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And now, Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano.

And today is indeed Monday to September 17th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Florence weekend to a tropical depression Sunday, but residents in North Carolina

have already seen over two feet of rain and are now battling major, are battling

major river flooding and possible tornadoes.

Flood waters are still raging across parts of the state, and the risk of life is rising

with Angry Waters, North Carolina. Governor Roy Cooper said at a midday news conference,

some parts of the state were getting two to three inches an hour. That's enough to cause

flooding in areas that have never been flooded before, Cooper said.

Since the storm made landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina on Friday morning, it has been blamed for 16 deaths.

Officials said at least 17 people have died in both states.

The death toll included a person killed Sunday in a pickup truck crash in South Carolina that occurred when the motorist drove through standing water on a roadway.

Hundreds of people have been rescued by local authorities and Navy volunteers in U.S. Coast Guard since Friday morning.

New evacuation orders were issued Sunday for a mile-long area along the Cape Fear and Little

Rivers in North Carolina.

More than 700,000 households and businesses in the state were still without power as of Sunday afternoon.

An estimated 15,000 people were in shelters and 171 primary roads were closed, including parts of two interstates.

As fast as the destruction is, they were doing kind of a tally of the amount of structures in that general storm area that could have sustained the original

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