plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. ♪ oh, what a relief it is! >> latest details out of carolina coast as tropical storm batters catastrophic damage and claiming at least six lives. >> nearly a million homes and businesses are without powers as crews work to remove down trees and there were also mandatory evacuations who are still underway right now, the city of pay -- fayetville, those near little river are asked to evacuate, threat of injury or loss of life. i'm molly. >> and i'm mike emmanuel. >> hi, mike and molly the take

away is extreme rainfall because the storm is moving slowly, 2 to 3 miles per hour, potential of heavy rain and storm surge, wind gusts of over 40 miles an hour for a widespread area, this is going to be a prolonged event also short-lived fast moving tornadoes, tornado watch in effect for much of north carolina through the afternoon, here are the rainfall totals, we have surpassed hurricane floyd back in 1999 so we are now at the rainfall totals prove correct the tropical cyclone on record for north carolina. it doesn't matter about the category, this is going down in history books. the tornado threat is going to be ongoing throughout the afternoon, no tornado warned storms but we could see the threat short -- or weak tornadoes that could cause structural damage. 30-inches of rain within the

last 12 to 24 hours, it will continue along dropping more heavy rain and the flash flooding will be ongoing so flash flood warnings in effect for such of north carolina, south carolina we are concerned as well as virginia, we are at at least moderate or major flood states and as we go through times, this is 36 hours, the flooding potential extends through virginia, widespread events, at once storm starts to move we will get the flooding towards tennessee and ohio river valley, but here is the area that we are concerned, we are at historic levels and the rivers and that's why we are getting evacuation notices and that's going to be unfortunately the scene -- scenario as we go through the next couple of days and streams can't hold anymore

water. we got a new one as of 2:00 p.m., still a tropical storm, not moving much in the next 24 to 48 hours, eventually it will get picked up by cold front, it'll move through ohio valley and into northeast and we will actually see the potential effects over the next couple of days across the northeast, also before we go, tropical season, we are at our peak right now, we are watching several storms right now, there's florence, these systems here in the atlantic aren't going to affect us but isaac could regenerate and possibly affect the gulf of mexico over the next couple of days. all right, mike and molly, back to you. >> really driving home the point that there's enormous amount of water there, thank you, janice. janice: got it. >> tropical storm florence is crawling very slowly across the carolinas right now still causing the catastrophic flooding and widespread power outages as it moves further inland, ellison barber on the ground in marion, south carolina

where as much as 30-inches of rain have fallen in the area. ellison. >> hi, molly, we are getting word that first death related to hurricane florence in in the ste happened at 9:30 p.m., officials in union county say that amber dawn lee was 61 of union county of south carolina died in a single vehicle fatality, they say that she was driving and hit a tree that fell across the road because of winds because of hurricane florence. we heard officials talk about how the winds were a concerned but more than anything they've been worried about the rainfall and potential for flooding throughout this weekend but affable in union county the winds are what is being blamed for the very first death in this state. on the whole, people say that storm is not as bad as expected. a lot of people in marion county, they remember hurricane

matthew, they remember being without power for days, they say a lot of them that they went out and bought generators in preparation for the storm. we caught up with a couple of people in gas station nearby, really the only places open, one was with mother and stepfather filling up gas canister to take back home to keep generator running. another person we spoke to, he was out working trying to clear some of the debris despite the fact that the rain is still coming in preparations perhaps this storm to get worse in this area, take a listen to what we heard. >> we had two trees fall on our yard yesterday. it wasn't as bad as we thought it was going to be. we got wind and rain. >> matthew was a lot worse, matthew with a lot of trees and this year maybe two or three trees. >> a lot of people grateful this wasn't as bad as expecting.

officials are saying this isn't over yet and expecting rainfall to continue through the weekend. they expected river flooding conditions to develop over the course of the next two days, this river here is the pd river, it's a river that started in north carolina and flows down into south carolina, a lot of into south carolina, a lot of from north carolina. they said one of their big concerns is that not only will they take on water from the rain in the state of south carolina, but also all of the rain that we have seen up in north carolina that that will travel down and potentially cause big issues, river flooding and possibly potential issues with some of the basins, officials say highest priority has been the pd river basin trying to take precautions to make sure when the river flow into that and more water comes into that from north carolina and south carolina, they don't have a major issue on their hands, some people i've spoken to say they

