month. and that's it for today. have a great week, and we'll see you next "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ arthel: and this is a fox news alert. the anonymous accuser of supreme court nominee judge brett out of the shadows. "the washington post" now reporting that the woman behind the allegation of sexual misconduct is a 51-year-old college professor in california, adding that the accuser is breaking her silence about the alleged incident. hello, everyone, and welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm arthel neville. eric: welcome on a busy summer. be new details on -- on a busy sunday. lisa page testified early on investigators could not prove there was colleague between russia and the trump campaign, that by the time special counsel

robert mueller was appointed. rich edson is standing by on the north lawn of the white house with much more on that. but first, let's get white house reaction to the stunning washington post report kavanaugh's accuser going public >> reporter: good afternoon. the white house is standing by brett kavanaugh this as the woman has come forward, and she's now detailing her allegations. this is all in "the washington post," just come ott in the past hour or so. it's published christine ford's and he were in high school, he was stumbling drunk, pinned her to a bed, groped her and put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream. ford claims, quote: i thought he might inadvertently kill me. he was trying to attack me and remove my clothing. rod shaw tells us, as the story

notes, we are standing with kavanaugh's denial. last week ford told -- or, excuse me, judge told the weekly standard that it's absolutely nuts, i never saw brett confidential letter to senator dianne feinstein of the account. it leaked, and then feinstein announced last week that she was referring that case and the letter to the fbi. the san francisco chronicle criticized her handling of it, accusation she had received in july, feinstein did a disservice to her judiciary committee colleagues who might have wanted to have determined if corroborating accounts were available or at least question kavanaugh about the accusation in a closed session. instead, feinstein's colleagues were left in the dark. now, feinstein has just come out with her own statement responding to all of this. she says it has been ford's decision on whether to come forward, that she respects the timing of that, that she has referred this now to the fbi,

and she believes the fbi should conduct an investigation before the senate continues to move forward on kavanaugh's nomination. ,úg. about the story as the week rolls on. anwhile, the president has been focused on the mueller investigation. >> reporter: he has. and also an interview that the house intelligence committee chairman devin nuñes gave to futures" in which nuñes says he wants to make public about 70 different depositions of what he calls the corrupt officials at the fbi. >> i think full transparency is in order here, so i expect to make those available from our committee to the american public here in the next few weeks. >> reporter: all this as special counsel robert mueller's investigation continues, and he's just reached a plea agreement with the president's former campaign chairman, paul manafort. back to you. eric: all right, rich, thanks so much. arthel: president trump is

standing by his nominee as democrats are renewing their call to delay the senate supreme court. amber, a breaking news editor at "the daily caller." so, amber, jumping right in, is this now-public allegation of the research psychologist, 51-year-old christine blasey ford, is this a game changer? now, it is an allegation, but forced to stop the clock? >> you would think that this would change the political calculus for republicans, but i think that's very unlikely. we're the still looking here even with an accuser on the record, we're looking at an allegation that goes back three decades, it's an allegation that has discrepancies according to "the washington post"'s account, and senator feinstein, remember, sat on the allegation for three months during the nomination hearings and also didn't tell other senate democrats about it. and when she sent the letter to the fbi, she retracted the accuser's name.

so all of this points to a last ditch effort to delay the credible. accusations, so right now it's a he said/she said situation based on something that may or may not have happened when the parties involved were teenagers. arthel: and, of course, senator feinstein said she felt it was ford's decision to come forward and, of course, this is all unfolding, and there are some apparently after getting married that ms. ford is on record with a psychologist or a psychiatrist having had repercussions, if you will, or latent the thoughts about what allegedly happened back in high school. again, we don't know all the specifics, these are allegations, and late word from the white house right now. in fact, deputy the -- principal deputy press secretary rod shaw saying, quote: as the story notes, we are standing with judge kavanaugh's denial. will we, amy -- amber, excuse me. ultimately, will we need to hear

run its course? been trying to delay this until after the midterms, and then cow saw this show during the nomination hearings where you have one senator comparing himself to spartacus and another spreading a false claim that brett kavanaugh referred to contraceptives as abortion-inducing drugs. this whole thing has been a disaster. at this point i think republicans are just trying to get it all over with and out of the way. arthel: understood. but do you not think the fact that this woman has come forward and showed her face, if you will -- again, they're allegations, but she stands by

pause. again, emphasizing allegations. but just yesterday, amber, you probably know that the number two democratic illinois, tweeted this, quote: i am calling on week's judiciary committee vote. the american people deserve to know who judge kavanaugh is, but republicans are trying to rush through this nomination while concealing critical part obviously the nominee's record. there are far too many questions swirling around this nomination. hashtag what are they hiding. so now back to you, amber. are the republican senates still in control -- senators still in control, or do the democratic senators now have one hand on the wheel? >> well, the democrats certainly have more of a case now that there is an accuser on the record. but, of course, republicans are still in control because they're to get kavanaugh, and they're the ones who control the senate. right now they're looking at 52

votes for kavanaugh provided that the two swing gop senators, collins and murkowski, don't vote against him. but they're still looking at a relatively easy confirmation process. democrats have been trying to delay the hearing for weeks now -- excuse me, the confirmation vote for weeks now because of documents they say the republicans have been holding. it's important to note that there have been more documents produced for kavanaugh than the past five supreme court justices combined. so to say that republicans are not being forthcoming about kavanaugh's record really isn't accurate. arthel: and what you're talking about, another part of senator during by's tweet -- durbin's tweet the, he said republicans were hiding documents for 35 months when he was a top adviser to president bush and worked on controversial issues like wiretapping and banning same-sex marriage. and so that is what you're, in part, referring to. again, if you could -- this is

all unfolding. amber, if you could take us behind the scenes according to your reporting and your knowledge there inside d.c., as the dems push to delay the vote and the republicans work hard to push it through and now with this public allegation from christine ford, how does this change everybody's strategy? >> i think the most important part of the behind the door strategy is looking at if democrats are going to coalesce on around this on the record accuser. of you'll notice after feinstein revealed that she had submitted it to authorities, a lot of democrats are reluctant to join that cause because they felt that the accusations really weren't credible, and also they disagreed with the way their colleague had handled them. the interesting thing going this accuser and use it as a real reason to delay the hearing. republicans are going to try to fend that off as much as possible and keep the vote as

scheduled to get kavanaugh confirmed. arthel: amber, breaking news editor of "the daily caller," there. >> thank you. eric: the fox news report that former fbi lawyer lisa page testified behind closed doors that investigators could not find proof of collusion before special counsel mueller was appointed back in april of last year. her testimony before congress the other week, former federal prosecutor stephen muller joins us, law professor at the university of memphis and a criminal defense attorney. steve, what do you make of the fact that ms. page allegedly claims that in may of 2017, months after the fbi investigation began, the fbi down possible collusion, they claim? >> well, it's certainly indicative of what the state of play was at start of the mueller investigation. i'm noter the by shock by it -- terribly shocked by it.

