contessa, thank you very much.e'll see you in a few minutes >>> business owners up and down the carolina coast are nervously watching the storm and its path. joining us now is shane skipper, director of operations at lm restaurants which has several locations from wrightsville beach to south carolina. is everybody safe and out of harm's way >> everyone is safe. we're in communication with our employees along the coast. everybody is safe. >> that's the best news of all you have some restaurants inland, but you have blue water right on the coast on wrightsville beach have you heard anything about those buildings? >> we have heard that the buildings are standing and in good shape we have cameras on both of those restaurants that show us what's going on a lot of wind. a lot of rain, our buildings are still standing >> is that how you're primarily getting your information is it from remote cameras or have some people decided to ride it out and you're getting reports from them? >> we're getting reports from local officia

contessa brewer, thank you contessa talked about the port of charleston. joining us is jim newsom he runs the port of charleston he joined us on friday thank you once again for joining us it's been a long few days. you've got snips port now. are you still on tomorrow. we'll open our gaelts at 4:00 this morning in charleston so we'll be working as normal rail service is working today. the weather and that area of north and south carolina are expecting more rising waters >> charleston is southeast of where contessa is. all of the truck drivers that have to get to their jobs, you're south of there, but are they able to get to work >> yeah, most of our truck drivers are based in the charleston area or base the 234 the greenville area. i think that will be possible. dillon may be the exception. there was the closure on 95. we plan to open tomorrow there. >> the port of charleston is not just ocean ports, it's rail traffic. what are you hearing about the state of the train -- those peoples were inspected >> as far as dylan, the plan is for the first train to run

i'm contessa brewer.reet with the s&p and the dow hitting all-time highs it's the first record high for the dow since january. right now on the day the s&p up .79% all the 11 s&p sectors are higher led by tech materials, staples and financials and within the dow walgreen's, dow dupont are leading the 10-year yield hitting the highest level since 2008 in earlier trading. the etf smh on pace for its best day of the month leaders include micron, analog devices and skyworks >> contessa, thank you i'm tyler mathisen welcome, everybody along with our guest host for the hour tom farley, former nyse president, current far point acquisition ceo and a cnbc contributor. delighted to have you with us, tom. we'll talk with you throughout the hour we begin the second hour with the markets. the s&p and the dow hitting new all-time highs as technology and materials lead the gains kenny pockari is at the new york stock exchange if you want to chest bump mr. farley, go right ahead virtually. >> tom, how are you? congratula

what more can you tell us about that, contessa? >> reporter: well, for one thing, that right now, craig, the wind has really picked up and the rain coming down fast and furious and we are starting to get some of that fierce outer band weather that you were seeing just north of us in north carolina. the other thing is some 55,000 people are without power in this area, including a shelter in north myrtle beach where the red cross says 450 people are taking refuge and there is no generators so they're telling people, if you decide now's the time to get to a shelter, they're open with capacity and might be uncomfortable. out here on the beach, they have just done some dune replenishment. they're really hoping that this helps protect the grand strand from the worst of the damage with the storm surge and we are under warning right now and the hurricane warning and the flash flooding. there's a $21 billion economic activity that comes in from tourism in south carolina and so if these beaches get destroyed, it will really take its toll on

>> thank you, contessa brewer.here are we don't think about, things holding colace, things holding pig waste that if it overflows becomes a problem. you don't think of wind, flooding and then you have -- you don't think -- so there will be thaks things that we have to monitor. >>> a couple of big stories this week that will dominate the headlines in politics. joining us is co-founder at axios. top of the e-mail this morning to you and top of the e-mail -- >> thank you be. >> -- is all about the debate over kavanaugh and what is going to happen. i'll ask you, what is going to happen >> there's no doubt there is queasiness from, said they want to hear from the accuser most likely there will be a delay in the vote in committee on him the big thing to watch is lisa murkowski, susan collins in maine. these moderate republicans who people thought would have more concerns with kavanaugh. are they persuaded by this susan collins said, listened i'm sort of amazed the question is does she come back and say, listen, i have se

