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a new problem as the storm lingers. n news crew was there as apparentoong incident cld out an unattended store. >> and an elite rescue crew from virginia heading south to help with the massif effortser already uway. still so much happening down south and a lot of tet moist is coming our way. thank you for being with us and sticking it out with us. i'm adam tuss. >> i'molette green in for angie goff. things busy overnight as florence lingers over the carolinas. >> a tornado tched down over silver lake, nor carolina, just north of wilmington. >> this is video from our sister station in wilmington, they had to take shelter and thisin happ before 1:00. we haven't receive words but we have a crew on the ground in north carolina and we'll bring us updates as they become wavailable. re seeing wind from
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florence enter o region. lauryn is tracking that. >> we'll get a good of rain monday and tue areas of west of d.c. there smahard sharp cutoff as who will get inches and who will just get a avrinkling. we a chance for stray showers sunday. that's what we're seeing now, showers and fog. for our friends panhandle of west virginia and frederick, i'm jealous. you're getting sunshine. i do believe veiled sunshine will be out there but mostly cloudy with ahance for stray showers. florence still a monster bringing the on shore now through wilmington that will track through north carolina, hug west virginia state borr and thl get rain
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showers around thunderstorm in our area.we l talk about that but know it's comfortable rig 0s and 0s.k we'll t cha rain in your esfne oighborhood. >> team coverage continues with news 4's j handly live from greenville, north carolina, along the tar >>river. im will take us flu the devastation that you have seen up close there. >> molette and adam, when joe casano, our photograer, came t here at 8:00, it was calm. we h ce seen therent pick up on the tar river. th is the big concern, folks, the higher elevations areur wwater into days of flooding at least until wednesday. the big y are road closures,e we gotten a new figure, 488
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water rescues in the state of north carolina so far.ro a lot roadways, we want to hear from a woman who cd st in the middle of a washed out road. here's what she had to say. >> water keeps building up on some "titanic" stuff. you could see the water coming up. window out andhe as i did that, i t ed to swim out. >> when she hit that water she literally flew into the ditch and the cardiss appeared into the lake. we have no idea her until911 got here. >> reporte o this is playi all over. we showed you the video from harnett county. for power outages, we are down here in thetate of north carolina from 850 to about 680,000up now. that wi 50,000 in south carolina. those numbers could go back up
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seeing the le are power poles on the saturated ground comeow crashing after veees come crashing down on top of them all this region of the state so numbers could go up. we have about 20,000 people in shelters, everybody being urged to stay off the roads, stay at home wherever you are. >> jim great stuff. you and your crew stay safe and we'll nt t check in with you. >> flooding expected for days. thank you smuch, jim. >> you know you're lo ing, right? you know you're stealing? >> that reporter confronted suspected looters in wilmington. because of the looting issue, police have imposea curfew, a extended curfew for some areas and officers have made several arrests. some of the storm victims fled to hour area. eight evacuees spent the night
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at the university of maryland's itchie coliseum in college park. several signs for the red cross were posted. till not clear where theseue evac came in from. >> the death s ris another storm. this is video from the philippines whnhk mat has killed at least 25 people. the philippine police director says most storm-related deaths are from landslides. trees and power lines have been pushed over. 100 miles an hour winds peeled back the roof tops on gas stations and devastation in that area. more first responders from our area are on the way to the carolinas helping with rescue e. efforts th look in chantilly last night. virginia's elite task force one was activated. we were there as they loaded up trucks fullf gear. they're taking boats and the team isn't sure where they are going or what they'll be doing but they say they're ready to >> we got very little notice, we thought we were going to be
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still just kept in reserve but we're glad we're going and assist as many people as we can. >> w 32 team members will te helping out in carolinas. the red kins take to the field this afternoon for their first home game. >> 1-0 on theeason and t first time fans will see quarterback alex smith in the regular season.wa derric has made it to fedex field battlg traffic to get there. it's been a journey. hos it looking. >> the news 4 helicopter comes in handy. just kidding. we're here at fed, field. there's nothing like the smell of barbecue in the morning. victory.ike victory for washington? we hope so. is is video from the last time they took to the practice field earlier this week. theyl take to the actual field at 1:00 gbs the colts. this is the first time the
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redskins have gone 2-0 since 2007. this will be new experience for this area. fans areor hoping that game. but you notice another important milestone to be reached could be for the colts, however, adam vinatieri has to make three field goals today to tie the all time career field goals record by morton anderson. of course the washington team would love to see him kick field gos allday, that would bode urll for washington. but, of , a lot of things to watch. the new quarterbacsppearance at home so it gets you should way at 1:00. these early tailgaters are out here to enjoy everything that goes into the game at fedex field. that's where we're live.
