of the book in chaos. the president wants people to say not true. here we go. thanks for joining us. hope to see you back here this time tomorrow. keep your eye on the weather center. jim schutto in for wolf and he starts right now. have a great day. >> hello, i'm jim schutto. it is 1:00 p.m. here in washington. millions on the east coast are bracing for a monster hurricane heading straight for the carolinas. hurricane florence backi ining s of up to 130 miles an hour. a category four storm. this could be the strongest storm the carolinas have experienced in more than 2.5 decades and still gaining strength. a million and a half people are told to get out now and prepare for catastrophic flooding and

widespread power outages. all along the coast to track the storm, we will check in with jennifer gray for a look at everything you need to know about the storm in a moment. first let's start with nick valencia who is in myrtle beach, south carolina. heeding the warning to evacuate now. nick, as you watch that, people are listening to the warnings. >> we talked to a lot of residents who are not listening to the warnings. they will be safe enough to ride it out. we are outside one of the costcos as we watch people to prepare for the storms. two folks are planning and getting ready for the storm. dustin and keith, you have been planning for a little while. you are taking care of your beach house. >> we are securing and tying everything down. making sure the refrigerator is cleaned out and nothing can blow

around and things like that. >> you are originally from rocking ham and you came from there and ran out of bread and water there? >> bread and water and they sold all the generators, just about. >> you guys are trying to get plywood? what are you focusing on? >> the tie down straps and things like that. securing everything and putting plywood up on the windows of the beach house and screws. anything to take care. >> anything that can blow away. >> anything that can blow away. >> the mayor seems to think it will be a serious storm. >> terrible, yeah. my grand daddy's house is on 24th and this will be ocean front by the time the water comes in. i don't know what's going to happen, but it's going to be bad. >> they compared it to hurricane hugo.

you were a child. do you remember hugo at all? >> yes, i do. category five. we had a lot of devastation. went all the way through charlotte and tore a lot of things up. >> it could be as bad this time around. we don't want to keep you. appreciate you taking the time. >> appreciate your time. if anybody is listening to me, please don't take advantage of this situation. prepare yourself. do whatever you got to do to -- to make it right. take care of your loved ones and your animals. >> thank you very much. get back in there and get your stuff. i don't think he could have said it any better. a resident warning others we spoke to. a few resident a couple of hours ago who think they are going to ride this out. i spoke to the representative and he is concerned about that. he wants people and he is also pleading with people to leave from the area. don't make the first responders

have to work harder than they already have to. this is a serious thing. >> that's right. there is no heroism of sticking it out. people are boarding up homes. 1.5 people under mandatory evacuation for gas supplies. kaylee hartung is among them. any hesitation to listen to the warnings? >> a little bit from a couple of people. jim, it was interesting earlier i spoke to two young men who said they had to drive 25 minutes just to find the nearest gas station that had gas. these pumps are staying busy. truckers in the back. some of these guys are either

filling up gas for their generators to try to wait this thing out or gassing up and filling up canisters to take with them to get well out of town as is the case in these storms. you know you can always find the folk who is are willing to take a chance. >> i'm gassed up and ready to go, but i'm planning on sticking it out. i'll make an evaluation. if that thing is coming at us at 120 miles an hour. right now i plan on riding it out. >> folks have time on their side, but officials hope they will take the time to go ahead and get on the road and get out of town. he lives in brunswick county, 100,000 people under evacuation. people living in evacuation zones are heeding the warnings. the city of will mingston right over the bridge.

two brims that can get you out that was town. they are under voluntary evacuation. places like that where people say they are going to take their time and wait and see how bad it will truly get here. we know one thing for certain and every official said the storm is headed this way one way or another. >> kaylee hartung, that's a big risk to take. tropical storm force winds could start hitting the carolinas by tomorrow night with florence expected to make landfall on thursday evening. jennifer gray is tracking the storm's movements. as you watch it there, i know there were some reports that the eye is getting bigger which might be a sign of strengthening. what are you seeing? >> it is a sign of strengthening and it went through an eyewall cycle. the wall collapse and it comes back. the storms are so big and carry so much energy within them, that they can't maintain that powerful strength for so long. it's like they exhale and take a

