abc news, charleston, south carolina. >> and henderson man -- andover man is -- erika: a north andover man is among three people sharing the 2015 nobel prize in medicine. william campbelll and a japanese citizen were cited for discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites. campbell was born in ireland but is a u.s. citizen who spent decades working for merck. a man from china was rewarded for discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria. new hampshire governor maggie hassan will run for u.s. senate. our sister station, wmur, breaking the news. the second-term governor is the first democrat to announce she' s in the race to challenge republican u.s. sen. kelly ayotte. hassan is considered the best challenger for ayotte in a swing state that could be pivotal in the contest to control the senate. erika: democratic candidate or clinton unveiling new gun control measures. she will propose legislation that excludes some gunmakers and distribute her. she also backed efforts to stop selling guns with background checks and band ms. clinton: wh

for her and for these rescue crews, the work -- >> gabe gutierrez, nbc news, charleston, south carolina. >>> this is kerry sanders in columbia where it took a human chain of brave souls to reach one man trapped in the flood. what started under cover of darkness lasted through the day. >> you can see little children, kids being brought out of these homes. >> reporter: the deluge overflowing several dams, 1,000 times more water than usual flowing over some of them. downtown lexington cut off because of the rushing waters. some roads collapsing under the weight of it all. state officials say it's never been this bad. keshia simpson among the 100 first responders today. >> we don't see anything like this in south carolina, it's shocking, scary. >> i'm thankful we got out okay. >> most of those rescued say they didn't realize they needed to evacuate until it was too late to escape on their own. >> we're at a total loss, everything gone. >> the interstate is closed to prevent drivers from getting trapped. this family feels lucky, they drove into their car began to started to sink. >> 10 minut

rob marciano, abc news, charleston. >>> across the country record break agrain in las vegas. the storm led to traffic accidents, power outages and this dramatic rescue of a hopeless woman and her cat from the storm drain. they're both going to be okay, we're told. fire department bought the woman a week's worth of groceries. the red cross is finding a place for her to stay. >> we love our firefighters. >>> as a tight knit community, oregon struggles to come to grips with last week's shooting. they're getting a visit from president obama, the president heading to roseburg friday to meet privately with the families of the victims. the shooter killed nine people at umpqua community college before turning the gun on himself. one survivor spoke exclusively to abc news. >> i will never ever take for granted a second, a minute, every day is special. and you never know when something's going to happen. >> anastasia boylen also said the gunman identified as chris harper mercer laughed after shooting the teacher. a law enforcement source said mercer ranted in writings about not having

i am brad bell new charleston, s.c. where the flood waters have receded. we are getting a look at the damage alison: breaking news into the newsroom. let's go to jonathan elias. reporter: there has been a deadly shooting and edgewood park. news chopper seven is over the scene. a person was shot and taken to the hospital about a quarter before 5:00. he died at the hospital. in another part of the park, maybe 100 yards away from this, police have a man in handcuffs. we're not sure what role this person played any. montgomery county police in the maryland national capital park police are investigating this deadly shooting that is taking place in edgewood park in burtonsville. as soon as we get more information vrable pass that along to you. jonathan elias, vacuum. -- back to you. the rush is on to preserve drinking water supply in south carolina after the historic flooding. the canal which is the main source of drinking water for about half of columbia collapsed in two places. cruisers gambling to put a lock in place to plug the holes. residents are getting a

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walter scott has reached a multimillion dollar settlement but with the city of north charleston, south carolina. >> this news comes six months after the unarmed 50-year-old was shot and killed by officer michael slager following a routine traffic stop. anthony scott, the brother of walter says the family can now focus on the next phase of the case, the criminal trial of now former officer slager. >> he had a bad record and it should have been dealt with sooner than this. my brother might be alive today. >> cell phone video captured slager shooting walter scott in the back, again unarmed and running away from the the officer at the time. slager's attorney said he felt threatened and believed scott might try to shoot him first. slager is charged with first- degree murder. a trial date still hasn't been set. >>> organizers of this weekend's million man march rally say they'll not let the possibility of armed protesters intimidate them. >> delia goncalves is live on capitol hill near the site of the rally with more. good morning. delia. >> reporter: good morning. the stage is being set indeed for that rally. we'

