i was listening to you talk to dianne gallagher earlier.he was talking about seeing transformers light up the sky in that kind of bluish ominous kind of creepy blue light. we haven't seen that here. there's still lights on in a lot of buildings here in wilmington, they're in the hotel here. some buildings have generators, as well. a wind gust right there. but obviously, power outages is something we'll be watching very carefully and obviously, they are expecting it, there are already power outages in the state. they're expecting much more over the next couple days. we've talked about it before. with that much water on the ground, power lines potentially down, it's a real danger for people which is why the mayor, the county commissioner are telling people to stay inside. there's five shelters. you were giving the number statewide. there's five here in wilmington. they expanded capacity last night because they started filling up. so people this is the point we're well past the point of you stay at home or you stay in the shelter. you don't go

our own dianne gallagher followed a team along to basically chronicle the work that they do and found herself in an unpredictable, unexpected situation. take a look. >> you know, situations like this really do illustrate just the kind of danger that these first responders take on when they come out to do these rescues. we were embedded with the north carolina national guard. well were in a vehicle just like this one here with a different paint job on. it's called lmtv. you can see the area with the canvas over it. it's empty except for some seats there. we were sitting, myself, my producer jay, my photographer mark, with a member of the north carolina national guard back there. we were on our way to rescue three people who were trapped by floodwaters. now, look, the neighborhood we were in was extremely flooded. the water was very high. and it appears one portion of it, the road had washed out in a certain area. and so the back wheels of this type of vehicle here ran off the side. it caused the vehicle to kind of dip down. we started taking water on in that back area where we were sit

in fact, let's check in with dianne gallagher. are you still -- i can't see you obviously. tell me, you know, what's been going on. >> so anderson, we're in a new boat now. those of you who saw us before can probably see this is a boat we went to go get. this is part of our mission here. that's our old boat. we apologize for the bar. but they're coming through. we're in a deeper area now. you may have seen before where my friend mitchell was walking next to us to get us through here. you can see some of the street signs, where it has risen up to. we're in river bend. they experienced an extraordinary amount of flooding here. and a lot of people have said that they weren't expecting it to flood like this here because maybe their street was a little higher than, say, their neighbor's street. they weren't expecting their street to flood, but the problem was their neighbor's street prevented them from getting out and so forth. we're going with them. i'm going to talk to mitchell while he's guiding our boat here. mitchell, you guys are volunteers from maryland. you came down her

ask your doctor about once-weekly trulicity. >>> we have an update with dianne gallagher in new bern.d they were actually caught up in the flood waters themselves on the way to a rescue. she's back on the phone with me right now. i assume everything's safe. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, kate, right now, my producer, jay tim garcia and my photographer and myself we are now on the closest thing you could call dry land. we're fine. just about, you know, ankle or a little more deep. a boat came and got us from the overturned military vehicles with charlie company out of we are waiting for the guardsmen to come in. the boat of the man who lives here in new bern, he is going back to get them now. his brother is there and we're waiting, watching. we were on our way to rescue three people from the rising floodwaters, from hurricane florence. it appears the road is washed out. this is extremely deep water. even in the boats. we were in an extremely large vehicle. it appears the road must have watched out completely underneath because it just disappeared. we began taking in water in the

dianne gallagher was with with some of them earlier.ly do illustrate just the kind of danger that these first responders take on when they come aught to do these rescue cans. we were embed would the north carolina national guard. just with a different paint job. it's called an lmtv and you see that area with the canverse over it, it's empty except for some seats. we were sitting. with with a member of the north carolina national guard. we were on our way to rescue three people who were trapped by flood waters. the neighborhood we were in was extremely flooded. the water was very high and it appears one portion of it the road had washed out in a certain yare juand so the back wheels of the this type of vehicle ran off the side. it caused the vehicle to dip down. we started taking water on in that bake area where we were sitting. the national guard, they train for stuff just like this. they did everything they needed to do. made sure we had floitation devices. but we didn'tent end up needing that because there was a boat with new bern tee

dianne gallagher was with some of those rescuers earlier and when the national guard members drove into water, they found themselves in an unpredictable situation. take a look. >> reporter: situations like this really do illustrate just the kind of danger that these first responders take on when they come out to do these rescues. we were embedded with the north carolina national guard. we were in a vehicle just like this one, just with a different paint job on it. called an lmtv. and you can see the area with the canvas, it is empty except is for some seats there. we were sitting, myself, producer, my photographer, with a member of the north carolina national guard. we were on our way to rescue three people who were trapped by floodwaters. the neighborhood that we were in was extremely flooded. the water was very high. and it appears that one portion of it, the road had washed out in a certain area. and so the back wheels of this type of vehicle here ran off the side, it caused the vehicle to kind of dip down. we started taking water on in that back area where we were sitting. now look,

dianne gallagher is in new bern, north carolina. and what we've seen is that the bigger cities have been okay so far. but it is the smaller places where there is really concentrated pain and diane, you got a personal taste of that today. thank god your okay. tell us what you saw today. >> reporter: chris, so we've been going out with these rescue groups throughout this kind of -- first of all seeing what they're up against, to show people just how dire the situation is and to get a look at the flooding. now i want to tell you, we were embedded with the north carolina national guard earlier and in a vehicle that looks just like this one except it was painted differently. so it is an l mtv and we were in the back area -- you see that in the back there and they had members up in the front and we were riding in the back with another member of the north carolina national guard and in a heavily flooded area on our way to rescue three people here in new bern and heavily flooded area when it appears that part of the road had washed away and

gallagher. trace, what hav have you got on this. >> you have to remember dianne feinstein got this letter back in she then met with brawfn questioned him twice during the confirmation hearing and sent written follow-up questions and never one time raised the issue. feinstein says she was trying to protect the woman's anonymity. the letter has been given to white house counsel don mcgahn as well as senators on capitol hill. unclear how many have actually read it ache says sun named woman who claims brett kavanaugh tried to force himself on her on a locked room at high school party some 35 years ago. kavanaugh says quoting i categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. did i not do this back in high school or at any time. republicans are rallying behind kavanaugh. as you mentioned senate judiciary chair chuck grassley today released that letter signed by 65 women who knew brett kavanaugh back in high school defending him as a good person. and while some liberal groups are calling on kavanaugh to withdraw democratic senators have been quiet and swing vote republican senators susan collins o