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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. good morning. >> reporter: you said the winds
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have died down, that is true, but they are still stiff and getting stronger here in myrtle beach. as we've said, this is not primarily a wind event. it is about the rain and the surge that is flooding so many communities. this is a multi-day event that could stretch well into next week as the flooded waters that are in north carolina come down to the rivers into south carolina and flood some of the communities along the banks there. i'm in myrtle beach, as i said. this is a town that's under aid curfew for another hour. no one who is not emergency personnel should be on the streets right now, we've gotten reports from officials across myrtle beach that the expectations were much worse. but here things for the moment are looking good. again, this is one of many chapters of this event. i want to start with my colleague, nick valencia, across myrtle beach checking around, seeing if there's damage thus far that's come from the winds and rains. what are you seeing where you
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are? >> reporter: we decided to go backup 20 miles away from myrtle beach, drive around to see what kind of damage the storm brought to the area. you know, they were expecting catastrophic damage all week long. we've been here since earlier this week warning residents that this storm, it -- it wasn't a storm that one should take lightly. here, though, we haven't seen any significant damage. we're in an area called conway, south carolina. it's about 20 miles inland from myrtle beach. it's an area that is prone to flooding. in fact, i spoke to the emergency manager early this morning. just a short time ago, asked if they've seen reports of damage or injuries. he said really now it's too early to tell. just like where you are now, this area still under a curfew. the only cars we see are police vehicles cruising the streets to make sure everyone is okay. we're not seeing any significant damage, but the wind is steady, the rain is coming down pretty
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steady. we're continuing to cruise around after the hits to see if we can find anything else. earlier in week we thought this was a storm of the lifetime. it was projected to be a category 1, now a tropical storm sitting and hovering over us. i also managed to speak to the mayor since we were last on, and she says really it's -- we're not out of the woods yet. what she expects to happen in the next three to five days is cresting. even if there's not flooding now, it doesn't mean it's not going to happen later this week. as the sun comes up, they'll get an assessment to see if there are any other significant areas of damage. from what we can see, the 20 miles that we drove, we haven't seen anything so far. >> reporter: nick valencia, thank you very much. i don't want you to be left after that report and the first couple of minutes of this hour to believe that everything is safe here. although the first reports here in myrtle beach are positive,
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this is a killer storm. five people in north carolina have lost their lives because of hurricane florence, now a tropical storm. a mother and her infant were killed when a tree fell on to their home in wilmington. a 77-year-old man who was checking on his hunting dogs, he lost his life. his family believes the wind knocked him over. there was a woman who suffered cardiac arrest, and officials say they were en route to her home to i try to respond to -- to try to respond to the call. because of fallen trees in the road, they weren't able to get to her in time. by the time they arrived, she was deceased. a man died trying to hook up a generator. these are after the height of the storm. these are deaths that come in the aftermath of the worst of the wind and rain. this is not a time to come out and survey the damage, although we just had a report of things
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looking better than expected. we have dangers with downed power lines, saturated ground, and trees that could topple any time. chad myers will tell us what we can expect over the next several hours as this stretches on for another day. chad, what are you seeing? absolute brutality in north carolina. there's no other word. a sobering flash flood emergency over almost the entire eastern half of that state. you guys are closer to the center but not closer to the action. this is where the tornado warning is in effect. the big band off the ocean will push moisture into north carolina. i'm going to show you river gauges that are going to be alarming. the same type of gauges that we saw near the newbern area yesterday as it worked its way up. it's only a 50 mile-per-hour storm, we're west/southwest at
