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the rain the storm surge now 900,000 people across the kaur can linaus do not have power, most of them in north carolina, more than 780,000 there. the rest of them here the worst possible five people have now lost their lives sqand they're attributed to this storm in north carolina. we'll check in with them in a moment. we're expecting the latest advisory at the top of this hour. >> we're already see thing rainfall push water up into jacksonville. we talked about new bern all week. they were up to four feet and now -- the river north of jacksonville has risen 20 feet. this is that push up the small little rivers. we talk about two feet, three feet here, the surge, and you

push that up the rivers and it goes higher and higher. up the new river in jacksonville and even into wilmington. but for now the eye or the center is way near myrtle beach. so here are the latest stats for the rest of the day. now the pressure is still fairly low. the pressure was always low and that's the reason this storm has so much punch to it even though it's been on land almost 24 hours. but think about this at least 1/3 of the storm is still over the warm water and this is the surge of water that's still come canning in. see this brighter area, that's the convection that is going to pour right into these places that have flash flood emergencies going on right now. people saying do not leave your home. there's not a safe way out of your home.

just stay there unless you need to go up into your attic because the water is still am cannicomi some spots. we can't get a plane to fly because the weather is so bad. hard to imagine we're still talking about the weather in the same place that's been there for 48 hours. florence is going to turn into not far from columbia in about 18 hours. and so that's what's going to happen. this big swath of rainfall style come in wilmington. you're up about four feet on these gauges here and whereby can't believe that because it's been raining now. i've never seen a person so wet but the water is still rising it still could push up the river. so the rest of the day really doesn't look too bad, especially down towards charleston because

you're on the left side, the bottom side of this eye, or the center. that's where the lightest weather will be. but the surge continues for wilmington, into myrtle. i would say north myrtle gets a surge before myrtle beach does and iltsz t's only about five f from where the ocean to where the beach begins. we could see water in north myrtle. but the forecast doesn't stop. this is into later this afternoon and this evening. things are still going to be in the same places. >> so this wind has picked up recently and it's stronger sustained winds. are we feel thing strongest of the winds we're going to feel in myrtle beach if not, when are we going to feel those winds? >> the storm isn't dying. let's go back to the live ray tar. we'll see them become more

onshore and it's off the ocean. so far myrtle's been off shore and so you've had friction with buildings and trees and mountains by conway. other than that what we have here there's nothing to stop, no friction so i believe six hours from now is when you will see the heaviest winds and they will probably be around 50 miles per hour. >> all right, chad meyers there in the severe weather center and let's stay here in myrtle beach. this is a town right now that's under a curfew. there's another town nearby in conway and the entire ory county area under a curfew. and nick, your c're on the stre and what are you seeing and the reports from the city? >> reporter: they extended it a little further yesterday, last night because they thought hurricane florence was going to hit this wraria hard.

in fact we've been here all week long trying to tell residents how catastrophic this storm could be. it was predicted to potentially make land fall as a category four hurricane. it had turned south, putting myrtle beach in the cross hairs and that got a lot of state officials here in south carolina very nervous about the potential of the wind surge, that life threatening flash flood, storm surge, things like that. today as you see behind me, there's not that much damage on the street. we're still under until about 7:00 a.m. eastern. behind me it's just a ghost town but the worst, as chad mentioned, could still yet be yet to am can. according to local newspaper, there could be spots in this hoary ounty area that by the time this storm is done up 30 inches in rain. we've been reporting during these morning hours throughout

the last several days and this is definitely the strongest we've felt the wind. the rain has been a steady drizzle throughout. we were down in the beach earlier this morning. the waves have been crashing into the beach. but it appears myrtle beach, at least for now has escaped the worst of it. with power outages and damage of course those five people that lost their lives. and here in south carolina they've been dealing with power outages. the emergency management tweeted there were 165,000 people without power. i talk about that curfew and just as we're walking through we spot one of these emergency vehicles to make sure people are staying indoors and that's been the point that the local officials, the mayor here has been trying to make. this is nauta time to get comfortable. yesterday as we're reporting

throughout the day we did see people starting to get stir crazy. the businesses have been closed since tuesday. they thought this storm was going to be at one point the storm of a lifetime. a storm the carolina coast had not seen before. it did make a lot of damage -- it did cause a lot of damage when it made land fall but things look eerily calm at this point. not time to let your guard down. >> we've heard from local officials that this is not the time to come out. the grounds here are saturate would all the rain over the last 24 to 36 hour and more rain to come. these trees could topple over. that's happened in north carolina and he filed this report earlier. >> reporter: the flooding threat will remain for the communities

