let's turn to garrett hague in new bern. and what are you seeing from where you are?>> reporter: we just had a chance to get our drone up in the air again here when we had a bit of a break in the wind and rain which of course has returned as it seems to deep doing here. what we were able to see with you are our new vantage point along the river was the full power of that storm surge. we saw boats tossed into homes, we saw significant damage to homes that have stood along the riverfront here in some cases for more than 200 years. it is an interesting juxtaposition to the kind of damage we saw earlier in the day for more slow motion flooding that happened further away from the river where the water came up quickly. but didn't rush into neighborhoods like what we saw here from the storm surge. it speaks to the breadth of this storm and its power to do so much damage in so many different ways. now, some good news over the last hour or so, the city of new bern has said that they have completed all of their water rescues. they are still working on what i think will be a flu

and garrett hague has been there as the waters have risen. a tremendous amount of rescue efforts there. what can you tell us from new bern? >> reporter: i think the good news here is that the water is at least starting to move in the right direction. i talked to the mayor of new bern and he told me the city has not seen anything like this in the last 70 years. they actually have pumps in place to drain the water out after big storms, but that the water levels were are so high here that they couldn't turn the pumps on. he was scouting this area i'm in now to see if it was possible finally to get those pumps on and help this draining process. the area that i'm in now, we finally got a chance to put a drone up over it once we got on the back side of this storm, got out of the wind. you were able to see substantial flooding that extends for blocks and blocks. we walked some of this area yesterday followinging along with a national guard group who was trying to help people out of their homes, but we could not get into all the different parts of th

our coverage includes garrett hague, tammy light ner from myrtle beach, mariana tense i don't see, and shawn a men deole a. welcome to you all and good morning. garrett in new bern, i know first responders are answering calls for help throughout the night. water rescues has to be the big problem posed there. we know many are still in need. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: alex, in the last two days the neuse river jumped banks and invaded this town, bringing storm surge to the doors of people that have been here a long time. they have seen nothing quite like the water level we got in this town. that's what led to so many people being stranded in their homes, in need of rescue. we're told at least 385 people plucked from homes by boat or by high water trek. as of last night, over 100 awaiting rescue. i suspect the number will be lower because as the storm moved south it pulled storm surge back with it. it has been like water draining from a bathtub here. the place i am standing yesterday would have been waist deepwater. you can see the effects of storm surge dropping the boat beh

. >> that was garrett hague reporting. >> as we mentioned rescue teams came from across the country tohelp out. one of them, you may have heard of, they are called the cajun navy joining us by phone. people are grateful for your work. so give us a sense of who the cajun navy is and what you are focused on today. >> we are just pretty much grassroots organization. i kind of got together after all the continue all floods starting back in, katrina really and really picked up in 2016 after the floods in baton rouge. we got a lot more organized then. now we are in wilmington, north carolina making some preparations and plans on where we are going to go out today and try to get some rescues. >> what are your numbers? one said ten boats. talk about that. and also what's your biggest obstacle? >> right now the biggest obstacle is being in the right position at the right time. so we are debating where we'll end up because these rivers are starting to back flow and everything is running down. so we are worried about them coming over the banks like they were saying before and just trying to get i