it's monday. october 5th. thousands of floods turn into lakes. >> that is just the beginning. new polls show the donald is sinking, but which others are rising and fresh off our "saturday night live" cameo, hillary clinton prepares for a big town hall meeting on the heels of the oregon shooting massacre, the fbi issues a warning to philadelphia area colleges. >> that and much more, "early today" starts right now.

thanks, for joining us today. unprecedented and deadly rainfall has vout carolina's governor issuing a short and simple warning. stay in your house. for parts of that state, it is a 1,000 year flood meaning in any given year, there is a 1001 chance of that falling. let's go to jay gray, it's happened. a thousand years. they reaped it. tell us what is happening there on the ground. >> reporter: yeah, betty, there is a dawn-to-dusk curfew right now along with a state of emergency here. the water came so fast and there was so much that it's damaged some of the flood gages behind me. it's washed away others. you don't need a gauge to know the water here is still rising. flood waters continue to rush across carolina. run through or over everything in its path.

five washed up aghens the porch. i never seen anything like it. >> in many areas, there's never been anything leak this rain for three days straight. at times more than 2 inches an hour. >> the waters a overcome dams, destroyed roads, whole neighborhoods have found themselves under water and several lives have been lost. >> reporter: at least five people have died as a result of the storm. hundreds more. >> the who sus flooding, requesting sandbags. >> pushed from their homes by a relents will current and rising water. >> we have lost everything. what i got on my body is what we have. pretty much everybody down here have lost everything this morning. our vehicles, our clothes, everything. >> as many scramble to higher ground, forecasters say at some point today the rain should finally begin to ease, first responders and officials warn

>> the town is not over. the day and life does not end when the rain stops. >> reporter: still, it will be a welcome sign for so many, anxious for the recovery to begin here. >> we are getting a relief the water is still rising, in fact, a flood watch and flood warning has been extended through tuesday evening here. that's the latest. live in columbia, south carolina, betty, back to you. new developments in the desperate search for a cargo ship missing at sea. >> that ship lost contact in the bahamas. search and rescue teams are standing in a debris field made up of wood, cargo and other items. the ship had 23 people on board, 28 americans. they were last heard from on thursday during hurricane joaquin. the distress call went out

family, they gathered together in jacksonville, florida. daniel randolph was the ship's 2nd mate. >> there is a hurricane out here. we are streding straight and forth. wind are super bad. love to everyone. >> the coast guard will give an update on the search at 10:00 a.m. eastern. local and federal government are taking a precaution because of an unspecified college. it was serious enough to alert students of the content. philadelphia homes and several colleges and universities, including 10 temple and villanova. no colleges have been canceled. several have asked them to report any specific behavior. authorities in northern california say they have foiled

a high skoolg school plot to kill as many students as possible. four main students at summerville high school were arrested. fellow students reported suspicious activity to staff. >> the suspect's plan was very detailed in nature and included fames of would be victims, locations, methods in which the plan would be carried out. >> they say they were in the process of securing weapons. no one was hurt. the word comes on the heels of last week's shooting massacre at umpqua community college in oregon. nine students were killed. all the classes won't resume until next monday. students are being allowed to get their longings and get counseling. also we are learning chilling new details of what the shooter told his victims before he kills them.

called to the front and the shooter says, if you will beck for your life, you will not die t. lady began to beck for her life. he shot her. >> he also said the gunman singled out one student to different a suicide note to police. calling him the lucky one, president obama and u.s. defense secretary ash carter are promising a full investigation to a deadly bombing in a hospital in afghanistan. 22 patients and hospital staff were killed when the doctors without borders trauma center was hit by a coalition airstrike. there are indications u.s. fighter jets may have been responsible. >> this is a tragic loss of life. your heart can only go out to innocent people caught up in this type of life. >> knowing apologies aren't enough. you need to understand why this happens. right now, a humanitarian group is demanding an investigation saying this assault could amount to a war crime. npc tracy potts is live in washington.

this is serious. what do you know about this bomb sfk. >> we know how many people were killed. ba we don't know is the big question, betty, why those coalition airstrikes hit the hospital in the first place. there have been suggestions from an afghan commander and defense ministry that the hospital was being used aed a human stheeld by taliban fighters that they were firing from that hospital. doctors without borders running that medical facility says that there is? way the taliban could have gotten pence that hospital and that this type of strike is never justified. as you said, there were 22 people about half stack and half patients who were killed. there is a full dod investigation under way. ordered by president obama. the multinational security force are questioning whether the utdz can investigate itself. turning now to the race for the white house, democratic

clinton is set to unveil a sweeping gun control. under the plan, she would cover gun shows and sper net sales and allow victims of gun violence to soufriere arm manufacturers. and in just a few hours, "today" show anchor savannah guthrie will hold a town hall meeting with clinton. clinton is still getting a lot of attention for her season premier on "saturday night live" in the sketch the real clinton plays a good job at impersonating donald trump. >> all anyone wants to talk about is donald trump. >> donald trump? isn't he the one that's like,

oh, you're all losers? [ applause ] >> while trump, meanwhile, told "meet the press" and chuck todd if he were doing poorly in the polls, he would probably drop out of the 2016 race. >> i'm at an advocate. if i was dropping in the polls and i thought i wasn't going to win, why would i continue? if i were doing poorly, if i saw myself going down, if you would stop calling me because you no longer have an interest in trump because he has no chance. i'd go back to my business. i have no problem with that. >> right now trump is still leading the gop race in iowa and new hampshire. although, he's lost some ground. according to a new poll, in new hampshire, trump holds a 5-point lead over carley fiorina. in iowa, trump is ahead of ben carson by 5 point. now a month ago, trump's lead in iowa over carson was 7 points. the latest on the weather

kierans had a busy weekend. those in south carolina had a historic rainfall. what's on tap today? >> the atmospheric river is finally ending. what's interesting, you usually get one or two spots in a thunderstorm scenario. this was across the state from columbia, about 10 to 20 inches, a little over 24 information. this area of white in the pink shait shading here. just outside of columbia, east side of town is definitely hit harder. right through central portions of the state was about 19 to 15 inches. so widespread, we're not completely done with all the rainfall yet. we have flash flood warnings from the myrtle peach area to charleston. it hasn't been bad, we have nippy rainfall. here's the rainfall from oranges

heavy thunderstorms are finally offshore. likely it's going to be from the myrtle beach area southward. we get another inch or two. about 95 of the damage has been done. shouldn't be too much worse than what we already seen. >> we'll have a closer look at the day ahead. so the rest of the southeast is amazingly quiet. you feel like fall. it wasn't widespread into georgia or even north carolina. it was focused on south carolina, no problems in the northeast. >> everyone on the beaches had a horrible beach erosion all week long. >> that will come to an end too. >> you have a little sunshine there for us. so if you plan on using a bank atm machine today, we have some news that you will want to hear. plus, three against one and my money is not on the bears. the sales of that grey puppy next. you are watching "early today." gazing out on an unforgiving

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