Arrived. The storm is moving two to three Miles Per Hour. You can probably walk faster than this storm. In wilmington, North Carolina, a foot of rain has fallen so far, another foot or more could fall by tomorrow. People are scared, and its not going to stop raining for a while. Breaking news off cape cod this afternoon. A deadly shark taken. I saw a tail air, lot of thrashing, a giant eruption of water. The first fatal shark attack in massachusetts since 1936. At least three people are dead after a large and powerful typhoon struck the philippines. There have been dozens of landslides and thousands of homes destroyed. Like it or not, you may be getting a text message from president trump. On thursday he will communicate with every cell phone in america to test a new fema alert system. This is really unprecedented. Glor good evening, im jeff glor in wilmington, North Carolina, and this is a special edition of the cbs evening news. The rain will barely let up here on this coast for anot
At Carolina Beach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. Theres an 8 foot drop here. There should be 30 or 40 feet of beach there. That ocean is coming up to it. It has destroyed beaches for miles here, up and down the coach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. It will be a long time of recovery. There are trees, power lines, roofs, fences, walls, tons of small damage like that across a wide swathe of the area. Authorities now trying to go through, assess everything. Theres also lots of flooding in the area as well. Trying to assess everything, get the power back on. You see lots of crews from duke energy. Lots of Emergency Services operators trying to get out there, figure out who is out there, how will they survive, and what do they need, if anything, at this point. The town of Carolina Beach is still under Evacuation Order. They still havent opened that bridge into town. Cant figure out when theyll do that yet, until winds come down to get people on a
Needed. National guard units from as far away as wisconsin are in the carolinas to help. Six people in north and South Carolina are confirmed to have lost their lives from falling trees, rising water, or electrocution. Those suddenly flooded areas are so dangerous. And what about any relief . What was Hurricane Florence doing that people feared the most. It stalled, dumping 40 inches of rain without moving at all. Some places have more than 30 inches of rain. We have cnn crews all along the storms destructive path, now in places where the worst may be yet to come. Officials are warning, the coming Flood Disaster may cost more human lives. Martin savidge joins us from wilmington, North Carolina. Martin, you have been there for the past 48 hours. You have seen as the storm has evolved. Whats happening now . Well, as you can see it is still raining here in wilmington. As you point out, 48 hours, the conditions have been like this. Winds have died down, that is a major blessing. It is rain
As this white house is preparing for a storm that would test any administration while the ongoing political and legal anxiety continues to hang over this west wing, between the mueller effort, lets not forget the approaching midterms. First, to this approaching storm, it is poised to complete an intercontinental journey from the coast of west africa to the east coast of the United States. By this time tomorrow night we will be covering the hammering of the north and South Carolina coastlines that florence will deliver. The International Space station today used their widestangle lens to fit the entire storm in one frame from 200plus miles above the storm. It was hard to shoot that picture out the window. About preparedness, the president talked about that tonight while engaging in some selfcongratulation at the same time. We have some really big situation confronting us. Its coming in fairly fast. And its going to be one of the biggest to ever hit the east coast, one of the biggest to
And good evening, once again, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 601 of the Trump Administration. As this white house is preparing for a storm that would test any administration while the ongoing political and legal anxiety continues to hang over this west wing, between the mueller effort, lets not forget the approaching midterms. First, to this approaching storm, it is poised to complete an intercontinental journey from the coast of west africa to the east coast of the United States. By this time tomorrow night we will be covering the hammering of the north and South Carolina coastlines that florence will deliver. The International Space station today used their widestangle lens to fit the entire storm in one frame from 200plus miles above the storm. It was hard to shoot that picture out the window. About preparedness, the president talked about that tonight while engaging in some selfcongratulation at the same time. We have some really big situation confronting us.