avenatti connell: two years of rain. already a terrible year. talking about how florence is moving at a glacial pace and it has been but packing quite a punch as it continues to lash north and south carolina, torrential rain, intense storm surge, looking at the damage in its wake and we will have more in a moment. jillian: 17 minutes until the top of the hour. tropical storm florence claiming four lives in north carolina. the first two happened friday when a tree fell through a house in wilmington tragically killing a mother and her infant. her husband was injured and taken to a local hospital. a neighbor now reaction to that tragedy. >> they were stocking up. i was talking up. it was a routine hurricane experience, but nobody can prepare for that. they had some old trees behind the house back there. it was only a matter of time. you can't predict that part. connell: we talked about the fact that florence is expected to be downgraded to a tropical depression but also how that doesn't matter anymore. it is about the flooding. little consolation w

avenatti connell: john kerry actively undermining us policy on iran by advising officials in europe andn on the 2015 nuclear deal which the trump administration withdrew from earlier this year. richardson has more from the state department. >> reporter: unprecedented and inappropriate. secretary of state mike pompeo's assessment of the man who occupied his office two years ago. the secretary claims john kerry and other obama administration officials are advising european and iranian diplomats to wait out the trump administration to salvage the iran nuclear deal. >> i'm confident they met with their troika counterparts. i wasn't in the meeting but i'm reasonably confident he was not there in support of us policy with respect to the islamic republic of iran. >> reporter: whether pompeo believes other officials are doing the same? >> i won't say today only to the extent that they are, the definitions i suggested for john kerry would apply to them as well. >> reporter: former secretary john kerry admits to meet with iran's foreign minister after leaving office though in an interview with hu