>>> returning to our story, >> dawn in fayetteville, north carolina. it had been a long night at the home of major david shannon, now deceased. but the investigation was just beginning. the only thing that was perfectly clear was that somebody wanted this man dead, wanted it badly. shot him in the head and the chest while he slept. his wife joan sleeping soundly, then startled away beside him. >> she had seen the shadow of a person, just subscribed the subject as a male subject. >> just like that, in a split second, the kids lost a father. and their life together over their 11-year marriage was over. >> david and i had a good marriage. if he were alive, he would say, we had a good marriage. i do miss him. i miss what we had. there's not anybody that would ever be able to replace him. >> the murder of an army major was big news in fayetteville, especially an officer working in special ops. murder is rarely strictly a local event. its waves are felt all over. and news of this one skipped upcountry and crossed the windy prairie to a place called langdon,

tonight, fayetteville is in crisis, and it's only going to get worse. the cape fear river and cross creek raising more than 2 inches an hour. as we look from above, you can see downtown fayetteville from a drone shot. you can see a good portion of the city is under water. it started out the cape fear river was at 35 feet. it's now at 40. it will go up another 22 feet by tuesday, cresting at a record 62 plus feet. because of that, the authorities in cumberland county went a mile inland from the banks of the river on both sides telling residents they had to leave 2,800 homes there. people taking off into evacuation centers tonight. this is a helpless situation as people watch this all unfold. >> kate. kerry. thank you so much. along with all the heartache, there are a lot of stories of neighbors helping neighbors. on friday here on "nightly news" i told you the sto charles powell who spent $1,000 of his own money to rent a big pump to save his neighborhood froflooding. it seemed to be working at the time, but today things got decidedly worse. >> oh, charl

this is a picture of right near downtown fayetteville. that's about a half mile from where we are right now. that river is moving up toward the downtown area. they've not seen anything like this since 1945. they believe downtown will be okay, but they're concerned that it's getting close to city hall, their visitors bureau, and several businesses in downtown fayetteville, as well. authoritieies here say they hav done everything they can. and at this point, it is just sitting back and hoping that everything goes according to plan. dave, christine? >> miguel, thank you. >>> add this to the losses from florence. north carolina's department of agriculture says 3.4 million chickens and turkeys have been killed along with 5,500 hogs. that's already double the toll from hurricane matthew in 2016. and numbers are expected to go higher. >>> president trump standing by his unprecedented order to declassify documents and texts related to the russia investigation. intelligence officials have voiced concern that leasing materials in an active -- relea

it was launched by councilman jim are, fayetteville city council.idespread damage here, there was one loss of life in this storm in fayetteville and it will cost millions of dollars once they get into recovery mode. we spoke with the mayor here about what he needs and his message he had for donald trump. >> i would like to thank them for expediting the emergency declaration and i ask he allow a flow of resources to get from the federal level to the state. hopefully those resources float from the federal level to the state. i ask him to make sure any barriers are removed as soon as possible. >> reporter: fayetteville dodged a bullet because 30 miles south of here they had 36, 3 feet inches, 3 feet of rain, 15 or 16 in the city, had it been different it could have been much worse. the president touring the new bern area closer to the coast and south carolina and here was his message. >> we are getting all teed up, you're going to need it and we will be supplying it and there will be nothing left undone. >> reporter: the evacuation of fayetteville has

pretty high for now there's not much they can do but watch and wait kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. years of conflict in south sudan has left its p.r. river meteorologists predict that it could reach flood levels as soon as sunday morning cresting two days later and the flood waters they could linger for weeks with businesses closed and close to a million people already without power some restless residents ventured outside to get a look i am a little bit surprised it is. different like i always want to get there pretty high for now there's not much they can do but watch and wait kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. years of conflict in south sudan has left its p.r. river meteorologists predict that it could reach flood levels as soon as sunday morning cresting two days later and the flood waters they could linger for weeks with businesses closed and close to a million people already without power some restless residents ventured outside to get a look i am a little. so it is. it's different like i was wondering like how can they get your pretty high

correct, on the eastern side of fayetteville and the south side is really the worst.is where there is the biggest portion of the cape river winds through. i spoke to a resident who said he had to evacuate yesterday, he's on the more northwest side. we are close to four brag, -- fort bragg. we have lucked out so far on this side of town. vonnie: and power has already become an issue, 500-2500 homes and businesses are without power homes and businesses are without power, are they trying to bring in generators? people are hunkering down. you are not seeing a lot of trips to stores, and a lot of stores are closed. what you have and you are just trying to ride it out -- and stores are close. you have what you have an your just trying to ride it out. i am watching the roads clearly from where i am matt, and for the most part it seems -- from where i am at, and it seems pretty desolate. julie: how is the gasoline situation? you typically don't just see the bread and toilet paper but also filling up their cars. >> the ironic thing is that where i was first at in raleigh, you

