phone conversations with the counties to educate them on what they need to do to do the county assessments properly, and we have people standing by to show them how to do that and we we have mike moore who can discuss that verbal declaration more if you have any questions in reference to that. and that is the basically overall summary that i have for you, and now i do want to go to have certain partners talk with you as we go forward and so we will go ahead and start with mike moore to talk about the verbal major disaster declaration. yes, ma am. and then we will go from there. yes, ma am. than you shgk you, governor. i am mike moore and i m in charge of the declaration for emergency that was declared last saturday, and the major declaration that the governor has requested covers three basic areas. individual assistance, and that
i also think that what we have started doing is today we re having phone conversations with our counties, educating them on what they need to do to do the county assessments properly. we ve got people on standby to show them how to do that, and then we also have mike moore all right. we have been watching south carolina governor nikki haley as she has given us a lot of news in this news conference now. let s start off with what you may have seen cross your screen just a few seconds ago. and she has confirmed nine people have died in weather-related incidents. and we knew that the rescue situation over the weekend was going to be really tough, and she says that her department of natural resources has now made upwards of 150 rescues. be clearly but clearly, they are dealing with a situation like we saw as hurricane joaquin marched through the caribbean. the system just kind of sitting on top of south carolina. that hurricane has moved off our coast now, it s gone. but the remnants
reginald saw the taxes on his family s land increase overnight more than 500%. and he is not alone. the problem, new county assessments spiked by demand for expensive vacation homes on this undeveloped island. how basic is life here? as basic as it gets snmpl he takes mow a tour down bumpy roads through island s only residential area. a place scenery rich but job poor. what are you getting for your. at a money? nothing. there are no paved roads. no schools, and the only ferry to the island doesn t run at night. that hasn t stopped outsiders from setting off an upscale building boom with unaffordable taxes as the fallout. once we lose the land through this strategy of increasing taxes, we re gone as a people. these residents are descend yanlts of the hundreds of slaves brought here from africa in the
i also think that what we have started doing is today we are having phone conversations with our counties, educating them on what they need to do to do the county assessments properly. we have people on standby to show them how to do that. and then we also have mike moore, who can help discuss that verbal declaration more if you have any questions in reference to that. i think that s basically the overall summary that i have for you but now i do want to go and just have certain partners talk with you as we go forward. so we will go ahead and start with i m andrea mitchell reporting on politics in manchester, new hampshire. obviously that was nikki haley, the governor of south carolina, on the flooding emergency there. let s go right to nbc s sarah dallof, in columbia. what s the latest? reporter: you just heard the governor say no hospitals in columbia will have to evacuate. that is good news. there are at least five hospitals affected by our lack of water here, contaminated