednesday it will be a different world and without the wind pushing the water up the tides will return to formal and, in

fact, it's been so extreme that some of the low tides here have been as high as the high tides should be and some of the water has been running three to four feet above average. that's how crazy it's been. even up to the chess peek bay tunnel they have level two wind restrictions because winds are blowing across that bridge tunnel at 50 miles an hour. >> that's a great banner for our viewers at home to put at the bottom of the screen. low tides are as high as the high tides are normally. make, thank you so much, great reporting as always. >> thank you, richard, good to talk to you. now to oregon. three days out from the shooting at umpqua community college and the small community of roseburg is still struggling take make sense of the tragedy. matt pierce, the national reporter for the "l.a. times" has been on the ground in roseburg since the day of the shooting. what have you seen in the last 24 hours, matt? >> i've seen remarkable coming

together by the community. i sat in on a church service this morning where people with clabing and praying and cheering and the pass store a gentleman by the name of randy skrog gins, i interviewed him last night. his daughter lacy survived the shooting. she was in the classroom. he told the story about how she survived and how the gunman asked some of her classmates if they were christians and shot at them and she survived because one of her old high school classmates either fell or moved his body on top of her body and the gunman thought she was dead. so she was one of the lucky few who got out of there. >> you're talking about randy scroggins. how was he when he was expressing that story about his daughter being saved by a fellow young person? >> when i was on his porch with him last night he was very emotional. he struggled at times to recount

his story. he was telling the story his daughter told him because she was too traumatized to speak to the media. at times he broke crying and he told me he believes his daughter's life was saved by treven because he put his body on top of hers. she was so grateful for that. >> there's another thing that's been happening as the community tries to heal. one of those items is that there have been these concerts or playings by the roseburg high school band. they've been going around to different places like costco and others to try to bring music to the healing process. what have you heard and what do you know about that? >> well, it's students who want to get together and bring music to the community. some joy. the reaction here is -- it's not one of everyone's just crying all the time, walking around with sad faces.

life is going on. this is a small town. almost everyone you run into, almost everyone you talk to knew one of the victims or had some kind of connection to the victims so you see a lot of people going around and doing things for each other so they can comfort each other and remind themselves that their community still exists. this wasn't the end of roseburg. >> strong town of 22,000 people. matt pierce from the "l.a. times." you can catch his articles, go to latimes.com and look at his story about randy scroggins, his daughter and the person that saved him. we'll follow this story throughout the next couple hours. we'll take you back to south carolina, nikki haley, the governor there, coming to microphones to discuss her state, charleston, columbia, myrtle beach, the erosion that we've been talking about what we just heard from mike seidel. it has not been an easy time. charleston a beautiful town and for those who know it understand it's a muggy town because it's

right by the coastline and nikki haley gathering her team that's worked so hard to try to prepare her state. let's listen in. >> we're ready to give you a lot of information right now. this has been -- the one thing i want people to understand is when you think about what we're sitting in right now we are at a thousand-year level of rain in parts of the low country. what does that mean? we haven't seen this level of rain in the low country in a thousand years. that's how big this is. that's how south carolina is -- what south carolina is dealing with right now. the river is at its highest level since 1936. that's why we keep telling people to stay off the roads, stay out of the roadways. stay clear. we'll talk a little bit more about that but i want to give you as much information as we have. this is all hands on deck so there's a lot of information. the main thing we're dealing

with is it's literally changing by the minute so we're dealing with those issues as we can. i want to turn it over to our climatologist and let him give you an update and i'll take it back from there. >> good afternoon, i'm from the state climate office. we're watching a persistent plume of moisture coming in off the ocean. this is what has delivered this rain throughout the evening. we'll continue to see light rain, rain showers throughout the mid-lands all the way to myrtle beach. there are some heavier showers in myrtle beach. we're expecting heavier showers to diminish by midnight tonight. we will maintain the rain showers through monday, however those will becoming less and less productive. we're anticipating two to six inches of rain from columbia to myrtle beach and not

anticipating any significant clearing or sunny skies until tuesda tuesday. >> thank you, that's the importance. regardless of where you are stay home and off the roadways, we have a lot of resources at play. we've got 255 active troopers on the road with more available. we have a thousand doth maintenance workers working every single shift as we go forward. we have half of our dnr officers activated right now. 320 of our sled officers on standby. we had and really planned ahead in terms of sandbags. we were looking at 200,000 that we've had. we've used about 30,000 plus up until this time. we have activated are 600 of our national guardsmen. we've got 500 additional that are immediately available and on call and then we've got 8,000 on stand

