our tammy leitner is there. tammy, this is impactinair travel, we understand. >> reporter: that's right, lester. i'm outside the airport in raleigh e travelers are already feeling the effects of hurricane florence. today airlines issued a travel advisory and thousands of flights up and down the east coast could be impacted. five of the major airlines have come out llnd announced they will travelers to change their flights at no cost and one thing to keep in mind is this won't ju affect the coastal cities. they are also expecting flooding land and one of the reasons is because once hurricane florence makes landfall, she's expected to stall and could dump 20 inches of rain and you may recall this is reminiscent of hurricanharvey about a year ago in texas. lester, they are saying it should be taken extremely seriously, is very dangerous and residents should be warned. >> tammy leitner, thank you. we'll show you the eye of the hurricane, florence as it barrels towards the east coast. we heard about the cone of uncert

joining us from myrtle beach is nbc's tammy leitner. tammy, this is a place a lot of people know, a lot of people vacation. it is a place where there are a lot of courses, and of course we know and have been there to grand strand, that 60 miles of beach there. how is it looking where you are and what are your anticipating? >> you know, chris, just literally in the last ten seconds it started to rain again. you know, it rains, it stops, it rains, it stops. the wind kicks up, it dies down. it is taking a long time for this storm to get here to myrtle beach, i can tell you that. about 60% of the people in this county have evacuated. some people have chosen to stay. we've had a chance to speak with a lot of the people that have chosen to stay. everybody has a different reason, i can tell you that. one of them is a business owner. his name is robert miles, and he actually told us that he wanted to evacuate his family but he can't. he owns a pet store and he feels an obligation to stay and save the pets in that pet store. there are about 200 o

but as tammy leitner reports, parents need to be an alert all year long. >> reporter: a florida mother is facing negligent manslaughter charges after leaving her 1-year-old daughter in the car all day. >> cardiac arrest at the wawa. >> kalan polar told police she usually drops her daughter at day care before work. but friday she forgot. she left her daughter in her car seat for about seven hours while she went to work and picked up dinner. medics pronounced her dead at the scene. polar's attorney says it was just an accident. a terrible accident. >> do you have any patient information? >> reporter: just hours earlier, police found a 4-year-old boy locked inside a hot car about a half hour away in orlando. where temperatures soured to 94 degrees. >> the child was in the car for quite some time. the child was obviously in distress. >> reporter: the boy later died. fall may be here, but experts say fatalities have occurred even when temperatures dip to the low 60s. >> i know it's the end of september, but children die in vehicles every month of the year. >> reporter: a sobering reminder f

here is nbc's tammy leitner. >> i'm at the dump, sir. put the gun up. >> reporter: it started as an argument over where to dump a mattress in the shared alley in abilene, texas. >> i'm standing my ground, [ bleep ]. >> reporter: now one man is dead and father and son facing murder charges. police say the dispute has been going on for several days. >> this triggered a back and forth between the neighbors. >> reporter: police say 37-year-old aaron howard was armed with a bat. while neighbor john miller had a gun and his son michael can be seen with a shotgun slung over his shoulders. >> come closer and i'll kill you. >> did you hear him say he'll kill me? >> reporter: his common law wife recorded this video and made it public. >> point it at me. >> reporter: the two-minute video captures the men threatening each other. >> i promise you you're dead. >> it is an alley. >> [ bleep ] kill you. >> reporter: and then gunshots. police say john miller fired first. his son then opened fire. followed by two more rounds from his father. police say ho

nbc news correspondent tammy leitner is there. as you can tell, on the beach. tammy, what's it like? what are they expecting? >> reporter: well, brian, i can tell you 60% of the residents here have chosen to leave but that means that 40% of the residents are still here. and for those people time are -- time is running out. myrtle beach has essentially shut down. it's under a mandatory evacuation. there's a curfew in place. the stores have been ordered to shut down. all the businesses have boarded up. it's essentially a ghost town here. earlier today there was a mad dash. the few stores that were open people were scrambling to get supplies. we're talking the vital essential things that they're going to need. food, water, batteries, flashlights. things that will sustain them not only through the hurricane but after the hurricane. and brian, you and i have covered enough hurricanes to know that the danger continues even after the hurricane is over, the days and weeks afterwards people will lose power, there will be flooding, and that's when the real danger continue