deep breath again. this is reorganizing as the big storms do. this is still a category four major hurricane. winds of 130 miles per hour. gusts of 160, moving to the west northwest at 16 miles per hour. here's a closer look and you can see it's very symmetrical. the hurricane force winds extend 40 miles from the center. this is a monster, jim. i wish people would not wait and see before they leave. the confidence is getting stronger and stronger with this storm. we do know that it is going to be making landfall by late thursday or early friday morning. it's going to get to the coast. the cone is getting narrower and narrower. the confidence is extremely high with the storm. this is where the center could be anywhere within this cone. the effects will be far reaching. the impacts as well. it basically stalls over the carolinas. it is going to dump a lot of

rain. that is going to be a huge concern not only that, but with a storm this powerful, you are going to have all that storm surge pushing inland and all the water coming up up the rivers and cause extreme flooding not only along the coast, but inland as well. as the storm stalls out, we could see 10 to 20 inches of rain inland. this pink color is well west of charlotte and could see 10 to 20 inches of rain. charlotte could see 6-10 and this could change a little bit. 6-10 doesn't mean that is what you will see. you could see more by the time we get to it. here's the storm surge height. 6 to 12 foot from st. moorehead city to coastal areas around wilmington. 5 to 8 in northern sections. two to four as far south as charleston. this is a monster. it's not something people should sit out. it's not something you want to ride out. this will be extremely serious.

>> absolutely. please listen to the warnings. jennifer gray knows a thing or two about storms. meantime, donald trump jr. asked about whether he is scared of prison as the russia investigation intensifies. this as he said the number of people who his father trusts is shrinking. the president's approval rating remained steady despite the controversies, but now new signs that's cracking. and 17 years after 9/11 as president trump honors the fallen from flight 93, there is new cnn reporting on what homeland security sees as the most urgent terror threat to america today. hey allergy muddlers.

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donald trump jr. coming to his father's defense and what he sees as the possible end result. >> your father denied reports he is worried you might be in legal jeopardy because of the mueller investigation. you are scared you could go to jail? >> i'm not because i know what i did. that doesn't mean they won't try to create something. again, i'm not. >> some say mueller has been successful. he has an indictment of manafort and a plea deal from cohen and papadopoulos sentenced. he has a litany of close associates of your father's under investigation. >> all for things that happened way before they were ever part of any campaign. if they get manafort on a 2006 tax charge, again, i understand they are trying to get my father and they will do anything they can to get that.

>> here is cnn political ln lift a analyst and donald trump jr. is trying ing ting to wrap everyt the crimes that happened before, but the papadopoulos meeting happened during the campaign and 25 indicted russians. what's your reaction as you watch donald trump jr.? is he worried about running into legal trouble? >> the fact checking shows he is being dismissive. when you show there has been progress made on mueller and his probe, this is fayned in some ways. i don't know what he fears, but he is emboldened about there being a witch hunt and the actual mandate of robert mueller is to figure out if there was

collusion with a member of the campaign trying to undermine democracy and whether his father is being attacked misses the mark of why the probe exists. >> you covered this white house and this administration here again, contradicting donald trump jr.'s characterization of this. the michael cohen plea involves a payment days before the election itself. it was not some ancient crime unrelated to politics here. did that in particular change the white house view, the trump view of this investigation that wait a second, we might be in trouble here. >> i think that point started to come closer to the inner circle. he had a lot of secrets and had been such a loyalist. he made such a turn around that that had to rattle the trump family. we are getting to the level of the family and closing ranks are trying to protect what they have. this is also the timing of this has to be taken into account.

as much as we say mueller, he's kind of putting a spin on what the mueller probe is and where it might go. before mueller is done, we are likely to see the mid-terms happen. they have to take that into account. the political message matters. what may happen to the president's closest associates and the president himself matters. the way the country feels about it matters, too. we are trying to protect the house majority because if it flips, democrats will try for impeachment. you can spin it and dismiss it because the message will carry before mueller's probe will close up. >> if you look at donald trump's declining ark approval numbers where you have the number polls where he is down in the 30s, if you look at marks on the timeline as to when that happened, that plea seems key among others as well. we have news and this is a reaction from rob porter. you remember the trump white house and former staff secretary

who left when he responded to spousal abuse. anecdotes in the book describe porter as being one of the officials who removed documents from donald trump's desk to avoid the president from making what they viewed as bad decisions. i will read some of that statement now. having now read bob woodward's fear, i am struck by the misleading portrait it paints of the president and his administration. as staff secretary i managed the flow of documents to and from the oval office and ensured anything the president was asked to sign was properly vetted. the stolen documents misunderstands how the review process works and has worked for at least the last eight administrations. what's interesting about that, right from the get go he calls and is one of several official who is called woodward's book inaccurate and denied statements, etc. he doesn't deny that the documents were taken away and he