kaylee hartung is in fayetteville, north carolina. first of all, what are things like where you are, kaylee? >> reporter: christi, when florence barreled through here with the eye coming through wilmington on friday, you mentioned downed trees and power lines. one of the trees fell and claimed the life of a woman and her 7-month-old son in their home. but now we are working into the second phase of the storm damage will do to this area. there is a crisis situation in the wilmington area as the cajun navy was a called into action by the fire department to rescue people from their homes as the floodwaters began to come inland. you mentioned the rivers, some of them not expected to crest until monday or even later in the week, but those waters are beginning to rise and take effect. and surprise people, in effect. yesterday i was up just north of here in pender county. a county under mandatory evacuation. and officials there told me they hasn't yet had called for service. nobody had needed rescuing from their homes if they had stayed, but

new mandatory evacuation orders went into effect in fayetteville for those who live within a mile of the cape fear and little rivers the last time this area experienced major flooding with through two years ago the quite clearly rivers well the banks and the water rose so high it came all the way to this building here flooding the basement meteorologists are predicting that this time the flooding will be even worse. volunteers who lived through the last storm are standing by to help emergency officials we've got surges over and we got a volunteer thing as i went out we got schools open over sale to the well we're if you go if you can't get out. we're got a guy that are willing to take their boat or their life on the line to make sure our people get through safe. waiting and watching a slow motion natural disaster whose full impact may still not be felt for days kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina u.s. president donald trump's nominee to the supreme court brett kavanaugh is now facing allegations of sexual assault a woman told the washington post newspaper she was as

eva pilgrim on the ground in fayetteville, thank you.get it over to rob now for the latest on this apparently dangerous situation. >> as eva mentioned, matthew a damaging storm, this blowing that out of the water. as a matter of fact, florence is one of the three storms in the last year that have made state records for tropical cyclones that have blown out rainfall records. it's only moved 200 miles in about 50 hours. that's four miles per hour. generally y vi that thatanivyou th'v high risk of flooding from fayetteville and charlotte. fayetteville and parts north of i-95 are closed. could be for over a week. the moderate flood threat moves to virginia and beyond that. : >>> hi, i'm meteorologist frances dinglasan. breezy conditions this afternoon and inland upper 707070707070700 >> this weather report sponsored by walgreens. guys. >> all right, rob. thanks so much. coming up on "good morning, america" the dallas police officer who said she shot her neighbor by mistake, what investigators are looking at as they try to understand what hap

we are here in fayetteville, north carolina.to get a sense of how things are in murrayville. we are having a little trouble getting derek so we will keep looking at that. let me give you a sense of where we are. this is cross creek in downtown fayetteville at linear park in the area. we have a picture that we took at 10:45 this morning when we first came upon this park. in that picture, i will move out of the way so my photographer can get a better look for you guys. what's remarkable is how little water there was despite the fact that there was flooding. we could see the base of that lamp post. beyond it, there is a bench. we saw the full bench with its legs. there plants that are just a little bit in front of this lamp post here. that area is completely flooded. we could see the sidewalk and this is this moved up in the span of a few hours. the mayor was here and we showed him our picture from 10:45 and he said that water is moving so fast. keep in mind, during hurricane matthew, the cape fear river had 53 feet of water. it is

jeff flock, in fayetteville -- >> reporter: oh, absolutely.arolina are confronting the aftermath of florence. listen to this. >> hoping i can get some gas. running out of ice at home, been out of electric about four days now. >> that's the top half of our one-and-a-half story garage. i don't know where the rest of it is. that was the foundation right there. >> we've been down here eight years, and this is the first time we've seen this. dagen: joining us on the phone is the emerald of 'em -- mayor of emerald isle, eddie barber. we spoke to you on friday right as hurricane florence was making landfall. can you just give us an update on the conditions in emerald isle and how the recovery efforts are going? >> the recovery efforts are moving forward. we have about 7,000 housing units in emerald isle and at least 1,000 received some form of exterior damage. 85 homes have major damage and 25-30 are totally destroyed. we had 32 hours of wind, wave and surge action. we had 23 inches of rain, the highest gusts were 89 about a mile from the ocean and a

