speed about 90 miles per hour. >> good morning everyone. the sun is coming up. we're getting a look at what is left after 24 hours of pounding from florence here and we're getting word from the mayor of new bern that there are 4200 flooded homes in that community alone. victor blackwell in myrtle beach, south carolina where they're really feel in the efects. >> good morning to you at home. >> we're more than 24 hours beyond land fall as you heard in wrightsville beach. but this storm is a mess, the wind as you can see is picking up and the rain coming to south carolina. of course the big headlines were made in north carolina. where more than 780,000 of the

nearly 950,000 customers without power, those people are north carolina but 165,000 here in south carolina. also five people lost their lives in north carolina attributed to this storm a mother and her infant were killed when a tree fell on their house in wilmington, north carolina. a man who went to check on his hunting dogs. family says the wind blew him over. a woman suffered a cardiac arrest and when they tried to get to her they say there were trees in the road and by the time they reached her, she was deceased. and a man was electrocuted because he was with with with electrical cords in the rain. these are incidents after the height of the storm. all reiterating how the -- can

be. and erick van dam who filed this report just a little while ago. sfwlrs on the coastline of north carolina. the official curfru has ended at 6:30 a.m. this morning. it's still a ghost town in carolina beach. people are hunkering down. tlrs residents that decided to stick around. still the tropical storm force winds blasting well into this evening. a feeder band starting to set up right over the coastline and that nene potential for catastrophic flash flooding continues, including new han over county. we have not had electricity efor roughly 18 hours. authorities are asking people to who did ride out the storm to only reach out in emergencies.

we also have the potential for tornados as well. several threats on going throughout the region. this is derrick van dam at carolina beach, back to you. >> we've got on the phone with with us mayor dana outlaw of new bern, north carolina where those 4200 homes are flooded. thanks for being with us. i know you're busy. but fwigive us an idea of what you're seeing and hearing from your constituents? >> we have 4200 damaged homes. they're not all flooded. if anybody's home flooded, please turn your main breaker off and wait until somebody can asesz your home to make sure any outlets, if they were water damaged, you could have a future fire.

i can't stress that eenough. what we're doing right now. we're getting geared up for the post hurricane clean up and starting to get all the things we'll need to do to get our town back the way people know of. >> we know that there were hundreds of rescues there. are there still people waiting to be rescued from their homes. >> what we're starting to get now is welfare talks, folks that want to check on loved ones, that maybe were with in marginal areas of our city that weren't emergency situations. we have about 100 tall. if you have a lubbed one or whatever, call 911 and we'll go check. so right now we've rescued over 400 people. we still have about 100 that want to be rescued and we eare -- we have about 1200 in

the shelters and so we still have about 7,000 people without power. we have 22,000 customers. so we're working really hard. we have 28 mutual aid companies from all throughout that are starting to restore power. >> now we know that as the sun has now come up this morning, there may be some people that want to walk around and see what has been damaged in their communities. what is your mesnl to those people who may want to come out and start walking around new bern? >> please do not. we could have downed power lines. they could be energized live and folks could be in harm's way. so give our police fire and public works an opportunity to get your city back safe. please help us with this and stay home and we do have a 9:00 to 7:00 curfew.

if you do need to get out. we understand people are hungry and want to get out or get their car gassed up. just be very careful. >> reporter: do you have or are you being assist would the resources? we still need help with the damage there? >> we vecrews from new england all the way to texas that are assisting the fire department in new bern. it's a joint effort to go out. these are water rescues. they're much more dangerous than a vehicle issue. the biggest concern is downed power lines. so this is a dangerous time for citizens of new bern and police cooperate and help us. if you're having a problem, call 911, let us get booked and get this expedishes -- e >> okay.