remember hurricane matthew where a lot of dams didn't hold that time around, for a lot of residents, even though they feel like this is not as bad as they were expecting, they still feel there's potential for trouble and officials are warning everybody to stay put and stay inside and wait this out, molly. >> ellison driving important points, she stands in the water about the waters continuing to rise, ellison, thank you very much. >> joining us now for a look at how the federal government is responding to florence we bring in fema deputy administrator daniel, daniel, thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> what's your assessment at this stage? >> well, so far the storm is tracking as expected. the landfall was made, the winds decreased and flooding has increased. what you are seeing major inland flooding throughout the area in carolinas and soon to be moving north ward. i tell you what it's moving 2 miles an hour, this is ongoing threat for carolinas for quite

some time. >> what are your biggest concerns, daniel? >> it's the flooding and impact of the flooding, that's why we propositioned assets for flooding, water rescue teams, those are part of urban search and rescue team, firefighters and paramedics to perform rescues and as well as department of defense with high-water vehicles and helicopters, also the national guard is absolutely deployed in each of these states and are absolutely supporting these efforts. >> we've had our crews around the clock going place to place trying to look for damage and trying to see the impact of the storm, have you seen evidence of people needing rescue in big numbers or is there an ongoing rescue operation that maybe we haven't gotten to yet? >> no, i think the local officials will have a better idea, the rescues underway right now. >> okay. >> the other thing is fema is providing supplemental assistance, we are providing

specialized equipment that the local and state governments may not have had in advance of this storm. the vehicles and helicopters, but the ones employed, states guard as well as local first responders. mike: when you have a crisis of this nature you have multistate, lots of communities, coordination between the federal state and local partners is critical, your assessment of how that has gone so far? >> again, we didn't just start coordinating today, we have been coordinating throughout the planning and preparedness, i say we are about where we need to be, we've had great communications with the state, in fact, at our daily 12:30 video conference we got great updates from the states, we are all in good shape as it stands right now but we are prepared to do whatever is necessary as soon as these waters move, as soon as the storm moves further ashore. mike: for folks who have taken shelter as basically encouraged to do or really told to get out,

they're obviously interested in getting back at some point, what's your advice to poll incomes shelters right now and that concerned of what's left in the neighborhood? >> i say focus one on friends and family, there are 20,000 individuals in shelters across the carolinas right now. i'm very proud of the work of nongovernmental organizations such as american red cross sitting right behind me doing the shelter and feeding mission, but, yes, individuals are going to be coming back, destruction certainly on the coast and as the flooding continues, it's inevitable they'll be damage, what i did say the president did declare disaster for the state of north carolina, for those of you in the area, download the fema app, the weather alert and emergency alert as well as emergency assistance, so you can apply for fema assistance right on our app. mike: daniel we have seen 130-mile an hour winds gone but the rain and rivers continue to rise, what is going to be the

mission over the next 24 to 36 hours from fema's perspective? >> life safety, we want to make sure that everyone is safe and everyone is on high ground, in a safe space as the storm continues to move west, we are going to see the impacts continue, like was mentioned by your meteorologist, it's not just the rain, it's the flow that's going to be coming down river and the river and flooding will cause extreme impact, this is now a historic storm. the most rainfall that north carolina has experienced, they'll be severe and ongoing impacts. mike: daniel from fema, we thank you for your time, we know that you have been working around the clocks with your teams there, we wish you the best on the dais ahead as we try to all recover from hurricane florence. >> thank you. mike: thank you. >> we heard about the massive amount of water in carolinas from janice dean. we heard ellison barber where she talked about concerns of pd river basin and water coming

from north carolina and we are getting word of evacuation in town of wade and live coverage with steve harrigon in north carolina with the latest there, steve. >> molly, the strong winds have left now but the rain continues, we have gotten more than 20 imps of rain and we could still have another 20 ahead. the danger from that a lot of the roads are getting overtopped with travel making rescue operations extremely did i feel. we saw our team this morning, that's where the hardest winds hit over the past 48 hours. as far as damage to the houses goes, there was some structural damages, roofs off, balconies, mobile homes were hit the hardest, the police have checked on four people on the island who road out the storm but sand over the roads blocked initial attempts but they made it earlier this morning, we spoke