contessa brewer is at the port of charlestonor us tonight. >> reporter: the preparations are intense here at the port of charleston at bmwes m thousand of cars on the giant car carriers heading out to sea and away from the risk o any storm surge or flooding that hurricane florence might bring. and they won't me any new karps in. the port is typically a very busy plac in fact in august it set records for the number of containers moved, up 16% over the previous august. annually this port accounts for $53 worth of economic activity or 9% of state p. >> the port is the economic engine of the state and one in ten jobs is connected to the port. every day we are down is day that the produce of south carolina doesn't have access to the world markets. >> reporter: the reak with the hurricane is not the wind. not even weather charleston is the bull's-eye. it's the flooding because charlestons in low country. it floods with just a few inches of rain in a regular rnfall. and the prediction here is for inches or perhaps en feet of water. what's going to happen to the cars. >> the cars are being e

contessa brewer is near a highway which is flooded i think you're near 301, right, contessa >> that'sn stand in the middle of the roadway which is a major thoroughfare to i-95 and it's the way people would be detouring around i-95 which is closed 234 this part of south carolina but you can see what's happening 1 people are pulling the supplies up they need to go to disaster recovery. this truck back here that has th excavator is heading to wilmington they can't get through here's why they come up on 301, they see the road closed signs and the water. look how swiftly the water is going across the roadway here. these guys are taking the excavator to wilmington and looking to help out in disaster recovery and the trooper says we can't have anybody bypassing the barriers even though you're on an important mission why is that? even with the bigger trucks and the higher vehicles that are up high why can't they attempt it? >> right now we don't know how deep this water is we don't know if the roadway has been washed out underneath the roadway bed and you can't tell unless you're in it. we ce

. >> kaitlin, that tide information is important for the next few hours let's get to contessa brewerle beach, south carolina this morning good morning, contessa >> reporter: hey there, carl we're just starting to feel the outer rain bands come through, the rain is light but steady wind gusts pick up and die back down so far they hit 50 miles per hour look out as my photographer broads out you can see the sea looks calm and then you'll get a gust of wind you can watch the wind whipping across the water and palm trees blowing in the breeze. the big question for this area of the grandstrand is how much damage will hurricane florence do when it comes to myrtle beach as a category one hurricane as it is expected these dunes are super important for protecting the hotels and other tourist attractions in the area, and they've been renourished. they'll watch to see how much beach erosion happens. we're under a hurricane warning. and the center of the storm is not anticipated in myrtle beach until 8:00 tonight, so nine hours of this just until we get to the center of the storm with the storm m

and again be careful we'll check in with contessa later today.brewer. >> thank you. >>> now let's go ahead and check in wvit meteorologist katlyn mcgrath on what we expect from here katlyn, we sort of know what's happening right now. what's to come >> courtney the good news is florence to going to continue to weaken moving inland and toward south carolina as we head through the evening tonight. that's good news in terms of the wind speed we are talking about a lot of rain to come right now radar showing that eye wall slowly moving into south carolina the outer bands of convex dumping rain through portions north carolina and bringing in the hurricane force winds and when it's said and done we are talking about feet of rain check it out, the bull's-eye, 30 plus inches of rain wrightsville beach wrp hurricane florence made landfall this morning closing in on 20 inches of rain the further inland you get, the less the rainfall totals but we are talking about a catastrophic amount of rain to fall over the next couple days and of course the storm surge

i'm contessa brewer. here are today's top business headlines. wall street could open higher this morning. dow industrials, the futures up just two points right now. the dow rose yesterday, but a decline in big tech stocks dragged down the tsions between, na list, reports on productivity and hiring in the private sector. the dow closes up 22 points yesterday. the nasdaq fell 96. >> uber is rolling out more safety features for passengers and drivers in an ongoing effort to regain public trust. the company is based in san francisco and says a new tool on the app will notify passengers and drivers if it detects an accident or unplanned stop. drivers will also have access to a hands-free feature to pick up passengers without having to touch their phones, and no longer will they see data detailing where they picked up people in the past. >> all right, 23 and me looking at whether users want more information about their health for a higher fee. a spokesperson has confirmed to cnbc the company is gauging a p but it doesn't have immediate plans to roll o