inland throughout the carolinas, including here in lumberten, north carolina. on friday we witnessed something truly eincredible where neighbors came together to try to protect their community from potential flooding. we saw strangers it filling sand bags, creating a barrier along interstate 95. that location had been identified as a problem spot hurricane matthew swept through the region. that is when water essentially flooded much of the community can, particularly on the west side of this kmurnt. so this time determined not to let that happen. all call issued on social media to create this barrier here. now they're with their families, waiting for the worst to be over in terms of the weather. but the potential flooding

threat will remain. and calling for it to reach major flood stage in the coming days. lumberten, north carolina. >> our thanks for that report and what we esaw in north carolina, that storm, as we sno with the winds building and the rain he says is come canning is on its way to south carolina. unfortunately five people dead and hundreds of thousands of people without power the storm is so big that as we have learned, this will be a multi-day event. the hope is things are not as bad as we saw in north carolina. but even after the winds die down and the rain becomes just a drizzle. all the water in those rivers will move to the south carolina river basins and those communities are now on alert for flooding. >> i heard a meteorologist say those rising rivers are go teeng be watched between monday and

wednesday of this coming week. that shows how long the event is going to be e. 1/3 of the storm is still over the water. we really don't know what to expect friendship. now if you want to help those impacted by hurricane florence, you can give blood, get in touch with charities that there responding and i know that can be hard to desiefer. we have kind of broken down some of the ways you can help there, cnn.com/impact. the white house apparently considered replacing fema chief brock long. he's under investigation for alleged misuse of government vehicles. the journal reports chief of staff john kelly decide to keep him. until inspector general issue as

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fbi this week. one democratic aid said while some are frustrated she didn't tell them about these allegations in advance, another said she was in a tough spot. the woman would not am can forward with the alghagz. again brett kavanaugh released a statement denying all of this. >> thanksgiving you so much. want to get back to victor. he is in myrtle beach and apparently the winds are picking up there and with 1/3 of the storm still over water, that tells us this has got so much punch to it. >> reporter: wind has really isolated some communities. in carolina beach the wind has made the bridge into and out of town umcan ple town completely impassable i can't believe it.

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i just -- okay. we've got nick watt who has filed a report. we're going to go to that in north myrtle beach in south carolina. >> reporter: we are on what is known as the grand strand, a 60-mile stretch of beach in the carolinas that is normally sun kissed and well cancocomes 14 m visitors every year. the water is already coming up and up this beach. the fear is that onshore winds, this could bow be a deadly combination, an. this town has flooded before. hurricane hugo destroyed all of the homes along the beach front here and that is a fear. these houses have been rebuilt up on stilts. but there are house business hind not on stilts and since

1989 a lot more people have moved to this area. now over 400,000 people have evacuated from the oes can of south carolina. expecting florence to come. here in myrtle beach maybe 2,000 or so hunkered down hoping for the best. one guy told me when it was down graded from a three to a two, i decided to stay. but the winds may be not as strong as feared but this storm is still carrying so much water and moving so slowly and dumping all that fresh water inland and then as i mentioned we have the threat of the ocean. nick watt, cnn, north myrtle beach, south carolina. >> our thanks to nick watt there. as i toss it back to you, nick talked about the 85% that evacuated myrtle beach. here a separate town, myrtle beach, the mayor says roughly

60% of the people heeded the warning to get out of town. the remaining 40% didn't simply ignore it. they had questions about their pets or just could not afford it. we'll talk about the percentage off people that stayed here and we have the mayor coming up a little bit later. the rain and wind starting to pick up here as the storm mosou >> watching you in the last 25 minutes, i can see the change coming towards you. so do hunker down. best to you and the crew as we'll be talking to victor throughout the morning of course. it did slam ashore as a category 1 storm yesterday. we're just about 23 hourinize to this. it is still dangerous though. i want to show you a look at some of the fury the storm has given that area since it hit.

>>? wind is looking stronger than it has in the last 24 hours. >> i did make land fall about six miles where i am with a wind speed of about 90 miles per hour. >> this isn't just water that's come canning this way. the ocean and the wind are forcing sand up into the air. >> if you look the way down, you might be able to make it out. that is the ocean. it's not supposed to be there right now. ♪ >> power is out all over the city. that tree to my left, your right looks like it's about to be

uprooted. >> we're in river bend, an extraordinary amount of flooding and people said they weren't exepecting it to flood like this here. >> and we are obviously going to continue to watch what happens as it looks like more wind, more rain coming on to the coast here and again 1/3 of that storm still over water. so there is still a real poetancy to this. and the flooding is the real problem. so don't let the tropical storm category fool you. there were demonstrations i want to tell you about, in other news, on the streets of dallas. protesting the police shooting death of a man in his own home. also dozens of homes in