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we've talked a lot in fayetteville about the cape fear river.u are, you're cle keeping a close watch on the little river, correct? >> yes, cape fear river won't affect us directly, but the little river does have the capability to block off some north/south highways. but one of the big things that i'd like to stress is where we are located, we're up on high ground by the little river. so our airfield and the people that live around it, they're in fairly good shape at this time. >> so they're in fairly good shape. in terms of the surrounding areas, is ft. bragg lending assistance at this point? >> we've been doing that ever since and before this even began. ft. bragg is a large staging location for fema. we're able to give them a secure location with a large area to park hundreds of trucks and fuel tankers along with generators. it gives them easy access to the highway system right by us. plus, we've been sending out convoys. >> sorry, sir. go ahead. >> yes, i was also saying that we've been pushing out convoys from the units on ft. bragg to the p

contessa brewer is in fayetteville, north carolina for us tonight. >> reporter: in fayetteville, the city is bracing for the cape fear refer to tcrest. he previous hurricane hit 58 feet. it's on track to be 61.5. we are constantly monitoring. we have the drones up seeing what communities are affected. >> i want to sw you the rail line. this is a csx rail line through town. you see all the debris pushed by the raging river up again the trestle of the railroad. to give you a perspective of how high this water is, let me show the light post typically on the side of the river. the river is expected to cre tonight at 59 feet right now. flood stage start at 42 feet. it's way, way above its flood stage. and one of the reasons why this is such a problem, a few minutes aso this bridge crowded with onlookers hoping to just see what was happening i their city and what the danger might be. now you can see the police ofcers from fayetteville moved everybody off. this is still a real threat to this town. and it's a situation that's playing out around north and south carolina today as people ar m s

rain dies down there's still more ahead to worry about christensen and they're joining us from fayetteville with the latest that christian thinking. well still to come on the program sick and starving we report on the plight of tens of thousands of side sydney's children suffering from malnutrition. as latin america struggles with this worst migration crisis in decades we meet the peruvian businessman setting up shelters the how venezuelans failing that chaos back home all that and more when we come back. hello it's not warming up again anytime soon yes i know we see in the back of a cold front even a day's worth of sunshine doesn't seem to make much difference this is of course on australia i'm talking about and the temperatures are reflect only a very slow warming nineteen in sydney and twenty in adelaide it's daytime sunshine this doing it it's much the same for the west in perth the breeze here a light one but more or less in size not the warmest of directions but it is more or less sunshine from wall to wall just bit of cloud edging in to the far west my view victoria and tasmania so t

people have died as christensen in the reports from fayetteville north carolina clock florence may no longer be a hurricane or even a tropical storm but her rains keep falling and the waters keep rising all across north and south carolina and despite days of warnings flash flooding continues to catch many off guard as the storm slowly inches inland i was waist deep inside the house and then once we got off the part it was up to our right more than nine hundred people have been rescued from homes and vehicles so far and according to the governor of north carolina the worst has yet to come some fifteen thousand people have moved into government shelters who were able to go fly over fayetteville in your car to see that raging gave you a record you were driving the vulnerable need to be there all sitting there for. travel has become increasingly treacherous as rivers overflow their banks and flood major roadways at least five of the people whose deaths have been attributed to florence were killed in their vehicles residents are being warned not to become complacent with help and for the b

that's a major concern here for folks in fayetteville.here's welcome respite, obviously, from the water but the threat is really now just only beginning. the mayor telling me his biggest concern is how quickly the water is moving. we're focused specifically on the little river and cape fear river here. folks within a mile of those rivers are under mandatory evacuations and matthew is also really top of mind here just as it is for folks in lumberton. they learned a lot with the flooding there with matthew. cape fear river crested at 53 feet. it is expected to crest at 62 feet tomorrow morning. that means a much wider area for potential damage, for flooding. and that is why officials are clear this morning. they are just as concerned as they were yesterday and this is not the time for folks to become complacent because the flooding is really only just now going to kick into high gear. >> erica hill, that's wise advice. we can only repeat that. listen to the warnings. don't move warning signs, road signs. they're there for a reason. >> of co

fayetteville could have as big of a flooding issue as wilmington.will -- everything is getting ready to go. for us, we are mostly cloudy to mostly sunny. we have cooler temperatures. 70s on the temperatures, below average on a lot of these temperatures and they will continue this wa a cool pattern. temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s all the way into the weekend. we have learned something new. >>> traffic is getting busier but we have bright spot. it is not as bad as yesterday. it is more of a routine commute. this is highway 4. you can see it will be slow around pittsburgh and bay point. coming over the hill, there have been no major issues. traffic is moving along okay. over highway 24, that looks all right. over the tunnel, there have been minor things but nothing major. here is a look at the richmond bridge. same thing for interstate 80, west from hercules to the bay bridge toll plaza. you can see traffic is moving along okay. no major issues once you make it to the bridge. southbound 880, they are reporting an accident at mission exit. traf

