says all bets are off. over a half million customers without power in north carolina. state s attorney general has received more than 500 complaints of price gouging for hotels and gas and water and more than 15,000 people are in shelters statewide. transportation officials are telling people not to travel anywhere in north carolina. flooding has cut off wilmington from the rest of the state. that is where we have meteorologist derek van dam. der derek, good morning. what are you seeing there? reporter: dave, what i witnessed yesterday and late last night was the city s infrastructure on the verge of collapse. sinkholes forming on the thoroughfares across the city. completely flooded out roadways. parts of interstate 40 northbound, north of exit 420, was completely abandoned. void of people on any given sunday would be full of
trump has actually done too good a job of convincing his followers that he s completely innocent and there is nothing there. seems like you have a lot of republicans and independents saying, i believe the president, he s done absolutely nothing wrong. hillary is the one they should be investigating. and so he should just go do this interview and clear the air. in that case, they may have a political problem when and if he refuses to testify. but it wouldn t be a relevant question if we had a real attorney general. don t forget that part. up next, a long time congressman running to be his state s attorney general suddenly fighting serious abuse allegations.
that i made to you during the campaign, and several terrific members of congress are here today as well. great friends of mine and, we are enjoying them so much. kevin yoder from kansas, what an incredible guy. and members of the congressional delegation, vickie hartzler, billy long, jason smith, along with your state s attorney general. hopefully, we need him so badly, hopefully your new senator to be, josh holly. we need him badly. in fact, josh, do me a favor and come up there for a second. this guy is a special man. come here, josh.
it was a very important commitment i made to you during the campaign and we re fulfilling that commitment. several terrific members of congress are here today as well. great finds of mine. they ve helped me so much. we re joined by kevin yoder from kansas. incredible guy. kevin. what an incredible guy. members of missouri s congressional delegation. vicky hartsler, billy long, jason smith, along with your state s attorney general. hopefully. we need him so badly. hopefully your new senator to be josh holly. we need josh badly. josh. thank you. in fact, josh, do me a favor, come up here just for a second. just shake my hand. this guy is a special man.
story are jane mayer and ronan far roe. we re going to be speaking with jane about this stunning new report in just a moment. although eric snietermchneiderm just one state s attorney general, which is not the most high-profile gig in the country, after all, there are 49 other state attorneys general at any time, even still, schneiderman cuts an unusually high-profile. that s in part because the attorney general in new york state just tends to be a high-profile thing. the immediate previous owners of this job before him are andrew cuomo, who s now governor of new york, and elliot spitzer. who is a lot of things. also a former governor of new york. in addition, though, to that just being a high-profile job, eric schneiderman is also unusually high-profile, even for a new york attorney general right now. because of the perception or at least the theory that his office