i want to get to brian todd at wilmington where he is seeing some of that. brian? >> reporter: right, don. rescue workers are frantically trying to reach two people. we have a better angle than before. you see that tree came and split that room in half, that's a back bedroom. there are two people inside there. they're trying to extract them. it is an adult and a child. i have spoken to a relative of the adult, says it is her aunt in there. from what we gather, it is a woman and a child in there, and they're desperately trying to extract them. the call came in a little before 7:00 this morning, we're told by local fire officials. there was a man in there with them. they brought in a surgical team because the man was pinned, the surgical team was preparing to do an amputation, but were able to move and lift some objects. then they determined they did not need to do an amputation, they were able to extract that gentleman and take him out for medical care. we do not know his condition at this time. don, we're told that's about a 30,000 pound tree, that's a back bedroom

we've been watching brian todd. e seen him with some flooding, some trees and branches down and also traveling along the roads there in hampstead. brian, what are you seeing now? >> we've seen a worsening in conditions along these roads. and we're going to show you why the downgrading to a category 1 should not let people underestimate this. it's still extremely strong, the winds to where we are on the northern band of the storm. you can see the front tree ahead of us could be on the verge of snapping and collapsing. we're going to glide past it and a lot of the roads are getting worse by the minute. the winds and rain are really whipping around here. these rural areas especially near the intercoastal waterway are vulnerable. we're going to take you to the edge of this road. it goes right up to the intercoastal waterway. we're going to be at the edge of it in a second where the road is washed out. and we have to point out the road is washed out, it was washed out before the storm hit. but the fact it's washed out mea

we lost brian todd. brian todd is in wilmington. also been able to witness some of those rescues that have been happening. brian also witnessing some flooding as well. i got a chance to go out with storm chasers and also with police to survey some of the neighborhoods around myrtle beach, and some -- there are some areas that are bad, but considering they fared well. i should say worse than others is a better way of putting it. there was some flooding, there were some downed tree lines. there were some power lines that were down as well. and then so we got brian todd back i think. brian, can you hear me? do we have you back? no brian todd. listen, we're going to continue on here. we're going to talk to some of the business owners who have having to deal with this, having to deal with the loss of money, also being displaced. a lot of their -- especially if you are a restaurant owner, you have food in the freezers, you've got no electricity and you probably lost that as well. we will continue on the other side of this break with our s

i want to get to brian todd. brian todd witnessed this attempted rescue in wilmington. he is at the scene where we have gotten confirmation two people have died. brian, tell us what you're seeing, what's going on. >> reporter: right, don. the rescue teams, pull the police tape down and zoom in, rescue teams are wrapping up the operation. seem to have gone through some after incident briefing. they're packing up equipment. an ambulance just departed from here. here comes another one. but he is stopping now. we have confirmed what we believe are the first two fatalities from the storm in wilmington, a mother and her child. i was told by a relative it was a very young child died, you may be able to see the tree over my right shoulder, that massive tree came down on that red brick house and split it open. there were three people inside, don. we got here shortly after the first person had been extracted, a man we were told survived, but almost didn't make it. we were told they brought in a surgical team in to amputate his leg that was pinned in there, but they moved some obj

christine and dave. >> brian todd, thank you. >>> a full week after florence hit the carolinas, the impactill being felt. look at the satellite images. sediment and debris carried in the ocean. you see the water color changes from light blue to dark blue as it gets dumped into the atlantic. >> the death toll up to 41 across the carolinas and virginia. 31 of the fatalities happening in north carolina. the state's governor roy cooper says nearly 74,000 people still don't have power. rivers in north carolina have crested and receding, several south carolina rivers are still rising. nick valencia has more from conway, south carolina. >> reporter: dave and christine, this has been described by residents here as the slow-motion disaster. as hard as the residents have been hit by flooding from hurricane florence, officials warn it will only get worse. it is not if, but when the river behind me overflows. it was four feet past the flood level with the expectation it will go up to 21 or 22 feet and crest on monday or tuesday. in fact, city officials were going door-to-door and over 900 home had doo

