from tic wolf, executive producer of law and order, fbi tuesday, september 25th. . good morning, it's september, 15th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning: saturday." florence floods the carolinas. more than two feaet of rainfall on two states as the storm turns deadlier. we'll have the latest on rescues underway this morning. >> as the storm gets downgraded, the threat does not. with a third of the storm still over water. we'll get forecast, the next wave of concern. paul manafort flips. the former trump campaign

chairman agrees to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. we'll have details on the agreement. and, demanding answers, outrage continues as dozens of homes explode just outside of boston. we'll have the latest on the investigation. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. oh, my goodness. the roof is gone. >> yeah. >> were you in here? >> i was in there, had my kids asleep and a lot of wind and rain, spinning. >> the carolinas feel the fewer ri fewer riff florence. this storm say monster. >> it's been incredible to watch this fire hose of wind and moisture. >> this amount of wind with this a. water has never been dealt with here before. >> we didn't anticipate it to be as bad as it was so we stayed. >> found a couple dogs and there's a cat on a porch down there that has nowhere to go,

the water's rising. >> this is going to be a very trying period. rain and that flooding equals danger and that means we're going to have to have patience. president trump's campaign chief just pled guilty to felonies and flipped. >> from the point of view of mueller, this is a big win. boston needs to correct their vermin problem at fenway park. >> that was like a dog. >> it was kind of like hopping more than rats scurry. >> all that. hit well. center field at the 396 sign. he got it! >> and all that matters. there's typically one place that stays open in rain, wind, snow, shine, and even a hurricane. >> whatever, we're open. >> on "cbs this morning: saturday." >> this is about as nasty as its been. you just saw that flash. >> these fools in the rain, are

they fools telling you how dangerous the storm is while they're standing in the middle of it. of it. it's one or the other. captioning funded by cbs welcome along to the weekend. tropical storm florence is no longer a hurricane but it's a threat to people in parts of the east. while the winds have weakened since making landfall friday morning, the storm is expected to drench the carolinas for days causing cat traffic floods and life threatening storm surges. >> the eye of the storm has moved south along the carolina coastline. it's approaching the myrtle beach area. but bands of heavy rain have been battering north carolina overnight. last night flooding intensified near raleigh, the capital. a creek ran over its banks, its

water running up against the back of a nursing home. the residents were forced to evacuate. >> so far florence is blamed for at least seven deaths, more than 25,000 people in north carolina, south carolina, and virginia are in shelters. just over 1 million customers are without power. cbs evening news anchor jeff glor is in wilmington, north carolina. good morning, jeff. >> reporter: dana, good north to you. we remain under a flash flood watch this morning. that will continue for days here. we're looking right now at sustained gusts in the 30s, up to 39, with potential gusts at times, occasionally gusts up to 50 right now. the issue here, again, remains the timing and the duration of this storm. it's moved so slowly. 3 miles per hour for a time yesterday as it churned along north carolina now into south carolina. it's moving about 5 miles per hour right now. but that is bringing so much rain. we're talking about up to 9.6 trillion gallons of train before florence is done here in

north carolina. >> florence's cruelty brought a group of firefighters to their knees as they mourn the deaths of a mother and her infant daughter. >> it feels like 30,000 pounds of weight that careened down on their house. >> after a tree collapsed on the family's house, first responders were able to route baby's father who was taken to a nearby hospital. early this morning, a man in north raleigh walked away unhurt after being trapped in his bedroom by a downed tree. florence made landfall early friday. it's wind blew right through stop signs. so far about p500 people have been rescued in north carolina. a rescue boat went on the hunt for stray dogs in jacksonville. >> we've got rescue gear, we've got equipment. use it. >> more than a million people in the clooiarolinas have been lef

without power. that number could reach 3 million by the time the storm is over. >> where's your house? >> can't really see it. you see that tree up there that's fallen? >> yeah. >> that's us. the one to the right there. >> when people return to their homes to assess the damage, not everyone will be as lucky as this wilmington resident. >> just missed the window. >> makes you believe in angels. voy to replace a gutter, i can live with that. i can live with that all day long. >> that was amazing that tree there split the uprights. it went in between two large homes. that is not the case in many other spots. there are so many homes -- or trees down in this historic neighborhood. it's going to take days, if not weeks, to get all the power back here. the sort of second wave of this storm after it hit here then went down myrtle beach, south

carolina, that resort town which is dealing with flooding this morning and don dahler is there. dan. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. the storm is far from over here. d and will do so for therain next couple days. but myrtle beach has largely escaped the extreme damage that you're seeing up where you are. we've taken some drives around the past day or so and seen awnings ripped up, tree limbs down, but not the devastation that you have. what has changed, though, of course is the position of the storm. the eye of the storm formally known as florence, and thas that has meant a shift in the winds. they were coming off from ib land like that big sweeping picture that you saw when it was a hurricane, and that pushed the surf back and kept the storm surge away. now the waves are coming from the southeast, the waves are coming up. what that means when high tide happens at 1:00, they're saying

that could reach nine feet and that would put where i am under water right now. statewide the concern sin land flooding as the rivers continue to crest their banks. all that rain that they're seeing in north carolina is going into rivers that flow into south carolina. jeff. >> reporter: all right, don, thank you very much. we'll check in with megan glaros of our chicago station to get the latest on the track and the forecast here. megan, we were at the wilmington airport and the wind sensor that was there that measured that highest gust since 1958 of 105 miles per hour broke because there was too much wind yesterday. and yet the wind is not the big issue. >> no. yesterday wind was an issue because it was a land falling hurricane at that point. so you always have concerns over wind. but looking at the whole overarching theme of florence, it's definitely about the heavy rain that's coming down, therefore, the fresh water flooding that we establish

