sweatshirt being fat is not beautiful it's an excuse. ironically support of anti-bullying campaign meant to shine light on fat shaming. rob: anti-bullying? jillian: got you covered 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. see you then. >> hurricane florence a very strong category 2 storm. >> storm surge over a foot and we could now see 30 to 40 inches of rainfall. the danger in some cases is going to be historic. >> residents in the path of these devastating storms should comply with all evacuation orders. god bless everybody and be careful. >> bret: president trump has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in u.s. elections. >> more text messages between former fbi employee and peter strzok reveal others were, quote: leaking like mad. >> it is assess pool of corruption and the people who did this, they need to be brought to justice if

they committed crime. >> internal video from google shows the company's reaction to the 2016 election. >> is there anything positive you see from this election results? [laughter] >> boy, that's a really tough one right now. steve: this is a fox news alert. all eyes are on hurricane florence which is closing in on the carolinas and the east coast, now a very strong category 2 hurricane. life-threatening could cause desks. >> more than a million people are in the crosshairs of this powerful hurricane. pete: we have team coverage along the east coast this morning. griff jenkins is live from atlantic beach, north carolina, where they are expecting 110 mile-per-hour winds. steve: todd piro is in myrtle beach, south carolina talking to people who will not leave. jedediah: janice dean is here passing florence's path

but we begin with griff. >> good morning, guys. can you see the wind picking up here. in fact, the coast guard in moorehead conditions, no ships in, no ships out. the threat from that storm surge 9 to 13 feet is still what it was in the beginning. if you look from space, at florence, she is as big as both carolinas. this storm, while it's diminished in category has not diminished in size and the threat is significant and here in the eastern carolinas where two years ago hurricane matthew killed 28 people with excessive flooding, well, they are preparing for much worse here. in fact, here in the atlantic beach where we are in less than an hour, they will close the bridge. residents cannot get back on. you can get off still, but you can't get back on. i talked to a resident just minutes ago. his name is tim bowen, a lifelong resident here. that colonel of flooding prompted him to actually stay. he made the decision a few hours ago. take a listen. >> well, we got to be concerned.

you know, i mean, my issue was if i go inland, still going to be flooding. i feel like i got a better place to go here on the second floor than i did inland. i just made that decision. if it had still been a 4 this morning, i was going to bug out. griff: they say more than three fourths of the fatalities in hurricanes are caused from storm surge and flooding. only about 10%, 8 to 10% from actual wind damage. that is the conditions here. if you go inland about 25, 30 miles the cities of new bern, kinston, jacksonville surrounded by rivers and unbelievably live life-threatening what is expected to come particularly if florence dumps a lot of rain. very important message from the fire chief here says we won't come for you now if you get in trouble. listen. >> we are not going to come. that's why they are doing the evacuation order on both banks. if it gets so bad our apparatus cannot respond.

it's done with we can't respond. we can't risk the lives of personnel to go out there for someone who stayed on both banks. we are hoping everyone is heeding warnings and evacuating. griff: so we're going to continue to monitor the situation here. if it gets bad here we will regress to more hea head city. steve: meanwhile officials in south carolina making final push to get people out ahead of a potentially deadly hurricane. so far they estimate 250,000 have evacuated. but that is 750,000 short of what was expected. lisa: todd piro is live in myrtle beach where he talked to people refusing to evacuate. todd, what is going on? what are they saying? >> good morning, guys. over the course of the last few hours since we first arrived, the wingsdz have definitely picked up here in north myrtle beach, by and large this is a ghost town. we have only seen two or three cars. they have all been cop cars.

most of the homes, in fact, look like, this lights on, nobody's home. but there are some homes that look like, this lights on with people inside. some people being defiant saying they are not going anywhere, including one woman we spoke. to say take a listen. >> four time cancer survivor, five time in remission, god brought me through that is he going to bring me through the hurricane. i'm not worried about it. todd: today beginning at 8:00 a.m., police will begin knock on doors in this area pleading with people to evacuate. officials we spoke to here in north myrtle beach say you are running out of time. to say get out. >> our message today has been pretty blunt, leave. inconvenience yourself, get up out of your chair, go to your car and leave town. you can always come back but you will be alive. todd: those officials warning once the winds reach 40 miles per hour or over, their first responders will not be going out to help people.

if you need help, you're going to be on your own. back to you. steve: that's exactly right. todd, thank you very much. mean while janice dean has been tracking this storm. she is here nut studio and conditions are going to start to deteriorate today. lisa: yep, absolutely. i know a lot of folks are concentrated on the fact that it was downgraded to a 2. it's one mile shy of a major hurricane. the results are going to be the same as they were yesterday when it was a 4. that means 20 to 40 inches of rain. someone is going to get that along the coast of north carolina. a catastrophic storm surge of perhaps over a foot as the wall of water makes its way inland. we do think we could see a landfall tomorrow. it's still a possibility that the storm lingers offshore and brings prolonged rain wind surge effects. i also want to make mention that the water temperatures are very warm here. we could actually see some strengthening as it makes its final approach to shore. you can see on the radar now we are seeing those outer

rain bands. we are possibly going to see a tornadoes watch in the area. because of rain falling systems we have wind shear. winds in different directions and the threat for tornadoes. you can see the eye right now coming in full view. all right, here is the latest advisory, the latest track from the national hurricane center. we will get new coordinants at 8:00 a.m. for now cat 2 over the next 12-24 hours. we think potentially making a landfall tomorrow around 2:00 a.m. and then it's going to stall and that's why we have these epic rainfall totals of 20 to 40 inches possible and the storm surge. 9 to 13 feet will potentially kill you. all right. so that's why we have the evacuations. those are still valid. and 24 -- 20 to 40 inches of rainfall is going to cause catastrophic damage. so, just because this is a 2, folks in the northeast remember sandy. sandy was a 1. 80 mile-per-hour sustained

winds and brought incredible widespread damage because this storm is huge, 400 miles wide in terms of tropical storm force winds. the duration of the winds, the rain, the surge, that's why this is potentially so destructive and deadly. and that's why i don't want to you pay attention to the two. pete: really important, janice, i get distracted by the two. janice: we do, too. when we see a 4 or 5 we will ramp up our warnings. that means the core of the strongest winds. structural damage of a 2 is not going to be as great as a 4 in terms of damaging your home from winds but only 8% of people die with wind damage from a hurricane. 76% die because of rain and storm surge. pete: important reminder. steve: j.d., thank you very much. pete: thanks, janice. steve: new warning, janice, will come out at what time? janice: 8:00 a.m. steve: so two hours from right now. in the meantime we know it's a big storm, right?

well, never let a good crisis go to waste somebody once famously said. lisa: rahm emanuel. steve: take a look at "the washington post." they had a headline yesterday and it got us talking. the headline reads another hurricane is about to batter our coast and president trump is complicit. what they are talking about is how the president plays down human's role in weather trying to dismantle any efforts to control the weather going forward and they interviewed -- they quoted a climate researcher who said that florence is another indication of global warming. pete: of course, never let that moment miss that talking point u did any undid any regulation today. if it is the cause it's been going on for quite some time. louis gutierrez a democrat from illinois used this to criticize the trump administration's response to the hurricane that hasn't even happened yet. listen u. >> you want to know what i

fear? calamity because of the lack of coordination of the government with the national guard and with local government, the lack of responsiveness and preparedness of this government because the president, he wants to find out who is the one who wrote that op-ed piece about the chaos in the white house because he wants the justice department -- is he so consumed by the calamity that exists and the chaos exists that he is not really prepared and focused because he spends every weekend golfing. steve: i don't know what he is talking about there. yesterday on this program we had the north carolina governor on who is a democrat and he said the federal government is pulling out all the stops. we had the fema administrator on and he said that they are pre-positioning tons and tons and tons of stuff to be ready. lisa: i feel like this is one when somebody sends a press release out before something actually happens. now president trump knows exactly what the talking points are of the left no matter what happens with this storm. as you said president trump has been there all the way. he has already declared state of emergency for both

north carolina and south carolina so that federal funds are available to these states when they need them. pete: implication has been from the beginning because this president tweets or does other activities that he can't do other things at the same time. he can't walk and chew gum at the same time. you look at the list of accomplishments and the amount that he has taken from all sides, i mean, i feel like the guy could run a marathon and chew gum. steve: conservative strategist by the name of steve bannon won't give any credit for the economy but will for a hurricane. you can't make this stuff up. lisa: millions of people in harm's way. maybe let's focus on that, folks. pete: it appears this administration is. steve: it is'6":11 now here in new york city. jillian joins us with a fox news alert. jillian: that's right. more hurricane florence coverage on the way. for now, get you caught up on some of the other headlines we are following starting here a deadly shooting spree overnight as a man kills five people, including his wife in just 10 minutes. the shooting started inside a bakersfield, california

trucking business before spilling outside and into a nearby home. >> obviously, these are not random shootings. i'm pretty comfortable there will be a connection between all of those players. lisa: after the shootings, the gunman stole a car with a woman and child inside. fortunately they were able to escape. when deputies finally con fronted the shooter he shot and killed himself. unclear what sparked that range. rage. text messages just revealed to fox news between fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page suggest others may have been speaking to the press. in one text from 2016, the anti-trump former fbi official writes, quote: think our sisters have begun leaking like mad. scorned and worried and political, they're kick into overdrive. former fbi spokesman says that could be a reference to another intelligence agency. page resigned from her post at the fbi. strzok was fired.

