pound the carolinas. 600,000 without power. >> a number of businesses destroyed. homes crushed. unbelievable amount of flooding. >> saw the roof taken off. >> the roads treacherous. >> no way to get in and out of the island. >> storms turned deadly officials in north carolina blaming forns for at least four deaths. among them mother and infant child. >> most of the people did get out. some have stayed. >> it would be like getting in a barrel and going over niagara falls thinking you are going to live. what kind of stupid thing i have done. >> mayo marital us they are receiving hundreds of 911 calls. >> help is coming from around the country.

19 states second being swift boat teams. >> what's the mission? we have got to get it accomplished. we are pulling side by side able to save people's lives. >> we begin this "fox & friends" with a fox news alert. catastrophic flooding. slamming the carolinas, turning towns into raging rivers. almost 1 million people in the dark. power is out. massive power outages across the coast. tropical storm florence now deadly, unfortunately. claiming at least five lives, including a mother and her infant child. katie: fire firefighters praying after finding crushed by a tree. ed: dozedozens under estimated the monster storm. >> the rains were so hard. waters were so hard that trying to get out we got thrown into trailers. we got thrown into mailboxes, houses. ed: there are people still there waiting to be rescued. pete: live team coverage across the coast.

griff jenkins and todd piro in the disaster zone. katie: we begin with griff in morehead city just south of the outer banks. griff? >> good morning, guys. we are in morehead city. let me give you winds damage. we talked about the rain coming. we are getting a reprieve right now. it's welcome. this gas station ripped from foundation and it looks much like this highway 70 we have driven up and down it morehead city. houses are destroyed. businesses have roofs ripped off and have you power lines down everywhere and even trees uprooted about about 40 miles northwest of here in new bern i have been talking to officials all night. they are telling me they are currently actively trying to rescue about 100 people right now. the number they say they rescued yesterday was 375. one of the major problems they have right now is where to put the people that they're rescuing after that noose river crested at record flooding levels and is going to continue to do so when more rain comes. they are putting people at

the marine corps air station cherry point nearby as a solution right now. but, the highway 70 that i'm on right now is flooded in several areas. just north of new bern the major stiff cut off from a major resource center. we got those videos yesterday, guys. this one woman sadie holt the video of her being rescue you had tells the story what it is like to be in this situation. take a listen. >> stay id because we didn't an tuition pate it to be as bad as it was. we started getting flooding in the house last night, probably about 10, i think it was. and it started coming in. and the water was just coming up higher and higher. it was getting so bad that we physically took a boat we had in the yard. >> and here in morehead city, the side streets are flooded as well. a little bit of good news, guys, atlantic beach, the barrier island here just parallel to us in morehead

city the mayor texted me a few moments ago saying griff, i want to give you a little bit of good news while we have catastrophic flooding could a ton of damage. we had zero casualties and very few people were even injured. it's going to be a nasty clean up and really with the emergency crews and power companies, right now they just hope mother nature will cooperate some. but, as you are going to find out we have a lot of rain in the forecast. by the way we are all morning long from more head going to try and move towards new bern to get you some more of these images. we will be back with a lot more of this. stay with us. >> thank you, griff. we appreciate it. pete: new bern, you can't totally blame these residents for being a little bit surprised. they are on a river. they are not on a coast. the swell came quickly and fast. and so they probably thought i'm not on the coast. and there were still evacuation warnings but it came quick and that river can't hold it all. katie: as the son comes up this morning, we will be able to see what the damage is to the buildings

overnight as the storm continues to move extremely slowly while it continues to dump all that rain into these rivers and tributaries outside of the coast line. pete: good way to put it comes extremely slowly but it comes big. ed: some residents of new bern seeing online saying that the water did come in quickly to their homes and at one point within moments, they had water up to their waist. and then next thing you know the water is much further up their body and going to their head they had to go to the attic. katie: when people's homes getting flooded they are calling 911 and looking for rescues, 375 people were rescued. 100 rescues underway overnight. that's what the mayors of these towns are worried about all these 911 calls coming in while the storm was still pounding and dumping buckets and buckets of that rain. pete: shows you they were prepared when no casualties. seems fairly orderly they got these people out. ed: city of new bern on the way online on twitter they

said they have 30,000 residents and 21,000 don't have power. so, obviously, a whole bunch of those folks are not there right now. they did evacuate. almost the entire city doesn't have power. pete: almost a million folks without power this morning. going to south carolina feeling the wrath of the slow moving storm dumping heavy rainfall and bringing big winds. katie: todd piro is live in myrtle beach where more than 130,000 people are without power this morning. todd? todd: good morning, guys, pete, you just said it power is the name of the game here. the winds really have died down. the rain sometimes it's coming down in buckets. other times it's a light drizzle like it is now. this is the issue. >> downed power lines. take a look at that we have seen this scene throughout north myrtle beach. obviously agj is going to stay away. is he photographerring right now. is he going to stay away from the power line. wanted to show you it is down. like you said between 130 --

we are seeing reports up to 170,000 customers without power here. north myrtle beach where we are really out of all of south carolina, i should say, has gotten hit the hardest. when they are expecting though hasn't yet happened. they are expecting massive amounts of flooding. we have driven around and been in touch with the town. we asked hey where is the major flooding and quite frankly so far we haven't seen it that's the good news. the bad news, if you look at any forecast, the rain that we're expecting is between 8 and 12 inches between now and tuesday. that's not counting what the ground has received so far. ground already saturated even though you may not be seeing flooding, you are seeing ponding. and, therefore, there is a flash flood warning up into effect until tuesday. now, think about that. many people, rightly or wrongly are thinking the storm is done. not. so this thing is moving between 3 and 5 miles per

hour. one. two, it's saturday. tuesday is four days away. you can think about how a saturated ground is going to have to handle all that rain that's coming with this slow-moving storm. grankted not a hurricane anymore only a tropical storm. keep that in mind with the rain still coming and with the wind still around, although not as bad but still around, when are these crews going to be getting out and fix the power. the concern is we will be without power for a while now. katie: that's always the big question. thank you. todd piro. ed: go to rick now monitoring obviously the weather. he has been working around the clock. rick, what are we seeing throughout this hour? >> still a long way to go with this. primarily the rain. wind has come down. a lot of storm surge that came in it just can't get out because the winds haven't shifted. take a look right behind me here and see wind barbs. on shore flow.

officially arrived when the storm arrived. that water is in and can't get out. that's where we will be watching west of myrtle beach. offshore flow the water was pushing away from the town, excuse me. [coughing] for the better part of all of yesterday and last night. you will see when the tide comes up. that water pushing overall you see that deep oranges color. moisture going to fall on areas already seen over 20 inches. we have some spots almost at 24 inches at last recording. just over 24 inches is the most they have ever seen from any tropical storm. so, this will force certain break the record probably some spots another 10 to 15 inches of rain. take a look at the radar picture here. and the flooding threat anywhere you see those red boxes that's flash flooding that's going on right now. if you have rain that falls

in one spot but you are not by a river. it wants to go somewhere. all of that is going to funnel into rivers. well right now we don't have many rivers that are in flood stage this is four days from now. take a look at that we have got about 20 gauges that are going to be at their major flooding stage and many of those at record flooding. some saw record flooding they had ever seen with hurricane matthew just a couple years ago. this will be higher than that you know the damage it brought with hurricane matthew. you can expect to see situations worse than that by the time we get towards tuesday. katie: turning now to headlines. we begin with a fox news alert. mother of a child murdered by ms-13 gang members has been killed in a car accident -- by a car at her daughter's memorial. evelyn rodriguez was fatally struck after a confrontation with a neighbor two years to the day that her daughter was brutally stabbed to death. she was preparing for a vigil honoring her daughter 16-year-old kayla, advocating against the

violence. she joined us on "fox & friends" several times with a clear message. >> we shouldn't be tolerating this type of behavior at all whatsoever. i mean, you know, these are kids. kids killing kids, that shouldn't be tolerated at all. >> president trump invited rodriguez to his state of the union address. president trump tweeting my thoughts and prayers are with evelyn rodriguez this evening along with her family and friends. ed: so heart-breaking. >> texas police officer passes away overnight after getting shot in the line of duty. officer garrett hull was killed during a shootout. deshon step it's to shot after robbing a bar. cops on scene fired back and killed step it's to. 17 year department veteran and leaves behind two daughters: paul manafort struck a deal. pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller.

the plea bargain relating to charges work consulting foreign government. allows manafort to skirt a second trial. the white house says the deal is totally unrelated to the president. and the flurry of deadly gas explosions prompt a state of emergency in malice mass. one person was killed and at least 25 others were injured following a series of blasts. more than 60 homes north of boston. the governor removing the company behind the explosions from local operations and putting another in charge of the response. overpressurization of gas lines may to be blame. those are your headlines. ed: think about something you don't think about. ed: we will be staying on top of the tropical storm. a lot of other news we will be getting to throughout the morning. secretary of state mike pompeo has a blunt message for john kerry about his meetings with iran. >> this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state spawrnl of terror. it is beyond inappropriate.

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pete: we are back. tropical storm florence still wreaking havoc on the carolinas as cities face widespread flooding and heavy wind damage. ed: trace cooper is the mayor of atlantic beach, north carolina. he joining us with the damage to his city. mr. mayor, thanks for joining us under these difficult circumstances. obviously our hearts are with everyone in your city. do people still need to be rescued?

what kind of damage are you seeing on the ground. >> from the human safety standpoint we came out of this storm on a really good place. i think the overwhelming majority of our visitors and citizens evacuated. so, throughout the two days of this storm, we had very few calls to our first responders. so, you know from, a safety point standpoint, i think everybody made it out okay and that's the most important thing. ed: what about the damage? you have historic pier there. there was a lot of fear about that. talk about the damage around the city as well. >> yeah. that pier is actually something that my grandfather opened back in 1959. still in our family. this isn't the first time it's been knocked down by a storm and i'm hopeful we will be able to rebuild that but, throughout town, the damage is for the most part superficial. roofs and shingles blown off. siding blown off. but not too many buildings completely destroyed. although we do have some,

unfortunately. pete: mr. mayor, talk to us about the power situation. are the lights on? when will they be on? what's happening there? >> no. we have been without power since thursday at about 4:00 in the afternoon. you know, this storm hit a lot of the coast of north carolina, south carolina, that are served by some of the same utilities. they have got their hands full right now. we are not sure when it will come back on. that's a real limiting factor for letting our citizens back into town. katie: mayor cooper what is the long-term plan and strategy to deal with the aftermath of this storm considering everybody is saying it's sitting and taking a long time to move through the area. what is the plan to make sure that residents can eventually get back into their homes and assess the damage? >> well, once we got through the worst of the storm yesterday our town department had gotten together and started planning for the recovery. as soon as the weather breaks we could hit the streets and start pulling the trees and things out of

the street and starting to repair power lines so residents can get back in their house. so far today it's kind of windy. we haven't seen much rain. i am hoping the rain will hold off for a day or so and we can start making the streets safe. ed: thanks for that update and obviously the sun will be coming up later this hour. we saw he mentioned that pier has come down you have been seeing videoing of it teetering. now that the sun is coming up we will see how had did fall down. mr. mayor, thanks. we will get back to you throughout the morning. >> thanks a lot. katie: the "new york times" claims u.n. ambassador nikki haley has $58,000 curtains. pete: could you even pay 58,000 for curtains? katie: it's the government. don't underestimate. pete: thank you, katie. navy rushing to the rescue going door to door rescuing people from south carolina.

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it is now a tropical storm. but, by tonight, experts are saying or forecasters are saying florence could be a tropical depression. winds about 15 miles per hour. it is moving very slowly only about 5 miles per hour. the damage definitely being seen here in wilmington and also along the coast of north and south carolina. as you were mentioning, those five deaths, four of them caused directly by this storm. very sad, a woman and her infant were killed when a tree fell on their home. the husband transported to the hospital with injuries. we don't have an update on him just yet. there was also report of a woman who had a medical emergency and she was unable to get first responders to her because of blocked roadways. this storm taking a very deadly toll. listen to what the north carolina governor roy cooper describes it as. >> hurricane florence is powerful, slow, and relentless. it's an uninvited bruit who doesn't want to leave.

