captioning sponsored by cbs >> ninan: catastrophic floods in the carolinas. as the death toll rises, rivers swell to historic levels, neighborhoods are cut off, rescues continue by air and by boat. we have a team of correspondents across the disaster zone. >> i ain't never seen anything like there in all my life. >> ninan: also tonight a supertyphoon slams asia leaving a path of death and drurks from the philippines to china. >> this is a massive storm. at one point the most powerful storm on the planet anywhere this year. >> ninan: the women accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of an assault decades ago speaking out in a new sper veution. could her allegations derail his nomination? a beach community on cape cod is

in shock after a deadly shark attack. >> i would not be in the water any time soon. >> ninan: and a special bond between a nurse and a doctor. these coworkers actually met decades ago when he was a fragile infant. >> i was in shock. good evening, i'm reena ninan. the massive storm that was once a monster hurricane is slowly moving out of the carolinas leaving catastrophic flooding in its wake. flash floods and tornadoes are still a threat. at least 18 people are dead. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are without power. rain totals are piling up. the highest so far, 34 inches and rising. in swansboro north carolina. many areas got two feet of rain. some neighborhoods are dut off by flood waters. inland rivers are rising to historic levels. stretches of major interstate highways are closed. rescues have been ongoing all

weekend. and heroes have come from across the country. the los angeles fire department posted dramatic video of its swift water rescue team saving a man from a nearly sub merged suv in cumberland county, north carolina. demarco morgan has more. >> at robeson county the pem broke fire and rescue squad has been working for the better part of two days pulling people out of cars and homes. >> it's bad because a lot of us want to leave our homes. but. >> cumberland county woke up this morning to still rising waters. many rivers and streams broke flood stage overnight as florence continues to pound this area with heavy rain. the cape fear river this morning swelled to 36 feet. there say mandatory evacuation order for people living within a mile radius of the cape fear. residents were told they had to leave the area by 3 p.m. today. the river is expected to crest at 62 feet on tuesday. fayetteville mayor mitch colvin. >> the worst is yet to come.

get to higher ground now. >> there is two feet of rainwater in lumberton, a city still 2k50e8ing with the aftermath of hurricane matthew in 2016. on friday as florence swept in volunteers and national guards man began sand bagging a section of the town levee that drops down for railroad tracks. >> as you can see the sand bags did not work in is the lumber river now heading towards town as it did during hurricane matthew. >> half a mile from the river mary jane allen and her aunt linda are not leaving, at least for now. >> what are you thinking and why are you cloosing to stick around. >> bust because i believe that that is not coming this way this time, that river down there. >> if it comes up there between our houses and stuff like that, at the highway, then it's time for us to go find a place. >> just last thursday we were standing at the very bottom of the riverbank here. now take a look at all of this water. reena t is safe to say that the rain will stop soon but the flooding will not. >> ninan: incredible images,

demarco morgan, thank you for joining us, demarco. part of the coastal city of wilmington was cut off from the mainland by flood waters. david begnaud is there. >> reena t is virtually impossible to get in or out of wilmington now because of flood water. look at this map from the department of transportation. every black dot you see represents a road closure. that gives you a good sense of how difficult it is to drive around the south eastern part of the state right now. we found sam block stuck at flood water. he works for world central kitchen. they feed people after natural disasters and he had a lot of food with him. >> you have a thousand meals in here. >> and in here as well. >> i have to tell with you most every place around here closed, anybody will take a good meal like that. >> from sam we headed west to the community of bishop a few miles up the road and there we ran into another roadblock. flood water. people from the stonee creek neighborhood were being evacuated, families as well as their pets being taken across the flood water by boat by fema

personnel. that was happening on highway 17 in bishop from there we could only make it to leland where we saw william, a truck driver stranded in flood water. he drove into it this morning and has been stuck there since. he says he's got enough food and water but asked us to call his waive because he had no cell reception. we did. but we also called 911 to let them know his location. reena, tonight at last check, william's colleagues are on their way to check on him, bottomline, if you can stay off the road, you really want to do so right now. >> ninan: great advise, david begnaud, thank you. wilmington was hit by the storm's most powerful gusts. when it made landfall 105 miles per hour. the city is littererred with fallen trees and power lines. here is mola length hi. >> this swin of the-- lenghi, this is why geght around is so stuff. from the air you can see this two lane road around the eastern side of the tar heel state is caved in and crumbling. north carolina transportation secretary.