seeing and are already seeing across the area. look at this radar picture right now. the storm is moving so slowly that that intense band here that you see stretching towards kingston, that was just a little bit farther north near new bern yesterday. shifting south a lit, hee we are in well, the with the dealing with some of the bands but not the most intensity. the storm is moving at about 5 miles per hour and we expect it to continue just very slowly moving on off to the west and southwest. winds are sustained at 50, so still a tropical storm. once it reaches below 39 miles per hour, no longer tropical storm. but it's 35 west of myrtle beach right now. doesn't look nearly as good on the radar or satellite imaginary as it did yesterday, it terms of it being a healthy bands, but we still have bands. flash flood emergency is in effect until 9:00 a.m. this morning for the catastrophic flooding that we've been seeing near new bern and points out to

the south and west of that. rainfall just in the last three hours up near jacksonville about 5 inches and wilmington almost 6 inches and we expect heavier bands to wrap through here coming into the next 24 hour period. this is not over rainfallwise by a long stretch. >> that's amazing to think about 6 inches of rain in wilmington in the past three hours. thanks very much. one of the hardest hit areas where rescues took place which dealt with some severe flooding is any burn. and kris van cleave has been in that area for the past couple days. he's in greenville this morning. kris, to you. >> reporter: well, good morning, jeff. we are getting a bit of a break from the rain that has been relentless over the last 24 hours. still rescues are going on south of here and there's a lot of concern about flooding not only from the rain, but from the rivers which you can see are already over their banks in some place. and all this rain that falls here and up river is coming

right back through these rivers. >> the ten-foot storm surge inundated streets and turned house has no islands. new bern residents like this decided against evacuating. but then came the water. a storm chaser with a boat rescued them. >> how quick did that water come on? >> it was fast. like i say, it's fast. get somewhere. it's in a blink of an eye. mys c my cousin looked and he turned around and our street was flooded that fast. boots helped hundreds get to dry land including sadie marie holt. >> it was getting so bad we physically took a boat we had in the yard and the neighbors and we tried to leave about 3:00 in the morning. >> swift boat rescue teams including this one from massachusetts helped people trapped by the water. >> the swift water's one thing. you're also dealing from the wind and rains from the hurricane. that's like a double whammy, isn't it? >> it's all part of doing business. but we will not risk anybody's

lives if it comes situation awareness we'll be -- if we call it, you noknow, we'll wait unti conditions improve. >> and in the areas of any new bern that aren't dealing with waters, there's relentless rain and wind it's brought down trees and with those trees have come power lines. with the power lines down the lights go out. you start to see why thousands of people are in the dark around here. >> reporter: despite the damage, hadsome d some did manage to stay here thanks to the help of neighbors. >> even ow refrigerator float. but our neighbors next door have a two-story, so we were able to escape to the two-story. >> reporter: new bern police tell us nearly 400 people have been rescued from their homes, another hundred are asking for help getting out. the water in new bern has come down, but they are worried about what high tide will bring this

afternoon. jeff. >> reporter: chris, thanks. you talk about some of those rescues by boat, there have also been rescues by air. and mark strassmann is in elizabeth city this morning at a coast guard station which is prepped and ready. mark. >> reporter: morning, jeff. this is a coast guard jay hawk search and rescue helicopter. there are a number of people out there who need rescuing and a number of people who likely will need rescuing in the days ahead with all the rains to come. some have waited for help on their own roofs. and that's why this helicopter needs to get in the air. it can hover over people in crisis, pull them newspaper a basket and harness from other hard to reach places. these helicopter crews ready to go, problem is the weather has been too dangerous to fly. but look at this coast guard video. one rescue team managed to pick up a cancer patient last night in critical condition along with a paramedic. it took them from the fire station to the hospital.

the commander of the coast guard station here says as soon as the weather calms down, all his rescue choppers will go up. >> to send the helicopter, one of the kinds of crises, what kind of situation dos people have to be in for you to send a helicopter? >> well, life-threatening emergencies, vessels sinking, people in the water, people on rooftops getting caught, you know, in rushing water and we'll respond to things like that. wrfrt loss -- wherever the loss of life is possible, we'll push the envelope to try to respond to that. >> here's the good news. the weather has ex-proved this morning and one of the jay hawks is in route. there are reports of 13 stranded people who need rescuing, including children and elderly. jeff. >> reporter: mark, thanks very much. we are joined now by wilmington mayor who has been dealing with so much throughout the -- all of

this storm and continues today. mayor, thanks again for your time. what are your biggest concerns right now? >> our biggest concerns is trying to get these streets cleared. we've got so many trees down, so many power lines down, it's going to take us some time to get the crews in here. we've been waiting for the hurricane to pass us so we can get the groups that are out here ready to come in here and start clearing out, getting them in here as quickly as possible clearing the roadways. >> reporter: can cruise do work safely now? >> we're waiting for the system to pass through. we had a couple of our first responders out yesterday in 90 miles per hour winds putting out a structural fire. these guys are doing a phenomenal job out there and we can't thank them enough. we've had a lot of calls for emergency services, we're just trying to keep people off the streets and getting out there and get the job done. >> how many fires? >> we don't even know. just up on the north end of the county we've had a couple. >> reporter: okay. people talk about power outages, there's power out. is all of well, the with the out? most of it out right now?

>> most of it is out. we've got so many trees down it's just -- we didn't think this was going to be a significant wind event, but it seems like it become a big wind event for us here in the city. >> oh, there's trees down everywhere. >> it's incredible. >> reporter: there are trees down everywhere. what are you telling people when power might come back on? >> it could be weeks. we've got so many trees down and power outage all over the place. the thing that concerns me we're going to have a lot of people going to want to come back into the community because a lot of people evacuated before the storm came. we're just asking them to please take their time before they get back, there's no power here. we've got get the crews out there to clean up this mess before we can get the power back on. >> reporter: so many people were heart broke tone hear about the story of the mother who died with her infant. is there anything else you can tell us about what happened and how the family's doing? >> the only thing that we know as of right now is a huge tree just came into that house and they were -- thewere literally in bed there and it just hit them. and it was just a terrible situation and our heart's out to

