Hurricane Matthew Update: 2 more NC Deaths; US toll rises to 38

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory says two more people have died in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, raising the U.S. death toll to 38.
McCrory said Thursday that 22 people in North Carolina had died. The governor said one victim drowned when the car they were in went around a barricade and encountered a washed-out road. A second victim died when he walked into a hole from an uprooted tree and couldn’t get out.
Virginia also reported its second storm-related death Thursday.
North Carolina is still seeing flooding several days after Matthew dumped more than a foot of rain. McCrory said the historic town of Princeville was underwater after a nearby river spilled over. McCrory says the town of about 2,000 people will need to rebuild.
It’s one of the country’s first towns created by freed slaves in 1865. It was devastated in 1999 after Hurricane Floyd’s torrential rains.