to be ongoing for quite some time in to next week. historic flooding. flooding that is every bit as deadly as the mead impacts. in fact, the flooding, it s a bit of a sleeper, isn t it? you don t know when the water is sneaking up on you. and with the last thing you want to do is be caught by surprise by rising floodwaters. ed: absolutely u daniel, we want to keep the focus on storm and aftermath. american people have to have confidence in fema s leadership as you deal with the aftermath here and there has been this story out there about your boss, brock long, the fema administrator being under investigation for his travel. the wall street journal has a report saying that the white house considered replacing him as florence was coming. in can you comment on that and what should we read into the fact that you are out front today instead of the administrator? well, i can say that the entire leadership team is fully engage you had in this response effort. we have been here all day. we
that s lurking in that water that people are walking around in as well. here is a radar picture, still heavy rain falling well away from the center where griff is. kind of between new bern and morehead city, dry right now. more rain to the north of it that is going to rotate in. incredibly heavy band coming in around the jacksonville area and raleigh as well. that s why we think the flooding is going to go on for a very long time. take a look at this. we have got river flooding going to go on right now. projections for river flooding. we have four gauges today currentfully flooding. this is five days from now. we have gotten toes of rivers that are going to be a lot of them at their record level flooding that they have ever seen and they have seen a lot of flooding here from other tropical storms. this is five days from now. so, that flooding event that is coming at least the river flooding event is not here yet. this is the future radar, take a look at kind of those dark red bands. th
watch out, piggy! (giggles) get symbicort free at saveonsymbicort.com. if you can t afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. florence continues to pound the carolinas. over 600,000 without power. several businesses destroyed. homes crushed. unbelievable amount of flooding. saw the roof taken off. the roads treacherous. no way to get in and out of the town. the storms turned deadly blaming florence for four deaths among them a mother and infant child. most of the people did get out. some have stayed. it would be like getting into a barrel and getting ready to go over niagara falls thinking you are going to live thinking what have i done? what stupid thing i have done? mayor says they are receiving hundreds of 911 calls. help is coming from around the country. 19 different states are
and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program visit right now or call during business hours. quash bash are are l. woke back we saw the snakes. the danger doesn t stop when the storm moves out. ed: dr. nicole saphier is here with what you need to know. good morning, guys. ed: talk about the rain and wind and tropical storm and the flooding. you have to think about your family and friends. what s in that water. i was watching the footage of that woman trying to wade through the waters. that s the biggest dangers this water. the winds are going to die down but the water is not going away any time soon. wading through water just like that is extremely dangerous. can you get swept away. drown something one of the
area down to morehead city where i was was the noose river that s caused all the flooding in new bern, more than 100 people under rescue right now according to officials telling me this morning 375 yesterday. and then, of course, the newport river that the is main one that dumps into the boat bay in morehead city where i was standing on sea wall yesterday. this is the newport river over in this distance right here and it s overtaken this highway 70. now we are watching in a distance really with tremendous uncertainty as this woman drags her literally her life belongings through this floodwaters. it s difficult to want to just take your car. i m here with my own car. and i want to drive it in and try and help her. we re trying to do everything we can with people and we are, like everyone else, working on limited power. limited gasoline. you see there is no power out here. nowhere to go. you can t go to a gas station or walmart.