And i think thats a lot of peoples attitude and this is one of the reasons why were on this evening. If there are people out there feeling just that way, heed the warning. You know we hear about the phonecalls and facetime some patients are having before they can no longer speak. Talk to us about what your mother said to your older sister, paula, when she called her before this is before she was put on a ventilator, right . Yes. Thursday she was able to talk to us. And friday morning i text her and said are you getting a ventilator and she said, and she said i can only make one phone call. Please tell your brother and sisser i only have this one phone call to make. She had her get her computer out and type her last words. At the time we didnt realize we thought that was good. Shes getting on a ventilator. It wasnt good. Its very hard to come off a ventilator. Those were the last words she had is keep care of my cyster for all of us. This is a tough question. You know, i lost someone an
Power. More than 20,000 spent the night in shelters, and the prediction everyone feared the most is now happening, high water is trapping hundreds of people that didnt or couldnt evacuate. And remember, florence isnt stopping soon, moving at a speed not much faster than most of us walk, 5 Miles Per Hour. That means it is dumping all kinds of rain coastal and inland. We are all over the story with cnn teams across impacted areas. Lets start with you, my friend, don lemon, cohosting coverage from myrtle beach. Don . Over to you, my friend. Reporter hey, brooke, how are you. Listen, it is crazy. You get big spurts of rain and gusts and come through unexpectedly at any moment. Sometimes it is still like it is now and a second later, you get a buildup. The concern is flooding, water, rain, of course because it is just sitting on the carolinas and spinning and drawing all of this water. As you said, 650,000 people really without power across the carolinas. Most of those were told in North Ca