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five miles per hour. barely moving. not that far from myrtle. there's another ten inches to come on the north side of this, on top of places that have already seen 30. ten plus 30 is 40. i can do that math. this is the high-risk forecast radar. 2:00, 3:00 this afternoon, the rain stays in the exact same place because the eye center stays in the exact same place. this is the rub here with this storm. i'm going to get granular with you. not the best graphics, but usgs data. live data now of what the rivers look like, and it's alarming. let me take you to the first place here. this is the trent river at trent on. all week at four feet. this morning, 18 feet. people are living this like they lived the newbern river
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yesterday. the noose river at kingston, from 5 to 14 and going up. well above major flood stage. here's goldsboro. here's the noose river at goldsboro. we're going to go from three feet and right this morning we're at 20 feet high. this river has gone up 17 feet in 24 hours. another one, the new river near gum branch. we've been from two feet to 23 this morning. the rivers all the way up and down even from northern north carolina all the way down to the ocean will have to take all of this water. cape fear river at fayetteville. 10 to 16, and the forecast is almost 60 feet. another, what, 30, 40 feet to go. people will have to get out of the way of the water. it's running back down. and it's still coming in. >> wow. that's why this is a multi-day event. thank you very much. we'll check back with you to see
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what's coming for people across the carolinas. and george, riding this out in oak island. good morning. what are you seeing outside your window? >> good morning. wind -- i've been through several of these. 45 miles per hour. steady rain. a lot of branches down. a lot of the roads, roads are impassable. just a lot of branches. no injuries. some parts of our area lost power. we lost water yesterday. but that's about it, you know. we got fairly lucky. >> reporter: okay. fortunate you didn't even lose power. who do you have with you? >> my sister lynn and brother-in-law gary. we're doing quite well.
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pardon? >> reporter: i apologize to you to the delay that we occasionally speak over one another another. why did you decide to ride it out at home? >> it's a real pain to try to get back on the island when you realize it's not going to be a cat four, it's a cat two. i feel for the people that are going to have a lot of difficulty getting home. we have to bridges that to come over to come to the island. once you leave -- today it was 24-hour curfew. we cooperate lea-- we couldn't leave our homes. these poor people coming back, the flooding, we've been through it before. this was the prudent move to make was to stay on the island. >> reporter: you say you had some branches down. no major damage, no major trees down? >> no, big branches. and thank god we were concerned
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as were a lot of people about big pines that we have falling over the house. a few, why fell over some vehicles. no big deal, just a car, you kno know? >> just a car especially when we hear about people losing their lives. george stern, thank you very much for telling us what's happening on oak island. everybody, be safe. wean the we know this is not over. it will stretch for several days. we'll talk more later about what we're seeing as the sun will soon come up in north carolina. there have been hundreds of rescues over the last 24 hours. some by members of the cajun navy. some by members of the local and state government. some by just neighbors trying to help one another. >> one of those stories about
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firefighters and how emotionally this is impacting them, as well. interesting. thank you very much. victor blackwell live in myrtle beach. i want to tell you about president trump. he's praising fema finish its response to florence. the president did not make mention of the embattled leader, brock long. long in the news, under investigation for his alleged misuse of government vehicles. the president's tweet comes in the wake of a report that the white house considered replacing long in the days prior to florence hitting. according to the "wall street journal," there were discussions over potential replacements for long. however, chief of staff john kelly decided to keep him on until the probe was complete. the department of homeland security tells cnn the department is fully focused on preparing to, responding to, and recovering from hurricane florence and the storms in the pacific. we know there are other storms out there, and watching exactly what they'll do in the future. i do want to put it out there,
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though, here, if you want to help people impacted by hard-worki hurricane florence because they need help, you can give blood, get in touch with charities that are responding. it can be overwhelming to decipher whom can do what for whom. visit cnn.com/impact. we've broken down the ways that you can help. thank you for doing so. coming up, former trump campaign chairman paul manafort tells the judge, i'm ready to talk. what that might mean for his former boss, for president trump, for others, as well. and a woman says supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh assaulted her when they'll were in high school. people are saying why are we just hearing about this. lity takes more than just investment advice. from insurance to savings to retirement, it takes someone with experience and knowledge who can help me build a complete plan. brian, my certified financial planner™ professional,