with one man who road out the storm, a trucker and here is what he had to say. >> it was rough, i was getting ready to leave -- i said, all right, this is all, i'm going to stay right here. >> hundreds of thousands of people still without power, 12,000 people still in shelters, 5 dead from this storm and it's very difficult operation for those power operators to go out, there's a lot of debris on the road, live wires down when ever you try to drive in every direction here, molly, back to you. >> very teenagers situation on the ground and particularly getting around is concerned, we appreciate it. mike: live to fayetville, north carolina where officials are providing update on florence there. >> you to make your decision, you can't hesitate, you need to decide where you're going, we will talk about that a little bit further in terms of potential evacuation decisions. while the storm appears on the

surface not to be intense as we discussed or as expected, this is not the case, the worst is yet to come as the flood waters from other areas are accumulating north of the county and filling the river basins beyond capacity. mandatory evacuation shall commence immediately and all persons in evacuation areas shall be evacuated by 3:00 p.m. september 16th, 2018. all persons who refuse to fail to comply with mandatory evacuation order shall do so at their own risk and put on notice that emergency and rescue personnel, first responders may not be sent into flooded areas within the area to be evacuated after the deadline for evacuation passes. if you have questions about state roads go to north carolina transportation department website and also available at 511 and all ways of interstate 95 are closed from exit 65 to 81 and alternate routes are posted. drivers are cautioned that high water has been reported off 210

and the spring lake area. shelters are still available within the county and residents could go to the following shelters, as of 11:10 a.m. this morning, 556 people are in the 7 emergency shelters, power remains at at the mac williams middle school and w.t. brown due to generator issues, county shelters have capacity of 1,025 occupants and i will go through the shelter capacity and population as it to do the morning since this. cuanos recreation center, current population, 62, pass east 100, mac, 44, maximum capacity 105, pond force high school, 82, maximum capacity of 225. seventy-first high school, maximum capacity of 295, current

population is 104. smith recreation center, current population is 59, the maximum capacity is 100. south view high school, current population of 173, maximum capacity of 310 and wt. brown elementary school, current population of 32, and capacity of 90. so with that information in mind, i'm going to turn this over to commissioner jimmy keith who is our liaison through the fire department. >> thank you very much for coming out today. i'm joined by commissioner charles evans and commissioner michael boost. as our assistant manager and emergency service director has mentioned, please don't be fooled when you see the speeds come down, the flooding is real and what we are only not getting is the increase and escalation of flooding in our area, the increase and escalation flooding

upstream is compounding that and you're going to see a dramatic rise in the cape fear river. this is not something we have taken lightly but as of this moment right now emergency personnel and law enforcement volunteer fire departments have gotten notice to start going door to door to start informing residents of their situation. just on the way up here, we saw a number of down power lines, it is not safe out there, please be safe, the safety of your families are something that just cannot be replaced, all the buildings and everything else can, please be prudent with your families and take those measurements, keep in mind that both the south view shelter and pine forest shelter who are not at capacity now but very well maybe do in the future do accept pets, if that's one of your concerned about what you're doing with your pets, take them to the shelter, those are the only two identified that are entering emergency service director and public affairs staff is monitoring the shelters

very closely, they have options possibly open more depending on capacity. this is a very, very serious situation, get on social media, get on your text messages, get on e-mail if it's still working and let your people know, let those families that you know and friends that you have if they live in this area, please take heed, this is an unprecedented storm in our area and at that i'm going to real quickly commissioner evans, do you want to say something? >> good afternoon, we would like to remind each citizen to take this seriously, this is no joke, everything needs to be taken with all the power and might that you have and make sure that everyone is taken care of and please follow the messages, the information that's given to you by taking cover and doing the right thing to protect yourself, this is just not information that we are just putting out here for fun, it's information that we hope that will save

someone's life so please heed to it. >> one last thing on the shelters, please inform everyone, bring your medications, bring -- if you have pet food, to care for yourself, the power outages will not be measured in hours, they are working hard, i know, but be prepared for long haul, thank you very much and at this time i will turn it over to the mayor of the city of fayetteville. >> thank you, commissioner, i am joined by colleagues, council members kathy and dan, dj and donnie, jim art and council member larry wright. i think i've got everyone. folks, i'm about to say something that's not scripted but it's serious, if you are in these areas, this is a serious life-threatening matter, if you refusing to leave during this mandatory evacuation, you need to do things like notify your

legal next akin because the loss of life is very, very possible so please adhere to this, this is not a talking point, this is not a script but we are saying this because we are concerned. the worst is yet to come, mandatory evacuations with areas within 1 mile of cape fear river in fayetteville and the cape fear river mandatory is effective immediately till tomorrow september 16th till 3:00 p.m., should evacuate at their own risk, national weather service has predicted catastrophic flooding of the cape fear river and other local waterways, matthew levels rose 58 feet to put in perspective. residents in flood-flown areas should go to one of the county shelters or residents of higher ground, family, friends.