president trump paying district to congressional medal of honor recipients. 33 heroes celebrated at the white house for their dedication and service to our nation. >> strongest, the bravest, and the finest among us. see, my ego is not that big. i admit. [laughter] i admit it. jillian: there are 72 living medal of honor recipients. i will send it back to you guys. pete: very cool. thanks, jillian. lisa: thank you, jillian. pete: president said we may get sick of. this winning like no one has before. >> wing, wing winning, winning, winning. pete: how the president is making the middle class great again. steve: winning? pete: winning. plus. steve: golfer phil mickelson is a winner coming out with a bang preparing for the upcoming ryder cup, watch

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steve: with the american economy hitting on all cylinders, this morning more good news this time for the middle class, the median household income rose above $61,000 last year. the highest recorded level ever.

that's really good news. here to explain what's happening is financial analyst heather zumaraga good morning. >> good morning. steve: why is the middle class doing better? >> the middle class is doing better because of a few things, wage growth is increasing year other year since the highest level 2.9% year over year. so your paychecks are going up. there are also more full-time jobs available at 6.9 million job job openings. more job openings than people looking for work there is a job out there if you want one. people are moving from part time to full time. that's also increasing paychecks. steve: all good news although a couple of days ago i heard the former pet of the united states barack obama say hey, yep, we are doing well but it started on my watch is that accurate? [laughter] >> well, can i point to a few statistics one being that under president trump's

administration, 3.9 million people have come off the sidelines that were previously discouraged and they have looked for work and gotten a job. versus that same time frame under president barack obama 2.6 million people lost their jobs. so, i believe it is working. president trump can take credit. he is taking credit. and he should. steve: two of the factors involved here taxes, the republican tax cut. plus, deregulation. the president and the administration have done a lot of red tape cutting, haven't they? >> it really is. small business optimism is at its highest levels ever. it's all about confidence and small business. consumer confidence is also off the charts. americans are spending more than they ever have before. and the big story really is the middle class median income rising above 61,000. even adjusted for inflation. we have never seen that steve. steve: of course, the big story this week is hurricane. and a lot of people have been focusing on that. a couple days ago the republicans were talking

about how they would like to try to get tax cuts 2.0 passed to make these cuts that went into effect last year permanent. how realistic is that? >> i think it is realistic. especially house republicans kevin brady the house ways and means committee trying to push tax cuts 2.0 through this month. actually going to further extend benefits to the middle class. you look at 401(k) plans creating universal saving accounts and other ways i can make tax free withdraws and contributions to 529 college education plans. you want to take advantage of this if this goes through that you can have these tax free savings built up over time. that's what you want to do. steve: let's see what they do on capitol hill u good news for the middle class. heather zumarraga joining us from d.c. >> thanks, steve. steve: 6:20 in new york city. this disgusting image found in one american town.

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of families apprehended for illegally entering the united states last year were never deported. pete? pete: thank you, lisa. well, pro-trump college students again under fire this time by a sunni buffalo professor who claims in a new study that these conservative students are more likely to show prejudice against international students. the professor of that study writing, quote: some of president trump's policies such as promoting america first, the travel ban, and his talk of building a wall are in line with unwelcoming attitudes towards immigrants. this finding tells us that if you statistically account for stereotypes those domestic students who were higher in trump support still had significantly higher prejudice. here to react campus reform correspondent and university at buffalo -- at the university of sunni buffalo student ross. when you see this study and this professor at your university saying if you support president trump, you

are just likely to be prejudiced towards immigrants, what do you make of that? >> i just want to say hi, thanks for having me on. pete: of course. >> this is just another piece of evidence of leftist intolerance that we see on college campuses. far too often the leadership institute campus reform.org we way too often, academia across the u.s.a. has been plagued with this view that anybody who self-identifies with libertarian or conservative views must somehow be racist. xenophobic, sexist or any other pejorative term that we can think of. right now the president and his supports havsupporters havee target we see it over the mainstream media as well. pete: having prudence in your immigration policy the same as having prejudice towards people who are attempting to cross your border illegally, some of the things that have been talked about very prominently. is that distinction ever

made? >> she really doesn't make that distinction in the study. what i find really interesting about this study is the people who she actually surveyed. 389 introductory psychiatry students were surveyed. all of them were native born students. none of them were foreign born students. we don't actually know how the international students feel about this issue. so this is almost like purely speculative. and i know how these introductory psychology classes work. they are all freshman. first semester sophomores. they have never been to a college campus before. maybe if they would have asked a junior or senior student they would have had more insight into what prejudice might exist on campus if any exist at all. they are asking these kids brand new to the college university experience. they don't know what's going on yet. pete: let me ask you and your group. >> why are they asking these people? because they know they are wrong. that's why.

pete: sure. you run a pro-group on campus. white males walking around talking about prejudice or group from a lot of different perspectives? >> right. so the group that i started on campus ub young americans for liberty we are in recruitment right now. we don't have a ton of members yet. me and a couple other friends right now. we are trying to get the ball rolling. i'm a member of another political group on campus ub american group for freedom. conservative trump pro-conservative values. there is a loft diversity prevalent in the group including some international students. at our meeting last week, we actually had a chinese international student saying he supports building the wall with mexico. so i mean just because you support trump views doesn't make you this horrible racist individual. it's absurd. pete: the psychology departments, liberal professors to conservative

professors in the top 40 schools outrank them 17-1. not surprising academia is left-leaning what's been the response of the school. >> the response of the school has been zero. this is what goes on all across the country. people that i have talked to on campus haven't even heard of this study. it's so low key because it's not mind-blowing at all. it's an extremely mainstream view. i'm sure most college professors in the soft sciences, the liberal arts probably feel this way about trump students. they are like oh, those darn trump students coming to class. so, i mean, the only people who knew about this study on campus were fellow conservative students like me because it's just -- college employees who get funded by my parent's taxpayer dollars. pete: it affirms the world view they want to have inside their campus bubble. thank you for brings us

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at sea. >> you find yourself in a bad place, i can't guarantee you based on what i told you earlier that we're going to be able to respond. we do have highly trained crews and i'm very proud of them response capability. based on what we're doing trying to make sure we are ready to respond after the storm we might have diminished ability to respond. >> camp lejeune has set up shelters for anyone with the department of defense i.d. and their families. officials warn the accommodations may be hot and crowded but very safe. the marine base has weathered many hurricanes in the past. volunteer organization called the cajun navy says it is sending more than 1,000 people in the region to assist with search and rescue. back live here in wrightsville beach, most residents have already evacuated and police are strictly enforcing their mandatory evacuation. making sure that no one is out on the beach during the storm. back to you guys. steve: jonathan serrie live in wrightsville beach, north carolina. thank you very much. janice dean is here in the

studio. janice, this is a super powerful storm 110 mile-per-hour sustained winds. janice: i know that people are probably waking up and going oh, a category 2. it's weakening, my messaging is exactly the same as it was yesterday when it was a category 4. still the same rainfall totals in some cases 20 to 40 inches, close to 4 feet of rain and over a foot of storm surge there is the latest track new coordinants coming out at 8:00 a.m. we will give you that hurricane hunter flying into the storm to give us all the information as the storm approaches. making landfall we think or close to a landfall on friday morning. you can see the radar presentation already seeing the eye with the radar and the rain bands coming across the outer banks. we could see tornadoes watches in the next couple of hours as well. there is the future radar. if i could take you back in time and show you that this radar, this computer model is showing a landfall friday morning around the wilmington area.