demarco morgan is in fayetteville. demarco? >> reporter: jeff, good evening to you. the cape fear river is now the city's biggest worry. it was much lower than this before florence made landfall. it is at 54 feet, almost kissing the bottom of this bridge right here. it's expected to go even higher, more than 30 feet above flood stage. a break in the clouds today can't overshadow the looming threat. the overflowing rivers and lakes could swallow whole communities. anandon plotnick came to have a look at the overflowing dam near fayetteville. >> it's fun to get out. everybody is going stir crazy being stuck in the house, but there's still a lot of water to come, and that's dangerous. >> reporter: parts of fayetteville are already underwater, with the worst yet to come. >> i can't swim, and i don't want my babies to drown. >> reporter: in the last 36 hours, we've seen hundreds of rescues. evacuations and road closings up and down the swollen lumber river south of here with no end in sight. t our biggest threat in this area is the lumber river rising. >> reporter: we rod

brandon came to have a look at the overflowing dam near fayetteville. >> it's fun to get out. is going stir crazy being stuck in the house, but there's still a lot of water to come. that's dangerous. >> reporter: parts of fayetteville are already under water with the worst yet to come. >> i can't swim, and i don't want my babies to drown. >> reporter: and the last 36 hours we've seen hundreds of rescues. evacuations and road closings up and down the swollen river south of here with no end in sight. >> our biggest threat here is the lumber river rising. >> reporter: we rode along with police rescue commander matthew locklear. >> when we came out here last night, the water was flowing we got an ambulance we lost at the back. it flooded out. >> so you guys had to evacuate yourself? >> we had to evacuate ourselves. >> this is a monumental disaster for our state. >> reporter: north carolina governor roy cooper. >> for many parts of north carolina, the danger is still immediate. floodwaters are rising as rivers crest. and they will for days. >> reporter: now, if predictions hold, th

>>> we are at cross creek park in fayetteville.he water is rising, this creek feeds into the cape fear river. when we got here a little before 11:00 this morning, you see that light pole in the distance? we could see the base of that. the water has continued to rise throughout the day. during matthew, it was well over my head where i am standing now. it's going to continue to rise overnight. these are all the major concerns as to what happens next, how much water continues to fall, and of course where that water goes. we want to give you a sense of what's happening now around the carolinas. let's take you to south carolina. scott mclean is in conway. he's about 15 miles north of myrtle beach where some evacuation orders have been lifted, but that area, scott, is not out of the clear yet. >> no, erica, it is not. as of 9:00 a.m. this morning, people were allowed to go back to their homes in the myrtle beach area. we're in conway, as you said, about 15 miles inland. people are returning to their homes, but the flooding, we're startin

tammy is in fayetteville, north carolina. t.out an hour from the co is that enough inland for people to feel safe? >> reporter: hey, we're about 100 miles from theoast and there's still a major concern of flooding here in fayetteville along with aotf the other inland cities. one of the reasons is the rivers and the creeks swell. take a look at this creek behind me. this is flooded seven times since hurricane matthew hit here two years ago. so residents in this area, they have reason to be concerned. spoke with one family and they said when hurricane matthew came through, it flooded the entire bottom floor of the home in a matter of a couple hours. so they're packing up and evacuating. we spoke with a man who said he will stay. y on protect his home. the last thing he said when i talked on him a couple hours ago, god save us. there is ato imagine evacuation in a lot of areas. a curfew is going into effect i this county, starting tomorrow. going into effect from sun down to s up as a lot of people are vaekting this area >> and

, the governor visited fayetteville talking with the squads the worked so hard around-the-clock. with the administration has been going well. here is what he had to say. >> hundreds of rescues have occurred. i'm grateful to the men and women who do this. amazing how we were able to pull together as americans to get this job done. i spoke with and mess with the president, giving us what we need, they promised help in the long haul. we will hold them to it. >> reporter: the governor saying we are not out of the woods yet. a big part of this operation has come from fort bragg, you know how big that base is and the commanding general of the third expeditionary command talked to me yesterday about the role they play. listen. >> we had 16 teams across eastern north carolina and those teams are out. we have a ways to go because as you know the floodwaters might be receding in fayetteville, all that water is being pushed to the coast. >> reporter: those soldiers leapt into action as the storm water is hit and arose. it will be months if not years before this is over and those rescue squa

mike: officials in fayetteville, north carolina sounding the alarm saying the worst is yet to come fromropical storm florence warning of historic flooding home of the little river and the cape fear river and fayetteville, north carolina sound familiar to you, proud military town as the home of fort bragg, major u.s. army installation, they are warning folks should get out, they are word about the impact of rivers, flooding to record high levels in the hours ahead, so, very serious situation there in north carolina, now as tropical storm florence moves inland, authorities along the coast are weighing recovery efforts, let's bring in south carolina state representative joins us from myrtle beach, representative clemns nice to have you, what's the situation in your town? >> i'm in myrtle beach, america's favorite beach front community, we've had the brunt of the storm come through, we are fortunate myrtle beach, we faired much better than our neighbors to the north, yes, we have down power lines, we've got trees town, we have stoplights that aren't working, we've got in our county, we've g

