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.

>> the wind is whipping stronger than it has in the last 24 hours. >> the eye did make landfall in wrightsville beach six miles from where i am with a wind speed of about 90 miles per hour. >> we are just now hitting about the 24-hour mark from where this storm hit in -- you heard there, wrightsville beach. a -- wilmington, rather. and now we're trying to figure out what is left of the storm. one-third of it is still in the water, as you can see. guess who's there to keep us posted. i'm christi paul in studio. victor blackwell is in myrtle beach, south carolina. you've been experiencing different kind of weather out there. >> reporter: yeah. the wind is picking up. the rain is continuing.

the headline this hour -- first light and the lifting of curfews in myrtle beach in conway and across horry county in south carolina. people's first opportunity to see if there's been damage caused by the speed of the winds that have picked up over the last several hours. of course, the big headlines out of this story, out of this storm so far, made in north carolina. 780,000 of the more than 900,000 power outages are in north carolina. of course, you mentioned at the top of the last hour, two of the five people killed in wilmington. a mother and infant were killed in wilmington when a tree fell on their house. there was a 77-year-old man in north carolina who went to check on his hunting dogs. his family said the wind knocked him over. there was a woman in hampstead who suffered a cardiac arrest. when authorities tried to get to

her, there were trees in the road, and they couldn't we've her. also a man -- couldn't reach here. and a man in len or county who was -- lenore county who was pronounced dead after running into electrical cords. we have more from nick valencia. he started the morning in myrtle beach, now has moved across 501 into conway near one of the rivers that authorities are most concerned about. all the flooding in north carolina, going to come through the rivers into the state, making this a threat over the next several days. nick, what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: yeah, we're about 20 miles inland as we mentioned in conway, south carolina. an area according to managers that is more money to flood that happen myrtle beach -- more prone to flood than in myrtle beach. we wanted to see what we're dealing with. this is the first time we've seen daylight today. this is the river here. this is the waccamaw river, a

tributary of one of the local lakes in south carolina. and as you deal with the wind there in myrtle beach, the story here in conway is really the steady rain that's been falling which is why emergency managers are very concerned. they're doing exactly what we're doing this morning and traveling throughout the area, trying to find local flooding to see if anyone needs help, if anyone's in any dangerous type of situation. we mentioned the curfew. the 7:00 a.m. curfew that was lifted. the only cars besides our own were police vehicles going around to see if there is significant damage. we have yet to see any significant damage. the story of the day, how lucky the state got compared to north carolina. the situations, major situation that's our colleague, diane gallagher, is reporting on. terrific work all week long. this is the steadiest rain we've seen perhaps all morning, really

the last couple of days. there was a lot of nervousness here. we don't want to underestimate how nervous officials were throughout the week. this was anticipated to land as a category-4 hurricane. by midweek, the trajectory had turned south putting myrtle beach and the surroundi ining a in the cross hairs. an area that has become used to over the last decades, used to hurricanes and severe weather. even the most seasoned resident here got nervous and started to exit. we saw a lot of evacuations on highway 501, the main that oh fare that connects myrtle beach to conway. hundreds of cars streaming out, traveling, trying to get to safer areas like tennessee, neighboring florida. i even heard from a woman who was going as far away as west virginia. residents dodged a bullet. they are dealing with the rain, a rain that could cause major flooding in the days to come. the mayor saying cresting is expected in the next three to five days. victor? >> nick valencia in conway just

a few miles away. and the south carolina governor mcmaster says even further inland he's concerned about the flooding as the days continue after the majority of the storm, the worst of it, jogs west and heads north. we'll check in with chad for the path of the storm moving forward. i have on the line with us, the pio, public information officer, for myrtle beach. mark, good morning to you. we spoke yesterday, and you had some pretty good reports. give us an idea overnight of what happened, if you got any major calls for help. >> caller: thank you very much. yes. there would be a near miss for myrtle beach. unfortunately, north carolina took the brunt of that. we're getting the back side of the slow-moving storm. no new problems overnight. minor damage. we had about 60 reports of trees down, a light pole down, over the last couple of days.