the investigation had only been going on, as you say, for a getting absolute proof of collusion at that point may not have occurred. that doesn't necessarily mean there couldn't be proof develop later on, as you well know. since that time, of course, in july of 2017 revelations emerged about the trump tower meeting and what some of the participants supposedly knew about the purpose behind the meeting. so there have been later developments, but at thejqñ?ñ? t least it was only in the early stages of the investigation. eric: that's an important point. when she was pinning down that timeline, before the meeting was made public and before they would know about it. >> that's right. uh-huh. explanation according to the foxnews.com report. let me read it to you, saying it's a reflection of us still not knowing. it still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing. probably not nothing-nothing, as

we'll probably know more than that by that point. outcomes, the most serious one obviously being crime serious enough to warrant impeachment, but on the other scale that, you know, maybe an unwitting person was, in fact, involved in the release of information. but it didn't ultimately touch any be senior, you know, people in the administration or campaign. let me repeat that last line, she says it didn't ultimately touch any senior, you know, people in the administration or campaign. but then the revelation later at that meeting where you're got paul manafort, jared kushner, show there was collusion, it was part of the government of russia's support of donald trump and that they had information that would incriminate hillary clinton. so how does that fit into this? >> well, i think as you accurately point out, that happened afterwards. at the time that lisa page was

the mueller investigation, they weren't sure there there were any senior people in the campaign who actually knew about the interference by russia or the attempts by russia to help the election. now we know that as of july 2017, it eventually became aware, you know, public knowledge that during the campaign in the summer of 2016, as you pointed out, the chairman of the campaign, mr. manafort, his top adviser and george jared kushner -- son-in-law jared kushner all were in attendance. so that actually may change the know that trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, has indicated that he's ready to testify that mr. trump actually did know about it. now, of course, the other side will attack his credibility, and there's still a lot more to come. but i think focusing on a lack may of 2017 is sort of beside

the point because there have been later, subsequent material developments. eric: and as you just pointed out, what does it mean if, indeed, manafort, donald trump jr. and jared kushner, as you said, were aware of the action of that meeting? critics would point out that's, you know, collusion or conspiracy they think, and that's something that the special prosecutor is really zeroing in on. >> right. so, you know, on one hand i think trump's lawyers can legitimately say that collusion itself is not a legal term of art. collusion by itself is technically not a crime. ranking members of the trump campaign actively knew about russian attempts to interfere with the election and to help the trump campaign and still attended the meeting anyway and to any extent the encouraged or actively cooperated with it, that might be considered the about it, it would be considered to be an impeachable offense. it might arguably be violation

of aspects of several campaign finance laws, perhaps some sort of conspiracy charge. and, certainly, anything that happened later on that looked like there was an attempt to cover all of that up would, therefore, legally be obstruction of justice. so not necessarily by itself smoking gun evidence of a technical crime, but suggestion that there might be something that were various crimes and certainly something which, if it was tied to trump personally, would be in the opinion of many senators probably an impeachable offense. eric: and finally, the ñp:0jéb-kl-gc=noo, the supporters and lawyers, rudy giuliani and others especially -- have really attacked lisa page and peter strzok, those texts that were clearly anti-trump, they feel clearly going after the president, trying to prevent him or derail him. and in a new text or e-mail, we've got some information that strzok actually talked about, quote, an investigation leading to impeachment. does that show that he already tried to get the outcome or that he's trying to gin up something

that could lead to the impeachment of donald trump? >> we'd rather not see that in investigators. on the other hand, the inspector general of the department of justice did do an investigation about this period of the investigation

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get worse over the next couple of days before they get better. we can show you evidence of the flooding right here in the town of leland which is just south and west of women mington -- wilmington. you can see some police officers there, those are sheriff's deputies from winston-salem who came down here to help out. you see that road next to them, we watch a high water vehicle rescue some residents who could not get out of that neighborhood because of the water blocking the road. if you have a truck high enough, you can get through, but take a look at that intersection down there. that's the i-140 and i-17 interchange. and you might be able to see the roof of a car in the middle of that sewer change. i'med told -- interchange. i'm told it's about 5 feet deep in spots over there, and beyond that intersection there are a couple of subdivisions where there were dozens of people trapped in their homes, in some cases several feet of water inside their homes, and those people were rescued again by high water vehicles brought out

here to this area or so they could then be taken to a shelter. the rescues, apparently, now done in this particular area, but, arthel, there are a lot of people who got trapped and many more people who could be trapped in the days ahead. arthel: and, rick, i know yesterday authorities were telling me if you see a barricade, like if a street is barricaded, at the front of that street it may look clear, but it's blocked off for a reason. >> reporter: right. and it's often hard to tell just how deep the water is on a roadway. and some of these roadways dip down into, you know, very low areas, and people don't expect it. and, clearly, the person who was driving that vehicle right there was not expecting to wind up roof-deep in water. probably just trying to get to the highway and get out of town when the fresh mandatory evacuation orders were issued for this particular area because they knew these rivers and creeks around here were going to start swelling. and again, arthel, with all that water coming down, all that rain coming down, and we had some heavy squalls here earlier today the, it's going to flood again.

