Swollen Rivers Near Record Levels as Florence Looms
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — With Wilmington cut off from the rest of North Carolina by still-rising floodwaters from Florence, officials plan to airlift food and water to a city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes threatened by swollen rivers.The spreading disaster claimed additional lives Sunday, with at least 17…