this is near record floods that we are seeing. the department of natural resources, they have been out going nonstop all day. working to reach everyone here in this neighborhood. check on them as well as to help anyone who hasn t got out already and wants to to be able to leave. where we are. this has been a loading dock area throughout the day with crowds waiting to go and check on their homes and their belongings, gather whatever they could fit into a boat and then bring back shore, i was talking to one guy this afternoon, greta. he says his home is a couple inches away from being flooded. he says is took his family out. right now all i can do is hope and pray. that s the feeling of so many people all across south carolina right now. greta? greta greta garrett, when i was in new orleans during katrina, people would not leave their houses. they refused to leave. and the water kept creeping up, um, up. are some people, you know, sort of very stoic and they are still in their homes.
obama administration is about to release 6,000 convicts by the end of the month. the washington post reporter horowitz joins us. nice to see you. hi, greta. why are this they releasing all these people? this started last year with the u.s. sentencing commission which is an independent agency which sets federal policy, federal sentences for all kinds of crimes that are federal crimes. and the u.s. sentencing commission decided to, because of overcrowding in prisons. federal prisons are had 0% overcrowded and exorbitant cost and unfairness of sentences from 80 s and 90 s to change the drug policy going forward for future drug offenders and to make it retroactive. they estimated when they did this that 46,000 federal inmates could be eligible. what we re seeing now is the first batch of 6,000 inmates who went before federal judge with a petition, had the petition approved and
she is sticking her head in the sand rather than at least trying to take it on. i think with this story maybe too late to try to get in front of it. it has gotten so far away all the details coming out. how much of the debate next week is going be about emails. moderators will. the others have not taken her on about emails they might that talk about influence and money but this have not talked to her about emails. rick and a.b., thank you both. thanks, greta. this is a fox news alert. an army green beret now has a chance to appeal his discharge. sergeant first class charles was ordered discharged after punching commander after raping a young boy. agreeing to postpone his discharge for 60 days. this will give the a chance to file an official appeal. and america s top commander in afghanistan, general john campbell is blasting president obama s plan to slash the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan.
it s early. not caucus day yet points in iowa. people in iowa are waking up to hillary clinton s weaknesses and they are waking up to carly fiorina s strengths because if you put them side by side in terms of depth of knowledge, articulating their ideas and solutions, there is no comparison. so, hip hip who hooray for the people in iowa because they are not making their decisions based strictly on popularity. and that s a good sign. well, i suspect that hillary clinton tonight is going hip hip hooray to the other poll which pits her against bernie sanders. she has 47 points. she is going to get a whopping 11 points over bernie sanders in iowa. she may not like the one against fiorina tonight but she likes the one against bernie sanders tonight. yes. she will like the one against bernie sanders. people in iowa and most of the people across this country realize this is a race between socialists on the democrat side yes, i said it, socialists. they are racing to see who ca
this is near record floods that we are seeing. the department of natural resources, they have been out going nonstop all day. working to reach everyone here in this neighborhood. check on them as well as to help anyone who hasn t got out already and wants to to be able to leave. where we are. this has been a loading dock area throughout the day with crowds waiting to go and check on their homes and their belongings, gather whatever they could fit into a boat and then bring back shore, i was talking to one guy this afternoon, greta. he says his home is a couple inches away from being flooded. he says is took his family out. right now all i can do is hope and pray. that s the feeling of so many people all across south carolina right now. greta? greta greta garrett, when i was in new orleans during katrina, people would not leave their houses. they refused to leave. and the water kept creeping up, um, up. are some people, you know, sort of very stoic and they are still in their homes.