the family. the father was transport to the hospital. there was three in the house. and crew diseas did a tremendou trying to get them out, but unfortunately the mother and young child relost. >> reporter: what are you telling folks who may have left wilmington about coming back? >> check, you know, give us the time to get these roads cleared and give us the time to get the power crews in here to start, you know, getting the power back on. there's no reason to come back until we get that done. and right now they would be in our way because we've got so in debris in the road it's going to take some time. and we haven't had a chance to get out there because the storm has been there for two days. >> reporter: you've been mayor for 12 years. ever seen anything like this? >> no, never. >> reporter: all right. we know you have a long day, another sleepless night ahead of you, thank you for your time. appreciate. we're going to head back to you in new york. we'll have more from wilmington, north carolina, and the carolinas coming up in a few

minutes. >> thanks, jeff. obviously a huge cleanup job there in the carolinas and still a weekend of rain ahead. >> it's not the -- it's like riding the storm out is one thing, but there's still danger in what comes next. so, folks, heed what the mayor said. >> yeah, it's that slow-moving, slower than you could walk actually the speed of that storm, as the mayor said at one point too. >> and the cleanup. >> we are going to continue to follow developments on florence in our next hour throughout the day on cbs and on our digital streaming service cbsn. president trump is doubling down on his claim that the death toll from hurricane maria in puerto rico last year is inflated. a series of tweets last night the president wrote that the death toll increased to 3,000 people, quote, like magic. months after he visited the island. he added, that number, 3,000 people, was, quote, 50 times last original number. no way. earlier this week the president

blamed democrats for inflating the casualty number in order to make him look bad. george washington university researchers estimated the storm and its afteraffects were responsible for 2,975 deaths in puerto rico. another former member of president trump's inner circle has agreed to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller in what's being called one of the most significant developments to date in the russian election meddling probe. paul manafort, the president's former campaign chairman, has accepted a plea deal. it follows months of refusals by manafort who is now the fifth person linked to mr. trump to plead guilty to criminal charges. errol barnett is at the white house with the latest. errol, good morning. >> good morning. press secretary sarah sanders says friday's developments have nothing to kwo doh with the 2016 election. the white house trying to distance itself from the former trump aid. but with midterm elections fast

approaching, that will prove to be increasingly difficult, as special counsel robert mueller gains yet another willing cooperator from the center of the trump election strategy. >> he happens to be a very good person. and i think it's very sad what they've done to paul manafort. >> reporter: over the last few months, president trump repeatedly defended the character of the man chosen to chair his election efforts. while lamenting the existence of the special counsel probe. late friday echoing that sentiment telling "the wall street journal," quote, i got hit with an artificial witch-hunt that you should never have happened. >> no chance. >> reporter: reversing his previous claim manafort would not flip, attorney kevin downing said friday manafort's wife and two daughters were at the center of his decision to share what he knows. >> he wanted to make sure that his family was able to remain safe and live a good life. >> reporter: in a d.c. federal courtroom, manafort pleaded guilty to two felony counts

stemming from his foreign lobbying. but he's also agreeing to assist the special counsel significantly. cooperating fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly, including sharing any knowledge of criminal activity and all documents relevant to the counsel's questions. he also agreed to testify at any proceeding. manafort could answer questions surrounding the infamous trump tower meeting in 2016 when president trump initially said was about adoptions, but mr. trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani admitted it was intended to discuss an which exchange of dirt or hillary clinton. manafort now joins several others from the president's orbit who have pleaded guilty to a crime and offered up what they know to the special counsel. giuliani has said the president has done nothing wrong, but despite his efforts to get the special counsel's probe to wrap up before the midterm elections all indications are this case will drag beyond that. the special counsel announcing that the sentencing phase really

a status update for the sentencing phase of this d.c. trial will take place november 16th. anthony. >> errol barnett at the white house this morning. thanks, errol. it's about 22 after the hour. here's a look at the weather for your weekend. a last ditch effort to save a community from massive flooding. it's one of the drama under way as tropical storm florence continues to drench the carolinas with extreme rainfall. plus from finding gastations along your escape route to finding shelter once you arrive. we'll look at some of the most popular storm safety apps being used right now. and later, disaster of a

different kind pitta nightmarish scene north of boston where whole neighborhoods suddenly exploded in flames. we'll have the latest on the aftermath and the investigation. plus most day's news ahead on "cbs this morning: saturday."

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i spent over a year on this. i had literally hundreds of hours of tapes with people who were there. if you look at the book, they're very specific incidents. >> very detailed. >> it is a kind of -- it opens the window. look, going back to the nixon case, any of these books you're going to have what i call a survival denial by somebody who wants to be politically connected with the president. and that's fine. but as the great editor the "washington post" ben bradley said, the truth emerge, and it does. and i've done this time and time again where you get denials, oh,

nixon and kiss singer did not pray on the eve of nixon's resignation. >> well, you are getting denield, bob. >> yes. >> but you also have tapes. would you ever release any of those tapes? >> if somebody comes out and denies something specifically. >> well, gary cohen says it doesn't accurately portray my experience at the white house. >> that's what you call a nondenial denial. is he going to say that that document that's reproduced in the book -- >> would you release tapes? >> well, if -- if somebody really wants to challenge me, of course. of course. but i -- again, i've made agreements with people that these sources are going to remain confidential. >> bob, you've covered a lot of administrations. when you were doing the report are for this, what didn't you hear? what are are the things you're used to hearing from every administration that just was absent in this administration? >> well, it's not a team.

at least three people are dead after a large and powerful typhoon struck the northern philippines this morning. maximum sustained winds were just over 100 miles per hour triggering land slides, widespread flooding and power outages. >> thousands of people were forced to flee to safety. the extent of the damage is still being assessed. the storm is expected to hit hong kong and vietnam perhaps as early as tonight. here at home, tropical storm florence is battering the carolinas. at least seven deaths are blamed on the storm while florence's winds have diminished somewhat

this morning. many places are on high alert due to the threat of dangerous flooding and storm surges. in one north carolina community, residents are building a mount tachb sandba tain of sandbags to make sure it doesn't bring the devastation it did a few years ago. dimarco, good morning. >> reporter: you said it '. was the lumber mill behind me that spilled over two years ago causing massive flooding and devastation and hundreds of boat rescues for this community. it now stands at 12 feet, just a foot away from flood stage and the wind isn't letting up anytime soon. volunteers and national guardsman are here outside the west lumberton baptist church sandbagging trying to protect the town. >> are you trying to get ahead of this thing? because it's headed our way now. >> we are trying to get ahead of it. the water levels are expected to be hiefrgher than matthew.