new evacuation orders were issued today in and around the city of fayetteville. inland rivers are expected to rise to dangerous levels over the next few days. here's demarco morgan. >> reporter: volunteer firefighters went door to door today across the evacuation zo zone, urging hold-outs to head out now. >> if you are in these areas, this is a serious, life-threatening matter. if you are refusing to leave during this mandatory evacuati evacuation, then you need to do things like notify your legal next of kin because the loss of life is very, very possible. >> reporter: this is the cape fear river today. the river could crest at 62 feet, but right now, it's barely halfway there. florence may dump as many as 18 inches of rain before she's finished. 30 miles south, the city of lumberton is bracing for the flooding many see as inevitable. on friday, even as the storm raged, an army of volunteers and national guardsmen came here to try to close up a section of the levee that drops down for railroad tracks. robin bridgett came to this red cross shelter the day it open

griff jenkins joins us from fayetteville, north carolina where he spoke with servicemembers trying tohe devastation. you also talked with the governor. >> reporter: hard to believe waters are rising in southeastern north carolina but here in fayetteville you can see the devastated motel behind me is in recovery mode. when i talked to the governor he was visiting a firehouse where special operations to the rescues, 4700 rescues since florence hit. there is a monument to task ahead and he said working with the president, the administration is doing well. take a listen. >> hundreds upon hundreds of rescues have occurred. i'm grateful to the men and women who do this, amazing we were able to pull together as americans to get this done. i spoke with and met with the president for a couple hours. they promised help in the long haul, we will hold them to it. >> reporter: the cape fear river ridgecrest at a record level a few days ago moving to wilmington, down to south carolina. that is why they are deploying all the way down there to do evacuations of people who stay behind. we spoke to the

this is a picture of right near downtown fayetteville.from where we are right now. that river is moving up toward the downtown area. they've not seen anything like this since 1945. they believe downtown will be okay, but they're concerned that it's getting close to city hall, their visitors bureau, and several businesses in downtown fayetteville, as well. authorities here say they have done everything they can. and at this point, it is just sitting back and hoping that everything goes according to plan. dave, christine? >> miguel, thank you. >>> north and south korea have committed to an era of no war. at a joint news conference in the middle of their summit, south korean president moon jae-in and north korean leader kim jong-un announced what moon called a way to achieve denuclearization. paula hancocks live in seoul with the latest. the president up after midnight tweeting about these latest developments. paula, what's new? >> reporter: the headlines from this agreement, and it was a very wide-ranging agreement between north and south k

because of the rivers, the cape fear river threatening dams between fayetteville lumberton.he new river almost broke a record. it's almost 10 feet over its crest. we talked to captain bob beck, the 22 years owner of the marina cafe, it's a landmark here and he's really hit hard. here's what captain beck had to say. >> we were hit terribly hard, terribly hard. it's going to be lots of money to repair what we have here. i see a lot of damage that's are not covered on insurance. i'm just going to have to make it happen. i've been here over 20 years. i had a fire once. it was closed for a whole year. now we have a flood. i don't know what's next. >> griff: what's next is the urgency of the inland communities flooding and having the same situation they had here in jacksonville and the recovery efforts. you can't get power trucks in because of the continuing flooding and the continuing downed power lines and the debris all over the place. people want to come home. as you know from trying to move around, it's very difficult. it's a fluid weighs. as things move inland and the waters

i am in fayetteville, you can see they closed off the road. the municipal workers that were just here. they gave us our permission to take our way occuup here. what you are looking at is the over flow of the river and 35 feet right here. it is rising. tho think of the snake that's swallowing a rat and it is going down. you are looking at it going down the river. it is projected by the ge geological river going 62 feet. we'll take you around the corner here as you get this point of view and you can see the problem is not only the cape fear river rising but the tremendous flow of the cape fear river. let me go around this tree for a second here. understand when water is flowing, it can be incredibly dangerous. the flow of the water only about three inches of water can knock you over. i am not good at calculating how fast that flow is but that's moving quickly because you can see the speed of the water going around the trees there and as you look over here, you can see a bridge, the water is rising there. so city officials here are most concerned

overturned trees but still waiting for what could be the worst to come kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. and again again as more now from wilmington in north carolina. the storm has now been downgraded to a tropical storm but there is one big concern and forecasters have amounts of rain you can see it washing down here in wilmington north carolina streaming down the road towards the river just down the end of the street that river is now breached its banks for the past few hours the stream has actually been going the wrong way is the ocean and the storm has pushed the water up so we have some serious flooding going on down there but across these two states north and south carolina we're looking at getting eight months worth of rain in the next two to three days that's a serious concern for forecasters a serious concern for residents of course most of the one point seven million people under the much mandatory evacuation order did leave we've heard about one hundred fifty rescues anyone that chose to stay the authorities made it perfectly clear that he choose to stay you p