watching the degrading conditions there, we had a branch down in the road in front of our car, tammy leitner remains in myrtle. tammy, perhaps you heard david give the prediction of when conditions are really going to start to go south for you, no pun intended. >> yeah. you know, one thing i can tell you, this storm is no doubt fickle. it started to rain and just as quickly as it started it stopped. you know, i'm not sure what to make of it. the wind has kicked up. it stopped. it kicked up. it stopped. no wonder people here in myrtle beach are confused. i can tell you there's a mandatory evacuation and order. people left days ago, but people have actually started calling the emergency operation center here and asking if they can return. people are confused. they don't know what to make of this storm because here in myrtle beach it has been pretty calm. they've had days to prepare for the storm and the storm really has not arrived here yet. as you can tell, it is still pretty calm other than a little bit of wind. people have left or people have stayed and they have hunkered down, but they rea

tammy leitner, thank you for that report from conway, south carolina. from tammy now to new bern, north carolina, where nbc's garrett haake is standing by for us. let's get to the rescue activity, i know there was a lot of concern in new bern, i think 385 rescues completed since thursday. that number must have gone up since then. >> reporter: absolutely, alex. we expect that number has gone up. a lot of the rescues we saw happening today were more of the type of folks who were not prepared for the duration of this storm as opposed to the intensity of it. this was not pulling people off of roofs but getting people who had run out of medication, or run out of power, water, and food in their houses and decided they couldn't wait this out for the duration. we had an opportunity to put a drone up in the neighborhood i'm standing in, to get an idea of how expansive the flooding is. the floodwaters here, we're probably i would say at least a mile from the river itself where the storm surge was at its greatest. this is floodwater that comes because we're in a lo

flash flood warnings in effect for texas, oklahoma and arkansas, tammy leitner, nbc news. >>> incredible cell phone videotape tonight from ottawa, canada yesterday. we hear from a terrified father when his daughter was nearly swept into the twister. nbc's matt bradley has the story. >> reporter: in canada, a rare look inside a tornado. as vincent turned his camera on a dangerous cyclone. >> you're out far, can you see the tornado, but when it just appears in your backyard, you don't have time to fear it. >> reporter: they six people in the hospital, tore off rooftops and left more than 100,000 canadians without power. he watched his daughter nearly fly out of his grasp. >> when did ripped our roof, my daughter she went flying out. i almost let go, because she was slipping, and i said, if she's going to die. i'm going to die with her. >> reporter: his daughter survived, no one was killed in the tornado. ottawa is known for its extreme weather. powerful tornados are rare events. >> is it rare to get footage inside a tornado? >> very rare for someone to be inside the tornado and actually li

thank you very much, tammy leitner.s we mentioned, there is a network of buoys off the coast of the united states, and at least two of them tonight have shown gusts of -- north of 100 miles an hour. we've had some very high gusts inland as well. >>> back to which having ton, north carolina we go, where weather channel meteorologist mike seidel is back on that pier. mike, how have you -- you've still got a ways to go. how many hours until the eye passes anywhere near wilmington? >> hey, brian. if you do the mathematics, moving northwest at 6 and being about 50 miles or so off the coast, we're thinking sometime about 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. i can tell you i've seen a couple storms in my coverage, 70 of these things, that defy the odds, they stop moving for a while. no guarantee. the bottom line is it's moving slow, it's lost its steering flow. the blocking ridge has go gone away. the impacts will be lasting. the surge on the coast, the battering waves, we had the mayor on earlier today, brian. he said they already l

tammie leitner gives us an up close look at the devastation. good morning. >> reporter: hey, frins frances, i'm out with the national guard, atf and missouri task force one. they've been making rescues all day, pulling people out of there are hes floodwaters. we're now on the main highway, which is completely flooded, as you can see. a giant sinkhole has opened up, about 12 feet wide. it's dozens of towns from the rest of the carolinas. frances, back to you. >> all right, tammie, thank you. >>> a massive typhoon sin hong china sunday after leaving a trail of death and destruction in the philippines. more than 2 million people were evacuated from china's guangdong province before the storm hit. at least four people in china were killed while at least 65 people died in the philippines. dozens more are still missing after landslides. >>> this morning the countdown is on for opening statements to begin in the trial of former chicago police officer jason van dyke. van dyke faces a first-degree murder charge. aggravated battery and official misconduct

nbc's tammy leitner has more. >> reporter: tonight the hunt for answers in a callated c >> we just had an explosion south of blast saturday night rocked this neighborhood in allentown, pennsylvania, drawing local, state and federal law enforcement. >> we have a high degree of confidence that the perpetrator was probably killed in the incident. >> reporter: the atf and the fbi staying quiet on a possible motive, but witnesses recall a chaotic scene. >> it was just horrific. it was just crazy. something i've never seen about. you only see stuff like that on tv. >> reporter: mike hunter shot this video moments after the car exploded spraying debris across the block. >> i started hearing people yelling. people were yelling and screaming and that's how i knew it was serious. >> the explosion could be heard and felt throughout this suburb 60 miles northwest of philadelphia. panicked residents were told to stay inside their homes. >> it was really loud. you're able to hear it, and i felt the vibration. >> i looked out the all of fire. >> reporter: officials call this an isolated incident and

