george h.w. bush. a treat there. thanks for joining us on "the daily briefing." i'm dana perino. up next, shepard smith. >> shepard: 3:00 in the east, noon in the west. reporting begins with hurricane dorian. it spins up the east coast. right now the carolinas are in the crosshairs of this deadly category two storm. hundreds of thousands of people are right now without power from georgia to north carolina. the historic port city of charleston is getting the worst at the moment. city officials say dangerous winds have knocked over some 150 trees at last report. power lines are down and sparking as i speak. heavy rains and storm surge have flooded roads. dozens of roads are closed. with high tide hitting about an hour ago, flooding could be worse than expected. though at the moment, everyone

on the ground seems to think it's not at the high range, high end of the range. we'll see when we see. joint base charleston had ordered personnel and their families to evacuate. forecasts say the recorded wind gusts up to 92 miles an hour at charleston harbor. one woman says her family is taking the storm very seriously. >> you have to think about your family, really. with trees, category two hurricane winds will knock trees over. we have a lot of them around here. people died from staying in their trailers and the trees coming down. it's safety first. >> we boarded up, turned everything off, done everything we can do. >> take a look at this video from charleston. i mentioned the power lines. you can see a live one in the middle of the street exploding into a fireball. nine tornadoes touched down. a live report coming up.

as of 2:00 this afternoon, latest official from the hurricane center. the eye was 60 miles south of myrtle beach. forecasters say the center of dorian will continue to move close to the coast of south carolina throughout the afternoon and then the hurricane center says it will move either near or over the outer banks of north carolina tonight into friday. coming up, an update on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the bahamas. a live report from there where we'll see emotional family reunions. some people are waiting to find out anything they can about their loved ones. imagine no information for a week about your mom or your child. thousands are reported missing. thousands of people reported missing with at least 20 confirmed dead. the prime minister says he expects the numbers to go up. let's start off with jacqui heinrich in downtown charleston.

jacqui? >> shep, the western eye wall of the storm is about 10 to 15 miles off the coast of here. the eye of the storm is about 35 miles to the east of the bay to our north. we're really feeling the wind. if you look in the harbor, you can see the sail boats are bobbing around. at one point we couldn't see to the other side of that bridge. there was a lull between the winds. gusts around 110 miles an hour. the national hurricane center measured -- we've been getting gusts at 80 miles an hour, a buoy measure add 92 miles an hour gust. we have had seven inches of rain in the charleston area. surprisingly the storm surge has not caused too much flooding like we expected. that being said, we drove around and found some flooded roads. around the state, 2,500 people are in shelters. charleston has 150 roads closed.

power is out across several areas. more than 170,000 customers are in the dark in south carolina. we've seen downed power lines and blown transformers. as the outer bands pushed inland, a number of tornadoes across the carolinas. south carolina had two confirmed. north carolina has had nine tornado reports. nobody was injured. a challenge with the storm is it's tough to see tornadoes or waterspouts because they're wrapped in rain. the threat of tornadoes is ending here in the charleston area. a hurricane warning is still in effect here. you can see the sails on that sail boat are showing you how strong the wind is. we're seeing tropical storm force winds. for now, it's very windy. shep? >> shepard: when it moves out. when is it moving out? >> conditions in this area expected to improve the next couple hours. the governor actually lifted a

mandatory evacuation order for three counties to our south. that being said, the final say is in the hands of local officials as to when they open up the roads. so as the storm tracks northward, we can expect conditions to improve. the tropical storm force winds are going to linger in the next several hours, shep. >> jacqui heinrich. let's go to elliot semey. how are you? >> thanks, shepard. >> neil: how is everybody? >> everybody is tired. we think the worst is behind us. we have a couple of hours left of hurricane force winds and flooding. we're in the midst of high tide right now. we're seeing flooded streets for sure. we're anticipating and very glad that dorian is on its way out. >> shepard: three years in a row after a 1000-year flood, all for

charleston what are you doing? >> it's been tough. we have the best responders and public safety in america. they're boots on the ground, keeping people safe. they never fail us. they're always there ready to help. >> and continue to inspire. no doubt about that. when you look at the map, it could have gone a little left, could have gone right. insteaded looks like you got lucky. >> we did. listen, we've got some misplaced trees, we got 150, 200 trees down. power is out. flooded areas. we have damage. but nothing compared to what we could have gotten had that thing marched up to the harbor like hugo did in 89 or what the poor folks in the bahamas are experiencing. praying for our friends in the outer banks that they don't have more than we are.