>> and the flooding is expected to continue. this area that i'm in right now, you can kind of see some of this debris that's out here. this area flooded all yesterday. we are expecting, once that tide comes back, in we are expecting it to flood once again. because florence is moving so slowly, it is just dumping a torrential amount of rain on these areas, flooding the rivers and streams. maybe even up to 18 trillion gallons of water over every state that is within its path. ed, pete, katie? pete: you just 18 trillion gallons? unbelievable. >> that's what experts are estimating for all those states within the path. pete: i can't even fathom 18 18 trillion. ed: thank you. lauren. katie: group came to the rescue of elderly man in.

sent boats to north carolina to assist. these are the brave americans running to the areas where people had to evacuate. ed: joining us is jordan who is with the cajun navy. good morning, jordan. you are joining us by phone. tell us about. so efforts that you are in the middle of at this hour as many on the east coast wake up? >> right now, we are in wilmington. they are trying to get ready to assess things this morning. since we found a little-church take shelter at for the night and ride it out since they put the curfew in effect on us. ed: jordan, yesterday we toke spow on the program you were in hotel room. said you were headed to new bern. that's the images we are watching right now your efforts and the efforts of the folks in the cajun navy to rescue people. talk to us about yesterday and what do you anticipate today? >> yesterday we got up and went over to new bern right after i left you guys.

they were requesting help for rescues. once we got there they said that the local agencies and fire departments and so on were going to wrap up everything that was going on. they were able to handle it. that they were just going to take control of it and they weren't needing any other outside help. so we tried to move on over to wilmington where we knew there was going to be some more need. we came over here, kind of got set up and just trying to learn the area and see where we might be needed. katie: jordan, has it been easy to work with local officials? we have seen reports that you were asked to leave the area because they said they had everything under control. but then we see hundreds of 911 calls for rescues coming. in can you talk about the discrepancy there or confirm or deny those reports. >> we weren't asked to leave when we got there it just seemed there wasn't much to

do. we thought it would be better for us to take our resources elsewhere as they had it under control then that's great. even better. they said we have it we said all right we will head out. pete: you are in wilmington this morning. keep us posted as the lights come on there proverbialably what you are doing and if you are involved in things, let us know. the president clearly taking notice. he tweeted we love the cajun navy thank you very much. our thanks as well to you, jordan. we appreciate your efforts. >> thank you very much. i will keep you guys posted on what happens once the daylight comes. ed: we will be all over that. get daylight this hour. a manhunt intensifying this morning for a convicted murderer who escaped from prison. get, this it's not the first time he got out. pete: john kerr i don't know 00 defensive rightfully so about meeting with iran. this morning is he comparing the president to a teenage

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surges. people racing to the second floor, in some cases their attics of their homes as waters quickly rise. katie: nearly 1 million people now without power as outages spread throughout the coast. pete: monster storm putting parts of north carolina under water. ed: jonathan serrie in wrightsville beach where high tides were already breaking records. good morning, jonathan. >> good morning to you. the national oceanic and atmospheric association has records and keep gadgets. gauge here on writesville beach before the storm before the 4.11 feet above what would typically breaks the record hurricane joaquin in 2015. the lights are still out. i'm illuminated by battery powered lights we brought on the island.

if you look in either direction from me it's still very dark. that will change as the sun comes up allowing officials to continue assessing the damage. but, for now, they are keeping residents and visitors off the island, not allowing them to return just yet until they determine that it's safe to do. so back to you guys. ed: we appreciate it now go to meteorologist rick reichmuth who is tracking florence as it slowly crawls its ways across the carolinas. what are we seeing as people wake up across the coast this morning. rick: one thing you said once the sun comes up and people get out there. that's not going to be the case. the sun came up in the middle of the storm. couldn't get out there at all. today the rain continues and so it's going to be hard to get throughout and assess the damage. more rain to be had. rain coming in throughout the remainder of the day. one forecast model. the bulk of it little bit farther south than we saw it yesterday. radar picture and all of those areas that are surrounded there in red that's where flash flooding

is going on. currently, you have flash flooding. eventually you end up with river flooding as that water flows into the bigger streams. and we still have that on shore flow. meaning the wind continuing to push towards the ocean or towards the shore and that doesn't allow that storm surge to back off. and it's not going to allow it to do that for quite a while. in fact, probably a couple of days still yet. a lot of spots well over 20 inches of rain. 24 is the record they have ever seen from any storm and here is what is going to happen it will, by tomorrow, move a little bit more and then monday it moves out. with that trajectory it still continues to pull some moisture up. we will see bands of heavy rain tuesday carolinas. pete: tomorrow morning this storm will still be sitting on south carolina? >> yes, that's correct. ed: what about what todd piro was reporting earlier people were saying there is forecast that it could still be raining heavily not just a little but raining heavily, not a tropical storm but raining heavily as far as tuesday or beyond.

rick: that's what i was just saying. there will still be rain on tuesday across parts of the carolinas from this. just because of the way the rotation of the storm goes, you see this band right here? there is that band going towards wilmington, very heavy band there. that's very far away from the center. if you notice, it's moving in the same direction. if you are underneath that band, you will continue to get the rain. maybe you sit under that band for six hours. and you get 8 to 10 inches of rain. that's why we're nowhere near done with this flooding. pete: rick, thanks a lot. katie: turning now to your headlines, we begin with a fox news alert. intense manhunt is underway katie: for a convicted killer. officials searching for arnold nash who escaped from a prison in maine. weighs last seen wearing blue jeans and light blue shirt and should be considered dangerous. nash serving 45 year sentence for murder and robbery and scheduled to be released next year. this is the third time escaping a facility. and 65 women stepping

forward to defend president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. a letter sent to the senate states in part through the more than 35 years we have known him, bret has stood out for his friendship, character and integrity. this, after democratic senator dianne feinstein reported an allegation against kavanaugh to the fbi. an unidentified woman accusing kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a high school party. kavanaugh denies it. the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote on his candidacy on thursday. and the "new york times" walking back a false story about nikki haley. the paper accusing the u.n. ambassador haley of lavish spexding actually authorized by the obama administration. the "times" originally reported that haley spent over $50,000 in taxpayer funds on curtains for her new york city apartment. plans to purchase the curtains were actually made during the previous administration and had nothing to do with ambassador haley. ed: quoted an obama white house official anonymously saying this was outrageous.

pete: minor details about those things. katie: then there is this twitter ceo admitting employees don't feel safe expressing their views at the company. >> they do feel silenced by just the general swirl of what they perceive to be the broader percentage of leanings within the company and i don't -- i don't think that's fair or right. we should make sure that everyone feels safe to express themselves within the company. katie: safe space. jack dorsey recently defending 2weu9edefending twittl hill that bias againsted republicans. pete: how many ways can you say it? the general swirl of the company's view happens to not be any conservative. ed: is there a general swirl where they have meetings like google before the elections? pete beat we had an election in 2016 which means a new president came in with a new secretary of state. charged with advancing our

foreign policy, right? ed: mike pompeo. pete: apparently john kerry did not get the memo because he is still meeting with leaders of iran. ed: met with the iranian foreign minister three or four times. indicate caft trying to undermine trump's foreign policy especially when it comes to the iran nuclear agreement. pete: the current, the real secretary of state mike pompeo took issue with it. and this is what he said yesterday about john kerry. >> what secretary kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented. this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror. he was telling them to wait out this administration. you can't find precedent for this in u.s. history. it's inconsistent with what foreign policy of the united states is as directed by this president. and it is beyond inappropriate. ed: there is no chance a secretary of state wants to go to his own podium and have to address a previous

secretary of state's conduct. he didn't want to do that. he felt like he had to. ed: on the briefing that deepebriefing dainbriefing dana. he pressed him on this. there are secretaries who stay on the world stage. if they have meetings they usually would be sort of helping you as foreign policy not undermining. yes you can still have meetings but are you undermining the current administration. katie: while is he undermining, john kerry is attacking president trump and comparing him to a teenage girl. >> the first president that i know of who spends more time reading his twitter likes. [laughter] >> than his briefing books or the constitution of the united states. [ applause ] he really is rare the combination of a 8-year-old boy. [laughter] he has the maturity of an

8-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl. ed: i have 8-year-old boy. i would not make him president. i mean, the reality is this is so tired and absurd. it's the typical name-calling that the left has resorted. to say. katie: it's dangerous. the iran nuclear agreement, iran as secretary pompeo said yesterday is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. they are anti-american. they are funding hezbollah, hamas against american interests. this is a real problem. and, yet, john kerry is going on late night comedy. ed: try that kind of rhetoric against president trump. ed: john kerry reporting for duty once again and america doesn't wants you once again. ed: okay what was your policy on syria? what did you too in north korea as secretary of state. pete: the world was so great while you were in charge. katie: frafraternizing with the

enemy. i'm sure we will see more. ed: hundreds of national guard social deployed as conditions worsen in the state. one of their commanders will tell us how they are responding next hour. pete: plus, military veterans with team rubicon on the ground in the carolinas as the storm pummels the region. we will catch up with them and what they are doing coming up next. ♪

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here tell us what you are seeing on the ground and as the sun comes up some of the damage that has occurred overnight. >> absolutely. thanks for having me the team here with me in faithville north carolina made it down here yesterday. confirm where the made landfall. where the highest winds are reported. we got to see what the wilmington area looked like before the rains picked up again in the later evening hours. and there is significant damage, significant trees down all over the wilmington, north carolina area. and as we have seen the rains pick up and the flooding continue team rubicon prepositioned personnel and equipment in the charlotte area and the team here in faithville is ready to move back out and continue to do assessments. support requests. pete: for our viewers who don't know about team rubicon, tell us about the mission and why you rushed to areas like this.

>> so team rubicon skills and experiences military veterans and first responders to deploy military response teams. what we found across the country is the scope and scale of disasters is increasing over time. the people that need help are increasing over time. and the skills and experience that military veterans can bring to the table in the aftermath of disasters are very applicable and pertinent. and can help people return to normal a little bit more quickly. so we have had over the last 8 years over 80,000 military veterans, first responders, and civilians register as volunteers just raising their hand to say hey, we're here to help in the aftermath. once it's safe amend we can get in and get people on the pack back to normal. teams are ready to heavy

equipment. route clearance requested. all the way down to muck out and gut out of flood affected homes and everything in between. ed: that's awesome you are still serving our nation and helping so many people. talk a little bit about working with the federal government and local authorities. on one hand you have the president talking about this for days, the governors in the affected states have been getting people to evacuate and warning everyone. but despite all the warnings and preparations, we keep hearing from our reporting this is unprecedented in terms of rainfall, over 20, 30 inches in some places currently but also in the days ahead people in myrtle beach are going to have heavy rain until tuesday. all the preparation in the world can't really prepare you for that. >> no, i don't think all the preparation can really get anybody 100 percent ready as we see the storm downgraded over the last week and we see other news start to eplerge and on the storm.

what's important for people to hear is this storm is going to affect a huge, a huge area and it's going to go well beyond the coastal areas and support is going to be required for community and volunteer organizations to help homeowners get back to normal well after this storm leaves the news cycle. pete: david, as besay in the military no plans survives first contact with the enemy. no plan survives first contact with a weather storm. that's why having vets there who know how to react to that changes that david burke. team rubicon u.s.a.org if folks want to donate and become a part of the organization. thank god for folks like you. katie: play an important role. straight ahead, a fox news alert. a mother whose daughter was killed by ms-13 killed two years exactly after she was found. the developing details of this tragedy coming up. ed: as florence sparks massive flooding concerns.

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visit right now or call during business hours. ed: with the flooding and damage the aftermath from florence we have a list of apps to help you and your family to stay safe and up to date. katie: here to run us through the list is kurt the cyberguy. >> i'm talking about the storm is coming to a close at some point. you're ready to go home. the app.s that are going to get you home the best way is what i want to show you this morning. these are incredible. we start with -- going to get to in a second. [radio chatter] pete: sounds like a radio. >> it is. waves gets us around town. google owns it and we are looking at myrtle beach right now, we are not actually in myrtle beach it will not populate the local area info for me.

what that there l. do is crowd source street that have debris on them. towns fluided. waves is going to guide new a way around all the debris so you will actually know the best path to get from a to b. everybody is reporting it. ed: you will know where the trees are down. >> 5 phone 0 radio. free to download. i have currently myrtle beach police department on this audio and then you can tune in to the fire department and of course on live tv it never goes on when you are actually doing the demonstration of it but, what the value of this is incredible. you are now tuned in to the local authorities, so you know what roads will be opening first. you can hear what's happening back in your hometown. it's real insightful way of getting empowered with information if you are not just asking neighbors by phone or wondering as you

stand. pete: listening in realtime. katie: apps work without the internet. >> no you will need cellular or wifi. people have ring video doorbell. inside of ring is a really incredible feature called neighborhoods. neighborhood feeds and, again, because we are in manhattan, it's scanning this area, but, what it would do is it scans your neighborhood for photos and notes that your neighbors might be posting, so that it tells you hey, miss trudy's house that's normally across the street would now be online if her camera is up and she may have posted hey our street is flooded so don't come home yet. if you have got power. ed: what about the apple watch? >> this has been a lifesaver for a lot of people we're getting a live update. >> apple watch let's you tune in and well it's not coming up. apple watch let's you press and hold the side of it to

send an sos. so, if your cell phone is dead if you have no wifi but still have cellular press and hold it will send out an sos. katie: thank you so much. ed: a lot of other news breaking this morning. paul manafort striking a special deal with bob mueller. what does it mean for the president. pete: sun is rising on the carolina coast. griff jenkins has been there all night standing by surveying the damage. ♪ ♪

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sending swift boat rescue teams. what's the mission? we have got to get it accomplished. pulling side by side able to save people's lives. ed: let's go straight to a fox news alert. rescue crews racing at this hour to stave hundreds stranded in fast rising floodwaters in north carolina. katie: tropical storm florence crawling across the carolinas claiming at least five lives in north carolina including a mother and her infant child. pete: the national guard helping children get into high water rescue vehicles and nearly a million people at this hour without power. we have live team coverage along the coast. griff jenkins and todd piro are in the disaster zone as the sun begins rise and we get to see more of the damage. katie: rick reichmuth is track being the stormed in the weather center. we begin with griff in newport, north carolina. over to you. griff: that's right, guys. you just see here in newport. we are halfway between where we were gas station in more headmorehead city and new bern.

can you see a gas truck getting through the floodwaters, and a woman, ma'am, ma'am, hold on one second, those are deep waters. this is a very fluid situation. you are going to try to walk through. i don't recommend you do that the waters are deep. tell me one second and we will try to give you some help. what's your name? >> no. no, no, no. >> okay. understand we talking to the gentleman we teased in other break. we lives in newport. he had left because he didn't want to be out of his home. this is one of the main roads. highway 70. this distraught woman is actually just going to try to walk through these waters. we will find out how deep it is. you don't know. can you see this car here clearly stalled out. and the gentleman that was too emotional to speak to me ready to talk and then overcame him is actually the driving a truck. you can just see in the distance what looks like a gate, a trailer in the back and that's actually lawn mower. lawn equipment. that's his lively hood.