mayor of new bern, north carolina. one of the areas hardest hit. 42,000 homes damaged, not all of them flooded. there are people waiting to be rescued from their homes. mayor, thanks so much for being with us. let's come back to south carolina now. my colleague has moved inward some and as we continue to feel the rain coming down, we know there are hours f not days more of rain to fall on south carolina but already esome serious flooding in this part of the state. nick, what are you seeing? >> reporter: victor, we're looking at what is potentially the future for much of south carolina with this range hovering over us. that storm continuing to pour down rain. we're out front off a residence here in conway, south carolina, about 20 miles from where ye are this is probably the worst we've seen.

i'm standing in a foot of water in a flood plain here. conway is prone to flooding. locolficials are very concerned about the next three to five days as the storm continues to drop down rain. you can't feel that here, but if you pan off to the side, our photographer can show that road wasn't like that when we first got here and this rain has continued to steadily pour down, causing this roadway, which has been closed by the local emergency managers, has been closed to through traffic but these homes are in a place that is getting a lot of flooding right now. i spoke to a local newspaper reporter and he says the last time it was under significant water was in 1999. this has gone through hurricane matthew, we are continuing to just drive around this area. we haven't seen much significant damage beyond this, some minor debris in the roads, police cars

driving around after the curfew got lifted to make sure everyone is okay. and this could be the future for the rest of the county as that storm hovers over us >> that's the fear from south carolina governor henry mcmaster. he says this could be, even for inland communities, the big threat, the flooding from the waters from south carolina and of course the rain continuing here. about 20 miles across 501 into conway, south carolina. thank you. we have on the phone with us now retired general russell onray. you remember that name after hurrica hurricane katrina in 2005 and we checked with him in all of the major storms since. good to have you on the phone and as we look now to -- i mean this storm is not over and will be going on for several days. how do you asthes preparation

for this storm and what you're seeing from the governors of north and south carolina. >> they've been synchronizing, talking to the people. the challenge now is the people that are in the most danger are those that don't have power and that's always a challenge in how we communicate with them. the first planning had to do with what happened at land fall. now we've got to continuing rain event that's going to push water from the high ground back out to the coast. i think that the challenge now is figure out where it's going to tomorrow. the challenge now is to figure out where it's going to flood tomorrow and get those people evacuated before it gets in their homes. some communities could go four, five, six, seven feet of water in those communities that hardly have any water on the street

right now because of the water that's go eing to come out of the mountains and start working its way back towards the ocean along the tribueitaries. >> you say now trying to figure out what's going to flood tomorrow. reconcile that with what officials are asking people to do and not to do. if people believe their community is next, that may prompt them to want to pack up and leave now when there are still dangers around. what would your advice be for peep snl >> they've got to listen to their local officials. the challenge is trying to leave the grid up and evacuate people. when the subpart of the grid goes down and the rest of the grid's up, the people on high ground, the people want to leave the grid up. but if you're going to do strictly edo evacuations and search and rescue, it's hard to do search rescue.

trrs soethat's the thing. that's why they get elected and make the big bucks. they need to start making those decisions because with the wires going through there, it's very dangerous work to try to do search and rescue, as well as with with the ongoing wind and rain. so the idea is what might flood this afternoon so we ecan go get the people now because it's best to get them now than have to do swift water rescue to get them out or coast guard and army helicopter >> looking ahead to the next chapters of this ongoing story. general, thank you so much for your insight and as you said because the wind and the rain have not mubmoved out, it is sp here, staying much longer than it's welcome. it's hard to get right to the next chapters of search and rescue.

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washington bureau chief for the chicago sun times with us now. lin, this seems to have no boundaries here. i mean the cooperation agreement says he testify fully, completely, truthfully before any grand jurys or court cases or trials. it seems like there are no eboundaries on him at all. >> that's what goes with inspecial counsel. he had no boundaries really on where he could follow the river wherever it flowed. the plea agreement also says that manafort will sit in interviews benefit of counsel, which means he has to answer without any lawyer vening to say don't answer this or that or stay silent. that's why this is important. even though the crimes manafort has pled guilty to have nothing directly to do with the trump

