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moolg meteorologists predict it will take a left turn and slam areas of north carolina. that means places they c s like beach are right in the path. so we're's frorlorence now and where is it headed? our meteorologist is tracking this storm. what does it mean for the people in the track of this storm. >> the storm will approach the coast of north carolina, but the track has changed, a 120-mile-per-hour storm, the track shows it just meandering down the coast. that's important, some of the models show this storm just hovering just offshore and

meandering to the south. other models bring it just onshore and doing that. if it comes onshore, we will start to see the storm weaken faster than if it hangs out offshore. so that's very important. incredible impacts all along the coast, just as we were talking about yesterday, but now we're including more of south carolina and even georgia that needs to be on the lookout for this. we're still going to be talking about this storm by the end of the weekend. this is going to be a slow mover and it's going to dump a lot of rain, it's moving to the northwest at 15 miles an hour now, and with this track, we're going to see massive amounts of rain, we could see 20 to 30 inches of rain across coastal sections of north carolina and that rain is going to extend well inland. the winds are 120, with gusts at 150, this is a massive storm.

we're talking about wind fields, tropical storm force winds 300 miles across. hurricane force winds extending 125 miles across, and with this storm just sitting, we're going to see not only a lot of rain, but we're going to see a lot of storm surge, nine to 13 feet storm surge expected anywhere from portions of north carolina, and with this storm lingering, it's important to note we talk about this storm being the worst, if it comes in on high ti tide, this storm could be so wide that we could see the storm surge for several tide cycles. this is definitely nothing that this part of the coast has ever, ever seen. this is one that people should really pay attention to. we can't stress that enough. >> as this hurricane moves closer and closer to the carolina coast, the window to

leave is rapidly closing, but despite a mandatory evacuation order, some residents are determined to try and ride out the storm. caylee, in north carolicarolina happens at 8:00 p.m. local time tonight with this evacuation order? >> reporter: wolf, there is one way off of the island that occasional beach sit occasional -- carolina island sits on, that bridge will close, or when storms reach 40 miles an hour. you just heard jennifer talking about the storm surge. you can see the line here, where the tide line comes up, how short that beach gets, local officials tell me at this point, this island of 6,300 people. they believe about 100 are planning to ride out the storm, just a short while ago, i met

casey doddson a man who moved here just a couple of months ago with his family. >> i'm not even worried at all, we got all the windows boarded up, a lot of water, a lot of food, and we're not worried. we have a sturdy house and faith in god that we're still going to be here when it's over. it the worst that can happen is that your roof gets ripped off or your windows get broken, i'm not worried about any of that, we g when we lose power, we have plenty of flashlights and we're just going to hunker down. >> reporter: local officials fear much worse could happen. they tell me at 8:00 p.m. tonight when a 24-hour curfew goes into effect on the island, they will be knocking on doors, they are going to ask for the

people who are planning to stay, to hand over contact information to their next of kin. that's a very serious conversation those officials plan to have with those folks that they're risking their lives by staying here. >> it caylee, thank you very much. hurricane florence is expected to pause, as we noted, all the north carolina coast and then make that left turn, coastal locations there will be subjected to tropical storm force winds between 39 and 73-mile-per-hour or more for two days. the areas will be inundated with rain and storm surge. our correspondent nick valencia is in conway, south carolina, so nick, are folks over there leaving? >> they are, and we have been talking to them as this traffic has sort of stalled on the way out, we just talked to a woman right now who is with seven wpes and her children on the way out

of north carolina. we have been seeing people leaving with animals in their cars, we have also been seeing some adults leaving their elderly parents. yesterday i spoke a woman on myrtle beach who said she was going to stick it out. she thought she had a better handle on this than the officials who were telling her to leave. i spoke to her again and she said she has had a change of heart with the prediction of the storm going a little bit more south, with more people in the crosshairs. she's on her way out today, has booked a flight to be in the tampa bay area with her father. but her husband is going to stick it out. we have talked to people who say they will stick it out, they think they are more on top of this storm than the officials. i have spoken to the mayor of myrtle beach, she said that those who stay are not going to have that much.