and the good news for some of the folks around here is that they are restoring some services. there has been some power restored here south and west of wilmington. and some areas of wilmington now getting power back. 700,000 or so, at least, customers without power. we passed a gas station up the road there, two of them that were open. and there were lines of perhaps 100 cars or more of people trying to get their fuel. we talked to a couple of drivers. what's this experience been like for you? >> it's just another storm, a lot of high water, flooding. >> reporter: how bad do you need this gas? >> oh, need it bad. i don't have no gas in my generator or nothing. >> reporter: getting that fuel to fill their tanks and also fill generators at their homes where those folks still don't have power as they struggle for services here. and, again, you know, these flood warnings remain in effect through tonight. we had tornado warnings overnight, arthel, and a touchdown about a half hour from

here. that's another ongoing situation. arthel: rick rick leventhal, thank you very much. eric: meteorologist adam klotz is in the fox extreme weather center. we just heard rick say, you know, reported tornado warnings, squalls, flash floods. what's in store? >> reporter: well, all of those things you mentioned continue throughout the day today. as we're looking at really the center of circulation now over portions of inland south carolina, but all the activity the, all the rain still stretches off back towards the east, that's why we still have pockets of heavy showers across north carolina and some of those tornado watches that have been in place. actually, that little area there in the pink highlighted is a radar-indicated tornado. it means there's a little bit of circulation, and all the ingredients are there. continuing to see heavy rain. they're always small, it's always short-lived when you have a hurricane or tropical storm-driven tornado, but it's something to pay attention to as we continue on through our

sunday. the rain, obviously, has been the big story and will continue to be so. this is our radar-estimated rainfall situation, anywhere from 20-30 inches of total rain, and we do have the a report of 30.5 inches in one spot. really all along the coast. that's where we saw these really big numbers. this is a state record for a system to move on through, 30 in. s, just a lot of rain. nowhere for it to go. you get that much rain, and you do begin to see flooding in rivers. that doesn't necessarily happen right away, it takes a couple of days for all of that rain to come and get into those rivers. we do expect to see either moderate or major flooding in all of these area rivers by monday, tuesday and wednesday. so even though by the time we get into monday and tuesday this system's completely left the area, flooding is going to continue which makes it even worse. here's the path of this storm, and it really does pick up speed tonight and into tomorrow, actually by the time we get into

tuesday, eric, here in new york city. we're probably going to be seeing this system move through our area. the rain's going to be a whole lot lighter for us. but that's good news because we need it to move out of the carolinas and get those people a chance to the assess what's going on. eric e erik especially and the flooding, the historic, epic flooding, that's expected to be the story. arthel? arthel: meanwhile, fema teams are hard at work conducting rescue missions with other agencies trying to save lives under very difficult conditions. fema's chief predicting earlier today a long and frustrating recovery ahead. and joining me now over the phone is david paulson, he is a former fema chief and senior adviser for bill strong. if you would bear with me, i have some very specific questions that i'd like to ask you regarding fema's process. first, if you could tell me what is the agency's process to send checks to those who will have to rebuild or repair their houses? >> yeah.

they have centers that people go to and apply for stuff. somebody will go back to the home and do a damage assessment. now, don't forget, this is not in addition to insurance. arthel: yeah, we're going to get there, yep. >> this is uninsured losses. so they will take the information from the individual, and they can either do it online or they can actually go to the center where they gather everybody together there, and then they'll send somebody out to do an assessment of the home and see what their losses are, what their needs are and then start moving money into that, in for that person. arthel: and i understand that fema is going to work really hard to be as quick, work as expeditiously as they can. and as you well know, many people are suddenly calling hotels, shelters home. many of them will need help getting basics. we're talking about groceries, clothing, temporary apartments. what about more immediate money for people like that? >> yeah.

fema does do that also, but don't forget there's also red cross, there's other not-for-profits that are out there helping people to take care of those immediate needs they need today. so fema doesn't work quite that fast, but it does have money out there for people for food, for water, for shelter. don't forget back to katrina, we've got to put people back in school, when they were closed when they were out of the state somewhere else. so there's a lot of opportunities there for people to get assistance not just from fema, from a lot of other places also. arthel: i remember after ryan that a lot of my -- the after katrina a lot of my relatives were displaced, and people are very, very acod dating, they're very willing to help. you just mentioned that that you were displaced by this hurricane -- now we're talking about florence -- and people are very willing to help out. as you well know, many insurance companies don't cover flood and wind damage, and many residents don't have policies with nfip which is the national flood

insurance program. do you have any add vice for those -- advice for those residents? >> this is going to be an issue because a lot of these people, like you said, don't have flood insurance. and so they may not have the money available to rebuild their homes. we ran into this with katrina in new orleans and other places, and it makes it very, very hard to get funding for these people to rebuild these homes who have been there a long time. a lot of times there's not even a mortgage on the home anymore. so it's something we're going to have to deal with, as a community we're going to have to deal with. arthel: and you make a great point, because we know that insurance doesn't make people whole. and so no fault of theirs, so now you don't want to end up with blighted homes. you live here and right next door to you is someone who can't afford to get their home up and running again. so that's an idea. i don't know really how to make this happen, but i'm just throwing it out there somehow to pool it together. and i may sound a little bit crazy, but i'm just saying in terms of the community, you

don't want your property value going down, you don't want your community to suffer as a whole because people can't get back in. and the economy suffers. >> you're absolutely right. we're seeing the same thing right now in the keys. we had a lot of homes damaged, and people did not have insurance. and there's a lot of debris there, the homes are half destroyed, and they just simply don't have the funds to rebuild it. and it makes the whole community look bad. we ran into it in new orleans. luckily, we had people like habitat for humanity that came in and helped build people new homes. but you can only go so far with that. arthel: yeah. but you're right, habitat for humanity did great work, they continue to do great work, and that is another resource that people can turn to. david paulison, former fema chief and senior partner, global emergency situations, i think i have the name of your company right, do i? >> that's correct. arthel: okay. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. eric: coming up in a bit in our newscast, we'll hear from a congressman from south carolina on what government can do to those who have been so affected

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arthel: a u.s. border patrol agent charged in the murders of four people and the kidnapping of a fifth person. juan david ortiz was arrested in texas as he was trying to make his escape. jeff paul is following the story from our west coast newsroom. jeff, what can you tell us? >> reporter: authorities got

their break in the case when they say ortiz abducted a sex worker this weekend. she managed to escape at at a gas station, eventually giving investigators a detailed description that led them to the border patrol agent. investigators saying ortiz ran from webb county sheriff's deputies who then tracked him down, finding him hiding in a truck at a hotel parking lot in laredo, texas. authorities believe he's responsible for the killings of at least four prostitutes. based on the information and similar manner in which the sex workers were killed, investigators are calling orr 'tis is -- ortiz a serial killer. the agency released a statement sending their condolences to the victims' families writing in part: while it is cbp policy not to comment on the details of an ongoing investigation, criminal action by our employees is not and will not be tolerated. authorities believe ortiz acted alone. the names of the victims haven't been released, but investigators are planning to give an update on the case on monday.