campaign and russia, which is it core mission of the mueller probe, he still now has to talk about the things he saw and learned while he was sharing the trump campaign. >> what will he get in return for this? >> well, what he gets is potentially a lesser sentence. what he loses perhaps is the dangle of a pardon and we know about this of course because trump teased this out in tweets. the uth sh thing he gets. he also pled guilty to two counts. there were more counts on the table if he ehad gone to trial and the other big thing is until he was convicted a few weeks ago he had no criminal record. there is a potential and they talk about this in the plea agreement that if your sentenced as a criminal, which he is a convicted felon because of the jury verdict, then you get a tougher sentence. but the prosecutors now this is

a different situation because you had sekwengsal trials, basically from the same probe. so if he gets a break in sentencing, that helps him too. i have to ask about this decades old assault against kavanaugh. does a letter sent to dianne feinstein accusing him of assaulting her in high school in the 1980s he says i categorically and unequivocally deny this alligations. i did not do this back in high school or at eany time." but comes lobby at a critical juncture of his battle. what do you make of the timing? >> it clearly is tied to the conformation battle. it had been bubbling around for a short time.

what's at issue is whether or not this woman comes forward. i don't know -- the denial that junl kavanaugh put out is kind of broad. it didn't show that he knew who this person might have been about. he didn't say i don't even know -- i never was at a party with a woman in a room. he could have been a little more specific but that would have recognized that maybe something happened. i think we're in the context of the #me too movement where they shrug this off either. and she was concerned that this allegation stems back to the judge's high school days. >> all right. thank you so mup. always good to have you here. >> thank you. >> absolutely. so, listen. people have been rescued from the rising waters. that good news.

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there are more than 900,000 people waking up in the carolinas who do not have power and it looks like victor blackwell in myrtle beach may be getting pelted with with rain as well as florence has just kind of parked herself over the carolinas still. of course mr. blackwell in myrtle beach. what are you experiencing now? >> the rain wrind still coming here but we've learned from meteorologist chad meyers that the worst of the wind for at least myrtle beach is style come and rain is coming the next few hours. but we just got this in from my team in washington. president trump has now apruchbed a declaration, an emergency declaration for eight counties in north carolina. this will help with assistance

for repairs and small businesses who have been impacted by florence. so that's good news for them. we'll see if that's extended to other counties. and what they seen. i've on the phone with us now, mayor of myrtle beach, south carolina. madam mayor, good to speak with you this morning and your assessment of how your city has faired in the storm thus far? >> good morning. at first glance it looks like myrtle beach faired pretty well so far. we're doing damage assessment starting this morning. we have crews on the road right now. but very little from what we can tell. the thing we're most concerned about is the flooding that has been talked about that will probably happen within the next three to five days when the

rivers crest and that's what we're trying to plan for. >> so 501 into conway have you seen any or heard of any reports of flooding yet in myrtle beach? >> no, not as of yet and our concern with the flooding is the fact that with the five major rivers surrounding us in the interior areas that could hinder get in into or out of myrtle beach because all of our roads that come into us are near those rivers and bridges. it really could make get in and out of myrtle beach difficult, especially for those that have evacuated for businesses. and hurt business as well. >> you talked about the difficulty of get in and out of myrtle beach.

i remembered your number of about 60% to leave ahead of the storm. is it safe for them to come back yet. or would you tell them to wait a little longer. >> it is not stief come back yet because the governor has not lifted the evacuation order. all of the major roads and bridges have to go through damage assessment before they can low people back on them. so that will be step one. step two will be when we allow critical support groups to come back in, such as public works crews and then phase three will be the governor will lift the evac order peep come back home. >> final question to you. there was a curfew thursday night and saturday morning. do you expect a curfew again tonight? >> yes. we will keep the curfews in place and reassess that on a

daily basis. that is simply to protect the homes and businesses that are not occupied right now. unfortunately during situations like this, there are some who would like to take advantage of it and we just want to protect our businesses and homes from any type of theft. >> okay. mayor of myrtle beach, thanks so much for spending a couple of minutes with us and good luck and stay safe. >> thank you. >> let's talk now to meteorologist chad meyers. the wind has picked up here but i remember chad at the top of the 5:00 hour, you said there is more to come in the next few hours. who's get thing worst of it right now? >> about 50 miles north of you is really the bull's eye for the rain and wind and still the beach erosion. there may be very little beach left. anywhere from top soil up to emerald isle.