>> right now we don't have a land access to wilmington. we are working with the department of defense and the national guard and we're also working other contingencies to supported wilmington on the oceanside. >> more than 170 primary roads are closed. even secretary trogden and governor cooper can't get around so they got on a plane instead. >> we were able to get into the air and see significant damage in eastern north carolina. the people need to understand that some areas are likely to be without power for a while. >> one side of normal see in this city of 120,000, this grocery store opened to a crowd today. in this historic neighborhood where homes are 100 years old and the trees are even older, we found michael smith. >> i've been out and about and the electrical problems, the lines that are down, because of the trees is awful. it's awful. it will be a long time. >> but emily wilson told us moving beyond florence simply

comes down to the a teud. >> i was just listening to the radio and someone said that positive attitudes are contagious. and everyone, especially in the neighborhood just seems to be in a good moodment all you can do is make sure that everyone is safe and your neighbors have everything they need. >> the city has already brocken its annual record for rain. roads throughout north carolina are underwater and impassible. first responders, utility crews and gas tankers trying to access towns and neighborhoods simply cannot get through. reena, it's a problem that could hamper the recovery process for the for seeable future. >> mola lenghi thank you. in the hard hit city of jacksonville, north carolina, gas supplies are running low along with patiented, adriana diaz is there. >> there is still flooding in some of the low lying areas of jacksonville. reena, just take a look at this. officials tell us they have had to conduct water rescues today. they did about a handful of water rescues and yesterday they

rescued roughly 200 people from the flood waters. now believe it or not, parts of the city do have power become on. and where we saw life, we saw long lines. there were people waiting outside of a gas station for roughly two hours just to fill up cans of gas. now the recovery process is going to be a slow one and officials want people off the streets at night because they don't want anyone running into this. >> reena? >> ninan: adriana, thank you very much. in columbus county, north carolina the coast guard came to the rescue of a pack of beagles. their owner was almost as leap as a coast guardmen who hauled in the boat load of wage tailed hounds. meteorologist meghan tblaros of wbbm has been tracking the storm for us. meghan, what is the latest? >> reena, the national hurricane center tallly issued the last advisory, at least in their part, on florence.

but we know that the issues still continue because the rain is still falling across a large chunk of north carolina into south carolina and as it moves farther west, the mountainous terrain in the western portions of those states will actually serve to kind of squeeze more rainfall out of this storm system. so even into tonight and tomorrow morning we still expect to see some hefty thunderstorms coming on shore for areas look myrtle beamp and wilmington and then moving too early into the work week, probably lightening up a bit for those folks am but the damage will have been done in terms of rainfall. we likely already have about three feet of rain on the ground across parts of north carolina, by the time it is all said and done, we could have more than four feet in spot t is not out of the realm of possibility 6789 we are definitely looking at additional rainfall through tuesday morning that will likely top eight inches, maybe 12 inches in spots. and of course all that rain has to go somewhere. where does it g it flows into the creeks and into the rivers and that is something that can

take some toorm to sort of move downstream. so essentially what we are looking at moving forward is basically a river flood threat. so it was all about the storm surge and the wind. then it was all about the rainfall. at this point we have big concerns about river flooding. there may be 20 river gages at major flood stage by tuesday. reena. >> far from over, meghan glaros, thank you for joining us. our storm coverage continues around the clock onure streaming channel, and we'll have much more from the carolinas on cbs this morning. >> the woman accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of an assault decades ago is speaking out in a new interview, could her allegations derail his nomination? errol barnett is at the white house. >> christine blasey ford a 51 year old research psychologist in california is now publicly detailing her allegation of attempted rape by judge brett kavanaugh for when they were both at a maryland high school party in the 1980 telling "the