and then it stalls into saturday and then sunday. so that's the problem here is we are going to be dealing with a storm system that's going to remain in place or just slightly offshore for a matter of days. and that's why we have the potential for catastrophic link floodinlife-threatening flg the biggest threat is the water. pete: those hurricane hunters, that's a job i don't want. steve: no kidding. lisa: no thank you. steve: joining us now shut man who wrote the book about the history of hurricanes in the state of north carolina. pete: jay varnes the author of north carolina's hurricane history. he is live in raleigh, north carolina with a warning about this sergei you literally wrote the book. talk to us about how this one compares to what happened in that state before. >> as it turns out florence is approaching a party of the north carolina coast that's been a real hot spot for really the last 30 years with a number of other

hurricanes in the very same area. only two years ago hurricane matthew crept by the coast very slow pace dumped tremendous amounts of rain and caused $4 billion of damage in our state. a lot of the experience in the southeastern part of our state. the state of south carolina, also a lot of experience with storms in just this region. that stretch between myrtle beach and wilmington. steve: a little further north, jay, you have the outer banks which it is just a barrier island, in some cases it's just barely a block wide and if there is a storm surge of close to 10 feet, something bad is going to happen there. >> absolutely. particularly down in the southeast coast, a little below the outer banks, but, you know, we have got some storms have affected north carolina through the years. north carolina ranks third in the nation in the number of hurricane landfalls after florida and texas. and, again, we have seen a

lot of activity in recent years. and one thing that you were talking about earlier about the weakening of the storm, it should not be considered taking our foot off the gas. we have to still be prepared because we have got a lot of examples with other storms that have approached north carolina, weakened before they got here and, you know, everyone starts to believe well, maybe it won't be so bad. good example for that was hurricane floyd in 1999. it was a cat 5 off of florida. it was really only about a cat 1 by the time it got to north carolina. still went on to cause $6 billion in damage in our state and became our greatest disaster in history. steve: jay, we were just looking at hazel. now we are looking at floyd. so many people have talked about hazel back in the 1950s. how bad was that? >> oh, my. hazel is the only category 4 ever to hit the north carolina coast. and that was in october of 1954. very different storm and particularly the track coming up out of the caribbean racing inland,

too. hazel was a storm that was a record storm surge, 17, 18 feet on the north carolina coast. but then as it raced inland, it attained a forward speed of almost 50 miles per hour as it passed through central virginia. went on to break all kinds of records, 100 mile-per-hour gusts in seven states. and as i recall, the highest wind ever recorded at the top of the empire state building 113 mile-per-hour gusts. hazel wasn't even done then, because by the time it got into toronto and in to canada. it went ton cause the greatest flood in canadian history. we certainly have a lot of people here in north carolina that remember hazel and still hold it as a benchmark storm. lisa: jay barnes, thank you so much hurricane historian we appreciate your time. and now we go to jillian mele. jillian: that's right. now we go to headlines starting here. don't go too far left that's the warning from former president jimmy carter to fellow democrats ahead of

the mid terms. during an annual router at his library in atlanta carter saying quote independents need to know they can invest their vote in the democratic party. carter also cautioning the grave consequences of a, quote, move to a very liberal program like universal healthcare. the search is on for a man accused of urinating on american flags. a witness claims he pulled them out of the ground at a veteran's cemetery in summerville, massachusetts before completely disrespecting the flags. the man who posted the picture a suspect and woman walking with him laughed after the vulgar incident. the town's mayor says if the allegations are true, it is offensive to our entire nation. new yorkers will soon be able to identify as gender x on their birth certificates. the new york city board of health voting to include the third option without the need for a doctor's note. the new law will go into effect next year joining oregon, california, new jersey and washington state in allowing the gender x option.

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feckless, feckless, woman! standing there letting trump and his appointees steal healthcare from millions of americans. steal the right to choose like women do with their bodies and you stood by there oh, i didn't know. i'm so naive [bleep] you. [bleep] you. lisa: friendly. steve: i wonder where he stands. this is a crowd funding effort to get her to vote no on kavanaugh has raised more than a million dollars that will go to her opponent in 2020 if she votes yes. lisa: here to react to it someone much more friendlier than that caller seen your judge napolitano. [laughter] also with the best laugh. susan collins says this is a bribe. do you agree. >> no. first of all, if you know susan collins as many of us do, she is a very thoughtful, independent woman who will vote the way her heart and mind tell her to and absolutely will not be influenced by. this she won't respond to it. and she won't overreact to

it and she won't act out of fear. you know, it's interesting, because the left has been yelling about the influence of money in politics for years. the supreme court has ruled in a case that the other side hates called citizens united that money is speech. you use your money to pay for your speech. you bay full-page add. you construct a website. here is using money to influence speech in an awful way but it is not illegal. think about it you say to a candidate, i will contribute to your campaign, but i have got to know you are going to vote the way i want you to vote. pete: happens every day. >> of course. it doesn't happen as in your faces a. this as crude and public as this is if you don't vote the way i want, i have got a million bucks for your as yet unnamed and undetermined opponent. so i think this is actually going to backfire politically. legally it's weird. but it is not a crime. lisa: legally weird. i like that. [laughter] steve: i think you are right about the politics of it

though. if she stands up and says, you know, i'm not going to have that million dollars sway my vote. i'm going to vote with my heart. >> here's what she is doing she is not on a judiciary committee actually reading the transcripts of the hearing and asked judge kavanaugh to visit her privately and she is going to conduct her own private interrogation of him. i can guess what it's about probably about roe v. wade. she is a republican who supports roe v. wade. against it going to support people against it judge kavanaugh has said clearly many times under oath it's well-settled law. it's the law of the land. in terms of these horrible threatening voice mails that people are leaving, that, too, is not criminal. it is offensive and it's out err most limits of free out -- outer most limits but it's free speech. steve: happens every day. >> and has throughout

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revealing how top google executives really felt following president trump's election back in 2016. lisa: this as jeff sessions is facebook google and twitter have unfairly. ian pryor joins you now to weigh in. >> ian, google said none of these comments indicate that any political bias ever influences how their products are constructed or designed to perform. are you buying that? >> let me tell you a couple instances in the past few weeks don't involve google but facebook and twit remember really concerning and i'm sure they are on the attorney general's radar. let's look at twitter, chris pronto former army ranger and benghazi hero, he was temporarily banned from twitter for pointing out no, it was not obama that killed usama bin laden but was, in fact, a navy seal, rob o'neill. facebook temporarily banned celina zito a "new york

post" reporter and best-selling author for posting her own "new york post" column that was positive towards president trump. so you have two instances in the past few weeks that are extremely concerning that seem to show some bias in how these sites work. steve: exactly right. and the worry, ian, is that they use their vast resources. they say yeah, we are fair and balanced. but they hide behind this algorithm. they won't tell us who designed it, what it looks for, how it returns results and things like that. so we are left in the dark. it does look to some, on the right, like google, facebook, people like that have their thumb on the scale. >> yeah. it's a pig problem. quite orwellian if you think about it these companies are giant. they we woul wield enormous pow. many people get their information and news from these sites. if any way, shape, or form it's being tilted towards one viewpoint over another,

that is a big problem in this country it is very important that the attorney general and the state attorney general look at this, which they are reportedly going to be doing in the next few weeks. i would also think that congress would look very closely at this. lisa: i guess the question is it the role of the federal government and attorney general to get involved with a private sector business. >> that's a great point obviously the first amendment doesn't apply to private industry it only applies to the government. one thing i would look at here are democratic candidates, for example, being given favorable treatment on these sites over their republican opponent? if that's the case? that could be a campaign contribution, a corporate campaign contribution. now it's a novel theory. but that is something i would look at to see if there is anything that might be there worth investigating. steve: ian prior used to be at the doj. thank you ver. lisa: thank you ian. steve: interesting stuff. >> thanks for having me. steve: hurricane florence looking to wreak havoc on the carolina coast.

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>> internal video from google shows the company's reaction to the 2016 election. >> most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad because of the election. >> pete: we begin with a fox news alert. hurricane florence barreling towards the east coast with more than 10 million americans in its crosshairs. lisa: now a very strong category 2 storm and flooding could cause catastrophic devastation in the carolinas. steve: winds right now 110 miles per hour. we have live team coverage along the east coast this morning. todd piro is in myrtle beach, south carolina. janice dean is tracking the storm here. we start with griff jenkins who is live from atlantic beach, north carolina where police are now restricting travel. griff? griff: that's right. good morning, guys. we are on the atlantic beach side of the bridge connecting to morehead city above me. the only traffic that should

be coming over that should be law enforcement or possibly maybe us. if you look now guys, you just look at the water, how high it already is, let me just bring you over here as we come on to atlantic beach. we are expecting 9 to 13-foot storm surge. the storm isn't expected until tomorrow morning and look how high that water already is. these homes are going to be undoubtedly under water. but that is, of course not the only major concern for the folks in northeastern carolina and that is the flooding that they expect excessive flooding. two years ago matthew 28 lice were lost. and you are going to have rainfall possibly as janice said comes to 30 to 40 inches. we talked to a resident. tim bowen who is a lifelong resident here at atlantic beach. he said he is so worried about the flooding he is going to ride it out here despite the storm surge coming. here is what tim bowen said. >> we're going to have an impact here, too. but i think up there it's going to be worse. you take kinston, goldenberg, those areas,

they have a history of being under water. you know, four or five foot of water. so, you know, leaving with just wasn't -- i just weighed everything out and it just seemed like this is a better situation than going inland. >> if you are just weighing up the important thing to know if you are in northeastern, north carolina the danger has not been diminished this is going to be a life threatening catastrophic flood event and you have a lot of storm surge here. we will see what happens. we will stay here and keep monitoring the situation, guys. steve: that's right. one of the reasons people staying there. i was reading in an article in one the papers a lot of people have got to return to work extraordinarily as soon as the storm passes and they want to be close and they figure, you know, i can be here to fix up patch windows and stuff like that. if i go inland 100 miles i don't know when i'm coming back. griff: that's exactly right, steve. you don't even have to go

