we ll be back with you shortly. so as florence crawls, literally crawls toward south carolina, let s right now head to myrtle beach and speak with the mayor of that city joining me now on the phone. madam mayor, what kind of night has it been like for you? it was a little bit more peaceful than it has been. still tropical storm conditions, a lot of rain but we re going to have to wait that out for a couple of more days with the rain. what about power outages? we still have a little over 8,000 homes without power. and that may continue. i would love to say that it won t but with the rain and the ground saturation that we have right now we don t know. how about storm surge? i know you experienced at least one if not two high tides.
had to be dragged out by ropes themselves. by the way, a slury is a thick mud. at least six houses destroyed and many more damaged. residents said it happened in an instant. i was coming down the hill, i just saw the darkness. like somebody grab you. everything was gone. like three seconds. the fire chief described the scene as quicksand, still trying to reach people trapped in the mud. eight people rescued and taken to the hospital. how did this happen without any warning? a lot to do with ground saturation. jennifer gray explains. we ve been talking so much how california has been dry over the last several months. while that s happening the exact opposite has been going on in the pacific northwest. the reason california has been so high, the jet stream far to the north bringing storms normally in california up to the
northeast of seattle washington. we have people that are yelling for our help and we are going to make, we re going to take extreme risk to try to get them out of there. 45 miles, i m sorry 44 yards wide and 6 housedi destroyed an ground saturation and really heavy rain in the last month that led to this catastrophic situation. the pictures there hard to turn away from. look at all that mess, guys. i was reading the first reports came in 10:45 yesterday morning which is 1:45 eastern time. and it is along that state road 340. two-lane road, as i understand it. has it blocked access to and from the towns, do you know? we re working on trying to figure out what emergency crews are dealing with. very rural area and we know that two-lane road you re looking at