North Carolina TV station evacuates because of rising water

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The Wilmington Police Department said Friday that the two were killed when a tree fell on their house. The father sustained injuries and was transported to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington for medical care. "The longer you have this hurricane wind flow, the longer you push that water well inland", he said.

In an exclusive interview with North Carolina's Governor, Roy Cooper said [North Carolina] has had three deaths related to the storm.

The storm was downgraded from a Category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm late Friday.

"I'm anxious about what I might find when I go home, though", she said. It's the sheer volume of water, in the form of tidal surges, rain, and anticipated flash flooding that make this Category 1 storm unusually unsafe.

The first victims of hurricane Florence struck the coast of the US state of North Carolina, were two people.

Cooper said the hurricane was "wreaking havoc" on the coast and could wipe out entire communities as it makes its "violent grind across our state for days".

A city spokeswoman for New Bern, NC, said more than 200 people were rescued from floodwaters Thursday night, and confirmed that 150 more were waiting to be rescued by Friday morning.

North Carolina alone is forecast to get 9.6 trillion gallons, enough to cover the Tar Heel state to a depth of about 10 inches (25 centimeters).

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Speaking during a visit to Moscow less than an hour after the hurricane made landfall in North Carolina, Perry said "we've done this many times before".

The hurricane came ashore early Friday, pounding the state with torrential rain and high winds.

Almost 3,000 people died in the aftermath of the storm, according to an estimate from researchers at Georgetown University that was adopted by the Puerto Rican government as the official death toll for the storm.

Southeastern coastal North Carolina into far northeastern SC could see 20 to 30 inches of rainfall; some isolated areas could see 40 inches.

Officials said some 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to evacuate, but it's unclear how many did.

More than 30 inches of rain have fallen in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. River flooding may be worse than Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

"It's like a bomb has gone off", Zaytoun told "Good Morning America" Friday. It's moving north-northeast at 18 miles per hour.