standby. so the national guard has been on call since thursday when we set off this state of emergency. the calls for assistance that we've seen so far have been 754, that's just in the last 12-hour period, am i right, dr. smith? that we are looking at. 323 collisions just in that time frame. we unfortunately have had three fatalities through this weather event so far and we are looking at swift water rescue teams are very much at play here. we have eight deployed. we're receiving four from tennessee, five more on the way. that's something we're continuing to do and make sure we have on standby as we need going forward. we have 11 aircraft available for aerial rescues as we need to are deployed currently right now and 106 high water vehicles. so there's equipment and people and first responders on the roads, that's why we need everybody else to stay off the

roads. other states have been incredibly helpful. i communicated with governor pat mccory from north carolina who said hi will help in any way he can. we've received four national guard helicopters from north carolina, four additional swift water rescue teams from tennessee, the incident manager team is on its way from florida. that's been helpful but federal resources have been here since thursday and that's been unbelievably helpful in terms of we have a fema incident management team, swift water rescue teams are coming in from fort bragg and we've got helicopters on the scene. so our goal is all hands on deck what we are going to continue to say is if you are in your house, stay in your house. this is not something to be out taking pictures of. this is not something you want your kids playing in, the water isn't safe and a lot of areas where you see this deep water, it has bacteria in it.

we've seen areas of the interstate that are right now clear but there will be a watch where it gets real deep. you have to turn around. it's not worth doing it. we are in the process of closing all the interstates around the columbia area, that's changing literally as we go. it's not good to get outside. we'll have another meeting and conference call again at 5:00. i'll be heavily encouraging county office to close tomorrow which automatically we'll suggest schools close and the main reason far is this won't clear up until at least tuesday or wednesday so what we need from a state perspective is give us the space we need. i need all my first responders on there. i need my utility crewmen getting power back on. we need to make sure we have everybody from dot able to open those roads or close them as needed. i think we have -- right now we're looking at 25,000 outages but our utilities have been

fantastic trying to turn that back up. some areas are easier than others but so much of what we need -- this is heavy equipment on the roads and when you look at that high water -- those high water vehicles and those things, need to get through in and auto. we've worked very closely wh lexington county today. we know they're going through issues. we need everybody to stay home. myrtle beach has gone through a terrible time in terms of that but this is an incident we've never had before. when we dealt with the two winter storms before we said that was the first time we'd dealt with that. this is different than a hurricane because it's water and slow moving and sitting and we can't take the water out so as long as it sits we need to do the best we can at controlling the environment around it and the situation around it. we very much are focused on maps and the maps that we're looking at right now are what the status of our police stations are, what the status of our fire departments are, what the status

of schools and hospitals and shelters and where they are and what's slow lying, nursing homes, very much focused on that, we had roeper down a little bit. we got roeper hospital back up but we have one emergency room down for can tamm nation so these things are changing this n is changing fluidly. there is an emergency management division office in every county and so the state has -- state officials in those counties are thering going through a hard time and there's constant communication that has every agency there, so we'll continue to do that, but we can't stress enough, we'll do our part and this is about the citizens of south carolina, stay home and don't take pictures of it. watch tv and tv has done a great job of telling what this is and not only that, we have amazing websites that will give you everything. i know d.o.t. has a fantastic facebook page that shows road closures. public safety has a great facebook page that talks about the incident and all of this

feeds into the emergency management division website which will tell you really in real time where we're seeing map, flooding and what we're expecting to do. the one thing i've asked secretary hall to do is to take precaution s through this entir time and not waiting until something happens and getting in front of it and if we think there will be flooding and we're closing them and we've been doing that just to discourage anybody from going that way and i'll reiterate again, and i know that director smith will do that. if for any reason you're in your car and you see water, turn around, don't drown. it doesn't matter how much you hit the gas, you'll get stuck and to have three fatalities, that's three too many and now i have a few people that will add to what i've had to say and we'll first start off with general livingston. >> thank you, governor.

based on the governor's priority, the national guard and all state agencies are supporting county and city efforts throughout the state focusing on safety issues, a rescue operations, evacuations and detouring the public away from areas of danger. then we're concentrating on restoring infrastructure. if you see a lot of water going by and there's nobody there. that doesn't mean nobody's working. we're over where people are in need. we just completed two aerial rescues in rich land and sumpter counties. we have high-water vehicles down in summerton working in georgetown and working down in charleston and now working in the lexington and richland county area. if you see an incident, call

your county. call 911 and it will go through that county lightning fast and get to those proper resources. one of the instances in richland county, we had a mother and child stranded and a rescue worker went to help and he got stranded and we had to use rescue to get them and started picking people off rooftops. this is system is very immediate and it's very quick and make sure you keep your counties involved and call 911 and let us know what's going on out there, and the governor is talking about the websites out there. look at the websites and look at the national guard website. you can see what's going on rather than getting out there and possibly getting yourself in trouble. so we don't want to have to rescue you, too. governor? >> thank you, general. now we'll turn it over to director stenson. >> thank you, governor.

