the big driver. [closing bell rings] >> like electricity in the 18 '90s. it will be important. david: gene goldman, thank you very much. that will do it for the claman countdown. have a good week and stay safe, everybody. melissa: florence wreaking havoc on the carolinas. as the closing bell sounds on wall street here is how we're ending the day. the major averages recovering from earlier losses after president trump gives the green light on $200 billion in new chinese tariffs. the dow ending the day up, just barely positive, about eight points on the day. s&p 500. i'm melissa francis happy friday. david: i'm david asman. happy friday to you, this is "after the bell. we are glad you could join us. the hurricane is still number one. strong and deadly hurricane

florence slamming the carolina coast as it slowly moves in. it is close to becoming a tropical storm but it is important to note how strong and big this storm still is. tropical force winds are whipping an area nearly 400 miles wide. it is stuck with gusts up to 90 miles an hour. more than 40 inches of rain has been dumped to some parts. with the storm dumping 18 trillion gallons of water. 722,000 people are without power in the h carolinas. the numbers are climbing t could take weeks before full power is restored. not everybody heeded the evacuation orders. hundreds much water rescuers where waters rising to record levels. kristina partsinevelos in myrtle

beach, south carolina. jeff flock, in north carolina, it looks like a heck of a storm. reporter: tell this, this thing doesn't want to quit. we got the eye this morning. more importantly the eyewall which was the most tense part of the storm. that came in this morning about 8:00, 9:00 to us. then we got the eye. calm. maybe the worst is done. now the back side of the storm. i guess we should have known based on what has been happening to the north of us in morehead city, all those places, new bern and the rest, this storm is large, although not catastrophic in its wind speed. the size of it and the amount of water that is carrying and pushing, that makes it extraordinary storm. perhaps you see behind me, that is what the storm is pushing right now. the atlantic, onshore earlier. it was -- it was blowing the

waves back and proking -- blowing the storm surge back. now when we hit high tide that will be the true test in several hours. strong as you can see here in carolina beach. david: wow, it keeps going. it is not the strongest storm in the world but it is just lasting and lasting. it's stuck over. there jeff, we'll come back to you. go ahead. reporter: never seen anything like it. i cover ad lost hurricanes, probably much more powerful hurricanes, but i'll tell you this one in size and unrelenting nature, this is a topper. david: so don't believe that, those folks who say okay, it is down to a tropical storm, we don't have to worry about it. as you can see from jeff, there is still plenty to worry about. melissa. melissa: let's go to kristina partsinevelos in myrtle beach, south carolina where they fear flooding could cut off people from rescuers.

kristina, what is the scene like there? reporter: it is definitely a lot stronger. i can't see what jeff flock is doing right now. but the winds have picked up. north myrtle beep, winds are high as 56 miles an hour. probably about the same case over here. i'm on the beach right now and that's because just on the street, the downtown myrtle beach is actually underwater at the moment. they're fearing flash floods. you have police officers patrolling the area. so far the latest news from officials, 75, 80% of population around here has evacuated. 441,000 people. a lot of people are already out of power. we are seeing a lot power out in north myrtle beach. the expectation it will happen on our end here. so you were talking about massive flooding. you have the storm surge. the winds are getting wilder. the expectation the storm surge

will come forward. then you have inland. you have smaller lakes hine us. a lot of homes right near there. what we're seeing is a lot more flooding near these homes. that will rise the next several days. you will have water coming in from the back end and ocean from the front end. two police officers yesterday, they came up to me, pretty much said, either decide if you're going to stay in this hotel or not. because you guys most likely will be land-locked. hard to describe what i'm feeling right now. maybe jeff flock is feeling like the same thing. almost every drop of rain has a grain of sand so it is whipping, i met a lot of people chosen to stay here, believe they can ride this out because in the past they have done this and they have survived hugo. they seem optimistic. i will go back to you. i will be here all night. melissa: stay safe, kristine n thank you. david? david: joining us on the tone

myrtle beach mayor, brenda bethune. first of all we're hearing reports this storm is something that can be dealt with pretty easy. come down from a hurricane and tropical storm. jeff flock has seen a lot of storms. he says this thing is still very dangerous. do you see it the same way? >> i absolutely do. even though florence may be categorized as a one. she may not be the strongest storm we've ever seen, she is ferocious and not something that we want to mess around with. david: the problem with a storm that lasts this long over one particular area is it can do a lot of damage to infrastructure. we now have 722,000 people in north carolina without power. what's the power situation in south carolina? >> currently it looks we're at about 7500 people without power. that was an assessment that was done about 45 minutes to an hour ago. so we continue to monitor that.