we're here to help when that type comes. when we're done fixing up, we'll help them, too. >> shepard: love me charleston. do appreciate it, elliott. good luck. >> love to have you any time. come down. the shrimp and grits will be on the menu soon. >> shepard: it's headed up the coast. hope smiles continue and doesn't move towards land that the outer banks get a scare. we don't know yet. rick reichmuth is all over this. what are you see something. >> i'm coming to charleston. it's one of the best around. this is just tracking off to the east from us. the forecast behaving well getting very close here. you can see the coast -- rather, north carolina. charleston. things will get better. the wind direction will shift. the storm surge that went in will pull off of the coast. not the case to the north.

you can see the eye. the closer it gets to land, that interaction messes it up and we'll see that the next couple hours, a lot of wind with this. on the coast, the winds are in the 60 miles an hour range, this buoy offshore had a wind of 98 miles an hour. that's at the center of the storm. we'll have those winds translating along the coast. we've had a lot of flooding and a lot of tornadoes. wove had ten reports of tornadoes, significant damage in north carolina. so watch that throughout the reminder of today and overnight. where you see the red that is a high risk for tornadoes tonight across the eastern part of the state of north carolina. here's the storm surge. the winds barbs pulling away in charleston. to the north of this storm, you can see the way the indentation of the land is here between cape fear, down to just south of myrtle beach. that pushes water in there, probably five to eight feet of

water. four to seven feet of storm surge from cape fear to cape lookout. on the other side here of the outer banks, we'll be watching storm surge and some pushes to the chesapeake. a lot of rain coming with this. that extends through north carolina, to parts of virginia. we'll see some spots, 10, 12 inches of rain. a flooding issue, the wind issue and a storm surge issue throughout the afternoon. >> shepard: rick, you'll be back. more today and tonight and tomorrow and tomorrow night and by saturday, heavy, high winds from long island up to new england. incredible. with a hurricane and high tide hitting south carolina, we'll check in with the mayor of one of the largest cities there. evacuations city in effect. officials say people need to stay off the roads. all of that as our reporting continues on this thursday afternoon. in.

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>> shepard: dorian on the move off of the south carolina coast causing tornadoes on land and flooded and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. strong category two, almost a cat three. this is georgetown. about 55 miles north of charleston. flooding taking over historic downtown. forecasters say they expect up to move up to north carolina tonight and hopefully offshore. here's some cell phone video. north myrtle beach. forecasters are warning more tornadoes could pop up at any point as this storm moves up the coast. jeff flock is in charleston. what have you seen, shep? >> the storm that won't go away. it keeps coming.

we have the storm with us for days, almost weeks. we have flooding. this is the ashley river behind me. we're out here because it's high tide. it was last hour. it's marshland anyway, but not terrible. it survived the high tide, fair to say. that's not to say there's not flooding all over town, the downtown. they call this the low country. yeah, it's low. sometimes it floods on sunny days. today wasn't a sunny day. they say at least the public works folks say 50 streets, roads have been shut down. power lines down. we had some wind. i think my take-away on this hurricane is that you don't have to have a hurricane, get hit by a hurricane in order to have a mess. this storm was never forecast to make u.s. landfall and never did. at least the center of the

circulation. we're still getting a good blow out here along the ashley river and charleston. they're going to get it up north as well. hurricane time, always fun. >> shepard: enjoy yourself. keep dry. appreciate it. jimmy carroll now. he's the mayor of isles of palms. mr. mayor, thank you. >> thank you all for having me on. hope you can hear me. i'm on the beach in the rain as we speak. >> shepard: the first time i was there, 30 years ago this month for hugo. that is the myrtle beach picture. isles of palms, september 22nd. i've never seen anything like it ever. i'm guessing this is whole different scene. >> this is completely different scene. it was september 21, 1989 for hugo. >> shepard: the memory from that storm is the chainsaws. every tree it seemed like as far as you could see or fly was

