medicare for all, except for bernie sanders. he s been honest about it, he said he will have to raise taxes, end all private insurance, he s been straightforward about it. reporter: tom steyers is in south carolina today as he tries to build up enough support to make it on the debate stage later this month. this morning in charleston, steyer took a lot of shots at president trump and with i.c.e. s mass deportations expected tomorrow, he criticized the administration s immigration policy. we need immigrants. the united states needs immigrants just to keep our population constant and if you look, to keep young people here, as the population is aging the way it is. we need immigrants. reporter: this past week we started to see a lot more of the democratic candidates pointing out the differences between their policy plans and those of their rivals to put it nicely. the biggest example of that is the growing feud between joe biden and kamala harris.
in daylight hours, leland. leland: you just hope with the lighter winds, people don t take too many risks along the way. steve harrigan with us, as you said bay st. louis, mississippi and the water is churning. steve, thank you. reporter: thank you. leland: now we bring in by phone to walk us through some of the national response to hurricane barry, just continue kern with the american red cross. he is in new orleans. good to talk to you, sir. appreciate it. give us a sense of what you guys have staged and what you re ready for. it really is about that pre-deployment. we ve got about 11 shelters, evacuation centers open now serving people, serving food right now. in the last few days, we arranged locally and nationally to have vehicles, food and other immediate needs on-hand so we can be ready throughout louisiana. leland: you talk about evacuation centers. are they filling up? are people filling in?
hour today. this is another scary day for firefighters out there. for the blades that have already formed, they could flare up. or any new fires could spread rapidly. we re at extreme fire danger here. that s the story to watch today. we ll cross our fingers that no new blazes form and the ones that are out there don t grow rapidly. the other story is this huge rain event from alabama and georgia all the way through northeast texas. that s heading into the carolinas. this is snow this morning from amarillo. it will start snowing shortly in oklahoma city. it s already snowing in wichita. the rain forecast has 2-3 inches of rain today and tonight from the southeast into the mid atlantic. that will sneak up into the northeast later on tonight. and about 1-2 inches of snow possible oklahoma to missouri. tomorrow, we have a little snowstorm for you in western new york, the adirondacks. if anyone has ski plans for thanksgiving weekend in northern
this goes down in the history books. we have not yet assessed the damage that has yet to be determined from the storm. here is tropical storm michael, making landfall, it s quickly weakening but it s still carrying a punch. we could see the threat for tornadoes, heavy rainfall and strong winds as well, through parts of georgia and the carolinas, these areas, the carolinas were definitely hit hard by florence so flooding is going to be an issue once again. but it will move quickly. it s steered by a cold front, so the good news is it will be out of here by tomorrow. you can see the cold front steering it through we have the potential for heavy rainfall in its path over the next 12 to 24 hours and then the cold front will bump temperatures down certainly across the east coast. there s the potential rainfall from this, from georgia all the way up towards new jersey and long island. we could definitely see several inches, some areas isolated 4 to
what he did when officers moved in, and the chilling discovery made by detectives. plus, the wild encounter. a man caught on camera in yellowstone taunting a bison. the massive animal at one point, lunging at him. why that tourist is now facing charges. and good evening. it s great to have you with us on a busy friday night. i m tom llamas in for david, and we begin tonight with dangerous storm threats as we come on the air. flash flooding alerts for 50 million people from georgia all the way to maine. in lynchburg, virginia, take a look at this. emergency crews keeping a close eye on the college lake dam now crippled and under repair. 150 homes evacuated over fears it could fail, and this destruction from a rare confirmed ef-0 tornado. hitting new york city, winds up to 85 miles per hour, downing at least 50 trees. powerful storms forcing ground stops at major airports in the northeast.