jeff flock is in charleston, south carolina, in the thick of things. jeff, what's it like now? reporter: well, i guess it could be worse, stuart. that's your main headline here as we drive you through the streets of charleston. maybe if martin looks out the window, you can see there's no catastrophic damage here by any stretch, but clearly, you know, they had a hurricane through here. look at the houses on the right. can you see that on the right? can you get out that window and see? this is what they prepared for with big sandbags and all sorts of things, and now what we're getting is mainly huge rains. the streets of charleston, pretty well flooded. i don't know if we get up to this next one, i think you can probably see it. nobody coming. we will go through that stop sign. here's a fellow out on the street. they are trying to clear the drains here because if you don't get the drains clear, you don't get the water free to flow out and maybe you saw that guy there. if i open my door, maybe you see ev even, you able to come back over here? not really? okay. well, there you go,

jeff flock in charleston, south carolina with the latest. hey jeff.se to us, neil, center of circulation will not hit us, but talk about hitting us? look at this. we talked about the flooding all day, look at that. a huge tree, big root system. yeah, it comes down. maybe martin follows me around out to the street. we've been talking, this being a largely a water event because, you know, charleston, as you know, it is low country. very low. and there has been flooding throughout the city. but i'll tell you, this palm tree came down here within the last 20 minutes. we were standing here. our producer dan was parked right here. he decided to move his car. i'll tell you, maybe that guy should play the lottery today. i think if you did play the lottery. in charleston, you would say i kind of won today, despite what you're seeing here, certainly could have been very much worse, in a cat-3 storm, this close. i mean it could have come into shore. by the way, look at this, i don't know if you can see -- can you see perspective on this? that tilting over becaus

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jeff flock live from charleston, south carolina. you okay there? what's going on. in fact the cleanup already started. maybe you see in the midst of street flooding. they brought pumps in. this isn't their first rodeo in charleston. they were ready for the worst. maybe not unique is the word it's an extraordinary place. they call the low country. so it's broken to flooding. that's what happened today. but they are making progress, trying to get some power back on. it's not strong wind, but it keeps people from going up in those bucket trucks. we'll be headed up the coast tomorrow. we need to see what's up there. in the town of st. james island just off charleston, the holy city church, unfortunately the roof came off. that's one of the most of serious pieces of damage that we have seen. so that's a good thing. liz: we are going to take you to north carolina. will house democrats risk a government shutdown to block president trump from using pentagon funds for the border wall. we are seeing the rank odor of pentagon overseas pork. it looks like the trump administrat

now to jeff flock. he's further inland, in charleston. jeff, what's it like there? >> reporter: nobody's swimming here, fortunately, dana. although you could almost swim in the street. that's the problem in charleston here close to the mainland. that's what you see down there. you see this all over downtown charleston. that is to say flooding in the streets. the other problem, power. i don't know if martin is able to turn around and look at this pole, dangerously close. we've got some pictures. that's a transformer up there still holding. we've got pictures of other transformers still exploding. this is what they do in other hurricanes. next thing you know, the sky is being lit up by those transformers. we've got, as you reported at the out set of the broadcast, more than 200,000 people now without power in south carolina alone. and many more in georgia and florida. lot of work to do cleaning this one up. as griff reported, we're not even getting the hurricane. this is just the outer bits. you see what has happened. >> dana: jeff, is the worst behind charleston now?

jeff flock is live in charleston, south carolina with the latest. have you moved, jeff?ere in floodwaters up to your knees. are you in a different spot now? >> reporter: different spot but same problem. we have serious street flooding in charleston. we didn't expect this to get back to category 3 but that's where we are right now. this is calhoon street, one of the main streets that runs through charleston and maybe you see, we're, again, up to almost hknee level here and we expect, according to the national weather service and the hurricane center, 12 -- as much as 12 inches of rain. we've already got -- we're nowhere near that yet. we've already got a serious situation. this street is obviously impassable and there are a lot of them like this here and we are getting pelted by rain right now and wind. i don't think we'll get full category 3 conditions today. they may get them farther up the coast in north carolina tom he tomorrow. but it's worth saying we're getting pretty strong conditions now and we're still 40 miles away from the center of circulation. i think it wil