broken in half and you had to chainsaw your way out of there. today what are you see something. >> today we have a bunch of small limbs down. we have lost power in certain areas of isles of palms. i've walking on the beach as we speak, checking out the sand dunes. we had more damage on the dunes last week in king tide than yesterday with that storm, driven rain. >> shepard: i guess given the possibilities, you know, it's going to be bad for some folks. but given the possibilities, how are you feeling? >> i feel very good. fortunate. i feel sorry for those in the bahamas. we got spared on this storm. >> shepard: have you seen any significant problems that people that live there or visit there might be interested to hear about or largely just the sand dune issue? >> you know, really it's inconvenience. that's the price that we pay to live on a barrier island. luckily the governor ordered evacuation for people to get off

the island. you just know what the storm was doing. it came in powerful to the bahamas and inched its way up the coast. >> shepard: i guess, you know, if it's 60 miles to the north and west, you have a different situation. >> i was down on the beach last night. the wind was blowing down the beach. it was like a sandpaper going down the beach. right now it's an offshore wind going out to sea. >> shepard: so it's taking the water out. that's a sight to see. when the water covered everything and now there's none as far as you can see. >> even though it's low tide an hour ago, the tide was not really far out. tomorrow morning is when we see the really low tide you're talking about. >> shepard: mr. mayor, great news. thanks for bringing it to us. >> thank you all. i appreciate you checking in on

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a look from cape fear in north carolina. old glory is flying. having a rough go of it, this is 25 miles down the coast from wilmington. the storm's outer banks are hitting that state. the governor telling people to get to safety and stay there. >> this storm is not going to just brush by us. the eye wall is going to either be over land or close enough to cause significant damage. >> shepard: that's the governor with the warning in north carolina. already seeing damage especially from the wind. local coverage now, fox 46 charlotte reporting live. >> wind speeds are starting to pick up in wilmington. behind me is the draw bridge to wrightsville beach. we can't cross the bridge because mandatory evacuations have been in place. you can see the police officers are just blocking the entrance to it. they're the only ones that are going to be passing at this time. right here i want to show you a new toy that they bought in the

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or saying to anyone that is appropriate. that's the vibe that he was getting and his neighbors. they say they're going to stick it out. they feel like they want to take care of their homes. they want to ride is this storm out. in wilmington, downtown, eight, nine miles from here. that's where we're staying so many businesses have been boarded up. a lot of restaurants closed up the next few days. they're praying the conditions are not as bad as last year as with hurricane florence. there was a lot of devastation last year. we've seen some houses that are still not recovered from florence last year. holes in the roofs, tarps trying to cover it up. we're expecting the worst of the conditions to enter in 12 or so hours, a lot of people praying right now. thankful that not a lot of rain is here. storm surge is the biggest concern. we're about a mile from the coast right now. we'll be reporting out here for the remainder of the evening and likely throughout the weekend as we play this waiting game. not a game that people want to be playing, shep.

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>> shepard: bottom of the hour, top of the news. car cam 2019. this is myrtle beach, south carolina. there's a lot going on here, really. last night somebody drove this thing out on the beach. we don't know who somebody. but somebody drove it out on the beach. and then left. so missing conspicuously, look at the back of that vehicle. what is unusual to you? there's no license plate there. see there in so wonder what this is about? we do know that it's becoming a instant sensation. a lot of people came out earlier in the day before the tide came

in and the storm got close. it's about 50, 60 miles off of myrtle beach now. they made this to instagram set. if you see this, you can search it. they were up there taking lots of pictures with the camera in the ocean. we watched car cam here in the studios at the worldwide head quarters for hours. and then cam car went away. we don't know why. we don't have live car cam anymore. we have miles of footage of this. look at it. pro tip, keep the car off the beach when the hurricane comes. i don't know, rick. maybe they wanted to get rid of it. could be an insurance thing. >> i don't have a car. i wouldn't mound getting that car. >> bring it back to new york. >> that's crazy. yeah. i hope that we do a follow up. >> shepard: we will.

