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After The Rains, Casualties Mount Amid Florence's Still-Rising Floodwaters

In South Carolina, two women being taken for mental health care died when the van they were being transported in met high waters. Sunny skies have returned, but flooding problems are just beginning.
Members of the New York City Urban Search and Rescue Task Force clear a tree from a house in New Bern, N.C. on Tuesday.

As floodwaters from former-Hurricane Florence's massive rains continue to flow through the Carolinas, the end of the storm's damage is nowhere in sight.

In Horry County, S.C., two women being taken for mental health care died on Tuesday night when the sheriff's office van they were drove around barriers and then were surprised by the flood. Authorities that the deputies couldn't get the rear doors open, and the two patients drowned inside the van. The deputies climbed on top of the van and were rescued; they have been placed on administrative leave.

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