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a new policy agenda set by an expensive collation aims to push climate change as a health emergency. as set by 74 groups, the push to back to basics approach to combatting climate change asking candidates to a recommitment to the paris accord. a reduction in petrolium and a push for some form of cashon pricing under the umbrella of protecting public health. let s get a check on the weather now with bill karins. so we have to go back four years. time machine, man. yesterday this time, i was showing you pictures of the houston area. i want to show you images we had. this was a flash flood event we
detainees swept away who drowned in south carolina. what more do we know about the two detainees? reporter: we are hearing about them a little bit more today. it sounds as though from local reports that they may have been mental health patients and they were being trance ported by a local sheriff there, going across a road that transport van and that road was flooded and all of a sudden that road, the van was swept off the road. it s unclear why the deputies chose to drive on that road or whether this was possibly a flash flood event but the deputies unable to get back to unshackle the patients in the back and so they were only able to get on top of that van. wait for a rescue team to come in and they were rescued but unfortunately those patients in the back of that transport van perished. craig, back to you. gadi schwartz there in north carolina. more than 200,000 people still
around that there s nothing else out there, no wind shear, nothing but warm water and this storm is going to get stronger again. even though it lost some of its strength, it s going to be, again, in the category 4, almost category 5 category as we get later on today. right now, we have 160-mile-per-hour gusts, 130-mile-per-hour wind. here it goes, one thing that did change in the 11:00 advisory is the approach time here. now, it looks like category 4 approaching the carolina coast somewhere around 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. on friday. the storm is slowing down. and it s painfully slowing down from here to here is 48 hours. so it s going to rain in this area for two solid days. heavy tropical rain, and that s another thing other than the surge is going to be a flash flood event. rainfall that comes from the sky and floods freshwater, where this surge is going to be a saltwater event pushing over these barrier islands, could be 12 feet over those barrier
this is expected to go up to 59 feet. this is 5 fight higher than the previous all-time record flood at this area. so water is going to be going places they have never seen before. so for that reason, the ft. bend county sheriff, office of emergency management, has now ordered a mandatory evacuation for pecan grove. it was voluntary and now mandatory because it s going to flood areas it never flooded before. and that s about 12,000 people. you start to look, and they re trying to recommend where to go. because these people really can t flee now to areas like dallas or san antonio. it s too late for that. so they re headed to the shelters and some of the shelters are filling up. they said that terry high school is still open. they re accepting pets. they said please bring food and medications. they re also saying the sacred heart shelter is full and at capacity. they re not taking anyone there. and they re saying that the terry high school is not accepting pets, but only in the crates,