-Gonna get right to the countdown
to landfall for Hurricane Florence --
getting closer as the Southeastern Coast
braces for Florence.
-We are anticipating 12 hours of hurricane-force winds.
-I've been through about 10 of these.
It's gonna be tough. We're gonna have a couple days.
It's gonna hang around. It's gonna rain and blow.
It's gonna be scary.
-Well, she doesn't know that I am really more scared
than I have let on, because I'm by myself.
-We've got an urban search-and-rescue team
from Indiana,
another search-and-rescue team from Vermont.
We're getting several ambulance strike teams
in from Florida and Ohio and other areas.
-All right. Come on, guys.
She said she'd be waiting for us when we come back.
-My daughter wouldn't leave.
And when it rains, it floods right there by the door.
-Ready? Ready?
We're getting ready to roll.
-A hurricane's a different natural disaster.
It's eerie. You know it's coming.
Everyone knows it's gonna be here.
It's just when, how, and what's it gonna do.
-Florence, of course, hit as a Category 1 hurricane,
came ashore this morning on the North Carolina coast.
-This is a huge storm. It's a big storm.
And water is gonna be the huge issue.
-About 10:00 last night,
it started sounding like a hurricane.
The wind started howling.
You could hear the trees bending,
small branches coming off,
and then around 2:00 in the morning,
we started hearing trees snapping, crashing down.
We didn't realize it was in our backyard.
And then, about 3:00 in the morning, we lost power.
-We're told that more than 500,000 people,
maybe up to 850,000 people, are without power right now.
-Our road, as you guys know,
is completely blocked on both sides of our properties.
A war zone.
-As the storm moves out and as anticipated floodwaters
are moving in, we're gonna be called to action.
-Tell me again how many people are needing help here.
-Right now I don't know.
I lost count at about 200.
-This is New Bern, North Carolina,
and we're about two blocks from downtown.
We're about three blocks from the Neuse River,
and the Neuse River is right there and coming up.
-It's dangerous water. It is not safe.
It's probably sewers mixed with it.
-We moved here 41 years ago from Northern Michigan,
and I've never seen anything like this before.
-Extreme chaos. I mean, just look.
-Everybody's trying to scramble to get power,
trying to scramble to get food.
-And we specialize in urban search and rescue,
so we have a medical component, a search component,
rescue, hazmat, structural specialist --
all sorts of different resources that we can provide
to a community that needs it after a disaster.
-Come on up! -Here we go.
[indistinct conversations]
-They're in the vicinity of Freedom Way and 172.
Water coming over the bumper.
Refusing to get out.
-Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.
I have two victims who are trapped in the tree line.
-The only way out of here is that way.
-Water. Water.
[siren wailing, water rushing] -Hey!
No, don't go in there! Don't go in there!
-There's a firefighter down.
-Tell the other guys to get back in their car.
-She's been in the water for awhile.
She's getting checked out right now.
-Okay.
-You'd never know we're out of the water.
-Good help. Good help.
-Whew!
-Didn't think I would live long enough for a second one,
and now, two years later, we have another 200-year flood
right here in Fayetteville again.
-We're in New Bern, North Carolina,
in the Historic District,
and this is the nightmare of Hurricane Florence.
An absolute nightmare.
3? feet of water inside the house, no flood insurance.
And everything on the first floor
is out here. -It's about [indistinct]
higher than what it got in Matthew,
so I was about 8 inches shy in Matthew
from getting in my house so --
It's a lot worse for a lot of other people,
so we're really fortunate, honestly.
-Breaking news on the Hurricane Florence disaster tonight.
Officials are warning that thousands of residents
of the Carolinas are in danger as rivers continue to rise.
-I'm out here for water and food and roof tarps.
My kitchen roof fell in, and I was gonna get a tarp
so the rain won't come in my house and flood up everything.
And we ran out of food.
-The power isn't on, and the traffic lights aren't working.
You know, we're running out of supplies.
-And is there something that can be done
to get stuff to the old folks' home?
They have nothing. -I'm not sure.
-Well, can you find someone? Anyone?
-Yeah, I can help out there. -That's fine.
I got two in the family.
-I got two kids, and it be so hot, and they be hungry,
and it's like I don't know what to do.
-The trees fell down.
-Three plates and two bottles of water to my elderly neighbor --
the diabetes lady and her son that's on dialysis.
They haven't had nothing to eat.
-Today make the fifth day we been out electricity.
-See? -It don't make sense.
-It don't. -Hot spaghetti.
Compassion Church.
-Thank the Lord. -Actually, I got a phone call
from a social worker that says this lady has needs.
So we're over here bringing her meals.
I got another team that's out
on the other side of town where there's no power.
They're just handing out meals.
I got another team that's about to go out
and begin cutting some trees of roofs --
just out here trying to do what we can do.
I think there's a system that's in place through the Red Cross,
but it's just overwhelmed.
I mean, the needs are just so great right now
with the lack of power.
-It's sad.
You got to sit on the porch and sleep at night.
The police won't come and check on us.
It's bad.
Somebody need to do something .