washington post" kavanaugh stummabling drunk corral he into a bedroom, pinned her to a bed and groped her, saying that while another person watched, kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream. escaping after the third person jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. president trump's supreme court nominee had already cat gorically and unequivocally denied the allegation. saying he did not do this back in high school or at any time. and the white house says it is standing with judge kavanaugh's denial. >> why on earth over the past four to six weeks hasn't approximate it-discussed. >> they have had this stuff for three months. if they were serious about it, they, they, they should have told us about it. >> before "the washington post" story was published, republicans on the senate judiciary committee were critical of ranking democrat dianne feinstein who was aware of the allegation but did not disclose it to the rider committee, instead sharing it with the fbi.

feinstein originally said she was respecting ford's desire to stay anonymous but with today's decision to come forward, feinstein says she wants the fbi to conduct an investigation before any committee vote. now late today it was announced there is bipartisan agreement from the judiciary committee to get more information about this alleged assault. the committee's republican chairman chuck grassley is working to set up calls with dr. ford and judge kavanaugh based on this new information, ahead of the vote which is still scheduled for thursday. reena. >> ninan: thanks, errol. coming up, a supertyphoon even more powerful than florence kills doozs in asia but first, terror on a cape cod beach after a deadly shark attack.

flz on this last weekend of summer a beach community on cape cod is reeling from a deadly shark attack it is the first in the nation since 2015. here's nikki batteddist.

-- batiste. >> i saw a tail and a lot of thrashing. it definitely, afterwards could you tell by thed about elan gage of the guy in the watt thary something wasn't right and they got him to the beach. >> moments after a shark fatally attacked arthur medici about 30 feet into the water off this cape cod shore beach goers pulled him on to a make shifted stretcher, joe booth said he ran for help. >> unconscious and doing cpr as he was entering the ambulance, definitely looked like he was in a world of hurt. >> calls flooded into 911. >> have a report of an unknown shark bite. >> we have an unconscious male. >> the 26 year 08d had been riding waves on a boogie board with another young man just off newcomb hollow beach when a shark bit into his leg. >> there were half a dozen people trying to stop the bleeding with towels and i guess the cord from the boogie board. >> medici was taken to a near zby hospital and pronounced dead an hour later.

>> it is crazy, i come this this beach all the time it is scary and really sad for that family. >> last month a few miles up shore a 61 year old man was biten by a great white shark but survived. police have closed newcomb hollow beach for now as this community is left a recall laked by what they say is a surging shark population along its shores. >> whenever the shark tift happens, off the charts right now with sieghts almost seems like there is one every day along the sea shore, i would not be in the water any time soon. >> a shark biologist told cbs news he believes the shark lookly mistook arthur medici as a seal citing a rising seal population close to the shores thrk is the first fatal attack in massachusetts in 81 years. >> ninan: nikki batiste, thanks. up next, a deadly supertyphoon slams asia.

>> ninan: the world's most powerful storm this year supertyphoon slammed into mainland china today killing at least two people there. it caused skyscrapers to sway, injured more than a dozen people and left a trail of destruction in hong kong. in the philippines the storm killed at least 60. dozens more are feared to be dead. ben tracey is in-- tracy is in hong kong. >> while it has been battering hong kong for several hours with torrential rain and wind at times that have topped 100 miles per hour, we have seen windows bloab out of high-rises in hong kong. we have seen scoostleds ripped right off the sides of buildingsment it is now high tide here and this is normally a stream but it is basically now a lake. the real issue here though is the wind. hong kong is basically a ghost town at this point.

everyone has been told to stay inside. the airport is closed. this is a massive storm. at one point the most powerful storm on the planet anywhere this year. and already roared through the philippines, the same strength as a category five hurricane. the storm has now lost some of that strength as it is now approaching the south china coast. it is somewhere around a category one or two hurricane but enough to cause significant problems and many very densely pop lated cities here in the south of chaina. >> ben tracy, cbs news, hong kong. >> still ahead, a u.s. border patrol supervisor is accused of being a serial killer.