>> reporter: two years ago hurricane matthew dumped 20 inches of rain on lumberton. i i according to city officials, the levy never breached during that storm. but here where it passes through, the levy dropped down for railroad tracks and that's where they say the floodwaters from matthew rushed in. florence is expected to drop more rain than matthew did. >> we're trying to plug the hole in the leviy i-95 and csx flooded during hurricane matthew. >> we waited why they waited to sandbag during the storm. he says the town reached out to the railroad company for permission to close up the levy on tuesday and they were denied. they then reached out to the governor who issued an order to protect the area. >> very critical for you guys to get this patched up. >> it is. it is. we've basically got a lot of -- a lot of work do, no time do it, and really not a whole lot of time to even think about what we're doing or how the best way to do it is.

>> reporter: csx railroad released a statement saying they provided safe access to the community to minimize flooding. the river is expected to crest near 24 feet when it's all said and done. >> thank you for highlighteding that in lumberton, north carolina. unbelievable to believe, to think that they would stop them from doing this. >> yeah. that's really hard work, but it's especially hard when you're doing it during the storm. >> during the storm. >> yeah. now here's a look at the weather for your weekend. people in three communities north of boost ton are picking up the pieces this morning after their neighborhoods exploded in flames. we'll have the latest on a dit

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north of boston. all struck by the same manmade disaster. a state of emergency has been declared after explosions and fires blamed on overpressurized natural gas lines killed one person, destroyed 39 homes, and forced more than 8,000 people from their homes. kenneth craig reports on the aftermath and the investigation. >> reporter: this north andover family returned home friday and tried to salvage what they could after their house went up in flames. it happened without notice during a series of gas explosions and fires that raced through homes in three communities north of boston. louise lives next door and knew something was wrong when she heard a noise coming from her basement. >> i knew right away that perhaps i should leave the house. i grabbed ny cell pho-- my cell came out in the yard, turned my head and saw this house was on fire. >> reporter: in lawrence, a

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there are already fears could take weeks and tens of millions of dollars to clean up the devastation from now tropical storm florence. it has many in the environmental community wondering what can be down stop what seems to be a vicious cycle of deadly and destructive storms. john blackstone has more. >> reporter: as hurricane florence headed toward the east coast this week, 5,000 people from around the world headed to the west coast for the global climate action summit. >> climate change, global warming wait for no one. it's happening. >> reporter: for activists here, hurricane florence provided an example of the kind of extreme weather scientists have

predicted would come more often in a warming world. >> the fact that the scientists were right on almost everything they've predicted about the climate crisis decades ago should cause us to pay a little more attention to what they're saying will happen in the future if t if we don't get our arms around this and start decarbonizing the global economy at a rapid rate. >> reporter: no one suggested that climate change alone as youed hurricane florence. higher than usual water temperatures in the atlantic may have made the storm so powerful. other recent hurricanes provided an argument that addressing climate change is not only necessary to save lives, but also to save money. >> three storms, harvey, irm are ar and marie ra cost 236 billion pds the it's more money than we put into the energy department, commerce department, education department, and three or four other departments put together. that's a burden.

>> but speaker after speaker here at the climate action summit focused not on the problems caused by climate change, rather on the solutions. the event was organized largely as an answer to president trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions. former new york mayor michael blumberg is one of the conference sponsors. >> climate change say global challenge and washington out to be leading from the front. we also knew many people around the world would conclude wrongly that america was walking away from climate action. nothing could be further from the truth. >> reporter: the conference has been highlighting all the ways to reduce the use of fossil fuels. california governor jerry brown, a main organizer of the conference set a goal of generating all of california's electricity without burning fossil fuels by 2045. >> california is the most aggressive, green energy plans in the western hemisphere.

in fact, the more i keep answering this i'm going to escalate my claim of how much we're doing. we're doing a hell of a lot, okay. >> reporter: at the event's final session, former vice president al gore who has long been calling for more aggressive measures had an optimistic message. >> for anyone who doubts that we as human beings have the political will to meet our obligations that history is demanding of us, just remember that political will is itself a renewable resource. thank you. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning: saturday," john blackstone, san francisco. >> al gore still very much passionate about this issue. here to talk more about the disturbing trend of the powerful storms we're seeing is meteorologist jeff. good morning. >> good morning. >> in houston last year 56 inches of rain dumped. we're expecting something like 40 inches of rain dumped in the carolinas. why are these storms hanging

around just pouring this rain and water down? >> well, that's the big problem. both of these storms have slowed down. now that can happen naturally. but there is evidence from the latest research to show that it looks like hurricanes may be slowing down, especially in the coastal plain. and because they're slowing down by as much as 20% or so, they're dropping even more rainfall. we saw that with harvey and we're seeing that with florence. one of the reasons is the steering flow seems to be weakening a little in the atmosphere and we're gergtd these big blocking area of high fresh urds off of the eastern seaboard. we have one right no, i and that's got florence stuck where it is. it is moving very slowly. water temperatures after the eastern seaboard are boiling hot, anywhere between 2 or 8 or 9 degrees above normal. what that does is it enforces the blocking high and also it invigor rates the storm. it makes the storm stronger. and the air temperatures are watevapor, drops nor rain.more and in the case of harvey last

year we think it was as much as 15 to 20%, maybe as much as 35% one report said of extra rainfall due to climate change. >> so is this a long term thing then? this blocking problem we have? >> we think that blocks will increase in the future. we think that steering will probably decrease in the future. so we think this kind of thing is likely to keep happening in the if you zblur when you think of t -- when you think about coastal communities, the sea level rise, what'set impact there. >> the rate is going to accelerate quickly as we start to melt the north and south poles over the next couple of decades. i lived in miami beach for a while. and i will tell you that they're doing mitigation right illinois now and adaptation. they're investing $500 million to raise the streets two feet all ovia and install pumps. that's just the beginning. miami beach, they are pioneers in this. you'll start to see this mitigation happen up and down the coastlines of this country