arthel? arkansas -- arthel: jeff paul, thank you very much. eric: people on cape cod on high alert. the first deadly shark attack in massachusetts in more than 80 years yesterday. bryan llenas joins us with the details on this. >> reporter: really a tragic and rare event. 26-year-old arthur was boogie boarding off of cape cod when he was attacked by a shark. he, however, succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at cape cod hospital. this is the first shark attack death in massachusetts since 1936. he was about 30 yards offshore when his friend when all of a sudden beach goers saw violent thrash aring, the man was bitten on his leg down to the bone. dozen os of people rushed to get him out of the water and onto the beach. people tied cords around his leg to try to stop the bleeding, they did cpr, but it was too

late. >> the man was bleeding from his legs. they ran as if their lives depended on it, and they jumped right in, and they did everything. there was nothing many that people could have possibly done in such a -- it was a dire situation. >> reporter: this attack happened in wellesley, massachusetts. it's an area popular with surfers. there's no word yet on what type of shark attacked him, but several seals were seen in the area at the time. this is the second shark attack off of cape cod in as many months. in august a 61-year-old new york man was bitten by a great white shark. he's still recovering. a state senator tells "the boston globe" that the number of shark sightings has increased as the local seal population has rebounded thanks to federal protections. he believes these seals are attracting more sharks closer to shore, calling on more preventative measures. and wellesley beaches are closed until further notice. there were no lifeguards present

because it's after labor day, and there have been 53 shark attacks in the u.s. in 2017, eric. no fatalities last year. eric: and some are pointing out he was wearing a wet suit, which are black, and maybe this shark mistook him for a seal. tragic. arthel: and, bryan and eric, terror of a different start in massachusetts after does thens of gas explosions across three towns leaving one man dead and many more hurt. the latest as uneasy residents return to their homes there. plus, as florence continues to slam the carolinas, authorities now warning of the next major threat. a live report from south carolina coming up ahead. ♪ ♪ it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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eric: residents knot of boston are hoo return to their homes after that dead thely gas explosion on thursday forced thousands of people to evacuate. those blasts destroyed dozens of

homes and also killed a teenager when the chimney of his home was blown onto his car. electricity has been restored to nearly all the homes so far, but a gas service remains shut down while officials continue to investigate what caused the explosions and fires. the gas company, columbia, doing work at the time had reportedly been linked to three previous gas explosions. arthel: and the death toll from florence rising to at least 15 people now in the carolinas, and with more rain expected in the region, officials now warning the biggest problems will play out over the next few days. they expect extreme storm surge and high winds to hit areas already devastated by massive flooding and where downed power lines have cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. ellison barber is live in dylan, south carolina. what's it like there now? >> reporter: hey, arthel. you can see, yeah, the rain is coming down. it's been come anything waves.

we're traveling around this afternoon with the south carolina national guard in one of their high water vehicles. this vehicle has been out on a number of missions this morning to try and rescue and check on people who are trapped in their homes. right now they're waiting to get some more information for another mission, but the problem here is, obviously, this rain -- again, we've had some breaks, but this is an area that is prone to flooding, and the concern officials say right now is flash flooding and also river flooding. they're worried in particular statewide about the pd river basin which they say will flood over the next couple of days. we're not near that. i want to show you some of the flooding here that the people are experiencing. we have some video that we were able to take as we travel through some of these hard-hit parts. we saw people sitting on their porches unable to leave their homes. this high water vehicle that we've been traveling with, they were taking people over to a local middle school so they could stay there and stay safe.

there are people who are stuck at this gas station where we are because they can't get out of here either. this, right here where i'm standing, this should be a roadway but it's, obviously, flooded. people have been trying to make their way through here, but across this way you can see more where you should be able to see grass, instead it looks like there's ponds, flooding. this car is trying to make its way through one area as well. unfortunately, five people have lost their the lives in the state of south carolina because of this storm. officials are saying, yes, you've made it through perhaps some of the hardest parts of the actual storm, but none of this is over, and there's still a lot of cause for concern. people here are trying to stay inside, and at this point just stay dry. arthel: ellison barber, thank you very much for that update, be careful. eric: and we're joined by south carolina congressman tom rice. congressman, you're in the bull's eye. we can just see the rain is coming down, still being

pounded. people are are still being evacuated. what are conditions like where you are? >> you know, the coastal areas in north carolina, we're just ravaged, but in south carolina we feel like we were blessed because we were told we were going to get a category four straight up the gut, and it ended up being a category one to a tropical storm. we got, you know, a lot of rain and buffeted, but i think it's going to be able to open businesses pretty quickly. but the inland counties are the place where all that water that fell in north carolina, they roll across the border into south carolina which includes my inland counties. we are bracing for the worst. it is still raining. some of these inland counties have got 10-15 inches in the last 24 hours. we were down at the pd river looking at houses and preparing for the storm, and they said the rivered had risen 4 feet in the

last 24 hours. so these guys, they had a bad flood two years ago in matthew, and they're being a little snake bit. we're still having houses rebuilt in this area with fema monies from two years ago. and is we're trying to get people back in their homes from that, and now we face this. we're hoping and praying it's not as bad as we think it's going to be. we're prepared for the worst but hoping for the best. eric: absolutely right. and we are praying along with you and your folks. you raise a good point. the focus on the coast when what we're going to see over the next few days, massive and epic and possible historic flooding inland. and that seems to be one of the new developments when dealing with all that water that has no place to go. >> i've been spending the last two days going through shelters where people are out of their houses for flooding and for power outages. i'm in a car right now with

sheriff brian wallace in marion county, and we just left the shelter, and we were touring some of the low lying areas, and they're evacuating people from these low-lightening areas. we know the water's coming. we can see the gauges, you know, up in north carolina reaching up close to record levels, and we're just telling people you've been through this before two years ago, people are paying a rot more attention. it -- a lot more attention. it hasn't flooded here in 50 years until two years ago, and people were caught a little unawares. well, guess what? they're paying attention now. there are probably, i don't know, 4 or 5,000 people in shelters in the northern part of south carolina right now leaving these low-lying areas and preparing for this storm. eric: well, we certainly hope the folks in the shelters keep the faith, and you can get everything back to normal, but it will certainly take a lot of time because of that flooding. congressman, thank you for joining us this afternoon. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, sir. arthel: thanks, congressman. new developments overseas with

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missile test near the airport and the capital of damascus. according to the state media, syrian air defenses intercepted several israeli missiles, we live in israel with the latest. reporter: thank you. that is the is really military targeting a deposit of damascus reportedly the depot was storing weapons for the iranians. now according to state media many of the missiles fired by the israelis were intercepted by the syrian air defenses. israel is not commenting on or confirming the strikes but according to benjamin netanyahu saint israel is constantly working to prevent enemies from arming themselves with advanced weaponry. adding our lives are sharp as ever and determination to enforce them sharp -- strong as ever. they look to discourage iranian

expansion in the region. currently they are on the ground in syria people israel is focus on around the mission for the united states and syria remains defeating and destroying isis for saturday forces stormed the village of -- with that you asked coalition help. isis coalition was killing a number of kurdish fighters in eastern syria but the focus on the ground certainly remaining on the northwestern province where there are currently more than 3 million civilians and a potential military operation in the works. arthel: the news continues after a short break.