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16 minutes past the hour. take a look at your radar and the live picture coming to us from myrtle beach. tropical storm florence still tearing flew the care line --
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tearing through the carolinas. we want to get to another big story we're following. the huge win, seemingly, for the russian special counsel. paul manafort pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of witness to tampering. this is part of a plea deal. he's going to cooperate with the special counsel's russia probe now. president trump told the "wall street journal" he got, quote, hit with an artificial witch hunt that should never have happened. sara westwood joining us now. what do we know about the plea deal, sara? >> reporter: we know that after months of trying to fight these charges in a federal court, paul manafort is admitting to conspiracy and obstruction of justice crimes. that's on top of the eight charges of which he was convicted weeks ago. we know manafort wiebe cooperating with investigators -- will be cooperating with investigators. the extent is still unknown. president trump and his allies have been trying to distance the
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president and the white house from this plea deal. press secretary sanders saying yesterday this had absolutely nothing to do with the president or hik hs victorious presidenti campaign. the charges on which manafort is accused of occurred before the campaign. rudy giuliani making that argument on fox news. take a listen. >> the plea agreement and the cooperation agreement has nothing to do with the trump campaign. quote, there is no evidence of collusion. i know that because i've been privy to a lot of facts i can't repeat, but the reality is no evidence of collusion. all you have to do is look at the plea. the plea is to crimes that have to do with manafort's past. no involvement with president trump. no involvement with the campaign. no involvement with russia. by the way, there's no evidence
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of obstruction. >> reporter: while the special counsel has not made the decision about collusion, it's investigated paul manafort, rick gates, mike flynn, george papadopoulos, a lawyer, and it's brought criminal indictments against more than a dozen russian people and companies. president trump has not responded to manafort's plea deal on twitter. but today that might change. >> certainly. sara westwood, thank you very much for walking us through it. errol lewis, political commentator and anchor for spectrum news with us now, as well as joey jackson, cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. gentlemen, thank you for getting up so early for us. >> good morning. >> joey, i want to go to you first and read something from this cooperation agreement specifically. it seems so incredibly broad. this is what manafort signed -- your client shall testify fully,
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completely, and truthfully before any and all grand juries in the district of columbia and elsewhere, and at any and all trials of cases or other court proceedings in the district of columbia and elsewhere. it seems like there are no boundaries on this thing. can you compare this plea agreement, say, to others? is something withthismuch leeway standard? >> it says, and good morning to you. entering into a plea agreement, prosecutors want full and complete cooperation. the issue is not the language that you spelled out. the issue is who the language applies to. who are we speaking about? we're speaking about mr. manafort who held fast by the president, who was the chairperson of the president's campaign, that could provide critical knowledge and information not only as to the president, his knowledge of the trump tower meeting, issues regarding the platform and whether the platform in the republican party was changed to make it more favorable to russia, the president's men so
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to speak. roger stone, his former associate, jared kushner. the issue is we're dealing with paul manafort, a person who had really held fast, right, and said no-holds-barred i'm going ahead, and who was convicted in virginia, face this trial now. and the thought that i always believed and speaking about this on air, off air, look, he's holding out for a pardon. this is complete and utter capitulation. no matter how you spin the final point, you could go on fox news or any news and talk about, oh, these are prior issues, it didn't have anything to do, no collusion. the fact is is that cooperation means that we're going to give you leniency no matter what the charges are for what you know about what we want to know. so collusion, no clue. we'll find out. we'll see. but the reality is he knows so much critical information and is willing to talk about it in all foreign policyums. terrible news -- forums.