that and the glass house. count on it. >> here's the storm now. really close to the coast. i think the worst of the winds on the u.s. and the bahamas and about to see it across areas of north carolina, this is the trajectory of the storm in the short term that is tomorrow morning. by tomorrow afternoon, it's offshore. you think oh, that's good. you look at this. you see cape cod and the islands, you're fine. but we think the hurricane force winds here. that's the red. now take a look at this. it just hugs the entire north carolina coastline. not going to be like coming in perpendicularly. it's going to cut across the entire coast line there. so it will cause some pretty significant problems. all of our models in good agreement. take a look at this. all going in this exact direction. that's what it looked like yesterday morning. so a pretty good track of this in the center. the red one is from the national hurricane center cutting across

the outer banks. this is the future radar. probably sometime tomorrow morning, a landfall around cape lookout. that is the center of what we talked about, as if it's a single point. obviously it's a big storm. it's going to bring a lot of rain in norfolk, virginia. a little rain coming towards cape cod and the islands eventually from this. the storm will expand in its size as it moves north. while the center winds will go down, that expanse will go out quite a bit. take a look at this. this is the the size of it. another way to visualize this area of low pressure growing in size. that means the impacts will happen across the northeast. this is another way to look at it. those darker blues there are 50 miles an hour winds. we'll have that in cape cod and maine that is saturday midday and then out of here. hopefully we won't have to talk about dorian except for the

bahamas. that story will linger with us. >> shepard: what do you think habit a 6:00 p.m. wedding on nantucket if by chance a producer was supposed to go to that? >> that's right. i know about that producer. >> shepard: have to fly on friday from new york to nantucket. >> don't fly saturday. it will be breezy and wet. >> shepard: he might be coming to the hamptons. we'll see. there's a couple other storms, huh? >> yeah, september 10 is the peak. so there's a lot of activity. a couple other things, gabriel and other storms. when you see this happening, we have to watch it. that would be the next one off of the coast of africa that if it could survive that trek could mean something for it. don't worry. we'll keep you posted. it's out there. >> shepard: 'tis the season. thanks, rick. >> you bet.

>> shepard: sheriff al cannon from south carolina. sheriff, i talked to the county council chair a minute ago. from a sheriff's perspective, how are you looking? >> i think not withstanding the tragedy with the bahamas, not forgetting also what they experienced, i think we have come out of this pretty well. i was out about noon today. it was around high tide. from what i could see over at the beach, it didn't look as bad as i thought it might at that time. we've certainly got a lot of rain and some gusts. i was on a big bridge that we have here. there were some hefty gusts coming through. >> shepard: how did your evacuation go? >> i think it went well. i heard the governor's staff

saying it was about the same number that evacuated the last time we had one. we've had three or four in the last four or five years. you know, people -- one thing to keep in mind between those like the governor that have the responsibility of making the decision and those that have the luxury of not having to live with the consequences of making the decisions, makes it easier the say what should have been done and this, that and the other. when you have that responsibility, which means living with the consequences of your decisions, it weighs pretty heavily in favor of safety. >> shepard: amen. i hear what you're doing. you're getting ahead of the second guest who said why did

you make me leave? because it could have come to us. >> absolutely. you don't think it's going to go up to greenland, do you? >> shepard: what is that? a producer was talking to me. >> it stops up there at maine. looks like there was life left it in. i wondered it if it was going to get to greenland. >> shepard: i don't know. but the great greenland purchase is on pause. >> if we melted some of it, maybe they would change their mind. >> shepard: you never know. looks like that might happen. sheriff, it's a pleasure. >> doing well down here. >> shepard: thank you to you and all the first responders that stick behind when the folks go away. can't thank you enough. good luck to everybody in charleston. north carolina is next. but the good news from this storm is alabama is in the clear. the tide will not roll there, war eagle. so what is with the presidential

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>> some things in trumplandia are unexplaining. the president said that alabama was at risk from hurricane dorian. it wasn't. maybe he made a mistake. maybe he was confused. we don't know. but he was wrong. and since for days and days, he's been insisting with fake visual aids that he was right. it all began on sunday morning. president trump tweeted just before 11:00 a.m. in addition to florida, south carolina, north carolina, georgia and alabama will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated. that was not accurate. yet he said it again later that day at the fema briefing from the white house. >> it may get a little piece of great place called alabama. alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds.

