new book. thank you, ma am. thanks for having me. happy memorial day. shannon: you as well. the cluster of powerful thunderstorm its dubbed subtropical storm beryl is crawling toward the southeastern u.s. coming up, the latest forecast for georgia, florida and south carolina, all along the coast. things have gone from bad to worse for the christian pastor sentenced to death in iran for refusing to renounce his faith. now they are going after his lawyer. we have a breaking news update on this story, next. [music plays] [muc plays] [music plays]
parts of south carolina, florida, georgia, they want people to stay out of the water. we know here in jacksonville, 7 people have been rescued. dozens across the coast of the southeastern part of the united states. but let s face tit s memorial day weekend, it s a big holiday for a lot of folks. vispoken with a half dozen hotel manager who is tell me that people are checking out early, but it is want a mass exit. the hotel we are at has two people leaving and others are under 10. so what can we expect? the winds are going to pick up, like i said, up to 60 miles per hour. we can expect anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of rainfall and the biggest concern is that it will be high tide when the storm hit this is evening. so that storm surge will come up and perhaps even flood the water-front homes. so what we are seeing from folks here, tourists, for the most part, they will wait it out and try to enjoy the weekend, 24 hours, it has been beautiful here and the conditions are deteriorating.
will turn out right. that s a great idea if you re not in politics. in politics, the fact is your opponent doesn t play fair, he plays to win. the president needs to continue to inspire people. he s a great campaigner, i think he s been very effective in many ways governing, but he has to tell us how he s going to do that moving forward. mark lamont hill and david winston, thank you so much. for more on all things politics, be sure to check out the firstread blog. another big developing story this hour, subtropical storm beryl threatens to wash out holiday plans for many down in the south. the storm is expected to make landfall later today or tonight. and right now, beryl is heading west toward northern florida and southeast georgia. the rain may help extinguish a wildfire that s burning in orlando. slowly moving closer to the local tourist attractions. in michigan, an out of control wildfire there is burning
coming right down the beech. we re getting wind gusts 35, the buoys reporting gusts to nearly 50 miles an hour. we ve had one shower here. the rainfall hasn t been the story so far. it s been the wind and the sand. now they re shutting down the beaches within the hour. the good thing is very few folks have ventured out farther. dangerous rip currents from here and down to daytona and the cape. up to south carolina. so even up there where it s a nice day, and they re not going to have much of the impacts, as far as the stronger winds and rain. the rip currents will be up today and tomorrow. let s look at the satellite. beryl is a subtropical storm. it doesn t have full tropical characteristics. the strongest winds are not near the center and the convection or the thunderstorms removed from the center, it s been filling in through the morning hours. yesterday it took a lot of dry area. but it s moving west at 10 miles per hour. do the mathematics, about 110 miles due east of here. we re
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