first responders are evacuating and they're shutting down hospitals, evacuating the emergency room. they're preparing for the very worst, many people predicting this is going to be the absolute worst hurricane to ever hit the carolinas. wolf? >> all right, we'll stay in close touch with you, the evacuation orders along the carolina coastline are especially in effect for north carolina's barrier islands, o a ocrocoke island, the only way out is by ferry or small plane. i spoke to a commissioner paul is joining us right now, commissioner, why do you decide to stay and not evacuate? >> good afternoon, wolf. that decision to stay or evacuate is a -- it's an important one that everyone on the island has to make. and you've got to understand

that on okcrocoke i would this kind of event isn't something that happens every three or four or five years. we face this question as a community as as individuals, we face this question every year and sometimes two or three times a year. so we have a good bank of knowledge to rely on when we're making the decision and add to that, the quality of the forecasting that we get in terms of the path of the storm and the intensity of this storm, and everybody keeps that in mind as they make that decision for themselves on the island. personally, i was and my wife, we were prepared to leave yesterday, yesterday morning, until we saw the change in the track. and at this point, we feel very comfortable with the predictions

for wind values and the storm surge, that it's within or only slightly above much of what we have experienced previously. so it's those kinds of considerations that allow us to make a decision that's really a very, kind of detailed and nuanced decision that each individual on the island has to face. >> you estimate commissioner, that there are about 900 permanent residents on the island, are most of them following the orders to leave? >> certainly. we have issued three evacuation orders for our county. the first evacuation order took place on monday and that was a mandatory evacuation of visitors. and that's strictly enforced. and there were well over 1,000 visitors on the island at the time and they have all -- they're all long gone. then we extended that evacuation

order to include residents and the purpose of extending the evacuation order to include residents is to emphasize to the residents on the island the severity of the potential storm and the impact. and then we issued additionally an evacuation order for everyone on the main land and hyde county is primarily a main land county, ocrocoke island is the only barrier island that's a part of hyde county. so we have issued those three evacuation orders. >> by staying put, and trying to ride this out, are you setting a dangerous example for other folks on the island? >> oh, no, i have only lived here for 15 years and the other folks on the island have been here, you know, a lot of these folks who are staying have families who have been here for

generations, and they themselves have, many of them, have lived their whole lives on the island. so i'm by far not setting an example for them, if anything, it's the other way around. >> what about children, the little kids, are they evacuated or are they sticking around there with their adult parents? >> that's as i say, it's an important and very difficult decision. but as far as i know, if there are any children on the island at all, it's very few and it's going to be those families who have been here all their lives and have that level of confidence. but i do know of many, many people who previously have stayed on the island for hurricanes who now have children and are absolutely evacuating with their children. >> which is of course critically important. commissioner tom hall, good luck

to all the folks over there in hyde county, appreciate you joining us. meanwhile the trump administration accused of diverting funds for -- and trump defends his administration's response despite almost 3,000 deaths on puerto rico. and did the president's attacks on robert mueller just backfire? a brand-new poll shows republicans may want to rethink their strategy.

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charting an even more dangerous path. hurricane florence could shift to the south, though and slam into the south carolina coast. that puts more of south carolina in greater danger, but north carolina is in the area of the bull's-eye already. hurricane hugo struck knnorth o charleston, south carolina as a category 4 storm. let's talk to north carolina congressman david price. congressman, thank you for joining us. it how prepared will your state be to deal with this monster storm? >> all hands are on deck and i'm very heartened by the level of preparation that we see from fema, right through our governor, our state emergency preparedness office to the counties that the governor has deployed 2,500 national guard

troops to various points to facilitate operations and we have of course been in touch with brock long, our fema at minute strait fo administrator, and we're anticipating a big hit and a lot of water. you know there's going to be some dislocation and discomfort, but we really do seem to have all hands on deck to prepare for this as best as we possibly can. >> as you know, congressman, the latest forecast indicates that the storm may take a turn to the south as it makes landfall. are you concerned that people in north carolina may be letting their guard down as it moves towards south carolina. >> i would hope not, there's no reason to let our guard down. the evacuation orders mean what they say and that's at the federal level and the -- i'm

