arthel? arthel: and we turn to weather now. thousands of homes across the midwest are under water, after weeks of relentless storms. officials in arkansas are going door-to-door, warning residents to leave for higher ground, as major rivers swell to their highest point in years. we have fox team coverage, meteorologist adam klotz is on deck with the forecast. but first let s go to casey seegal who is in conway arkansas where the flood watters continue to rise. waters continue to rise. you talk about the evacuations. most of them are not mandatory. they are voluntary, and they are going door-to-door, advising folks of the danger and also warning that if something goes wrong, they may not be able to access them. so but as we see during hurricanes and other weather events, a lot of it is up to the homeowners themselves. now, all up and down the very swollen and fast-moving arkansas
hearing folks in agriculture talking doom and gloom, but i will tell you it is doom and gloom. the full extent of the crop loss in north carolina is still unknown because some fields are cut off by flood watters. more than 5,000 people have been rescued, and the rivers continue to rise more than a week after hurricane florence. in new bern, bryan llenas, fox news. arthel: devastating conditions. okay. we get back to politics now. democrats are predicting big gains in the midterms, despite a booming economy under president trump. the president touting those numbers today, tweeting, quote, new economic records being set on a daily basis, and it is not by accident. let s bring in our panel right now. eric cook is the managing principal at precision strategies and a democratic campaign strategist, beverly hallberg, the president of district media group and host of the filler words pod cast and beverly i will start with you. listen, you have got all of these other you have the economy,
counsel don mcgahn told robert mueller in his investigation. mcgahn spoke with the special counsel for some 30 hours as part of the investigation into russian election interference. 89 south koreans are now in north korea for brief reunions with relatives they have not seen in decades. thousands of families were separated by the korean war in 1950, and many have had little or no contact since. participants have just three days to spend time with their loved ones. in the southern part of india, kerala flood watters are slowly receding but thousands of people remain trapped in the worst floods there in nearly a century. officials fear there could be an outbreak of disease among the more than 800,000 people who are staying in shelters. 391 people have died since the monsoon season started in may. following this story, cnn s alexandra field is live in hong kong. and alexandra, we re talking about 33 million people in that
looking forward to incredible mission. shepard: scheduled for friday july theth. just before 11:00 a.m. eastern time. i will be down there with our team for full coverage right here on fox news channel. you will meet some of those astronauts whom i met a couple of weeks ago and they are quite a bunch. all right. trapped in a mine in southeastern, kentucky. high water from overnight rains triggering a collapse at the entrance to a coal mine. three workers are now stuck underground. spot is middle borough. southeast of frankfort, kentucky. the flood watters reportedly came from a swollen drainage ditch nearby. a mine safety spokeswoman says officials are in regular contact with the workers who have r. said to be doing okay crews are now pumping water away from that mine s entrance. a wrong way crash closing a big city highway for hours and that tops our news across america. massachusetts. the wreck seriously injuring at least two people and leaving a mangled mess of vehicles across
back in 1973. the governor is earning southeastern louisiana residents to get out of there. opening the spill way to divert flood watters from other areas in, particular, baton rouge, new orleans, but then other communities would get all of that water. of course, it has to go somewhere. the spillway which took 16 years to construct is just north of baton rouge. our cnn affiliate reporter, listen to him flying over northern louisiana giving us a look at what cities could face down river. reporter: we re flying over lake providence, louisiana. this is the old levee, not the new one, where water is flowing out of the mississippi over the top of the levee. these are things you would have seen in 1927 you had been here. this is what happened. this levee was probably the levee here in 1927. louisiana national guard members have been working around the clock putting sandbags to shore up cities and in arkansas,