look at all the weather -- the water, that is, building up in goldsboro, north carolina. the winds from florence starting to die down this morning, but the flooding emergency still growing across the region. >> and right now florence is very slowly moving over the carolinas just drenching north and south carolina as those floodwaters keep rising across the region. >> here's what we know right now. at least seven people have been killed in this storm including a mother and her infant who died sadly when a massive tree crashed onto their home. >> and those storm-force winds also wreaking havoc on power lines across the region. nearly a million customers without power in the carolinas this morning. >> and florence has already dumped nearly two feet of rain

the coast guard pulling a mother and it annfe e safety in this nursing home in goldsboro, north carolina. >> floodwaters are raging across parts of our state, and the risk to life is rising with the angry waters. >> reporter: more than 170 roads in north carolina impassable, including two major highways leaving some drivers stranded. this is highway 74, a main east/west corridor leading in and out of wilmington. take a look. a car driving through that high water is going right over the highway. at times it's been too high for cars to get through. abc's amy robach joined a rescue coast guard team as they set out to help those still trapped. >> with so many roads flooded and impassable in this area, these helicopters become a lifeline for those who have medical emergencies in the storm zone. >> reporter: and long lines forming at the few open businesses as people venture out for the first time in days. >> we had to get out. with no electricity, you can't cook. we finally came out today. >> it's scary. you think the worst of it is over, and then we get another gust of wind. bad, high winds

they said the goldsboro and wilmington site are the only two sites they are concerned about. they say they're working with state and environment protection officials and that they're confident that there is no public health thrt from the coal ash. what do you say to that? >> my response is that duke energy has shown time and again that it will understate the threat posed to public healthal and environmeuality by its own actions. it will underrert volumes discharged, it will understate the threat that its own facilities are uder and, mot importantly, will understateand try to diminish public understanding of or response to the threatos by discharges of its coal ash and the con stitch we want b that are therein. >> you sayweha should have known or recognized this threat, this problem. what, in your view, in your group's view, can be done or should be done to preve this from being a problem in the future, in future storms? >> well, coal ash and swinery waste and pouaste should, for starters, not be stored in our 100-year floodplain. the fact is that all of duke energy's coal ash

in goldsboro, roadways and cars are still submerged. >> the damage will be in the billions of dollars, in north carolina, damages continue to be incurred as flood waters continue the rise. one far more creepy... there are sp >>> a different kind of natural disaster in greece. take a look, one far more creepy, this are spader webs covering the town -- spiderwebs covering the town, hot weather is partly to blame. hot weather brings out the spiders favorite snack food, gnats. a situation for these with arachnophobia. >>> beautiful skies, a little bit of a marine layer over the water, keeping our temperatures in san francisco, mailed comparatively, 58 degrees in the city, 85 degrees, it is nice and clear. another clear, dry day, the warmer temperatures are going to continue in to the weekend, the weekend is going to cool off a little bit, although it's not going to be that cool. there are warmer temperatures behind it. your high temperatures, look at this, your average for today. anywhere from 7 to 84 degrees depending on where you are. then today, we are from 2 to 5 degrees above average

. >> i am in raleigh and headed back to goldsboro, where my we are planning to feed children, and manyf them are missing meals because the schools are closed because the rivers, even in my city, have not crested yet. -- it is 15 at 20 feet higher than when hurricane mitchell came. that gave us the 500 year flood across the state. amy, here is what we have to help people to understand. trump is coming to visit today, but his policies, the negative impact policies visited -- were visited on the poor long before he came. we are in a state that before the hurricane, or people had a storm, there were over 4.7 million residents in north carolina that are poor and low wealth. there are over one million people in north carolina before the storm that did not have health care. the counties that are being hit tier onest, amy, are and tier two. .hey are being hit the hardest in north carolina, 2 million workers make under $15 an hour. it would take a person making seven dollars an hour, they would have to work some 80 something hours just to afford a prude bedroom -- 242 bedroom apartment. that is