>> ninan: a u.s. border patrol supervisor charged with a shocking serial killing splee in laredo, texas. 35 year old juan davis ortiz was charged this weekend with killing four prostitutes and assaulting a fifth woman who escaped. officials say that the women were killed over the past two weeks. thousands who were evacuated from three towns north of boston last week were allowed to return home today. a wave of 80 natural gas explosions and fires thursday night killed at least one person and swrurred about two dozen. power has been restored to nearly 8600 homes. the firefighters on saturday investigated more leaks in the area. columbia gas and federal and local officials are trying to figure out what caused the disaster. marathonf all time shdrom reoday in berlin, 33 year old eliud kipchoge ran the

26 plus mile course in two hours one minute and 40 seconds. that is more than a minute faster than the world record set back in 2014 on the exact same course. when we return, the special bond between a nurse and a fragile infant who became a doctor.

>> ninan: we end tonight ant a children's hospital in approximatelyo alto california, two coworker there recently learned they share a special bond that goes back decade, here's mireya villarreal. >> my parent was always tell me about how little i was and how scared they were for me. >> born about three months premature bran dn seminatore weighed less than two natch pounds when hes with mfed to the n icu back in 1990. now nearly three decades later he's treating patients at the same hospital where he spent the first days of his life.

>> coming into residency is like the cherry on top, honestly. to be able to be a doctor in the hospital is with born in. >> he was doing his rounds last month when he ran into a nurse who told him his name sounded familiar. >> and then i say was your father a police officer. and then it was that is when he said to me are you velma. >> for years his parents told him about nurse vell ma, who compare cared for him when i was a newborn. >> i had to text mi parents, hi to be like so i think i met this person who is the person you kep telling me about, and then they sent a picture. >> you see the picture, what was your reaction. >> i was in shock. i was just like smiling. and we could look at each other and go, can you believe that. >> it just didn't seem real. like how, how could this be the nurse that was helping take care of me. >> last sunday seminatore parents had their chance to

reconnect. >> it happened at an event the hospital holds every year designed to bring together n icu patients with their doctors and nurses. seminatore parents now hope their son can have the same connection with the families he helps. >> it's amazing that he did come full circle. but i'm hoping that he will make an impact be future families the way that velma has made an impact on our family. >> both hope their fateful meeting will inspire other n icu families. >> i think she's a roam model, it is good to say, you know, i took care of brandon, es a a doctor, just to give a little ray of hope and know that is very important. >> mireya villarreal, scrrks bs news, los angeles. >> and that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday. download the cbs news app to watch continuing coverage of the storm in the carolinas on our streaming news channel, cbsn. i'm reena

a political bombshell goes off in the bay area.. live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix 5 news. >> bombshell goes off as a woman accusing brett kavanaugh of sexual assault speaks out about the incident. melissa kane joins us now. >> reporter: she is now professor christine ford who now teaches ditch -- he was a 17-year-old brett kavanaugh at a boys school nearby. neither of them could have guessed where we are today. in a shocking report, the woman

tells the washington port -- post that the supreme court nominee attacked her at a house party. she says, there were no parents around that day and while she did have a beer, kavanaugh and his friends were extremely intoxicated. she says she left the family room to use the bathroom which was at the top of a narrow stairway. at the top of the stairs, she remembers being pushed into a bedroom and then onto a bed. he then groped her over her clothes, granting his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. when she tried to scream, she says he put his hand over her mouth. she told the post that while this was happening, another was in the room watching and laughing. then, he jumped on top of them sending all three tumbling. she ran from the room, briefly locked yourself in a bathroom and