called a bloody summer. late last week the pentagon identified the u.s. army soldier killed by a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan s province. a 23-year-old james slate of moorhead city, north carolina died after stepping out of his vehicle thursday to render assistance to another vehicle also hit by a roadside bomb. his body was returned home on saturday. his death marked the seventh american killed in action this year. the deadliest year in afghanistan was 2010 following the surge which put over 100,000 american troops in afghanistan. but today there are roughly 15,000 american troops in afghanistan, much fewer compared to seven years ago. half are focused on the counter terrorism mission, the other training afghan forces. violence continued over the weekend. taliban destroying bridges outside kabul on the same day the envoy for peace in afghanistan arrived in kabul ahead of afghan parliamentary
make landfall in the next few minutes over wilmington. the wind gusts, 79 miles per hour they say, and probably a little higher than that over the last few minutes. chad meyers was telling me we are getting three inches of rain per hour, which i can believe because it s coming down so hard, frankly in every direction, no matter which way i turn my face, it gets pounded. we have seen the blue transformer explosions, power is going out, some 280,000 people without power. the eye moving ever closer here to wilmington and to this city. i think we are supposed to go to chad meyers next, and just so the control room knows i am having a hard time hearing, but chad meyers, tell us what we can expect. still the eyewall itself is
continues. this city and kpaoucommunity wi riv re-vick victimized. there s a dive team from indiana that has been performing rescues overnight, and the national guard is here. if you are that person that sees a tweet telling you to get to the roof or attic, that s frightening. this water is rising just as quick, john. diane, thanks so much. i saw some blue transformer explosions here in wilmington while you were speaking. i have had to hold on here in the last few minutes as the wind gusts get above 75 miles per hour and approaching 90, we
these people will have to be very, very patient. and yet the concern is they panic. and sadly in some of these metro areas of new bern, jacksonville, morehead city, the decisions were made not to evacuate as far as individual families or now the whole towns. now we re living with these decisions. my prayers are with them right now. this is an inland event in towns that the rest of america has never heard of. they re good people. they re hard working people. and they have yet to recover from hurricane matthew from two years ago sadly. yeah. and we have heard jacksonville. you were talking ability the people evacuated from a hotel there overnight. new bern, rescues all night. governor, i got to let you go,
weather, and to get to record levels you have to really get rain. atlantic beach, 23 inches. that s rain. emerald isle is under the h in moorhead city, and that s seven feet above sea level, and we have big waves on top of that. john, i will try and get you to dry out for just a second and i will toss it to chris cuomo in north myrtle beach, and what you have there he will have in about 12 hours. reporter: i will tell you what, it s that amount of time that raises the concern, not just the amount of time with that rain and that wind, but what leads up to it. i mean, even these relatively baby winds of something like 40-mile-per-hour gusts are plenty to soften up structures, and root structures of vegetation in the area, and shingles are flying off and we will see what happens when the high tide turns around, and a lot of people stayed even though