i want to go back to brian todd in hampstead, north carolina. what's going on there, brian?> reporter: it is getting a little worse. the rain is picking up and the wind is starting to whip around. as you know for being in these for so many years, when you get rained on sideways, you know it's getting serious, and it is. this band hitting me right now, you can see that. again, the storm surge where we are, is getting to be a problem. this is the intercoastal waterway, just creeping up this road. more so each minute. as we get to high tide, close to midnight, this is going to be worse, so i'm really getting hit with a band right here. it's coming off the marshes too, anderson. when the storm surge overwells the marshes like they are to my right, that's a bad sign. this water in a couple of hours is going to have no place to go. i just checked in with the local emergency management people about this assisted living facility not far from here down this road. they have 174 elderly people in there, but they say it's built to withstand a category 4 hurricane. they are confident the

brian todd has the latest from maryland. >> reporter: christine and dave, the shooting began outside the building and moved inside. the sheriff says the total of six people were shot. three killed. three remain hospitalized. the 26-year-old female suspect is also dead. according to law enforcement, they have not described a motive for the attack. law enforcement sources tell cnn the 26-year-old was a temporary employee of the center and disgruntl disgruntled. after she opened fire in the facility, the suspect shot herself in the head once. that did not work. she shot herself in the head a second time. according to rite aid official, this was a massive facility. a distribution center where about 1,000 people work. according to law enforcement, officers arrived within five minutes of when this shooting started. law enforcement officials and tactical teams did not have to use weapons. dave and christine. >>> brian, thank you for that. a full week after florence hit the carolina carolinas, the imp felt. look at the satellite images. sediment and debris carried in the ocean. you see the w

a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian todd across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move.

for that let's go to brian todd. they thought they had seen the worst. it's going to last throughout the entire day and into the night. brian, what's it like right now? >> well, we're pretty much getting pummelled in downtown wilmington. but they have been dealing with this pounding rain and the rising water for several hours. i'm going to show you kind of what this situation is like. you've got downed trees, downed power lines not far from here. this street filling up with water. we are only a block away which of course is going to be just way, way beyond flood stage for much of these next few days. the mayor of wilmington told our colleague they have had already about 100 calls for rescues, and they are trying to get to as many people as possible. but these are the kind of conditions that people will be navigating. a lot of standing water, rushing water on these streets. you don't know how deep it is. this is what causes injury and deaths in these situations, in the hurricanes. it is water on the streets. >> all right. brian todd's shot is taking troub

brian todd, thank you so much for bringing this to us.ght ahead in the newsroom, and it all starts right after this. >>> hello, everyone. thank you for being with us me on this sunday. final good-bye to senator john mccain and we saw the military honoring the late senator with this missing man formation flying over. these navy f-18 jets four of them and one peeling off in salute to a fallen pilot, and after a week of omourning for mccain's family and close inner circle friends are now or have been saying the last final good-byes s s at a private buri site. and he is going to be buried next to admiral chuck larson, his former classmate,

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brian todd, be safe. brian is in hempstead, north carolina.rom hempstead to jacksonville, north carolina we find ed lavandera. good evening to you. you were getting whipped around getting pelted in the face with water earlier. what are you seeing now? what's going on? >> hey, don, we're on the north side of the north topside of this storm which really gives us some of the most intense winds and kind of puts us on the edge, not near quite the eye of the storm since it's still offshore. but it's going to be on that leading edge of that eye which is where the strongest and most intense winds will be. so if the storm continues to move the way it's moving, we'll continue to see here in the hours overnight the winds intensify which we've already seen dramatically. just about an hour ago, we were out a little bit further out. we're now kind of buffered around the hotel where we're staying tonight. but we were standing there reporting a little while ago. one of the transformers from the electrical lines about 50 yards away from where we were just star

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a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian todd across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move has been winning votes in the german city of chemists for example there were demonstrations and far right rallies which included neo nazis after a man was fatally stabbed.

a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian todd across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move has been winning votes in the german city of chemists for example there were demonstrations and far right rallies which included neo nazis after a man was fatally.

a lowered welcome to focus on europe i'm brian todd. europe's nationalist and the far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east one of the consequences germans out on the streets protesting against immigration are now finding themselves side by side in demonstrations with skinheads and their nazis.

a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian todd across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move has been winning votes in the german city of chemists for example there were demonstrations and far right rallies which included neo nazis after a man was fatally.

a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian todd across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move has been.