david: what about the hot spots? we're still in the rescue mode. we're not in the rebuilding mode yet. are there people that are in need of rescue? >> we have not received any phone calls, thank goodness. that is something we were so worried about, because we do have some people who chose to stay and not evacuate. david: thank goodness. >> but our people is ready to go out there. everyone is on call as soon as the storm is over willing we're ready to get out to do our damage assessment and try to help people get back as quickly as we can. david: there are a lot of places that are probably off the grid so to speak that you don't know whether the people there are safe or not. are you going to do a house by house search for folks? >> well, that will be part of what our police and public safety crews do. the first part of that though is to make sure the roads and our bridges are safe to be on. that is critical because when we

come to the next few days with flooding, really after the next four or five days, that is a major concern that we won't be able to get all of the people who evacuated back in town before the main roads that we have coming into myrtle beach could potentially be flooded out. that is really our only way back into the city. david: of course, unlike a lot of storms that hit the coast, this is not as much, might turn out to be more of an inland story when it is all said and done than a coastal story. what are you doing in terms of preparing for the inland damage? >> we are fully prepared for the fact that we are going to have significant and devastated, devastating flooding in our inland areas and that is going to affect our entire state. our heart goes out to our neighbors in north carolina as well as those in our own state. i just say that we are in this thing together and we're all

going to get through it together. david: yeah. >> and heal through it together and that's really all we can do. david: mayor, you're not, for those that don't know you're not a professional politician. you're a businesswoman who got into politics only the past year or so you must have been through this before on the business end and been frustrated by the way government responds. that must have taught you some lessons now what to do when you're on the other side? >> i do see things from a different perspective and i'm certainly glad that i do because when you're on the outside of government you don't always understand everything that it takes to make decisions and all the different moving parts that have to be put together. people are impatient. i was impatient and we want our power back on. we want to get back to our homes right away after we've been evacuated, but there are measures that have to be done first to make sure that it's safe enough to return.

so i certainly do see it from a different mind-set now and i'm glad that i do. but on the other hand i can react to things with more of a business perspective. david: right. you will need a lot of that particularly as the rebuilding starts but again you have got a busy couple days. i hope you slept before this because you will not be sleeping much in the next 48 hours. mayor, thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. >> thank you everyone for your prayers. melissa: yep. the eye of the store is moving inland. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the weather center with the latest on florence's path. rick, what are you seeing right now? >> the center is moving in but a ton of moisture coming off the ocean unfortunately piling into spots that received most of the rainfall which is approaching 20-inches now already. the center of the storm right around there, we put on the wind barbs, there is the center of

it. onshore flow coming in from wilmington, continuing everywhere to the east of the storm. down towards myrtle beach is offshore. i don't know we ebbed end up getting a storm surge north of myrtle beach. but the motion stays in that direction for a long time. we'll go through multiple high tide cycles with the surge water remaining on pushed in towards show. here is the radar picture. you get back looking at lines of storms, that is the heavy moisture that continues to train over the same area time after time. we'll probably see some five to six-inch rainfall totals within a while. morehead city, one of the first spots seeing this yesterday, still under incredibly heavy rain. go to new bern where we saw all the flooding coming in from the storm that was pushed up throughout the river there. heavy rains still here. anywhere you see the red you have flash flooding going on.

by the way that includes raleigh. so the storm moving inland a bit. this is the accumulated rainfall through saturday. go towards sunday we have the rain moving in farther in towards the western carolinas, parts of new jersey, going towards monday. totals along the coast continuing to pile up. we'll still see additional rainfall. tuesday is probably when the majority of this is going to be out of here. the problem is, all the rainfall that is falling has to come down through these rivers here. here is the higher elevation back towards the appalachians, that rain will funnel down in throughout the rivers. if you look at river gauges, that level there, this is little river that is the prior record level. we'll be about five to six feet higher than a prior record level. same story goes, but notice this we're not talking about getting into levels until monday or tuesday and staying to the higher levels because all the water has to drain down. there you go, cape fear, record