100 miles. you can go 20 miles inland to townsz like new bern and jackson if they get on the other side of that the flooding is going to last days if not weeks. power lines will be down along with the flooding. you will have the situation back in 1999 when floyd hit, those towns were literally for miles under water. we expect we could possibly see a similar situation depending on the flooding and rainfall that comes. pete: griff, not to make it about us. we see those winds picking up. you can only stay so long. how long would you plan to stay before it's not safe anymore? >> well, i have covered a handful of these. i'm going to stay until my crew feels like we are in danger. we will egress over to the morehead city side and bring this to you likely tomorrow. this island will be possibly under water. the conditions in this port right here are condition would yozulu. they expect the wind knots 30 miles per hour and greater. it is closed. no boat traffic, in no boat traffic out, guys.

steve: griff jenkins live in atlantic beach, north carolina. thank you, griff. lisa: thank you, griff, stay safe. steve: it is coming in. lisa: it is. officials in south carolina are making final push to get people out before the deadly hurricane. pete: todd piro is live in myrtle beach where people are refusing to evacuate. towed, what's that calculation. todd: most of these homes evacuated. you don't see any signs of life. do you see a few people on the beach getting their final glimpse of the waves and sand before florence comes ashore. there is somebody waving at us right now. but about 35% of the folks here in north myrtle beach say they are not evacuating. that's according to our latest numbers, including the gentleman we just spoke to whose balcony we are on right now. take a listen. >> who knows where it's going.

i have ridden out two or three here. in fact, a lot of times it's been worser on my hometown than it has been here on the beach. but also, i mean, this is my home. todd: today in less than an hour police will begin knocking on doors pleading with people to evacuate advance of this. take a look at florence from the international space station. bigger than the area of north and south carolina combined. officials we spoke to here in north myrtle beach say you are running out of time to get out. >> our message today has been pretty blunt. leave. inconvenience yourself. get up out of your chair, go to your car and leave town. you can always come back but you will be alive. todd: those officials go on to say if winds hit above 40 miles per hour, they will not allow their first responders to come out and get anybody. so, if something happens to you, you are on your own. one final point, take a look

at this pier over my left shoulder. the homeowners we were talking to here where we are sitting right now, they said when matthew came by, that pier ended up sort of right where we are, right under us at the home next to us. so obviously hoping for not a repeat of that. hurricane matthew was a little bit less than this so we will see. steve: todd piro live in north myrtle beach. janice is here in the studio tracking the storm. fema said yesterday this is going to be a mike tyson punch to the carolina coast. janice: right. this time yesterday we were talking about category 4 with 130 mile-per-hour sustained winds. today they downgraded it to a 2 but one mile shy of a cat 3. my take away message is exactly the same as it was yesterday when this was a cat 4. it's going to be the surge and potential for feet of rain that is going to be catastrophic and devastating for this region. let's zoom. in there's the storm right now just a couple hundred miles off the coast of north carolina.

we do think that it is going to make a landfall tomorrow morning along the coast of north carolina. can't pinpoint it just yet. we also could see the potential of some of the strongest winds remaining offshore. and the potential for a long duration event. so, winds surge and heavy rainfall for hours, perhaps even days. so, there is the satellite presentation as you can see the outer band moving towards north carolina. the outer banks. we are going to start to feel thos rain bands in a matter of hours. tornado watch will probably be issued in the next couple of hours. again, we are at 110 miles per hour. 111 makes it a cat 3. still has the possibility of strengthening before it makes landfall. the water temperature 85 degrees ahead of it. so, there is still that potential for strength but don't take your eye off the ball. the results are going to be the same, 20 to 40 inches of rainfall and a 13-foot storm surge could devastate this area and that's enough to, you know, cause life

threatening problems for all of these folks that decided to stay and didn't evacuate. steve: indeed. janice, you know, we seem to focus on the number it's a category 2. it's still 110 miles per hour. janice: listen, we are guilty of that, too. when you see a category 4, you see a category 5 oh my gosh. you have to remember that's the core of the strongest winds. that's structural damage. even though it might not do the same damage to your home as a cat 4, the results of the flooding and the surge the things that kill more people still stays the same. regardless of category. pete: the water. steve: a final question. which when is it expected to start impacting people in profound way? janice: i would think at this point tomorrow morning we will definitely start to feel at least tropical storm force winds. we will feel tropical storm force winds where griff is later on today. this could be a prolonged event because of the stalling of the system. that's the other danger. these systems sometimes will get picked up by a trough or cold front and they are out of here in like six hours.

this one is going to remain sort of stagnant in place for perhaps a matter of days. and that's the dangerous part of this. remember hurricane harvey last year from texas? pete: yeah. janice: the winds in harvey when it reached southeast texas were about 50 or 60 miles, right? it was the flooding that caused the problem. pete: sandy here. janice: cat 1. still catastrophic damage on the coast. lisa: we are praying for everyone's safety u. steve: indeed. 7:10 in new york city. jillian joins us with a fox news alert. jillian: that's right. deadly shooting spree overnight as a man kills five people including his wife in just 10 minutes. the shooting started inside a bakersfield california trucking business before spilling outside and into a nearby home. >> obviously, these are not random shootings. i'm pretty comfortable there will be a connection between all of these players. jillian: after the shooting the gunman stole a car with

a woman and child inside. fortunately they escaped. when deputies finally confronted the shooter, he shot and killed himself. it's unclear what sparked the rage. the long-time executive producer for "60 minutes" fired over a text message. jeff fager speaking out saying he lost his job at cbs after demanding a reporter be fair in covering a story about sexual misconduct allegations against him. that reporter duncan now coming forward. >> i am that reporter. since jeff fager publicly referred to our exchange today, i want to be transparent about it fager in a text said to me, quote: if you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up, you will be held responsible for harming me. jillian: cbs ceo les moonves resigned sunday amidsectionial misconduct allegations. it's prime may da primary day iw

york. nixon isn't the only democratic socialist hoping to win big. julia salazar 27-year-old far left feminist is running for senate. she is challenging 8 term incumbent. i will send it back downstairs to you guys. steve: all right. we thank you very much. a thursday, a primary on a thursday. pete: i have never heard of that. it doesn't seem normal. i wonder how it will effect turnout. you don't think thursday let me go vote. steve: maybe that's the idea. pete: you might be on to it. politicizing a hurricane it has happened before now it has happened again. it's trump's fault. that story is coming up next. steve: plus, one of the best runners on earth now is he proving to be the best in outer space ♪ rocket man ♪

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florence. lisa: well some each going as for a blame him "the washington post" headline exclaiming another hurricane is about to batter our coast and trump is complicit. pete: more complicit. stephanie hammel is a writer for the daily caller she is joining us now to react. please react to it. [laughter] >> apparently everything is trump's fault and apparently he is god and controls the weather, right? including hurricanes. this is outrageous claim. this is why people have no trust in the media because they are coming up with these outrageous headlines that now trump is controlling the weather. look, hurricanes have been happening since the beginning of time this a natural part of our environment for a journalist or even an opinion person to come out with such an outrageous claim says a lot about the media. pete: it sure does. go ahead. lisa: stephanie, you mentioned the fact that americans are losing trust in the media. recent gallup poll that says exactly that isn't it first realizing to solve ago

problem is realizing have you one. do you think the media is self-aware to know enough that they have an issue here? >> i don't think that they are aware of it. i think they think they are doing a good job. i don't have a problem with people having a opinions. i hate when people pretend they're unbiased journalists. pete: bingo. >> when clearly they are not. some of these have agenda globalist agenda. when trump calls them the enemy of the people fake news media. they are when they're not being honest. pete: 95% of conservatives republicans think there is bias in the media. overall that distrust is grounded in an race and bias so there is a fact problem, a truth problem. then as you mentioned there is a bias problem. there is this idea whether it's google or the "new york times," it's a bunch of liberals getting together saying no, trust us, we are playing it down the middle and president trump has exposed them on that. >> you know, as somebody who

works in the news business, i find this survey by gallup extremely disappointing and alarming and concerning. you know, i want people to be able to trust the figures that they see on tv. and, unfortunately, we are not in that area. this isn't all about, you know, the coverage of trump. trust in the media has been going down for many years. i mean, if you even look at the coverage from reagan to bush and some of the journalists sleeping during the obama administration. and then you compare to what's going on today, we have a lot of journalists that are running around, trying to bring attention to themselves rather than report the facts. you look at cnn's jim acosta who regularly throws tantrums in the white house briefings to get more camera time. we have don lemon with a straight face who will go on camera and call the president a racist. clearly with no facts and this is straight news journalist calling the president racist on national tv. we see -- pete: alarming but not surprising these straight

news journalists all come from liberal schools mostly from the coast indoctrinated a certain point of view. it shouldn't surprise anybody. >> something else from the survey which i agree with is that 69% of the respond dents said that news could make a turn around. i mean, reporters in the media could actually start reporting the truth tomorrow and people would begin to trust the media again. so i think that there is hope. pete: just watch fox news channel and you are ready to go. lisa: bingo. we will see if the media looks at this and has a self-examination. i don't think so but one could only hope. thanks, stephanie. pete: franklin graham is stepping up for hurricane florence. he joins us live just ahead. lisa: plus, voters heading to the polls in new york today and one deciding factor could be a gubernatorial candidate cynthia nixon's push for government run healthcare. dr. nicole saphier weighs in on how realistic this is stay tuned.