>> brian todd, brian, thank you. be careful out there.erstand really, brian, why they are kicking people out. they want people to be safe and don't want to put the emergency responders' lives in jeopardy as well. we're here on myrtle beach. when i got here earlier it's empty. starting to see people coming out, starting to get stir crazy in their homes and also trying to get their last glimpse of the beach and get out before they will have to really hunker down in their homes. listen, if you can get out, do it now. that window of opportunity is closing just because of this downgraded this. doesn't mean there won't be a huge storm surge that could come in here and do some major damage and take many lives in the process. we hope that it doesn't do that. that's it from here. our coverage is going to continue now with my colleague jake tapper and "the lead." >>> for viewers in the united states and around the world, welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we'll start with the national lead. just as warned, hurricane florence is moving into the

let's bring in cnn's brian todd. brian, what is the latest?rter: wolf, tonight the president and his team are saying that secretary of state mike pompeo will head to pyongyang to work out the details of a second summit. the president is expressing a lot of confidence in his personal dynamic with kim jong-un, but the promise of another meeting also brings a lot more pressure to move the needle on kim's nuclear arsenal. >> we're making tremendous progress. chairman kim has been really very open and terrific, frankly. >> reporter: president trump tonight banking that his personal relationship with kim jong-un will kickstart the effort to get the young dictator to give up his nuclear weapons. the president today making a dramatic announcement. >> we will be having a second summit in the not-too-distant future. >> reporter: this isn't the first time he has made the promise of a second summit. in august the trump team hinted strongly that a second meeting could come soon but talks broke down. a planned trip by mike pompeo to pyongyang was cancelled

. >>> i quickly want to go to cnn's brian todd. he's in wilmington, north carolina. brian, the storm has now claimed at least four lives, including a mother and a child. where you are you saw the effort to try to get them out. >> reporter: wolf, this was an excruciating rescue operation when this 33,000-pound tree came crashing down. it split the back bedroom of that how else wide open. a rescue operation over the course of that eight hours. we were here for most of it. in the end, though, they simply could not save this woman and her young child. those two perished. one person was injured inside this house. this was similar to so many rescues today that rescuers had to endure while they tried to get so many people trapped and the storm kept churning through this area. in wilmington, a coordinated effort to save a family trapped inside their house. one man was rescued and transported to a local hospital. but though a team of doctors, paramedics and firefighters scrambled to get to a mother and her child, they were not able to save them. >> that's the overall difficult

brian todd is in annapolis outside the naval academy. brian, a huge send-off there today?: it really was, ana. e ironically, this is a day where the key events were supposed to be friday. the chapel closed to the public and the media. the burial service at the cemetery, that was also closed to the public and to the media, and yet there were two public images that everybody could witness and in some cases take part in. one was the images of hundreds of people lining streets of annapolis leading up to the gates of the naval academy that wanted to get one last look maybe at the funeral procession going in to pay their respects to senator john mccain. we talked to a lot of people who said that it was very important for them to show up on this final day of his farewell. another image that everybody could see was that incredibly powerful flyover that took place a couple of hours ago. we were here live when the planes flew right above us. that's always a very, very powerful image, these fa-18 fighter jets, four flying in formation. and, you know, it symbolizes the loss of a comra

cnn's brian todd has more from annapolis. >> reporter: dave and alison, this is a closed ceremony andurial on the naval academy. the day provided two of the most powerful public images among the sendoffs of john mccain this week. one was the image of the crowds gathered on the streets of annapolis, maryland leading up to the gates of the academacade. many were gathered around the gates to pay respects to senator john mccain. another powerful image that the world could see if they were watching was the flyover. the fa-18 jets. flew over our location on sunday afternoon. one peeled off to symbolize a fallen comrade. some questions asked why senator mccain wanted to be buried at the naval academy when his father and grandfather are buried in arlington national cemetery. john mccain, for him, this is where it began. this place forged his character. he had a complicated relationship. he graduated fifth from the bottom of his class here. also, i think, every story thank you hear is -- every story that you hear has forged his toughness in vietnam and prisoner of war for five and a half years