. >> much welcome news in charleston as you can see. i don't have my hood on. the rain has stopped now. it is expected to pick up sporadically through out the day today. local forecasters are saying things should dry outcome tuesday. the big deal you see the images two-miles north of here in columbia, south carolina. charleston is considered low country. the fear is there will be runoff from the rivers up there that make their way back down here. charleston is not out of the woods yet. cars making their way through the flooded streets. in charleston it is a main thoroughfare which is why you will see traffic. back over here this is a residential neighborhood. it is unclear if there is even power on this street or some of these houses are using generators. a lot of people evacuated. schools are closed and there's curfews in place which really is astonishing, heather and ainsley, is that just yesterday, in just that 24-hour period charleston received more rain than las vegas has received since 2013. >> hopefully it will subside. joe wall joel waldman live for us.

news. at least charleston was now. out of the rain. the greatest one-day, two-day, three-day, and four-day for the charleston airport. by the way, this is the 49 wettest month ever. pretty early in the month. i would have to go to 1973 i. let's hope they get about

going to give up but before they formally, treaty was signed so the bridge was to occupy in new york, charleston and savannah, otherwise a pullback and washington's main army was of the new berg in new york waiting to go. because the british had effectively stop the war, states stop in congress any money so there was no money to pay the troops and they were getting rebellious and ready to overthrow. that was one of the earlier stories i tell in this but because sandwiching debris from yorktown to him becoming president. into washington puts down the revolt by making an appearance at a meeting of the officers where they are plotting a revolt, and one of his great motions he makes his speech and it was very convincing because washington we know it's not a very good public speaker because he didn't have teeth and yet these false teeth and he sort of mumbled. but he was a very effective actor. he had worked in one bit of acting in the middle. he finished the speech and essentially pulled out a letter and then he pretended like he couldn't read it, or maybe you could read very well. so pulled out his

news. at least charleston was now. out of the rain. the greatest one-day, two-day, three-day, and four-day for the charleston airport. by the way, this is the 49 wettest month ever. pretty early in the month. i would have to go to 1973 i. let's hope they get about two to three weeks. some low clouds in place. not much, but a little bit. low churning heading towards arizona though. southern neff neve. that will be very active as it heads into the four corners. it is moving out of california. fiftys and 60s. i'm sure there will be a few host. a little bit more fog than i had yesterday. and a slightly stronger breeze. i believe temperatures will stay the same as yesterday. and nice inland. temperatures very low 80s. all right. 4:31. and it will are still good. i we're looking at the list. let's take a look at what we have. the look at the san mateo bridge. traffic is looking good heading out to two. westbound 102 over at highway 101, there's some debris in the lanes. watch out for that if you are going all the way to the peninsula. i have

their belongings soaked or gone. 500 people evacuated from this area alone and also this new video from charleston, south carolina. knee-high, knee and thigh-high water there, people struggling just to walk through the flood waters to get home. up to 500 people evacuated in coastal parts of north carolina. south carolina, north carolina, new jersey, virginia, all declared states of emergency. more heavy flooding could hit the states all the way up the east coast. nick valencia is in charleston, south carolina. the president just issuing a state of emergency there. largely that's tied to getting some federal funding in there to help. >> well, certainly. they could use all the help that they can get. this, poppy, is the most relief we have had all day long, this area of road i'm standing on right now, usually a heavily trafficked intersection and street in the city of charleston. water up to ankles now. you can see that's receded, but the problem back here still remains. those cars have been there all morning long, finally getting towed out, since the water has receded to where it's safe for the tow