here's goldsboro. here's the noose river at goldsboro. we're going to go from three feet and right this morning we're at 20 feet high. this river has gone up 17 feet in 24 hours. another one, the new river near gum branch. we've been from two feet to 23 this morning. the rivers all the way up and down even from northern north carolina all the way down to the ocean will have to take all of this water. cape fear river at fayetteville. 10 to 16, and the forecast is almost 60 feet. another, what, 30, 40 feet to go. people will have to get out of the way of the water. it's running back down. and it's still coming in. >> wow. that's why this is a multi-day event. thank you very much. we'll check back with you to see what's coming for people across the carolinas. >>> and george, riding this out in oak island. good morning. what are you seeing outside your window? >> good morning. wind -- i've been through several of these. 45 miles per hour. steady rain. a lot of branches down. a lot of the roads, roads are impassable. just a lot of branches. no

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this is what it looks like in goldsboro, north carolina.owing on this saturday morning. >> and it's not over. this slow-churning storm is expected to dump another 6 to 10 inches on the already devastated areas as it moves inland. >> so let's get right back to amy robach in wilmington, north carolina, where, of course, the flooding emergency is still top of mind. all across the region. amy, good morning. >> reporter: that's right, good morning, adrienne. good morning, everyone, and, yes, we are seeing florence make this slow and tortuous march through the carolinas with catastrophic flooding in her wake, and you can certainly see the daat wind and rainthght'not goin away any time soon, unfortunately, on because of that, a massive rescue operation is under way here in the state of north carolina with firefighters trying to search for the hundreds of people feared trapped in their homes right now. we know this, at least seven people have already died in this storm including a mother and an infant when a massive tree crashed into their home and

he's living that reality in goldsboro, north carolina, light now.e dealing with flash flooding. that's what we're worried about in miyrtle beach, south carolin. what's it like there? >> we're on u.s. 70, a business highway right in the middle of town. it's east ash street and north pine view afternoon, the 200 block. we've got two, three feet of water across the roadway and a flash flood emergency in effect. we've been watching some of the vehicles unfortunately not use the turn around and don't drown policy, and they've been driving through this. we're really fearful as to what might happen when one of these vehicles gets in this floodwater and stalls out. but multiple flood rescues have been ongoing in and around goldsboro. >> turn around, don't drown. i mean that makes it pretty obvious. yet as we both know, people make that mistake of trying to go too far, too fast all the time. what do you know about duration? how long are we expected to see these types of bands of intense wind and water pushing water onshore? >> chris, as long as that center i

potential environmental problems and a long slow recovery for the poor and gallacher al-jazeera goldsboro north carolina . the palestinians have filed a lawsuit at the international court of justice against the u.s. over the relocation of its embassy last year president trump's administration officially recognized jerusalem as israel's capital and later moved the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv in may the palestinian foreign minister says that move breached international law and has asked the r.c.d. to order the u.s. to move it back. are growing concerns in tehran that fighters defeated by iranian forces in syria will now regroup and target them at home it's been a week since twenty five people were killed in the city of when gunmen opened fire during an event to commemorate the iran iraq war saying this ravi reports from tehran. a week after gunmen attacked a parade for veterans from the nineteen eighties iran iraq war one of iran's most powerful men told the country exactly who was to blame from the friday prayer podium the second in command of iran's revolutionary guard corps took aim

any time a hurricane comes through, greensboro, goldsboro, we just flood. and they always forget about us. it's like these pocket towns. and they go out to the big wide areas, insurance companies play it like it's a game. we're paying for these multimillion dollar houses that are on the outer banks. it's crazy. it's just not well prepared. it's not well planned. i think insurance companies play a big part in how things are done. i think they do it incorrectly. they just never let the pocket towns. guest: one of the things this hurricane is going to make people realize is that storm surge and coastal towns are not the only places that are affected by huge catastrophic weather events. like you said north carolina has cape fear, has the neuse river. all these large river systems that overflow at the drop of a hat. as the storm comes inland, as storms come inland and starts dumping anywhere from 10 to 40 inches of rain on to these areas, these -- the areas where you live are going to see flooding, too, and damage they never expected. there is going to have to b