the city put websites that were flooded during matthew and may be flooded in this event. we are particularly concerned about the residents and all residents in low-lying areas and flood-prone areas so please take this assess yourly. flood waters predicted to rise higher, so i repeat the worst is yet to come, get to your higher ground, once flood waters rise it would be hard to come to your rescue and before i leave i would like to remind everyone that if you need transportation, the number is listed here to my right, so please call that number and you will have transportation coordinated to get you to a safe place. also the red cross is asking those who would like to volunteer your services to go to redcross.org and go through the process and they will instruct you from there to help to assist in any way, please take this

serious, these words cannot be reiterated enough, god bless. >> at this time i would like to introduce police chief hopkins. >> so the -- sorry, reiterating that sending out the message as much as possible, we are going to be working to try to get a reversed 911 call where the fire chief and i will be doing our best efforts to get out there on intercoms or door to door as much as possible, but this is a large area that we need to cover, lots of ground. city is also working very hard to try to create a map, a map for the areas to see a visual to put out as quickly as possible. right now you have the information, the mile from the river, i have a curfew in the city, it's from 7:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. that means from that time period

in the nighttime you should not be out, the only reason at this time you should be driving on the road is first of all to be evacuated and get to higher ground or assisting someone to be evacuated from their homes in those areas. so please, as you are also on the road trying to get away from those areas be safe. we already had an accident where safety was destruct and we don't need that occurring at all, so please make sure you drive safely during time periods, while the evacuation is occurring, during the time period of the curfew 7:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. but you have time now to reach out to anyone to get -- to evacuate from those areas and just reiterate we would be making attempt to send out recording on reverse 911. >> thank you. to reiterate, this is a serious situation that we are facing.

we are prepared to help you but we ask you to help us. few you have in the area prone to flooding, heed advice that's been given, go to our -- oh go to our shelters but more important to that just as important go to our websites to be with information that's provided. you will see fire departments or personnel and providing specific information, we ask you that if you're not sure approach so we can make sure that we clarify the information that's been given out and give you additional information that can help protect you. above all, take this very seriously because we do, thank you. >> thank you. okay. we will take questions.

sheriff, did you have anything? i know we talked previously and you may have something. >> everyone said what i was going to say so i won't go over it again. again, take this serious. if you are in those areas that's been mandatory to evacuate, you need to leave, okay, because as i said before, we might not be able to get back in there where you're at so we you need to take seriously to what we are saying up here seriously, you know, i know everybody like their property but i value life over property, so you need to go ahead and move out from the area. as i said before, as the chief said, the deputy is already out, starting to knock on doors, also if you know that have a neighbor that's elderly or so, help your neighbor out, make sure that they get out also, just don't think about yourself. this is something that will affect everyone in the county so

we have to work together to get through this, but, again, if you don't have to be on the road, stay off the roads, as she said before, we -- the water is standing, people are on the road, you need to stay on the road. again, we have curfew in effect. the only reason you're in the roadway if you're going to shelter this evening, again, thank you. mike: officials in fayetteville, north carolina sounding the alarm saying the worst is yet to come from tropical storm florence warning of historic flooding home of the little river and the cape fear river and fayetteville, north carolina sound familiar to you, proud military town as the home of fort bragg, major u.s. army installation, they are warning folks should get out, they are word about the impact of rivers, flooding to record high levels in the hours ahead, so, very serious situation there in north carolina, now as tropical storm florence moves inland,

authorities along the coast are weighing recovery efforts, let's bring in south carolina state representative joins us from myrtle beach, representative clemns nice to have you, what's the situation in your town? >> i'm in myrtle beach, america's favorite beach front community, we've had the brunt of the storm come through, we are fortunate myrtle beach, we faired much better than our neighbors to the north, yes, we have down power lines, we've got trees town, we have stoplights that aren't working, we've got in our county, we've got about 45,000 without electricity now but there is no great structural damage, structures that we have seen, the infrastructure is intact, it is certainly not the impact that we are expecting from this storm before it -- before it hit land.