abc's eva pilgrim is in fayetteville, north carolina, tonight. >> reporter: tonight, president trump in the storm zone, touching down in north carolina, bringing a message of support. >> to the families who have lost loved ones, america grieves with you and our hearts break for you. >> reporter: visiting the hard-hit town of new bern, where the water rose so quickly, families were told by dispatchers to run to their second floors. he was there today with governor roy cooper. >> how are you doing? >> how are you? >> reporter: handing out hot meals and a hug at a relief center. reassuring families in this neighborhood who have a long road ahead. >> we'll be here. you know that. >> reporter: one homeowner telling him insurance wouldn't cover the damage to their property. the president answering, "that's not good." >> that's not good. the insurance company doesn't want to pay. >> reporter: the president then visiting south carolina. there, in conway, just inland from myrtle beach. >> i think the most exciting part is going to be that rebuild, because we're going to have a lot of rebuildi

griff: fayetteville spared a little bit of beating because 30 miles south. as he toured all the areas, he assured everyone in the storm he had backs and mayors like mayor culvin, listen. >> you will need it and we have it and we will be supplying it and there will be nothing left undone, you'll have everything you need. griff: in the flooding south of here also still a major issue highway 95 closer to limberton shut down and in some areas indeed days if not weeks, dagen. dagen: griff, we appreciate you very much. you were in the storm and you've stay today cover the aftermath because it matters, thank you so much, griff, we will be speaking with alex azar following the catastrophic floods at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. coming up alibaba backtracking, why jack ma is walking back promise to create 1 million jobs in the u.s., plus one soggy commute, the new york city rat, assuming it's a he, more of this video for you straight ahead. agent beekman was one step ahead of them. because he hid his customers' gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got rock

the first night i got here i was in fayetteville. we got the call that newburn needed boats.olice officer and firefighter out with the navigator and i couldn't be more proud of them. >> so many people are not only -- go ahead, i'm sorry. >> a lot of people are bringing animals to shelters and hotel rooms. for me to come here and say bye-bye to my dogs broke my heart. >> i understand. as somebody with pets for so many of us they are like family. i know people are so grateful to you and your fellow volunteers. people realize you are helping the pets because these are their families and they need a place to go. once you are able to rescue them, are you able to reunite the pets with the owners or are there shelters to bring the animals to while they are waiting to be reunited? >> we brought a guy to a command center for rescuing. we rescued six horses, 37 dogs and 6 cats off one property and evacuated the owner the night before. we got the pets. i'm glad we did because of what happened. >> wow. you all are doing remarkable work. i know you are doing a lot of it on very little sle

as demarco morgan reports, the flooding is so bad it reached the top edge of a bridge near fayetteville. >> reporter: the slow and steady rise continues. it's expected to crest near 62 feet before they closed the person street bridge to watch the nearby railroad bridge which might not hold under pressure. >> all that debris backing up on that bridge is going to be a strain on those trusses. >> reporter: but some of the state's infrastructure is holding. right here behind me you have the brand-new hope mills dam that controls the water coming from the lake. had it failed, it would have sent water rushing downstream flooding homes and businesses. but it appears it's done its job. james gray removed plywood from the local optometrist's office right next to the dam. and being this close to a body of water. >> yes, sir, very close. >> reporter: could have been worse. theig here behind us terrible. comes up into our parking lot. >> reporter: days after florence made landfall, parts of more than a dozen rivers in the state have reached the stage of major flooding with three for expected to pea

. >> reporter: among the greatest fears the rising cape fear river near fayetteville. >> this storm has never been more dangerous than it is right now. >> reporter: dangerous and dramatic from the air. the coast guard on urgent rescue missions has plucked dozens of people from their homes. others trapped after a giant sinkhole swallowed parts of the major highway. some communities cut off. >> it was waist deep inside the house, and then once we got off the porch it was up to our shoulders. >> reporter: we were with the swift water rescue team as they evacuated desperate residents from richlands, north carolina. >> our rivers are already overflowing, and we're just going to get more water coming down stream, and it has nowhere else to go. >> reporter: as crews scrambled to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people in the carolinas, there's now a massive run on food and gas. the lines stretch for hours. >> a hot meal is going to be real nice. >> reporter: if the wait for the slow-moving storm seemed endless, so did its aftermath. >> gabe gutierrez reporting. gabe, thanks. >>> as fl