hi, contessa. >> hey, there, carl. the myrtle beach international airport the doors still open for you but what greets you inside is a row of empty ticket counters from side to side the place is a ghost town. this is likely to be a similar scenario up and down the carolina coastlines as these beach cities have seen major flight cancellations the good news is no major hubs affected here. the bad news is for people who have been arriving to the airport expecting to see their flight, it's a no-go look at this the tsa checkpoint locked up there is law enforcement here. the airport officially is still open, runways will be up and operating if the military needs them at the height of the storm but no way to get out. we met a couple from pittsburgh vacationing here, first time they have flown in 35 years, they thought they were preparing for the storm, guys, and they get here, said we changed our flights from saturday to thursday spirit canceled all the flights last night they didn't know that and put their keys into the lock

near dillon, south carolina, contessa brewer, "nightlt. business rep >>> from flooding to business disruptions, the economic impact of hurricane florence is now starting to be tallied. steve liesman has more. >> reporter: as the flood waters from hurricane florence continue to rise, so do the costs, in lives lost, homes an communitier hed and tens of billions of economic damage. not expected to crest until tomorrow. istoric levels will continue to rise and lift the cost of the storm. >> one inc in a home can cause $25,000 worth of damage so what we're seeing here is going to certainly be an extreme event amd policyholders are going to have a lot ofe when they get back to their homes. >> reporter: while charlotte is the biggestity to be hit, it's the 17th largest where harvey hit houston. the weather effects in florence were so widesprea that jpmorgan suggests the way to think of it is the fgdp both states of north and south carolina and that's bigger than houston, smaller than new york which was hit by sandy. it will cause deep pain in the

contessa brewer is in fayetteville, north carolina for us tonight. >> reporter: in fayetteville, the city is bracing for the cape fear refer to tcrest. he previous hurricane hit 58 feet. it's on track to be 61.5. we are constantly monitoring. we have the drones up seeing what communities are affected. >> i want to sw you the rail line. this is a csx rail line through town. you see all the debris pushed by the raging river up again the trestle of the railroad. to give you a perspective of how high this water is, let me show the light post typically on the side of the river. the river is expected to cre tonight at 59 feet right now. flood stage start at 42 feet. it's way, way above its flood stage. and one of the reasons why this is such a problem, a few minutes aso this bridge crowded with onlookers hoping to just see what was happening i their city and what the danger might be. now you can see the police ofcers from fayetteville moved everybody off. this is still a real threat to this town. and it's a situation that's playing out around north and south carolina today as people ar m s

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carobeach, north carolina. >>> and now to contessa in myrtle beach. zblrp up and down the carolina coastline, this is a scene that's repeated over and over. flhts cancelled, empty ticket counters. for people who have not yet f the arrival of hurricane florenacce, oev tt runng out of options. >> we didn't realize the flight was cancelled because we weren't notified. we turned in our rental vehicha and w no way to get out of here. >> kerry and ron flew toe myr beach for vacation lastnd weeke. the first flight in 35 years. now they are stuck and can't escape back to pittsburgh. >> now what? what am i -- what am i going to do? what am i supposed to do here now? i don't have a vehicle. i don't have nothing is open. i can't check in anywhere. whatever. >> as hurricane florence bears down on t south carolina coastline, visitors and residents have limited options. with mandatory evacuation orders, many businesses have been closed for days. a waffle house lockedoa oed sup a rare sight. the company tweeted out a picture of its command cente and it has the waffl

death toll now at 31 as flooding becomes a major issue for parts of the coastal carolinas region contessarewer is live in lumberton, north carolina with the latest are conditions somewhat improving now? >> they are improving. the power is on here in lumberton. the good news is the lumber river is receding. yesterday the river had crested over these bridges, and the town was flooding, immobilizing cars in the middle of the roadways. today the roads are passable and the river is going down. let's look at some other rivers of concern here. by the way, it did crest at a record it broke a record yesterday. the record had been 21.8 for the lumber river, now it's 22.07 so we're still above that record flood stage. the cape fear river, the flood stage is 10 feet it's expected to crest tonight at 24 1/2 feet the waccamaw river won't crest until saturday these are the rivers of concern in north and south carolina. depending on where you live the threat is not over and the problems are persisting now because the flooding has undermined the roadways and the rail lines there's a csx line that run just