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consequences for years. she said she was able to escape at night. judge kavanaugh has denied allegations in the white house says they stand with him. arthel: we're going out to read at the white house. reporter: good afternoon. white house assaying a standby there nominee, brett kavanaugh is as he denies this. she claims that one summer night they were in high school he was doubling jump, pander to a bed, groped her and put his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. the site is saying i thought he might inadvertently kill me. he was trying to attack me and remove my clothing. she says she escaped when his friend jumped on them and she ran out of the room. he said that this is nuts and he never saw judge kavanaugh

act that way. then last week feinstein and she turned over information about kavanaugh to the fbi. now in a statement feinstein says quote - i support mrs. ford's decision to share her story and know that she has it is in the hands of the fbi to conduct an investigation. this should happen before the senate moves forward on the nominee. no other senate democrats are calling on the senate to hold off on advancing the judge nomination. republicans say it is disturbing that uncorroborated allegations from 35 years ago are now surfacing on the eve of the vote. especially as democrats had the information reportedly as late -- as early as late july. arthel: meanwhile the president

is also focused on the mueller investigation. is that correct? >> yes he is tweeting about what he calls the russia hoax. he talked about it in which nunez says he will release 70 -- quickly thank full transparency is in order. i expect to make those available from the committee. to the american public in the next few weeks. reporter: the committee top democrat peter schiff is responding pretty says in a quote - during the rush investigation republicans on the house intelligence committee repeatedly promised to release all transcripts when the work was completed. then reneged when it it became clear it would show how often they would act as defense lawyers for donald trump rather than objective factfinders. adam schiff says he hopes the committee votes to release all of the transcripts. back to you. eric: rich, thank you very much. eric: for more on the accusations of christine blasey ford against judge kavanaugh,

we have the associate editor of the washington journal and fox news contributor. how -- to hold the possibility that the nomination could be derailed? >> this is the important part because up until now it was anonymous allegations. and what you do about that? you have a person on the record saying that this is what happened. at a minimum, what it will do is go into the committee and it will have to be discussed. feinstein says she's ready turn this over to the fbi. and the political moment we are in, in the last 18 months or so, the movement of #me too and attachment to harassment in the workplace. corporate chiefs, media chiefs, not just derailed or taken out of their jobs as a result of harassment allegations. the sensitivity of the public will be critical here. how much of the swing votes in the senate?

eric: look, you have lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine? what do they do? >> any of democrats in trump states concerned about reelection. or concerned about continued empowerment. they too have been looking and were undecided up until now. now the pressure on them from the public. the phone calls and -- eric: and the committee is supposed about this coming week to bring it out of committee to the senate floor. can they reopen the hearings? can democrats press mrs. ford to come to the hearing and testify? and bring these allegations out as they have heard from other people pro and con? >> grassley will not want to reopen these. eric: it would look a straight up with the fix -- >> the what will happen in the vote and what will happen on

the floor of the senate when the confirmation decision is made. eric: what you think that will be? >> are those senators not going to be pressured not just over issues like executive power that's been discussed and views on abortion but will they be pressured on harassment and will they change their mind as a result? i think it's up in the air. eric: this is what the "washington post" said from the article courting miss ford. when she tried to scream she said he put his hand over her mouth. and thought he might inadvertently kill me. he was trying to attack me and remove my clothing. later on says quote - for weeks ford declined to speak to the post on the record picture grappled with concerns about what going public would mean for her infirm family. and she said was her duty as a citizen to tell the story. tell me about the duty. because you know she will get a taxable status politically

motivated, etc. how does she respond? >> or credibility will be challenged. at a minimum. you expect that. a allegation was made, people will want to see the stress test. to see whether or not this has footing. the fact that she's also coming forward after great deliberation on her part, she did not want to, she sent this note in anonymously. eric: and they criticize how she handled that. >> and incrementally it was leaking out because the memo had gone on into the authorities and at some point she was concerned, the woman was concerned her name would be made public. she is saying look, i came forward because at the end of the day -- it's pretty compelling. is it going to increase her credibility with the general public? will the general public be concerned enough to put pressure on senators? we don't know yet. we are at the beginning. eric: and this is what her husband has been quoted as saying. he said he expects some people upon hearing his wife's account

would believe that behavior has no bearing on his fitness for the nations highest court. he disagrees. i think we look to judges to be the arbiters of right and wrong. also if they don't have a moral code of their own to determine right from wrong it's a problem. i think it is relevant. finally what is the argument that this is not relevant. that they elected a president with allegations and now have a supreme court nominee with this allegation. and it is not relevant to his duties on the supreme court. >> i think the president on this puts more pressure on judge kavanaugh. the president as you well know is under all sorts of allegations himself. with payoffs etc. the kavanaugh confirmation process walks into that at this point.it makes it even more difficult. 17 years old, a long time ago maybe he got drunk at a party. i don't know. is it reason to forgive?i think a lot of people, some people will say yes.

maybe it is split along partisan lines. others will say no, it is a reflection of character. are there other incidents? are there other women out there? that had been afraid to come forward. are there other allegations that might result from this ongoing public, we don't know. eric: i want to say that was 65 or so and so we will see how this plays out over the coming week and we will see what pressure there is. john, thank you. >> thank you. arthel: at least 16 people are dead as florence, now a tropical depression, continues to pummel the carolinas with relentless rainfall causing catastrophic flooding. volunteer groups and first responders working tirelessly to rescue those trapped by rising floodwaters. and with evacuations still underway in some areas, north carolina senator thom tillis is urging people not to take chances. >> there were some people who

made the dangerous decision to not heed the evacuation notices in new bern. a number of the people who had to be rescued over the past 24 to 36 hours were largely people who decided to stay in an area that was judged unsafe. we're going to have more evacuation notices as the rivers rise and after they overflowed the banks. you need to heed the warnings. get out of harm's way. arthel: rear fox team coverage of the impact. steve is standing by with the latest in north carolina. but first, let's go to jonathan hunt who is live near hartsville, south carolina. jonathan? reporter: good afternoon to you. we are in south carolina at the moment but we are in route to charlotte north carolina because that is exactly where florence is heading. in fact the north carolina emergency management team tweeted just over an hour ago, head's up charlotte, florence

