A North Carolina pastor and two members of his church set out to rescue people from the floodwaters of Hurricane Florence, but ended up first finding some four-legged creatures who needed assistance. Matthew Drake, pastor at Richlands United Pentecostal Church, was seen in a now-viral video ― posted by CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz on Twitter Friday afternoon ― carrying a soaked kitten through the rain in Jacksonville, North Carolina. HAPPENNING NOW: Pastor rescues kittens & dogs left behind in Jacksonville, NC where flooding has started. What they found, however, were two dogs and two cats in dire straits. Video from The Associated Press (above) shows the men finding two barking dogs on the porch of an empty home surrounded by water.

Source: Huffington Post September 15, 2018 21:45 UTC