>> representative clemens, what's your advice to folks that evacuated, stay a little longer for assessment to continue or what's your advice? >> well, mike, you've heard from our neighbors in marion county of the impact of river flooding expected in that area. we have a number of rivers that are expected to exceed flood stage, our last big impact, impactful storm was matthew, we expect the rivers in this area to swell well beyond the levels of matthew and bring significant flooding to the area and in some places flooding the highway that is provide grass to our area, so we expect those impacts to begin upon the highways, the 18th on tuesday, we believe that the governor is considering lifting the evacuation order as early as

tomorrow. we are hopeful that that would be the case so folks can come in and replenish their medicinal supplies, their groceries, et cetera because we have significant concerns of the impacts that following next week. mike: state representative alan clemmons, my family and i would be back as soon as possible, we are glad the community was spared much from the storm. >> thank you. >> live conditions on the ground in carolinas as tropical storm florence dumps a massive amount of floodplain the region. our rick live with reporting conditions, rick. >> and molly, three days of this and more rain in the forecast, the big issue is trees all over town, we will have update on clean-up efforts coming up after

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mike: correspondents doing great work, how are you holding up, rick? >> we are okay, mike, but the city of wilmington is dealing for a lot of problems and primarily right now is from all the tree damage, you see crew down there, they are working both sides of the street trying to get the debris, the trees, the branches an all of that out of the road, they have to do all that before the utility crews can come in and get power back on. all the rain that's been falling, we can show you where some of it is going, the storm drain right here, listen to this and at some points the describes will get overwhelmed and the water has to rise and go

subpoena -- somewhere. take a look at this true, that's another big concern when people try to get home, their power lines down and that could cause some major issues for folks around here. we just took a ride around wilmington and saw other work crews, clears big trees and branches off of major roadways, divided roadways to try and allow traffic to better pass through at some point and we shot video short time ago, mike, just down the road from the edge of historic district where it's pretty clear that twister touched down, we saw roof off and there was a big tree knocked down and lifted huge chunks to have sidewalk, and further on down from there we saw other trees that have been splintered and clearly a line that looked like twister had come down and

rift right through there and there were tornado warnings across the area, i think they got hit with some, again, the rain is still coming down, mike, and the clean-up just now getting started. mike: rick, the visuals are pretty incredible, thank you so much, you and your team are doing a fantastic job, we are grateful to you, be safe. >> thank you. >> all right, major air travel disruption as tropical storm florence reaks havoc grounding planes across carolinas and causing more than 2,000 flight cancellations since wednesday, for machine insight on this, director of wilmington international airport, she joins us on the phone and how the storm impacted airports not only in the region but also nationwide, julie, thank you for taking time to join us, i'm sure you guys are pretty busy today, give us some inside on how things are going in the ground? >> thank you, molly, it's a pleasure to be with you today,

we are certainly challenged in wilmington, i think this small coastal community will rise to great heights. my staff has been working since wednesday and thursday to prepare for the storm. we went all day yesterday through the storm just battling the wind, rain and leaks, of course, we have backup generators since midnight night before last, so we are hoping that the rain will stop and we can start to assess the damage and get the airfield back up and running so we can have commercial flights here sometime on monday. >> give us an idea of what the airfield looks like, we are seeing reports that wilmington seems with strongest wind gust since 1950's, a lot of trees down in your area. >> yes, ma'am, the trees really aren't issue however we are watching the water, the rain water and the flood waters currently the airfield is high and dry, all the pavement is dry, we are able to open the field for visual conditions but

we are working hard with our partners at faa to get some of the instruments up to we can open for instrument flight rules hopefully tomorrow by noon and restore this important to the community. >> yeah, i'm sure a lot of people scrambled out of the area prior to the storm and some stayed behind perhaps hoping it would move quickly will now be seeking a way to get out. how soon do you think that things will be back up and running for travelers that want to head out? >> again, our three carriers, american, delta and united, they are certainly looking from their operation centers, we are hoping that we will have some flights established on monday but we have a lot to do between now and then, we had prime power core of engineers a few minutes ago, a team assessing a generator that we need to have either replaced or prepared so that we can board the aircraft in the boarding area, so we are on backup