sorry, at the state level and the county level. people need to get out of these vulnerable areas, get out of harm's way, and this storm could still, you know, the track could still be modified, but there is going to be a huge amount of water coming down and a huge amount of flooding any way you look at it. and so, and the high winds, of course, it doesn't take a whole lot of wind, once that water is there, and once the ground is soaked, it doesn't take as much wind to take things down and destroy homes and so on. nobody should have any false assurance about this. i think we all better just get ready to the maximum. >> some people are deciding to stick it out, even though it's extremely, extremely reckless and dangerous. president trump says the federal government is set to provide every assistance that is needed. are you satisfied with the response you're seeing from the federal government here in

washington? >> we know fema and have worked with fema, we have had experience in the past, and all of us know that there were some major catastrophes in the past. katrina comes to mind, puerto rico comes to mind, where fema itself has said that their preparation was deficient. we need to learn from those past failures and i believe we are learning from those past failures. i certainly hope so, maybe the president isn't, but i think the agency has certainly improved its operations and so we we're working very closely with brock long and with fema and we are confident that the preparations are there and now the citizens just have to ease, just have to heed the warnings and protect themselves and protect each other. so we're doing the best we can here and i do believe it's a unified effort in this state,

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de dedicated to response, that's exactly the sort of funs that he -- funds that help you prepare and assess the damage that comes from these storms. so this is kind of an evil partnership where the funds are being taken away from preparation, after we knew the impact of the three massive hurricanes from last year, and then the money is being directed towards a program that comes from a very dark place in the heart of the administration. >> joining us now, california congressman, john garamente, so what's you your reaction to transfer tom of this money from potentially preparedness to deal with i.c.e. instead of fema? >> it really is terrible. and it's a reflection of where this administration's priorities

are. we have americans that are in harm's way and they need help. fema needs to be prepared. when you look at these tropical storms afterwards, there's a lot of cleanup. >> there are four to hit puerto rico, and we know that puerto rico hasn't recovered from last year's hurricane, because fema didn't get its job done. >> it i want to play a clip, this is the president of the united states, he was speaking, and i'll play the clip, he was speaking about what happened in puerto rico last year, and why he thinks that fema did a good job. >> the job that fema and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico i think was

tremendo tremendous. i think puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. >> but take a look at the numbers, an unsung success, over 3,000 people over the years have died as a result of this hurricane maria in puerto rico. the original toll they thought was about 64, now it's 2,975. and the president says this was an incredible unsung success. >> maybe he's talking about his ability to toss paper towels. he seems to be pretty good at that. but in terms of protecting americans, it's a disaster. it's a disaster for puerto rico, what happened there. the fema did not do its job, they were not prepared and in addition to that people died. and today more than a year later, this problem still exists in puerto rico. people without power, the infrastructure has not been repaired. the economy of the island is just devastated and the president's operating in his own reality.

he's not operating on what's happening in america and the rest of the world. >> and let's not forget that the people of puerto rico are u.s. citizens, these are americans and it's an awful situation. i want to put some numbers on to a different subject of a new poll that cnn has just released, showing what the american people think about the russia investigation, and how robert mueller, the special counsel is handling, as opposed to the president. what do you think of the russia investigation, 61% think it's a serious matter, 33% discredit the -- discredit trump for this matter. 33% don't trust the president -- trust the president on this. 72% believe the president should testify in the investigation. 23% don't. the president and his attorneys are trying supposedly towo work out at least some written answers to questions, where is this heading? >> can i say you're wrong? the attorneys are doing everything they can to keep the president from testifying.

it they know that -- >> rudy giuliani says they're trying to work out some sort of arrangement where there would be written answers to questions about what happened during the campaign, so-called cloou oe k- but they wouldn't do questions written or oral about obstruction of office after the president took office. >> if you believe rudy giuliani, you're making a mistake. this man is all over the parking lot, he changes his narrative every single day, the fact of the matter is, we need to know what's going on here, we need to know what the president did, when he knew what was going on, and the fact of the matter is he must testify, he must come under oath and tell the american people what he knew, what he did, and if he didn't do anything, that's fine. but this investigation has to move forward. it is critically important. this is the biggest scandal in america's presidential history. and there have been some whoppers in the past. >> there's been some huge