brian todd, thank you so much. we'll stay if contact. we're on the ground, in the sky, covering this hurricane. paul flaherty, a hurricane hunter flying near hurricane florence. he is with me on the phone, so, palm, i know you flew over, around the storm the last couple of days. tell me what you are seeing right now. >> reporter: good afternoon. we're just approaching the storm at this time. we are on the southwest side, again, we did a couple circles just on the outside of the eyewall of hurricane florence, so i don't have a lot of information of what we will get out of this mission. we know it will be critical for the forecast as the national hurricane center and emergency managers started to look at those last minute evacuations. >> what kind of information are you trying to getting paul? >> reporter: well, what we're doing is we're collecting a lot of data that will go into the water models. over the ocean, this is a lot of weather data the models need to start with data in order to make forecast. so. as you can image within no data,

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brian todd. brian, what are you seeing in wilmington?, don, allison is talking about the rainfal and how it's going to affect wilmington and how some of that water has no place to go. this is an example of it. i'm on the banks of the cape fear river. you can't see the river right now. if this is true to form, you might be able to see it in maybe 24 or 48 hours' time even if darkness because it is threatening to push right over these banks and come onto water street where we are and places nearby. this river is already setting records for flood stage, for cresting. at high tide today, it was at 8 1/4 feet according to our weather people, and that broke all records for high tide at the cape fear river at this juncture of the river where wilmington sits near where the river pours into the atlantic ocean. upstream on the northeastern cape fear river is a place where they expect the tide levels to rise sometimes maybe between 15 and 20 feet above the record stages. so this is really a dangerous situation here. this is a tidal river. that make

cnn's brian todd has details. putin facing growing criticism from his own people on a whole host of issues. >> right, jim. absolutely no coincidence here. we are told tonight that vladimir putin and his inner circle are very worried about his falling approval ratings. this new show is a not so subtle attempt to try to win back the hearts of russian people with classic putin propaganda. >> reporter: hiking in the mountains, traversing lakes and rivers, projects toughness and strength, staples of vladimir putin's image-building machine. part of a weekly show on russian state tv titled "moscow, putin, kremlin." depicting putin as russia's renaissance president, able to tend to the government's most crucial functioning while visiting a mine, engaging with children or listening to music. >> classic propaganda to elevate vladimir putin and humanize him at a time when he's under increasing fire from his own public. it's not an accident this is occurring it seems to me right at a time when he is really embroiled in a poli

brian todd is in onslow county, north carolina at an apartment complex that's dealing with some significant flooding. i imagine, brian, those waters may have risen since we spoke a half hour, 40 minutes ago. >> reporter: they seem to have risen a little bit, erica, we are monitoring it closely. you can see we are in the middle of a flooded out apartment complex. showing you how in danger some of these are. the water in back of one unit has gone into the units. look at these cars here. they're basically union usable at this point, washed out. had to pull several people out of the apartment complex. we spoke to david cotton, the manager for onslow county. he said we have not seen a flood like this in our collective memories, in our life times. this is what he is talking about. as far as the eye can see in the apartment complex, it is completely flooded out. when are these people able to come back to their homes? we don't know. officials here, emergency management officials say they've had to do 30 rescue missions so far. they have more than 300 people in shelters. at least 200 of them made th

here's brian todd. >> members of the u.s. are now on alert that their personal e-mail accounts have been targeted by foreign government hackers. google has confirmed to cnn the company warns specific senators and their staffers that their personal g mail accounts were targeted. ron wyden whose aides say his account was not targeted is sounding the alarm with senate leadership. >> for dangerous foreign hackers, this is just a no-brainer. these personal accounts are low-hanging fruit. the fact is if you look at 2016, what you saw is the personal account, particularly of people like john podesta and collin powell were the ones they went after first. this is how you find out who people talk to. >> reporter: the targeting happened in recent months. google wouldn't say who was targeted but attempts were made at both democratic and republican staffs. google and senate sources are also not saying whether any of the attempted hacks have been successful? >> how vulnerable are senators' personal e-mail accounts? >> it depends on the mem