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officer guyger who claimed she mistakingly entered his apartment thinking it was her own. and cnn has received an exclusive look here. the family is out rage behind evidence suggesting there drugged inside the apartment. >> unit 1478 was botham jean's apartment, when he was shot by a police officer in his living room, a small memorial, flowers and a photo with his mother adorn the front door. >> at 26 years old, he had done so much. >> reporter: with permission from the family we're getting a look inside his apartment. it's a tippal can single man's apartment except for the bullet hole more than six feet high and

there's a pool of blood we won't show you and his half eaten bowl of cereal still had milk in it. he may have been reading one of the many books in the apartment before he was shot and ilcanned amber guyger. she tells investigators she shot jean after mistaking his apartment for her own. she says after work, she parked her car on the wrong floor, walked to the wrong apartment and that jean's door was slightly open. she says she gave verbal command before firing two shots. witnesses tell a different story. >> they both heard a knock followed by female's voice saying open up, let me in. it didn't sound like an officer command but sounded like someone who wanted to be let into the apartment. said that was shortly followed by the sound of gun shots and a man's voice saying oh, my god,

why did you do that. >> the family are now upset about the leak of a search warrant which indicates they went inside his apartment looking for drugs. they say they did find and removal several items including a small amount of marijuana. it's unknown if a search warrant was executed at the officer's apartment. >> 26 years on this earth, he lived his life virtually without blemish it took being murdered by a dallas police officer for him to suddenly become a criminal. there is a clear intent to smear the name of botham jean. ♪ >> during a moving funeral service we learned much more about jean and his accomplishments. they talked openly about his love for people and the fact he was a high achieving employee at the accounting firm, pwc.

>> pwc is hurting. not just in dallas but all across our country. >> he was so joyful and we know how much he lubbed to sing. he was the biggest extroverted accountant you would find. >> she's onned a min straightive -- administrative leave during the investigation. they have not returned our calls. a heart broken mother wants answers. >>ium rar calling on the dallas official please come clean, give me justice. for my son. because he does not deserve what he got. >> ryan young, cnn, dallas. >> and our thanks to ryan young there. a lawrence massachusetts police officer was helping people

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i'm victor blackwell live in myrtle beach, south carolina. and continue our coverage of tropical storm florence where sustained winds are 50 miles per hour and this is still battering two states. and let's go eto carolina beach where my kulege has been for several days and i understand this community is cut off because of the wind speeds and people can't cross the bridge to get in or out. what are you seeing there? all right. so we've got technical problems,

as you might understand with the weather challenging what we have here. do we have logan pool who's ready? all right. logan pool, we've got logan pool with weather nation. there in jacksonville. same question to you. what are you seeing in jacksonville? >> it's been a change in the storm. where we went from a high wind event that did a lot of tree damage and roof damage and earlier today when -- and yesterday morning when the hurricane was dloesest by and now it's transitioning to a severe thunderstorm event and perhaps more damaging right now is the heavy rain and flooding. we saw where water was come canniing up inside a gentleman ps home. flrs he showed us the water about to come in the living space of his home. >> reporter: you say there's a

tornado warning there. just the conditions favorable to the condition of tornados. >> there have been warnings. there definitely conditions favorable to the side of the circulation associated with hurricane florence, now tropical storm florence. that's going to continue to be the case as that circulation continues to spin and continues to pump in from the atlantic ocean. >> what's the expectation for that area? >> the expectation is catastrophic flooding will continue to be on going for the foreseeable future. some areas are expected to be well above their record flood stages in some of these rivers. it's absolutely going to be a record breaking, perhaps rain smashing event for south

carolina. lot of heart breaking about to come for a lot of folks and we're going to continue to try to prostlied best coverage we ecan. >> reporter: logan pool with weather nation. thank you for your view from jacksonville. i think we have van dam back. in carolina beach. what you seeing there? >> reporter: it has been a gruling 36 hours, victor, for residents that decide ride the storm out. roughly about 600 people. we have had relentless wind, rain the only real reprieve was when the eye of the hurricane made its way across this very spot early friday morning and caused about an hour worth of calm. almost etherial because things

went completely quiet but the back side of the storm came and we have been in the dirty side quote on quote since then. they started swirling things around this area. we've had roofs that have been blown off buildings, beach erosion. what you would expect from a category 1 hurricane land fall. this was a particularly strong storm when it made its presence felt but it's such a slow mover that we continue to feel the effects. i'm really concerned of the catastrophic flooding to continue as one of these heavy bands similar to what we experienced in hoouson for hurricane harvey last year at this time is stais starting to looking at that radar it's very concerning that slow band will eventually creep towards us here

in carolina beach. back to you. >> reporter: any rough idea if many people stuck around anticipating that bridge would be shut down because of the winds? >> so 6,000 people call this place home. there is some flooding on the roadway on that bridge. about 400 people to decided to ride out the storm. they felt safer actually stang here than they were if they were to head back on to the mainland because they were worried about not being able to inter back on the island for about a week. so still a contact communication still out. emergency personnel begging for

people to only reach out if they're in a dire emergency. still without electricity here as well. >> reporter: you stay safe, you the crew stay safe. we will check back next hour. and now derrick talked about people who stayed there on carolina beach. there are many people who said mandatory warnings. some because they didn't want to leave their pets. we'll talk with with a humane society representative about what they're doing to help the pets left behind or people who have questions on what to do. stay with with us. our special live coverage continues. could help them save money on car insurance? yea,that and homeowners, renters, motorcycle and boat insurance. huh.that's nice. what happens when you catch a fish? gecko: whoa.

