. >> reporter: hurricane matthew sucker punched lumberton, north carolina. >> standoff. >> reporter: 20 inches of rain coming. >> lumberton is going through a tough time. >> reporter: the lumber river flooded 12 feet above flood stage. >> i'm 6'3" and the waters up to my chest. >> reporter: we first met jimmy hunt eight years ago, rescung matthews flood victims. >> it's horrific what we are seeing out here. >> reporter: the fire chief remembers saving roughly 50 people, most of them elderly. >> 10 to 15 minutes from the time the water came over to the water flooding their homes. >> reporter: and once it flooded their homes, all bets were off? >> it was survival at that time. >> reporter: two years later, hurricane florence landed the 1-2 combo. >> it boggles the mind this same thing can happen again. >> reporter: brianna goodwin, a community organizer here, remembers 24 inches of rain. >> it was this feeling of being shell-shocked. i see the water, i see the flooding, is this real? >> reporter: lumberton learned the hard way twice, today's hurricanes can target communities far from t

>> that was devastating too. >> reporter: even years later, lumberton has only partially recovered.chologically. >> you don't feel safe, you know there's something that can destroy your home and it's not a very easy feeling to have. >> it's a sea change. today's hurricanes minutes more than coastlines. for eye on america, mark strassmann in lumberton north carolina. >> major: a plane crash lands on the golf course. the video and details, next. >> if you can't watch the cbs evening news, you can listen. subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. much more. take your business to the next stage when you switch to shopify. smile! you found it. the feeling of finding psoriasis can't filter out the real you. so go ahead, live unfiltered with the one and only sotyktu, a once-daily pill for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, and the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it's like the feeling of finding you're so ready for your close-up. or finding you don't have to hide your skin just your background. once-daily sotyktu was proven better, getting more people clearer skin than the leading p

>> reporter: lumberton learned the hard way twice. today's hurricanes can target communities far from the coast. gavin smith, a professor at north carolina state, studies the impact of climate change on natural disasters. >> not only the storms are becoming more intense, slower moving and water laden, but the populations are changing. and the people that are moving into these hazardous areas may not fully understand the impact. >> reporter: warmer oceans fuel storms. our warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, and storms now routinely drop 10 to 15% more rain. storms like matthew -- >> up on the roof. >> reporter: which i covered back in 2016. >> finding shelters for people gets harder when buildings have no power and no water. >> reporter: eight years later, there could be a lot more lumbertons going forward. in roughly 30 years, future storms could cause flood damage to more than 19 million properties coastal and inland. and only about one quarter of them would hae flood insurance. >> we literally lost everything. >> reporter: hurric

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its miles from the coast, we are in lumberton.gh river levels this time could be impacted by. the river is expected to reach major flood stage at 2:00 a.m. overnight. right now we are at a local park just to give you perspective." want to show you what it looked like a couple hours ago early in the day before the river levels where this high. you could see the street and some water going across, the parking lot had water filling in, but nothing compared to what we are seeing now. at this point we cannot fully enter this park at a pretty much stopped at the entrance. we are also going to show you here live the river flowing close to this park. the reason we are seeing this water fill in. you can see it rushing through the town where the river continues. the lumber river currently at moderate levels measuring just over 18 feet, it's expected to crest at 2:00 a.m., 19-point on pete. if so it would be the second-highest river level for the area. public works expects it to crest and should not threaten the city overall. they put up a t