there may be eno sachbd and no home wheres there were homes because the beach erosion has taketen so far to the back. here's myrtle. here's the center of the storm right there. guess how fast the storm is moving? two. two miles an hour. so what you see is what you get. we're not going to change this pattern much lat. the rain's going to be ewhere it is and the eerosion is going to where it is. what we're changing is there's more convection near myrtle and north myrtle and nick valencia in conway. it is raining from hampton road to charleston. so we don't have the wind speed that we had a couple days ago ebut we vethe rainfall.

that's 20 inches of rainfall and the purple is 10. the tremendous flooding is still to come because the storm is only half on land, half on water. so the big flair up is here over the gulf stream. the water's warm and the storm is only half done because it's only half on land. now here's what has changed. this is 20 plus. no question. but now we're here at 12 plus. there's conway. she's expecting this foot of rain to run back into myrtle. that's why they're not lifting any of those restrictions. victor. >> all right. chad meyers watching for us. we'll check back with you throughout the morning. thanks so much. and we just got in some breaking news that there have been two additional deaths attributed to

florence now, bringing the total number to seven. we'll get more information from state officials about where those deaths occurred and under what circumstances. but now seven people have died in this storm that is stretching across several days. we'll get you more on that breaking news in a moment. i've got on the phone with us dennis clancy with team rubicon, the head of field operations. thank you so much for bying with us. as we come out of that breaking news, of the two additional deaths, we know that you were going to be doing work to help people who are seeing some property damage and struggling with put in their lives back together after the storm. what are you able to do to help people who will need that help once this wind dies down and the rain pass snz >> it's important to recognize

as slow as the storm going it's going to be ea number of months that we're putting effort into recovery, reebuilding homes, demolishing homes. there are things that continue to effect the communities for months afterwards. mucking and gutting home. helping to mitigate the mold in homes. very long effort. >> how does this compare to the typical response? because yults usually storms come through first responders do their job start your work. this seems like harvey where it lingers day after day after day. >> team rubicon has reesponded to 67 disasters already this year. we have 80,000 volunteers across the united states and when we have a very prolonged response, we cerely on a pretty deep bench

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i want to show you new images from new bern, north carolina. there's a a tree that crashed through the roo. this is an upstairs bedroom. henry of new bern tells cnn quote my dad went to sleep in his own bed upstairs in the second floor of the house. about an hour after he fell asleep a piece off dry wall came in from the sealing and woke him

with a loud bang. after taking a look we realized rain water was coming in. three or four more feet it would have crushed my dad to death. that man is a not injured, despite what you're looking at. florence is pound thing carolinas, moving at a measly two miles per hour now. president trump meanwhile is continuing to question the official death egtoll from hurricane maria and puerto rico. tweeted that it went up quote like magic. it was raised late last month following a study by researchers at george washington university. former senior advisor to the trump campaign with us now. grrs morning to you.

so why do you think the president is there are things that still need to be take in care of. why do you think the president is so focussed on the number? >> i thing it's the politics of of the season and there have been a lot of criticism on the puerto rico recovery. as someone who does business with a major contraivation group in puerto rico, the reports that i get and also talk to the head town there there was that editorial from the lieutenant governor and orlando paper the other day. their view is totally different than the san juan neighbor and some of the traditional critics of the president. i think some of this really is politics. as somebody familiar with

disasters and hurricanes, there is a subjectivety that was happing in terms of the cause death. for example the medical examplener has 911 bodies and he deems those as dying from natural cause. the number 64, which is what the governor used in as late as d.c. but we're going by cdc protocol and so in the georgetown study ewhich was a study, instead off a head count, what they were saying is the number death would have occurred had the hurricane not happened, verses did happen. >> she was saying loorks that had to happen because there was so much chaos in puerto rico that time. they're doing the best they can with the numbers but it was the