john pinkum just lost his livelihood. his ability to do lawn service. he doesn't know what he is going to do. he lives not far from here. his mobile home was flooded. stayed with his sister in morehead city where we rode the storm out. come back this morning as you try explore. see this very difficult situation. watch this woman. i didn't want to invade her space. you know, when we were in houston last year, guys, do you work hurricane harvey. i ran into several people like that and really getting a bit of a national audience on to cases like john's. and like this woman and like this gentleman who i don't know who this gentleman is. you are getting a firsthand look, a raw look if you will at the realities of the devastation. and this comes as we are going to have more rain coming. we are going to have more flooding. this water right here that you are seeing is from the newport river. the two main rivers that come from that north inland

area down to morehead city where i was was the noose river that's caused all the flooding in new bern, more than 100 people under rescue right now according to officials telling me this morning 375 yesterday. and then, of course, the newport river that the is main one that dumps into the boat bay in morehead city where i was standing on sea wall yesterday. this is the newport river over in this distance right here and it's overtaken this highway 70. now we are watching in a distance really with tremendous uncertainty as this woman drags her literally her life belongings through this floodwaters. it's difficult to want to just take your car. i'm here with my own car. and i want to drive it in and try and help her. we're trying to do everything we can with people and we are, like everyone else, working on limited power. limited gasoline. you see there is no power out here. nowhere to go. you can't go to a gas station or walmart.

it's very difficult conditions as we try and move forward and get up there. this is what is happening on the ground here. ed: griff, you are doing outstanding job of reporting. threw are just being a human being doing so well. trying to reach out to her. scary to think she is walking into deeper water but there is only so much you can do because she did seem distraught and maybe at whit's end to try to get out. we don't know why she didn't evacuate earlier. but tell us so we understand a little bit more of the scope. you are headed towards new bern. i was checking their twitter account the city of new bern. they say they still have remaining 100 rescues trying to do people still trapped there. you are, what, 10 or 20 miles from there. >> exactly. i believe i'm about 15 miles from where i am up this road. moving northwest towards the direction that that woman is dragging that suitcase. and we understand, i spoke with the new bench officials several times this morning and they tell me up there that they are rescuing them. and the big problem that they have got up there when

they are getting people actually rescued is where to put them. the marine corps air station cherry point which is very close to new bern has actually opened their doors. they are starting to house some of these people, evacuated out of new bern. but, clearly, and certainly there must be cases that we will learn of people being rescued in this area of newport. the inland town between the coast and morehead city and the northern western city of new bern and actually, i'm not sure if there is quite enough light, mike, you are going to be mad at me if i point in a distance. you can kind of see in the distance that this river is sort of taking over what looks like some houses back in the back there. ed: we can see that griff. these businesses are flooded as well and so, you know, we just don't know who may be back there and who may need help. pete: we see one under water completely griff. do you have a sense are the water going to rise? fall back?

where are we on the tide here? >> well, the waters and i'm just going to leave this shot on this woman because it's just, you know, unbelievable anxiety as she crosses there the waters are subsided and i have been watching the tides, the tides are at lower point again adjacent to the newport river. the tide is going to rise as well. we went over a bridge that had been flooded about a foot before. the water is about, i don't know, six inches to come over that but if we get another 10 to 15 inches of rain, i am telling you, this is going to get another punch in the gut if not more. now we're just looking far, she is up to her waist. this is not only dangerous to do this because there are obviously because of the wind damage a lot of power lines down. pete: i see a current, too. griff: you have transformers out there. you also now have the water -- if you look at the current coming across this road. it may not look like much but, let me tell you if you

have got a storm surge and a drift of three or four feet and that's what i expect she is in right about now it, doesn't take much to pull you off of your feet. you get tangled up in deeper water. this is how people drown. what she is doing right now is highly dangerous but, again, this is what happens when you get into a situation, when you feel just helpless and desperate. >> see law enforcement on the other side where she appears to be going. blocking off that part of the highway. griff, real quickly. can you tell us about are people abandoning cars there? we have seen a number of cars with the trunk open. of course, the cars in the back that look like they were left there before the storm hit. it seems like people drove in there and had to jump ship. >> exactly. well, we don't know. but, what i would be willing to bet that happened certainly in this case is that they are trying to get somewhere when the waters started to come up. and that's what we have seen in so many stories and when a major water event happens and certainly was the case

in harvey last year in houston, is that people just think i have still got time i can get out. i'm moving. water comes um and can you get 2, 3, 4, 5 feet of water in literally a matter of minutes. and that is why it is so dangerous. you know, been given the stats the past few days days about 75% of fatalities occur from flooding and surge waters, only about 8% occur from actually wind damage of hurricanes. that is a telling number. and now you can see how it happens. this gentleman has found a high line to walk on here. we don't know presumably he is a resident in this area or has a vehicle stuck. we're going to stay here for a second. try to find out what's happening in this community. but we're also going to try to get up to new bern. we would like to get on a boat with the cajun navy try to give you a firsthand look at some of the rescues happening there. but, this is a reality. and the difficulty of the terrain and the conditions you are dealing with

ourselves. we don't have a back up. we have a limited amount of gasoline. there is no gas stations open. you really have to gauge what you can do and there is no working around unless you are willing to send a helicopter down there. we haven't seen any by the way helicopter resources first responders because of the conditions. and the fact that we have still got a hurricane brewing that won't get out of here. we're expecting heavy rain in the next hour or two along with winds that are going to be upwards of tropical storm level about 40 miles per hour. ed: all right. appreciate it, griff. pete: well done. stay safe. ed: coast guard was reporting they were waiting for the winds to come down get the light as well. pete: you can't fly helicopters to rescue people if the winds are extreme. all these variables are what first responders are dealing with. ed: we have rick reichmuth. he has obviously been working around the clock. rick: this about all the stuff in your yard or on the street or kind in a field and then all of that gets washed into a river or gets thrown around so there is so much stuff, dangerous stuff

that's lurking in that water that people are walking around in as well. here is a radar picture, still heavy rain falling well away from the center where griff is. kind of between new bern and morehead city, dry right now. more rain to the north of it that is going to rotate in. incredibly heavy band coming in around the jacksonville area and raleigh as well. that's why we think the flooding is going to go on for a very long time. take a look at this. we have got river flooding going to go on right now. projections for river flooding. we have four gauges today currentfully flooding. this is five days from now. we have gotten toes of rivers that are going to be a lot of them at their record level flooding that they have ever seen and they have seen a lot of flooding here from other tropical storms. this is five days from now. so, that flooding event that is coming at least the river flooding event is not here yet. this is the future radar, take a look at kind of those dark red bands. this goes through tonight 11:00 tonight. still down there along the

coast. we have got the rain coming. in and now it's spreading a little bit farther inland. charlotte by tonight. also moving toward the southern appalachian. goes throughout the day tomorrow and still areas of red throughout the state. that's why rainfall totals will continue to pile up. guys? pete: i said griff, i shouldn't have. it was rick. griff, i think we are going to go back to you. have you got, yeah. a shot that is a snake. griff: another one of the dangers. can you see that woman that just crossed this water. let me show you what's in these waters. look at that. that's a snake. i don't know whether it's dangerous or poisonous. it's a snake and it is certainly not something that you want to encounter while you are in the middle of dragging your luggage across the flood. pete: a point made yesterday. you don't even think about it water moccasins, cotton mouths, whatever you want to call them when i was in fort benning in georgia a lot of nasty snakes down there.

it's a couple feet. >> i don't think it's a water mock can a sin. i'm pretty familiar with snakes. coloring doesn't look as such. its head isn't quite "little, 3 and two and a half d 3 feet. i'm not going to get bitten by this snake. i will leave it at this distance. you get the idea i want to give you a quick. we are giving you the raw behind the scenes look on the ground of what people are dealing with here. that's one of the dangers guys. katie: as the sun comes up we will be seeing more of that debris in the water as you mentioned earlier, griff, power lines down and lots of dangerous stuff in the rising continuing rising water with rain. ed: all those human interest stories of people still being rescued. they are particularly there in north carolina but south carolina as well. we are goin going to have continuing coverage throughout the morning. stick with us ♪ ♪ you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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♪ pete: the tropical storm florence can you saflorence cuta deadly path. de350 guard members on a critical mission of rescue and recovery. katie: here with update on those stories captain john reed south carolina section of the coast guard. thank you so much for taking the time, especially when you are getting ready for some response. tell us what is happening on the ground and what the next steps are as the storm continues to sit and rain on north carolina. >> hey, good morning, katie, good morning, pete. thank you very much for having us on. first, i would like to say our hearts and our prayers are with the people of north carolina and those families with lost loved ones and as well as the tens of

thousands impacted by florence' wrath. the coast guard in south carolina has been at a heightened state of readiness throughout the week. building for a possible impact here. we had assets staged in georgia. we have moved into south carolina through the night. you see some of those here behind me. we are moving these assets on up today as we are able to to conduct assessments in horry and south carolina impacted areas. we have been in contact with our counterparts in north carolina as possibly moving a shallow water team also staged earlier in georgia for us and moving then on up through north carolina. pete: commander, you have a lot of assets at your disposal that you are commanding. where do you anticipate deploying them in the next day and a half, two days? >> next day and a half we will be conducting those assessments i mentioned up in hoyyk which is myrtle beach area and georgetown county where we might have environmental issues. dealing with you know,

vessels washed ashore as well as moving the shallow water team that i had mentioned up into north carolina to help with the rescues of personnel stranded. ed: captain, this is ed. one of your colleagues from virginia was on fox early this morning. saying that now as daylight comes up, and winds maybe start coming down, the coast guard in various areas will also be able to get helicopters in there for rescue efforts. >> i'm sorry, ed, i just lost audio there the coast guard were able to move -- i didn't hear the end of that. ed: absolutely, sir. with the wind coming down hopefully in the next few hours. the light coming up, that the coast guard might be able to get helicopters that obviously you couldn't get out there in the middle of the night when it was dark and windy. >> no. absolutely. we have air crews staged and ready at hunter army airfield. coast guard air station savanna. coming in from all over florida. they were making flights last night up here doing

observation and we'll be pushing them up as soon as possible with the south carolina national guard and emergency management district here in south carolina. ed: captain john reed we appreciate your efforts. as you lay it out talking about georgia, florida, virginia, south carolina, north carolina people are pitching in our military doing what they can from multiple states. we appreciate your efforts. pete: thank you, appreciate it? >> absolutely. thank you. ed: moving on the "new york times," which the president calls the failing "new york times" claiming ambassador nikki haley has $58,000 curtains. ed: she does? pete: they must be amazing. left out a big detail. ed: she didn't actually do it? it was the obama administration? pete: dan bongino will put the nail in the coffin. katie: man says he is trapped. like a bomb has gone off

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her infant here in wilmington were killed when a tree fell on their home. the father is in the hospital with injuries. three others were killed during the storm as well. now, listen to how north carolina's governor roy cooper describes florence. >> hurricane florence is powerful, slow, and relentless. it's an uninvited bruit who doesn't want to leave. >> and flooding is really going to be the deadly part of this storm as it continues to move. very slowly. only at 5 miles per hour. dumping, guys, what one expert is guessing about 18 gallons of water over during its time over, perhaps, the next week on those states that are in its path. just a staggering amount of water so people really need to be careful of those floodwaters and be careful of those storm surges, ed, pete, katie. ed: lauren blanchard, thank you for your reporting.

it's like a bomb has gone off what our next gest of new bern, north carolina described the damage and flooding from what is now tropical storm florence. pete: george chose not to evacuate before the storm he is going to tell us about it. he joins us on the phone coming up next. ed: he is on right now i believe. pete: oh, is he right now? holy cow. george it turns out you are here now and not later which is way better. george, talk to us about what you are experiencing in new bern. >> well, you know, i just got up. the first light is coming up trying to getting a chance to assess the area. the water has gone down on the high level, the debris and trees down and stuff it really does. it looks like a battle out here. ed: george, can you tell us because we are all hoping for the best for you and told by city officials there in new bern that they may be trying to rest could i utry res0

people. for viewers waking up saying wait a second i heard the governor of north carolina say days ago evacuate. why didn't you evacuate? >> well, you know, that is a decision i had to make. we build houses for a living. i knew that the surrounding areas were going to be flooded and we wouldn't be able to get back in. my crews are on stand by. we are here to help people, you know, try to get their lives back in order once all this stuff clears up. pete: george, can first responders get to you if they wanted to? talk to us about the status of streets, the ability to get to people? >> as of now, there is a huge tree that is covering our main entrance into our neighborhood with power lines in it. that's going to need to be taken care of. as of earlier, no. the roads were probably

chest high with water. we couldn't get out. people couldn't get in. katie: george, do you regret the decision to stay? >> i don't know that i do. you know, there is going to be a lot of rebuilding and a lot of cleaning up that has to be done, you know, we have got great neighbors here helping each other. so that's -- you know, one of the main reasons we stayed. pete: george, did the storm overwhelm you, underwhelm you. your reaction to what has actually happened. >> the amount of water and the storm surge was very overwhelming. i was born here. i have lived here 50 years. i have never seen the water as it came. we have certain standards we have to build by and get our houses up to certain levels. and it exceeded some of those levels in areas. ed: all right, george.

we obviously are hoping for the best for you and all the residents still stranded there waiting for officials to help evacuate. best wishes in the hours ahead and we will check back in with you later. pete: george, thank you. it's important to remember can you watch these images and say it's not as big and huge for everything you have ever seen. for those on the ground it's impacted them. katie: a tough decision to leave or stay. ed: fema keeping a close eye on florence's path of destruction as it focuses on how to respond in the hours away. fema's deputy administrator is going to join us live. that's coming up next. ♪ ♪