flooded homes almost five hundred thousand houses already without power and salumi reports in the fayetteville in north carolina. even in her weakened state florence packs a punch the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm but it hit the coast of north carolina with strong winds driving rain and a swelling surf weather experts warn there's much more to come i do want to emphasize that this is only the beginning florence is a very slow mover we'll continue to track along this north carolina and south carolina coastline for the next twenty four to thirty six hours. the storm is slowly moving inland floodwaters have begun submerging roads and seeping into homes with up to seventy five centimeters of rain expected in some areas a storm surge on the news river north of the eye of the storm brought the most serious flooding so far emergency crews have been called to rescue hundreds who have north evacuation orders utility workers that come from all over the country to help these are just a few of the trucks that are standing by the utility company has warned that millions of people could

we have new evacuation orders issued in north carolina in fayetteville.ke with the director of communications for the city a short time ago, said there are two areas specifically that were targeted with the evacuation order that they learned lessons after matthew, want people to stay safe as it moves further inland. we can also tell you city of fayetteville as i mentioned and wade, north carolina also issuing evacuation orders for that reason. there's much concern as the storm continues to move further inland, and as it just sits in the area where it has been now for the last two days for some folks. we can tell you we learned from the coast guard, they assisted in 50 air rescues in north carolina. some of them, some reporters shared that information with you, including cnn's ed lavandera of rescues in onslow county, north carolina. we'll continue to monitor those efforts as well. a travel nurse joins us, chris, you're in new bern, correct me if i'm wrong to an area you moved to a couple months ago? >> that's right. i am a travel nurse. we contracted with

entire towns have been flooded in fayetteville, north carolina. crews already at work. the storm knocked out power to more than a million people. in this city alone, fayetteville, about 10,000 people are in the dark, and at least 600 people are in shelters. when all is said and done, the slow-moving storm could dump up to 40 inches of rain in certain spots. and that is the common sight. rescuers guiding this man on a boat down a flooded street. nbc bay area's ian cull joins us with the latest. ian? >> reporter: raj, this is what it looks like in cities like new bern and bell haven. the fear is added inches of rain overnight, along with the storm surge, the high tide happening right now might push this up by inches, strong enough to wash awashington way cars, pushing into oven more homes even. many people tracking all of this in the dark, leading to many sleepless nights. tonight there are downed trees across the carolinas. crews working to remove this one, blocking five lanes of a busy highway. the high tide overnight is also a main concern. more of the atlantic spillin

i'm looking at this drone video we were able to get over fayetteville. it's remarkable to see the water levels there. what is the latest? what are you seeing there? >> well, probably what you're seeing. they're saying 500-year flood levels. we had a 500-year flood two years ago. we weren't expecting another one this soon. and in fact a lot of places were still rebuilding from hurricane matthew, and now here we are again. and you know, the message to people out there is this is not over. in fact, the cape fear river is not going to crest until tomorrow morning. and we're still expecting areas like little river, the main cut through road a lot of folks use here, and it's completely under water. things are improving. conditions are improving, but we're not out of the woods yet. >> definitely not out of the woods yet. there have been over 1,000 rescues from the storm throughout the state. are you still hearing about rescues happening now? >> we are. there's over 1,200 swiftwater rescue folks deployed in the state. i'm at ft. bragg now, part of my visit here,

fayetteville, north carolina.is way there over the weekend. what do you see today? what's the danger? >> i tell you, bill, the floodwaters still rising here. now at this point, you know, we've got scenes like this around the city. we were earlier this morning in downtown fayetteville. we got floodwaters racing through this city. they aren't doing catastrophic damage yet but there could be another 10 foot of rise before we're done. >> bill: wow. have those who are being told to evacuate, have they been able to escape, jeff? >> some have but you know, some people -- i'm in a community now, mary ann didn't leave. she is a mile from the river. you say this isn't as bad as it was then? >> not to me. >> this is your house. no water in there yet? >> we have no power but. >> bill: you have running water but not floodwater. >> no floodwater. thank the lord for that. no power. we want power. >> i hear that. that's like a lot of people out here. the first is the danger and then there is just the misery factor. look at this.

miguel marquez is out front from fayetteville. how much worse could this get? could get a lot more dangerous out here. i want to show you where we are. we are on the cape fear river. that's the grove street bridge here in fayetteville. the water has been coming up. that gap in between the river and that bridge is getting closer and closer together. we're on the person street bridge right now. this is how close the water is to it. look at this. this is an entire tree. this is the sort of debris that has been flowing down the river. it just keeps coming. it's incredible how big the trees are when they are horizontal like that. that sort of debris lab backing up against this railroad bridge. for the last eight or ten hours, it's building up debris. officials think it will be okay. the water still has to rise another foot or so. 12,000 homes along both sides of the river in fayetteville alone. one other thing to show you here is that streetlight. the water has been rising against that. that should be at the base of a boat ramp where the ground usually is. now it's

