recalls because of problems with the accelerators. mid-atlantic bracing for storm two. a storm moving east right now is expected to drop another 20 inches in and around the nation s capital. they already have more than two feet on the ground already. federal offices are again closed today. and what are the odds that someone could survive being buried under earthquake rubble for almost are a month? experts would say impossible. but this 28-year-old haitian man is living proof it can happen. he was pulled from the debris of a supermarket where he may have been trapped since the quake hit. he was emaciated, dehydrated, but, amazingly, in relatively good shape. t.j.? amazing. an estimated one in three american kids, overweight. in just a few hours, first lady michelle obama will unveil a new campaign to eliminate childhood obesity. is it the right fit for first lady? joining me, professor mira gooden and suzanne malveaux.
these things happen this is when these guys need to be on their game. they live for the accurate forecasting that comes with these types of storms. yes. all right. well, rob, we want your take after we see this one. this is a meteorologist from accu weather. check this out. 14 to 22 inches of snow. oh, boy. paralyzing, crippling, record-breaking storm comes today! tertiary problem? yeah. i been reading the dictionary. blowing and drifting! three, four, five, feet drifts. so you shovel. drifts back over. shovel. drifts back over. shovel. ah! could i get a one way ticket to new orleans? sun comes back sunday, monday. listen, i love rob, now there is a debate on
commander of north carolina highway patrol. you have been listening to north carolina governor roy cooper. the message could not be clearer. take this seriously. the storm surge is likely coming. they are expecting a storm surge of up to 13 feet, some 320 national guardsmen right now are on state active duty. we want to get an update on the size and impact of florence from nbc meteorologist michelle grossman. the national hurricane center in, what, less than an hour now, will give us yet another update, right? what do you think the expectation is? where is florence going next? we re going to keep it at a category 2 storm. we don t want to get fixated on the category 2 or 3. this is a strong category 2 storm. but it s really about the water that we ve been worried about from day one. that s what we re still worried about. that s what we ll talk about. yes, we ll have the winds. that doesn t determine how much rain is going to fall or the storm surge. let s take a look at what s happ
cooperate with any investigation that goes on and own up to any mistakes and push forward, and keep going, keep moving on. i want to bring in politico reporter daniel lichtman with his new reporting on fema director brock long, washington post sr. political reporter andrew blake. that series of tweets just this morning, tamara, aaron and daniel, not hurricane florence, the one currently on the way to the east coast but the one that hit puerto rico, leading to the deaths ultimately and eventually of close to 3,000 people. the president now, let s pull up those tweets, is saying, in fact, those 3,000 people did not die as a result of the storm. he is accusing democrats now of actually adding to the death toll. tamara, you have spent 24 hours, prefact checking this, not knowing that the president would tweet this. looking into that death toll number from puerto rico. right. and so what the president is
south, we re on the wrong side of this thing. this storm will bring destruction to north carolina. and remember that hurricane matthew didn t even make landfall in north carolina, and look what it did to us. flood plain experts know that from storm surge alone, tens of thousands of structures are expected to be flooded and many more by rising rivers and creeks. if local officials tell you to seek higher ground, please listen. these orders are not given lightly. they are based on experienced, emergency response experts who can predict dangerous and life-threatening situations. as of now, we have about 108 shelters that are open with more