cnn's brian todd is in onslo county, looking at some of the damage. what are you seeing? >> well, erica, we've seen a lot of street flooding. i just came out of the emergency operations center and spoke to several officials there, including the county manager who said that basically this area is just, has just never seen a storm -- >> i think we just lost brian, we'll get back to him as soon as we can. i may have heard brian again. we are going to get back to brian so we'll get an update from him as soon as we can, re-establish connection with him. let's go to the cnn weather center where meteorologist allison chinchar is following the storm. what can we expect moving forward today? >> expect plenty more rain, even the areas on the coast where it's been raining for over 40 hours straight, more rain is still on the way. again, the reason for this is the forward movement of this storm is practically stationary for all intents and purposes. it's moving only at 2 miles per hour to the due west. i will say this, we do expect the forward speed to gradually start to pick up over

let's go to cnn's brian todd, in swan quarter, north carolina, for us. so brian, what's the latest where you are? >> reporter: wolf, these ferries represented the last best chance for hundreds of people to get off of north carolina's isolated barrier islands. but tonight these ferries have stopped. they are more down to ride out the storm, and the people on those islands and up and down this coastline are now just bracing. some are hunkering down and boarding up, while most are gassing up and leaving town. >> we need to get out of here and be safe. >> reporter: up and down the carolina coast, these are the final hours to evacuate ahead of what authorities say will be a major hurricane with heavy flooding. >> this is going to be, you know, a mike tyson punch to the carolina coast. >> reporter: more than 1.5 million people are under evacuation orders. many of them moving inland. on highways that have been reversed to double the flow. >> if you're on the coast, there is still time to get out safely. no possession is worth your life. >> reporter: evacuation s

cnn's brian todd is there in one of our roving coverage vehicles. brian, what are you seeing? >> reporter: erica, this is one of the hardest-hit areas of the state in onslow county, north carolina. we're going to show you a shot out the front camera. you can see this part of mcdaniel street flooded in jacksonville, cars are stranded all over the place. we're going to make a turn and show you a car, couple cars here. the level of flooding we are dealing with. we spoke to cornelius jordan, emergency operations director for onslow county. he tells us they've had to do 20 home rescues and three water rescues since yesterday. i'm going to get out, kind of show you the depth of the water here, if i can make my way down the street. he said 20 home rescues, three car rescues since yesterday. and this is an example of some flooding that the vehicles can experience. they're telling people, you heard governor roy cooper say you just can't drive through standing or rushing water in this situation. this is an example. another driver was stranded in the middle of a roadway in his car with h

cnn's brian todd hast been checking with trump biographers.necessarily the kind of reaction the president would appreciation? >> reporter: not exactly, wolf. the president tried to make light of that moment and he smiled through it, but his biographers tell us there's nothing more donald trump hate and is more anxious about than the notion of being laughed at. the president's swagger was expected. the laughter in response to it wasn't. >> in less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america's -- so true. didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay. >> one of the phrases to watch for when you're looking at donald trump is "that's okay." when he says "that's okay," he's burning up inside. >> you can assume that underneath this effort to get along with folks and be a good sport, he is already setting down in his mind an agenda for revenge. this is a man who never forgets a slight. >> reporter: those who have chronicled his life say trump is obsessed with the idea of

cnn's brian todd is here. about some of the most glaring examples. >> wolf, the most glaring and disturbing examples, according to the woodward book are the president's lawyer, trying to get mr. trump to practice testifying before robert mueller, then the lawyer throwing up his hands and telling the president, don't testify. they include key advisers in desperation, reportedly stealing papers off the president's desk, just so he wouldn't risk u.s. national security. but through all of this, according to woodward, and according to people we've spoken to, there is really no one who has been able to truly manage donald trump. in one of his many moments of frustration with his boss, white house chief of staff, john kelly, simply could not contain his anger any longer. at a staff meeting in his office, kelly said of president trump, quote, he's an idiot. it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's gone off the rails. we are in crazy town. one of several explosive excerpts from bob woodward's new book, "