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back to you. >> close enough to the foot. >> he's got time. >> thank you, derrick. we have a driving lesso that went in the wrong direction with this watery outcome. the car ended up in a community pool in monomery village. this is the north creek communit center. a fire department spokesperson says this appears to be driver o the driver was practicing how to park. >> my nightmare when my kids turn 16, basically. >> they're not doing it withy car. driving school. coming up, it can help adults quit smoking but it's having thepposite effect on teens, now the fda is cracking down. thel get the latest on vaping issues going on straight ah
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a woman is recovering after her vape pen exploded. it happened yesterday afternoon nd 3:30. the fairfax county fire department says she was a passenr sitting in a car on grant street. she had to be flown to a local center. no word on the severity of her injuri inj inju t fda 1 threatening to pull e-cigarette products onhe shelves unless manufacturers come up with a way to reverse this troubling end. amy cho has reaction. >> reporter: this is very small, it's a ndjuul looks like a usb drive not a good idea. >> reporter: nickie's daughter says her daughter lauryn doesn't use e-cigarettes but no many
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students who do. >> that can't be good. and it's very ive and i don't think the kids are doing it are bad kids. >> reporter: the cdcs million stud last year. 12% of high schooler in the last 30 days middle schoolers use the la this college studentid us to use his name b es the juul everyd. he doesn't think kid it but for adults like it can relieve stres >> when i looked int. it was healthier tha options so i feel safe with a juul than a g >> reporter: the fda e-cigarette makers 6 prove they can keep smoking. if not, the fda says pull the product fro shelves all together this mom says she'll close eye on. >> it's our job to b
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no matter how you feel about red light and speed light cameras,t 're everywhere. >> you can't avoid them around here. but for people from out of town, it's a real shock when they get a ticket in the mail. they're not used to that. get this, i talked with one lawmaker in new jersey who is trying to make sure his constituents can get out of those fines re i. love them or hate them familiar with speed light cameras around lawmakers in new jer wa to protect thei if they get a fine f these things, they s drivers should haven't the fi >> we would stop our vehicle commission fro providing the identi inform >> that's new jerseyep state senator declan ia joining us v face . he's introducing leg that would protect n drivers from any speed light camera ticket.s new jersey doenot use those type of ca >> we don't tolerate jers.
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we won't tolerate it governments taking a our residents. >> it's not making traffic safer. >> jersey resident jay lassiter recently got three speed c he was in town to bu father who was in th corps. he was at arlington cemetery. now jay admits when he was over the spee he qstions the pla some cameras. >> so if it goes fro and it's not that ob of course it's desig un ensnarspecting me and that's what h >> rorter: accordi washington city pape income from red ligh camera tickets jumpe over $69 million in $123 million in 2016 d.c. leaders and num have always maintained program is set up fo for drivers like jay - >> i haven't gotten ticket in a dozen ye i can't remember the l>>
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omething isn't adding up. >> a lot of opinions about this. >> it sparks a conversation. >> talking about the speed and red light cameras. >> well, ono other things to talk about with chuck. >> you can do a whole show on speed and red light cameras. "meet the ratings would be way up with that. everybody has an opinion. >> let's talk about what will happen on the show today where you have a guilty plea from tim one head of the trump presidential campaign as the president tries to look presidential in the wakef florence and the devastation in the carolinas. >> what grade do you give him for florence? it's hard to say because he's still in it. >> i just spoke to the fema director and he said fema hasn't deployed everybody yet because fema is an aftevent and we're sl in this event and this is going
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to becr floodingish so so they have to wait on that. >> i think somebody deserves credit for convincing the president not to tweet over the last 24 hours on paul manafort but th of puerto rico got this recover effort off to aninus a spishs star start. the president doesn't even accept that there's anything to learn from puerto rico and now it's like litigating deatholls d my biggest take away that i fear washingsn't thinking about, it's obvious puerto rico would have gotten better atntion if they were a state. does anybody believe puerto rico would be in the situation they're in if they had fully these other true multilevel i governmerastructure that
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they're in this no-man's-land as far as our government structure is concerned and when you look at the -- you wouldn't if it wo nd have been better and ushing their leaders are harder for statehood. >> it's not a good look to have the bottled water just sitting and bag bad at the airport. >> in fema's defense, there's no doubt there was broken infrastructure in puerto rico that was not tended to, all iosebe things ca true but the federal governme the you want -- ultimate authority. do you want to punish citizens because their local government failed them? that's a tough place to be a i don't think that is how the country would want thern federa gont to respond. >> i know we've run out of time t the paul manafort deal with the special counsel, not good.
