live in kinston chris lawrence, news 4. back to you guys. >> we heard fromsohat one p you spoke to about neighbors helping neighbors. what else are people saying about the prospect of all of the clean up as the rain to come in that area. >> basically what they're trying to do is to see if they can get back in. to see if they can pull anything there. they're just anxious to see how much has been damaged. the extent of the damage. at least here, they can tak the boat and get into there and at least take a look at the id ou but boy you're talking about parts of this state, wilmington coly cutoff. it's been turned into an absolute island because you have all the interstates closed. the secdary ads, the airports closed so there aren't rces that major res can get in there to help those people so it has kind of fallen on a lot of these neighbors toy o pitch in and help their neighbors anyway that theycan. >> chris lawrence, live for us in kinston north carolina. thank you so much. >> all of that lead to a thousand water rescues. l

river at lumberton, northeast cape , news river at goldberg in wayne county, tar iner at greenville, kinston lenore county, cape fear river at fayetteville and cumberland county, cape fear river in pender county. it will remain at a major flood level until septa for 20 -- september 20. a river in jones county will remain at major flood level until that same date. and the lumber river and columbus county. we urge all of our residents to log into our flood innovation mapping and alert network. fiman.nc.gov. that way you will be able to see what roads and structures are going to be flooding, and you can also sign up to be notified for tips or email when the rivers begin to rise in your area. at the emergency operations center, we continue to be engaged in large-scale search and rescue operations, as well as logistical resupply. we have received over 3000 resource requests in the last nine days from county partners, and we continue to push out resources as quickly as possible, both by land and by air. we're operating in washington, new bern, lumberton, and kinston, and we anticipate having four

there are now four mass feeding kitchens operating in washington, new bern, lumberton, and kinston, and we anticipate having four more operating shortly. special thanks to our outstanding volunteers from the american red cross, north carolina baptist men, and the salvation army for making these hot meals possible. shelters do remain a top priority, and we are engaged in mass sheltering preparations. -- operations with approximately 10,000 shelter occupants. we are working aggressively with federal partners to develop temporary housing strategies and an overall recovery strategy. as a reminder, it is important to note that all 911 centers are operational. when you call, you may be answered from a 911 center in another county, but responders will be dispatched to your county as normal, right from your own county. this is how the 911 backup center system works. i would like to thank our federal, state, private sector, and volunteer partners, and, i want to especially thank local partners for making this response successful. i want to remind everybody to follow the guidance of the local off

it's still a very light but eady rain falling here in k kinston and the water is still rising in this area. that's makingnt tough people to try to get back to their homes because you have all kinds of deb flowing through the water. you even have exploding colonies of fire ants, if you can believe that. so is too dark to get out there right now. but i was able to get a slightly perspective. take a look. >> i had to do this while i still had some daylight left to be safe a to be able to see where i'm actually going. but this gives yn idea of exactly how high the water is rising he. i'm in the neuse river. i'm 6 feet tall. look at thi stop sign. there's a kid's park right over there where the slides are literally going right into the water. the incredibly high a thing about this, this isn't even the high point. it's not supposed to crest until the end of the week and that's going to be at abo 25 feet. >> that would be 2 or 3 feet less of the record highs. a you can g look at how bad it is in some areas here. this is the water rising throughout the week another couple of feet. we'll stay

so it's really this area from kinston to new bern. if you're familiar with that area that's where the noose river spills into the pamlico sound. when the wind is piling up into here, up into the sound, at the same time this water's trying to go out, we could see flooding, brian, that is worse in areas like river bend, the trenton area, new bern, up to kinston than we do at the coast because this water's going to pile into sounds at the same time as we're getting feet of rain coming from the sky, all that water meets in the middle. it's going to be a very interesting storm. there's a lost dynamics in play with it. we had a lot of changes today. we'll see what happens overnight into tomorrow morning. before we really nail this thing down. >> start talking about 40 inches of rain that gets people's attention. bill karins we'll come back to you for an update during the broadcast. sadly, virtually all as you just heard of those spaghetti strands of computer model predictions of the path of this storm pass right over wilmington, north carol

. >> reporter: it was a generator blamed for a death in kinston, the resident electrocuted. and so many devastating images captured by those experiencing them. >> it started to get deep, folks. >> reporter: jay schreiber with his wife shooting this video from the second floor. >> it's probably 12 feet up from normal. a lot of debris out there. heavy things that shouldn't be this close to buildings. >> reporter: the water waist-deep in places. streets now rivers. homes becoming islands. >> we are continuing to do rescues throughout the community. people all night long have been in attics and roofs asking for help. we are calling for more resources. we've asked the governor to send out the national guard. >> reporter: the national guard responding to that call. rescuing the most vulnerable, children, and the elderly. >> grab my hand any time you want. >> reporter: dr. michael somers and nurse melinda houston volunteered to work at their hospital through the storm. >> a lot of stress but i think more than anything people are just proud to be doing what we're doing. >> reporter:

. >> i'll be headed to kinston a little later on today. >> reporter: our day began if raleigh, north carolina where we met governor roy cooper at the state's emergency operations center. how worried are you right now? >> oh, i'm very concerned about this storm. >> reporter: the governor wants to avoid a repeat of hurricane matthew two years ago, which killed 26 north carolinians. predictions are for florence to be a far more violent storm. >> are you ready? >> we're ready. we're trying to get those last stragglers off of the barrier islands. this is what many of the roads look like in north carolina. look at this. on the other side of the highway it's close to bumper to bumper traffic. tochb is in ma it often is in many of these spots. just ahead of us hardly any vehicles. we found ronald bass gassing up then planning to stay put. the 81-year-old barber closed his shop and is planning on hunkering down at home with his disabled 77-year-old wife. >> i feel just as safe at home as i would at a shelter. >> reporter: and just in the path of where florngs is expected to make landfall gord

in kinston, chris lawrence, news 4. >>> we continue a to track developing story out of prince george's county. that is where police are investigating a homicide. this happened early this morning around 2:15 on hanover parkway in greenbelt. we're still working to get more details. anbut authorities found a shot. he was taken to the hospital where later died. >>> more than e100 peopl lost their homes after a massive fire tore through a county apartment building. the fire broke out on85th avenuenh in yesterday afternoon as children returned home from school. news 4's nicole jacobs spoke with residents grappling wloh th this morning. >> reporter: a look at her apartment unit from the outside --oo > justng at it, it's crazy. >> reporter: -- not knowing what, if anything is salvageable on the inside is heart-wrenching for brittany hopkins. >> i had a baby in april. if anythint i wan to get his things. >> she's the one who spotted the smoke mon y afternoon com from her neighbor's door and balcony. the new mother banged on the door and called for help. >> i called 9-1-1. i stayed on the phone

and then all the way up the coast to kill devil hills inland, to keensville and kinston and the rest.experience rain now the next 8, 10, 12 hours. and then they believe the storm will meander its way to south carolina for some low country food. for now though, hardly moving. the last official update from the hurricane center was at 2:00 eastern time. the next is at 5:00 eastern. it was then moving 10 miles an hour. it's not anymore. rick reichmuth says it's fallen to a crawl about the speed that you and i walk. coming up at the top of the hours, we'll be on facebook watch, facebook.com/foxnewswatch for an update from the national hurricane center. "your world" with neil cavuto is coming up here in three minutes. this is fox news channel. keep those shrimp comin'! endless shrimp is back at red lobster. with all the shrimp you want, any way you want them. try delicious creations like new crunchy fiesta shrimp tortilla chip crusted then topped with a creamy blend of three cheeses and finished with pico de gallo. and there's new sesame-ginger shrimp. grilled and drizzled with savory soy-g

and a long stretch of highway 70 between kinston and new bern where communities are all but cut off. people can't come in and out easily. and they are in line for sustenance products. water, food, the basics. you see the president there. and i can lower my voice if my team can tell me we might be able to hear him. he is in line as these cars pull up giving out plates of food in styer row foam containers and give a helping hand. let me lower my voice to see if we can hear anything. >> he said here you go. >> harris: imagine what it's like. you have been through this. rivers are about to crest. it's stopped raining. the trouble looms now. it lurks in the distance rivers crest creating a worse flooding situation for many people. a flooding situation. mandatory evacuations came after florence had really started to move away in the outer bands of that rain were hitting these areas. just to let you know how big that beast was. and so now we are seeing the aftermath with the president going in and visiting a total of five stops. this is the second for today. the hurricane damage he will tou

you take kinston, goldenberg, those areas, they have a history of being under water.oot of water. so, you know, leaving with just wasn't -- i just weighed everything out and it just seemed like this is a better situation than going inland. >> if you are just weighing up the important thing to know if you are in northeastern, north carolina the danger has not been diminished this is going to be a life threatening catastrophic flood event and you have a lot of storm surge here. we will see what happens. we will stay here and keep monitoring the situation, guys. steve: that's right. one of the reasons people staying there. i was reading in an article in one the papers a lot of people have got to return to work extraordinarily as soon as the storm passes and they want to be close and they figure, you know, i can be here to fix up patch windows and stuff like that. if i go inland 100 miles i don't know when i'm coming back. griff: that's exactly right, steve. you don't even have to go 100 miles. you can go 20 miles inland to townsz like new bern and jackson if they get on

look at this area. 10 to 20 inches from roanoke to kinston. this is goine a devastating, life-threatening as well. kerry sanders is in carolina beach in north carolin kerry, what's it looking like down there right now? >> reporter: it's beautiful this morning, but the roads aree goig to packed today. there is expected to be more than a million tourists and residents evacuating under those ndatory evacuation orders. that is the largest peacetime evaction we have seen in our country. hurricane florence is a srm that even hurricane veterans who have been through dozens of decades of hurricane recognize that it will change this beautiful beachfront landscape and, a you just noted, the impacts will be felt well nd this morning a monster is creeping towards the coast. the international space station capturing. florence intensifying into a category 4 hurricane, tak aim. but where exactly she will make landfall remains uncertain. >> category 4 is really, it scares knee. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations began monda on north carolina's outer banks, ex

if we look at just when they will go below flood stage i s incredible to see the neuse river in kinston will not go below flood weekend, perhaps next week it will come down bit.ea cape friver well above flood stage t should go below flood stage on sarday. we alsave the possibility of some flooding back through parts of the upper midwest tod through wisconsin and iowa. we will see a risk of stronger storms, isolated tornados a s possibility awell, and then tomorrow that cold fron will ing that threat into the northeast. we could see again up to three to four inches of rain in parts of the upper midwest and that ori flooding. we will get to your local fo >>> good morning. i'm metrologist chuck bell. a mainly clear sky over a fineay t be outside today. no worries about that at all. no real significant chances f in around our area today. current temperatures mostlyn the mid-60s the suburbs to near 70 around town a little chance for a shower up across southern pennsylvania and southern parts of ohio, could bring a stray shower or two to the shenandoah va today. there is your extended forecas

and a long stretch of highway 70 between kinston and new bern where communities are all but cut off.come in and out easily. and they are in line