levels by sunday evening. so if we're here right now, guys, with our river gauges, we're seeing flooding right now but these are river gauges. we have a huge river rise will occur over the next number of days. that will go throughout this upcoming week. the flooding we're seeing right now is nothing like the flooding we'll be seeing next number of days. melissa: rick, terrific illustration what is going on. you made it understandable to us. we'll see what a water event. david: do you think a caveman umbrella would hold up under these conditions? melissa: absolutely. we have three by the way. david: president trump keeping a close eye on hurricane florence from d.c. the white house announcing he will travel to areas affected the storm. there is trade news going on, it affected the initial news. president given a go ahead on brand new set of tariffs on

china. blake burman live at the white house with the very latest. talk about a hands on president, right? reporter: let's start with the storm, david, because that is what consumed the president, the federal government over the last couple days. you mentioned that the president will be heading into that area at some point next week. the white house says it will either be at the early portion or the middle portion of the week. it is still tbd because we want to keep an eye on how everything prays out. rick outlined a few scenarios. one the worry is you don't want a president going in which needs a massive security presence and have that security presence distract from the ongoing rescue and recovery effort. so the white house will sit back over the next few days, watch how everything plays out, determine when is the right time for president trump to go down to the region to visit it first-hand. we're told that will happen early, middle portion of next week. president trump was in the

situation room about an hour 1/2 or so ago with his top advisors on this one as it relates to monitoring the storm and coordination efforts. so he got an update a little while ago. speaking of advisors, sources telling fox the president given the top trade advisors the green light to move forward with $200 billion worth of tariffs against china. that would be the next batch, the next threat the president has been holding on to. the white house spokesperson saying this with the following, the president is clear he and his administration will continue to take action to address china's unfair trade practices. we encourage china to address the longstanding concerns raised by the united states. however, david, there is still a lot of outstanding questions on this one, among them, when exactly all of this will go into effect? and exactly which products will be impacted when the president decides to, and his administration to officially

roll all of this out. david. david: questions about how the market will react to this. melissa will talk about that. blake, thank you very much. have a good weekend. melissa: let's go to nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange and, nicole, how did the markets respond to the news from the president? >> that's right, melissa and dave, as blake told you, when you get the news about the $200 billion of tariffs that renewedded u.s.-china trade send tensions. you could see the drop. we had gone from positive territory into negative territory. managed to scoop our way back up into the green. we had been up 65 points, down 77. the dow finished up nine points. s&p 500 up for the fifth day in a row. nasdaq was down about 3 1/2 points. we had winners week to date. for the month nasdaq to the downside. you've seen winners for the week. we had a great year. quicklies mention the 10-year

treasury bond. we moved above that key 3% mark. melissa: nicole, thank you very much. david: 80,000 customers without power in south carolina. numbers are expected to climb as the storm inches closer. we'll ask south carolina electric and gas how long people will be without power and what they're doing to get everything back online. melissa: south carolina still waiting for the full force of florence's wrath. the slow-moving storm is expected to inundate the state with high winds, more than anything else with punishing rain as it moves further inland throughout the weekend, another live report from south carolina coming up. >> this is still a very, very dangerous storm. not only on the coast but also in the, in the interior of the state and very unusual part it is going to last for about two days. ♪

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david: there are 11 million americans still in harm's way. florence hitting south carolina with heavy winds and rain. ellison barber is in florence, south carolina. how does it rook? reporter: an hour away from here closer to the coast they recorded highest wind gusts in south carolina in conway, south carolina. they say winds hit 63 miles an hour. we are in florence, south carolina. we haven't seen anything quite like that just yet. but the wind just did take off. the wind -- branch next to me was snapped off the tree next to me. governor mcmaster said this will be the beginning of a very long weekend.

they're most concerned about the fact that the storm is expected to linger for the next couple days. they say it will bring heavy rains. they think there is the potential for flash flooding, particularly they're worried about a lot of rivers across the state and various basins potentially flooding. they're telling people if those flooding conditions do develop we will see those in the next couple of days and they're warning people to stay in place and be prepared for a lot of potential other bad weather coming their way. so far again we have seen people coming in and out in this area because things have not gotten as bad as we've seen in say north carolina but a lot of people here, david, are taking precautions even though they're more inland. we have spoken to people at the hotel we're staying say they're from this area. live just a few minutes away, but when hurricane matthew came through a couple years ago they experienced heavy flooding and damage. they didn't want to take the risk or without a power over a week. so they are staying in a hotel.

