you also write about charlottesville and the president s response to charlottesville, how you felt during that time. i came to know you during the massacre in charleston. you felt like to a certain extent, at least based on the part i read in the book, you felt like charlottesville may have been a bit of a missed opportunity for the administration. you said the president did not feel the same way about charlottesville that you felt about charleston. i think i was sensitive to charlottesville because of charleston. it was something that, when you see someone with a hateful heart do the things that the killer did to those people in charleston, you are forever sensitized to the fact that people hear things and respond differently, and i was worried that he wasn t realizing how harmful those words could have been. i picked up the phone and i told him. i explained to him about charleston and explained how responsible we have to be with those words. i don t know what he took out of it. i
damage, it is just very depressing to ride around with neighborhoods that we can t get into yet, because of the flooding, and fortunately, we did not get the huge storm surge, you know, but still flooding and trees are blocking streets, and just all of the beauty seemed to have been kind of sucked out of the city. it is going to be a massive cleanup, and, you know, it can only be worse. i listen to you, and i listen to talk of around the state that was hit worse than us, but it was not a pleasant experience that anybody wants to go through. all right. mr. mayor, thank you and stay in touch and we know that the beauty of naples will return, and stay in u touch. thank you. bye-bye. many places in florida are
they needed it. we have a remarkable event with storm surge really occurring over 200 miles a wway from the center of this storm, and the wind came from off shore and continued to push water into charleston harbor, and we say that we have is one of the best natural ports on the east coast, so ships can easily come in and out, and the water has been coming in but not easily out because of the wind pushing it in. this is the big difference between this year and last year with hurricane matthew. this event occurred exactly at high tide mid-day today. a year ago even though we had a direct hit from matthew, it happened at exactly low tide, and that six-foot differential in the tide made a world of difference in the am of flooding that we have received. mr. mayor, what are your immediate concerns in the hours coming up? well, in the immediate hours,
in 2000 and 2001. and it is really striking to see hundreds and hundreds of white south carolinians going to these rallies, in support of the flag in that period of time, all holding the battle flag. and you realize the breadth and depth of the support for the flag. when you compare that to now, it seems like there s been a fairly significant change in the opinion or the number of people that are willing to really make this an issue. absolutely. and back in the late 90s and 2000 you had a lot of legislators in that statehouse that supported keeping that flag up, that were ardent supporters of the confederacy, like glen mcconnell who s now the president of charleston. it was a really tough time. the naacp was strong back then although they said that they weren t for the compromise. and of course the boycott went on. but i think it was a little bit meaner. we went and burnt the flag on confederate memorial day in the
and it is really striking to see hundreds and hundreds of white south carolinians going to these rallies, in support of the flag in that period of time, all holding the battle flag. and you realize the breadth and depth of the support for the flag. when you compare that to now, it seems like there s been a fairly significant change in the opinion or the number of people that are willing to really make this an issue. absolutely. and back in the late 90s and 2000, you had a lot of legislators in that statehouse that supported keeping that flag up, that were ardent supporters of the confederacy, like glen mcconnell, who s now the president of charleston. it was a really tough time. the naacp was strong back then, although they said that they weren t for the compromise. and of course, the boycott went on. but i think it was a little bit meaner. we went and burnt the flag on confederate memorial day in the