we're in remarkably good shape. if the weather cooperates, crews will begin to set things right today. but as we discussed all weekend, this was to be a direct hit for myrtle beach, and the storm just moved to the north and struck north carolina instead. >> reporter: you said there were minor reports. were there any injuries reported? >> caller: i am not aware of any injuries in the myrtle beach area. on the back side of the storm we may get beach erosion. we may get additional wind here this morning. again, we've got a beach renourishment that was scheduled to start last monday. it will begin as soon as florence gets. on we'll get a brand-new beach here along the coast. >> reporter: the winds have picked up pretty significantly over the last several hours. i know in our last conversation that that would have been a point at which each if there were calls that -- even if there were calls that it would have

been unsteafe to send us on cre. are officers able to drive to locations if called? >> caller: i can speak to myrtle beach, and yes, we've been able to respond to calls. the winds are surprising. the front side goes through, get near the eye, and you think that was a whole storm. then the back side smacks you in the face. but yes, our police and fire folks have been able to get out and about even in this weather. >> reporter: there are a couple of businesses around myrtle beach, driving around, that have some pretty stern messages spray painted for looters. there's one bar that i saw that had on the plywood "looters will be shot." have there been any report of looting across myrtle beach? >> caller: no, fortunately we've not had any report of looting. people have been on their tiptoes, highly sensitive. we've had reports of spacious activity, but it may just be that people are overly sensitive right now. so we've not had any reports of looting. folks have obeyed the curfew, as

you mentioned. >> reporter: the curfew lifted at 7:00 a.m. do you expect another to be tonight at 7:00 p.m.? >> caller: i suspect, in all likelihood yes. won't know if the crews see what the damage is. we're pleased here. we're very sorry for north carolina, and the flooding that's going to come to this corner of south carolina the next few days will put maybe a bigger story for us than storm. >> reporter: the first couple of chapters of the story are looking pretty good for myrtle beach. thank you very much for spending a couple of minutes with us this morning. >> caller: you're welcome. everybody, be safe. >> absolutely. you, too. all the folks you work with in myrtle beach. hospit let's go to chad myers. we've had winds, gusts picking

up. what's happening over the last several hours,ive and gi and gi trajectory. >> you are near the center, and unfortunately the devastation is happening 100 miles north of you. yes, we'll get winds to 45 or 50, but the beach erosion. houses that won't be here anymore, it's happening to the north. here's oak island. up here, we have reporters up the string of islands. jacksonville flooding. some areas, almost 30 inches of rainfall trying to run back down hill. even in conway where nick valencia was, where he was standing, will be 11 feet higher than what weihe's looking at ri now in three days. record flooding at the waccamaw river in conway. it's not there yet. the water has to get here. the water is coming up, the wind is still blowing in. everywhere that you see white. that's 20 inches or more

already. that's where it's still raining. that's where the continued flash flooding, flash flood emergencies will be going on. i'm not saying you may see 30 or 40 mile-per-hour winds, but it's coming up across the gulf stream, the water is here. we'll talked about the upwelling. at the gulf stream, water coming out of the gulf, around florida, back up here, it remains warm. that's where you're going to get the convection. the stormy weather rolls on up into nuclear and won't move. the same places have seen all of this water and will see more water. wilmington could get another foot to the north and east of the eye. the west of the eye, not as bad. the east of the eye, always the worst side of the storm. it's not going to change. this is 18 hours worth of a forecast radar.

this is what it should look like the next 18 hours. you'll get rain and wind, but the blasting, the true devastation, is occurring right now in north carolina. >> reporter: thank you very much. as i give it back to christie, i want to reiterate something i heard from our crew a couple of minutes okay. the back half of the storm and also the flooding that's coming really could be the greater challenges for not just myrtle beach and horry county but all of south carolina. it's difficult to oversmestimat the true dangers could be the continued flooding and people coming out. now the expectations of a worse storm were not fulfilled, that the curfew has been lifted, people coming out at first light to assess the damage. this is when with the growing wind the trees can be challenged, that people can be hurt by the saturated ground