we talked about this after column columnbine, tucson, new town, after aurora, after charleston. it cannot be this easy for harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. have news organizations tally up the number of americans who've been killed through terrorist attacks through the last decades and the number killed by gun violence. and post those side by side on your news reports. >> all right. so, here they are side by side. on the left, according the cdc, more than 316,000 killed by guns and in the middle the number killed by guns in that time span, more than 118,000 and finally, according to the global terrorism data base, the number killed by terrorism in the u.s. in that period, just 38. the presidential candidates reacted from the frontrunners, hillary clinton, she called for sensible gun control measures to save lives. donald trump offered his condolences and jeb bush said he was praying for the victims and families families. >> condolences aren't enough. we've got to do something. we've got to stop shouting at each other. we need sensible gun control legislation

reporter: the problem is too much water, punishishing waves in new jersey, coastal flooding in ocean city, maryland, and streets underwater in charleston, south carolina. outside new york city, crews are working to keep the water from this slow-moving nor'easter away. in virginia beach, nearly nine inches of rain since wednesday has the ground saturated. public works. >> you can't assume because it hasn't flooded before it's not going to flood now. that's a wrong assumption to make in this kind of storm. >> reporter: this storm actually has city crews more concerned than the hurricane because it has parked itself on top of virginia beach. it's bringing a lot of rains and strong winds. the strong winds whip you want tides so there are extra high tides. flooding. >> we are concerned, yes. >> reporter: josie is standing in what should be the parking lot of a restaurant. bubba's has to be dry and ready for business in just hours. >> we have some parties tonight. we we cannot cancel anything like that. we have to honor that. >> reporter: north and south carolina are expected to get hammered with rain this weekend. already several counties t

we've talked about this after columbine and blacks burg, tucson, new town, after aurora, after charleston. it cannot be this easy for someone who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. had news organizations tally up the number of americans who have been killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade and the number of americans who have been killed by gun violence. and post those side by side son your news reports. >> all right. so here they are for you. side by side on the left. the most recent data we have according to the cdc. more than 316,000 were killed by guns in the decade between '04 and 2013. this number includes suicides. in the middle the number of homicides committed in that time span. more than 118,000. and finally according to the global terrorism database the number of people killed by terrorism here in the u.s. in that period, 38. the 2016 presidential candidates reacted on twitter. the front runners, hillary clinton called for quote, sensible gun control measures to save lives. donald trump offered his condolences. and jeb bush said

it was the scene in charleston this morning, flood warnings from south carolina all the way north up to new jersey. more on that in just a minute. there are also new questions this morning about the apparent u.s. air strike that hit a doctors without borders hospital in of agab stand. president obama offering his conoco lenses today while the defense department launches a full investigation, those details are also straight ahead. >>> plus the good news and the bad for donald trump in the brand new nbc news/marist college polls. >>> hillary clinton kicks off another season of "saturday night live" straight ahead. >>> we want to begin this hour in south carolina and this weekend's historic rainfall and catastrophic flooding across the state the charleston fire chief reporting 37 water rescues overnight and one location received an astounding 24 inches of rain so far with even more rain still on the way. president obama declared a state of emergency and gabe dput rez joins us live from charleston. give us a sense of the latest, how are efforts going and people bracing themselves for more rain

and captains are to south carolina but charleston getting a break from the ring today and and they're flooding of floodwaters have started to receive that is good newsleston is particularly hard in the state's the rain will become torn and by the end of the day today and then starting tomorrow sunny skies will be drying out will have sunny skies here are ready and live look loss of some signs of a monday morning hope you had sunglasses 75 is the high will have between 3 and 4:00 p.m. this afternoon under a southwestern bridge five the to moscow our the evening ride home things are starting to look reliance sunny conditions of the '60s back and talk to my. >>anny hong: low 60s and san jose 63 and the more 62 in richmond we are talking a little cool and damp and the whale on the low to mid '50's on was the bomb 24 and southbound interstate 680. >>george: as well as the ride through oakland on both 58880 this morning for your trip into downtown the approach to the san mateo bridge to the dumbarton bridge loan to jam up as and the nimitz ride for a is outbound look all the red shawl on the sock and freeway not only 28085 and 101 also 17 up to 880. >>geo