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terrible news for the president and the people he surrounds himself with. >> what does this tell you about the power mueller has now? is it fair to say that mueller essentially owns manafort at this point? >> i think legally speaking, he's certainly got the upper hand. paul manafort is going to surrender at least $46 million in cash, a couple of very valuable properties in new york city. of course, his freedom is at stake. at the end of all of this, then and only then does a note go to the judge suggesting that he take into account, he or she, take into account whatever cooperation was given by paul manafort. he has every incentive in the world to tell mueller everything he knows. joey's exactly right. what this is going do is open the door to the special counsel filling in the blanks. who was at the june, 2016, trump tower meeting? what was their mindset? what if anything was said or believed to have been said to the president? i mean, all of these things will
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come into sharper relief from a incredible source. president trump tweeted several times that paul manafort is holding strong and not going to make up stories and so forth. but this notion that he was somehow going to take a guilty plea or a conviction and hold out for a pardon, i think that's now gone. i mean, that's dead and buried. >> yeah. good point to make. listen, gentlemen, i want to read -- get people caught up on another story and get your take. this decades' old assault accusation against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh that's coming into play, that's threatening to impact his confirmation vote, we know. here's the thing -- a woman sent a letter to senator dianne feinstein accused kavanaugh of assaulting her in high school, in the early '80s. feinstein referred the letter to the fbi. judge kavanaugh has denied the allegation. but this comes at a critical juncture obviously of his confirmation battle. what we understand is, again, this happened in high school in
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the '80s. this woman has not gone public. she has no desire to go public. she sent the letter to feinstein. we know that she didn't -- she didn't go to police when this happened, but she says that she did seek medical attention. she's saying it happened. what if there's no proof that it did happen? i mean, what evidence needs to accompany this for it to be effective, or is the accusation enough effective, joe? >> there are two components. the accusation itself goes to really mail issue of, look, confirmation is there. whether there's proof or no proof, the fact is that it could be harmful to the nomination. beyond that, in regards to the proof, if she sought medical attention it would be of interest what she's told the doctors at the time. how significant and severe is it. in the event you engage in assault, a sexual assault or any other assault in any part of your life, certainly it's a relevant component of who you
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are. is it who you are? that's for people to determine. understand this -- we're in a different generation, we're in the me-too generation. it's something that should come up, something that should be debate. it's something that he has, the judge, due process rights to refute as he has with regards to credibility or lack thereof. there needs to be an airing of when it happened, how it happened, why it happened. and in the event that it's true or not true, there will be a vote accordingly. i think it's part of the record that needs to be talked about. >> it is part of the record now you. questions about the timing, we'll talk about that later, as well. errol lewis and joey jackson, i'm sorry we've run out of time. good to get your perspectives. thank you. >> thank you. still to come, excruciating, that's how north carolina's governor is describing florence
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carolinas. we're waiting for the sun to come up to see what florence has left them with and what is yet to come. i'm christi paul. victor blackwell in myrtle beach right now. you've been feeling a lot of different weather already just in the last hour, hour and a half. >> reporter: yeah. a mix of wind and rain. add a little more one, take a little less of the other. that's what we've been seeing for the last 90 minutes. sunrise expected at the top of the hour. i want to focus on north carolina. the governor there, roy cooper, said the storm is relentless. they've been going through this for days now. and there will be days more of this even after the rain and wind degrees down. there will be major flooding across north carolina. the water is coming here to south carolina. i want to talk to skippy winter along carolina beach, a community being cut off because of the bridge into and out of the community, it's inaccessible because of the wind.
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skippy, good morning you to. i understand the community lost power but you have a generator. how are you holding up? >> caller: we're holding up fine. just sitting here hanging out. >> reporter: just hanging out in the middle of a tropical storm. how does this compare to other storms you've ridden out over the years? >> caller: it's lasting much longer than before. the only other one that lasted like this was erica and diana in 1984 -- eric and diana in 1984. came up the beach, it turned and came back and went on north and done a lot of damage. other than that, most when they hit keep on going. >> areporter: any damage to you home or property? >> caller: no. i have small limbs, one tree on the corner lot that's vacant.
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lot of rain, wind, a lot of leaves. >> reporter: what's the flooding situation there at your house? >> caller: we have not been flooded. the flooding was around the marina and canal drive, the parking lot around the marina, and carl winter street, the end of the marina. and that floods must all hurricanes, but it's not reached the rest of the island. >> reporter: there have been calls for people -- ahead of the storm -- for people to leave ahead of the storm. why did you decide to stay? >> reporter: well, i've always stayed. my family's always stayed. my great grandaddy started this island. i never found much worth going to on the other side of the bridge.