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plans to pass it and then figure out how to fund it we have heard that before, haven't we? steve: from somebody else. lisa: nancy pelosi, maybe. steve: how single payer system or is it a great idea? let's talk to dr. nicole saphier. >> good morning, guys. thanks for having me. steve: we know universal healthcare hasn't worked particularly well around the world but maybe we could come up with something better. >> governor cuomo is touted as progressive for majority of america. cynthia nixon is running on the fact is he not progressive enough. one of the biggest differences governor cuomo a bit more pragmatic single pair in new york can't afford it he does support a single pair but not necessarily state. whereas cynthia nixon said let's pass it and figure out how to fund it came out with official report and you see people grab on to different parts of it what cynthia nixon is saying it's great. you are going to be saving about 2% over the next 10 years when it comes to healthcare spending. however, they would have to

double, over double these estate tax burden. if did you that implemented that universally, a lot of people, specifically the lower and middle income people would suffer a lot. what are they going to do? heavily, heavily tax your higher income tax earner bias 3 to 4%. steve: drive them to florida. >> that's exactly what's going to happen. you will have people leaving new york. by the way, if that happens. this all goes up in smoke. all of a sudden we really can't afford it. pete: you caught me one thing on governor cuomo what's the logic federal payer and not state. wouldn't the state have a better understanding of meeting people's needs wouldn't you have to raise taxes federally to pay for it? >> the way the new york bill is written that keeps getting passed in the assembly but stalled in the senate. what happens is they are saying everyone is going to get health insurance including your undocumented immigrants. what's going to happen? you will have an influx of people coming to new york. it already is the heaviest taxed state now all of a

sudden you are going to more than double that? how are people going to afford to live. highest income earner even if the smallest percentage got out of paying the projected taxes which they will because we know they do, this all goes for not. it's not going to work. lisa: seen a push on the left for single payer. how does that affect the quality of care that patients would receive? >> well, you know, this can be debatable in new york city we have some nations in the world's best healthcare. it would take a massive restructuring of a lot of our hospitals. a lot of these hospitals heavily depend on private grants and private innovation. if you take away that capitalistic potential for profit, you will not have that innovation and grants. have fewer people going into medicine and you will start seeing more of, i don't want to sound too cliche but the rationed healthcare everyone has talked about. reality it's going to happen. pete: not a cliche inevitable outcome. lisa: we are fortunate to have you break that down for us. >> thank you for having me.

steve: i don't know that cynthia nixon is going to win. i heard a poll yesterday he is ahead of her by 40 points. lisa: i don't know if that's enough. >> even if he makes it to governor he supports a single pair philosophy. lisa: it's all a little bit scary. pete: we are all getting pulled that way. moving on. president trump the last president ever? it's not republicans saying that. not even me. and samaritan's purse-know a second store, samaritan's purse assisted in relief efforts after harvey and maria. now referenced franklin graham is stepping up for hurricane florence. he joins us live coming up next. with the world outside...

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steve: back with a fox news alert. a final warning from the carolinas get out, hurricane florence just hours away

from reaching the east coast. lisa: radar showing the powerful category 2 storm that's expected to unleash 110 mile-per-hour winds and storm surges up to 13 feet high. pete: the cajun navy, my second favorite navy a volunteer group now sending more than 1,000 people to the carolinas and virginia to help. steve: janice dean is tracking florence's path and yanice, it is such a wide storm. janice: yep. steve: this is going to pump a lot of atlantic ocean water into the carolinas. janice: right. when the storm makes landfall, which we think it will do so friday, it's going to stall for, perhaps, 24 to 48 hours. so that's why we are predicting 20 to 40 inches of rainfall. and this is a very big storm. so, tropical storm force winds 40 miles wide and that's what we are talking about in terms of wind. so a prolonged wind event. a prolonged surge event. a prolonged rain event. new advisory coming out at

8:00 a.m. we still have very warm water ahead of this storm. the storm could actually strengthen before it makes landfall and that could be also very dangerous. word that we just got in moments ago, we have a tornado watch out for parts of coastal, north carolina with these land falling systems and their counterclockwise winds and the winds coming from different directions with the wind shear, we have the threat for weak tornadoes. so structural damage could occur. here someone of our forecast models. and you can see kind of stalling once it makes landfall. it still could hug the coast. and, again, the problem here is prolonged events. this is not going to just barrel into the coast and then get caught up in a trough and move northward, it's going to stay with us probably until monday. so that's why we are predicting incredible amounts of rain, catastrophic, life threatening rainfall amounts and then over a foot of storm surge which will be incredibly damaging for these vulnerable coast lines and that's why we had evacuation orders. and my message is exactly the same today as it was two

days ago when we had a category 4 storm. and that is because the legacy of this storm is not going to be wind. it's going to be water. in the form of surge and the form of rainfall. we could set -- we will definitely set records but when you remember hurricane harvey last year for southeast texas. i mean, 48 inches, 50 inches of rain that is actually a possibility with this storm system as well. so, don't pay attention to the category. all right? it's the fact that the storm is going to slow down and bring all of that moisture with it and the fact that this storm is large is also going to lead to widespread damage. so there is the track. new track coming out at 8:00 a.m. with the coordinants. the storm surge is going to be incredible and catastrophic. and then the rainfall is what is going to be the legacy of the storm. we can't stress it enough. i know i'm already on twitter. people are saying well, janice dean this is 4 yesterday. a 2. not going to be that bad. that's not true. i don't want you to take the

ranking as guidance here. it's all about what this storm does as it makes impact and that is stalling out and bringing incredible amounts of rainfall. we will remember this storm in north and south carolina. steve: now we are starting to feel the impact along the coast. with the very latest on the tornadoes as well. j.d., thank you. pete: i'm going to trust j.d. in that twitter. lisa: that's right. pete: many volunteers already stepping up to provide relief. reverend franklin graham offering more than prayers encouraging samaritan purse workers to respond. steve: that's not all they are doing to help. franklin graham the ceo of samaritan's purse and the billy graham evangelistic association he joins us now from north carolina. franklin, what arfrank franklind morning. what are you up to. >> we are preparing here at samaritan's purse. we have got trucks with tools and equipment ready to

respond as soon as the storm has passed. as they were giving the weather just a few moments ago. and this is going to be a massive rain event in the low areas of south carolina and north carolina are going to be affected for a long time. that water just does not drain quickly. and so this is going to be a flood event. i believe there will be many homes that will be damaged. samaritan's purse, we help homeowners when a tree has fallen on their house. we cut the limbs off. we cut the tree down we put tarps on the roof. we will go in and help mud out a home and take the drywall down so the house can dry out so you can repair it we use volunteers. we're going to need an army of volunteers for the next three or four weeks. and if people could go to our website, samaritan's purse.org, you can see where you can sign up and how you can be a part in the recovery effort there in the carolinas because we will need your help. pete: reverend, we hear so much about the government response and how the government will respond. you are saying free people

and charity ultimately needs to fill that gap as well. how much of this recovery effort will be led by groups like yours? >> well, i think the spearhead, of course, will be the volunteers for many different organizations. who will come in to the carolinas to help. the government, no question, plays a big role in this. and so we don't want to down play the response of the government. they will do their part. but the volunteers, the hands and feet that actually are on the ground, that is going to be done by volunteers. again, we need an army of them. we need hundreds of them to come help us. and i can't stress that enough. more importantly, guys, we need to pray for the people that are in the path of this huge storm. that god would just protect them and keep them safe. lisa: reverend, real quick, for those unfamiliar, can you tell us a little bit about your mission statement? >> samaritan's purse we are

a non-de nominational christian organization. we go in and we help people, whatever the case may be, whether it's a flood or whether it's a tornadoes or whether taps war seen somewhere in the world. we go in the name of jesus christ. god loves them and haven't forgotten. they think when a storm comes maybe god is mad at them. he is not. we send chaplains from the billy graham evangelicallistic organization to come with our teams as volunteer so we can minister to the spiritual needs of people as we respond to the physical needs. we work all over the world 110 different countries we do it in jesus' name. >> had you a very busy year. year ago down in puerto rico. since then have you help to rebuild 300 puerto rican churches. steve: if folks would like to volunteer or too far away to donate go to samaritan's purse.org. thank you very much. good luck. lisa: thank you referenced. >> thank you. steve: 24 minutes before the

the top of the hour. pete: jillian i know have you headlines for us. jillian: starting with a deadly stabbing in a high school classroom possibly over a boy. unidentified 17-year-old stand classmate gibson in the chest during a fight. the suspect is in custody after admitting to the attack. she is facing a murder charge. police say both girls were straight a students and used to be friends. a passenger completely loses it when his flight gets delayed. the man pulling down his pants and screaming at agents at the tampa airport. >> >> oh my god, where the plane is right now. the plane is not even outside. >> ralph rodriguez hernandez is under arrest and faces disorderly conduct and battery charges. his wife tells local reporters he is an air force vet and suffers from ptsd. >> liberal hollywood director michael moore truly believes it's possible for president trump to be the last president ever. watch this. >> you really think that?