i coordinate the state response on emergency situations like what we have right now. essentially what that means is we're providing local support to local authorities when they need additional resources and can't respond within their confines. that's our primary role right now. we've had 80 requests and we've fulfilled ten of them so far. some of them are pending and we have a number of state agencies that are working a number of issues right now to include the swiftwater rescue teams and high-mobility vehicles and feeding, sheltering and pretty much everything we do when we have a disaster situation. we've got personnel from the state emergency management division that are embedded in the counties that are most distraught right now and basically that helps facilitate the request to make sure we've got an on the ground presence to take care of whatever happens down there. we've also, before the event did

a great deal in terms of staging events and staging personnel, rather, and making sure that we can respond quickly because basically that's what we want to do is once we do get the request, we want to be able to reduce the response time. so thank you very much. >> i want to add to something to director stenson's remarks. a lot of this was pre-planned as we got the weather reports early on and we started to bring resources in on thursday. we have excess resources waiting for assignments right now. the resources are there. do not be concerned that we're going to run out of resources. the governor's done a good job to get all of us to get ahead of that curve so we are going to be prepared for future missions. so resources are in good shape. thank you. >> thank you, general. now we'll turn it over to secretary hall.

>> thank you, governor. with regard to transportation network in the state we have obviously closed numerous roads and bridges in the state due to flooding issues and concerns about the structural health of our bridges several of our bridges are under water currently. we've not had the opportunity to review those bridges to determine when and if we can re-open those structures. the charleston area, the georgetown area of the state continue to be hard hit and the midlands area is the focus of ours currently in the state and the columbia area in particular and basically the p.d. area of the state, as well with regard to road and bridge closures. we have several engineers in addition to maintenance employees that are out on the roads and bridges, checking and assessing situations. if there's any doubt whatsoever we're going to go ahead and close the facility to make sure safety and public health and

life is paramount in this situation and we're not going to risk any loss of life with regards to infrastructure. along those lines are major interstate facilities in the state. i-26 at the very end and the charleston area remains closed at this time heading into charleston. i-95, the section between florence all of the way down to i-26 is in the process of being closed and re-routed. i-126 heading into downtown colombia the large bridge there over the broad river, we're closing that, as well, and then a section of i-20 along montt cell on road in the columbia area are closed and we are expecting the need to close portions of i-77, and some additional portions of i-26 and some additional portions of i-20 in and around the columbia area due to rising water levels and just being able to have people not drive through water and risk any kind of damage.

we are continuing to assess, blossom and gervais street in the area and down the street from the lake murray dam. safety is our top priority and we request unless we have to for emergency situations we request that there is no travel in the roads at this time. gove governor? >> thank you, secretary hall. now i'll turn it over to director smith with the department of public safety. >> thank you, governor. good afternoon. as the governor mentioned earlier, please stay off the roads. as i said before, that's the best advice that we can give you to stay home and stay off the roads. the governor also mentioned the phrase turn around, don't drown. we seriously mean that. there are dangers underneath that standing water, again, down power line, tree branches and dangerous chemicals. so we ask that you not use water for recreational purposes. you never know what's in that

water. we will continue to work with s.d.o.t. regarding road closures and routes and this has been a tedious process for us because the situations are changing. sometimes right away and immediately. so we're partnering with sdot to make sure that the proper precaution is taken to secure those roadways. we will maintain adequate staffing for this event. the governor mentioned earlier we have 255 dps officers out on the roads now, and that number could be increase in the event that we need to. working with our state partners which it is ppp, we can also tap into that resource to augment our staffing, as well. during our operational period from 6:00 p.m. yesterday to 6:00 a.m. this morning we responded to 754 calls for service. 323 of those calls were

collisions. we've had five fatalities since the emergency declaration has been established, three of the five fatalities were weather-related. down in the summerton area apartment complex was under water. s.l.e.d. coordinated that event and sent partners to respond to that. 15 s.l.e.d. agents and five ppp agents and seven dnr officers and two troopers responded to that event there and were summoned to assist. i think we assisted with over 3 300 tenants being evacuated from that complex. with respect to dnr and berkeley, clairton, rich land and lexington county, they're performing search and rescue missions and basically people are trapped either in homes or cars. whatever it takes they're there