the governor is warning officials that power outages could last days or months. as you said earlier, well over 60,000 people in south carolina without power. officials say that number is likely to grow. david? david: ellison. thank you very much. melissa. melissa: homes are going dark across the east coast as florence continues knocking out power systems leaving nearly 80,000 without power right now. joining me on the phone, paul fisher, customer service service advisor for company sceg in south carolina. thank you for joining us. that 80,000 is the number we have most recently. do you have anything who are up to date or is that about where it stand as far as you know? >> yes, good afternoon, melissa, in terms of our service territory across south carolinawer waiting on the slow moving and difficult to predict storm to impact us. in our service territory

currently we have 2,000 outages as the impacts move through the northern and western part of our state. melissa: what are you expecting? >> at this point we don't know the number or duration this storm will bring, certainly based on its size it has the potential to impact us all the way from the low country in buford up to the western part of the state in aiken. we asked our customers to stand prepared. we are prepared to respond to whatever comes our way no matter the severity or the duration of the outage, keeping safety top of mind for our employees and certainly all the customers out there through this event. melissa: one thing we know from big storms up here in the northeast is that it is where the above-ground power is where you're most likely to lose it, obviously those are the wires where trees come down and take them down or the wind or whatever. i know in your state the steps that i saw, 60% of power lines are above-ground. is that about right? are those the ones most at risk in your mind? >> well, certainly when you talk

about above-ground power line we prepare for events like this year-round. that really begins with trimming trees along thousands of miles of rights of way, along our distribution system. the combination certainly of winds and trees, that is the greatest threat to keeping power on during an event like this. we believe it will yield benefits for the customers through this event. we're standing prepared to respond, really no matter which way the wind takes us. melissa: even when the times the storm goes away, you feel like that is enough, trimming back trees? what does it cost putting underground power lines? is that doable project in places? >> certainly, a portion of our system is underground. a larger portion as you mentioned earlier is above-ground. the fact of the matter with underground infrastructure, there can be damage in an event like this too, particularly as we're preparing for what could be a significant flooding event across the state of south kiril line with the rains -- caroline with the rains. the problems we face are unique

in a sense the underground infrastructure can be more difficult to access once the storm blows through. sometimes the duration of those outages can be longer. melissa: that's a good point. all right, sir, we're thinking of all of you. thank you for take the time to come on. we appreciate it. good luck to you. >> thank you very much for having us. david: will be such a long time for all of this, for the whole process. we're so used to hurricanes slamming in and moving out. this is just staying there. melissa: once you get through, everyone is alive, you see your property, then the wait for power is the thing so hard on people. david: there are very dramatic water rescues taking place right now. in new bern, north carolina, hundreds of people have been saved. many more are trapped. they're waiting for help. we'll speak live to the city's mayor on the recovery efforts currently underway. >> florence is powerful, slow, and relentless. it is an uninvited brute who

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go out in this weather and rescue somebody because of the wind, because of the downed power lines, et cetera. so we have gotten some additional crews in and at this time there are probably 20 or 30 that have not been rescued. melissa: wow. i'm sure your crews haven't slept. they have been out there trying to take care of themselves, their families. you go out into these conditions. you know what is it like for the last 20 people and you know, how are you going to send the folks out to try to get them? >> we have teams that are going out that are trained to do this. there are water rescues, we're not able to get these folks by vehicle because they have waited too long to be rescued and now the roads are not passible. melissa: so what do you do in that situation? >> we get a boat and go rescue

these individuals if, if it is safe to do it. we have 40 to 60 mile-an-hour winds and so, we have to be very careful and safe in allowing our employees and volunteers to rescue somebody. melissa: yeah. we're looking at video right now. all day long we've been watching these pictures. we see people leaving by boat. we've seen a couple people in wheelchairs being taken out. we even saw a short time ago, the video, somebody out there looking for, looking to help and they came across some dogs trapped in a boat, i mean trapped in a house. they were able to bring them to safety. what do you say to people out there? i know you have an app ready, readync app where people can check traffic and flood gauging. go to the north carolina department of public safety, if you don't have internet you're sitting in a flood, people call

211 in order to find out wre they can get help? what would you tell them? >> i would tell them that the city of new bern and craven county through the emergency operations centers to do everything we can to through facebook, the media, going out in fire trucks with p.a. systems, taking city of new bern recreation buses and knocked on doors individually. we have left flyers on doors. in some instance, some individuals will not leave if their pets can't leave. we had one pet-friendly center. some of the are not. if this is individual decision to rescue, we do not have any authority, nor anybody in the state of north carolina to make somebody get rescued. melissa: you're under the gun. you sound frustrated a little tired? how are you doing? how are you holding up? >> well, you know, if the

situation is sometimes you do everything you can to convince somebody of, we are had people that have called 911. we go to rescue them, then all of a sudden a band of rain slows down a little bit or the water has dropped off a little bit and these individual will say, well, hey, i don't think i want to be rescued any longer. melissa: oh. >> so, you can't make somebody be rescued if they don't want to be rescued. so again we're getting a lot of cooperation. there are some individuals situations that we have not been able to get to the, get to the citizens yet but we are working as hard as we can for the safety of all of our citizens. we have shelters available. we encourage people to evacuate. we've been encouraging people for three days now to go west of i-95 to safety and ride out this storm.