and all around the world. >> and 40% of population's on the coastline. >> people want to live there, it's beautiful. >> will this mean that the intensity of the storms will also increase? >> we expect that 'the so the latest research shows that the intensity of category four and five storms is going to increase and is already increase right now around the world. but here's the interesting cav dwro iot to that. the total number of hurricanes may go down a little bit in a warmer client. so stronger storms, but perhaps a few less of them. but it's the strong storms that cause the majority of damage, because as you increase the wind, the force from the damage increases exponentially. >> but in this one the category didn't matter as much as the rainfaller that's the big thing. you look on the eastsi, ll notice that the bands are starting to intensify around wilmington, new bern, moorhead city. the problem is the storm is crawling at like 3 miles per

hour. >> right. >> so these bands will be stuck there for 24 to 36 hours. we've already had close to 30 inches of rain in places like jacksonville, north carolina. >> so are these sort of slow-moving marathon storms, then, these storms that stretch for a couple of days or more, is that a trend as well? >> we think that is a trend. this storm is likely to be with us through around tuesday. so the threat right now is in the carolinas. watch out when it hits the appalachians because we'll see flash flooding off the mountains and hills. eventually as it heads north into pennsylvania and upstate new york and snork city on tuesday, we'll see a couple to a few inches of rain. and in the mountainous terrain we'll see run off and bad flash flooding. >> quick question. can anyone deny climate change any longer? >> i don't think it's possible to do. pl a there are some people that will do it that will probably never serious and we have to take action if we want to save our future. >> thank you. coming up, how one report's

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it looked like it was a piece of paper and it was a piece of metal. >> it comes up so fast. up next we'll have an update on tropical storm florence from our team in the carolinas and we'll take a look at the sky rocketing use of emergency apps. that's ahead.

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welcome to "cbs this morning: saturday." i'm anthony mason with michelle miller and jacobson. coming up this hour, tropical storm florence is now a slow-moving system but is still very dangerous. we'll tell you about the daring rescues made from the life-threatening floodwaters. then they helped create the first weather satellite and what they're working on now is equally as ground breaking. we'll take a look at what darna is working on for the future. and one picture may be worth a thousand words. but this picture may be worth millions. it's by artist david hockney and it may soon set a new record for work sold at auction by a living

artist. we'll talk to him later in the show. but first latest on tropical storm florence, even though it's been downgraded from a hurricane, it's causing dangerous conditions for millions of people in the carolinas. florence is expected to inundate north and south carolina for days with storm surges, heavy rain, and flooding. >> after make landfall, florence moved south along the coast. the rain slammed north carolina last night. this morning, the eye is near myrtle beach, south carolina. >> seven deaths are linked to florence. there are more than 25,000 people in shelters. in south carolina, north carolina, and virginia. and electricity is out for almost a million customers. cbs evening news anchor jeff glor is in wilmington, north carolina, and has been covering the storm since the beginning. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: dana, good morning to you. take a listen to this. wilmington so far where we are has got ann foot of rain. wilmington is expecting another

two feetf rainat gives you an indication of how historic this storm can be and how worried everyone is about flooding and surge in the days ahead here. tropical storm-force winds extend 350 miles wide and we're also under a tornado watch until 5:00 tonight. florence is fierce but deliberate path led to tragedy here in wilmington. winds knocked a tree on to a home killing a mother and her 8-month-old daughter inside. florence's winds continue to weaken, but the storm remains a historic rainmaker dump are more than 2 feet in some spots and delivering life-threatening storm surges to coastal areas. local rescue crews and those from all over the country braved flooded roadways to get foam safety. help came by air as well. coast guard choppers grounded during the day by florence's winds took flight by night. by late friday, much the

carolina coastline was not only soaked, but in the dark. a million customers in north and south carolina are without power. up to 3 million could be in the dark by the time florence is done. and as we talk about that slow motion catastrophe, we're told that it is once again moving even slower at only 2 miles per hour as the storm continues to drop all of that rain. we're going to check in now in jacksonville, north carolina, with adriana diaz. >> reporter: this is some of the heaviest rain we've seen so far that we have seen earl dwler morning. and that smaking had flooding here worse. where i'm standing right now, there were no floodwaters late yesterday. we just got off the phone with officials and they told us that they have conducted roughly 30 rescues since 3:00 a.m. here in jacksonville. we went out with volunteers who were going door to door late yesterday to see if anybody was trapped inside.

they ended up finding people who had left their pets behind. it didn't take long for the floodwaters to push into jacksonville, north carolina. coast. local residents waded through up to 4 feet of water to make sure no one was trapped in this house. i went along and filmed on my cell phone. the water's come up to the top of the porch. they want to make sure no one's stuck inside. >> anybody home? >> why do you think someone might be home? >> both cars still here, tape on the inside of the windows. curtains closed. >> no one answered. but earlier, matthew drake and sean bogs went into deeper water by boat and found dogs left behind. >> found a couple dogs and there's a cat on a porch down there that has nowhere to go, the water's rising, so we're going to try to go get them too. >> reporter: it was a punishing night of high wind and rain, with hurricane force gusts that ripped off roofs, toppled trees

and downed power lines. this towering oak tree missed crushing this house by a few feet. >> it went down so easy. i mean, wow. somebody's helping us out. >> reporter: last night across town dozens of people were evacuated at the triangle motor inn. where germane lewis was staying with his two kids. >> oh my goodness, the roof is gone. >> yeah. >> reporter: were you in here? >> i was in there, had my kids asleep and a lot of wind and rain, spinning, blue lightning, green lightning. >> so you came here for safety. >> yeah. >>? >> reporter: and you ended up with no roof? >> no roof. >> reporter: but you're alive. >> i'm alive. >> reporter: i don't know if you guys can see that this, but it looks like there are some deer that passed through the head waters and they are up to their heads. i hope they're okay. they look like they're swim.