scandals in american history. >> never been one quite like this. we're talking about the fundamentals of -- >> does it rise to the resignation of president nixon? >> we don't know where it rises. we do know that the russians interfered in the american election, we do know that today they are continuing their effort to interfere in our election, not only with social media, but also in the election process itself. this has to be straightened out. we need the president to testify, the circle around him is very, very tight. what did you know, mr. president, and when did you know it? the question from watergate needs to be answered by this president. >> the president just signed today an executive order meant to punish foreign entities reading now for interfering in u.s. elections, an attempt clearly to demonstrate muscle on

this very sensitive issue. >> too little too late. we have known since the middle of the election process that russia was meddling in the election process. and now more than 60 days before the election, he issues an executive order, at the same time he's allowed his republican congress to take $300 million out of the appropriations to be used by electoral programs across the state to protect their systems. come on, mr. president, too little, too late, but thank god for doing something. >> i will point out that two u.s. senators, marco rubio, republican from florida just issued a joint statement on the signing of this executive order. they say today's announcement about the administration recognizes the threat but does not go far enough to address it. the united states can and must do more mandatory sanctions on anyone who attacks our electoral system, serves as the best

deterrent. >> all well and good, we need to whack them everywhere we can. but at the same time, we need to take steps to protect our electoral process. we know the russians are attempting to get into the voter registration rolls. all they need to do is change one numeral and change the vote. how can they make their voting opportunity unavailable to them because the voter rolls have been changed. we know they have attempted to do that. we know there's a problem going on in florida and in other states, money needs to be immediately available so that the states can improve their electoral protections. and if there is not a paper trail out there of the ballots, we're making a big mistake. >> congressman, thanks very much for joining us. now more than 25 million people in the projected path of hurricane florence, an update on the storm's path, speed and strength moments away.

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that's literally as slow as a walking pace. so the carolina coast will experience high surf and storm surge and copious amounts of rainfall for a long time. brian todd is in swan quarter, north carolina, drew, the national weather service calls hurricane florence a storm of a lifetime. are people where you are taking the warnings seriously? >> that forecast they woke up to here this morning, showing that southward bend really was a wakeup call, especially to the myrtle beach area, the city manager here, issuing an executive order telling people to stay out of the ocean, you can see that nobody is here, the reason is they want all their first responders on this day, this last day to concentrate on evacuating people, you can see it from highways here in myrtle beach, all the way down to

charleston, both directions are now facing away from the ocean as people try to get out of the path of this storm. it's not just that there might be a hit here in myrtle beach, it's the duration, a three-day possible event. as one official said, this is a thrill ride you really don't want to be on. 3,200 people spent the night in shelters as of last night, those numbers expected to go. so answer, yes, wolf, they are taking it very serious here and every business will shut down on myrtle beach at 5:00 tonight. >> as they should. brian, you're there. also the storm could devastate the barrier islands. you've been watching the ferries today, have they been full trying to get people out of there? >> most of them have been full, wolf, this one behind me, docked a short time ago, cars streaming off, dozens of cars, and then people came off of it. and then this one behind me here

did the same. i'll take you to this area where this last ferry docked a little over an hour ago. they're coming from ocrocoke island which is about 25 miles of the of ye east of year, it's one of the most vulnerable islands in these barrier islands. this was the last chance for people to get off ocrocoke island, we talked to two people who did take advantage of this kind of last desperate chance to get off that island. their names are jonathan and joseph. this is what they said about why they decided to get off. >> well, with the category 4, you could have lots of ocean overwash and flooding and i just worry the roof might blow off or windows might crash in so i think it's safer. >> it i definitely did not want to, i packed up everything as well as i could and got it all prepped up, got my boat with me,

got my dog with me, it's not what i wanted to do, but it's what i had to do. >> reporter: now we're told that a total of about 21 people have evacuated from ocrocoke island and about 1,000 vehicles from come off. but there are about 900 permanent residents of ocrocoke island, and we just spoke to the commissioner of hyde county, who lives on ocrocoke island, and he's one of about 100 people who are staying on the island. after this hurricane starts to hit, those people will be trapped, they'll be stranded, possibly for days and they may not get ferries to them, really any time soon. so they have to know what they're getting into and they're telling them that even emergency services are shut down, do not all emergency services during the storm because they simply cannot get to them. wolf? >> i hope they're oak, it's a really dangerous situation,