>> all right, tammy leitner, thank you so much. let's celebrate the fact that they're not going to have the high winds we once feared there in myrtle beach and points north. >>> another break for us, and when we come back, we're going to get a late live update from the boston region this hellish story that's been unfolding there tonight between 70 and 100 homes going up in flames because of a gas company pressure rising. an absolute disaster to north of boston as we look at the storm surge after this. here's a trip tip: when you search hotels on tripadvisor... enter your destination and the dates of your stay. tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to find the best deal on the right hotel for you. tripadvisor. (seriously, that's what we call tit. officially.all a huge drag. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ another major story we're following at this hour. at least a thousand people had to find somewhere else to sleep

>> reporter: tammy leitner, cbs news. >> les moonves, the embattled ceo of cbs news is facing more charges of sexual moss conduct with six moreom womeng forward that moonves denies. as cnb reports moonves and cbs are close to reaching an agreement that would have him leave his job. the rise and fall of a mia giant. >> reporter: hours after the "new yorker" published another story about the ceo of cbs, the board of directors is finally finalizing his exit package. six more women tell the magazine les moonves sexually assaulted withex forcible or inappropriate touching. moonves says the charges are untrue and appalling and saying it's part of a concerted effort by others to destroy my name my reputation and my career n.recent weeks outside lawyers ning the exa corporate culture at cbs. investigating allegations detailed in a previous "new yorker" story. moonves has been with cbs since 1995, and he's been one of the highes paid executive in the media business making tens of millions of dollars every year. this week the company has been trying to figure out how it could part ways with moonves.

tammy leitner, nbc news. >>> let turn to that massive earthquake ats ami that swept through part of an island in indonesia ago days authorities say the death toll there was gone up dramatically. at least 832 people are now confirmed dead, and many bodies are still under the jreckage. nbc'ice mackey frayer reports tonight from indonesia. >> the devastation i vast. rubble, twisted cars and debris, and in a scmble to find survivors, rescuers are using their hands io search because ther't enough heavy equipment. it's unclear how many people are trapped or were pulled out to sea, but the number of dead here is surging. thealls started talling around us, sayss woman works escaped a shopping mall before it collapsed. the injured are being evacuated by military plane as disaster ofcials here struggle to cope. the destruction on the coast in palu is only part of it. areas close to the ake's epicenter are still cut off. what has happened to over a quarter million people there unknown. >> the bridges and the roads are damaged and i getting in very, very difficult. >> the island was struck by two

. >> gabe, i spoke with the mayor of myrtle beach and i know tammy leitner has been there in the morel district. the point of concern from those rising waters of rivers is that cut off myrtle beach, right? there would be no access to get help. >> reporter: that's what the mayor is saying. there's concern the next several days by mid next week, three to five days, rivers could rise. then depending how bad that is, it could choke off this part of myrtle beach for days to come. so yes, the mayor is asking for supplies to be brought into this area, but it really depends on how quickly rivers rise whether or not that actually happens. it is a concern for local officials in south carolina. we didn't get to see thankfully the harsh hurricane force winds north carolina has, all of the trees that were toppled there, the major flooding in the new bern area. we haven't seen it in myrtle beach yet, but because it is a slow moving storm, the concern here is the next couple of days. >> gabe gutierrez, we're going to take our cue from you and head north to migel almaguer. i know tragedy has struck t

we have tammy leitner in dallas with more. tammy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, sheinelle. ats first, dal police did not realize it was one of their own that shot an unarmed man inside the apartment complex. things got more confusing as the officer said she thought she was in her own apartment. now the case is in the hands of whodallas district attorney is considering criminal charges. >> i couldn't believe it when we got that call. it just feels like a nightmare. >>ineporter: this mo that nightmare all too real. as allison john struggles to understand why her son was shot and killed if his home b an off-duty dallas police office >> if he was a white man in that apartment, would it have been different? >> reporter: police say that officer who isad white just finished a full shift and initially said she entered 26-year-old's apartment thinking it was her own. >> she was still in uniform when she encountered mr. gene in the apartment. >> reporr: this is unclear what was said or why thepu offir ed the gun and shot him 9

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and tammy leitner is in conway a little west of myrtle beach. what is the latest you are seeing there? >> reporter: i'm about 20 on miles inland they are already getting flooding here. you can see this house is under water. the truck back there quite a bit of water. and there is no power outages where i am, but apparently there are power outages just down the road. it is very sporadic. we were speaking with the workers and they were like one road might be without power, the next one might have power. there are 35,000 homes without you power. north myrtle beach has no power about, myrtle beach proper does. so it just depends. the road to the left of me is completely washed away. it is closed off. so they are getting hit here. the rain has been relentless, which is not a good thing, but their biggest concern is that the rivers in this county are going to crest. and if that happens, that will watch a out the main road cutting off access. as you know, about 60% of the people have evacuated. people are being told not to come back in and if it washes