>> i think it's possible, absolutely. i think that we have someone in the white house who has no respect for the rule of law, who dislikes democracy by an incredible degree. jillian: the anti-trump filmmaker making though comments on msnbc while promoting new film fahrenheit 11/9. already the fastest man on earth and appears hussein bolt may be the fastest man in space. [cheers] that's wild. the jamaican sprinter taking on a couple of astronauts in zero gravity challenge on modified air bus. the others clearly no match for the 8-time olympian but then again really who is? lisa: even in space is he fast. steve: refer to as the vomit comet. pete: i never heard about that. steve: when they start

diving like that that's when they start to be weightless. pete: thanks, appreciate it. steve: coming soon, folks, it's our brand new streaming subscription service for all you fox super fans called fox nation. feature signature content and exclusive access including everything from indepth conversations regarding the news of the day to powerful documentaries. to learn more go to foxnation.com and sign up and find out how you can become part of fox nation. lisa: i think there are familiar faces. pete: a lot of familiar faces. it's a cool concept. fox took over cnn, informs business took over cnbc and now fox nation is going to take over the internet. steve: just like that. lisa: small task. pete: live stuff going on each day but also long form documentaries dive into subject matter that stuff you haven't seen. steve: perfect for the fox super fan. still see all of us here on the channel doing the news of the day but then have you got something else for

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for office. she says there needs to be more transparency on board of supervisors in virginia. she says she was inspired to run after she was fired from government contractor job over this whole stunt. so interesting stuff there. former first lady michelle obama announcing a nationwide book tour. shy will promote new book tour becoming arenas in 10 cities. kicks off at chicago's united center in november. ticket prices have not yet been released. steve: all right. meanwhile, you watched here on the channel last week the confirmation hearings before the u.s. senate of judge brett kavanaugh. well, it seemed like the republicans were supportive and the democrats were not. pete: piper partisahyper partisg it kindly. those running for president on the democratic side using the platform to go after a highly qualified nominee to the supreme court. lisa: that doesn't happen in washington, d.c. pete: you are from there.

you know about it. there are a couple of current supreme court justices on another channel yesterday. steve: they were at the george washington university law school on wednesday. pete: that's right. ruth bader ginsburg and clarence thomas seem to agree that maybe we have gone a bit too far in this process. listen to them. >> see it in '93. truly bipartisan. that's the way it should be. instead of what it has become a highly partisan show. >> word that i used about bret. we could use that word about more people who are in public life, people who actually ask the questions at confirmation hearings instead of spartacus. we use. [laughter] >> if we could use the word honorable more often, think about the difference it will make. then you have a legacy.

lisa: this is so great to see. we have seen such blatant dishonesty in the attacks against judge kavanaugh. kamala harris blatantly edit a video to make it look like judge kavanaugh had said something regarding contraception that he didn't say. it was flagged from multiple fact checker saying it was a lie. yet hillary clinton still tweeted it out. a lot of dishonesty, unfortunately. steve: reminiscing from the good old days when it could be bipartisan and supreme court justice routinely was confirmed unanimously. and yet it has become so spartacusee, i love ruth bader ginsburg saying i wish i had a magic wand. let's go back in time. pete: confirmed 6-3. 96 to 3: t hasn't been this way. lisa: i respect her for being honest about that and saying flagging a problem when there is a problem. pete: used to be the elections have consequences the president has the

prerogative. now they want to undo that. that's why it doesn't exist anymore. steve: that's why you need a magic wand. okay? poof! pete: that's what we are relying on these days. google says they aren't politically biased. how do you explain this? >> most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad for -- because of the election. pete: more of that newly leaked video and how they are trying to explain it away this morning. steve: that's one of the guys who started google. meanwhiles eyes in the sky critical for hurricane worrrecovery. how drones are used to save lives when disaster strikes. we are talking about the carolinas and eyes in the sky.

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steve: as millions along the coast prepare for hurricane florence to make landfall the next day or so, drones are set to be deployed to aided in the preparation, the relief and even the recovery efforts. pete: here to explain thousand all works, drone expert former special operations intel analyst and the author of "drone warrior" brett velicovich: we are before the eye of the storm has reached landfall. give us how drones are used maybe before, during and after basically. >> sure. well, great to see you again. thanks for having me back on the program. essentially during this program drones are going to provide a really vital role like we have never seen before. really the reason for that is because we learned a lot from hurricane harvey and hurricane erma and the sponsors of providing this assistance. in those cases that assistance really proved to be a land mark in the evolution of drone use. and so since then, fema has fully integrated drone technology into their planning for disaster

recovery efforts. and that includes before, during, and after a hurricane hit. so they even have a drone team now that essentially their whole entire job is to go out and provide imagery, live stream data back to these commands centers, collect information, be prepared for inspecting critical infrastructure and really, in the end, providing this common operating picture and situational awareness so that first responders can come back and essentially help in the disaster recovery efforts. lisa: bret it's bret how can drs hope in supply supplies. >> we have not reached the level that we're able to deliver supplies at significant amount that we should be able. to say there are drone delivery systems that can help go a few miles out to a certain area. fire fighting departments and police departments are doing that to drop water and things like that. what's even more interesting now is there is this whole apparatus around the community that have built

technology for search and rescue operations. one example of that is at&t they have created essentially a roving wireless communication drone that flies out and provides wireless data when a hurricane hits and destroys it. you also have groups like noaa the national oceanic and atmospheric association drones drop into the eye of the storm and perform provide data in the storm and peed and trajectory of the storm. you have efforts coming out there and providing technology solution to save lives. lisa: very cool. steve: big changes. bret, thank you very much. >> sure. steve: all right. meanwhile the hurricane we are talking about florence is just hours from making landfall. we have live team coverage coming up. pete: update on the trajectory coming up. ♪

which is closing in on the carolinas and the east coast. >> residents should comply with all evacuation orders. >> this will be a massive rain event, we will need an army of volunteers. >> to criticize the trump administration's response to hurricane that hasn't happened yet. >> what i fear is a calamity. >> text messages between peter stzrok and lisa page suggest others were leaking to the press. >> successful corruption and people who did this need to be brought to justice. >> new leaked video showing how tough google executives felt following trump's election. >> people here are pretty upset because of the election.

>> hurricane florence closing in on the california -- carolinas. 110 mile-per-hour winds, life-threatening storm surge and flooding could catastrophic problems. >> video from the international space station showing the massive size of the storm. 10 million americans are in its path. ainsley: donald trump said we are completely ready for hurricane florence, the storm is even larger and more powerful, be careful. rob: coverage along the coast, todd pyro in myrtle beach, south carolina talking to people who will not leave. >> janice dean is talking about the past, griff jenkins live in north carolina where winds are picking up. >> reporter: the winds are

picking up and the size of florence is both carolinas put together. it will hit atlantic beach, look at the waves already picking up. we have been standing out here and seen a little of the surf. we expect the same size, 9 to 13 feet, not even high tide out here and that 9 to 13 foot surge, look down the beach at the peter on atlantic beach, certainly under serious threat of being torn down in conditions like this and you see how close the waters to the homes. look up the beach, these will take a significant amount of water and is you come out you see emergency personnel, the fire department looking for anyone who needs last-minute help. if you go towards the water tower and get to the bay where i took you before, despite that we had residents that decided to

ride it out. conditions are something to see. >> on the second floor, i feel safer there than i would have. this parking lot is going to flood. it will be underwater. >> reporter: that logic is based on two years ago matthew trapped a lot of people from the flooding to get back to their homes. the water already coming up on us as we get a live look at atlantic beach. rob: sometimes we see on days like this a knucklehead out there trying to serve. please tell me no one is at the beach. >> reporter: we saw one family half an hour earlier but the water comes up so quickly that it is a threatening situation. we have seen no surfers but the

fire department we had out here going to buy, certainly looking for anybody, if he sees any knuckleheads he will say get out and get out now. >> people are preparing their homes with plywood and sandbags, can local government or others do? can a stave off this water? >> reporter: it is inevitable. when you combine the threat of a problem on the beach this water will go back out. it will be gone in 24 hours. the need to pre-position does national guard troops from north carolina and other states, in the four or five rivers that lead down into this area, this is going to be the problem.

they have resources here but water inland will get trapped and i will be talking to you for the next few days when the flooding starts. it is not a question of if. if you're in this area, the life-threatening catastrophic flooding is coming, no doubt, particularly when you look at that image from space. >> it wasn't there when we started the shot. >> reporter: the kind of surge that happens very quickly. any surge comes up one or two feet you become immobile, is what we saw in harvey and houston, and if you see a flood, turnaround, don't drown. >> reporter: officials in south carolina making their final push to get everybody out ahead of the hurricane. ainsley: the man who is refusing to evacuate, why isn't he leaving? >> reporter: this is richard cook. thanks for letting us be here on

your balcony but the big question is why are you not leaving? >> i have been through storms. i lived here and in land and it will be worse there. is my life, what i want to do. everything is good. the city is doing all they can. i respect what they are going to do. this is my home. >> reporter: what do you plan on doing during the storm? >> that on the back porch. watching it. >> reporter: you have a little bit of a party atmosphere here. a bunch -- nobody knows you is richard cook, much of squirrel's friends are here. you have a party at mister, you going to try to continue that through? >> it 12:00 today we will be having a party.