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listen to this. >> we know this is going to be a very challenging election on the senate side. i'm just list you a bunch of races that are dead even, arizona florida, tennessee, missouri, indiana, west virginia and florida. all of them too koes to caclose call, every one of them like a knife fight in an alley a brawl in every one of those places. i hope when the smoke clears, we'll still have the majority in the senate. >> senator mcconnell states specifically a close call, but only three of those states are where republicans trying to hold seats the rest are so-called red states. for mike rollins is joining awe republican, on the arm services committee. thank you so much for joining

us. what do you think? senator mcconnell the majority leader saying he hopes when the smoke clears the republicans will still have a majority in the senate. do you see these races as close as the pa majority leader is making it sound? >> i think he's correct. he's got good numbers to look at. i think he is sending a wake-up call to say we shouldn't be complacent. i have run 11 times in every one i assume i'm five points down and looking for the next roll. that's way we have to look at every single senate race out there. we have to be on top of it. we can't think we will be okay, we've got some room to play with, absolutely no. we got to be in and working on every single one of those race, we have to have the team behind us and financial support as with el. >> we a seeing an approval rating for the president down to

36% ifn a month. independent voters down from 47% a little while ago. is there something you can pin that drop on? do you think the drop on independents will have an immediate effect on mid-term elections? >> i think in the mid-west, is a drop. part of it is tariffs, the mart is the farming economy is dependent on having outside markets vaublg i had a talk with the president eis aware of it. he will try to do everything to move as quickly forward as possible. folks if my part of the country, they're going to stick with the president at this stage of the game. what they're saying is, look, we know we didn't have the best trade deals before, he's

fighting for, i hope the president is able to do something. i think ha will bring those approval ratings at least to the mid-west, i they will help him, if he can do the trade deals with mexico and canada and get to work on the deal with china. coin will be a little more difficult challenge to work on. >> as you know, house republicans, your in the senate, but house republicans are looking to push through another round of permanent tax cuts. look at this, right now, the first round of cuts. we see the federal deficit is now up this year, the annual budget deficit, 32% or an increase of $222 billion to a whopping $895 billion. that's the budget deficit this year. can you see how it's been increasing, especially since president trump took office. so what happened to that part of the republican party that was serious about cutting spending and cutting budget deficits?

>> yeah, i think part of the challenge is systemic. that is that in the united states congress, we only vote on 30% of what we spend. we don't vote on the spending for ped care, medicaid, social security on interest on the delaware that's 70% of the money actually being spent some people will tuque about medicare and medicaid and social security, he's talking about lowering that, that's not what i'm saying, you have to manage them, if you are not managing them, they can get out of happened right quick we have right now about 30% of the budget which is about 1.4 trillion a year. have you an 80 billion shortfall. you can't fix it simply cutting defendant spending i. it doesn't work that way the reason for the tax cuts is to grow the commitment you are seeing wages go up 2.9% him unemployment is still under 4%. those are good signs, if we grow this economy, there will be more

dollars there that add to our tax base. i think we will not only pay for those tax cuts, we will have some money to apply against that deficit. but you can't do it unless you actually manage the entire bug. we haven't done that in 44 years. it is a systemic issue that's got to be addressed. >> but that budget deficit is exploding. next year the congressional budget office estimates it will be more than a trillion dollars of budget deficit if one yen on alone and that is clearly, clearly unacceptable to you and i'm sure to so 'of your colleagues. i'm sure it won't change. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. all right, breaking news coming into cnn, we're getting word of another major department cure at cbs, "60 minutes" executive is

out immediately, he is being ousted based on inappropriate conduct. cbs says it's not directly related to the inappropriate touching reported by ronan pharaoh, he denied those allegations, he released a statement saying in part, cbs fired him because he sent a harsh tech ma edge to a reporter on a story she was working on. we will have more details in a live report coming up later hear on cnn. another big loss a big departure at cbs. we are getting live pictures from north carolina the national weather service with its prediction. stay with us. full coverage, right after this

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