is coming your way. and it is coming with a vengeance. we've been driving along these roads. it is about a three hour drive from where we started off this morning towards charlotte. i can tell you, parts of the drive were a little short of terrifying. the rains are coming down in waves. flash floods are popping up everywhere. as you drive along the streets, highways of south carolina and many homes as we passed, we could see were already flooded. because the rainfall is showing no signs of stopping right now, the rivers are going to continue to rise. they will continue to be flash floods. that is why so many thousands of national guard troops are on duty both in north and south carolina. helping out. we saw some near conway south carolina earlier today. putting out one ton sandbags to try and stop a man-made lake they are, from overflowing onto

the streets. that is the concern in so many parts of these two states and also, a reality in many parts of these two states. the rivers continue to rise. yesterday in south carolina, which sits on the banks of the river, we noticed the river was rising visibly as we were there after several hours. we went back this morning, we shot more video there and to our eyes it was around two feet higher than it was yesterday. and those rivers are going to continue to rise. all of the water feeding down from north carolina rivers into south carolina. and they were from officials is that the rivers will continue to rise for anywhere between two and four or five days. some of them made it closer to the coast, they may not actually reach their peak until the end of the week around thursday or friday. so that is a great concern. also a concern obviously, all

of the rivers and waterways along charlotte north carolina which i said is where we are heading now. another rain band begins to move in here. south of hartsville, south carolina. arthel: certainly not out of the danger zone yet. jonathan hunt, thank you. eric? eric: north carolina lots are bracing for more catastrophic inland flooding expected to be in historic levels. the area swelled to dangerous levels. warning people to get up. they said the next few days to bring the most destructive state that the state has ever seen.steve harrigan is live in north carolina with the very latest we can see that the water is already coming up. reporter: we are about 80 monies south -- we have been

seeing significantly higher water than the speed the problem with this stretch of the road -- you can see just how deep the water is. it's been a real hardship. eric: that we can go back and we can see the pictures that steve has, we have an audio problem. obviously technology is so sometimes. dealing with live television reports. especially flooded areas. they can see the line at the gas station. not only for gas but also people waiting obviously for supplies and the like with police they are just the situation where look at the water and the floods and sadly it is expected to just get worse over the next few days. in fact, on wednesday, the cape fear river in north carolina is expected to crest to 62 feet. that's right, 62 feet.

horrible, record flooding. authorities coping with it the best they can and even though the rain has been slowing down in some parts, do not do that folks. what you see on tv, potentially can be dangerous. authorities are warning that you should not drive through standing water. also, do not drive around police barricades because sometimes the water goes under the asphalt and it weakens the asphalt. that can be very dangerous. but at least those folks have a jeep. they would advertise and say that's why have a jeep. arthel: but with the barricades, where they are placed, the water may not be just on the road today may not be able to see it right there. so do not go down the barricade because they are there for a reason. eric: that is right. look at that water. arthel: and it will continue to rise as jonathan hunt just reported. we'll continue to follow the path of florence as it moves more inland. where the storm is heading and what those areas can expect.

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by former fbi lawyer, lisa paige. fox news obtaining a transcript of her recent closed-door deposition. in which she told the house judiciary and oversight that investigators could not say whether there was collusion between russia and the trump campaign by may 2017. when robert mueller was appointed special counsel in the russia investigation. here is the house intelligence committee chair, devin nunes earlier on "sunday morning futures" with maria bartiromo. >> the walls are beginning to close in on the corrupt officials at the department of justice and the fbi. many of them have been fired, many are on leave, many have been demoted. but you are slowly starting to see this collapse on them. arthel: now we have dave rifkin constitutional law attorney and former white house counsel to president reagan and president george h. w. bush. first of all, your reaction to this news and does this or should this, will this impact

robert mueller investigation? >> it should, it probably wouldn't. what we are seeing now it is not surprising to some of us. that after nearly a year, very aggressive investigation codenamed crossfire hurricane that began in june 2016 and actually even earlier. there was actually no basis, no predicate, to launch a counterintelligence investigation headed by mr. mueller. we also understand now there is aggressive leaking campaign on the eve of that which is extremely troubling. couple that variety of proprieties that took place if early in christine blasey ford once it became clear with mr. trump would be the nominee. and the impression you have is that a group of individuals in the obama administration and intelligence community, law enforcement community tried

very hard to help hillary win and it became clear that she lost and were trying to destroy the trump administration. it is very concerning. arthel: there are accusations about underhanded, ongoing, if you will between the fbi and the doj. is anything in particular that you are focused on? >> for example, official launch of a crossfire until june 2016. of improper use of confidential informants.in ways that border on entrapment. arthel: what do you mean, what he talking about? >> and talking to various individuals that are staffers in the trump campaign instead of just asking them what was happening, as far as context and the russians concerned they were trying to nudge them towards that is a very fine line between acquiring information for confidential

sources and and trap people. the impression you get is that they were trying very hard to find a problem. that was not there. then you spend a year, almost a year during that in a very aggressive fashion.you get to 2017, may. absolutely no evidence, no basis for the investigation. you have james comey been fired. everything about the wisdom of that, the firing of a director of fbi is not a predicate for studying a counterintelligence investigation. arthel: i understand your point but just so we can move forward, meanwhile there mueller investigation is happening and there have been indictments. does that mean that the entire investigation by robert mueller is now null and void? >> no, it is not null and void and i should be careful to point out that you cannot say he had the responsibility for

things to occur before the appointment. essay provides context not favorable. but if you look at what his accomplish so far, he had a number of indictments including paul manafort and convictions. nothing to do, papadopoulos got a plea for lying to the fbi. mr. paul manafort cut a plea after one trial. for tax evasion, money laundering and various other things. arthel: and various other things including working with nefarious people in foreign countries. while he was the campaign chair. >> well, let this be clear that he worked with nefarious people important countries for decades prior to that. he worked on the campaign, one interesting detail here, remember the fbi learned that feinstein had suspected chinese agent that the driver what did they do? they warned her. i'm sure somebody warned mr. trump about mr. manafort problems he would not have chosen him as a campaign chairman. arthel: listen, there is so much out there that the

investigation is underway i think this point whatever the truth is the american people want to get to the bottom of it. we already have intelligence agencies on hand saying that in fact the russians interfered in the presidential election for they were working for president putin and he said on t.v. himself before a lot of people that he was working in favor president trump. it does not mean that that is how the president got elected. he got elected fair and square. we know that. everyone has established that. meanwhile though, there are allegations out there. are you -- then you have other reports that i started talking about which is supposedly improprieties at the fbi and doj. asking because you come here as a constitutional law attorney, former white house counsel for president reagan and george h. w. bush. what are americans right now to make of all of this?