♪ katie: back now with a fox news alert. tropical storm florence drenching the east coast. the monster storm killing at least five people in north carolina. pete: rescuing teams answering the calls for help from at least 19 states across the country. katie: in new bern about 100 rest buckeyes underway as crews those trapped by the storage. >> get a boat and came out out here. didn't think it would get that bad. katie: braving the catastrophic conditions. dragging their belongings through the floodwaters. rick reichmuth is tracking florence and it's slowly crawling across the carolinas. rick? rick: yeah, incredibly

shely. also one of the kind of good things is we had days and days of lead up for people to get out and prepare. that's one of the reasons why the fatality count has been relatively low for some of these storms. here is where it came on shore, 24 hours ago. there it is right now. it's moved about 110 miles is all in this entire time. probably modify about that same over the next 124 hours. you get the idea dr. w. this very heavy rain still coming on shore. some spots are pushing about 25 inches of rain now. anything over 24 will break the record from anything they have seen from the storm at all. bulls eye probably another foot or so to come. here is our big concern. we have the rain and storm surge already in. rain makes its wee way across the river. goes across the southern appalachians and that water will hit that and fall very, very quickly and drain into these rivers as we move forward slowly. so this is the low flooding that happens. this is little river at

manchester. water levels down here at 10 feet. take a look at this. by tomorrow afternoon, up to 35 feet. so we are going to watch the water rise up around 25 feet by the time we get towards, say, tomorrow night. and it stays at that record stage for a number of days. go towards the northeast cape fear river, same story. by the time we get towards sunday afternoon, we see this water rise by about 20 feet. and it goes and it stays at that high level. pete: what is that thing in the middle? is that record? rick: these are different levels. if you live in this area they know action stage this street will flood. if you go to minor stage this next street floods and so on. but you go to major, so this one you are looking at right there, major flooding is at 16 feet for the place right there in and then did you go up higher the record they have ever had was 23.5. expected to be at 25.8. over record stage starting tomorrow afternoon and

staying at that stage all the way at least through wednesday. so these are guys. pete: that's a sleeper story. it's not the wind. it's always later on. >> it's the flooding. the first thing you get is the rain that falls where you are. that rain, gravity wants to pull it down to a stream or sort sort of a creek or river. that's how that eventually all feeds out towards the ocean. the problem is then that ocean water is being still pushed on shore. doesn't allow that water to go out. that's one of the problems. but all that water eventually makes its way to these rivers. another one northeast cape fear river. look at this. by the time we get to tomorrow afternoon, we are above record stage. same story stays that way at least through wednesday afternoon. that's as far as this goes. pete: wednesday afternoon is a long ways from here. rick, thanks a lot. appreciate it. fema is keeping a close eye on florence's path of destruction as it focuses on how to respond. katie: here with more deputy

administrator danielle knut knute. tell us what you expect for today as the sun comes um. >> sure, katie. i would like to point out the president overnight issued a major disaster declaration for north carolina. what this means is the people of north carolina in the 8 counties that he declared will be eligible for individual assistance. now, they can download the fema app. and register for that assistance. i would like tone courage all of those individuals in those 8 counties to register for assistance to make sure that they can take advantage of what we are offering. additionally, the disaster declaration will provide ongoing assistance to support the response effort at the state and local level. pete: daniel, you are seeing this from holistic level. as you look at the problems and issues that you are addressing, what are the major ones this morning? >> well, as expected, this has transitioned from a wind event and storm surge event to inland flooding event. just as your meteorologist pointed out, this is going

to be ongoing for quite some time in to next week. historic flooding. flooding that is every bit as deadly as the mead impacts. in fact, the flooding, it's a bit of a sleeper, isn't it? you don't know when the water is sneaking up on you. and with the last thing you want to do is be caught by surprise by rising floodwaters. ed: absolutely u daniel, we want to keep the focus on storm and aftermath. american people have to have confidence in fema's leadership as you deal with the aftermath here and there has been this story out there about your boss, brock long, the fema administrator being under investigation for his travel. the "wall street journal" has a report saying that the white house considered replacing him as florence was coming. in can you comment on that and what should we read into the fact that you are out front today instead of the administrator? >> well, i can say that the entire leadership team is fully engage you had in this response effort. we have been here all day. we will be here all night. if you look behind me, everybody is working 24/7. this is an incredibly

dedicated workforce and a dedicated leadership team. ed: absolutely. we respect all the people there i was in that war room there last year when storms were bearing down. brock long is st still in charge and has the job and has the white house's confidence. >> he is in charge. he is my boss. ed: okay, thank you very much. katie: thank you so much for the update. turning now to some of your headlines, we begin with a fox news alert. the mother of a child murdered by ms-13 gang members is killed in a car at her daughter's memorial. fatally struck after confrontation with the national two years to the day that her daughter was brutally stabbed to death. she was preparing for a vigil honoring her daughter 16-year-old kayla. president trump invited rodriguez to a state of the union address sharing this heart felt moment. >> evelyn elizabeth, freddy, and robert, tonight, everyone in this chamber is

praying for you. everyone in america is grieving for you. please stand. thank you very much. [applause] >> president trump tweeting my thoughts and prayers are with evelyn rodriguez this evening along with her family and friends. 65 women stepping forward to defend president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. a letter sent to the senate states in part through the more than 35 years we have known him bret has stood out for his friendship, character and integrity this after democratic senator dianne feinstein reported an allegation against kavanaugh to the fbi. an unidentified woman accusing kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a high school party. kavanaugh denies it and the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote on his candidacy thursday. and senator ted cruz and his democratic challenger will square off three times ahead of election night. chris beto o'rourke square

off over the next five weeks. the pair will spar twice. texas has not elected a democrat to statewide outside of since 1994. and then there is this. the rising star of the democratic party has expensive tastes for a socialist. congressional candidate alexandria ocasio-cortez spotted posing in a $3,500 outfit. ed: wait, what? >> for a photo shoot for interview magazine. her pant suit retailing more than $2,800 alone. and the shoes 600 bucks. pete: it's tough being a socialist. it really is. katie: i mean i want a pair of $600 shoes. she should redistribute. pete: i don't think i have. pretty confidently. ed: pretty remarkable. that's amazing. pete: good for you. socialism in the bronx paying off. moving on. we will try.

john kerry melting down taking cheap shots at president trump after being slammed for meeting with leaders in iran. >> got the maturity of an 8-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl. [laughter] pete: ed has got comments on this. so does bank and he is here to react coming up next. ed: of course still o'er this incredible human story unfoiledding before our eyes. rescues happening right now more more than a 100 people trapped in that small community of north carolina. they are completely under water. the mayor of new bern is live with us next hour. stick around ♪ ♪ tv. -my pleasure. -ice dispenser, find me a dog sitter. -okay. -and make ice. -pizza delivered. -what's happened to my son? -i think that's just what people are like now. i mean, with progressive,

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are without power right now. todd, good morning to you. what are you seeing as the light comes up there. todd: good morning, guys. we actually have good news to report. isn't ay cooper which is the main power authority here in the north myrtle beach area decided to send out crews within half an hour hoping to get some of the 11,000 customers in the north myrtle beach area without power back on. north myrtle beach definitely so far, so far the hardest hit area here in south carolina. i'm going to show you why. it's situations like this leading to that between 130 and 160,000 customers without power. wind from yesterday driving down trees on top of power lines like this, causing power to go out throughout the area. now, granted, we have not yet seen the intense rain fall totals that have been reported. but, again, look at the forecast. those rainfall totals between 8 and 12 inches are not expected to accumulate between -- until between now

and tuesday. that's about four days of rain accumulating. also, we spoke with an official from the city. they said what they are really concerned about right now is the high tide that's going to hit this afternoon. they have seen some beach erosion. individuals we have spoken to on the beach and those officials really worried about what happens next during that high tide cycle between beach erosion and storm surge. back to you. pete: good stuff. not good stuff but tough stuff. good news to hear that. katie: moving along now though former secretary of state john kerry taking on president trump over his tough stance on iran. >> the first president that i know of who spends more time reading his twitter likes. [laughter] than his briefing books or the constitution of the united states. [cheers] >> he has the maturity of 8-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl. ed: here my here with

reaction former secret service agent host of the dan bongino show author of spy gate. dan bongino. where is madonna? is there going to be a women's march about john kerry talking about teenage girls. the maturity of teenage girls. dare i say if president trump had said something like that there would be a march on the white house. >> yeah. it's offensive. it is. i have a teenage daughter. what's he trying to say? at least my teenage daughter doesn't park her boat in rhode island to avoid massachusetts taxes while running for president on platform of higher taxes. oh, yeah. that was john kerry. forgot about that one. ed, on a serious note. how is john kerry not guilty of the logan act violation? let's remind the audience that a decorated united states military hero lieutenant general mike flynn was aimed at and targeted by the obama administration in the transition period for, you know, conducting u.s. business while, you know, as a private citizen u. ed: talking to the russian

ambassador. >> dan: exactly. talking tout russians while he was the incoming national security advisor by the way. doesn't seem untoward at all. how was john kerry. ed: former secretary of state. you have a former secretary of state. he told dana perino the other day, look, this is what all former secretaries of state. henry kissinger. talk to people. sure you talk to people but not supposed to go out and undermine the current administration. >> ed, listen, just to be clear, the rogan act is ridiculous, okay? all i'm trying to suggest in this thing is it isn't what aboutism for us to ask do the rules exist anymore? you are literally -- you are going to put in jail and prosecute a decorated united states general in mike flynn for allegedly violating the logan act while, to be clear he was prosecuted on lying to the fbi. but that was the genesis of the case. now you have john kerry negotiating with our enemies. ed, people who chant death to america and what happens?

everybody, all these media people who clamored for a flynn investigation are completely utterly silent on this. it's absurd. how is the republic supposed to continue like this with two sets of rules. katie: what about the implications and consequences of this, dan? what is john kerry doing? pete: where does this end? >> i don't know. it's clear that a large swath of sane, rational americans think giving pallets of cash to people who sit there and chant death to america and the iranians have actively engaged in a global terrorist war to kill our people, probably a bad idea. i don't know where this goes. but john kerry should be ashamed. these are really disturbing acts. pete: you are right. got to sale book though dan. katie: dan bongino, thank you. pete: moving on, we saw the dangers of those floodwaters in north carolina. right there. that was about 3 feet from griff. snakes, bacteria. of the danger doesn't stop when the storm moves out. dr. nicole saphier is here

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number one reasons why people die in storms. pete: that's not clean water. >> we saw a snake there. you also have metal debris in there with tetanus. cuts, abrasion and staph in that water and infection. that water is touching people's homes, bottled water and food. people think i'm going to open a bottle of water and fine once it's dry. there is bacteria, viruses. everything is contaminated and sewage systems may be overflowing like we saw in houston. contaminating things even further. that water is touching everything. and everything it touches is extremely dirty. extremely dangerous. katie: once the water starts to recede and people get back in their homes filled with water and talk about the mold and all of the problems that come. >> just because it looks dry doesn't mean it's clean anymore. it's been sitting there as you alouded to it takes sometimes up to six weeks months mold can grow. that gross sometimes behind the walls. if there is any sort of drywall that's gotten wet and contaminated. it has to be ripped out.

you can't dry it out and think you are going to be fine. immediately worried about bacteria, viruses, flu seasonal is coming. being in these tight quarters people are going to get sick unless they get this cleaned. katie: how can they prevent themselves from getting sick in situations like this where resources are limited and they don't have a lot of supplies to stay safe. >> if you are in the shelters washing hands. try not to touch other people. try not to cough on people. get your flu shots if possible because it's available now. once you get home. decontaminate everything. inner which's toys likely need to just be thrown out and replaced. hopefully with donations people are able to replenish some of their supplies. don't try to recycle a lot of things because it's not worth it. ed: dr. nicole saphier. appreciate it. tropical storm florence pummels the carolinas. live reports on the ground just moments away ♪ insurance ♪

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>> we are going to have more rain coming. we are going to have more flooding. pete: catastrophic flooding slamming the carolinas turning towns into raging rivers. almost 1 million people in the dark. power is out. griff: this gas station just ripped from its foundation. >> we didn't anticipate it to be as bad as it was. we started getting flooding in the house. >> the roads treacherous. >> no way to get in and out of this island. pete: tropical storm florence now deadly unfortunately, claiming at least five lives including a mother and infant child. >> most of the people did get out. some have stayed. >> it would be like getting into a barrel and getting ready to go over niagara falls thinking you were going to leave. >> help is coming from around the country. coast guard is out in full force deploying more than 350 guard members. >> we are moving these assets on up today as we are able to conduct assessments. our hearts and prayers are with the people of north carolina. pete: yeah. a shot. that is a snake.

griff: another one of the dangers. really giving you the raw behind the scenes ground look at what people are dealing with. ♪ pete: the sun is rising in north carolina. and this is a fox news alert. urgent water rescues now underway as crews from across the country race to help people get them to higher ground. >> it's no longer a hurricane now. it is tropical storm florence but still deadly unleashing its wrath on the east coast claiming at least five lives already in north carolina. the monster storm dumping nearly record breaking amounts of rain as the t. slowly makes its way inland. katie: nearly 1 million people now in the dark as power outages continue to grow. we have live team coverage along the coast. griff jenkins and todd piro are in the disaster zone as the sun begins to to rise. pete: our own rick reichmuth is of course tracking the storm in the weather center. we begin with griff in newport, north carolina. griff, you have had a lot going on in your shots, including a snake. a woman trying to cross the road in the rising waters. talk to us about what's

going on in newport this morning. griff: guys, you know, we are on the other side of the water. you can see a pickup truck coming through it some emergency crews just went through. but, kyle fultor resident of newport. evidence got us through that it was hairy. first talk 23450e getting through it and then talk to me why you are out here. >> getting through it is pretty easy. just keep your momentum up like just like he did. keep your momentum up. don't go slow. if you get in your air box, you are out of the game. griff: the low cars, if you have a low car you don't even attempt this kind of water. >> if you have something with four wheel drive then just do four wheel drive don't have a car going through it. griff: kyle, you live here, first, was your home flooded? >> we are okay. my house is up on highland that's the good thing about that. griff: what are you doing out here today?