>> shepard: that was wrong. it gave birth to a lot of funny memes. the subject of the goof was too serious so the national weather service corrected him issuing a statement. alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. that could have been it. the end of it. everybody makes mistakes. the next day, the president blamed the media for his own inaccurate warning and started to rewrite history. yesterday he continued. he added doctored graphics to the narrative. the president on television took a national hurricane center forecast that somebody had doctored with a sharpie or something and the forecast showed east coast dorian, the sharpie's magical addition added alabama on the gulf coast. completely dorian-free. why would the president of the united states do this? he decries fake news that isn't

and disseminates fake news that is. thi thank china pays the tariffs. it's endless. and now the sharpie map that hurricane's alabama. a reporter asked him about it. >> that map looked like it was done with a >> i don't know. i don't know. >> shepard: he doesn't know. but he won't let it go. yesterday he brought out another map and a statement that reads this was the originally projected path of the hurricane in its early stages, as you can see, almost all models predicted it would go through florida and georgia and hitting alabama. i accept the fake news apologies. this is where one where he could apologize and move on. that map was from the day hurricane became a hurricane. eight days ago. august 28. it was four days old. at the precise time, he said

alabama would be hit harder than anticipated. by then, it was fake news defined on a very serious subject. yesterday he forged on. this morning, another statement. what i said was accurate. it wasn't and it isn't. john roberts is live at the white house. four days later, why is he still doing this? >> shep, this is one of those things that probably as you mentioned earlier could have been dispatched with. instead, it's become more and more convoluted. he showed a graphic from august 28. let's go to the day that the president issued the tweet. here's the 8:00 a.m. advisory. the forecast track from the national hurricane center on sunday, september 1. you can see hurricane dorian forecast to stay well offshore. let's go back three hours earlier than that. this is the 5:00 a.m. advisory. again, it has the track of dorian staying well away from alabama. yet, at 10:51 that very same morning, the president tweeted that alabama was at risk of

damage from dorian. he pointed out at the fema briefing later on, he said that as well. yesterday after being briefed on the hurricane, the president held up the projected hurricane track from friday that had been expanded with a pen to include the panhandle and southeastern alabama. white house officials told me a little while ago that what had happened during that meeting, the president was getting his briefing from the secretary of homeland security and the coast guard. they were talking about how dangerous and terrible it would have been had the forecast track from friday gone across florida and then into the gulf of mexico and potentially on up to the florida panhandle and alabama and maybe as far west as louisiana. and then to emphasize the point, someone drew on the map with a pen to include the florida panhandle and alabama. look at this video. after that discussion i'm told, the map had been put away there

behind the president's right side and turned around. it wasn't up on an easel as tracks had been. the president calls an audible and says to kevin mcaleenan, show me that map. the president takes it and that's when sharpe gate was born. officials were discussing a map. someone drew on it. the map was put away. surprisingly, the president asked to see it. that explanation got derailed when as you pointed out later on in the afternoon, the president was asked about who put the sharpie mark on the map and the president said i don't know. white house officials said the dangers from that friday forecast had really been impressed upon the president when he got to camp david and maybe he still had that in his mind on sunday when he tweeted despite the fact that every forecast track showed dorian staying away from alabama, that alabama might be in danger. those are the facts, shep.

>> shepard: it is. weird times. thank you, john. stunning new images from dorian's destruction. man, it is apocalyptic said one official there. so many houses and everything destroyed. the scariest part of this, there's 20 confirmed dead. there's reports of thousands of people missing. that happens in the aftermath of hurricanes. happens all the time. communications are down. people can't get in touch. they're in a shelter. thousands of people. it is very frightening. there was a 23-foot storm surge on part of abaco around marsh harb harbor. if there were people in there, i mean, you don't even want to think about it. entire communities are piles of lumber. it's so resembled south mississippi after katrina. that came in with a 32-foot