kate, but again, here this is the shadow moss neighborhood in the western part of the charleston. good news is we are able to drive around in the neighborhood. something that we could not do for the past several days. back to you. >> we feel like we're riding with you. looks like maybe a foot or two of water in the road some points and not what we saw over the weekend. >> reporter: right. and it can be a little deceiving, kate. it does -- i wouldn't even say a foot of water. it's, you know, we have a camera where you can see it. this is something that over the last few days, several feet of water and got up, several abandoned cars and stalled cars here in this neighborhood, again, one of the most flooded areas in the western part of charleston and we can get through it and safety and government officials say if you don't have to be out today, to just stay home. and let the rescue workers, crews do their jobs. kate, back to you. >> absolutely. gabe, thanks for that live repo report. sarah dallof, she is live in columbia, south carolina. you are near where the governor was. people out of wate

live in charleston, south carolina, elizabeth hur channel 6 "action news." >> back here, flooding and storms plagued the jersey shore over the weekend causing major beach erosion. the mayor of stone harbor estimates the repairs and replenishment will cost millions of dollars. in atlantic city, as we look live from sky6 live hd. the beaches took a beating. you can see it's winds out there with the rough surf kicking up along the coast. >> we can expect brighter skies for the week ahead, but there's concerns down the shore. karen rogers has the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> reporter: that's right, the national weather service extended the flood advisory until 7:00 p.m. because they are dealing with flooding along the shore. you can see the advisory along the atlantic coast and lower delaware bay where we expect flooding in the back bay once again today and the local roads in the area. 8 miles per hour in philadelphia. nothing like it was with the gusty winds over the weekend. down the shore sustained winds in atlantic city, 16 miles per hour. we clock a grus of 23 in -- a

this is what charleston emergency management officials said in a news conference. this was just a little bit ago. >> this is a very serious event and everyone in the area needs to take it that way. they need to take this seriously, because there's a potential for a very dangerous and life-threatening situations to occur. so as the mayor said, if you do not have to frequent out into the area today, please stay at home. >> south carolina, north carolina, new jersey, and virginia have declared states of emergency. more heavy flooding could hit those states and others up the east coast. want to bring in our nick valencia, live in charleston, south carolina. nick, it looks like the rain is, in fact, accumulating, getting a lot deeper where you are. >> reporter: the rain has not stopped so far, since this morning, suzanne, really since the last few days here in charleston. and for how miserable this weather is, we really have seen these tremendous gestures of human kindness. it started this morning when we saw a pair of strangers, they told us, push these cars stranded -

charleston good news. but the number of rescues, by the hundreds in some cases from charleston to columbia, everiable bodied personnel is out trying to rescue them from apartments, from homes, from vehicles. they're calling in crews now from areas of tennessee. here is the next streak and we're still watching it continuing to move in the same direction where again we fear a good 6 to 10 inches of rainfall in several locations that will continue for the next 24 hours. unbelievable. >> how long are they going to have to endure this? >> that's a good question. they're pleading with everyone, if you are saefr and dry, stay put. because too many people are trying to sight see. but now i think the problem will be the next 48 hours and after that, as the rivers continue to rise. remember that i-95 stretch 75 miles of it is cut off. but also i-20, i 126, i-77, until we get this area of low pressure to move away, i think things will start to clear up late tomorrow. >> thank you so much. i want to go to the charlesto

we talked about this after columbine and blacksburg, after tucson, after new town, aurora, charleston. it cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. and what's become routine, of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common sense gun legislation. right now, i can imagine the press release is being cranked out. we need more guns they will argue. fewer gun safety laws. does anybody really believe that? >> another evening in the united states of america filled with grief. the chaos began this morning as the 911 calls started to flood in. 10:38 this morning local time the first calls come into authorities. >> active shooter ucc 11:40. somebody is outside one of the doors shooting through the door. we do have one female that has been shot at this time. >> reporter: within minutes, law enforcement on the scene. >> exchanging shots with him, he's in a classroom. >> exchanging gun tshots with a male. >> confirmed report he has a long gun. >> reporter: the shooter is a 20-year-old male believed to have four gun

