people left there. hope is good. steve harrigan is in north topsail beach in north carolina. one of the areas in the bulls eye. north topsail is. how is it going, steve? shepard, starting to feel it now. the rain is coming down. good wide caps behind me. a beautiful slate gray sky. the beach begins to disappear little by little. we ve seen people get out as late as this morning. getting out is not easy with airlines cancelling, airports closing, lines for gas. a lot of shortages. we spoke to one person that has been keeping their gas station open as a sign of aid to the community. here s that person. i m so personally involved in this community and they are with us that we re doing what we can do because they would do it for us if the shoe was on the other
bret baier, see you at 6:00 p.m. eastern. thank you. all right. over 500,000 people told to evacuate south florida. we ve been talking about it. hurricane irma could make its way north. a mandatory evacuation order has been released for daytona beach. here s jeff flock. jeff? right in the middle of it, harris. i heard you take a big breath there. working hard. go ahead. we re helping as best we can. we have to get you a wireless mic. it s wireless but hand to handle when i m trying to help this lady. you re from miami, right? yeah. you came here to be safe. to try to be safe. i m going to suggest chicago. i wish. with all the airports closing, i wish. you re over by the beach now? yeah.
what is the fallout. we have doug schoen and mary kay ham. are you here to say we hold you so or not yet. not that. republicans always new there would be consequences to sequestration. some of the defense and intelligence people are going to be furniture load, that was always part of the equation. the sequestration was designed to hurt the g.o.p. more by taking out more defense cuts than other thing. there was not another solution on the table and frankly taking 2% out of the budget bill: what is your evaluation about where we are. my evaluation is this has hurt the president. the democrats engaged in scare tactics. they said sequestration was going to hurt the american people. they talked about airports closing, white house tours ending, and bottom line it s
kitchen. remember we re talking about airports closing airport towers closing across the country. steve: brand-new details about why two skydivers returned to earth. it turns out one was trying to save his student s life. for some reason his student didn t try to pull the rip cord for a shoot. the entire thing recorded by the teacher s helmet s camera. although i ve not seen this video myself, hearing the graphic nature of what occurred is tragic what happened to these two individuals. steve: f.a.a. trying to figure out which why the chutes which did deploy didn t save their lives. brian: this morning, a plan for doctors backfired and puts patients at risk. short shifts means doctors hand off critical information about you to
the wind lasts that long, the rain will last almost as long, that s going to cause a massive amount of flooding and not to mention bringing down a lot of trees and powerlines. certainly here in new york they ve seen this track go off and the storm weakened. it may take us down but we ll have to wait and see but it s almost unavoidable to have a problem. we couple this high tide with the storm surge of four to eight feet expected and that s worst case scenario. here i am in the lower part of manhattan and we re going to bring the water up to about ten feet. it s going to be high and for low-lying areas they were left with no choice but to evacuate. jim, do you think with all the precautions in place, the subway shutting down and airports closing, do you think new york is overreact? at the time they made these decision, no. i can t second-guess what will happen as we go on through the