As Congress considers a relief package to North Carolina and other states battered by Hurricane Florence, coastal residents are being reminded that the danger from the storm isn't over.
Schools across the southeastern part of the state remained closed this week as administrators begin to assess the damage from Hurricane Florence.
Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by rising water days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with more than 10,000 evacuees around the state not to return home yet.
When meteorologists downgraded Hurricane Florence from a powerful Category 4 storm to a Category 2 and then a Category 1, Wayne Mills figured he could stick it out.
Emergency officials are breathing a sigh of relief after the Yadkin River crested below anticipated flood levels.
Governor Roy Cooper says more people now face imminent threat than when Florence, now a tropical storm, was offshore.