>> just seeing the aftermath, seeing if everybody is okay. just seeing where the high water is at and where it is not. griff: you have a vehicle with big four wheel tires. you are hoping to possibly go in to rescue people on or about give them assistance? >> yes, sir. just get through the water way because newport is mostly river and that's where the flood parts are. griff: quickly to orient. just past those trees, talk to me about what the flooding is and tell me an very interesting people might not have known why the flooding was so bad here and in newport. what was different this time? >> it was high tide when most of the rain came. and that's probably why the river got so high on the waterway. griff: and the river is back that way? >> yeah. the river is like where the signs are. kind of where the bridge is it goes all the way up. there is four or five paths where the river goes. griff: when the rains continue to come. what's going to happen to

this? is it going to get worse? >> it could possibly get worse, maybe. hopefully not but it might. griff: well, you know, as kyle has said this is a situation you were, i think there when that woman was walking through with the suitcase. not a good decision, huh? >> no, sir, not at all. griff: what do you do you? are in land escaping. have you some sense for outdoors. what do you hope to help people do? >> stay indoors, if you can. mostly. if you can't, then come out and help. griff: have any of your friends or family been hit? have you been able to be in contact with everybody? >> my family is still here. most of the family went to georgia or out of town. griff: have you seen some of their homes destroyed or flooded or impacted? >> not yet. that's why i'm out looking. griff: all right. kyle, let me get you in good with your boss. this is what do you, buck. should we give a shout out

to buck. >> shout out to buck's landscaping. griff: i give kyle a shoutout. we want to get new bern. get there next live shot. doesn't look like there is flooding straight up, is there? >> not that way. towards high block. there is a couple tornadoes tuchingd down in high block. griff: tornadoes? >> yeah, tornadoes. griff: unbelievable. he got us through this flood zone. we are are going to continue going forward and hopefully get there in time to let you see a little bit of what is happening in new bern. ed: as if they haven't dealt with enough tornadoes. pete: heavy rainfall and high level winds. ed: continue team coverage todd piro live in north myrtle beach where 140,000 people are without power, i believe. todd, good morning. >> good morning guys, you are right. the story is pour outages, this is the reason. they can this out. stories like this all up and down the north myrtle beach area where we're. this is a really big tree on a very important power line.

but, i'm going to be polyanna piro here for a moment. check out how big this tree is and check out the way that it fell. because, if it had fallen on that house right there, we would be doing a story right now about damage in that house. fortunately it fell only on the power lines, santy cooper the main power authority here in the north myrtle beach area already sending out crews to help fix the problems. help get power back on throughout this area. hopefully that is the case throughout the rest of south carolina. now the story switches to the worries about the storm surge. we have seem to have avoided it up until now. we are about to hilt a high tide coming up in the next few hours. people we speak with both officials and residents say they know that's the one they are worried about because for the first time the winds are actually going to be blowing the surf in as oppose you had to for the last four days the wind blowing out. that's the big concern right now. we are going to monitor it for you. for now, back to you.

pete: todd, any ongoing rescues and we have -- from florence so far a lot of people rescued. some rescues still underway. anything happening there on that? or is it pretty much aftermath? >> todd: again, we have been focusing on the north myrtle beach area. if you look at the map, that's where the storm was expected to hit our area the hardest. and there haven't really been any rescues needed. we have been in contact with the officials and they say the main issue right now power outages. that's what they're focused on. but, this is no time to spike the football. even though it feels like we have been in this now for four days, at least we have been covering it the storm has been going on for almost two, let's say. the hard part for south carolina, specifically along the coast when it comes to storm surge and flooding is about to happen. because we're going to have to get, according to forecasts between 8 and 12 inches of rain. look behind me. you don't see any flooding now. the ground though is saturated. between now and tuesday.

8 and 12 inches of rain we are expecting we could have problems at that point. ed: thank you, todd piro that view inside south carolina. we have been talking about north carolina. those rescues that pete mentioned already 375 people rescued. 100 rescues underway overnight. tiskly in new bern, north carolina. that's been the focus because basically anybody there is trapped right now. and we spoke to somebody on the phone earlier. katie: rick reichmuth is checking florence as it slowly -- rick: five day first alert forecast from the national hurricane center. this shore came on two miles away from where they had predicted five days before. incredible accurate forecast. at least as far as the direction of it. this is the last 24 hours. also this prediction slow down. this is 24-hour satellite map. can you hardly see this movement. the center of it from right

around here where it came on shore just to the south of myrtle beach. it's about 1110 miles. notice on last little loop. that stuff piling up right there. that's additional moisture. still have air moving over the ocean here and that is going to continue to pull warm moisture in across the coastal areas. there is the center of the storm. still this onshore flow. todd is right, right to the south of cape fear. first time they have had a storm surge warning that's been activated here for next high tide cycle. all of the storm surge that came on shore initially with the storm, that's the bulk of the storm surge, all of that water is still being funneled in there and that's not going to change at all. take a look at this, guys, a ton of moisture with this. probably about 8 to 10 inches of rain today falling across that exact same area and that's just today. pete: eye moving along the coast line like that? >> here's the deal. once it came right on shore we didn't know if it would be right offshore or right on shore. because it was moving in the exact same direction as the coast, it's very difficult.

10 miles one way or 10 miles another. very difficult to get that kind of forecast. but, that said, they nailed it five days out within two miles of landfall. which is incredible. pete: thanks, rick, appreciate it. katie: turning now to your headlines begin with a fox news alert. a texas police officer passed away overnight after getting shot in the line of duty. fort worth officer gary hull was killed in a shootout with robbery suspects. political science say deshon stepto shot hull after robbing a bar. coming on scene fired back and killed stepto. hull is a 17 year department veteran. he leaves behind a wife and two daughters. and 65 women stepping forward to defend president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. a letter sent to senate democrats and republicans states in part through the more than 35 years we have known him, bret has stood out for his friendship, character and integrity. this comes after democratic senator dianne feinstein reported an allegation against kavanaugh to the fbi from an unidentified woman

accusing kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a high school party more than 30 years ago. kavanaugh denies it the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote on his candidacy on thursday. and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort strikes a deal. manafort pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. the plea bargain relating to charges involving his work consulting foreign governments and allows manafort to skirt a second trial. the white house says the deal is totally unrelated to the president. and going overseas now. south korea's president will fly to north carolina for the first time in hopes to get his denuclearization process back on track. moon j jae-in. ending military tensions between the neighboring tensions between the countries also on the agenda u it will be their third meeting this year. pete: a lot to watch there. for sure.

pete: remarkable. met three times and they hadn't met ever and now three times. pete: so many reports. is this on track or not? this will give us more indication. rescues happening right now for more than 100 people trapped in their community, completely under water. the mayor of new bern, north carolina, exactly where it's hitting and happening is live with us. coming up next. ♪ ♪ check out bass pro shops and cabela's for great deals. like select logo caps for only $5. crocs offroad clogs for under $25. and this new browning 20 megapixel game camera for under $100.

pete: more than 100 people in the area are still in need of rescue as the city sent out this message, quote: we are coming to get you. you may need to mo up to the second story or to your attic but we are going to come to get you. katie: dana joins us now. mr. mayor, thank you so much for being here. tell us what you are seeing on the ground as we have sunlight now to assess the damage. >> much better conditions. the problem is that with much better conditions people want to get out and ride around. please don't do that we have a lot of downed power lines. we are very concerned with energized lines that folks could get hurt. give the city time to get out and assess our infrastructure and get the roads safe for you to travel. ed: mr. mayor, very important for you to issue that warning. because you don't know what's in that water we have been talking about bacteria. as well as animals, snakes, all the rest. but the power lines very serious. and the video, i was leaning down because i was trying to see some of this video in some of our monitors here. when you look at that, it

looks extremely deep. do you have any kind of a read on how deep the water is in some parts of your city? >> well, the water is down probably 5 feet from the 10 and a half feet pinnacle. so at this time it is still a dangerous situation. we are now starting to get the 11 calls fo911 calls for chd ones. some of those rescue folks are folks concerned about checking in on their grandparents or parents and that type of thing. pete: mr. mayor, forgive me, but are you out of the woods completely here or are we going to see more flooding? or is it down from here? >> well, we are concerned with all the 20 to 40 inches of rain and other areas of eastern north carolina. that water is coming to new bern. via the trent river or the noose river. so, on top of what we have already had, we now will have a saturated ground condition. the again, the concern we have for safety and welfare

of our citizens is to not travel unless you need to because there could be a tree with the winds still blowing that a tree could topple and somebody could get hurt. katie: mayor, what is your message to those evacuate and try to come back and see their homes and loved ones at this point. you don't want people who stayed to be out and about. what are the message to those who left the city and are trying to come back? >> we have a curfew from 9:00 to 7:00 in the morning. that is to give our first responders and our public works and other agencies within government an opportunity to restore our city plos help and assist the city of new bern by staying off the roadways unless you really need to get out. pete: don't come back. it's too soon? >> a little bit too soon. i think sunday will be much better. katie: is it helpful to you to have local volum volunteers r need to focus on the

government response? >> we really appreciate the volunteer effort just as we have been involved in preparing for this storm, we now are going to be prepared to bring new bern back to what it is, the colonial capital. the gem of north carolina. the friendliest city in the united states. so come visit us. pete: it is a beautiful town, mr. mayor. i have been there. it is remarkable. it's beautiful. ed: i'm glad katie mentioned the volunteers as well. i was looking at your twitter account for the city. volunteers who brought in food. talk about the fawrnsdz. take for granted when are they going in? how much more are they doing? some of these folks haven't slept. their own homes may be under water. talk about that. >> we have volunteers and staff that haven't slept for 48 hours. they are so concerned that they want to get our city safe for its residents and the biggest thing is the security. when all of those residents have evacuated, our city, you know, a lot of homes, there is nobody there. and we are trying to make

sure that we offer that security level that is needed at this time. we have over 28 mutual aid cities coming in and helping us, we have folks as far as away as missouri, texas, all the way up to new england that have come in and are helping us. so we can't begin to thank everybody for what they are doing. and the groundswell of support from mayors, the mayor of charleston called me last night. we talked for a while. they have been through two of these. it's just overwhelming the amounts of support that is there. katie: best of luck with the recovery. we are all thinking about you and be following the developments very closely. pete: thank you, sir. mayor, thank you. katie: a fox news alert. a manhunt intensifying this morning for convicted murderer who escaped from prison and it's not the first time. pete: hyper credible "new york times" claiming u.n. ambassador nikki haley has $58,000 curtains.

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katie: or no bid curtains because they are willing to pay as much as possible. it wasn't necessarily actually it wasn't purchased by the trump administration. it was purchased by the obama administration. and earlier version of the story had said that. the "new york times" issued a correction. and said that an earlier version of the article in the headline created unfair impression about who was responsible for the purchase in question. the article should not have focused on ms. haley nor should a picture of her been used. ed: actually the headline. katie: in the article it said they were purchased in 2016 and yet they still blamed it on nikki haley. pete: in "new york times" had to retract every unfair impression in the first paragraphs they couldn't print. ed: unfair impression euphemism for we got the story wrong. not unfair impression it's wrong facts. katie: if you look at the whole thing. they issue this crikdz. people are giving them credit saying you know credit is where it's due issuing a correction.

the truth is about nikki haley in the headline non-photo. they should have retracketted the entire thing and rewritten about how samantha powers the. pete: did they call her. >> i don't think they did. john kerry the secretary of state? did they call him? i know they have a direct dial. katie: they did call a former -- this was my favorite part of the piece. they did call a former obama white house official and got them on the record in a quote. accusing the trump administration of cutting the budget for diplomats, cutting the budget for the state department and how dare you buy $50,000-plus curtains while you are destroying the state department with these budget cuts. turns out it was barack obama administration. pete: would you nit that the "new york times" failed in thin stance? ed: i wouldn't call them the failing "new york times" like you do. i would this time. epic fail. pete: there you go right there. katie: read their correction and see what you think about it another headline bring joy to pete.

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♪ ed: we're back with a fox news alert. all hands on deck as rescue teams and volunteers rush to get people to safety in carolinas. pete: unfortunately we just learned there were two more deaths from tropical storm florence bringing the total death count, unfortunately to seven. katie: about 100 water rescues underway in new bern, north carolina where people trapped in floodwaters tried leaving on their own but couldn't get out. >> the waters coming hard trying to get out we got thrown into trailers. we got thrown into mailboxes. houses. ed: danger now lurking in the water as well. potentially venomous snakes went through the storm surge. talked to the mayor. saying there are power lines down hidden in some parts of the water. obviously all kinds of danger out there. rick reichmuth is tracking august of this. if you don't have to go out don't go out. rick: think about things that could be in the water. everything that's in a yard, in a street, that is in a

sewage area that you will stuff gets mixed into that water. walking around nails, sharp metal onts. a lot more rain to be had. yesterday they couldn't get out to inspect a lot of the areas. i think we still haven't seen a lot of the pictures that we are going to see from when the storm came on land. we also have the flooding. the river flooding that is about to become a major issue starting tomorrow heavy rainfall coming. a lot of energy being pulled off the ocean. it doesn't move like in any kind of a western or easterly way. it just trains over the exact same area. see some these spots very quickly picking up another 2 to 3 inches an hour. maybe another 8 to 10 inches of rain by the time we get, say, towards early afternoon. also moving inland. raleigh we have seen up to about five inches of rain there power outages. almost at a million right now homes without power. this is the future radar.

