Tonight, a special edition of world news tonight. Hurricane florence makes landfall. We were on the air as Hurricane Florence slammed ashore, and quickly turned deadly. The storm churning at this hour. Millions still bracing. The terrifying scene. Water rising so quickly, families trapped inside their moments and apartment calling 911. Dispatchers telling them to get to the second floor, get to the attic. Our team right there. And here in wilmington, were on the scene. A mother, an infant killed. The father pulled out. The firefighters, and the prayer outside. In the dark, more than a half million without power and growing. And now, the new warnings. Flash flooding and tornadoes possible in the coming hours. My interview with the governor just moments ago. There are several other major stories this friday night. Paul manafort, pleading guilty, now cooperating with robert mueller. What does this mean for President Trump . The new letter raising questions involving Supreme Court Justice
Tonight, the breaking developments involving Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Did he suggest secretly recording the president . Amid chaos rosenstein was reportedly witnessing involving the president. And did he discuss trying to recruit cabinet members to try to remove the president . Tonight, what abc news is now learning about what might have been said. And, rosensteins response. Right here tonight. Also developing, the president suddenly shifting tone on Brett Kavanaughs accuser. Taking aim. And tonight, outrage from one key republican, senator Susan Collins, who says the president went too far. Was his plan suicide by plane . Late today, what we learned about the man who allegedly jumped a fence and got into a passenger jet, an airbus, before being tackled. The emergency unfolding in the carolinas. A dam has now breached. A power plant threatened. And fears coal ash could spill into flooded rivers. Severe storms hitting tonight. From the midwest and moving into the northeas
Conversation. And sources familiar with those memos say rosenstein also discussed whether to rally the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. The times reports that he said he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then Homeland Security secretary john kelly would back the plan. But sources say none of this was ever carried out. And that the president was never secretly recorded. In a statement, rosenstein calls the times story inaccurate, factually incorrect, and based on Anonymous Sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. He adds, based on my personal dealings with the president , there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. Rosenstein has been under attack since the moment he named Robert Mueller special counsel. The president once tweeting mueller is most conflicted of all, except rosenstein. The white house facing this question for months. Is the president going to fire Rod Rosenstein . I dont have any announcements
There are several other major stories this friday night. Paul manafort, pleading guilty, now cooperating with robert mueller. What does this mean for President Trump . The new letter raising questions tonight involving Supreme Court Justice Nominee Brett Kavanaugh. What it accuses him of, involving a young woman decades ago. And why was the letter just now revealed . And the massive fires outside boston. The deadly Chain Reaction gas explosions. And what we now know. And tonight, what they saw from the air just before another possible explosion. And tonight, our persons of the week. The rescuers, the volunteers. They did not forget the pets. And good evening from wilmington, north carolina. Where Hurricane Florence slammed into this state, making landfall today and carving a deadly path. Here in wilmington, at the airport, wind gusts reaching 105 Miles Per Hour at one point. Not seen since hurricane felene in 1958. When you have a hurricane of this size and scope, this is what you see
BOSTON — Natural gas companies will face dramatically increased fines for safety violations under new regulations proposed by state utility regulators, which stem from a 2-year-old climate change law.