it's very dangerous out here and officials wanted people to ignored the evacuation order to stay inside. officials tell us they may extend the time. jeff. >> reporter: that's amazing to hear about those deer trying to swim through the floodwaters. thank you very much. we're going to check in with kris van cleave, some of the worst flooding that's led to many rescues took place in new bern, north carolina, north of here. kris van cleave is just nearby in kore in greenville. kris. >> reporter: we're still getting wind but we've gotten a break from the wind and that's very welcome. there's a lot of concern about flooding, not only what's already here, the river here in greenville's off its banks, but what's going to happen when all of the water that's being dumped up river comes down through here. we saw a lot of flooding in this area during matthew two years ago. there are neighborhoods on the other side of this river that

city officials here remain concerned about. let's talk about new bern. we can show you some video from yesterday there. in the past 30 hours or so, the city of new bern that's southeast of here has seen nearly 400 rescues of residents who decided to ride out the storm in their homes and then the water came. a 10 foot storm surge and relentless rain came to a city that's already sandwiched between two rivers. people were trapped in their homes. we hear there's at least 60 people still waiting for rescue today. help came from police, fire, the national guard, search and rescue teams from north carolina, massachusetts, texas, and even the nypd as well as good samaritans who showed one their own boats just to help. the storm brought down trees and power lines so that made driving through the areas that weren't flooded treacherous. more than 6 people in new bern are without power. and the storm isn't done. there's more rain in the forecast and, again, the real concern now moving forward not only the high tide that will come in today which could bring new flooding, but what happens with the rivers as all the storm

water will eventually run right down through here and into new bern. jeff. >> reporter: those are some of the best stories to hear about, kris, when neighbors ends up helping neighbors because first responders just aren't able to make it. we have seen that all over and it's pretty amazing to see. okay. the latest advisory just came out on florence. megan flare rose from our chicago station wbbm is going to tell us more about that now. megan, why is this storm moving so slow and talk about what that means. >> right. okay. it's moving so slowly because it's lost any kind of push to it. a lot of times a tropical system makes landfall, it's picked up by a cold front and tossed out to sea and it's done from there. but at this point we don't have what we call steering currents so to this, so it's sort of meandering on its own until it is picked up by another weather system, which we do expect to have happen but probably not until going into monday. that's why such a slow movement

on this. and right now we've got winds sustained to about 50 miles per hour. it's moving, though, at only 2 and the problem is these intense bands in places just north along the coast from wilmington are moving so slowly through and they keep rotating that you're getting training thunderstorms, one after the next. days of rain expected through sunday morning. we could find some pockets of rain additionally that will top 10 inches, potentially more than that near wilmington as we move through this forecast period. and all these pink dots, each and every one of those pink dots, that's a river that we expect to see at major flood stage between now and tuesday. so this story is a lang way from over, jeff. >> it's amazing to hear how slowly the storm is moving. the center of -- was florence, known as the eye, the center now, is moving towards myrtle beach, south carolina. and don dahlerr:ood morning, je. a few minutes ago you said that

wilmington got a foot of rain. well, in the random roulette wheel that say hurricane, myrtle beach has only gotten about 6 inches. 20 miles up the coast, a city by the name of north myrtle beach got a lot more rain. their downtown is flooded and it's only supposed to get more serious when we have the high tide come at about 1:00. one of the reasons why south carolina is so concerned about the inland flooding is not just the risk to human life or property damage, but it's the hog farms. in hurricane floyd, these lagoons that store the liquefied fertilizer that's a byproduct of hog farming overflowed and contaminated the groundwater and drinking water for a number of communities. jeff. >> reporter: don, thank you very much. we are still without power here in wilmington. the mayor told us it could be days if not weeks before power returns to much of the town. they are dealing with and trying to clear so many trees out all over this city and all over along the coast of north

carolina and inland as we continue to deal with this ongoing flood threat as the rain just will not stop from florence. more coming up soon from here. for now, we're going to head back to new york and check in with anthony, dana, and michelle. guys. >> and jeff in wilmington, north carolina, we thank you. and this appears to be the picture of hurricane flo. from the new york post, from the daily news. >> and almost every newspaper this morning. >> "wall street journal," from the "washington post." >> yeah. >> it just penetrates that people helping people. >> yeah. >> you got to love that. >> you sure do. >> that will continue in the days to come as they keep talking about, there is more to come. we will have coverage of florence through jut the day an this cbs station and on our digital streaming service cbsn as well. it's about 11 after the hour. now here's a look at weather for your weekend.

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in the hours and days following a hurricane strike, mobile phone apps cannot only be useful, they can be down right life savers from tracking the weather to letting loved ones know you're okay, the apps have

been invaluable for those in the storm's path. here with more on that is senior editor dan ackerman. good morning. >> hey. >> i feel like it was not that loaning acc we were here talking about zello and the importance of this app during harvey. what is it? >> that was one that got very popular last year and it's trending again this year. its wa the number three social app on the itunes app store as of this morning. it's a push to talk style voice app. remember when you would communicate with someone walkie-talkie style? it does that over the internet. so anywhere you have wifi connection or cell phone connection, you can have instant chat with people. >> gas is often a precious commodity in natural disafter the percent the is there tech that can help you with this. >> they find lowest prices on gas, they just turned on their storm tracker/hurricane tracker service which tells you which gas stations are out of gas. not only that, which are out of diesel, which are out of regular. and that helps you --

>> that's great. >> there's no point in driving to a gas station if there's nobody there and they let you you load your own info. if you find a gas station that's out of gas, you can submit that. >> so uflooded out of your home, a place to say you're looking for, is there a place for that? >> i saw a cool one, it's sort of like a crowd sharing places to stay app. it's like air b and berks b for disasterry leave. you can go on and say i have a place to stay or need a place to say and it will match you up with people. they ask you to you u uplied area i.d. >> what's the name of it again. >> ar manny with an "a" and that's on the app store as well. >> the red cross has an app out there drakted at children. >> i just started playing with this last night. it's called monster guard and it's a simple video game, it's not going to knock kids socks off. but once you get past that it has interesting stuff about hurricanes and other disasters. it tells you basically ha to do. you have to walk through a house and close all the windows, gather your supplies.