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>> reporter: tell me this, have you heard from officials when you'll be able to go out, assess the damage, drive around, get back across the bridge to the mainland? >> caller: no, but normally the bridge will stay closed after we have a hurricane for two or three days to give emergency people time to come in and check the power lines and see that there's no hazard to hurt the homeowners and businessmen when they come back. it will probably be two or three days before the bridge oepts back -- bridge opens back up. >> reporter: okay. have you spoken with neighbors some what are they telling you? >> caller: no. we have a curfew where you cannot go off of your property this time. all we can do is walk around our area and see what is happening. i have seen no damage to any immediate neighbors. we've kind of limited to how far
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we can go this time. >> reporter: are you one of the few who stayed? give me an idea of those who decided to ride it out? >> there's about 5,000 or 6,000 residents. we understand is 500 to 1000 still on the island. a lot of people that have been here a long time and have the experience to remain. everybody on the oceanfront needs to leave. nobody needs to stay on the oceanfront on north carolina. >> reporter: all right. skippy winter, old timer on carolina beach, has decided to ride this out as he has ridden out other storms. good that you have your generator since the power is out. thank you very much, and stay safe. >> caller:y yes, sir, thank you for calling. everything is fine immediately north, and the shoreline is catching the devil.
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involved to be charged with murder, not manslaughterme. he was killed in his apartment by an officer who entered thinking it was her own apartment. cnn has an exclusive look inside his apartment. ryan young with details. >> reporter: apartment 1478 is where jean's young life was cut short when he was shot by the police officer in his living room. a memorial and flowers by his prosecut mother adorn the front door. >> at 26 he had done so much -- >> reporter: with permission from the family we're getting a look inside botham's apartment. a typical single man's apartment except for the bullet hole in the wall indicated by an evidence mark iing more than six-feet high. there's also a pool of blood which we will not show. there's laundry on the couch and bath amtrak's half -- botham's
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half-eaten cereal still had milk in it. he may have been reading before he was shot and killed by officer amber guyger. this is witness of guyger pacing around upset moments after the shooting. officer guyger tells investigators she shot jean after mistaking his apartment for her own. she tells investigators after work she parked on the wrong floor, walked to the wrong apartment, and jean's door was slightly open. in her statement to place guyger says she gave verbal commands before firing two shots. witnesses tell a different story. >> they heard a knock or pounding on the door followed by a female's voice saying, "open up, let me in." she said the officer sounded someone who wanted to be let into the apartment. she said there was followed by the sound of gunshots and a man's voice that she believed to be saying, oh, my god, why did you do that? >> reporter: the family and
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attorney are upset by the leak of a search warrant that indicates officers went inside the apartment looking for drugs. officers say they did find and removed several items including a small amount of marijuana. the warrant does not indicate who the items belonged to. it's unknown if a search rrt was executed at the officer -- warrant was executed at the officer's apartment. >> 26 years on this earth he lived virtually without blemish. it took being murdered for a police officer for botham jean to suddenly become a criminal. there's a clear intent to smear the name of botham jean. >> reporter: during a moving service, we learned about his love of people, for singing, and the fact he was a high-achieving employee on a partnership track at the accounting firm pwc. >> pwc is hurting.
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not just in dallas but all across our country. >> he was so joyful. and we know how much he loved to sing. you know, he was the biggest extraverted accountant you'd find. >> reporter: guyger is on leave. the grand jury will determine the next course of action. reached out to officer guyger's attorney, and they have not returned our calls. for a heartbroken mother who wants answers -- >> i'm calling on the dallas officials, please, come clean, give me justice for my son because he does not deserve what he got. >> reporter: ryan young, cnn, dallas. >> we'll continue to follow that story. still to come, excruciating. that's how north carolina's governor describes florence as it slogs its way south now.