contessa brewer once again is live for us this time in fayetteville, north carolina good morning, contessag on the bridge, overlookingcape fear river. this is the persons bridge you can see that the csx rail line crossing the river is impassable at this point the trains are parked in town on another rail line and all that debris -- we've been watching massive tree trunks go up and hit this log jam right up against the tressle. take a look over here. you can see the white post -- this would normally be the street sign or the street light over the walkway near the river. instead not only is there no walkway, but the light post itself is being subsumed by water. it's expected to crest tonight, wednesday night. it's expected to crest 62. flood stage, guys, 32 feet fayetteville, even though the power is back on in some places, we started seeing businesses open, people were sitting outside at a cafe in historic downtown fayetteville and yet this town is still in danger of flooding and we're seeing that across the southern part of north carolina, the northern part of south carolina and the threat

>> i'm playing i'm in >> contessa brewer is playing big time >> storm >> she is tracking the storm shes in the port of charleston contessa, incredible live shot looks beautiful there, the calm before the storm, i assume >> reporter: for sure. we've already had a little bit of rain and the wind comes and goes a little bit. we're on a pilot launch. this is the boat that takes a pilot up to the massive car carrier in charge of moving hundreds and thousands of bmws and other cars onto ships that go out to sea trying to get to their next destination ahead of the storm. this boat will take the pilot, he'll climb a rope ladder up on the massive car carriers and get the cars out here. really important now because if they stay on the dry dock, it won't be dry for very long charleston has been flooding when there's only a few inches of rain, and now when the prediction is inches, potentially feet depending on how long the storm stays and they don't know the exact track, the best bet bmw has decided to get the cars out and exported before the storm arrives they're not the only ones. boeing is sen

you're in the middle of it let's go over to contessa. she's about 80 miles south of where jackie was in myrtle beach, south carolina. looks like there is power. that's not generator power >> yeah. nope we're still up and running right here you feel like a nice fall storm there's some rain, some wind the wind gusts have reached 45-mile-per-hour at this point, but the national weather service says the biggest threat comes from the rainfall because they're expecting the rain to last throughout the weekend. we are under a flash flood warning. up to 24 inches of rain expected they're telling people that risk won't subside until monday we're still an hour or two south of those outer rain bands. so we're not even starting to feel the tropical storm-force winds yet. but expecting category 1 force winds. the storm surge now the national weather service could be up to two feet that's a change from previous predictions and good news for this area that depends so much on tourism dollars it could mean the beach businesses would get up and running. it

i'm contessa brewer. stocks down across the board, sitting near session lows. the dow posting its biggest drop since early august the s&p 500 and the nasdaq both lower for a second straight day. oil rallying brent breaking above 80 bucks. hitting its highest level since 2014 news on an $18 billion merger. shares down 30% since last wednesday. but check out amarin, reducing heart attacks and strokes. the ceo joins us later in the show, tyler. >> thank you very much, contessa i'm tyler mathisen welcome. we begin this hour with breaking news apparently deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will meet with president trump on thursday, apparently forestalling a resignation or a firing for now this is a perfect day to have eamon javers in the news room, and here he is eamon, what is the latest? >> tyler, we don't flow what the latest is in terms of rod rosenstein's future, but we did get a new statement from sarah sanders, explaining the logistics going on right now and we also just saw pictures moments ago of rod rosenstein emerging from the white house. take a look

. >> time for a cnbc news update and contessa brewer has it for us >>> here's your news update rightow. questioning of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh began this morning as protesters interrupted proceedings for a second day kavanaugh had this to say when asked about his position on abortion >> i understand how passionate and how deeply people feel about this issue i don't live in a bubble i understand i live in the real world i understand the importance of the issue. >> paraguay says it will move its embassy back to tel aviv reversing a decision to move to jerusalem. netanyahu responded by ordering the closure of israel's embassy in paraguay. >>> a number of sick passengers on a flight from dubai were quarantined on the plane at the tarmac at jfk this morning ten people went to the hospital while 100 others had to be evacuated by the cdc that's the cnbc news update this hour one of the passengers on the plane told local news there was all kinds of coughing going on before people got on the plane in dubai an interesting story >> we hope they're all all right. contes contessa, t