thank you very much, jeff flock., by the way, we are keeping our eye on another tropical storm that's forming, it's called gabrielle, and we will be watching for that as well. with the closing bell ringing in 49 minutes, so much green on the screen, and we've got industrial giant caterpillar jumping up, second in place right there, i believe, or is it the first? got it right there behind ibm. apple is also trading higher and why? we've got it amid trade talk hopes because apple, of course, imports to the u.s. a lot of what it makes in china. but will investors still feel the love come next week's special annual fall event once known for its smartphone game-changers? top tech analyst extraordinaire, web bush's dan ize is here. and what about the rumor from mac rumor that apple is actually going to follow and not lead when it comes to one particular device? he's going to make sense of apple's new bond offerings and his predictions coming up. don't go away. ♪ ♪ imu emu & doug ♪ hour 36 in the stakeout. as soon as the ho

lauren: jeff flock is live in charleston, south carolina. ff, i have to say you look a lot drier than you did a couple hours ago. >> reporter: i can almost see stars this morning and that's a good sign here in charleston. behind me, you see some of what dorian has brought in south carolina. this is characteristic of the damage, a lot of trees down, power lines down, that sort of thing. another big factor in south carolina has been flooding, particularly in charleston. take a look at pictures from yesterday as the tides rose and the rain fell, we had a lot of street flooding, about 50 streets closed at one point throughout charleston. many of those have been pumped out and are back and running. this is not their first rodeo in charleston. they know how to deal with a hurricane. the other problem is power out. we were told by emergency management, 184,000, customers of the power companies in south carolina remain at this pointout wouldn't power. big crews of course are in town and ready for that to go better. lots of those transformers explodin

jeff flock has more from-soaked, flooded charleston software on it. jeff? >> you are so right, harris. i wish you were at. we get a good gust of wind every once in the mail. the thing is, we are not getting a hurricane. there there hurricane is offshore. at the same time, we are getting the effects of air can category 3, now category 2. this is the scene right now. we talked about flooding, i want to show you pictures in the moment. first, i want to show you this picture. this is happening all over charleston. trees being uprooted, coming down power lines. maybe you look up and see, this is a power line being pulled down here. out of power throughout the state. particularly here in charleston, along the coast. now, to that flooding. look at the pictures of downtown charleston. it is not a pretty sight. this is what they call, harris, the "low country." that's because it's kind of low. charleston, of course, surrounded by water. multiple rivers, the charleston harbor, and of course the atlantic. so there's a lot of water already here. and then when hurricane

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ashley: jeff flock is in south carolina with the latest. >> reporter: good morning to you.e are just starting to get the effects of it here. they're very concerned in charleston. i don't want to get our team too far out into the wind here and into the rain, because we don't want to lose a camera this early in it. but i tell you, charleston is completely surrounded by water. what they're concerned about is that the track of the storm continues to move toward the shore. that means the effects, the center of circulation gets closer and closer, we get closer to the most difficult effects of a category 3 storm. i don't know if our team's able to look up at the lights up there, maybe you see in the higher elevation how the wind is blowing as the light illuminates that here at 5:00 local time, shortly after 5:00 local time here on the east coast. as we said, charleston is surrounded by water. there's an area that is surrounded by water by the two rivers, the cooper and ashley river and when you get a lot of rain and water here in a normal condition, you get flooding. if you've got

jeff flock is in st. james island, not far from charleston right now. some pictures of the scene with you earlier today in charleston. you showed us how bad it already is. i'm wondering what will another foot of rain do? >> well, yeah, that was about a half a foot then. i think we're close to a foot now. you know, charleston kind of got off fairly easy, when you think about what could have happened. this was a cat 3 storm this morning. and it was very close to the shore, but we didn't get that center of circulation, so yeah, it is able to drain. the cool thing is when it came past, the circulation is such that it then starts to push the water out. and so fortunately, not as bad a problem as it could have been. david? >> what about the people that you have been meeting? the volunteers, usually there's so many people that come out during these times of need. have you encountered anyone thus far? >> absolutely. you know, there was a huge army of people that came ready for swift-water rescue. people come from all over bringing their boats, their bass boats,