is placing that within the regular operations of the white house. is that how you take this? >> there is the push back and confirmation in the statement. arguing about the motivations. not are inially refuting the events that he said happened when the documents were removed from the president's desk. it's saying look, that's not a resistance move, but a legitimate action because it shouldn't have been there in the first place. that is now going to come down to -- a different way of pushing back. you have seen other members flat out saying i didn't say that and it never happened. the nuance is it's a misinterpretation. that's a different way of pushing back of bob woodward who is basically right about these things when he writes these books. we will see what the back and forth is, depending on his sources. >> the series of denials by a series of senior administration officials in the last several days since the woodward book came out. what struck me is many of them

with the anonymous new york times editorial, many of them denying not the substance and denying they were involved. not fighting the narrative of dysfunction and conflict within the administration. that are that are they are trying to say they are not to be labeled as resistance members and they were fulfilling their duty as members of the white house administration to ensure he has all the information to make a decision. they are clear that they believe he is capable of making a decision. incompetence is what they don't want to be part of. that seems to be in theory and hinge and fear about questioning the competence and that's the reason for the movement. this is largely a statement of whether or not you want to be labeled against the president or considered in the the overall narrative in history as somebody pro america and doing their part. this is why the anonymous op-ed

was written in the first place. >> rob porter better believ it because he is on the campaign. he left the white house, but he has a job with trump. thank you very much. one major question facing trump and the americans, are they at risk of losing the senate? it's so close, it's like a knife fight in an alley. we have the numbers coming up. hurricane florence, a powerful category four hurricane gaining strength as it gets closer to the east coast. you will hear from some folks who are amazingly and irresponsibly you might say, refusing to evacuate. tch so smal you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty mutual insurance.

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those places. i hope when the smoke clears we will still have the majority in the senate. >> a knife fight in an alley. he said cnn political director, of course a lot of talk about the house. democrats have a going chance there, but the map is tougher. where do things stand? >> it's always more challenging on the senate side. democrats are defending so much surf in very republican states. mitch mcconnell listed them and just to go through it, montana, north dakota, missouri, indiana, west virginia. those five states, donald trump won them by double-digits and democratic incumbents are running for reelection in those states. it is a tough map, but the reason there is this sliver of hope now for democrats, a very narrow potential path to the majority is we are starting to get polling numbers in these races. in a place like indiana, the

democrat, joe donnelly, is up six points. in a place like tennessee, the democrat is plus two. these red states have not been put away by the republicans yet. how did the democrats do it. they have to convert republican states. nevada currently held by dean heller. jeff flake is retiring and that seat is open. i mentioned tennessee and in texas, beto o'rourke is giving ted cruz a run for his money. the democrats have to hold their own in republican territory and then they have to convert a couple. they are only two seats away from the majority. the only way to do that is to hold all their own and convert a couple of those republican states. there is a path, but it's narrow. >> remember the phrase, narrow path from 2016. it seems so familiar. the president's approval rating is down to 36%.

that mimicked in a number of other polls recently. how does that play into the mid-term races? >> this brand-new poll conducted, this 36% approval rating is down six points from where the president was last month in our poll. it's not just our poll. it is every reputable poll we approve of in terms of standards and methodology. he is down in that organization's previous poll. that suggests that this indeed is donald trump taking on a bit of water with just eight months to go -- eight weeks to go in the mid-term season. >> thank you very much. here is ryan costello, a republican from pennsylvania. thank you very much for taking the time. >> good to be with you. >> as you look at the numbers for the president. concerning to you for republican chances in the mid-terms.