. >> all right contes contessa, thank you very much. welcome, everybody i'm tyler matheson we begin this hour with amazon the internet giant's market cap hitting $1 trillion for the first time ever. josh lipton following amazon's remarkable run hi, josh >> tyler, the stock needed a price of $2,050. it did so this morning the stock we know has been on a roll here, and it's up more than 70% so far this year an amount larger than 82% and aetna just to give you context you pull that chart even longer, and you can see the trajectory amazon is up more than 135,000% since its ipo. $1,000 invested in amazon's ipo will be worth some $1.4 million today. better than the performances, by the way, of all the fangs. remember apple reached $1 trillion in early august after posting a strong quarterly report the two are now neck and neck in what some are calling the new for comma club, rs referring to the market cap of these companies. only a difference of $20 billion in market cap separating them. the street bulled up on ma'am amazon 96% of financial a

contessa brewer joins us from fayetteville, north carolina >> reporter: i want to give you a sense of you can see the railroad trestle that crosses the bridge and the massive pile of debris that's come down, slammed into that trestle. look at how high the water is. you can get a sense if you go off to the left, look at the light pole and there you can see, they're trying to move traffic across the bridge, people are stopping because the water is so high that's the commotion you're hearing. you can see the water on the light pole flood stage is 35 feet last observed height, 59.75 feet it will increase at 61 feet overnight. let me show you a picture from 2016 this is what the trestle looks like when rivers are at normal levels then video from two days ago this was as the river was beginning to rise and video from today. we saw csx checking out rail lines, back out here live. you can see the debris pile is getting bigger, water keeps rising we have seen it happening. the evacuations are still existing for the surrounding area, we won't see the crest until overnight. >> given the fact the

leaving behind a path of destruction as homes and businesses continue to take a hit from flooding contessauth carolina >> i have good news. i-95 southbound portion has reopened in south carolina we're going to show you this this is the area that was previously closed. none of the traffic trying to come from north carolina near the border to south carolina could get around we're getting on the highway you can see traffic is nearly empty. this is an empty roadway as we are moving forward going to roll up my window so you can hear me. this is good news for folks going south. the real problem is there are so many resources trying to get into north carolina recovery zo they still can't move up on i-95 we are seeing one vehicle right here as you head off of i-95, they are trying to get around flooded roadways and having to see big tractor-trailers turn around we're going to keep our eye on it that's one piece of good news. this portion of i-95 now reopened the i-95 stretch in north carolina is still closed that's a massive section they're asking people to avoid it entirely. clearly the northboun

contessa brewer has those. >> there were protests all over capitol hill yesterday from the kavanaughto the tech hearings, but one protester got more than she bargained for. >> [ auction calling ] >> that's missouri representative billy long who you might have guessed had a former career as an auctioneer being before being elected to congress after the disruption, he disrupted the disruption, the protester was escorted out and the proceedings continued. he got a rousing round of applause >> did he sell the hog >> i think he did. highest bidder >> now the disruptor is disrupting the disruption of the disruptorment. >> i can't get that. >> al roek sker is heading to broadway and he will sing. he will join "waitress" this fall in the role of old joe. he was modest about his vocal abilities. he says as a singer, i'm a terrific weatherman. it's only a six-week run imagine that imagine having do a show every night and getting up in the morning and doing this show. >> good man. >> following the outpouring of criticism and support for nike's decision to feature colin kaepernick in an ad compa

i'm contessa brewer.ping off a stellar week for the bulls. the dow and s&p 500 hitting records earlier. the nasdaq has been struggling all day. the dow on track for the biggest weekly gain in more than two months check these out. well-known names hitting well-time highs, nike, lowe's and clorox among them. duke energy says a dam is flooding we have more on that ahead tyler? >> thank you very much welcome. i'm tyler matheson let's go to the new york stock exchange hi, bertha >> hi, tyler you see the nasdaq sitting it out here yesterday's leaders, today, they are the lacque lackers materials and tech, all negative some of that selling could accelerate into the close. we've got the expiration of stock and inindex, options and futures. on top of that, the s&p sector is re-waiting, which dom will tell you about that will likely see a lot of volume it could well be a record volume event this afternoon brace yourselves going into the close. meantime, micron is one of the issues in tech today it is weighing down