here and some of the dangers still to come over the next 24 to 36 hours and still to come. with that, i'll toss back to you. >> good point to make. when the waters come up, sometimes they come up very quickly. they're so strong, you don't know what you're dealing with there. if you look at the radar, you know it's swirling but swirling in the same place. it is just not moving. good reminder. to help people impacted by hurricane florence, by the way, i know that sometimes it can be confusing to know where to donate, give time. you can give blood, get in touch with charities that are responding. we want to help you do so. visit cnn.com/impact. we have ways mapped out for you to help with what works best for you. thank you for economicing that out. in -- economicing that out. in a little more than 90 minutes we'll check with fema officials on tropical storm

florence. the leader, brock long, under growing scrutiny. the "wall street journal" reporting the white house has considered getting rid of long. he's allegedly misused funds for cars. the chief of staff, john kelly, decided to keep long at least until the department of homeland security's inspector general issues a final report there. long contends he will fully cooperate in this probe. dht sells cnn it's -- dhs tells cnn it's committed to responding to and recovering from hurricane florence and the storms in the pacific. ahead, a sexual assault claim could leave brett kavanaugh's nomination in limbo. we'll talk about what we've learned. hi i'm joan lunden.

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story. the huge win it seems for the russian special. former chain manager paul manafort stood before a federal judge and said three important words, quote, i plead guilty. now as part of the plea deal, manafort's going to cooperate with the special counsel's russia probe. here's cnn's sara murray. >> reporter: former campaign chairman paul manafort striking a plea deal and agreeing to cooperate with the justice department and special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. manafort pleaded guilty in washington, d.c., friday to one county of conspiracy against the u.s. and one county of conspiracy to okay instruct justice. -- to obstruct justice. that's after tampering with witnesses, according to court filings. agreeing to cooperate fully, truthfully, and completely on any matters the government considers relevant. it's unclear what prosecutors want from manafort. but the agreement requires him to turn over documents, testify in court proceedings, and provide interviews to the special counsel. now manafort even waived his

right to have lawyers present for the interviews. the plea deal comes after manafort was viced on eight counts of bank and tax fraud crimes in virginia and was facing another trial in d.c. in exchange for his cooperation, prosecutors dropped a number of outstanding charges against manafort in both d.c. and virginia. president trump's allies distanced him from manafort's illegal activities which were related to manafort's business dealings rather than his campaign work. trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, saying once again an investigation has concluded with a plea having nothing to do with president trump or the trump campaign. the reason -- the president did nothing wrong. still, the news is a blow for the president. he has decried mueller's probe as a witch hunt. that even as mueller has secured guilty pleas from manafort, trump's former campaign chairman. trump's campaign deputy, rick gates, as well as national security adviser michael flynn. as for his personal attorney, michael cohen, he's also pleaded guilty to charges in new york. sara murray, cnn, washington.

>> thank you very much. julian zelizer with us, scholar at harvard. i want everybody to see what sara talked about. some of the people who not only have pleaded guilty or been found guilty but are cooperating now with special counsel mueller, we've got george papadopoulos, michael flynn, michael cohen, rick gates, all people here who have said i want cooperate. my question, moont seanafort se be the holdout, he was defiant through this whole thing. he wasn't going to do it. the fact that he has caved, has the plea deal, said i will tell you whatever you need to know even though up to this point, we need to be clear, has not been about russia per se. but what does this turnabout tell you about where mueller,

the investigation stands, how much power mueller has right now? >> well, mueller's leverage is clearly pretty immense at this point. and he's now been able to get a key player in this whole story to cooperate with him. and manafort's internet two respects. first he was at the nexus of this effort by pro-russian interests to lobby the u.s. government. and second and the part we don't know about at this point is he was at the top of the campaign during critical months for donald trump before he was president. mueller's been able to turn him. i think it's a slow process. but you see how effective he is right now. now the question is what kind of information comes from him. >> there are people and in this cooperation agreement, the language is interesting. he'll testify fully, completely, and thoroughly before all grand