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live in myrtle beach, south carolina. as we continue our coverage of now tropical storm florence and some of the more heart warming stories we've heard over the last several days have been people reaching out to their neighbors but also caring for one another's pets and there have been many people who did not want to leave their pets and geto shelters where those animals would not be wellm can. we have troy snell of the hume an society of the united states. i understand you're in greenville, south carolina. what you do in and offering? >> yes, we are staged right now in greenville, north carolina with staff and personnel that are ready and stanled to go and help anybody that is going to be in need with the weather coming through. >> are you getting reports yet of animals that have been abandoned or stranded?

>> well, so far we have transported out over 400 animals from the virginia coastline. so we've already like -- obviously before the storm hit we got animals out that were going to be in need. i haven't heard of any other sit right now. we're waiting to see what the storm does and tomorrow we're moving to a different location to start helping where it's needed. >> so what do you people who are going to heed these mandatory evacuation orders, what do do with their pets, pack for their pets and how long should they prepare to be away with with those animals? >> well, we always encourage

people to have a disaster plan ready for their pets whether large or small. and finding safe places to evacuate sheltering. we have the website that talks about what you can do, where you can go possibly and it's always good to before the storm hits is too find out from your local agencies where maybe possibly shelters will be set up to take in animals as well. >> all right. troy snell with the humane society of the united states. thank you so much for the work you're doing for spending a few moment said with with us here on "new day." we'll check in with our team of reporters up and down the coast as south carolina starting to feel what hit north carolina but we know our friends in the north are not done with it yet.

>> no doubt about it. we know there are more than 900,000 waking up without power. so we appreciate all the updates and finding out what's going on where you are. it's a very fluid situation and things are changing there. our next video i want to share with you because we've seen so many things that have been hard to take in. there's a wtd reporter. she saw this family struggling to save their pets and help them carry that dog to safety and this is what we have seen from so many people. i actually heard one woman earlier this week say it's not the storm that i'm afraid of because i have faith in our community and this is just part of that. we ehad another woman who had seven dogs. didn't want to leave her home because she didn't know how to transport those dogs.

somebody got her a car and got her and her dog out of the way. i know ethis -- i know that dog is almost saying why are you carrying me like this? but that dog is getting to safety thanks to these people and neighbors coming together for each other and that is the silver lining in all of this. the resiliency of people and their generosity and compassion for each other. no doubt about it, that's a big take away from this. and rescue drews risk thing roads. dianne gallagher was with with some of them earlier. look at this. >> you know situations like this really do illustrate just the kind of danger that these first responders take on when they come aught to do these rescue cans. we were embed would the north carolina national guard.

just with a different paint job. it's called an lmtv and you see that area with the canverse over it, it's empty except for some seats. we were sitting. with with a member of the north carolina national guard. we were on our way to rescue three people who were trapped by flood waters. the neighborhood we were in was extremely flooded. the water was very high and it appears one portion of it the road had washed out in a certain yare juand so the back wheels of the this type of vehicle ran off the side. it caused the vehicle to dip down. we started taking water on in that bake area where we were sitting. the national guard, they train for stuff just like this. they did everything they needed to do. made sure we had floitation devices. but we didn'tent end up needing

that because there was a boat with new bern teenagers and they got us and our news crew out and able to help some of the members of the national guard as well. they ended up getting their vehicle out the three who were going to get resued did get resue canned. we cannot stress the danger some of these first responders are dining on these rescues. i think we take it for granted because they're so successful for the most part. and it's scary for them. almost every first responder has talked about a frighting horror story they've dealt with here in the craven county area because there's so much water and so many rescue cans being done. more than 300 at this point in this just immediate area because of hurricane florence. so everybody is okay. the story is the fact that look know the risk these people are taking when they're come dining

get people in these conditions. the wind is getting stronger than it has the last 24 hours. >> the eye made landfall with a wind speed of about 90 miles per hour. there has been a pummelling, and though the winds might not be as strong as they once were, it is the flooding that is so dangerous this morning. and more than 900,000 people waking up in the carolinas without power. good morning, i'm christi paul. and victor blackwell waking up with us in myrtle beach.