>> i think so. as david pointed out in a lot of these double-digit trump states for senators, all of a sudden you don't have the wind at your back. for republicans, florida and new jersey are two prime pick up opportunities and you look at the house and the president in virtually every house district is under water. a lot of suburban districts, he has been under water since the day he was sworn in. partly attributable to the mccain funeral and being able to balance what an independent republican is and a statesman is versus a lot of the stuff that comes out of the president's mouth and the fights that we don't need to have fights over. it creates more of an uphill battle and challenge for republicans. >> you are saying the president is responsible for the dip in his ratings? >> no question about it and everyone in america knows it. the challenge is to say what we

did and be able to identify your own independent brand and why you are running for reelection you break with the president. >> breaking with the president that is a rare thing from republican lawmakers, particularly in the prime easier and granted, you can understand that. it's mostly republicans. a majority of republicans who vote in the primaries in the general. do you think and do you see more republicans willing to say hey, wait a second. here's where i disagree with mr. trump. >> you see that and continue to see that on congress and our enhanced russian sanctions against what the president would like to see on the issue of trade. at the same time in time, we have to witness that with a good economy and confidence with an 18-year high. if you look at polling, voters approve of the president's policies about 10 percentage points more than they approve of the president.

if you look at president obama, there were times where folks approved of president obama at a clip 10 points higher. the inverse. going into election day, it will be critical as to why as an independent republican member of congress you vote for that candidate because democrats are energized. if you look at the ballot and the intensity gap, to be a democrat, you have to be against the president. that's all your voters are looking for. >> it came out that 36% overall approval, but 49% for his handling of the economy. just that disparity. there is a lot of talk and know you are leaving the house, about how the republican party is now trump's party. do you believe this election has the potential to turn that on its head and if trump has weakened republicans in these races, do members of the party like yourself who said this before, we have to claw this

party back to our vision of the gop. >> believe so. number one, you always need to make sure your political party is bigger than any one individual. some of his policies are not republican policies. third, just the tone and tenor are not presidential. are i think there are a lot of americans that look to the president beyond their policies and say i like my president to be a role model. when you are not getting that kind of feel out of the presidency as members of congress, as figures in the political party, you need to make sure you are speaking out and believe that is also attributable to the debt. >> ryan costello, thank you very much for taking the time. coming up next, we are tracking a massive hurricane heading straight for the coast. a million and a half people being told and ordered to get out now. one of those places is holden beach, carolina. that's next. oglass,

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the mayor in north care lippa said everyone has to be off the island by 8:00 in the morning tomorrow. mayor, thank you for taking the

time. i know you have a lot on your hands in these hours and days. the first question is, are people listening to those evacuation orders. it's a real challenge that a lot of people choose to stick it out. >> the corporation has been extensively well receive and we have no problem with compliance. everything is moving along very well. >> that's good to hear. i know it's a difficult decision for you and other local leaders when the storm is coming your way. you are never quite sure where it's going to hit, but what made you make this decision to make the evacuation order? >> first of all, i live on this island 69 years. we have seen a lot. we haven't had a hurricane since 54. we had storms, but this one is scary. the unpredictability and magnitude of it is unlikely to

be anything in receipt memory. we closed off the water and sewer system. we are taking that into consideration and decided the best thing is at 8:00 in the morning, everyone vacate out. >> there is just one bridge to get off the island? is that proving a challenge as people head out? >> we have one high-rise bridge. built in 1995. it's in great condition. our island is nine miles long and about 2100 homes on the island. evacuation has not been a problem. the police chief will close the bridge when the wind gets to 45 miles per hour sustained speed. >> you have a history there personally and the island goes back decades with storms and warnings like this.

put this in context as you see this coming. how do you feel about it. how is the community going to weather this? >> i'm very reluctant to order evacuations. i believe in staying here unless it's absolutely in the best interest of everyone. in this case the uncertainty decides the storm and certainly without a doubt, we made the right decision. even right now we don't know where it's going to go or how much power it will have when it arrives. one other concern is the high tides we have been experiencing the last three or four days. if the storm arrives at high tide, it's going to be really bad for us. we are running a few feet above normal already. >> we know you have a lot on your plate and we wish you luck

in the coming days and hours and hope you get through it just fine. >> i appreciate that and i will just say that all the state and local officials and the town staff and the citizens that work together extremely well and it's going to be a unique experience, but i'm sure we will get through it and everywhere will come away better than some might hope. we don't want anybody to lose any property anywhere in the country, but it sure would be nice if this was going out to sea for everybody's sake. >> we will be looking out for you. thanks very much. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up next, we will take you to syria where un officials warn the worst humanitarian catastrophe this century could be unfolding there. the government is stepping up its tack as fears of imminent slaughter loom. we will talk live with a humanitarian on the ground and give us a firsthand account of