we've got new video of cars trying to get around charleston here.e seeing a record rainfall and that torrential rain is drenching the east coast. right now, could impact several college football games this weekend. yeah, especially in the southeast. notre dame facing clemson tonight in south carolina. we'll see what happens there. coy wire is joining us live from clemson. so what do we think? what's going to be the impact here? are they going to play? are we going to see something? >> reporter: it is raining like crazy right now, suzanne. good morning to you. it's not showing any signs of stopping. the rain here at clemson is certainly having an impact on tonight's game. you're talking about a pair of unbeaten teams. so tonight over 80,000 people will flood death valley just behind me. and i'm standing in about an inch and a half of mud right now. >> wow. >> reporter: so we're talking about a place that's picked up 2 1/2 inches over the last two days, so a lot of the grass parking lots they normally use on game day are limited. clemson officials are

we're live in charleston, south carolina, elizabeth hur for abc 7 news. >>> the level of the water there is amazing. drew tuma was saying they've had more rain this weekend than san francisco's had the entire year. >> that's bad. >> we have spenser christian here with our accuweather update. >> okay, larry and ama, we'll start not with our local weather. this is calm and nice here. take a look at conditions over in the area of the flooding in south carolina after three days of rainfall, locally up to two feet of rain has fallen in some locations. you can imagine the kind of flooding, you've seen the video that this kind of rainfall can produce. the good news, if there's any good news in this situation is that the rain is tapering off. the latest radar looping image. you can see that the heaviest rain has moved off shore but there's still pockets of scattered showers moving inland over the areas already flooded by the storm. let's take a look at the forecast animation starting at 5:00 this afternoon. the center of that storm will continue pulling away from populated areas moving out to se

. >>> new tonight at 11:00, the charleston police department responding to a violent rollover crash. one person was hurt yesterday when the crash happened on dresser hill road. officers say the occupants suffered only minor injuries but had to be taken to the hospital. thankfully tonight they are expected to be okay. >>> quite an unusual find washed up on the beach on cape cod. take a look at this. on tuesday, the welt sleet harbor master found this enormous star fish washed up on the rob right near a shack. mass autobahn was called in to examine the carcass. they took evidence and determined it was a female sun fish and the info is now being added to a database on ocean sun fish. >>> meanwhile the atlantic's releasing another great picture of a white shark. despite the weather getting cooler, the water temperatures still inviting for some surfers so definitely beware. >> people are preparing especially along the coast. malini basu is in plum island with what's happening tonight. >> we're here in plum island where many folks have been coming out of their homes, they've been walking o

clear pull back in the amount of coverage given to the gunman when compared to mass shootings in charleston or new town. in this case the local sheriff refuses to name the killer. >> i will not name the shooter. i will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act. you'll never hear me mention his name. >> this is the issue that's being debated in news rooms all across the country this week. our job is to report news, all of it. the counter argument is getting attention. the news coverage makes them famous and makes copy cats more likely. a media campaign has challenged all of us in the news business, challenged us to refrain from naming gunmen and showing their pictures over and over again. i want you to hear all sides of this argument starting with founders of the no notoriety. they're son alex was killed in the aurora theater shooting. thank you for talking with me. >> good morning. >> karen, we spoke on friday. you were feeling good you weren't seeing this face of this most recent killer. you weren't hearing the name very often. you feel your campaign is ha