generate ner main terminal but we will need the second generator operational before we can start commercial flights. >> you know, julie, former army engineer officer, i'm sure you have seen a variety of scenarios, when you look at the challenge that you're facing right now in the next 48 hours, is it big, do you feel that you've got a handle on it? >> well, certainly i have a great team ilm, we know that duke power is working very, very hard and try to reestablish power. if we can get line power back to most of this area, that will be a big relief to the community and allow all of us to recover, until then, we are working on generators, we are looking for fuel, we have to be resupplied through eoc and all emergency management channels. they're all working very, very hard and as closely as we can, again, this community is strong and resilient and we will continue to do whatever it

takes, each doing our own role no recovery to get wilmington to where it needs to be. >> significant concerns right now for loss of life that's a priority for a lot of folks considering some of the dangers from rising rivers so travel can be dangerous right now. so hopefully in a couple of days we see people safely reboarding flights, thank you so much for taking a few minutes out for us. >> thank you so much, molly. >> still ahead campaign manager manafort strikes a plea deal, what manafort's cooperation means for robert mueller investigation

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>> president trump's former campaign chair paul manafort striking a deal with special counsel robert mueller, the white house down playing the latest guilty plea saying it is, quote, totally unrelated to the president. gillian turner live with the latest, hi, gillian.

>> good afternoon, mike, former trump campaign manager paul manafort with full cooperation with special counsel robert mueller. the deal requires him to assist with the russia investigation and in effect transfer manafort allegiance to the government who may very well rely on testimony in the future. now news of the deal broke days before manafort facing trial number two of over ukrainian political consulting work and legal team is hunkering down for the storm. >> accepts the responsibility and he we wanted to make sure that his family was able to remain safe and live a good life, he accepts responsibility and this is for conduct that dates back many years and everybody should remember that. >> president trump's own team circumstancing the wagon, rudy giuliani offering this, once again an investigation is concluded with a plea having

nothing to do with president trump and the trump campaign and the white house telling the press pool yesterday this has absolutely nothing to do with the president and victorious 2016 presidential campaign, it's totally unrelated. at the end of august, president trump himself tweeted his sympathy for one-time senior aide. he said i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike michael cohen, he refused to break, make up stories to make a deal, such respect for a brave man. now while probing manafort's case federal prosecutors landed another dc power broker in cross hairs, former obama white house counsel craig, prosecutors to bringing charges against craig also associated with ukraine, craig like manafort is believed to have conducted the work without ever registering with the justice department as foreign agent, something that's required by federal law.

mike. mike: gillian turner live here in washington, gillian, thanks a lot. >> former trump campaign aide struck a deal with deal with mueller this week. joining to discuss how this could impact the russia investigation. gillian turner gave a great report detailing a lot of the reaction, including reaction from the white house, sarah sanders saying this has absolutely nothing to do with the campaign and do you think the president, the white house should be worried? >> yeah, i mean, that remains to be seen, we will know if they should be worried based on manafort has to say about that. i think it is important to point out the fact that manafort was campaign chair for the trump campaign for a brief period of time and before president trump entered the white house. some of the house why they are not word about it is because he didn't really have a lot of contact with the president while he was president. >> now, there's been long floating idea that manafort

wouldn't cooperate and wouldn't flip because of the potential presidential pardon he might be seeking, now we are seeing a degree of cooperation, we don't know how much he's cooperating with mueller's investigation, but is that a concern, does that mean that there's no pardon? >> right, that's really what remains to be seen, right, i think that this is something that's going to be tested legally in the months going forward, can you create a deal that is pardon-proof, i think that that remains to be seen and that's going to be interesting question going forward. i also think that prosecutors are going to have a tough time kind of selling manafort's credibility in terms of what he has to say about this because as part of the deal he did, you know, admit to lying to the government, he admitting to obstructing the investigation, are you then going to use this -- what this person has to say in another matter, i think that that's going to be a tough sell for the prosecution. >> this should be one closely watched, all right. thank you for joining us. >> thank you.

