from wilmington, myrtle beach and charleston airport while the balloon was shot down. militariliry official said it was the first chancer to target over the balloon while flying over water. they could have shot down the balloon over montana but didn t do it out of abundance of caution. chinese responded that u.s. use of force is clear overreaction and serious violation of international practice. china will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the company concerned and reserves the right to make further responses if necessary. former cia station chief dan hoffman saying other adversaries iran were also watching the situation closely. imagine terrorists who might be able to put wmd in an airball loon and fly it 30, 40, 50,000 miles above the ground. maybe that would enable them to launch a strike against us at some point. iran i m sure is watching very closely. they have got lots of
2016. storm surge inundation, 6.42 feet above ground level add measured at spring made, and higher once water levels are sur surveyed. rain values, 5.63 inches at charleston airport. 4.81 at monks corner, 4.18 at georgetown. 4.2 at darlington and 3.55 inches at north myrtle beach. fortunately, no significant river flooding is expected anywhere in the state. and for those focused on recovery efforts, the weather should cooperate over the next several days with no precipitation expected through tuesday and highs through tuesday. thank you, thank you, john, a few points and we have a number of people here to answer questions, but i d like to do
and 85 miles an hour at fort sumpter, 73 miles per hour at folly beach. 69 miles per hour at charleston airport, 61 miles per hour at spring peer and 58 miles an hour at north myrtle beach. some areas inland experienced wind gusts 56 miles per hour. mcintyre joint national guard base 51 miles. all of the strong wind brought down a significant amount of trees, even as far inland was the midland of south carolina. a storm surge was significant along the george down and orey county coasts and the tide at spring made pier reached the third highest value on record only surpassed by hurricane hugo in 1989 and matthew in