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>> reporter: i'm victor blackwell live in myrtle beach as we continue our special live coverage of now former florence. new numbers in. nearly 950,000 customers without power across north carolina and south carolina. most of those, nearly 800,000, in north carolina. they may be without power for a few days more. it's unsafe to send crews out to repair the downed power lines. those without generator who stayed around will be without power potentially for a few more
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days. it's moving at a lazy walker's pace. it's going to be here for a while. because the storm is so big, north carolina is still feeling the worst of that northeastern quad ant that is slapping -- quadrant that is slapping communities that already felt some flooding, the rough winds, those downed trees, and of course the power lines. this is what north carolina's roy cooper said. >> this is unrelenting and slow. moving at three miles per hour. with every inch of rain that falls in our rivers, it's that much closer to significant inland flooding. we're still evacuating areas all along the rivers in north carolina. there's probably not a county or person that won't be affected in some way by this massive and violent storm.
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>> reporter: and one of the communities hit hardest that's been isolated because of the winds that made the bridge into and out of town impassable, derek van dam there in carolina beach. we've been checking in throughout the morning. give us the latest. >> reporter: good morning. the first glimmer of light at carolina beach. it's been a grueling 36 hours as the mayor just mentioned a moment ago, relentless rain, relentless wind. it continues. it's set to continue another 12 to 24 hours where i'm standing along the coastal areas of north carolina. we are part of the hundreds of thousands that you just mentioned without electricity. we still have no communication, very difficult for any cell phone service around here. the emergency personnel are asking the residents who decided to brave the storm not to call them unless they are in a dire
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emergency because bringing help to them puts others in harm's way. heavy feared bands are setting -- feeder bands are setting up. they have a potential of dumping another foot of rain on top of what's already fallen. in terms of damage, it's been minimal. the wind, of course, as we know, has not been as gruesome as the category-four winds of days ago. there have been walls that collapsed, roofs taken off some of the weaker buildings, shirngs dislarged be -- shingles dislodged, and trees that have snapped from the heavy rainfall. we're going to keep monitoring the storm closely as it moves at a snail's pace. but that's all from carolina beach. >> thank you very much. the gust of wind have come. and listen, they're enough to
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make you adjust your footing out here. they are not the category three and four winds from before the storm hit the shore. we know from south carolina governor mcmaster, on the coast, the story is in wind. but his concern primarily is the surge and the flooding of rivers in north carolina as the water comes into south carolina. this will be over the next several days. what will it mean for communities along the banks of the rivers, the edistow? the challenge as the storms head north. >> that could hit between monday and wednesday, giving an indication of how long this will last. victor, thank you very much.
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he said something interesting, and i don't know if you caught it. what happened as this category-1 hurricane hit land. we said it's now a thunderstorm. i want you to take a look here at some of what we have seen. the fury of the storm as it hit. >> whoa! >> the wind is whipping stronger than it has in the last 24 hours. >> the eye did make landfall in wrightsville beach about six miles from where i am with a wind speed of about 90 miles per hour. >> this isn't just water that's coming this way. the ocean and the winds are forcing sand up into the air. >> if you look all the way down,
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that is the ocean. it's not supposed to be there right now. >> power's out all over the city. the tree to my left, your right, looks like it's go to be upright. we're getting strong gusts of wind. >> in river bend, experiencing an extraordinary amount of flooding. a lot of people weren't expec d expecteding it to flood -- expected it to flood like this here. matt: voilà! jen: matt started turning into his dad. matt: mm. that's some good mulch. ♪ i'm awake. but it was pretty nifty when jen showed me how easy it was to protect our home and auto with progressive. [ wrapper crinkling ] get this butterscotch out of here. progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents.
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an emotional moment for a group of firefighters we want to share. this was in wilmington, north carolina. they now, look at them here, they knelt and prayed outside this home where a mother and
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infant were killed by a tree that fell on their home. the father was injured, taken to a local hospital. the crew worked for hours trying to free the family. you can imagine -- they talk about this is emotional for them, as well. the things they see, the things they do. and to still have something like that happen whery that downtown survive after the -- where they don't survive after they tried to rescue them. keep the first responders in your mind as we watch the storm continue to come on shore today. and if you do want to help people who are impacted by hurricane florence, there are ways to donate. you can give blood, get in touch with charities responding to the event. visit cnn.com/impact. we have ways that you can help. thank you for doing so.

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