this was the scene of one this morning where a father and two young sons had to be rescued from the top of their car. the water had come up so high. if there had been another ten minutes he doesn t think they d make it. they are thankful for the emergency response and prayerful for anyone else finding themselves in a similar situation. these swift water rescues are happening all over town. we had a crew just return a few minutes ago from two apartment complexes. approximately 20 people rescued. 40 people from another. so there s a pretty dramatic numbers. and emergency services are just inundated with calls. at one point the fire chief told me those calls were rescue were stacked about 100 deep. also calls about downed trees and power outages. it s a recipe for disaster. this water is coming from gills creek. it rose seven feet in three hours this morning. just shattered a previous
record. this was just a creek. it s created a river, a lake in this intersection. the water beginning to recede a few feet. still a long ways before we re out of the woods yet. and any of these business owners get a chance to get inside and see the damage that s been done. i want to double check. power is that out there behind you? when you mix the power lines with waurkter, that s a dangero situation. we had firefighters pleading with people. a firefight eer pleading with people not to get in the water. so many downed power lines. the power to all these businesses behind me does appear to be out. earlier while the water was high those street lights were on. it s a dangerous situation. you can understand why emergency services are pleading with people to stay out of the water and really just stay home.
that you should just stay home. they say that people who are out and about are making their lives more difficult. there have been numerous water rescues that have continued into today. earlier this morning on the west side of charleston. water rescues were continuing. people were out. rescue workers from all over the state and all over the southeast were there. and they were trying to get to houses that were very difficult to get to. one woman we saw was virtually in shock and crying. she was as she was led out to the boat. she didn t expect the water to rise so fast last night. and it was just incredible experience. another woman, she managed to get out of her own house in a small paddle boat she had and had to go find medicine for her sick neighbor s child. a desperate situation out here in charleston for many people. people in this part of the country are used to floods. this is really historic. charleston got nearly a quarter
that s correct. the industry there works it breeds lions on baht rttery far. so there are 6,000 lions in captive fairly miserable conditions. they re offered up to hunters, the majority of them from the united states. and when the hunter goes to the situation the animal is in an enclosure. it s a guaranteed outcome so the hunter can go for two or three days we essentially 100% guarantee he will come back with his lion trophy. so this is a terrible alternative to wild hunts, is it not? is there anything positive about this? alex, i don t think there s anything at all positive about this. the argument that the film makes about wild hunting, for example, in tanzania and the graphic we just saw shows that, you know, a hunter goes to tanzania, spends an average of $76,000 for a wild lion hunt and there s no guarantee of success. no i m not a big fan of hunting
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