>> reporter: most of america is asking are you scared? >> not really. what's to be scared of? if it is my time to go i will go. >> reporter: squirrel, thank you very much. talking to squirrel and his other houseguests. the concern is not wind but the massive amounts of rain. they realize it will come and they will do the best they can. >> that is not advised. if you are around and authorities say evacuate, evacuate. 7 minutes after the top of the hour. this wind, 110 mph, it is a category 2 as we have been talking to, the storm surge, the rain will fall. ainsley: ten years ago, hurricane ike made landfall across texas. it was a category 2, it did $30

billion worth of damage. houston, texas, will tell you category 2 is nothing to mess with. it is not the wind that will cause the catastrophic damage. it is the floods and the storm surge. we got the advisor, category 2 storm coming 110 mile-per-hour sustained windss which i cannot emphasize enough even when this was a category 4 yesterday, i'm emphasizing the same message today, 20 to 40 inches of rain, 13 feet of storm surge and that will cause damage to these areas and a tornado watch. and the potential for tornadoes, the problem is the storm isn't going to move in land and portion northward and we can. it is going to remain stationary or near stationary for several days and that is why we have the risk for catastrophic life-threatening floods and storm surge as the storm makes landfall.

this computer model shows landfall on the coast of north carolina friday morning and lingers friday into saturday and even sunday so that is what happened with hurricane harvey when it went into southeast texas, it wasn't the wind, it was the incredible amount of rain over appear go of days and that is why we are concerned. i would be honest if it was just going to make landfall and push northward. it will stall out and bring incredible amounts of water. >> there was suggestion it could go south and impact georgia, then go north, now it will just go straight in, stall and maybe turn to the north. >> eventually. the problem is it is going to stall. it will make landfall friday and it is going to stall and bring incredible amounts of rain. ainsley: thanks for emphasizing numbers. simpletons look at me and say 2 doesn't matter. 4 -- >> not a simpleton way of thinking.

it is partly our fault as meteorologists. we look at that scale, 1 to 5 but you can't, the legacy of the storm is not just the number but how much rain impact we are having. when you moved to houston it weakens considerably, 50 mile-per-hour windss but because it stall, brought all that rainfall. they don't remember the category. >> jillian has headlines for us. >> reporter: adobe shooting spree overnight as a man kills 5 people including his wife, the shooting started in a bakersfield, california, trucking business, going into a nearby home. >> these are not random shootings, there will be a connection between all of these players. after the shootings the

government stole a car with a woman and child inside. fortunately they were able to escape. when deputies confronted the shooter he shot and killed himself. it is unclear what sparked the rage. the five new mexico compound suspects remain behind bars, the muslim extremists, were a danger to the community. and from georgia to new mexico in 2017, and in the sight words out of it was found. they pleaded not guilty. the longtime executive producer of 60 minutes fired over a text message, he says he lost his job at cbs after demanding a reporter be fair in covering a story about sexual misconduct, that reporter coming forward. >> i'm that reporter. since he referred to our exchange today i want to be transparent about it.

he said if you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up you will be held responsible for harming me. >> les moonves reside on sunday over sexual allegation. donald trump tweeting the problem with jamie dimon running for president is he doesn't have the aptitude or smarts and is a poor public speaker and nervous test. otherwise he is wonderful. i made a lot of bankers and others look much smarter than they are with my great economic policies. he claimed he is as tough and smart of an donald trump. a little back and forth chatter. ainsley: not smart, nervous. you can't make it up. it is like i like you but --

steve: bombshell text messages between former fbi lovebirds lisa page and peter stzrok showing the leaks were just getting started and donald trump is just responded, stay tuned.

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steve: new text messages between lisa page and peter stzrok giving the shocking insight to the extent of media leaks ahead of the russia probe. in one exchange, stzrok writes think our sisters have begun leaking like mad. scorned and worried and political, they are kicking into overdrive. sarah carter joins us to weigh in. give us your translation. you only have one snapshot of a conversation. what are they implying? >> people working with them, another agency, more than likely the cia i am suspecting but we don't know that for certain, leaking information. referring to the doj or people involved in the investigation.

this is so out of control. if you go to 2017 i published a story with more text messages where peter stzrok is talking about conversations with the new york times, the washington post where they are talking about how the new york times upset with them because washington times got the scoop. the scoop at that time was the fisa warrant on carter page, that the classified investigation. to obtain a warrant to spy on an american citizen, yet people went to the washington post, validated that there was a warrant to spy on an american citizen and get the conversation against donald trump. that was the time everything shifted, when the trajectory of the stories shifted toward the narrative of unsubstantiated russia collusion.

steve: we saw additional text messages from april, i literally have just gone to find his phone to tell you about the media leak strategy and on april 22nd, article is out, well done. he tried to defend himself saying it was a strategy to prevent leaks but this is the same guy who said we are going to get him. how in any way to defend themselves from clearly trying to push information. >> they can't justify it to. with all the new text messages particularly the ones where stzrok is talking about conversations with the new york times, washington post, and congress will call them back, bring them in for questioning and the doj has to do its job and investigate this. if someone does not do this job according to a lot of senators,

congressional lawmakers, have to call for another special counsel, and find someone at the doj that can't. steve: are there more texts to come? >> yes. >> we will bring you and when we have them. more than an issue, scandal. democrats keep ramping up the impeachment talk as well. >> maxine, please don't say impeachment. when they say that i say impeachment, impeachment. steve: isn't that what voters want? not accorded to a new poll. we will discuss. flying right into florence's fury, hurricane hunters giving us a first-hand look at the powerful storm. we will talk to one

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>> maxine waters only has one thing on her mind. >> please don't say impeachment anymore. impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. steve: but is she out of touch? a new paul shows most voters don't want congress to intent to impeach donald trump. nationally syndicated radio host dana loesch joins us. maxine waters has been calling for donald trump's impeachment and before he was inaugurated. >> you are right. she has been. it has never been popularly supported. i would love to see from democrats like maxine waters instead of complaining about

trump incessantly, here's a crazy idea, maybe propose some policies and give voters some alternatives instead of constantly complaining about trump and issues they don't popularly support. it is very divided among party lines, hard-core democrats, the ones coming out that support maxine waters type of talk. going into the midterms or 2020 they are looking at moderate democrats, those individuals who previously were happy to vote for clinton but were disillusioned, they were won over by trump and republicans talking about jobs and trade and the economy, that they have to convince, polls show this talk is not going to do it. >> before the general, the

primary, 70% of democrats would like to see an attempt to impeach the president. won't that drive democratic decision-making more than the general public? >> it will probably be a get out the vote effort because this is what democrats do every election. they can't say we love tax reform. nancy pelosi was talking about calling it crumbs, they don't like manufacturing, the policy proposal that came out of the administration, things that won wild approval, talking about the economy, this kind of talk is a get out the vote effort for democrats, they don't have voter enthusiasm over anything substantive so they have to use identity politics or talk about impeachment, that is how they are trying to get out the vote. this has an effect they don't want, gives republicans motivation to go to the polls. >> one question the never gets asked, on what grounds would

donald trump be impeached? >> we were told this stuff is coming for two years. if it had been there, i am not a partisan zealot to by all means, anyone really with me during a primary season knows that i wasn't. show me some evidence. i haven't seen anything, show me some evidence. if you don't have anything, sit down and put decent alternatives they will consider in the midterms. >> they google it. turns out shortly after the election in 2016 when their candidate, hillary clinton, lost, they were televising something at google, the

reaction, the panic and sadness, they had cameras and it was very telling. watch this. >> i find the selection deeply offensive. many of you do too. >> the kick in the guts the we were going to lose. it was painful. >> anything bother you from these election results? >> that is the tough one right now. >> the reaction inside google, the google meltdown, we trust them to be fair and balanced, down the middle, not taking sides. they wanted her, not him, doing something to impact today? >> that is the founder of google, that raises a good question.

we know google is biased. how many employees does google have? how tight the ship do they run that there is that amount of groupthink going on at google where people are crying openly at these meetings talking about how they lost an election. i've never seen that before. if they don't want government involvement, that is another discussion whether we are talking antitrust laws, monopoly, trying to break stuff up under the sherman act, these companies, making biased choices and those choices would invite that kind of intrusion. these complete are making these choices. be consistent. >> that is a pretty fair assessment. >> we are a long way from playing fair. >> how far are we? a really long way. thanks a lot. moving on.