juries about essentially everything. some argue this guy is 69, 70, he's going to say whatever he needs to say to save himself, to save himself family. what evidence do you think needs to be present to prove truthful testimony? >> look, that's where all these other people come into the story. mueller isn't basing an entire case on what manafort says. he's basing his case on all the evidence he's been amassing from testimony, computer-based evidence, and you can be sure that mueller will check and recheck everything muster has to say. and only move forward with any kind of evidence that emerges that he can prove. he sees the stakes, and he sees the efforts to discredit this entire investigation. manafort's word on its own will not be the key to what happens. it's part of a bigger puzzle that we're watching unfold. >> the compilation of all. i want to point out that mueller is also targeting this prominent

democrat, attorney greg craig, who was an obama white house counsel. and this has to do with -- there's a connection here to manafort. but the fact that it's a democrat, does that dilute at all president trump's allegation that this is a witch hunt against him? >> it could. i don't think it will dilute it in that president trump moves forward with that accusation regardless of what happens. the facts that on the ground don't matter to the witch hunt argument. what it shows is that mueller's opening this world in washington that goes beyond republican or democrat, that's about the way lobbying works in washington and the way foreign interests are represented in our capitol and the need goes beyond the administration. it won't dilute the witch hunt argument. nothing will. he is on message, the president, and will deliver the message as far as he can. >> julian zelizer, great

article, by the way, at cnn.com in your opinion piece. appreciate it so much. thank you. >> thank you. a decades' old assault accusation against supreme court nominee sbk threatening to him -- brett kavanaugh is nomination vote. a woman accused him of assaulting her when they were in high school in the 1980s. he's referred the letter -- i do ain't feinstein referred to the letter to the government and he said, "i did not do this in hurricane or at any time." the allegation comes at a crucial juncture of his confirmation battle and some questions about the timing of this, as well. we'll get into that a little bit later. >> reporter: i'm victor blackwell in north carolina as tropical storm florence continues to batter both north carolina and south carolina with damage stretching across the

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now it's been officially 24 hours since the eye of hurricane

florence hit at this time yesterday. victor blackwell is in myrtle beach right now because even though the eye has hit, we're 24 hours in, and there are still many, many hours for the rain, the storm surge, and flooding to do some serious damage there, victor. >> reporter: we're getting a first look at some of the damage overnight. the curfews in many of the communities ended at 7:00 a.m. over the last 24 hours, there have been hundreds of rescues specifically in one community in north carolina. that's in newbern where we saw water rising quickly there. diane gallagher has been there throughout the evening. there was yesterday. she's on a fire truck as they're assessing damage and going on calls. good morning. give us an idea of what are you doing now, and what are you

seeing? >> reporter: hey, yeah, we're not on the call yet. we're at the newbern fire rescue station here kind of in the heart of the city. we're experiencing the first clear skies that we've had in 48 hours in newbern. this is a welcome sight not just for first responders but the people who live here, dealing with the rising floodwaters. you see we're still in the 7:00 a.m. hour, bustling in here. we have firefighters, first responders, national guardsmen from all over the state and country. last night we had people from new york fire department. we've got national guardsmen who are from, again, all over north carolina. they've been conducting rescues for the past 48 hours, since the flooding began. even before hurricane florence came in. they've been conferencing in here, doing these shifts. for the most part, they're not sleeping. they're getting a couple of

hours here and there. they're going out on boats, working with volunteers. the cajun navy that became famous after hurricane navy and last year after harvey. we got volunteers, we were some in maryland. some were teenagers from here in newbern who got their boats, registered with the police department. and they made more than 50 rescues in a 24-hour period. the national guard is taking out vehicles and boats. but look, the fire departments, they're coming through, going n on, and they will be doing damage checks because of the clear skies. trying to see where the infrastructure is weak, the damage with the trees down. like many places in the carolinas, there had been a lot of wind before the rain came in. the ground is is tsaturated. we didn't experience the wind that our colleagues in wilmington and people on the southern coast of north carolina did.