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. the spector of this century's worst humanitarian catastrophe is over idlib province in syria as they step up attacks with the last rebel stronghold in the country. james mattis says al-assad warned about the possible use of chemical weapons again in syria. international correspondent is in nearby damascudamascus. >> hi there, jim.

the situation north of syria continue continues to intensify. where most of the air strikes have been taking place is in a lot of places in idlib, but the south of the province where a lot of casualties happen and air and artillery crisis happens as well. they are showing the planes and the rocket launchers, firing towards idlib province. they also said on the rebel side they have had cross border firing and people were killed on the other side as well. the message that we're getting right here in damascus is they say this offensive could be imminent and could happen innocent. there could still be room for diplomacy. we know that meeting in the united nations. the u.s. and russia going at it. with the un, with the russians, iranians and the turks. with every moment that goes by and the air strikes continuing

in idlib, the chance of staving off an offensive is growing dimmer by the minute. >> in syria, thanks very much. i want to bring in a volunteer with the white helmets, a humanitarian group made up of civilians. he is in idlib. thanks so much for joining us here. we know you are in a dangerous place at a dangerous time. tell us what the situation is like on the ground there now. >> since assad's forces and russians started the offensive on idlib, they started on the west side of idlib. then they moved to the southside and they had the countryside with 32 air strikes and five bombs and the casualties at

least 20 people including six kids and 14 women. they targeted two hospitals and they put them out in addition two centers of that. our centers and there are 200 the bombing in the two days, last two days made the people more afraid, scared about the future of the province. and all the world know that this is the last strong hold of the area of people that can live in. there's no other place to go for those millions of people. the international community said

maybe united nations say this maybe will be the worst situation in this century maybe and for sure it will be people now preparing for big massacre, making mask for chemical weapons. you hear in u.s. and russian news that they will use chemical weapons to attack. people more than afraid about their lives and kids. they have experience in tehran, and in 2016, me and my family are here now, very scared about our future and the future of the territory. >> to you and to the civilians there, we want to let you know we wish you safety and thank you

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as the nation pauses to reflect again on the 9/11 attacks, al qaeda is issuing a f new threat from the current leader, ayman zawahiri, urging more attacks on the united states. new reports show the threats the u.s. faces in the 17 years after 9/11. josh, i know you have been through the report. what are the highlights? >> hi, jim. as america honors the faller from september 11, government officials continue efforts to identify and thwart other attacks at home and abroad. large part of that is drawing lessons learned from past incidents, identifying patterns, trends that might help stop future loss of life. in the new dhs assessment obtained by cnn, the government looked at 99 attacks from 2014

to 2018, which included attacks in north america, australia, and europe. what they found was despite rising fears globally about lone wolf terrorist attacks inspired by extremists, dhs assesses it is instead those attacks directed by foreign terrorist organizations, and involving trained recruits that remain the most deadly. according to analysis, directed attacks in the study resulted in an average of ten times as many fatalities as the other incidents. now, dhs studied methods use in attacks, including the fatal form involving use of firearms compared to using vehicles as ramming devices and knives. the fact that organized attacks directed by foreign terror groups remain the most deadly doesn't mean the government is throttling back on efforts to identify lone wolves that may be inspired by terrorist groups. past tragedies like pulse nightclub in orlando show the mass harm the individuals can

still inflict on communities compared to larger conspiracies. the bottom line, jim, from the report, thankfully it has been quite some time since the last major terrorist incidents in the united states, the intelligence community is looking to share best practices with federal, state, local counterparts to stay ahead of those that want to cause harm. >> josh, for the big directed attacks from abroad, do they still single out al qaeda as the number one? are they concerned that isis is capable of similar things? >> isis and al qaeda are key figures and other groups, spin offs that plot in other parts of the world, they continue to inspire. groups like the islamic state are being crushed on the battlefield, they have a kill kill kill messaging that continues to spread and inspire. it is still a main concern. >> and affiliates, aqap that has ambitions targeting commercial aircraft. thank you for walking us through

it. that's it for me. jim sciutto for wolf blitzer today. up next, newsroom with brooke baldwin and that starts right now. i am brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me this tuesday afternoon. it could pack the winds of irma and rain of harvey. it is forcing more than a million people to get out of the way. look at me. interstate 26 where there's only one direction in which you can travel and that's far from the coast. texas suffered through harvey, puerto rico survived maria, and florida withstood i remember a. now looks like hurricane florence has its eyes on the carolinas. it is that gargantuan of a storm wi