melissa: yeah. mayor outlaw, at the very least you have the best name in the whole entire country for a mayor. thank you, sir. thank you for helping your community. we're thinking of you and praying for you and all of your residents. >> thanks. david: we will be speaking with a member of one of the rescue teams on the ground in new bern coming right up. next a look at fema's response from a former director of fema. ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release its own insulin, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it works 24/7.

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david: as hurricane florence continues to pummel the carolinas with heavy winds and rain fema officials warn the storm is not going anywhere anytime soon. joining me david paulson, former fema chief under president george w. bush. david, thanks for coming in. you made famous, the toughest things about these emergencies for about 48 hours after they hit most people are there alone without emergency help to come in and rescue them. was there enough preparedness on the part of the people who were hit by this? >> i think for the most part, yes, but what we just saw earlier where we have people who, the government called for evacuation, the mayor of new. bernard, knocked on doors, put out flyers, begged people to leave. instead they did there, and now they have to be rescued, puts

100 people have to be rescued which purities first-responders in harm's way when they could do other things. i saw the state very well-prepared, the cities were well-prepared. fema at the federal side moved, hundreds of, thousands of people in, 25 search-and-rescue teams, 500 ambulances, tons of water and food. everybody has to participate. david: water rescues we're seeing right now on your screen, they could go on for days as this thing moves inland and sort of hovers over the entirety of all the carolinas, both north and south. so this is, this is going to be, the people who are in their homes now who are unreachable by the rescuers are going to have to hunker down for a while. >> that absolutely right. had they evacuated when they were asked to do so they wouldn't be in the situation. they have to be part of the preparedness also, not just

government. it has got to be individuals too. david: you came into fema at a difficult time. it was after katrina, all the hubbub about what happened, how it was handled or mishandled, you came in to kind of straighten out fema. you were there for a few years. did you get most of the bugs out of the system? >> we did. a lot of philosophical changes how we're going to respond. we can't sit back and wait for a disaster to happen, for the hurricane to make landfall before we move that was very clear in katrina. now the new philosophy, you move in before landfall which is what fema did this time. they're on the ground, ready to go. those supplies will be there. you saw the rescue people there. so that is the new philosophy, you know, go early, go fast and go strong. david: you had experience on a local left. you were a fire chief in miami during hurricane andrew which was a terrible hurricane back in the early 90s. that relationship between the locals and the feds that is so

important, right? >> it really is. it was kind of broken. one of the things we'll have to step act to think about this all. once we get through this phase, we get through the response phase and recovery phase and get into rebuilding is, you know, we have to stop think about the building codes. will we put buildings back in same place, build them the exact same way and hurricane comes through we'll have the same thing again. that has to be in the back of our minds how we do this once we get through this part of it. david: david, thank you so much for taking the time. appreciate it. >> good to be back. melissa: dramatic rescue effort underway in north carolina. we spoke to the new bern mayor about it moments ago. we'll speak to one of the rescue teams on the ground who traveled to new york to give his time to help save lives. ♪

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>> we are continuing to cover the storm down in north and south carolina. again it is a much weaker storm than originally expected but much larger and more sustained than originally suspected and that's one of the things causing real problems for folks trying to rescue people still stuck out there. melissa: it has been so deceptive to call this thing a category 1 storm because of course that only refers to the speed of the wind but as you can see from the illustration there the problem with this storm it is so big and so wide over such a large area and there is so much water coming down, some places we should see more than 40 inches of rain. david: okay, which foner do we have there? ted budd, okay. melissa: north carolina congressman ted budd is a member of the house insurance subcommittee. he joins us now. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. first of all, what can you tell us about what is going on in your home district? >> sure. so i'm in the middle of the state which is not yet felt the

