The way and has an update. This just in its 60 miles south of myrtle beach still a category 2, 110 mile per hour winds moving north northeast. Were looking at wind 55 miles an hour, upwards of 15 inches of rain. Tonight and friday morning rainfall 8 to 12 inches and moves towards new england where we could be looking at strong winds heavy rain and coastal flooding. Rainfall, anyer amounts of 10 inches and possible 5oneople without power. Lester . Kathy park is in charleston, South Carolina for us. What are the conditions there . Reporter lester were feeling the damaging blow from dorian, everything from intense wind to heavy rain. Flooding is a major concern in downtown charleston as well as power outages. You can see how rough the water is right now. Right now we are monitoring high tide. Were also bracing for the potential for even more coastal flooding. Officials are saying if you dont have to be outdoors stay indoors. Hunker in place. Conditions arent getting any better. Lester . W
There is nothing to indicate that she has been a victim of any type of crime at this point. It just appears that she went missing voluntarily. So we have not received any information to think that she has been a victim of any type of crime at this point. Reporter and i spoke with elaina a friend via email a short while ago. Theycy sending out search parties may be the next step. But the biggest chag, they dont know where to look because she didnt tell anybody where she was going. Thank you. We have continuing coverage of the fight to protect undocumented immigrants. Today the California Assembly pass add bill to declare california a sangary state. Governor brown must sign this bill by october 14th to become lieu. Also today a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Trumps from denying funds to sanctuary cities. The ruling comes in response to the Trump Administration announcement in july that all sanctuary cities must work with federal agents to enforce immigrat
Instead they say they favor what they call a merit based immigration system. The way that system works in canada, for example, people who are fluent in english and have higher educational degrees are given preference to legally enter the country. What this does is it lets everybody compete individually. What fairer way can you do than have a situation where everybody has a same level right to get into this country if they qualify . To get more analysis on this bill we spoke with the bills pen, professor at university of San Francisco. He says switching to a merit based immigration system here in the u. S. Could create more competition for jobs for College Educated americans. A proposal to put in a skills based, merit based system really is going to compete with high skilled american workers. What is being proposed, actually, is green card status, lawful status for merit systems so this does benefit silicon valley, it benefits other industries, but there is a good question that needs to
Awaited mother natures show. Glasses and beer and wine. Dont need more than n right. Right, right. Just after 1 20 p. M. The moon made its move. Clipping the right most edge of the glowing osh that is our sun. Pretty cool . Its amazing. Report roar wearing special glasses designed to block harmful race show the eclipse as partial orange ball in front of the jet black background the crowd oohed and ahhed. With the glasses you can see the sun perfectly round perfec perfectly beyond yellow sun no light shining around it and you can see the curve of the moon slowly coming across. Where is the moon coming in from . That way. Coming from here to there. Reporter the kids were kept busy learning how to build homemade eclipse viewers and during intermittent cloudiness they played games. But when the brightness returned, so, too, did the excitement. One understands why, you kn know, ancient societies used to get really spooked by this. Reporter are you getting spooked. Not in the least, no. No.
Dance. Eclipse fans arrived at the Independence Seaport Museum early to stake out the best viewing positions. Probably a waste of time since the show was to be straight overhead. Its really great to see people paying attention to astronomy. [ laughter ] reporter surprising a little bit. Little bit surprised. Reporter early birds branch brought lunch and took advantage an on site bar as they awaited mother natures big show. You got your wine, you got your beer. We brought a picnic. Its great. Making a whole dave this. Yes, we are. Reporter after 1 00 present p. M. The curtain rose. The moon began to clip the right most edge of the glowing osh that is our sun. Pretty cool . Its amazing. Reporter wearing special glasses designed to block harmful rays and show the eclipse as a partialed yellow ball in front of a jet black background, crowd oohed and ahhed in amazement. I see a big bright like yellow osh. Reporter getting covered at all . Yeah, it is. Really looks cool. Reporter pretty impr