we had big gusts that took down trees because the ground was saturated. i talked to the firefighters who are dealing with that in their own homes, flooding and trees down on their own homes. they're still doing rescues. when the rain comes back today, we may be doing more of that as waters rise. >> reporter: we'll stay close to you and check back in later this morning. let's go to david burk with team rube c rubicon. we know that you bring in the military veterans and volunteers to help in the aftermath of the storm. tell us who you have here and what you'll be able to offer the people who will need your help. >> caller: good morning. team rubicon have the skills of the first responders and we have personnel and equipment around the affected area with most of that focussed in charlotte. ment and what we expect to bring

to the citizens affected by the storm is kind of a range of services from heavy equipment and debris removal to support route clearance if requested and back to the flood-affected homes, to get everybody out of the -- get flood-contaminated material out of homes and help people move back toward normalcy. >> reporter: do you know exactly what type of work you'll be able to offer? you talked about the services, but are people now calling in and requesting those services, or how do you get to them? how do they get to you? >> caller: we're just starting to see requests. there's a partner organization that we use that helps match up homeowner needs with volunteer organizations like team rubicon, and that partner is called crisis cleanup. there's a hotline that we can get back over to you guys. it lets homeowners log their needs across affected areas so that organizations can respond. as we saw from the national

hurricane center this morning, we're expecting to see flooding across four states in the coming days still. we expect to see the needs continue to grow from this storm well after it leaves the coastal areas and beyond when it starts to leave the news cycle. >> reporter: you're working in communities that have seen storms and natural disasters days, weeks, months ago. how soon do you think you'll be able to get to work here in the carolinas? >> caller: as the previous person mentioned, there's still life safety work ongoing. we work hard with authorities to make sure we don't disrupt the work they're doing. i think we'll have teams out working in the areas as soon as it's safe. and from what we saw in the wilmington area yesterday, the number of downed trees and wind

impact there i think will have teams working in the next couple of days down there. >> okay. david burke with team rubicon, a group of military veterans and volunteers coming here to be first responders and staying after those first responders. thank you very much for speaking with us this morning. and christie, that's in part the story here. groups like team rubicon and the cajun navy and neighbors who aren't affiliated with a group helping one another as the storm continues to pound the carolinas. we're just halfway through the story, and we know it will last for some time. >> yeah. and we think see it coming because i feel like the weather has deteriorated where you are just in the last couple of hours from what we've seep. thank you very much. we appreciate it. and i know we've been focused on hurricane florence, of course. but there's still issues to deal with with puerto rico and hurricane maria. president trump, in fact, still rejecting the death toll there

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42 minutes past the hour. president trump praised fema's response to tropical storm florence saying, great job fema, first responders and law enforcement not easy, tremendous talent. america's proud of you, keep it all going. finish strong! and a lot of people say, listen, no doubt they are working hard, all of fema, all of first responders doing so. this tweet comes after the president said the death toll in puerto rico as a result of hurricane maria was in no way accurate. earlier this month, the island's

governor formally raised the death toll to nearly 3,000 from an initial number of 64. following a study conducted by researchers at george washington university, that's where the number came from. cnn white house reporter sara westwood's in washington. help us understand what's going on here. >> reporter: president trump is continuing to deny the reality of what happened in puerto rico in the aftermath of hurricane maria which struck the island late last near. nearly 3,000 people died in the months after the storm decimated the island's infrastructure. many were without power for weeks. many americans became isolated from help because much of the island was inaccessible after the storm. trump is continuing to claim that the death toll in puerto rico is being inflate the by his opponents in an effort to make his administration look bad. tweeting last night, the president said when trump visited the island territory last october, officials told him in a briefing 16 people had died

from maria, quoting the "washington post" there. this was long after the hurricane took place. over many months it went to 64 people. then, like magic, 3,000 people killed. they hired g.w. lerch to tell them how many -- research to tell them how many people died. how would they not know this? method was never done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many people were killed. 50 times the last original number? no way. just last week, president trump was describing the puerto rico response as a success. obviously this all happening against the backdrop of fema's response to tropical storm florence. democrats and even some florida republicans have been breaking with trump's characterization of the puerto rico response. >> sara westwood, thank you very much. a cnn national security analyst with us from washington. thank you very much for being here. help us understand the methodology that is used in compiling these numbers and really the validity or