brian todd is in ham stead, north carolina. what's the weather? >> we're getting pounded by bursts of rain. you can see it coming from my right to my left. that could change at any moment now. the trees are getting under stress here to my left. this behind me is the intercoastal waterway. we're on old landing road and hamp stead about. they're really pushing the water up here, still not at high tide yet chris. when it does, this water is going to be pushing right past where we are. we're going to move soon to try to get out of its way. what we're also saying tonight, is that these marsh areas here, that i'm showing you right now, and i'm going to kind of step into the marsh area here, it's being inundated by the storm surge. this is an area that cannot only with stand the storm surge, but protect some areas from it, this cannot absorb it any longer. the surge is pushing the water up in this area, toward some homes and businesses, and after the high tide comes in in a couple hours, that water is going to have nowhere to go. in some of the barrier i

cnn's brian todd is on the scene there. could unfortunately see a lot of situations like this one. the ground is so saturated. these older, larger trees are vulnerable to a storm such as this. >> reporter: that's right, jake. they are very vulnerable, even this 30,000-pound tree that fell down on this house right behind us. we're going to zoom in. i'll go in a little bit closer here. the 911 call came in about 7:00 a.m. eastern time. rescue crews got here with reinforce reinforcements. we got here a short time after that. what we saw was they extracted one of the three people in the house, a man who was pinned under something. they brought a surgical team in and thought they might have to amputate possibly his leg that he was pinned under, but they had to move some objects out and get him some medical care. he was a survivor here, but unfortunately, a woman who was in here and her very young child died. rescuers were here for roughly eight hours, and we were here witnessing it and talking to first responders as they were co

brian todd is in the coastal community of swann porter. n, you have been following the storm preparations, the evacuations. what are you seeing tonight? >> reporter: wolf, we are seeing a real sense of concern for the people who have elected to stay on north carolina's barrier islands, especially very ice lighted islands like okracoke which is about 25 miles if here because of the ferries that have been taking people back and forth, they're stopped now, more down now. they are not going anywhere. they cannot get out to the islands. they warned people to get off the islands for the last few days. we were here earlier when a stream of people in several boats unloaded here. this one came last. it docked here about several hours ago with people coming off. that vessel over there was one of the first to arrive, and people had a real sense of concern and relief actually that they were getting off these vessels and leaving. these two vessels over here are moored down also. they're going to keep these vessels here, and what is really concerning is

brian todd on the scene for us. thank you.onight rescuers are on alert across the carolinas, and as the waters keep rising even more people may be trapped. cnn's ed la mandera is in new bern for us. you have been with the rescuers. what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: overnight, wolf, many residents here in the town of new bern which is rather inland from the north carolina coast started seeing the floodwaters rising from rivers and tributaries coming into their homes, many neighborhoods looking like this, taking on three to four feet of water. one rescuer told me they've seen six to ten feet of water in some places, and that led to a flurry of activity throughout the day with not only swift water rescue teams, professional teams that came in from across the country to help in this crisis, but also a fleet of volunteers who, reminiscent of hurricane harvey and what we saw there a year ago, where volunteers showed up with their own boats and launched boats into the floodwaters to pull people from their homes. that's ve

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let's bring in brian todd who's working the story for us. what are authorities saying?fficial said, quote, obviously there seemed to be planning involved here. this young man had a commercial pilot's license and officials are trying to ascertain just what his motive was. in the middle of the night, a flight school student sneaks onto a parked airliner, leaving his car running, authorities say he jumps a fence, runs across the tarmac and boards a plane that was parked for maintenance. maintenance workers said they saw a shadow. >> a maintenance employee spotted the intruder and notified the airport police department which was on the scene and able to arrest the subject within two minutes. >> reporter: he twiet twice attempted to enter the flight deck and after he was caught he was tried to reboard the plain. he's 22 from the european nation of trinidad. records show he got a commercial pilot's license in january. he faces charges of attempted theft of an aircraft, burglary, but no word on what his motives word. authorities say they prevented something that could have bee