hurricane itself that kept them from being more specific but there's no way it's only 64 people that died because of that hurricane. there are still people there who don't have water, electricity. why is the focus on a number when clearly there needs to be a focus on what needs be done in puerto rico. >> i think unfortunately 60 days from the midterm, some of it is really politics. but in terms of -- >> there are people certainly who care about those people puerto rico, who have family there. this isn't just about numbers in politics. there's a sensitivity issue that seems to be missing. do you get that? >> and i understand that and i want to say that the numbers to the degree it's possible, we eneed an accurate count because

there is subjec tifb a break down in communication because of the infrastructure. there was a mayor in one town that when he saw the head count being 16 dead, he said i saw more than that personally. yes, this is a horrible tragedy but i do want to emphasize that the president has led the largest -- one of the largest recovery efforts in the history of the country and again from my background with hurricanes, you can always find a disgruntalled elected official and at the same time the lieutenant governor says right now puerto rico is stronger than ever unemployment is down, businesses are back up and that's not to say there wasn't a horrible tragedy. the president has identified something like 44 billion in additional head that's going to be heading that way >> and the storms we're seeing i know there's concern about what puerto rico can handle if

something else happens. i'm so sorry that we've run out of time. absolutely as we watch them because we have learned of course that the death toll has risen. thank you so much. death toll has risen in the carolinas itself to seven dead. always appreciate having you on. thank you. we also want tatell you about demonstrations that went on in the streets of dallas. they were protest thing police shooting off a black man in his own home. he died. and the folks who were very peacefully protesting yesterday have a lot to say about this and what they want to happen. welcome to tide pods talk with gronk. i'm gronk! i'm big and awesome, but this guy is little, can it really clean? heck yeah it can! it's concentrated detergent plus stain fighters plus odor flighers that fight for clean.

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dallas last night as demonstrators were rallying to protest the police shooting death of botham jean. they were demand thing officer invaubed be fired and charged with manslaughter, not just -- charge would murder, not just manslaughter. cnn's gained an exclusive look inside his apartment and cnn correspondent ryan young has the details for us here. >> reporter: unit 1478 was botham jean's apartment, where the 26-year-old's life was cut short when shot by a police officer in his living room. small memorial, flowers and a photo. with permission from the family we're getting a look inside the apartment. it's a typical single man's apartment except an evidence

marng more than six feet high and a pool of blood on the floor we will not show you. and botham's ooh half eaten bowl of cereal still had milk in it. and he may been reading one of his apartment. she says she shot jean after mistaking his apartment for her own. and says after work, she walked to the wrong apartment and that jean's door was slightly open. she says she gave verbal commands before firing two shots. lee merit says witnesses tell a different story. >> they both heard a knock, followed by a female's voiz opening up saying let me in. sounds like somebody who wanted to be let into the apartment.

she says that was shortly followed by the sound of gun shots and a man's vois saying oh, my god, why did you do that >> they're now upset by the leak of a search warrant which indicates they went in looking for drugs. officers said they did find and removal several items including a small amount of marijuana. it does not indicate who the items belong to. it's unknown if the search warrant was cuted at the officer's apartment. >> he lived his life virtually without blemish and it took being murdered by a dallas police officer for him to suddenly ebecome a criminal. there's a clear intent there smear the name of botham jean. >> reporter: during a moving funeral service, we learn much more about jean and his accomplishments. they talked open laabout his

love for people, singing 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 loved to sing. he was the biggest extroverted accountant you'd ever found. >> amber guyger is on investigative leave under ininvestigation. they have reached out to officer guyger's attorn ey. they have not return our calls. >> i'm 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.

>> we're going to stay on that story. of course also watching florence at 2 miles per hour and getting word that more than 6,500 soldiers and airman on duty eto start recovery. they can't start recovery yet. we have to get through the next several days.

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