what is the situation on the ground in fayetteville? are you seeing flooding?> we're starting to see the waters rise rapidly. it's something we've seen before with hurricane matthew. it's going to be a little bit worse this time around. what we're telling people is the worse is yet to come. really the rains are starting to collect because it's hitting harder up north. when it goes into those banks or tributaries up there and then comes down, that's where trouble starts. while we haven't seen it rise all the way yet, it's going to happen here in the next 24 to 48 hours. so the evacuation order we've issued is for two areas on the little river and the cape fear river. >> so those two areas, are there other areas, though, you're concerned about, that you're monitoring, that could ultimately end up being under an evacuation order as well? >> there's certainly that potential. we've got 46 neighborhoods we've identified that had flooding problems and challenges last time during hurricane matthew. we've got those. we've let those residents know, hey, you should pay at

it's coming that 30 inches of rain has nowhere to go and headed towards fayetteville. you watched that river flow by during the day huge trees and chunks of debris and all heading towards fayetteville. the concern is this flood here could spread a mile in each direction if the river really makes historic crest as many people are predicting. thousands of homes here under mandatory evacuation. police have gone door to door knocking telling people when it gets real bad, we're not going to be able to rescue you. most of the people we have seen who live along the banks are not leaving, band bagging their houses, bringing their things up to higher ground. that's where it stands really right here. people are not leaving the roads. when you do decide to leave the problem is a lot of the roads are flooded. and gas is in short supply. so, if you do want to leave, it is often a very tough road to get out of here. martha, back to you. >> martha: all right, steve, thank you very much. follow me on twitter at martha maccallum and i'm going to put the information if you want one of t

the next stage widespread and potentially catastrophic flooding christine salumi reports from fayetteville north carolina florence arrived in the carolinas and like an unwanted guest refused to leave the storm continues to pound both states with brain swelling rivers you know it's somebody said the other day a slight reinstall but turtle this thing will not move up the coast to a nice get out of the way we continue to just get copious amounts of rain the rescue of trapped residents continued in new bern north carolina a city that sits on a peninsula between two rivers residents elsewhere are being warned not to get complacent the risk of catastrophic flooding and mudslides remains remember most storm deaths occur from drowning in fresh water often in cars. don't drive. on moving water emergency management is sharing flood projections for the local officials if they tell you to evacuated please do so immediately you can save your life the national weather service says more than fifty centimeters of rain have fallen in some areas with more to come this is one major source of concern the cape

do you want the president to come to fayetteville?and see the damage that we have just to make sure we have a good response during the recovery phase that is upcoming. they have reached out to us and been very helpful so far and expedited our emergency declaration and our governor is doing a great job with keeping the lines of communication from north carolina to the white house. we hope we are on his list of stops to make and we look forward to showing him around, if he comes. >> we will look to see what that itinerary includes. do you have a sense and i know you are in the middle of it, but do you have a sense when fayetteville will start looking like itself again? >> it's hard to say. two years ago we went through hurricane matthew and we had parts of the city back together. we don't know that the impact of this fully until after the river crests and is behind us, but a lot of the city is getting back to normal. we have a lot of citizens that are trying to get back to safety and get back to their normal lives and we ask them to be

gadi schwartz is in fayetteville, north carolina. let's talk about the main threat where you are.le to think the storm has been gone. yet there is still a real risk. >> reporter: yeah, there's totally a false sense of security here, but there's just one bridge in fayetteville that everybody has been talking about. it's the person's bridge. that's what we're on right now. you can see the police have closed this down to one lane, and they've got a stream of cars that have their windows down, people trying to look over. earlier, a couple hours ago, this bridge was filled with people, and they're here because this is the unofficial water gauge of the city. this is where people come to see how high the river is, and you can see this is the cape fear river. it is now at about 59 feet. just for a comparison, the reason why they're talking about this bridge. if we can just pull up what it normally looks like without the flood stages, that bridge is about 60 feet, 60 feet high. it's a railroad trestle that crosses. when people from fayetteville come here and see that much water, this is a

pretty high for now there's not much they can do but watch and wait kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. greece's largest refugee camp is being threatened with closure because of its appalling conditions the camp on the island of lesbos is home to nine thousand asylum seekers three times its capacity authorities say overcrowding there is led to uncontrollable amounts of waste and sewage police reports from mari can analyze boss. this is a bus room in morea camp there's a laboratory for every seventy two people and the water doesn't always run the streets between the tents and housing units smell of fetid waste water this iranian woman shares a tent with an afghan family and gives the children lessons in farsi since there is no education for some three thousand children in the camp the government provides one doctor for moreas nine thousand residents but doctors without borders have set up a surgery outside the camp for women and children the government could move sick and vulnerable populations off the island but this year hasn't done so we had a most of them. netiquette