jeff flock in south carolina where forecasters predict a foot of rain by tomorrow. jeff.ctly. you can see a foot of rain where i am, charles. this storm wouldn't go away. it is pouring all day. i'm wet in places i didn't know i had places. so is charleston. a lot of the streets look like this right now. as you report, in addition we're getting wind gusts. that will knock a tree down here or there, put them on power lines. 200,000 is what we believe, 200,000 plus now in charleston that we believe without power. this has not been a catastrophe here by any means but certainly has been a mess. i don't know if martin is able to follow me around here, if you see a little farther, can you come over here and follow me down, martin? see down the street you have trees in the way. a lot of trees come down, take power lines down. that is what we see. it is not terrible but it is not good at the moment. of course the storm is not done. it is still blowing here, then up off the coast of north carolina. they may get a landfall. we didn't get one here. that is the fortunate thing. that i

jeff flock is in charleston. what have you seen, shep? >> the storm that won't go away. keeps coming. we have the storm with us for days, almost weeks. we have flooding. this is the ashley river behind me. we're out here because it's high tide. it was last hour. it's marshland anyway, but not terrible. it survived the high tide, fair to say. that's not to say there's not flooding all over town, the downtown. they call this the low country. yeah, it's low. sometimes it floods on sunny days. today wasn't a sunny day. they say at least the public works folks say 50 streets, roads have been shut down. power lines down. we had some wind. i think my take-away on this hurricane is that you don't have to have a hurricane, get hit by a hurricane in order to have a mess. this storm was never forecast to make u.s. landfall and never did. at least the center of the circulation. we're still getting a good blow out here along the ashley river and charleston. they're going to get it up north as well. hurricane time, always fun. >> shepard: enjoy yourself. keep dry. appreciate it. jimmy

jeff flock is now live from jeep's island in south carolina with the latest from there. jeff?eporter: i have one of those customers. this is michael's yard. this is jean's island. this is off the coast. folly beach, and there is jean's island. that is kai, he survived the hurricane. so did his master. no power. >> out of power since 11:30 last night? >> yes. reporter: you expected it. >> every time power goes off during a hurricane. you expect the power to go off. expect the worst. hope for the best. reporter: connell, was the best. i have got some pictures for you from charleston. a water event in charleston, big time. a lot of street flooding there. no catastrophic damage. and you know, this, the scene here, you lost a tree but, you know, all things considered, the house is okay. >> the house is fine. that is best thing that can happen for me, to lose a tree. you know, not have to worry about insurance going up and having to deal with somebody to come by to fix it, losing time at work. reporter: got you. the good news here is that, you know, could have been worse. we often s

jeff flock is in charleston, south carolina. 's charleston and how are you doing? how is it going there? >> i tell you, as you can see, sandra, i think, this is a water event not so much a wind event. we're talking category 3. as you mentioned the wind speeds but fortunately we're not getting the center of circulation here in south carolina i think at all. north carolina still a shot but look what this has wrought in terms of water. it is not so much from surge. this is flooding in the streets. as you know this is what they call the low country, south carolina. this area of south carolina. charleston is surrounded by water. but in addition to stuff from surge, you've got all this rain coming down plus we are in the season of what they call the king tides. that is a fancy way of saying the highest tides of the year and charleston had already been experiencing that. we've got another high tide coming let's say what time it is. in about 3 1/2 hours. so that will be the real test for charleston. right now as you can see it's a mess o

brian: you know jeff flock from fox business. what are you seeing and what are you feeling? edge of the harbor. i will tell you that get out now stuff. forget that for charleston. if you are not out, you are in. i don't know if you can come out here. you talk about turning these streets into rivers. that's pretty much what's happening in downtown charleston right now. i don't want to get you too wet but come out here, and you can see maybe down the street we are really getting some good wind right now. and this rain has just hammered us. take a look out that way. maybe see under the streetlights there. it's really blowing right now. you know, this thing was not supposed to come this close to charleston and to the south carolina coast. but, you know, this eye continues, if you look at the radar, just continues to edge closer and closer. we are going to get a glancing blow if anything but we are going to get a blow. from a category 3 storm take back to hugo i don't know if you remember that in 1989 that did tremendous damage here. it's not going to be as easy as the guys in fl

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