the second case of a woman who said she was assaulted by a uber driver in charleston, south carolina. the new york firm filing the lawsuit said uber's negligence, fraud and misleading statements caused of florida's sexual assault which humiliated, degraded and violated plaintiff degraded and violated plaintiffs of their dignity. uber released a statement saying our thoughts remain with the victim of these two terrible incidents. we proactively worked with law enforcement with massachusetts and south carolina at the time to share information and aid their investigation. both drivers have been permanently removed from the platform. now as for what the lawsuit is requesting uber to do, we will have more on that part coming up next hour. for now live here in boston, catherine parrotta, fox25 morning news. >>> a new report shows the most important transportation issues for the city of boston. the city spent a year asking for input for it to go boston 2030 plan and the globe reports 6,000 people responded. they are concerned about three main issues. first, getting the speed limit lowered by 5 miles

. >> meanwhile in charleston this new mom is counting her lucky stars she was rescued in a canoe and taken to the hospital to deliver her baby boy. >> i was happy and scared at the same time i won't have another kid for about another 40 years. >> in the capital city of columbia crews are work around the clock filling sink holes and building rock dams and dropping sandbags to stabilize and repair the breached canals and dams and this as authorit authorities continue to closely monitor several rivers at or near flood stage and still rising. with some 400 roads and bridges already closed. >> this is a situation where if that road is closed it's closed because we're trying to protect you. it's closed because we're trying to do this for safety. police don't make us for that reason have to come back here and tell you the fatality numbers have gone up. >> well here at the columbia canal we're told sandbagging will continue until all 750 bags each weighing a ton are all in place. this as it turns out is one of two areas of immediate concerns for officials today. that is the latest live in co

eyewitness news reporter elizabeth hur is in charleston. >> record rainfall in south carolina. the national weather service rain has fallen since friday in some parts of the state. relentless rain buckled buildings and roads and washed away homes. >> been here since 1986, and i've never seen anything like this in columbia south carolina. >> hundreds have evacuated and nearly 30,000 residents are without power. >> it's hard, everything, my car, my pictures. >> 600 members of the national guard were called in to help. >> it was like up to here. >> kelly liggett tried to save anything she could as water came rushing into her home. >> i was just throwing stuff on beds to try to like save stuff. >> raging waters caught many offguard. this driver lost control of his pickup. a man waded out helping the trapped man to safety through the kicked out back window. the coast guard plucked this mom and her daughter from their flooded home. >> probably the most terrifying moment of my life, especially having her and holding on to your 15-month-old daughter, that far up was incredibly frighten

. >>> we can soon learn new details in the charleston church massacre. what a judge is expected to rule on in the shooting deaths of nine prarishioners. >>> we're standing by for a report on the crash of malaysia airlines flight 17. how it is being disputed before the official release. >>> what the united states supreme court is expected to we thought we'd be ready. but demand for our cocktail bitters was huge. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding. fast. our amex helped us fill the orders. just like that. you can't predict it, but you can be ready. another step on the journey. will you be ready when growth presents itself. realize your buying power at open.com. >>> sad update to a story we have been following out of haiti. authorities confirming an american missionary was killed. this is roberta edwards, from tennessee. she was shot and killed after the car she was in was stopped by gunmen. new this morning, a child was in that car with roberta and that child was kidnapped. edwards took care of

news is this rain. >>reporter: in charleston, south carolina, the city is prepared but has not seen a storm like this since hurricane hugo in 1989 >> this is urn fe unusual. we've seen a lot worse but we want to prepare for everything reshows over a foot of rain has already fallen in parts of the carolinas and much more is on the way through monday. worryi worryi worrying residents of both states. >>> national weather service is calling this a once in 500 year weather event. many streets in charleston look like this, under a foot or two of water and it's just saturday. the issue is the high tide mixed with this incredibly high precipitation falling here in charleston. but they are ready and they're buckling down. flash flooding is expecteded to continue and possibly get worse across the region. officials in north carolina are urging residents to be overprepared. >> we're still not letting our guards down because this weather pattern can change. there are still portions of the state scheduled to see up to 7 inches of rain on top of what we've already received. >>reporter: right now, downtown charleston is c