contessa, thanks so much we'll continue to watch those shares move. you still like the domino's trade over this one? >> i like the domino's trade but i still believe wendy's will be a player in what the ultimate outcome is for papa john's they had preliminary conversations before there are some synergies there wendy is a $5 billion market cap. papa john's $1.5 billion i think wendy's will be participating. >> another one you have, too >> within restaurants overall i prefer darden. i think there's a big trend as far as dieting goes. you search for diet on amazon, probably seven of the top ten books are going to be keto or pa paleo, low sugar capital grill is doing well, longhorn's is doing well i'm a big fan of darden. >>> let's talk about what the fed may say later today. widely expected to raise rates today by a quarter of a point. our steve liesman joins us from washington ahead of that 2:00 p.m. decision. a news conference to follow. i don't know how you overstate, maybe this is the most important fed meeting and commentary we'll get in a number of

let's send it over to contessa brewer live in myrtle beach, south carolina contessa >> we're just startingthose first feel of the rain bands. myrtle beach is under a hurricane warning, a storm surge warning and a flash flood watch. i want to show you the changes we've seen as you look at the surf we're seeing white caps in the distance, high tide expected close to noon so we will watch to see whether the water comes in but as you look at the surface you can see the wind whipping across the top layer of ocean water, the palm trees start to sway and we have seen a few beach walkers still out today. the police locally have been out and about checking out areas vulnerable to flooding and that includes some inland areas this is a map that google puts out but overlays data from the government where it puts in the most vulnerable regions to flooding that includes all of those inland rivers where we're not expecting to see river cresting until early next week. when you're talking 24 inches of rain plus the storm surge no, they're thinking the rest could be anywhere from 18 feet to 24 feet in some

contessa. >> reporter: it's a lot prettier view down here but a million people under evacuation orders area and united announced it's cancelling all flights tomorrow for the area airports. here at the port of georgetown, a historic harbor walk along the water front and a lot of the business has shut down entirely. in fact you see the tow boat u.s., this guy has ridden out a lot of hurricanes has towed five boats out of the way of any potential storm surge. he is riding out the storm to be available to do debris removal after the storm goes by. let's tell you about sochlt big business here. port of charleston will also close down tomorrow, won't reopen until sunday. and we know that boeing has sent 6,000 workers home to evacuate bmw was moving thousands of cars out ahead of the storm trying to get them off dry dock before it's not so dry. and we watched that car carrier move off to sea heading toward the panama canal south to miss the storm entirely we also know there are automobile plants like mercedes-benz which just started manufacturing a sprinter model this month that has shut down

contessa brewer is with us this morning from charleston, south carolina contessa. >> sara, the preparations of charleston you can see these bmws are going aboard this car carrier. they're moving them out to sea away from the risk of any storm surge and flooding the port is typically very busy. in fact it set a record last month for the number of containers moved, up 16% over previous years this accounts for $53 billion worth of economic activity in charleston or in south carolina and that is 9% of the state's gdp. this storm is already having a massive impact for instance, volvo has shut down its brand new plant that it just opened in june because of the storm. boeing has evacuated all of its workers. 6,000 workers now free to leave with their families ahead of this storm mercedes-benz opened a brand new sprinter factory it is shuttered. rail cars diverted boeing sent all of its finished 787s to everett, washington, to get them out of the storm's way. these ships will continue to move thousands of cars out of the port out to sea through midnight tonight and then the port will shut down its

she has the latest hi, contessa >> reporter: hi, joe the good news this morning is the lumber river isning at 22 feet. that is well above flood stage and it's still running at record flood stage. the record previously was 21.8 feet you can see it behind me it's not the only river of concern though the cape fear river is expected to crest tonight into tomorrow for fayetteville, especially, that's a massive concern the cape fear river is running already at 58.9 feet flood stage 42 feet. and in south carolina, we're not expecting to see the waccamaw river crest until saturday it will break flood records if it crests at its 18.7 feet let me show you the flood map the u.s. government puts out and shows you all of the creeks and the streams and the rivers that are problematic across the region this is only the major flooding, okay and it's causing problems throughout south carolina. come back out to me live i want to show you why this river, the lumber river, is right where csx tracks cross you can see them behind me in many places, the flooding has washed out these tracks. we know there was

