of the country, the soul of america, and it felt like this, mccarthy, wallace, all the way back to reconstruction, and tim said, have you ever thought about the role music played in these moments? and honestly, i hadn t. and like a lot of great questions, it led to wanting to abs it. and david hallbertson once said, great nonfiction should be like a liberal arts degree, you should learn something, it should be illuminating. so what was so fun about this was realizing that the music of each era has shown both the tensions, battle hymn of the republic versus dixie, brother can you spare a dime versus happy days are here again, blowing in the wind versus ballad of the green beret s. at every point, the tensions in the country, illustrated by song. and you can listen to a song, the content to which you disagree more easily than you can hear a speech or read an article about it. and for me, music makes an
we re talking about current levels 40 feet. flood stage the major flooding continues across that region. there is additional rain in the forecast. this is over the next seven days. we re spanning a long time here. we want to show you how it spans across the hardest hit areas that experienced the flooding lately. look out once again, oklahoma into kansas, arkansas, missouri. basically the entire mississippi river delta. this area has the potential for heavy rainfall today as we head into the early parts of next week as well. that s when we think things will ramp up. check it out. we are the owe into the second day of the atlantic hurricane season and we have the potential for tropical development. already, our computer models picking up on a low pressure system showing eerie tropical characteristi characteristics. it s a pattern we don t like to see. you said it last hour. i ll reiterate it. time to get the rain coats and goggles ready. really? blowing in the wind again.
this is the scene along the grand strand. this is myrtle beach, south carolina. what they re seeing there in myrtle beach is akin to what we saw here in wilmington, north carolina, just a few hours ago. you see the state tree there of south carolina. the palmetto tree. blowing in the wind. back here in wilmington, though, nearly the entire city without power a. city in darkness, including woody white s house, the county commissioner for new hannover county. what are the conditions like? they re tough. took us triple the time to get down here from our house. the good news is the winds are now below 45 miles per hour. we started about 15 minutes, prioritizing rescue missions and that is going very well. we have had some reports of
200,000 voters could create a wave election. dana: in the last hour, gary cohn and rob porter, both former employees of the white house, have really statements about the book. gary cohn is saying that his expenses but has not portrayed accurately in the book. porter saying that having read it he is struck by how selective and often misleading it paints the president and the administration. josh, do you think of the woodward book would have any effect at all on the midterms? i think we are at least 20 years removed from the point in time where things like books play significant role in how people vote, ultimately. look, there are some underlying issues that i think bret stephens is referring to. that had been happening in consolidating an electorate here for the last year and a half. if you got a voter that is largely concerned of process, largely concerned with the decorum of the president. those are some of the people we find in places like colorado six, where you deal with high e
north carolina. that s what a beautiful spot of america. what s happening now? it s beautiful today. behind the swimmers ucr s people just visiting the beach our preparations going on in the background. things to be a life guard shack on top of this wooden construction. they removed that, didn t want it blowing in the wind. nearby construction site, we saw saw workers busily securing lumber that hadn t been affixed to the building yet to make sure that that lumber didn t turn into projectiles. all of this done in preparation for the storm. throughout the carolinas, we have seen many people topping off their tanks and heading out of town. today, south carolina officials reversed the lanes on four major highways leading to charlston and myrtle beach. that includes eye 26 to charleston, so that all lanes are currently carrying traffic away from the coast, dana.