>> i think americans should keep their minds open. my strong prediction at the end of the day, mr. mueller would come up with no evidence of collusion. he is convicted a number of people who frankly, deserve convicting based on what we've seen so far. his theory about obstruction of justice is constitutionally absurd. the president cannot obstruct justice by discharging powers of his office by firing mr. james comey. at the end of the day i think it is going to be a strong vindication for president trump and the whole thing has taken a tremendous toll on the administration and it has harmed the country greatly. i'm convinced they will not be any new dramatic indictments coming out for mr. mueller. i think he is winding down his work and i think mostly writing a report for congress. arthel: okay, we will see what happens there. dave rivkin, thank you very much. >> thank you.

eric: florence will not be limited to the carolinas. devastating storm will start making its way to other parts of our country. >> not only we see more impact across north carolina particularly as it most were central to the western area dumping copious amounts of rain but we are also anticipating to see a lot of damage going through west virginia, although up to ohio. eric: coming up we look at the storms path. where florence is headed next. focused on the carolinas, what they can expect tonight as darkness falls with about 700,000 people still without power. plus florence is not the only weather that turned mass destruction over this weekend. up ahead, what a major typhoon is doing to one of asia's most critical business hubs. this ho. but you got this! rocket mortgage by quicken loans makes the complex simple. understand the details and get approved in as few as eight minutes. by america's largest mortgage lender.

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supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. the accuser has now gone public. she is no longer anonymous. she's identified as a 51-year-old california college professor, christine blasey ford reportedly tells a washington reporter about the incident that occurred in 1982. she is quoted in the processing that kavanaugh was stumbling drunk when he was quote - trying to attack me and remove my clothing. this occurrence supposedly at a party when they were teenagers. ford says she told no one about this until 2012 when she was in couples therapy with her husband. kavanaugh has denied the misconduct allegations. today the white house says it still stands by his nomination. arthel: a fox news weather alert. florence is expected to move north this week turning torrential rain in some areas. adam klotz is in the extreme weather center with the forecast. adam: even now we are seeing

this still moving. the center circulation over portions of south carolina but all of the activity remains off towards the east. the wind still at 35 miles an hour with this not tropical depression. there are large areas where there was a tornado threat. that is the pink, a tornado warned storm. everything in the box as they watch preconditions are usually small but if they land where you are you will notice it. even if it isn't you -- even if it is in ef0 or ef1. everything in white and pink is getting up to the 20 or 30 inch range.it has just been nonstop. most of the heavy rain has been getting to push further inland and will continue to see that the rest of today into the overnight hours but 30 and a half inches, that is the state record, preliminary but huge

total and eventually all of the rain falling and continuing to fall will need somewhere to go. that is why river flooding wells already begun will continue to intensify in the next couple of days.partly because there is more rain on the way and partly because of all the rain already falling. in need somewhere to go. it will start to fill the rivers. every one of the indicators is an area river expected to at least have moderate flooding and in some cases major flooding. that's what you're seeing in the purple dots. it will be more of an issue tuesday and wednesday giving this a little time to go down and then they will see that really philip. here's the motion of the storm moving forward. it is about to pick up speed a little bit. we're sitting currently over south carolina. by monday morning you went up into portions of kentucky and it really starts to speed up. it will be running across west virginia, ohio and stretching over pennsylvania. new york likely by tuesday and wednesday. it does become a fast mover but we still have a little bit of time for flooding to take place in the carolinas.

arthel: adam klotz, thank you for the forecast. eric: for more on the impact of north carolina let's go to one of the congressman. welcome, your district was directly in the path. and flooding we are told is expected to be historic and overwhelming. how are you doing and how are the folks doing? and do think the government has the supplies and ability to address this? >> well, the response from state, federal and nongovernmental organizations has been incredibly good. i just cannot complement the first responders more. you look at what happened where it affected hundreds of water rescues and tremendous. so we are incredibly thankful for their efforts. but this is you know, we have more flooding to come. the rivers had not crested. as the weather person was pointing out, the rains will continue to the west and run off to the east in my district, the little river will be

flooding. the flood levels at five feet above where it flooded in hurricane matthew. it is as far as the flooding goes, we sought more catastrophic flooding on the way. i just really urge folks to stay off the roads. the governor has said any road in north carolina has the potential of being dangerous. we shut down major interstates like i-95 and i 40, this is serious. people should not relax and say, we're going to drive around and see what's going on. you should not try to make it back to the beach if you evacuated from the coastal areas. he should take this very seriously. flooding is not over with and it will get worse before it's over. eric: and sadly you are right. how long do think this will go on? you're the situation right now. wilmington, the city of wilmington is completely shut off. completely! by rising water. and cape fear water 30 may have

to shut down the water in 48 hours if they do not get more fuel. so you have a dire situation. >> right. new bern is completely shut off and they shut off the water supplies, it means that if there is a fire, they will not have water to put out fires, it can be very dangerous. people should shelter place and not try to get back to you evacuated areas yet. if an evacuation order has been issued because it was recently in certain counties you should certainly heed that. the government response has been good. fema has $25 billion in the account. i've spoken with the care of the appropriations committee every day. they sure we will do a supplemental. in addition i will put together a tax bill for tax breaks for people recovering from the hurricane. so there is a full governmental response going on. eric: can you give us an idea for those that do not know,

your district, you touch on raleigh, is 140 miles from the coast and you think you hit the coast but this is going to be and is continuing to be growing and inland, flooding disaster. >> well, as it continues to rain inland, it all flows east. and east and south. so the floodwaters will continue to rise in the east as florence keeps going west and the north. people who do not need to become complacent. the wind and the rain had started to die down the east. floodwaters are coming. we are not done until later in the week. >> they say the cape fear river was at 62 feet above the flood stage on wednesday. so -- >> we are going to break all records in north carolina for flooding. eric: it is certainly sad we looking at video right now. it looks like these are lakes.