cnn's brian todd has been checking with sources.saying. >> reporter: they are saying kim jong-un is fully engaged in his own charm offensive. he is using his personal dynamic with president trump to his own advantage and working his relationship with the south korean president as well, using pageantry and flattery to deflect attention from his quiet efforts to keep building his nuclear arsenal. it was the kind of greeting, elaborate and effusive only kim jong-un could stage, welcoming the president of south korea, once his rival, to his northern capital pyongyang today with a military review. later, peering out of an open-top limousine he joined the north korean dictator in waving to the staged adoring crowd, followed by a hyped-up orchestra performance with dancers and k-pop music. tonight the south korean president is spending the night in this once hostile country, part of a three-day mission that marks his third meeting with kim just this year. analysts say it is all part of a carefully crafted diplomatic and pr offensive by the

our brian todd has been looking into their stories. us more. >> reporter: wolf, one of these women accuses brett kavanaugh of engaging in abusive and physically aggressive behavior towards girls back in the 1980s. the other woman accuses kavanaugh of exposing himself to her at yale university. a key question tonight, is the fbi going to look into the allegations of these two other cough accusers. their names came up during the testimony of christine blasey ford and brett kavanaugh, two other couaccusers. >> she saw him engage in abusive and aggressive behavior towards girl. >> reporter: that allegedly occurred in materially 1980s. in a declaration released through her lawyer, swetnick claims kavanaugh was present at a high school party around 1982 where she was the victim of a gang rape. she did not identify kavanaugh as one of her attackers. >> from what i experienced firsthand, i don't think he belongs on the supreme court. i want the facts to come out and i want it to be just and i want the american people to have the facts and judge

brian todd, nice work there. we'll get back to you as well. it was during irma that drew griffin and his crew were doing a live shot and this guy mistook i think a creek or a river for a road. do you guys -- do you remember that, people at home? and then he turned into the creek or the river. they put something in to pull the guy out. you should never try to drive through that on a road because you just don't know what's in there. you don't know how deep it is. you don't know where it's going. i am so glad they turned around, paul smith. i'm so glad they turned around. thank god for that. miguel marquez is in carolina beach, north carolina for us. miguel, we saw the earlier bands coming through. the beginnings of the bands. i note you're not far from this brunswick nuclear plant they're keeping a close eye on. >> there are two units, they expect those winds to hit 75 miles of sustained winds. we are moving toward that. we're about a half hour southeast of where anderson is right now where they're not seeing too much rain here. the rain has bee

cnn's brian todd is in hampstead, north carolina for us. storm surge clearly one of the biggest concerns where you are. >> reporter: absolutely, wolf, and it's really starting to feel the storm surge that jennifer was just talking about. we're in hampstead by the intercoastal waterway on the mainland side of the intercoastal waterway, but the storm surge is already affecting these homes. you can see it push pentagon the water from the intercoastal waterway pushing towards these homes and this is low tide, wolf. in a cull of of hours it's going to be much worse and this water won't have anywhere to go and up into the homes and into the roadways just to my right. this as we're getting relentless rainfall from the storm that's just beginning in earnest. as florence makes landfall, the carolina coast suffering the early stages of what will be days of battering. from south carolina to virginia, more than ten million people are now under hurricane watches and warnings. >> make no mistake, whether the eye of the storm makes landfall along our shor

brian todd reporting. there's breaking news coming up.ent trump and working to have him removed from office by the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. we're learning new information tonight. comfort. what we deliver by delivering. >>> happening now, breaking news. wearing a wire. stunning new reporting tonight that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein suggested he might secretly record the president as he discussed the possibility of removing mr. trump from office. rosenstein's revelations, the man who receives the russia investigation under scrutiny as we learn more about his concerns that the president is unfit to serve >>> also tonight, trump allies say it is time for rosenstein to go. trump unleashes. the president goes after the woman accusing the supreme court nominee, questioning why she didn't file charges against brett kavanaugh 36 years ago when she was just 15 years old. tonight, republican senator susan collins says she's appalled >>> and hearing proposal. a deadline was just extended for kavanaugh accuser christine