take a look at that red line right there that doesn't move much throughout the day today. go through tonight, still looking at incredibly heavy rain and now moving a little bit interior sections. go throughout the day tomorrow. still some heavy showers being pulled in but also by tonight a lot of that moisture moves in across the appalachian mountains, that terrain much more dangerous for flash flooding. watch that carefully tonight and into tomorrow. some spots picking up a quick four to five inches of rain. that you will water moves down hill quickly. ed: thank you, rick. appreciate it 20d piro live in myrtle beach as well. we have been going to him all morning. todd, what the are you what aret this hour? >> pete: appears to be a live shot but not todd. that's the thing you mentioned earlier, if you don't have power, how long do you have cell phone reception? do you have wifi? all the things required to do live television. ed: griff all morning has been trying to get closer and closer to new bern where

there are a hundred rescues going underway now. as he noted in one of his live shots he can't get more gas lean, he has the gasoline he has in his vehicle. he can't keep driving around the state. katie: local guy helped him get across the river in four wheel drive vehicle. as we saw earlier in live shots cars buried in the water some looked like they were driving through trunks open abandoned dangers of tropical storm florntion. they are called the cajun navy. take a look at them in action, rescuing an elderly man in new bern, north carolina yesterday. we will get it to you. there they are right there. katie: president trump recognizing their efforts tweeting we love the cajun navy, thank you so much. ed: joining us now is jordan, he is with the cajun navy. we had you by phone earlier. you said you were trying to figure out where your efforts would best be put

out there. what are you finding this morning? what part of north carolina are you focused on? >> so we are still in wilmington, since we talked last. they are coming up with another new little plan right now. just sings it broke daylight. and we are getting some information of how the night went in the area. our guys are actually in a meeting right now. i stepped out to -- pete: you crowd source information. you get a sense of where it is needed most. you said you are in a meeting. are you staying in wilmington? what's your sense of where you will be need the most today? >> i think we are going to be right here on the east side of wilmington. and then we are are going to try to stay in this area as long as this is where the most help is needed. so, unless they are relaying some new information across right now, i'm pretty sure we are going to be focused on wilmington and surrounding areas right now. katie: jordan, as you are coordinating information how

do you work with officials and other volunteer groups to make sure you are getting to the areas that need the most attention? >> we really just got to head towards those areas where we find people that need help and assistance. and on the way, you know, we will always run into the police or fire department or something on the road like that and we'll double-check with them or we do have a couple people working the phones that have contacts local agencies we will try to reach out to them via phone and email as well. katie: what kind of equipment? do you have boats and blow up rafts that can you use when you get to high water points? what kind of equipment do you have to get to where you need to go? >> we do. we have several types of boats. have you regular like flat boats. we have air boats gator tail. we have a variation there that can get us through pretty much anything u and then we have tons of life jackets and flow station devices. ropes, things like that.

so -- have somebody get somebody into safety. chainsaws and such to help us clear roads we need to ahead of us. pete: jordan, god bless you guys. thanks for what you do. >> thank you very much. pete: keep yo us posted. ed: i mentioned todd piro a moment ago. we got him back up. obviously transmission can be difficult under these circumstancesment todd is live in myrtle beach. what are you seeing? >> remember before i said the wind before was blowing away from the shore and then that wind shifted? well, they are blowing on shore. take a look. you can see the surf here much different than it was yesterday at this time. yesterday at this time you could possibly go out there. right now, nobody is going out there. and this is causing the storm surge, this is the storm surge that they have been warning about for about a week now. combine that with the rain. again, projected 8 to

12 inches of rain now from now until tuesday. combine that that's when you will get the flooding that's been around with here in north myrtle beach, south carolina. it's such low lying area. combine that with the rivers and tributaries that are throughout south carolina. that's where you get the inland flooding. so, as you can see right now, wind coming down -- i mean rain coming down, wind definitely hitting us. the ocean, not happy right now. it will be interesting to monitor this over the next 24 hours to see how much flooding occurs. we spoke with the -- one of the officials from the town here at north myrtle beach and said they are worried about erosion. it is going to happen with this next high tide cycle. that's their big concern. ed: todd piro the hood is up must mean there is more rain out there. rain until tuesday in north myrtle beach. get back with you todd. thank you. pete: secretary of state mike pompeo by the way

current secretary of state he has a message for the other guy for meeting with iran. >> this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror. it is beyond inappropriate. pete: you guessed it. he was talking about john kerry. now john kerry responding unleashed. we have his melt down in a live report from washington coming up next. ed: sticking with the story many people in the path of florence choosing to ride out the storm. next guest is making sure people stay connected on social media which can be difficult when the internet is down. he joins us next to talk about the rescue efforts to keep people in touch and communicating. ce dispenser, find me a dog sitter. -okay. -and make ice. -pizza delivered. -what's happened to my son? -i think that's just what people are like now.

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katie: well, president trump and john kerry trading barbs on twitter. pete: their war of words over kerry's meeting with

the wonderful iranian regime. ed: our man lube cas lucas tomln joins us with more on the feud. >> secretary of state pompeo unloaded on his pretty said sore accusing john kerry of undermining u.s. policy against a state sponsor of terrorism. >> what secretary kerry has done is unseemly. and unprecedented. this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror. he was telling them to wait out this administration. you can't find precedent for this in u.s. history. >> the day before pompeo addressed reporters, the state department president trump tweeted john kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile iranian regime which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the american people. he told them to wait out the trump administration. was he registered under the foreign agents registration

act? bad. now, kerry has denied coaching the iranians. last night kerry responded to the president on bill maher's show. >> the first president ohio know of who spends more time reading his twitter likes. [laughter] than his briefing books or the constitution of the united states. [cheers] >> now, it's not just a twitter war. pompeo also accuse iran of launching rockets towards the u.s. embassy in baghdad just this week. and kerry responded to the president's tweet saying he should be more worried than paul manafort than his meeting with iran's foreign minister. he also plug you had his book and included a link to learn more about the nuclear deal. guys? ed: all about selling the book at the end of the day. lucas tomlinson, thanks for the reporting. pete: so much to say. katie: john kerry would think that paul manafort is a bigger problem than him meeting with the iranian regime who wants to kill people? ed: we have to take that to

the green room. we have to get back to the storm. pete: i agree. ed: one area hit strong by the storm was top sail. many people there chose to ride out the storm. pete: john bradley is one of them facebook group riding it out in top sail the area to help residents stay connected and informed. he joins us now on the phone from holly ridge, north carolina. josh, thank you for joining us. not only did you stay but you created a community for those that stayed. talk to us about why did you and why so many others have as well. >> what we did, it was actually me and a buddy of mine named james lancaster. we were helping out one of the business owners in surf city who happens to be a business owner as well. discussing how they were doing mandatory evacuations of the counties around' us and cities. our area tight-knit group we have seven communities in this little area. we were discussing how it would be nice to know who stayed, who left, and who we could cowpght on if we

needed. naturally, it started as a small group and now grown to over 800 people. more of informative situations. what roads are open? what roads are closed? does anybody need any help? plywood? does anybody need help boarding stuff up? covering stuff up now that the storm has passed. now we are having to deal with the torrential downpour. checking on each other, staying connected, staying informed and making sure everybody is okay. plus, the ones that left the area and the ones that are family members here they might not be able to get ahold of, it's getting the word out to them as well saying hey, you know what? we are okay. this is what is going on. your property is all right. if we can get to your property, everybody so far there has been a big outcry and it's been very helpful to a lot of people. katie: josh, i know you created a facebook page for the folks to stay connected. is the power out? do you have cell service? if you don't have cell service how are you communicating? did you put in a plan ahead

of time a plan b for communication if you couldn't access the internet and your cell phone? >> no. unfortunately we didn't. my personal cell phone went down yesterday. and i had to borrow one. to just be able to communicate. as far as power, most of this area is out of power. running on generators. and that's pretty much -- this seems very holly ridge. of course the entire island top sail island, hampstead, rocky point, places like that that are real close to us. i want to say just about everybody is out of power. i think there might be a couple areas that still has it. ed: josh bradley i wish you and your family well you obviously as you deal with the aftermath of florence. thanks for joining us today. >> not a problem, thank you. katie: turning now to some of your headlines. beginning with a fox news alert. an intense manhunt is underway for a convicted killer. officials searching for arnold nash who escaped from a prison in maine. he was last seen wearing blue jeans and light blue

shirt and should be considered dangerous. nash was serving a 45-year sentence for murder and robbery and scheduled to be released next year. this is his third time escaping a facility. third time. senator ted cruz and democratic challenger will square off three times ahead of election night. cruz and bait toe o'rourke agreeing to one hour debates in the midst of a tight senate race next five weeks. tackling foreign policy in their final debate. texas has not elected a democrat to statewide office since 1994. and over to twitter now. twitter ceo admitting conservative employees don't feel safe expressing their views at the company. >> they do feel silenced by just the general swirl of what they perceive to be the broader percentage of leanings within the company. and i don't -- you know, i don't think that's fair or

right. we should make sure that everyone feels safe to express themselves within the company. katie: jack dorsey recently defended twitter on capitol hill over accusations that the social media platform is biased towards republicans. pete: don't worry it's just a perception of a swirl, a liberal swirl. even that acknowledgment was like what they perceive to be a swirl of liberal marine corps leaning. why don't you just say it we all know it. ed: i thought that might trigger you. pete: i'm easily triggered there is a loft stuff this morning for sure. including this american flag taking on the eye of the storm. a camera outside of a bed and breakfast capturing the tattered and torn as it flew. the owner of that b and b says it's a symbol of what makes america so great. he joins us to explain coming up next. ♪ ♪ in your gut, you feel confident to take on anything. with benefiber, you'll feel the power of gut health confidence every day. benefiber is a 100% natural prebiotic fiber.

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♪ katie: a resilient american flag shredded by florence still stands, blowing in the wind off the coast of north carolina. pete: the powerful image showing the devastation captured on a live cam outside of a local bed and breakfast. ed: the owner of trying pan tower shows us why this flag has become a symbol of what makes america so great. richard, good morning to you. >> good morning. ed: first of all, let's check in to see how you are doing and how is everyone at the b and b and then we will talk about the flag. >> like a lot of places, we lost internet connection so we were on shore for this one and helping out the people on shore that have all the floodwaters. we think the tower is out there solid and standing still. we don't know the status of the flag. we will find out approximately a day or two when they restore service. pete: richard, you know, but this flag being felony live oflown livepeople watching it. it caught people's eye.

was it intentional? did you anticipate it? talk about the symbol of the flag flying at your business. >> well, you know, the internet opens up the doors of our hearts and really allows us to express ourself. we have seen that with veterans and individuals saying take it down or leave it up. it expresses america. what we wanted to do when we put it up there was nothing more than saying this is america. we are proud of it. and we go through storms together and we survive. we hang on and we rebuild. we did not intend to have it get torn apart. but we are not able to get there like everyone else. our focus has to be on shore where we can help people. katie: if the flag is still standing when you get back out there, i assume you are going to replace it flag and banner has donated a replacement flag to trying pan tower, the bed and breakfast that you own. do you have any plans to do anything with it in save it? donate it. >> that's a great question. we have many, many offers of people offering to replace it flag and banner has provided flags and will every month which we are so grateful for. we will give to the american

red cross and allow them to auction it off to provide services to people who need it. we don't want any benefit of it other than people understanding that we all just have to pull together. ed: richard, you alluded to this a moment ago. we are all adults here and we want address it fair and square that it's a wonderful image of endurance as you said and all of us coming together and everyone trying to survive the storm there in the carolinas. and beyond. but, you noted yourself that there are some military veterans who are upset that you did not bring the flag in as the storm was approaching, bring it in before night fall and all of the rest and that was disrespectful? what's your message? how do you respond to that? >> well, when we placed the flag approximately two weeks ago, there was a small storm off of africa and not named florence yet. we weren't able to get back out there to pull it. we do leave it up there. when people are out there by boat many, many weekends we are not out there we want them to know we are america. pete: there is protocol.

i totally get it in this case i love what you are saying. we should unite behind the resilience of this state and country who love america, free people, and so we appreciate that and keep us posted as you get back to your restaurant. will you? >> guys, appreciate it so much. y'all take care and be safe out there. ed: wonderful story. pete: it's cool. ed: tropical florence path of destruction through the carolinas. we are live with reporters on the ground all throughout the state and into south carolina as well. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, ...

>> we are going to have more rain coming. we are going to have more flooding. pete: catastrophic flooding slam ming the carolinas turning towns into rivers almost 1 million people in the dark,

power is out. >> this gas station just rip from its foundation. >> starting to getting flooding in the house. >> the roads are treacherous. pete: two more deaths from tropical storm florence bringing the total death count unfortunately to seven. >> most of the people did get out some of the state. >> it would be like getting into a barrel and getting to niagara falls thinking you're going to live. >> what are you doing today? >> just seeing if everybody is okay. seeing where the high water is at and where it's not. >> help is coming from around the country. pete: the coast guard is out in full force. >> we're moving these assets on up today as we're able to conduct assessments. our hearts are with the people of north carolina. >> we're concerned with the 20- 40 inches of rain. pete: that is a snake. >> another one of the dangers. we're giving you an on the ground look at what people are dealing with.

ed: our reporters are still on the ground all of these rescue efforts underway straight to the fox news alert catastrophic flooding slamming the carolinas this morning rescue crews racing to the scene to save hundreds stranded in fast rising floodwaters. it's now a tropical storm not a hurricane but it's still deadly claiming seven lives including a mother and her infant child. katie: firefighters praying after finding a family crushed by a fallen tree, nearly a million people now in the dark as power outages continue to grow. pete: so powerful. we have live team coverage across the coast, griff jenkins and todd piro in the impact. ed: and rick richmuth tracking the storm in new york but we begin with griff on the ground and he's reached new bern, north carolina, there's about 100 people waiting to be rescued griff what are you seeing sir? griff: well i see a lot of volunteers guys we made it to new bern it's a tough ride up here there was a lot of flooding trees down and treacherous but let me just show you the real

heros of the story and they will be here for a while. this is lisa arnold she drove 11 hours from ohio you're a canine handler with the fire department and lisa you're sort of organiz ing things tell me what's happening with the boat rescues here. what's going on? >> at the moment we're waiting on some maps from the city and we're going to do grids and go door-to-door checking on residents here to make sure everybody is accounted for and all that. that's what we're doing. griff: you've got a lot of boats that rescued the authorities here tell me you've rescued over 375 but a lot of people still stranded >> correct. griff: what are you hearing about the situation? >> the same thing that there's still areas flooded and people need to get out and there's areas that need to be checked so we'll make sure that everybody is okay. griff: i'll just give you a look around. these are the guys that drove from all over one from my hometown of memphis, tennessee. folks from north carolina, south carolina all over the place.

they are here in their own boats on their own time with their own gas and power is still out, it's hard to find fuel, what's your plan? >> well, these guys are self- sufficient ready to go. we had a company that donated rain gear and gloves which was nice. it's bill coast safety products they donated rain gear for everybody here that'll come in handy. just that's pretty much the plan griff: lisa, for anyone that is in this area that might want to donate something where are we? >> we are at grove c fields middle school is where we're stationed right now, so they probably need to get with fire department, or the local pd to find out where they're setting up places like that for donation s. griff: this is sort of the main staging area for the boats in the new bern police department is here, sort of helping organize. what do you need? >> at the moment just maps.

that's what we're waiting on that's it and then we'll get busy. griff: a lot of logistics i want to take one second and talk to some of these guys. what's your name? >> chris tipton. griff: where did you guys come from? >> i come from pensacola, florida. griff: why did you come here? >> man i've been chasing this stuff around for several years just to get out and help someone it makes you feel good. griff: have you been out yet? >> oh, no we've been out we've had several good rescues. griff: what have you found? >> we found some people well about 4:00 this morning in their apartment couldn't get out. we found them because we thought someone was on top of their car, we got him out and he was in shock. we thought we heard someone yell ing and went back in there and they were in there and water already came up to the window so we had to pull them out to the window, just get them in there and pull them out the windows and we had a couple marines with us and they come in there with us and it was a pretty cool, makes you feel good, real good. griff: because you saved a life.