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>> not good because he's thene guy in the room with the trump tower meeting suddenly cooperating with mueller. that would make this intriguing tier mind he has business to roger stone, a russian business tie that is a supposed russian operative. another oligarch who is the chief sugar daddy also with ties to putin. the concierge for the russians to get into the trump caaign? at's an unanswered question but now mueller has paufrtd to answer those questions. >> sorry to run short on time but we want to remind you that "meet the press" comes up every sunday a10:30, more on paul manafort and the hurricane in a few nutes. meantime, a check of the forecast. lauryn, what do you say about the redskins homeowner. >> i say we're going to win. >> you got one win. >> we'll take it to two today
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maybe a passing showe at the game. let me se l and final track of florence.h it will p up through asheville and continue to move to the and and east over monday and tuesday. that's when we'll see rain in our area. we he to watch that into nday and tuesday. as far a concerned, we are looking at showers. n you switchhe prompter out so i can see my maps. we have a few showers that will continue. stuff, a few stray showers today and more rain overnight tonight as this isture lives up west virginia. some veiled sunshine. we won't see much of rain until later tonight. the commute tomorrow, maybe a
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few showers but through the evening commute waves of rain, a few thunderstorms will move into the region. the heaviest rain will be ong i-81. tuesday br temperatures stay in the 80s but it will pull that rain out of here. comfortable temperatures but an ck in humidity happens throughout the day today. hot and for monday and tuesday, scattered showers and storms. we ho threat monday and tuesday but by wednesday, thursday and friday temperatures in the80s. fall begins saturday. it's time for fios. because fiber optics move crazy amounts of data at even crazier speeds. and fios is the 100% fiber-optic network, so you can get phenomenal capacity for your tech. we'll even help you get another device to put it to the test. right now, get $200 toward a range of google and nest smart home devices when you switch to fios...
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10:26. here's what we're following for you, four things to know. 14 people have died in the destruct ronoray am,enflce w ta tropical depression earlier thi. mornin some places in north carolina have received more than two feet of rain with more expected to rtfall. sg at noon, free vision screenings will start at area school-aged children. the screenings will last until 5:00 at the prevention of blindness society in the district of mass avenue and northeast. >> redskins play their first home game this afternoon, team
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looking to stay undefeat in their kickoff against the colts. we'll see if alex smith can get it done. >> yeah, whatever. keeper here for "meet the boess." chuck will talk fema officials about the relief efforts in the carolinas, and also paul manafort's deal with the special counsel. you say tonight is the besce ch of rain. >> str showers the we'll all have a chance for rain. wednesday, sunny skies, just have to get through this. >> that's i for new 4 today. "meet the press" coming up next.
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this sunday, historic flooding from hurricane florence. >> i've been here 20 years and this is the worst i have ever seen. >> hundreds without power. so many being rescued. >> i think people thought they could ride it out. they didn't realize how gh the river would come. the worst the yet thecome. plus, manortflips. president trump's one-time campaign chief pleads guilty and
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