let's check in with cnn's brian todd. brian, life threatening storm surges.re is a huge kerp where you are. >> reporter: absolutely it is, wolf. we're entering a dangerous area. i'm standing on old landing road but at this moment they're becoming one and the same. the intercoastal water way is coming on to old landing road with the storm surge pushing it and it will only get worse. this is low tide. in a few hours it will get much worse as another band of rain starts to relentlessly pour on this area. you can see some white caps whipping up and the currents starting to get pretty strong on the intercoastal. this is a dangerous period and i'll take you to the marshy areas. they count on these marshlands. they're good at absorbing the storms. homes and businesses are on the other side of these trees. water is going to have nowhere to go in a few hours. when the tide comes in, that will be when the heaviest rain comes in. these areas are starting to be inundated. it will only get worse. we've talked to a lot of local residents who have elected to stay and be a l

and chuck todd is the-- brian t were there and describe it for us. >> right, fredricka. talking to you on the air in anticipation of this and recapping the ceremony the four f-18 fighter jets flew right over my head. our team looked up above and i was watching it live on the air when they flew right above us, and wu of them peeled off. and usually, they peel off to the side, but this is, this pilot peeled off almost directly above and he made a cut straight up. it was a really powerful moment. this may been one of the easily most powerful symbols of the incredible wee symbolism that we have seen. there is something about the flyover and you can't take your eyes off of it, and for the few seconds that you are witnessing it, you are moved by it. it is a wonderful sendoff and wonderful symbol for aviator and john mccain's family and those who knew him can appreciate pit most. you talked about the admiral chuck larson getting the wings at the pensacola naval station in the late '60s and they made a pact 20 years ago to be buried together. and the admiraled said to his wife i

our brian todd is here. brian, where does this look to be headed?aded to the president firing robert mueller, firing his boss rod rosenstein, then getting into an even bigger political and legal mess. mueller's investigation has clearly irritated the president and placed enormous pressure on him. those who know robert mueller say don't expect him to back down in the face of the president's threats. >> people are angry. people are angry. >> reporter: he has taunted robert mueller from the get-go, calling mueller's investigation illegal, rigged, a witch hunt. now president trump is making a not so veiled threat to take action against mueller. >> what's happening is a disgrace and at some point i wanted to stay out, but at some point, if it doesn't straighten out properly, i want them to do their job, i will get involved and i'll get in there if i have to. >> reporter: how could the president get involved at this stage? >> we certainly know that he has at various times threatened to fire jeff sessions, threatened to fire mueller, threatened to fire rod

brian todd is in wilmington. what's going on? >> right, don. this is a rescue attempt at this house here just west of downtown. you see all the emergency personnel. there are two other people in here. we can get a shot of the tree. we don't know the continues of those people inside. these here brought rescue dogs. one of the police officials told me that part of the house collapsed as well. they have to remove bricks and other things to get to two people inside this house. they have been trying to get at this for hours. they are try ing ing to figure who will be there. it's being complicate bide another downpour and a band of rain that has not relented. you have seen myself and other reporters. another k0678ication is getting to the houses. over here all through these neighborhoods. i talked to the fire chief about this. he talked about just how difficult it is to get to so many of these people. how difficult it is all night. they have been trying to do it. this is very difficult. we will hang here and see if they can get the people out. >> you

brian todd has been driving around and getting a sense and a look at trees on the ground. calls to authorities for help. what do you know about any efforts by police to check up on people? >> anderson, police are checking up on people, but we have come up on the scene. this is a house west of downtown where a tree fell on top of the back of them. the fire chief of wilmington. tell us what's going on. are there victims inside? >> we have something on the scene here. we had a very difficult extraication. a very large tree tack off the back of this house and it took about three hours to rescue a victim out here. >> you can tell us how many people are inside? >> i can tell you that we have work to do here. we have task force one from indiana and i want to make sure they know my firefighters have been out here and hurricane winds trying to save that one person that was transported and very, very difficult. >> was it an elderly person? >> it's a bit offing operation that we had to do the way the tree fell. the tree is so heavy and there was a lot of leverage involved. there was