Good morning. Its monday september 17th. Im eamon mow hehyeldimohyeldin. According to the associated press, at least 17 deaths are being blamed on florence right now, the majority in North Carolina. One victim was a 3 month old who was killed when a tree fell on his familys mobile home. Meanwhile, hundreds have been rescued from the flood waters as florence sent feet into homes and businesses. It was waist deep inside the house. Once we got off the porch, it was up to our shoulders. The city of wilmington, North Carolina, became inaccessible after major flooding left all roads leading in and out of the city underwater. A local nbc reporter caught a group of looters on camera at a Family Dollar in wilmington. Police have reportedly arrested several individuals. Jo lets talk a little bit about the efforts that are underway. How is it looking where you are today. Let me show you how its looking where we are in the heart of downtown wilmington. There are trees like this one, gorgeous old t
Carolina. Good morning, guys, for our viewers just waking up, its been a long night. The winds whipping more head city, we are on the sea what yowall. We are separated by Atlantic Beach Barrier Island parallel to just a mile that way. Thats where we were yesterday where that pier was really swaying back and forth. We are in inland of Morehead City. See the surge coming in here. Look at the dock behind me the Structural Integrity of the docks in this Fishing Community has really been challenging. We have seen all sorts of debris flowing by and i have talked to the chief of police out over in Atlantic Beach, jeff harvey, he tells me they are hunkered down, they cant go out because of the wind and surge that they are facing over there the fire chief telling me that the bay windows on his firehouse had been totally destroyed. And i can tell you this storm is going to get worse because inland about 40 miles northwest of me in new bern all night long rescues going on. People stranded. I have
19 states second being swift boat teams. Whats the mission . We have got to get it accomplished. We are pulling side by side able to save peoples lives. We begin this fox friends with a fox news alert. Catastrophic flooding. Slamming the carolinas, turning towns into raging rivers. Almost 1 Million People in the dark. Power is out. Massive Power Outages across the coast. Tropical storm florence now deadly, unfortunately. Claiming at least five lives, including a mother and her infant child. Katie fire firefighters praying after finding crushed by a tree. Ed dozedozens under estimated the monster storm. The rains were so hard. Waters were so hard that trying to get out we got thrown into trailers. We got thrown into mailboxes, houses. Ed there are people still there waiting to be rescued. Pete Live Team Coverage across the coast. Griff jenkins and todd piro in the disaster zone. Katie we begin with griff in Morehead City just south of the outer banks. Griff . Good morning, guys. We are
And residents are being told to shelter in place. Early this morning, about a dozen people had to be plucked to safety by boat and helicopters when flood waters surged in terrebon parish just outside of new orleans. We had people on island road to the east of us that ignored that warning, decided to stay in their residence. Then during the Early Morning hours this morning had to call for help, started attacking on a lot of water. Their houses were flooded. Im not sure how much water was inside the house but multiple feet of water inside that residence. The water levels and weather condition at the time, we didnt have the equipment to rescue them. We had to make a phone call to the coast guard and thankfully the coast guard was able to go in with a helicopter and get them out. Lets begin with cnns natasha chen in morgan city, what are you experiencing there . Well, fredricka, we are getting a lot of gusty wind right now, and one of these bands of rain. Its not so much the wind that conc