. >> all right, tammy leitner, thank you. >>> myrtle beach and the city's mayor said it is likely her will be cut off because of it. she joins me now on the phone. mayor, i appreciate your time. of course, we have a concern there. the main road in and out of town and the three main rivers surrounding it. so, how long before the town is completely shut off and cut off? >> hi, frances. thank you. we are actually looking at a timeline now of somewhere between monday and wednesday as best we can tell for the rivers to crest. so, that is what we are trying to prepare for. governor mcmaster had a press conference just a bit ago, which you just released some of that and in it he is taking special precautions to allow two of the roads that come into myrtle beach to have some flood protection around them. so, we will not be completely cut off, no matter what happens because he is really taking the proactive step to ensure that we can get people in and out of myrtle beach. as well as goods and services. >> and talk a little bit about those resources there for the people, especially if they choo

we have tammy leitner with more on thestory. tammy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it all started at thi bar. an uber driver called to pick up a woman who had been drinking. now he is telling histoide of the for the first time. he says he was forced to fire his gun after another driver cut him off, but it tns out there's a lot more to this story. this morning, the uber driver defending his actions. >> everything to me said don't get shot. >> reporter: the fatal confrontation in central florida on tnsday caught dash cam. the pickup truck driver cuts off the uber driver and jumps out and teatened him. >> you want me to shoot you? >> oh, my god.r: >> reporhat uber driver, robert westlake, said he had to act fast. >> he said i have a pistol. that's not playing arou w. >> reportetlake pulled his gun. graduate of the police academy. he was lie-- le licensed to car a firearm. called 911. >> he reached for his waist band. i fired one. shot >> reporter: the pickup truck driver jason boek did not survive. he was holding a cell phone, not a gun. but c polknty sheriff is emphat

let's go to tammy leitner with that scene. what is going on, tammy? >> reporter: good morning, sheinelle. myrtle beach appears to have been spared, but north myrtle beach, we are starting to see flooding as you can see. power is out here in north myrtle beach. about 160,000 homes in south carolina have lost power. one concern in the coming days are the main rivers could crest. the mayor tells us if that happens, it will cause catastrophic flooding. it could washout the main road leading in and out of myrtle beach. the reason this is a concern is the stores were already depleted leading up to the hurricane. this means that no fuel trucks and no food trucks will be able to get in to myrtle beach. keep in mind, 60% of the county evacuated. this means none of the residents will return to homes. back to you. >> dangerous conditions. tammy, thank you. >>> let's go to north carolina now. that rain and storm surge threat for communities is far from over. this is just hanging out over the area. nbc's kerry sanders is in carolina beach, north carolina. the fear

tammy leitner in fairhope, alabama. she's got the latest on this storm's destructive power. as so powerful they e no doubt going to be dealing with cleanup for days to come. a state of emergency wde ared here in alabama along with louisiana and mississippi. it pummeled the gulf coast overnight, made landfall on the alabama-ssissippi bord. rain reached, wind reached 70 miles an hour, just shy of the 75 miles an hour cutoff of what is needed to officially be declared a hurricane. notheless, they are calli this a life threatening stm. soaked from florida to louisiana. that storm surge, it caused severe power outages. tens of thousands of people lost power. there was severe flooding. there were tornado warnings from alabama to florida panhandle. if you come bac out here live where i am, you can see it is still raining. this rain has been consistent. this is what people are going to be dealing with until thursday. rain and lots of rain up to 8". of course with that rain comes the threat of flash flooding. so they have that to look out for also. savannah, back to you. >> all right.

al in a moment but let's start with tammy leitner in fairhope along the alabama gulf coast.good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. alabama has been getting pummeled all morning and a state of emergency declared in alabama along with mississippi. one person killed in pensacola. a child. that was a direct result of gordon. this morning gordon downgraded to a tropical depression after packing powerful winds and drenching rains from florida to louisiana. officials reporting power outages and flooding from the storm surge. >> seriously, we've got to get out of here. >> yeah, i know. >> reporter: the national hurricane center reporting gordon made landfall just west of the alabama-mississippi border, calling the storm system life threatening. maximum sustained winds reaching 70 miles per hour, just shy of the 74 mile-per-hour requirement to be classified as a hurricane. >> if you didn't know better, you would believe this was a hurricane. >> reporter: the fast-moving storm hurling high winds and heavy rain. a local reporter warning residents to stay indoors. >> if you c