but houses right in the middle of lakes it is overwhelming. it is incomprehensible practically. when we see this type of video. >> and also, the water table is up. as the rain comes down it will not sink into the ground. it becomes immediately runoff. as i was driving over here, there's a little bit of rain. it was not heavy but it was immediately flowing into the streets and causing torrents of water to come down through the streets where usually feel the sparkle like that it would just absorb into the ground. but that is not going to be the case anytime soon. eric: that is also the probably saw in houston.we thank you, we thinking about you and constituents and the good people of the south carolina. as we go to this very continued difficult week. congressman, thank you. arthel: there is also a deadly extreme weather events taking place on the other side of the world. the pacific typhoon making landfall in southern china.

after landing in hong kong taken dozens of lives, and the philippines. kitty logan is in london with more. reporter: we have a super typhoon, the strongest storm in the region this year. as continuing to cause havoc as it passes through china. it reached china earlier today killing two people. authorities issued a red alert they are. evacuating 2 and a half million people. lights were canceled, both were sent back to ports and despite the storm weakening a little bit the wind is gusting up to 100 miles an hour. the same typhoon hit hong kong earlier in the day. with even more ferocity. people there were warned to stay away from the water as you can see, huge waves crashing against the shore and water levels surging up to 12 feet in places. powerful wind, a printing trees and breaking windows. flooding of course in many

areas as well. the philippines, they bore the brunt of the storm early on saturday. over 50 people have died. many more and most of the day were killed in landslides caused by heavy rain. rescue workers are still searching for survivors. the stroke continues to move in a northwesterly direction across china. it's said to be weakening as it goes. back to you. arthel: thank you very much. eric: former vice president joe biden says he requested a decision that he and the former president obama made. what the decision is and how it can impact his political future. plus, pope francis under fire over church sex abuse allegations. and the pontiff holding an unprecedented emergency meeting about them in rome pay with the holy father is trying to accomplish. - in a crossfit gym, we're really engaged

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biden says he wishes he'd spoken against president trump a lot sooner. he spoke last night at a human rights campaign national dinner in washington. he said he and the former president obama agreed to keep quiet during the first year of the trump administration. calling the response to charlottesville the last straw. his remarks coming in with speculation. the way that he will run for president in 2020. arthel: admit a spiraling sexual abuse crisis in the catholic church pope francis summoned american bishops to rome this week. lauren greene has more on this unprecedented meeting. reporter: pope francis meeting with the delegation of american cardinals and bishops at the vatican thursday. >> this meeting between the pope and u.s. bishops comes as a really crunch moment. it is a very tense concept here in the vatican.

reporter: the president of the u.s. conference of catholic bishops requested the meeting last month after the letter was published religion corrupts extended to the pope. they called thursday's conversation a quote - good exchange. >> the church is essentially in crisis mode. the only here in rome but particularly in the united states and in other places where sexual abuse has been uncovered. so it is almost like a perfect storm that has come together at the same time. reporter: this comes as a new bombshell dropped in a long-running stand of the battle of abuse and cover-up in the catholic church. the vatican say in the public sector the resignation of a bishop under investigation for sexual abuse. the resignation comes in the wake of last month's grand jury report revealing more than a thousand victims.>> this matter needs to be handled and

people should be heavily involved in this. reporter: in response to the crisis the pope is summoning his top bishops from around the world for a meeting in february. called for the protection of minors and vulnerable adults. in new york, lauren greene, fox news. eric: a tragic and terrifying weekend in massachusetts. after the states first shark attack since 1936 that happened on cape cod. meanwhile, thousands of people north of boston taking their first steps back to normalcy after this. dozens of gas explosions that killed one person and injured dozens more.we are the latest on both of those investigations straight ahead. ♪

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easily making their way back to their homes in northeastern massachusetts. after dozens of gas explosions and fires in three cities on thursday. at least one person was killed and 25 hurt. the evacuees sleeping on cots in shelters while officials check the gas lines. investigators reportedly saying that gas company doing work at the time is linked to other blasts in the last several years.

eric: 26 old man on a boogie board killed by a shark off of cape cod in massachusetts. this just one month after another man was bitten while swimming at a beach five miles away from this one. authorities say the deadly shark attack is the states first in more than 80 years. bryan llenas has more on this horrible incident. from our newsroom. reporter: yes, tragic and rare. this is the first shark attack deaths since 1936 in massachusetts. it all happened about 12:15 pm saturday afternoon. 26 year old was boogie boarding with his friend about 30 yards from the shore when a shark attacked him . he was bitten in the leg and later pronounced dead. at the cape cod hospital. witnesses describe a chaotic scene out of the movie jaws paid beachgoers screaming, shark! shark as he was seen kicking the shark. there was violent thrashing in the water. a shark fin sticking out.

people rushed to get them out of the water and onto the beach. people tied boogie board cords around his like to try and stop the bleeding. they tried cpr but it was too late. the man was bitten down to the bone. >> there were people in the water at that point so everyone was screaming to get out, get out. there's a shark. and someone had been bitten. and that is how we knew something horrible had happened. the man was bleeding from his legs. reporter: the attack happened off the beach where there are servers. the bleach -- the beach is now closed. this is the second shark attack off of cape cod in as many months. doug is a 61-year-old new york man was bitten by a great white shark. he is still recovering. there be more shark sightings this year as the population of seals continues to grow in the area. attracting more great whites. national park service reportedly says they have closed beaches in the area of cape cod, 25 times this year.

that is about double the past years. eric? eric: maybe speculation, he was wearing a black wetsuit. maybe the sharks mistook him for a seal. just a tragic situation.our hearts go out to his family and friends. arthel: saw tragic. a key race that could tip the balance of power on capitol hill. it will be the first. republican and democratic candidates join a room full of voters. and more on brett kavanaugh 's accuser now reportedly speaking on her sexual misconduct allegations.

eric: and just over an hour from now -- a different meaning on this sunday. arthel: harris faulkner josc townhall called town hall with erica tonight in phoenix arizona put on hand both candidates vying to replace the retiring republican senator, jeff flake and one of this year's key midterm races. paris moderates as they take

questions from voters. eric: you can catch a pm eastern, 5 pm pacific time on fox news channel. we will keep up with the issue and coverage of florence. arthel: absolutely. thank you for joining us. i was strong enough to pick them up and flip them over in the air i don't know if you plan to head up or head down. greg: why would you do that? affect. [cheering and applause] greg: of course we've all been monitoring hurricane florence and our thoughts are with everyone affected but tonight show we hope offers temporary leave for our viewers as he spent an hour on the important stuff. we don't pretend politics and gossip mean more than the storm. the phosphor moment and consider