the elderly being taken to safety from this nursing home in goldsboro, north carolina. and in jacksonville, a military humvee needing its own rescue. >> humvee got stuck with them in it, but thank goodness these guys were here. or it would have been a much worse situation had they not been here. >> reporter: and now the death toll, climbing. at least 17 people killed from florence's wrath. and getting help to those in need becoming a greater challenge. more than 170 roads impassable. some completely washed away. emergency crews scrambling to build barriers in the hopes of keeping at least some roads open. but the torrential rains shutting down sections of two major highways. this flooded stretch of i-95 in lumberton littered with abandoned cars. and tonight, the power is out for more than 700,000. here's what power crews are up against. just behind me, a dozen trucks waiting to move further into north carolina to help restore power. but they can't right now, because up ahead about maybe 200, 300 yards, the road is flooded there. and they're also worried the road could p

potential environmental problems and a long slow recovery for the poor and gallacher al-jazeera goldsboro north carolina . opposition leaders in the democratic republic of congo are concerned about the credibility of the upcoming presidential election that warrant that electronic voting machines which are being years for the first time in the country will be manipulated to read the result catherine sawyer reports. are on their way to baghdad and in the west of democratic republic of congo for three strange is sharing this barge with many others on a two day journey home along the congo river. is the only way for them to travel cheaply in a country with crumbling infrastructure in december they go to the polls hoping that whoever the elect will improve their lives they will for the first time use electronic voting machines. i do not know anything about this machine. the only thing i have is my voters card opposition leaders and other civil society groups say the new system is not secure enough the technology was created by a south korean company which built similar machines while actions i

potential environmental problems and a long slow recovery for the poor and gallacher al-jazeera goldsboro north carolina . now a coalition of opposition figures from the democratic republic of congo is holding a rally in the capital kinshasa in the run up to presidential elections in december twenty one candidates have been approved by the exclusion of some key opposition figures as strong the vote votes fairness and to doubt outgoing president joseph kabila is backing emmanuel. his main opponents are likely to be the leader of the largest opposition party felix chess a caddy and vitale committee who came third in the two thousand and eleven annex sion among those ruled out former vice president john pierre bemba was banned over a witness tampering conviction x. prevention the governor morris katoomba who's an exile was prevented from returning to register his candidacy let's get more on this now our correspondent catherine soy is joining us live from the can shasta so what are the opposition's concerns catherine about the new electronic voting machines that are going to be used. it's not

later this evening, they're going to be heading out towards go g goldsboro, both with about 25 truckss. these trucks are high-water vehicles. this is something that we take very seriously, but where also take a lot of pride in being able to help the people of the country, spaeshespecially the sf north carolina. >> yeah, and a number of those places we've had reporters stationed, and they certainly need that help. appreciate you joining us with the update. tom mccollum joining us from ft. bragg. i wanted to check in now with miguel marquez, who's in pender county, north carolina. he just filed this report. >> this is highway 421 in pender county. it is now a lake. several hundred yards wide this lake, down that way is wilmington. up that way is raleigh. you can't get there. this is all runoff from the long creek that feeds down into the cape fear river. it is still rising. the cape fear river is still rising. on the other side of this area, wards quarter, where we are, is the black river. that river is also rising and cutting off roads there. it is becoming dire for this situati situat