>> well, we did. we did. griff: what's your plan? how long are you saying here? >> i'll be here for a few days. i'll be here as long as i possibly can. griff: we haven't been out in the water obviously this is just happening we rode it out in more head city. what are the conditions? it looks like this is one of the hardest hit areas for the flood. >> well we've been all the way from wilmington all the way around and honestly i think around jacksonville and wilmington it's a little harder hit as far as i know and from what i've seen. griff: what's your name again? >> drayden. griff: where are you from? >> south carolina. griff: you came from south carolina? >> something i come down three years ago for a, the floods in columbia, south carolina, and i heard this one come up and jeffrey actually called me this morning or yesterday morning asking to come here so i figured we would come up here and do it all over again. griff: why did you come?

>> i love helping people. that's all i've ever wanted to do with my life is fire and rescue. i grew up in it so just doing what i love. griff: and what have you seen out there on the water? >> other than the three rescues we had at 4:00 this morning there's been some places that's been pretty steady moving water, some places we couldn't even get through ourselves, but this morning, it was good to help the three people we did. it felt good. i wish we could have got a few other of them but some of the apartments water was already up to the roof line and there wasn't much we could do but we tried everything we could over there. griff: and as you get the forecast, that there's more rain coming, how concerned are you about the conditions out there? >> i'm not too concerned i try not to think about it as much. i keep it in the back of my head of what's going on. my main priority is getting people out and getting them to shelter and to safety. griff: all right so that's the situation here on the ground and as we talk to these volunteers american heros that have dropped

everything. their own resources look around. look at this parking lot. they came with what they had to help people in a crisis. it's really we're going to try and get on one of these boats goes and see what we can do whether or not we're able to do that we don't want to get in the way of life saving we just want to show the story the condition here is obviously rough with rain on the way guys. ed: great reporting that last gentleman saying i like helping people that's all i've ever done that sums up the effort going on right hyped you. pete: from pensacola lisa the first guest you said we're self- sufficient and ready to go. that is about as best a description as americans who are ready at any time. katie: and nobody telling them or forcing them to do it because they want to be there and help their fellow americans in a very difficult situation. pete: what a great spirit in that parking lot. ed: we're going to continue our live coverage and try to get back to griff as that story plays out but fox business network christina partsinevelos is live in myrtle beach, south

carolina. what are you seeing there christina? >> well definitely the ocean is a lot wilder than i've seen it before but the wind is much much lower around we're not expecting anything higher than about 35 miles per hour in this specific region. i'm in myrtle beach, not north myrtle beach and it has improved substantially. there's actually there was a couple walking down the street, walking down the beach just before but overall people seem a little bit relieved that we didn't get this flash flooding. it's still possible though within the next 24-48 hours reason being is that this rain right now is light but we're expected to get a little heavier rain and the concern is that the storm surge which would probably only climb about two feet higher , two to four feet at maximum in this area, would wave into these sand dunes and then you've got to think the inland flooding and that's the big concern, because it takes a while for the rivers to swell up and then starting to move into people's properties and so officials here have warned

people, don't rush back. don't immediately come back to your home to see if everything the damage has been improved or anything like that because they are still trying to fix all of the power outages and that's a major issue still thousands of homes that don't have power and officials need to be on the road s when there's traffic they won't be able to get to all of the homes but overall it seems like it's not as bad as what was to be expected which is good news but still a lot of people that didn't evacuate and are still based in myrtle beach i'll throw it back to you guys. ed: christina thanks for the reporting. pete: let's go to meteorologist rick richmuth tracking the storm with us all morning. rick we hear these reports better-than-expected, worse than expected give us your take. rick: i think we just don't know yet. it takes such a long time roads are closed trees are still down across places it takes a long time to get into areas and get images from that. we've got people stationed in certain spots, but those places in between them by the way, where people are stationed they get into safe spots but when the storm comes onshore, so in a lot

of ways we still don't know and we have a flooding disaster that's about to happen as all that water gets into the rivers and those rivers rapidly rise which is going to start to happen tonight into tomorrow and by the time we get towards tomorrow a lot of rivers at the record crest they've ever seen. this is the radar image of what going on. take a look at the lightning with this band of storms that's continuing to be pulled in. yesterday this storm came onshore just to the east of wilmington topsail beach, we saw steve hairy herigan all day yesterday being hammered with the storm and the exact same area dealing with this line of storm we're about 36 hours in in and still incredibly heavy rainfalling across the exact same area that's not going t move at all for much of the day today you can see especially on the satellite image this dark line and also where the center of the storm is. by the way it's only moving at two miles an hour and in its forward progression so it's really continuing to stall out and that moisture is going to continue to go into the exact

same spot where we've already seen some spots now pushing 25 inches, these are going to pileup again probably about another 10-15 inches before we get say towards tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon so a lot more rain still coming, and then all of that water, gravity pulls it into the rivers and those rivers are about to rapidly rise , guys? katie: rick quick question we heard from a witness earlier with griff's reporting that they had seen a tornado come through. is that still a threat with that thunderstorm going through that you just mentioned? rick: it will be a threat all day probably even into tomorrow when you have a landfalling hurricane there's rotation obviously with that, that rotation plus some other environmental things that happen some other shear that starts to interact with it creates small tornadoes. you see with every landfall and hurricane it was this one we had the threat yesterday, we had tornadoes yesterday we will see that again and where that first-line of storms that i was showing you that would probably be the spot that some pop-up tornadoes. these aren't oklahoma city, that

gigantic ef-5 tornadoes these are like small ef-1 tornadoes but one hits your house it's already weakened from what's happened and can cause very big damage. pete: rick your point about the rivers is such a serious and real one because this water ain't going anywhere and there's way too much of it so if you live in one of those areas. rick: spot on and that river flooding flash flooding comes in fast and gets out of there river flooding takes a long time for that to go down we'll be talking about rivers well above major flooding and in some cases record flooding for the better part of four to five days. ed: appreciate it. we just caught up with some of the rescuers helping people in new bern, north carolina. next, the lieutenant with that police department joins us live to give us an unside look at what they're doing with it this hour. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast...

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ed: rescue crews rushing at this hour to save dozens of people still stranded in rising

floodwaters in the city of new bern, north carolina. katie: this as the death toll from tropical storm florence is rising to seven. pete: joining us now is lieutenant david daniels with the new bern north carolina police department thank you very much sir for being here for your service for what you're doing especially at this moment. you're on the ground what are you seeing what is most urgent for you in your department? >> thank you and good morning. what we're doing right now is still working on our water rescues we're hoping to have those completed by the end of the day our electric crews are working to get power restored we're still down about 6,400 customers without electricity but our electric crews are diligently working to get that up and running at this point. ed: that's pretty remarkable lieutenant because i recall earlier this morning checking twitter feed for the city and i believe they said there were 21,000 out of 30,000 residents who did not have power if you're now saying only 6,400 do not have power that obviously seems like a lot of progress. >> yes they're working diligently and they won't stop until we get it all back on.

katie: how many phone calls came in first of all and how many do you expect to complete for the day? >> we've had not all were phone calls we've been monitoring social media as well, so we've gotten some reports of folks stranded through social media and phone calls, but as of last night we were about 400 that we rescued and we were hoping to finish them up today probably about 100 to get done today and we'll be all done hopefully. pete: lieutenant i'm not a meteorologist but i've been following this and the water rises and it recedes. what are you anticipating? have you seen the peak of danger or are you anticipating future ebbs and flows of trouble? >> well, we think we've seen the worst of the flooding in terms of the storm surge for sure but we do anticipate the water from the flow down river could cause some potential localized flooding so we're preparing to deal with that and making the best of what we have.

katie: so when you do these water rescues explain the scene to us. is it a house where people are trapped because the water comes in, are you talking about apartment complexes, kind of give us some detail on these rescues. sure well they are all a little bit different. many are single family homes that are either surrounded by water and just the folks can't get out, or some of them have been inundated with water and folks are sitting inside with the water in and the rescue crew s have to go in and physically take them out and folks have gone to the second floors or roofs and they're getting them out best they can and each of those. ed: lieutenant last question we understand as well obviously after that rescue, you then have to figure out what you'll do with these folks which you rescue from them their because they can't be in their home and waiting to get power back. as i heard it earlier today i think there's a military installation nearby. where are you bringing folks when you rescue them?

>> well the city currently has some shelters in place. the county has shelters. as our shelters have gotten to capacity we have shipped some down to the marine corps air station at cherry point where they're being housed just to make room for additional folks that need support. ed: all right well we appreciate your efforts on the ground. please reach back out to us as you get more progress. it sounds like you've got a long way to go but there's been certainly a lot of progress lieutenant we appreciate you coming in. thank you, sir. pete: good man. katie: well paul manafort striking a deal with the special counsel, robert mueller but will this put the president in jeopardy? pete: plus, many people still in the path of florence choosing to ride out the storm. our next guest took this video in belleville, north carolina where he's helping his neighbors he joins us live with more, coming up next. ♪ as moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope.

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ed: we're back with a fox news alert the monster tropical storm putting parts of north carolina simply under water. pete: our own jonathan siri is live in wrightsville beach where high tides are already breaking records. jonathan good morning. >> good morning to you, right now we're taking a look at some of the typical damage that we're seeing, no major structural damage, but the bottom portion of this condominium that's up on stilts on the first level used to be surrounded by wooden panel s and here you can see that the heavy winds from the hurricane force winds yesterday knocked over many of these panel s but if you look at the rest of this building, the steel reinforced concrete building, just held up beautifully during the storm, and that's a lot of what we're seeing when we look around this portion of the island. now, during the storm, the main

concern was not so much the wind but the water. water driven by the wind. the storm surge and in fact noaa has a gauge here that measured record 4.11 feet above what you would ordinarily expect during a typical high tide during the brunt of the storm. now, as the storm starts to move away from this area and as the winds die down, the concern is going to be the heavy rains. rains that eventually will affect parts of north carolina and south carolina and the southeast in general, far inland because this is a very slow moving storm, and so flooding will remain a concern even far from the coast. back to you guys. ed: jonathan we appreciate your reporting. pete: good stuff. well, more on the storm our next guest decided to ride out the storm to help those in need. katie: joining us live from his home in north carolina is

vincent ferante. vincent thank you so much for being here. tell us about your decision to stay. >> good morning, yeah we just felt as a family that we had a lot of resources here with our generator and with plenty of water and food that we could ride out the storm. we felt that if it was going to be a category 5, we probably definitely would have left but we felt the house is all brick and we're actually also in the highest elevation in the county, right across from wilmington so we felt we were in a very safe area so for us, its proven to be such. i'll tell you it was a wild ride even though it was only 110-mile an hour gusts but we were able to see it through. ed: so for people who haven't been threw that what's it like. what was going on with you and your family as 105-mile per hour winds were blowing all around you? >> i tell you it's pretty intense. we've got hurricane shutters up so we're well protected but the worst thing is you can't see what's going on outside so we know we've got trees around the house so you're wondering what's

going on and hearing things breaking and so that part is a little bit of a stress as you just don't really see all that's happening, and so it was a little bit of a rough night that first night when it came in friday morning, but now it's subsided, we're looking at 40 to 50-mile an hour winds now so it's not too bad. a lot of rain. pete: vincent you were ready, generator, shutters, all the things you'd want in this situation but i would guess a lot of your neighbors were not and that's part of the reason you stayed so what have you assessed in your neighborhood and folks around you? >> surprisingly a lot of the people around the area are not as prepared as we have our close neighbors here we've got a great neighborhood, everybody is talking and people have generators and food and water but as we branch away from our close cluster of friends and neighbors there's a lot of people who are not so you really feel like staying here and being a part of our community and helping others when we need to now that the storm is passing still obviously we're not out of it yet but we feel we can play a

part in our community that's the one thing about belleville. a small community everybody sticks together our neighborhood is a close knit group so we even gone outside already when there's a breakeven when the eye was passing through talking to our friends in the neighborhood saying is everybody okay, does anybody need anything, what's the emergency contingency plan, we've always exchanged house keys so we're prepared. katie: glad to see it. ed: best to your family. pete: you made a decision and stuck with it good man. appreciate it. ed: still ahead. we're going to continue our live team coverage on the ground in carolinas as the tropical storm florence cavs its path of destruction. katie: plus the u.s. army already out in full force ready to help recovery efforts and the commanding general of the u.s. army core of engineers joins us live with an update, coming up. mitzi: psoriatic arthritis tries to get in my way? watch me. ( ♪ ) mike: i've tried lots of things for my joint pain. now? watch me.