storm surge. waveland, the whole coast just rubble. that's what it looks like where that eye came ashore in abaco. this is what is left after the flood waters rose 23 feet. the winds were 185 miles an hour sustained, 220 miles an hour gusts and went on and on and on. like a tornado that beats you up for days. the bahamian prime minister that says that the abaco islands suffered generational damage. this woman is standing on a concrete slap. it is the slab which once held her home in marsh harbor on abaco. that's where dorian made landfall. the u.s. coast guard has evacuated people stranded in the hardest hit areas. it's overwhelming. because there's so many people that need so much help, they don't have water, they don't have food. "miami herald" reports a woman

in marsh harbor was trapped in her home for 17 hours after the roof collapsed on top of her. think about that. the roof is on you and trapped for 17 hours with 200 miles an hour winds. she had a broken hip. she couldn't walk. the family hired a private helicopter to bring her to the hospital because her family could afford it. most cannot. brian clement is with us. he's a storm chaser that flew in a helicopter above the abaco islands and brought us the first pictures of the devastation. what have you seen? what is it like now? >> i was on the ground when they evacuated the women with the broken hip. it was a horrible situation to watch. the daughter of the women that was injured was having to put her children on the helicopter. there wasn't enough room for the mother. an emotional situation. she's being separated from her kid but she knows it's best.

you have a full blown humanitarian crisis going on there. >> shepard: i'm not sure people get it yet. feels like that day when andrew hit and everybody in miami is going this is fine. we were watching "the today show" and they're were like it missed us. i guess it went to south miami-dade. and then the first helicopter got up and it looked like a lumber yard. that's what it looks like here. nothing left. >> yeah, the first aerials when you talk about a category four or five hurricanes, it's the ones that gets everybody's attention. it's my goals to get the first shots out. i feel like once people see that, it can help start driving the aid towards the country, let people see what is going on there, what needs to be done to get help there. that's a big deal for me, especially when i get down on the ground the next day. i hear these outrageous stories

of people wading through bodies and stuff like that to get through safe harbor during the eye. so the government building was the safe place for everyone. >> shepard: do we know how many stayed behind there? did they estimate where the eye came across? there's nothing left there. did they estimate how many people were there when they hit? >> i don't know how many were there. i don't -- >> shepard: i don't think they know. >> there's a large haitian community. a lot of undocumented people there. so i doubt we'll ever know the real numbers to. the current numbers will go up. >> shepard: feels like within a day or two, the news will be we got to get ships headed that way full of water and help and just -- it's going to be an on going month and months and months to help save these people. the crisis is not -- it's not reached peak. >> we're hitting -- yesterday

when i was there, i could tell, there's -- i do a lot of these. so you can always tell when things are about to turn bad. maria in puerto rico, you could see it. things were about to get bad. supplies ran low just in time for aid to get there. puerto rico had more supplies to start off with. they're already there in the bahamas. it's already reaching a critical breaking point where people are running out of food, water. they're hot, miserable, no clothes, no showers, no homes. they lost everything. gets to the point that they start looking around around it's me or you. we're reaching that now if we don't get airports open and ships with relief. it's going to get worse no hate to hear it. feels spot on. thanks so much. can't thank you enough. steve harrigan is over in nassau where they're -- really -- steve, an emotional wren june you, but they're coordinating

everything from there, right? >> that's right. we're watching the survivors stream in a few at a time. the u.s. coast guard pilots carrying many people off the helicopters. they seem to have used up all of their strength in the fight to stay alive. here's one woman that said she lost everything. >> everything is gone. nowhere to stay, nowhere to live. no food, no stores, no nothing. i grabbed my precious grandchildren. i'm here. >> the way that conversation goes happens her a lot. you almost see the survivors speak about the loss. they seem to understand it as they're talking. that's when they start to cry. shepard, back to you. >> shepard: steve, thank you so much. be careful. there there be much more from the abacos and from grand bahama. it will be part of routine for

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>> neil: fox on top of dorian on the move and the dow on a tear. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." you're looking live right now at charleston, south carolina. major hurricane is hitting as a dangerous storm surge is likely following. you're looking live at the surge on wall street. just the talk of new talks with china got stocks roaring. we're all over both with jacks i can deanning lose with the trade drama that keeps unfolding and the city's mayor on what has people city worries. let's go to jacqui heinrich in charleston. hi, jacqui