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brewer is live for us in irwin, north carolina, with the latest contessa >> i'm standing in the cape fear river, actually. two hours ago the homeowner painted a white lane where the water was. now the water is here. this is his home so far he has power, and he does not have water in the back of his house. you see this shed over here? he says even during hurricane matthew, the cape fear river did not reach up that high the cape fear river right now is running at major flood stage 60 feet. it's not expected to crest until later tonight. roughly at 62 feet that's down stream from here take a look off in the distance. you see these three telephone poles? that marks the beginning of the river bank, and from there the homeowner tells me the river usually sits down, oh, 30 feet or so. that's where he is used to going fishing. they said that they were originally looking at a property on the cape fear river in fayettville and decided no, it was too close. they saw what it had happened during hurricane matthew they bought this one because they thought, oh, the river is never going to come up i

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contess contessa >> we're seeing the docking pilot climb off of the ship. and so that is the pilot that would be in charge of bringing this massive are car carrier into port and docking it there no, i got wrong. i have my expert right here. go ahead >> docking maneuver and directs the tugboats >> there we geo. the pilot will take it out of port did you get all that this is the some inthat is carrying now hundreds if not thousands of bmw cars and other cargo off of the dock in the port of charleston about 12 miles out to sea it takes them about an hour and a half to get there. and then this massive carrier will continue on to its next destination. it is just trying to man you're out of tyou're -- maneuver out of the way of the storm. so it will head south to avoid hurricane florence coming in back in the port, they are concerned about the flooding, so there is another carrier leaving at 5:00 and midnight and then the port will close operations and they are hoping to reopen by sunday, but a lot of that depends on where hurricane florence goes and how much dam

contessa brewer looks at how closing the state's largest port could impact moving forward. >> the preparations are intense here at the port of charleston as bmw moves thousands of cars carriers.e giant car they'll head out to sea and away from the risk of any form surge or flooding that hurricane morence might bring with it. they won'te any new cars in. the port is typically a busy place. in august, set records for the number of containers moved, up 16% over the previous august. >> the portcs the econo engine in the state. one in ten jobs are t connected the port. every day we're down is a day that the produce of south carolina doesn't have access to thmarket.ven whether charleston is the bull's eye, flooding. charles ston floods with a few inches of rain in a general rainfall. the predepiction is inches or feet ofwater. >> what's going to happen to those secars? >> t cars are being exported. that's important for south shuttered as well.o just opened. mercedes-benz just opened a new sprinter factory this month. boeing has sent all of its workers home so they can evacuate with their families an

easily, they're worried that people are going to come back in because of the downgraded cat 2 >> contessa. >>> when we come back, folks, a crackdown on e-cigarettes. the fda issuing a stern warning to companies which have products falling into the wrong wrongs. fda commissioner scott gottlieb joins us >>> futures in the green dow futures up by 54ois. pnt s&p by 4 nasdaq up by 20. "squawk box" will be right back. so they say that some day ai will transform the human race. well, today you're a little busy transforming your call center. dealing with millions of customers a year, like this one. no, i'm pretty sure i didn't order a squirrel playing a guitar. that's why you work with watson. it works with your systems to resolve calls faster and improve customer satisfaction. i detected fraud and helped reassign a new credit card. honey, they're overnighting us a new card. woooo!!! woooo!!! for ai that works with tools you already use, choose watson. hello! the best ai for the job. you might or joints.hing for your heart... hello! but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient ori

thanks, contessa coming up, help wanted the manufacturing industry is looking for workers.t's right. as you can see behind me this is all modern manufacturing we'll tell you what that means and why the manucting ctfaurseor is looking for workers coming up after the break on "power lunch. need a change of scenery? kayak compares hundreds of travel and airline sites so you can be confident you're getting the right flight at the best price. cheers! kayak. search one and done. (vo) ovewhelming air fresheners can send you running. so try febreze one. with no aerosols and no heavy perfumes. so you can spray and stay. febreze one. >>> welcome back, everybody, to "power lunch." the manufacturing industry has been on a hiring spree under the trump administration even in the face of looming tariffs. but finding skilled workers has been an ongoing challenge. kate rogers is live in twins borough, ohio, with more >> here at this facility they're using modern manufacturing they're making products like programming logical controllers, like mini computers used in industries that range from