legitimacy of the numbers we're seeing. >> these are legitimate ways to count the dead. what's unique here is that it's often not utilized in the united states because we tend to have an infrastructure in which you can count the -- not to be grotesque -- dead bodies. you have coroners assessing the dead bodies. what was clear because of puerto rico, since you had a system that was totally eviscerated, that people who were counting the dead had to utilize techniques, well-known techniques, in social science, empirical and data-driven techniques to determine how many people died because you didn't have the more extra additional coroner's assessment -- more traditional coroner's assessment. they combine essentially body counts with narratives, that's what cnn did, with comparisons of how many died in the same period of time years before. and that's how g.w. got to this number. it's a well-known way of counting the dead. what's unique about it is we tend not to have to do it in the united states because responses tend to be pretty good.

the -- it's sort of a catch -- you know, donald trump is utilizing the failed response as a way of saying why were they counting this way. in fact, it's the failed response that's the reason why we had to use -- the government had to use unique techniques for the united states to count the dead. no one's chemical weaponing the number is greater than 16 -- no one's challenging the number is greater noon eer than 16 or 64 depends on the number you look at. >> what about the president who seems to be focused on the numbers really as the sensitivity of the issue in itself? >> yeah. i mean, you know, the tweets are so inhumane and undignified and actually quite dangerous because they're not fact based. i mean, they're basically saying the response was good because only this many people died. we have hurricanes ongoing now. we have to learn not how many

people died but how did they die. fema has determined that. it has had a report, it criticized itself. it did not have enough assets near the island. the supply chain mechanisms were off. there wasn't good communication between local, state, and federal authorities. there are lessons to be learned. the president is focused as if it's about his own ego about whether it's 16 or 3 a and not facing the reality that this was a horrible response in which u.s. citizens died. and the least a president can do is give some dignity to the dadt and learn so we can do better next time. >> what do you think puerto rico needs most at the end of the day? >> yeah, right now they are in between what we had call in disaster management both the recovery, you know, the recovery and the resiliency stage. they are still building things to get back to normal. also a commitment that they don't build the same. and i mean, this is what we learned out of puerto rico, that they have to build more

resilience. that's going to take resources and going to take a commitment by local, state, and federal authorities. we're stuck in this moreows and grotesque -- morose and grotesque debate the president started. we have the bodies, and he's fi fixated on -- i can't get past it, so grotesque at this stage given what we can learn. >> and what needs to be done and addressing that, as well, for these people. thank you very much, always good to have your perspective and insight with us. >> thank you. >> thank you for being here. dozens of homes in massachusetts were engulfed in flames after a natural gas leak explosion. there's a police officer's story here. it's ape los loss and about dut. while he was helping other people, what was happening to him. stay close. (vo) this is not a video game.

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rchltsz a lawrence massachusetts pleesz officer was helping people evacuate after that massive gas leak that left homes in flames. but what the officer didn't know was that his own home was burning nearby. from cnn affil wrt has more and spoke with him. >> it was total chaos. fires and people screaming and cry canning. >> reporter: he was busy making sure his community was safe as dozens of fires broke out from gas explosion thursday. once his family was safe, he went right back to work. >> we didn't know how many more houses were going to blow up and i knew my family was okay. >> one of soto's daughters was home from school when she saw

smoke filling the basement. >> she panicked and felt the explosion. >> reporter: their daughter escaped the fire but sadly they loss their two cats. >> we lost everything material which can't be replaced and we did lose our fur babies, which that's the hardest part. >> reporter: he was out trying to help other families, he was one of the first responder whose tried to find the 18-year-old trapped under a chimney when this house exploded. >> we were trying to pull the chimney off the car. we just wanted to get it off of him, you know. we wanted to save him. >> reporter: but it was too late. that teen died at the hospital and he says while his family appreciated all the support, he hopes this community helps the family of the teen who died. >> i just want to make sure his family is okay and people can donate.

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