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>> we are back with fox news alert and warning, hurricane florence an hour from reach researching the east coast. rob: the category 2 storm barreling towards the carolinas. the worry is it could pump 40 inches of rain to the ground. >> the military working to move it aircraft off bases in virginia and the carolinas. >> bill hammer will be hosting his program live from north carolina, and as i look at janice's map, you are right where the eye is headed. >> reporter: you have been watching this for several days. i noted at 8:00 the storm was moving forward 15 miles an hour which is what they predicted 24 hours ago. as it got close to the shore, the worst-case scenario you can paint for this because you want the storms to hit and move on,

not hit and stay along the coast but that is what we are going to get. i came in late leslie, drove down from raleigh, north carolina heading toward the ocean, there was no one for a 60 mile stretch. many people left. we saw a few in the cape, they elected to stay. we will see how that goes for the next 48 hours. you can go 80 miles of the coast, 100 miles up the coast, 82100 miles down the coast to georgetown south carolina, south myrtle beach, looking at a 200 mile stretch of beachfront property and properly inland that will be affected, in massive ways over the coming 3 days. we will get a briefing from fema

momentarily, the national hurricane center, what are they telling people, about 5 shelters four of which have a little bit of room. he the encouragement from local leaders is to get out and take cover and do not take a chance on this so we will be in touch with them, county commissioners have experience but there have been hurricanes that have come through for the past 20 years and some of them have just delivered glancing blows and my sense after coming down here the past 40 years with the hammer family to sunset beach along the north and south carolina border, it is a half-mile wide and 3 miles long, you think about folks in the northeast and midwest who have second homes and the memories they built up over the years and decades, there is enormous anxiety up and along that strip i just described. we are hoping for the best, praying for the best but think about the storm surge and the

flooding and wind and rain that is a bad bad combination. >> fema officials on the ground, what is your sense as far as how prepared local, state and federal officials are for the response? >> great question, we will know once the storm passes. i was speaking to richard burr yesterday and he says in steve: it has been headed toward the carolinas for four or five days, appreciate it. we will be watching for your program in 22 minutes. janice dean is tracking, they have been able to prepare because we have seen it coming.

>> i want to mention this has been a category 4 for several days so some of the energy from a major hurricane is still with this storm and that is why the national hurricane center has not changed their storm forecast, there surge forecast or rainfall totals. it stays the same from yesterday when it was a category 4. now it is a 2. i don't want people to let their guard down because the core of the wind speed is come down. the legacy of the storm will be the same it was yesterday and that is 20 to 40 inches of rainfall plus, somebody is going to get it across the coastal carolinas in the storm surge, the northeast side of the storm is going to bring 13 foot storm surge and that will put folks underwater and that is why we had the evacuation. tornado watch as well, the right front quadrant where it comes ashore is where you get the worst of the rain and wind and storm surge and i want to mention the reason this is so

important is the storm is going to stall. is going to remain somewhat in place, somewhat intact for several days and that is why we have 30 to 40 inches of rain and the storm surge with onshore of 13 feet plus. it is not changed from yesterday. yesterday was the cat 4 and people are fixated on the 2 and the 4, that is not changed, the core of the winds of changed but the legacy, the flooding and storm surge have not changed and that is why this is so dangerous. ten years ago this morning ike made landfall in texas as a category 2, $30 billion worth of damage ten years ago. with inflation much more than that today. steve: 20 minutes before the top of the hour. we have jillian over here. jillian: following a number of stories.

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strong category 2 storm, 110 mile-per-hour winds, life-threatening storm surge and flooding expected to devastate the carolinas. >> griff jenkins and is in atlantic beach, what are you seeing? >> reporter: let me show you. the storm surge is just coming up and this is and even part of the 9 to 30 feet. look at the atlantic beach. it is certainly owing to take some physical damage. if it should survive. the way for you already an easy 8 to 10 feet just pummeling the back end of this. it is coming all along the coast. you can see what we have coming. we will get updates from the north carolina governor in coming hours along with fema. if you're taking a quick look down the coast to see how close these houses are to this surf, have another look at the end of the p are. this is a situation that has

become very dangerous and we are 24 hours out before high tide tomorrow hits when this storm rolls in. conditions clearly deteriorating. steve: florence is expected to bring epic flooding. you don't know about your insurance can hurt when it is time to clean up and assess damage. mike: joining us is the host of the property man, bob massey. thanks for being here at an important time. to be clear, what does homeowners insurance cover? >> the unfortunate thing is the most of us don't sit down and read it. in this particular case it will cover wind damage. the roof gets ripped off the house, windows get blown out, homeowners insurance will cover. what janice was talking about, torrential rains the cause flooding, it will not cover that. many times it comes down to the language of the contract, how things work, there will be

adjusters on the ground immediately if not already close by after this passes. steve: your hurricane coverage with homeowners insurance will cover the roof getting whipped off and wind damage but if there is flooding or storm surge you need flood insurance. what about your car? >> car is covered by comprehensive. any of us who have auto insurance, liability, collision, comprehensive insurance for your car will cover that type of damage. all of these insurances play together but definitely for the car, the comprehensive coverage will take care of that damage. in many cases let me tell you sometimes cars are not even found it gets so bad. it is one of these things that even when we have the different

hurricanes over the years it takes months to figure out the types of coverages that will put these people's lives back together. >> talk about flood insurance. >> you get that through fema. flood insurance is on the national level. a lot of lenders if you live in an area that is subject to hurricanes, tornadoes, things like that you must have flood insurance, they require that is a prerequisite because they recognize this is a catastrophic thing that can happen and the message to all of us, when was the last time we looked at the policy, when was the last time we took pictures of our house, all the things in your home. take the time to do it. steve: appreciate it. coming up the second lady of the united states letting military families know america has their back.

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>> the wife of the vice president, karen pence, will meet with military families in fort carson, colorado springs. >> the sacrifice children and spouses of our families make every day. >> mike pence's white and second radio of the united states, we appreciate it. share with our audience why you are so passionate about this. >> our thoughts and prayers are with all of those in the path of

hurricane florence this morning. the reason i am heading to fort carson today is to elevate, encourage and educate our military spouses. we are taking comfort kits to children whose parents are deployed. it will be a great day at fort carson. steve: what is a comfort kit? >> it is from comfort crew, an organization sponsored by rhonda englander who lost her father in the vietnam war. last week we had several congressional spouses come to the vice president's residence and we assembled 500 kits we are taking with us to fort carson but inside each kit you have a teddy bear, a journal, died for the family that talks about how to stay connected with your service member while they are

deployed, video that talks about how these children are not alone, we are with you all the way. ainsley: what you plan on saying to these military families? >> with her spouse's face unique challenges so we are kicking off a campaign to raise awareness. we went to elevate military spouses in america because they sacrifice a lot. frequently they are alone, they move, it is very difficult and today, and educate them, a lot of programs will come alongside our military spouses. donald trump signed an executive order last may that encourages agencies in the federal government to hire military spouses because their jobs, if they could be mobile that is one

way they could stay employed while their service members deployed. mike: family to serve alongside them quietly, often alone, they have many skill sets to bring to bear. this focus is needed. >> exactly right. we feel certain issues come to the surface. we have gone all over the united states and some places around the world and we started with a listening session. we didn't want to jump in and say we know how to solve this problem but to ask our spouses what are your issues, what can we do. they always told us how excited they are and honored to serve as a military spouse, they have wonderful experiences they shared but still hasn't struggled, licensing and childcare. we are coming alongside. steve: a busy day, thanks for starting it on fox. >> thanks, guys. steve: back in two minutes. travl on choicehotels.com like this.

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>> hurricane florence heading to the carolina coast. "fox & friends" will go on live tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. we'll see you then. >> bill: thank you, steve. we'll see you then as well. fox news alert. the storm of a lifetime as described by many inching closer and closer to the american eastern seaboard. category 2 hurricane threatening to be catastrophic levels of storm surge, historic flooding, wind and rain. good morning, everybody. split broadcast today. i'm bill hemmer live in wilmington, north carolina, we await here. >> sandra: the anticipation is building. good morning, i'm sandra smith live inside "america's newsroom." over a million people under orders to evacuate as the storm starts to come ashore later today including in the area where you are standing right now, bill. >> bill: we