thank you, contessa. stay safe. >>> coming up, so did apple wow you you with its new iphones or was it the apple watch that we were all enthralled with we'll tell you what wall street analysts thought about it and more on apple's rush into health care >>> and jeff bezos is giving away some of his money a g mb cuc you how and how mh. binueroming up next. >>> so there you see the markets liking what they heard from apple yesterday. the stock up about 2.5% today, but not everyone in the analyst community was as impressed goldman sachs for example has now lowered its earnings estimate on apple because of expecting a lower average selling price for the iphone morgan stanley though is expecting a higher average selling price saying that buy the stock on any post event weakness piper jaffray saying we recommend owning apple for the super long cycle >>> one of the products getting a lot of buzz voch the appinvol watch that can monitor your heart. joining us is skip fleshman. great to have you with us. >> thank yo

. >>> with your cnbc morning business report, i'm contessa brewer. >> thank you. >>> an update, now,the turn of some of the most recognized shoes ever, the rub red slippers used in the "the wizard of oz." we told you that the shoes were returned they went missing after a late-night robbery at the judy garland museum, in 2005. the smithsonian helped authenticate the shoes that were return. the smithsonian had a mismatched pair in its collection. and the stolen pair was also mismatched. >> so, we were lucky enough to have the other pair of shoes brought here. and we were comparing the tw t they were abfind that they are consistent with the pair we have. >> the fbi says no one has been arrested or charged in the case but they haveultiple suspects. >>> what is better than a box of chocolates? >> few things. how about a carnival of chocolate?en molette gs live with details on this amazing event. and who benefits from the sales this weekend. and you are speaking my you know it. >> i know it. i know you like the dark chocolate. i have a whole sprea of it here for you, eun. it's a little ear

. >> let's wait for confirmation we'll get to contessa.e up a bit. >> 3%. >> yeah, it's not bad. the justice department opened an investigation, the elon musk tweets, by taking the company private, you still own tesla >> i own tesla calls to the upside >> not the equity on the calls >> the calls are way out of the money and i'm out in november, december, something like that. i have time on my hands. do you believe they are going to be able to execute going forward? because of that i still think there's upside. >> chinese stocks have been really hot >> saudi just put a lot of money in >> anastasia you're watching the european automobile sector >> that's right. up about 1.5% on the day european autos are going to be one of the leaders in electric vehicles but, also, they're trading at half the valuation of the broad er european market if there's resolution on the european u.s. auto issue they continue to bounce nicely. >> driving a european auto >> coming up, good-bye 3% ten-year yield they're leaving that mark in the dust trades for the fut

contessa brewer with what is coming up on "power lunch. >>> coming up from washington to wall street the latest on the potential resignation of rod rosenstein and what it could mean for the markets the fish oil capsule that could be a game changer reducing the risk for many cardiovascular diseases >>> and tiger woods wins his first pga tournament in five years. what it means for the sport and the sponsors that and a lot more ahead. "halftime report" back after this so they say that some day ai will transform the human race. well, today you're a little busy transforming your call center. dealing with millions of customers a year, like this one. no, i'm pretty sure i didn't order a squirrel playing a guitar. that's why you work with watson. it works with your systems to resolve calls faster and improve customer satisfaction. i detected fraud and helped reassign a new credit card. honey, they're overnighting us a new card. woooo!!! woooo!!! for ai that works with tools you already use, choose watson. hello! the best ai for the job. >> reporter: welcome back. i'm eamon javers at cnbc glo

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contessa, melissa, i'm sure you will agree first of all, they know how to press reset.have a bad moment, press reset, command respect in the next conversation with the same person where they totally screwed up they forget everything that happened it's a great talent because they can move forward and plow through and get to the goal while women are thinking about everything that just happened in that tiny failure of a moment. we have to have a million failures and we need to be able to muddle through and pick up the pieces in real time. press reset in real time. >> i just want to say, mika, when i read the book the first time around, and you and i were friends and colleagues at msnbc and you never sat me down and gave me the lessons. in one place, i feel like it formed the way i negotiated my contracts, the way i took charge in conversations it was a very educational book and it was a really good thing for me personally that you wrote it i can't wait to read the update. thank you the. >> you said there were two things you only got to one. i want to hear the other. >> her