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pete: we are back with a fox news alert. all hands-on deck as rescue teams answer the call for help. ed: volunteers from across the country you saw them in the parking lot with griff coming together to save people trapped in new bern, north carolina. katie: now many are actually bracing for the worst in south carolina as the storm is slowly moving inland. pete: our team coverage continues with todd piro whose live in myrtle beach. todd good morning what are you seeing? reporter: good morning, guys right now check this out. power crews just leaving the scene here in north myrtle beach after fixing what we believe was one of the transformer areas that we saw blow yesterday, when

we were at this very scene. they just wrapped up seconds ago and so while the tv gods take us away, the tv gods also give us back by popular demand come on in here squirrel. we introduce you to squirrel aka richard cook. earlier in the week he said he was going to ride out the storm and he did. how was it? >> not near as bad as matthew was and we were very fortunate when the high tides came the wind was blowing against it, so it didn't even get close to the house, but at 1:00, high tide again, and the winds blowing back toward the house. reporter: when we talked to you all week, stay here my friend, when we talked to you all week you said that's what you were worried about. you said i'm worried about one of those high tide cycles when the wind comes onshore that's what we're seeing now. >> that's what at 1:00 if it stays just like it's now blowing from the ocean it's going to be the worst. reporter: what are you seeing in

terms of flooding at your house? >> we have no water downstairs, my downstairs is on the ground, as you know, and the water has not come in at all, but even during matthew when houses behind was 36 inches deep in water i had no water so where we're standing at is the highest part. reporter: you had one interesting point i want to make talking about your house which was constructed a while ago versus new construction. tell me about it? the squirrels nest, where you were the other day, was built in 1944. i got a few shingles blowed off. across the road we just built a new house and all the vinyl is gone. reporter: we saw that vinyl blowing off yesterday when we were at your house. i got so many e-mails, texts, twitters about squirrel. they wanted to make sure he was safe. here he is in the flesh safe and sound hopefully riding out what for this area could be the worst part the storm surge that

happens at high tide with the rain and flooding combined to cause problems. pete: i don't call you tv's todd piro flippantly. what tv wants tv gets i was wondering about squirrel you delivered and he rode it out. he did. reporter: steve asked me about squirrel, you asked me about squirrel, the nation wants to know. katie: safe and sound. pete: well as slow moving florence and it is, up the coast continues to batter the carolinas the u.s. army is out in full force ready to help with recovery efforts. katie: lt. general todd seminote joins us for more. tell us what you're seeing from the ground and hearing from those working very hard to make sure things go smoothly as possible. >> katie first of all thanks for having us on and all of us in the department of defense are awful proud to serve the great peoples of the carolinas people like squirrel so our thoughts and prayers you got 950,000 people, what we're seeing on the

ground is a change in the storm. the big thing that happened here originally was a lot of whipped and a lot of water. we've seen the wind come down so where the wind would cause more power outages and more debris what our biggest focus on water. from a department of defense perspective life safety clearly is the number one priority and we're working for fema but to be able to get out on the ground and make sure we're doing everything to save lives and this is where dod is all in. the senior leadership of the department of defense sat down with the navy, army, air force and marines making sure we're leaning forward to epochal exes. the marines got the arlington coming in two big ships for the navy to reinforce. we've got army patrols doing search and rescue today so just a lot of work by department of defense to lean forward on this. pete: general yesterday you mentioned an astonishing number of dams on these rivers where you're anticipating a surge. any concerns there? >> there are a lot of concerns and right now there's seven big

rivers that feed into this affected area. we've got 10 federal dams, but maybe as many as 8,000 state and local, so we've got our teams out working very very closely, we want to make sure the structural integrity of those da ms not at risk and we don't see any significant challenges but there are people right now, but the bigger question here is in the next three or four days is all this water continues to come into all these dams, and these rivers got five or 10 different dams in line how does that cumulative effect end up having some degree of stress on these very very full rivers. katie: are we worried about breaching of those dams, considering we're seeing potential for record rainfall? right now we're not. we're worried about overtopping in other words a structural integrity has nor water to come down but what happens is if you end up having too much water in some of these, that's why we've got repair teams if in fact the state or the locals see a challenge when they will come into help build those dams back

up. ed: appreciate you coming in. >> we're awful honored to be able to help out whatever we can do for the people of carolina. ed: let's go to rick richmuth also tracking the storm rick what are we seeing this morning? rick: their job is going to go on for a number of days because we'll see those rivers rise tomorrow and into monday, a lot of them as you were saying, katie, above the record breaking levels they've ever seen. this is a latest look at the radar image i want to look at this band of storms you always hear people say the center of the storm which is now just here in south carolina that that's what pulls the energy. it does, but you still have air moving across the warmer water and that pulls up still a lot of moisture and that's what you're seeing with these outer bands very similar to what we saw with harvey. when the storm came onshore in texas it was nowhere near houston but that's what flooded from those outer bands that continue to feed that moisture in. this right here is surf city and just below this is topsail beach

where if you were watching yesterday steve herigan was being battered by the storm. he's under incredibly heavy rain still and now we're talking about almost 36 hours later this line of storms is not moving at all we'll see eight to 10 inches of rain pileup from this so the flooding threat is going to continue eventually it moves inland guys, and all of that water moves into the rivers we're talking about the big flooding coming this week. pete: that's it right there. rick thanks a lot. katie: turning to your headlines we begin with a fox news alert. a mother of a child murdered by msnbc 13 gang members is killed by a car at her daughter's memorial. evelyn rodriguez is fatally struck after a confrontation from the neighbor two years to the day her daughter was stabbed to death. she was preparing for a vigil honoring her daughter advocating against the gang violence rodriguez joined us on fox & friends with a clear message. we shouldn't be tolerating this type of behavior at all, whatsoever. these are kids.

kids can, that shouldn't be tolerated at all. katie: rod rodriguez was a special guest, and president trump tweeting my thoughts and prayers are with evelyn this evening along with her family and friends and more breaking news, a texas police officer passes away overnight after getting shot in the line of duty fort worth officer was killed during a shootout with robbery suspects and less say he was shot while running from officers after robbing a bar. cop on scene fired back and killed him. he is a 17-year department veteran leaving hyped a wife and two daughters. and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort strikes a deal. manafort pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. the plea bargain relating to charges involving his work consulting foreign governments and allows manafort to skirt a second trial in washington d.c. the white house says the deal is totally up related to the

president. and moving over now a flurry of deadly gas explosions prompt a state of emergency in massachusetts. one person was killed and at least 25 others injured following a series of blasts in more than 60 homes north of boston. the governor removing the company behind the explosion from local operations and putting in another one to be in charge of the response. experts believe that the gas lines being over pressurized may be to blame. those are your headlines. pete: crazy. ed: absolutely and john kerry he's back taking a cheap shot at the president. got the maturity of an eight year old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl. [laughter] ed: oh. the former secretary of state's complete meltdown, that's next. s like concert tickets or a new snowboard. matt: whoo! whoo! jen: but that all changed when we bought a house. matt: voilà! jen: matt started turning into his dad. matt: mm. that's some good mulch. ♪

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ed: first it was barack obama, he came back. pete: he did come back.

his secretary of state is back. we had an election which means we have a new president and a new secretary of state mike pompeo. if it appears that john kerry didn't get the memo because as previous secretary of state they get to go around the world and they've got a status but they don't get to continue to attempt to conduct foreign policy. ed: give speeches, talk to people, promote america. be on board with where america is. katie: so john kerry has been accused of shadow diplomacy. he's admitted to meeting with iranian officials after leaving his post at the state department yesterday the current secretary of state mike pompeo called john kerry out from the official podium, let's hear what he had to say. >> what secretary kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented. this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror. he was telling them to wait out this administration. you can't find precedent for this in u.s. history. it's inconsistent with what

foreign policy of the united states is as directed by this president and it is beyond inappropriate for him. pete: well said, ed and for a secretary of state to go to the podium as you said officially and to make that declaration. ed: he went out and said i'm reacting directly john kerry had been on a few days ago saying this is normal all former secretary of states do this and no the current isn't of state said this is unprecedented. you can meet with people but meeting with people to undermine the current administration there's something called the logan act by the way. katie: and a situation with the number one state sponsor of terrorism iran so there's lots of questions why john kerry is with the en it any and trying to undermine current foreign policy but the interesting thing that we should watch moving forward is you had this official statement from pompeo yesterday. president trump is calling what kerry is doing illegal. i think you might see the trump adminitration take more official action. ed: and he knows he's under the

microscope so last night he went after the president on bill mahr the first president that i know of who spends more time reading his twitter likes than his briefing books or the constitution of the united states. [applause] he really is the rare combination of a eight year old boy, with the maturity of an eight year old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl. >> [laughter] pete: it's not clear there's anyone more than john kerry. he ran the world so well. isis, iran deal. it was all great. you did a great job when the adults were in charge. ed: by the way is madonna firing up the women's march now over the shot at teenage girls some katie: or the irony of the behavior of chirp while also name calling is also interesting exactly, well anyway moving along to adults, this group of volunteers now searching for people in need of help in the

hard hit town of new bern, north carolina. griff jenkins joins them as they desperately look through the floodwaters, next.

pete: we're back with a fox news alert. tropical storm florence claiming at least seven lives in the carolinas and the nightmare is not over yet. katie: the storm pounding the coast with rain and heavy winds prompting catastrophic flood warnings. ed: lauren blanchard is still there in the impact zone in wilmington and joining us live good morning, lauren. reporter: hi, ed, pete, katie yeah the rain is coming down once again in wilmington. it's only let up just a little bit and actually it's starting the rape is starting to pileup a little bit at least where we are standing in wilmington they have sustained a bit of damage. i was just talking with the deputy police chief of

wilmington and he said they are thankful a lot of people evacuated this area because of the amount of trees down and he thinks fewer lives were lost because people were out of the homes and unfortunately we do have two deaths in wilmington a mother and an infant killed when a tree crashed into their home. the other thing the deputy chief here telling me they do have reports and have quite a few folks trying to loot overnight so now they have patrols watching and trying to restore power and clean up the roads. listen to how the governor of north carolina, roy cooper, described florence yesterday. hurricane florence is powerful, slow, and relentless. it's an uninvited brought who doesn't want to leave. reporter: and the big concern today is going to be the flooding even though the worst of the storm is at least away from this area in wilmington there is expected to be a lot more water. pete, ed, katie, a statistic

we're hearing from one meteorologist he is guessing by the time this storm fully moves away it will have dumped some 18 trillion-gallons of water in its path. you have to imagine just the amount of flooding that's going to cause not only in the carolinas but all the way up in that projected path. ed: i'm not good at math but this sounds like a lot. the thing is with that amount of rain which is historic you think you can control or know what's coming next but as rick has pointed out, all bets are off. ed: let's stay with our ten us ing live coverage griff jenkins has been on the ground and he made it to new bern, north carolina where everyone has been focused because that's where people are still stranded and a lot of volunteers trying to help, griff. griff: yeah that's right. we're still with chris tipton and we're on a rescue. i'm going to talk to you about that but first let you see this is an area right adjacent to the

river and look at this boat. an entire boat carried hundreds of yards out of the neuce river and you can see in this parking lot of a hotel just the devastation that was here it's unbelievable, someone trying to get this boat out of here, obviously unable to do so, and look at this is actually a double tree hilton i believe, a hotel back there, and the water we were able to look a little bit through the windows looks like it came up about half way through the first story and let me just explain to you guys a little bit with chris and darden so you're working, sort of how we found this location tell me what happened and how we ended up here. last night we work in rescues in jacksonville and i had a report of a rescue in this area, and our group and i'd seen him down here and it was a residence and they had water up to the second story of the home and he was able to get all of the members

out i believe it was two adults and three kids we were able to get out so we come down here just to double check and make sure if anyone was trapped we could get them out as you see the water lines receded which is good news for us and that means there's no one else potentially trapped here so we'll keep looking through our dispatch and keep looking at what we can find for rescues in the area anywhere else around. griff: chris as we look in the parking lot, look at the water was clearly here very recently. in your experience in doing this it's good news when we see there's no one that's got to be rescued at least in this small area. >> when we were coming down the road the water was back up the road another two blocks and here , the water would have been over our heads where we're standing right now, just a few hours ago. the water will come up that fast and it goes back out that fast and it still has to go somewhere so there's other parts that this water it's going to go to and

flood other parts. there's lots of rescues going on right now and just next town over the next town over, we have different paths to tell us what rescue needs to be done. griff: chris let me give you a quick look and we'll stay and see what they are doing but chris talk to me talk about being self-sufficient you have a serious rig here. you've got lights, equipment, what's in this thing? >> well this is actually a bow fishing boat. this is what most people go out on a platform, fish at night with their bow and you take what you got. whether it be a fishing boat, a duck boat. you take it and you do what you got to do with what you have. griff: all right guys well you're getting a look at the boats that they are in and you're getting a look at the devastation of what this water is doing here we're getting a few drops here and not good news for the folks but in this very

area along the neuce river where it was yesterday and this hotel parking lot the waters gone for now. ed: griff do you have any sense of a game plan because we heard overnight there were about 100 people still stranded we had a police lieutenant from new bern on saying they are making some progress. any update on the game plan moving forward and any idea how many people are still stranded? griff: ed is asking is there any , what's the game plan, the new bern less saying they are actively pursuing about 100 today are you familiar with what the game plan is going forward? >> coming out of newborn they are going door-to-door for all of the boat crews coming out of there and there's a ton of people we have in new bern, a lot of boats. i'm working with people in my group working on what's going on in newport. i've had one crew. griff: all right thank you very much. we got to let you go. ed: more fox & friends on the other side. thanks, griff.

katie: great show. ed: we'll be back tomorrow. katie: coverage of hurricane florence, tropical storm florence continues rescue efforts underway we'll see you tomorrow. pete: good saturday. ed: have a good one. neil: well, she is persistent florence is still soaking and soaking and soaking the carolinas flooding from the relentless rainfall is the biggest concern right now. we're going to take you live on the ground across north carolina , south carolina the entire region here is the latest we could tell you we've got more than two feet of rain falling so far in some parts of the southeast much more is expected that's on the way the storm is expected to trench the area right through tuesday and also rainfall totals could eclipse 40 to 50 inches. authorities involved here think hundreds who decided to stay and stick it out more rescues are underway right now as w