this is goldsboro, north carolina. we were there yesterday.rs at least at major flood stage and will be cresting through saturday. take a look at what we saw there. any have been marking the flooding with orange paint. you see that. that was 6:30 monday night. 7:30, 8:30. 10:30. you can see the water level rising. right now we are 5:00 on tuesday and the water continues to rise and they don't expect it to end. we can't report that the noose liver has stabilized. the wacko river floodplain have asked people to evacuate. dana. >> dana: thank you. please thank all of those volunteers on our behalf. senate republicans making an offer to come to christine blasey ford to hear accusations against brett kavanaugh. earlier bob corker tweeting this: after learning of the allegation, chairman chuck grassley took immediate action to ensure both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh have the opportunity to be heard in public or private. republicans extended a hand in good faith. if we don't hear from both sides on monday, let's vote. gene is a professor of politica

because earlier it was not including goldsboro but now from cape hatteras to central south carolina. here's the path from the national hurricane center. slow mover tonight. myrtle beach, still a tropical storm. the winds might be a little bit high right now. since we're already at 75 and we're over land. tropical depression or tropical storm i should say as we get into saturday morning and then heads towards columbia, saturday evening. you will have tropical conditions out there. and this continues, look at this, monday it's in eastern tennessee. tuesday it's in central pennsylvania and it will continue into new york later. here are the extreme affects we are expecting. afternoon winds, strong gusts into the afternoon. significant wind damage. gusts from 78, elizabeth city 41. look how far north. raleigh with a gust of about 48. that means lots of power outages. less than 50% as you get into the northern part of the state and along the coast anywhere from 70% to 100%. and, of course, the storm surge. right now, we look at high tide. that passed for friday. next high tide comes in ton

>> yeah, i talked to chuck allen over in goldsboro and they're doing pretty good.was very concerned about what is going on in new bern. you know, we have a metro mayors group and we really work very close together and we provide each other resources as needed. so, you know, it is just the outpouring has been tremendous and the cooperation among agencies here in the county has been something to be proud of. >> unfortunately -- but unfortunately up to this point you're the mayor of the town that appears to be hit the hardest, is that correct? >> it is. it is. you know, i'm not -- you know, this is terrible, but we're able to get through it and we'll be better for it. >> we believe you. we believe you, mayor. we will be thinking of you tonight and tomorrow and praying for everybody down there. best of luck to you. mostly, thank you for setting aside a few minutes to let our viewers know about the situation in new bern. >> thanks. >> that's the mayor. >> thanks for your concern, and we will -- yes. >> we'll send some tourists your way once it is cleaned up. >> dana out

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and in goldsboro, some roadways and cars are submerged still. >> the damage will be in the billions of dollars. in north carolina, damages continue to be incurred as flood are waters continue to rise. >> reporter: the fear is the same is true here in south carolina where the governor estimates flood damage is already topping $1 billion and could climb. that's because the waccamaw is not expected to crest until next week at possibly three feet above its record. gayle. >> oh, boy, so it continues. thank you very much, manuel. >>> investigators in a deadly warehouse shooting in maryland are still looking for a motive today. police say that snochia moseley killed three co-workers and then she shot andree others were wou yesterday's shooting. mola lenghi is at the warehouse in aberdeen, maryland, with more on the story. >> reporter: good morning. this was the third mass shooting in the u.s. in two days. moseley was a temporary employee here at the distribution center, only on the job a few weeks. witnesses say she got into an argument with another employee right before her rampage. >> activ

any time a hurricane comes through, greensboro, goldsboro, we just flood. they always forget about us. it's like these pocket towns. and they go out to the big wide areas, insurance companies play it like it's a game. we're paying for these multimillion dollar houses that are on the outer banks. it's crazy. it's just not well prepared. it's not well planned. i think insurance companies play a big part in how things are done. i think they do it incorrectly. they just never let the pocket towns. guest: one of the things this hurricane is going to make people realize is that storm surge and coastal towns are not the only places that are affected by huge catastrophic weather events. like you said north carolina has cape fear, has the neuse river. all these large river systems that overflow at the drop of a hat. as the storm comes inland, as storms come inland and starts dumping anywhere from 10 to 40 inches of rain on to these areas, these -- the areas where you live are going to see flooding, too, and damage they never expected. there is going to have to be a