>> i want to take things to south carolina, governor henry mcmaster. >> previously closed will be open for business on monday. so i will say again, evacuation order is still in effect for the evacuation zones, all of them in georgetown counties and that does not include the entire county, however, those entire counties, however, school closures and state office closures are still in effect in the entire counties of orie and georgetown. again all school closures except those in orie and georgetown counties are now, right now immediately returned to the local school authorities and all state officers previously closed will be open for business for monday. i want to say again, this has been an exercise in

professionalism by people all over the state including volunteers and the citizens themselves. we've had help from nine different states as well as president trump's involvement in south carolina and we have a great team here in south carolina and now we will foresee it on with reports from some of these team starting -- >> thank you, governor. all of south carolina is now turning towards wellness checks and doing search and rescue, we will be actively patrolling the coast, we already have our first flights from the coast guard and national guard out looking to see if anybody needs any help. we continue to coordinate with our department of defense,

homeland security and fema partners to prepare for the floods that are coming and those consequences and we are repositioning other assets to be able to handle that. i think as we look, we have no calls for -- that is a good thing because the governor's evacuation order would rather evacuate and rescue and the storm took a turn to the north at the last minute. the citizens of south carolina cooperated with that evacuation order and so they did not put themselves in danger. >> another update from officials about the very dangerous situation they have there on the ground rising waters continuing not just in south carolina, north carolina as well and they were talking about just the dramatic amount of assets that have been move intoed this area

that nine different states have helped with the response in this case and they continue to reposition assets to areas where they believe they'll be needed next. mike. mike: molly, tropical storm florence bringing heavy rain and winds, jonathan hunt in conway, south carolina with the look at the conditions there, jonathan. >> mike, interesting the governor, governor henry mcmaster and other south carolina officials there paying tribute to the work that the various agencies have done so far, but also pointing out that the threat is far from over and the big threat from florence is now flooding and that threat is inland in cities, small cities like conway, population of 22,000, 20 miles due west off myrtle beach and rivers that you see right in front of us here that are threatening to break banks, if you look at camera

right, the left-bank of the river as you approach the ocean here, you can see that that has topped the bank on the left-hand side, you can see a blue sign on one tree as our camera man takes a look at that, that marks it entrance to a walking trail, clearly you need a boat to take that trail right now and as dave looks up river, the road bridge that you see in the distance there is one that has actually been topped before, a local resident who has been here a very long time was telling us just a few moments ago that that was topped in the wake-hurricane floyd in '99 and also this river reached flooding stage, hurricane matthew but we are told by officials that this week in the coming days this river could reach record levels, surpassing those it reached even during floyd and matthew and in that case there are many homes

and businesses along the side of this river in conway, one of the businesses right here, in fact, a children's center that would be under very, very grave danger of flooding, so that is the great concern, not just here now but along the banks of many rivers in south carolina and indeed in north carolina, this remember could take several days to manifest itself to fullest extent. the waters are coming down here from the continued rainfall obviously, they are meeting with the ocean surge that's coming up this way, that essentially means at some point there's no where for the waters to go but over their banks and that can sometimes take 2 or 3 days following the storm itself and following the end of the rainfall and as you can see right here, we are no where near the end of the rainfall yet. it's a situation that's going to develop over the next 24, 48, 72 hours perhaps even longer but it is one that officials both here and south carolina and in north

carolina want residents along the river banks to be very aware of and to heed any warnings that officials give them and if they are told to evacuate, get out immediately, mike. mike: you're a veteran correspondent, how do you rate florence with some experiences over the years? >> generally i would say that people are breathing a sigh of relief that there wasn't more destructive than it could have been and certainly when it was category 4 out in the ocean we feared the worst, it dropped obviously considerably, the winds by the time they came in but i think you have to listen to officials when they say this was never going to be ultimately as it came ashore a wind event, it's really going to be a water event and that is why, mike, they want everybody to remain on the guard for days to come, mike. >> i'm going to jump in real quick, this is molly, quickly, ellison was there on the ground

in south carolina talking about the water coming in from north carolina and concerns about it coming down, how quickly could the water be rising there? >> well, the water is rising, talking of this river specifically, molly, we have been here a couple of hours and i can tell you that our crew, camera dave, producer kelly burke, we have all noticed that this river has physically risen just in those couple of hours and you're right, a lot of the water that falls in north carolina comes through rivers into south carolina, so a major concern what will happen in the next couple of days. >> thank you, jonathan, we appreciate it. thanks everyone to watch it, we will hand it over to eric sean and arthel neville. >> thanks for watching. ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration,

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eric: new mandatory evacuation orders issued those within 1 mile of the banks of the cape fear river and officials warden today the worst is yet to come. amid potentially-life-threat ening waters of hurricane florence. it's dumping epic amounts of rain and triggering massive floods. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters for this afternoon i'm eric sean. arthel: and i'm arthel neville, we will take a look at the carolina where is the storm has killed at least 6 people and left millions of homes and businesses in the dark. now the eye of florence right now crawling slowly near the coast while half