i just started working on the volcano tips when i came in here. i'm going to go to go back and finish that one. >> a lot of people are saying what if my cell phone battery is down a can't use any of this stuff. you've got a valuable tip here. >> this is something i figured out during hurricane sandy many years ago. ways in the blackout zone for days. i had some old laptops in my closet, as many pack rats do. i kept them charged up. i just kept them plugged in, don't use them anymore, they barely work. when the power went out it's a gigantic battery. plug your phone in on the side, you can get days of charges from your laptop. if you've been hoarding it and not sending it offtor recycles, that's a great thing. >> thanks so much, dan have some thanks, guys. from drones digital assistants, a wide variety of tech innovations have one thing in common. they all originated at a division of america's defense

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on this very stormy day in parts of the mid-atlantic states and the southeast, we turn to the military's defense advance research projects agency which back in 1958 helped put the first weather satellite into space. this year, darna celebrates 60 years of experience of putting them on cutting edge of scntists. i alerted there's a threat over there. >> reporter: this is a ghost bust's rig on a real life

mission. >> in this if was that a 55 will go lon drum -- >> reporter: today, american soldiers must be inches away to identify a chemical warfare agent or a homemade bomb. but by next year they'll be able to do that from as far as 100 feet away. ed's quest is backed by the pentagon's defense advanced research projects agency, also known as darpa. >> the biggest threat right now is homemade explosives. uthink of fertilizer and that's what they're using today in afghanistan to try to blow up our soold iers. >> reporter: with the help of darpa the goal is to shrink this backpack. >> it's&begin within the defense department challenging our military services to think differently. >> reporter: steven walker is darpa's director. >> it's important for them to understand the technology to then be able to explain it to our war fighters and policymakers and not be surprised by its use or misuse

by pure adversary. >> reporter: darpa helped create the internet, unmanned errol yell drones, prosthetic limbs, and siri. it was created in 1958 in response to the earth-shattering launch of sputnik by the so yet union. >> america was surprised when the russians launched sputnik. do you think we'll ever see that happen again where the u.s. is caught off guard sfl it's hard to predicts the future but they come to work every day with their hair caught on fire to prevent that surprise. >> reporter: by a team of mad scientists like anne fisher. >> we're driven by crazy, that's for sure. >> now can you be just a step back from crazy so we can take a risk and then see what we can do in terms of making that risk realizable. and i think about this as my way to service for national security. >> reporter: darpa is working on ways to shrink many robots like this into a size smaller than a

human fingertip hoping they can save lives during recovery efforts, detecting signs of live underneath the rubble of collapsed buildings. first they have to prove their strength. >> we'd like to have them compete in a rock piling competition or biathlon competition where we will have them traverse a course. >> reporter: and these drones are being developed to navigate on their own. the line here shows the drone's brain mapping a course by avoiding obstacles. >> instructing the robot go up, find a second-story window, go through the second-story window, explore the entire second floor, find a staircase, descend the staircase and go out through the front door all on its own. >> this is pretty sneaky. >> we prefer to think of it as intelligent. >> reporter: drone engineers say their main competition comes from china. >> they're challenging us in different domains where we used to have a significant lead. and it's more of a competition now. >> reporter: what do you say to those who believe that the u.s. has already fallen behind in the technology realm? >> i'm not as negative.

i think -- i think we still got a lot to offer. >> reporter: are they wrong? >> i would say they don't know everything that's going on. we're being challenged, no question, in certain areas. but i see what they're doing at darpa in all areas and i'm pretty hopeful that we're going to continue to win the tech races of this 21st century. >> reporter: cbs news, maryland. >> i like a group of science thafts go to work with their hair on fire. >> i love that there are very smart people like that working on these things. >> thinking about all these problems. >> yeah. ahead, he's expected to set a world record by a living artist. david hockney may be british, but he's about to make history for a painting of a very different land. the sticity of angels. hear what he says about his work next on cbs this morning saturday.

what is your take on the air force. >> i've spoke with air force generals who are happy retaining their control over the space defense. the air force has u.s. space command and they've been in space ever since we've had access to space. so that's not a new understanding of how things are working. if you have a space force, you would take all of those activities and put them under one umbrella. and if you did that, i'd want to throw in a couple extra things like astroid defense. if you're going to go there, let's do it. >> you mean defend us against as stroids coming to get us? >> yes. >> how big a threat is that by the way while we're quickly in that neighborhood? >> one could come and render us extinct, so i would count that

as a big threat. >> i won't order out breakfast. but the concern people have with this is the militarization of space crowds out the scientific exploration. >> consider first that ever since anybody's had access to space we've been putting spy satellites in space. and so the militarization is not simply do you have weapons, but are there activities that relate to the conduct of war? and, yes, we've had that since the beginning. that is not a new understand organize a new idea. and the second gulf war, 2003, was enabled by space assets. >> and the race to get the atom bomb was -- quickened all kinds of discoveries in science. >> that's always been the case, this relationship between progress and science. and the need and the desire of the war fighter to have the latest, best weaponry. and most branches of science

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dar . we begin this half hour with the what's become the talk of the art collecting word. contemporary artist jeff coons holds theed, for a work by a living artist sold at auction. but that could soon change. another artist, david hockney, known for his versatile body of work and vibrant palette could well break that record in november at an auction at christy's. not long ago we sat down with the british art activity to discuss his life and inspirations. >> what brought you to california? >> along with hardy movies, i'd always noticed the shadows in them. so i knew that was a sun anyplace. >> his paintings of life here

would become emblematic of west coast culture. >> and your fascination with pools really began because of california? >> it's always an interesting thing how do you paint water, how do you paint something transparent? >> a bigger splash, an eight-foot square canvas was painted in 1967. >> i spent nearly two weeks painting this. >> another of hockney's most familiar images, beverly hills housewife. it set a record for a hockney painting at auction when it sold for nearly $8 million in 2009. but in november, hockney could set an even bigger record. when his portrait of an artist pooled with dwo figured will go up for auction at christy's in new york. the estimate, $80 million would smash jeff coons' current record for a work by a living artist. his balloon dog sold for