effects. we're going to see this over the next 48 hours to 72 hours. our main concern here is for flooding but we're certainly thinking about those in eastern north carolina, northern south carolina. i think the storm has claimed four lives so far, three in north carolina, our prayers are certainly with them. and we're keeping an eye on this, how this thing moves around but we're not out of the woods here yet. especially with this deluge that we're expecting in the next 72 hours. melissa: you know it is interesting you're kind of here for two purposes because you also happen to be on the insurance subcommittee as i said at the beginning there and one thing that is interesting for homeowners in north and south carolina the number of people that have the flood insurance is actually down from five years ago. a lot has to do with the rising price. what is your perspective on that

given a lot of people will need it now? >> you're exactly right. flood is often not in people's insurance policies. wind driven rain is, other aspects, fire, theft, but not flood. that is often a national flood insurance program which has a lot of problems right now. for instance, there is probably not north or south carolina but in the gulf we have seen houses worth around $80,000, replaced eight times through the national flood insurance program. without any structural changes. in effect we're incentivizing people through lower cost insurance or subsidized insurance to live in dangerous areas and we shouldn't be doing that, especially without structural changes to these houses. these are subsidized policies. they're inexpensive but a lot of people don't know about them or don't have these policies. so, this is something we're going to work own but -- melissa: not everyone considers

them expensive but the versus the payout. they can cost $10,000 a year. they can roll the dice, obviously goes up from there. what are the odds that something happens. there is that part of the equation. but then also, like you said, i mean there are some flood zones in california where they replaced the homes but, they would do it without a permit change as long as you built the exact same thing back. like you said, don't we have to think about how smart it may or may not be to build the exact same thing back in the exact same place? >> we have so much more data out not found its way in the system. we have outdated fema maps we can update with lidar and new technologies. a lot of people would rather risk a flood event than pay higher prices. in some places they have gone up as much as 25%. people would rather take the risk, roll the dice and, while that may last for 20 years, year

21 or so comes around like we're experiencing now in eastern north carolina experienced last year in texas, that is a real concern because it can wipe out somebody's largest investment which is most often their home. melissa: what does happen? in originally get a fema check for daily expenses but then over time if you didn't have insurance on the house does the government step in the end to help people? are they on their own? what happens to people? >> very often does through emergency relief package through texas last year. there are a lot of those things in those packages that are not, but some forms of relief. it is going back, your first, your first round is always the person's own insurance. melissa: yeah. >> it is national flood insurance beyond that. of course it is relief packages beyond that. when you have something catastrophic like a hurricane they can get relief at several different levels. melissa: congressman, we thank you. we appreciate your time. >> thank you, melissa. >> believe it or not new york city actually has a

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this morning. we got a phone call around 5:00 this morning and we popped into action. we're working down in riverbend, city of new bern. david: we've been seeing extraordinary rescues, bill, in fact one person in a wheelchair. those must be the toughest. >> we have personnel. they have expertise in swift-water rescue and boating. they were able to get that person really, it was a little challenging but, they got the job done. david: i am guessing hurricane sandy, bill, in 2012 had a lot to do with the formation of the unit or at least perfecting what you guys do? >> you are correct, sir. definitely drove the boat, no pun intended. david: are you seeing conditions similar to what you saw in sandy right now in the carolinas? >> sir, with the water surge and the amount of rain, yes. the terrain is much different. david: in what way?

>> here we are and, the great state of north carolina it definitely pose as different type of challenge. terrain is different. we're working with the rings fire department and other local authorities such as fish and wildlife and u.s. army. we have about 102 persons here and we are doing really great work. and the people here have been very appreciative. we're really, we have a great job satisfaction of helping people. david: bill, i know that the folks in the carolinas are very, very grateful for what you guys are doing. thank you to all of the members of the unit. thankthank you for appearing wi. we appreciate it. we'll be right back. ... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer.

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>> a lot of people are asking how they can help those impacted by florence? david: here is the answer. the american red cross is urging people to donate blood, using

the organization blood donor app or donate money. redcross.org or text the word florence to 90999 to make a 10-dollars donation. >> a lot of people helping others. warms your heart. that does it for us. here is "the evening edit." ♪ >> whoa. that was a big piece of debris. street signs flying like a piece of weapons. >> florence is powerful, slow, and relentless. >> we're getting gusts here easily in excess of 80, 90 miles an hour. >> power will be off, infrastructure will be damaged or destroyed. homes will be damaged or destroyed. protect yourself, protect your family. don't put our first-responders lives in jeopardy. >> this is absolutely crazy. liz: authorities confirm now four dead in north carolina as hurricane florence has been downgraded to a tropical storm but i i