58.4 million in 2013. >> why do you think you've been so popular over the years? >> i like to think the space in the pictures. you don't know why things become memorable, if there was a formula for them there would be a lot more of them. >> he's 81 years old now. that would be pretty cool to set the record, although he doesn't get any of that money, it all goes to the currency trader selling the painting have some that's tough. here's a look at the weather for your weekend. growing up as the youngest of five children, chef ryeinhar did i was given hitchen jobs as

a chore, but cooking soon became his passion take him to top restaurant jobs all over the country. now to his own top venues h in new york. he joins us next. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." ♪ as moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10-25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance we're willing to take. meningitis b is different from the meningitis most teens were probably vaccinated against when younger. we're getting the word out against meningitis b. our teens are getting bexsero. bexsero should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. most common side effects are pain, redness or hardness at the injection site; muscle pain; fatigue; headache; nausea; and joint pain. bexsero may not protect all individuals. tell your healthcare professional if you're pregnant or if you have received any other meningitis b vaccines.

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chef ryan hardy growing newspaper co., he had two big influences and that inspired him to start working in restaurant kitchens. his career as a chef took him through some big restaurant towns like san francisco, aspen, and santa fe. >> then in 2011 he came to new york and made a splash with two venues of his own. charlie bird opened in 2013 with an italian inspired menu followed by the wood-fired restaurant. his latest project, legacy records, no albums or 45s, just flavorful specialties from italy's north coast. chef ryan hardy, good morning. welcome to the dish. >> great to be here. >> thanks for being here and we'ring an sthous dive into all of this. >> what are we going to eat here? >> these are all some of the signatures of our restaurants. we started at charlie bird, he

restaurant and one of the biggest hits we have. some the bread we brought from legacy records and the classic sar dinnian flad bread that we make. and the duck, leeks, and all that. >> your father had an influence on you. explain how that started your interest and love for food and cooking. >> it was my mother's garden. she ruled the roost when it came to that. but i feel like we, the children and my father did the back breaking work on it. >> that's a good thing. >> but we grew newspapup in ken and we ate what came out of garden. that was shocking when i went to college and said, wow, everything came out of cans. and when i was a kid, the marketing influence in my father, we would go to some of the new restaurants they were developing and i always found

myself in the kitchen. i wanted to meet the chef. when other kids were saying they wanted to be lawyers or doctors, i always said i wanted to be a chef. i never followed up on that, it was not something pursued in college or otherwise. >> because you didn't think it would happen or what? >> never considered it as a career to me. people grew up to be -- i went to school to study businesses that you that's what you did when you got to college. it wasn't until i got through college and the other side that i recognized there were a lot of great things in the world. and for me, so many of them revolved around people and food. >> when you opened your first restaurant, charlie bird, a lot of chefs talk about having concept-driven restaurants. and you've specifically said you're anticoncept. >> i know. the -- the impetus behind that was i really felt like we had become stage theater actors in the restaurant industry a little bit and when he created these things in restaurants that were moving away from hospitality and more towards ideas. >> like what? >> well, for example you were

going to go out and eat at a tuscan restaurant and they converted the entire inside of it to feel like tuscany when you're in new york city. so we wanted to embrace the idea that it was a new york restaurant. >> you don't have formal training really. it was a learning along the way. and i know maybe you can't compare, but why do you think maybe that's better? how is that different just getting that training along the way? >> you know, i think i had gone to school and studied accounting in college and i enrolled in culinary school and i was there very briefly in san francisco and recognized that the world was bigger than those classrooms and i needed to instead of learning out of books i needed to travel and eat spot many times i've encouraged young people of who come to me and talked about schools, that school is the most important thing, ed cag is the most important thing, but it doesn't just stop with brikcks, it's everywhere. it's communication, meals, reading. and you can't learn that by

paying tuition. >> let's talk about your third restaurant. >> yeah. >> legacy records. what is it all about and what more did you need to prove? >> there's nothing to prove. >> okay, sure there isn't. >> you know what? as you -- as you get started in our industry, you quickly recognize that you're only as good as the people that help you along the way and help you create and really do the hard work alongside you. we wanted to give other opportunities for people who were really terrific and make them partners, give them opportunities to grow with us in a way. and the idea is to make the pie bigger and still be creative and still be there on the floor, still cook. >> in this process of opening restaurants, you're more than -- you're wearing more than just a chef's hat. >> yeah. >> what part of this whole process do you enjoy the most? >> you know, i was just talking about yesterday and a mentor of mieb is a very close friend asked me a long time ago. i was working on a whole bunch of farms in addition tock a chef and eventually i bought one and was work ags farmer and a chef. he asked me along the way, he

said what is it you want to be? do you want to be a chef or do you want to be a farm cs a very question, but it really impacted me. i thought, wow, am i not doing a good enough job as a chef snm i being distracted? what i realized was he was asking me you have a big paintbrush and you can paint a picture of whoever you want to be. i realized that there was no box that i had to fit into. and so i've taken an approach i think that's very different from a lot of other chefs in that i don't think the traditional role of a chef is the same anymore. i think that people our pred says sor saysers who were always known as chefs ended up becoming restaurant tures and maybe even excel greater than that when they were only able to control the plates in front of them. >> well, let us know if you

could have this meal with anyone past and present, who would it be? >> that's hard. >> you can pick more than one have some they didn't ask me this question three days ago. i love it. you know, my family. i have to say i have two young children, cocoa is three years old and my little baby roma who's a year and a half and my wife ago thaa that. there's no greater people to have around you than your family '. >> can't have enough meals. >> that's why we cook and i think that's what it's about. >> chef ryan hardy, thank you very much. for more on ryan hardy and "the dish," you can go to our website cbsthismorning.com. up next, amos lee, the singer song writer is back with a new album and is here to make his third appearance here on cbs. stick around. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday."

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