24 hours ago. it was weaker than the category 4 muster that slammed into florida wednesday but did plenty of damage from charleston to myrtle beach and beyond with high winds and storm surging flooding there and the reminiscence of one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the u.s. still on the move now bringing heavy rain to the northeast. eric: fox news coverage for you molly line in charleston with the very latest. meteorologist adam klotz is tracking the storm s path. rich edison the latest on the federal response. first steve hardball gone, live on florida s gulf coast in north port where crews are working away trying to get away from the ruble and destruction. the airboat just pulled in. big fan allows boats to take little bit of water in shaw low. here comes another one in. a lot of these are privately-owned boats. people use them to fish or go out in everglades and using them to help neighbors. we see people pull in with luggage and pets as well. the real urgency
hi, everyone, thanks for joining me. i m amara walker in today for fredricka whitfield. and we begin this hour with mass d demonstrations nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. more than 300 rallies happening today. some like the event in d.c. underway right now. that is david hogg, he is one of the co-founders of this rally march for our lives and also a survivor of a mass shooting that happened at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. this is renewing calls to lawmakers to address the gun violence epidemic after a series of horrific mass shootings. moments ago, manual oliver, the father of joaquin oliver, killed in the parkland florida shooting had this powerful call to action. listen. and today, from this stage, and alongside joaquin, we want to announce a new kind of call to action. because i think it is time to bring a consequences to your inactions. if lawmakers who have the power to keep us safe from gun violence are going to avoid taking actio
back out into the ocean. the next two days or so but far beyond was covered in water print i want to show you some video of the massive flooding experience here in myrtle beach. this is actually in north myrtle beach not far from where we are producing a residential area completely underwater. we spoke with the city official who says if not for the dunes here on these beaches the flooding would ve been a whole lot worse, listen to this. so overall this is a standard category one. the storm surge was a little greater than we are expecting i think. the dunes did their job that s our first line of defense. is dunes are damaged now so they could be a little more susceptible here in myrtle beach to another storm if one were to come soon. take a look at this video firefighters here in myrtle beach had to rescue for people with a cherry picker after an electrical box blue at a nearby apartment complex for this was a couple miles down the road from where we are now.
they ve said they re going to take you through minute-by-minute what was happening around donald trump. we do believe some top officials, some top officials will be making public testimony next week. but we just do know now that the committee is promising many more details that we vchaven t learn before and we ll have to stay tuned for the blockbuster hearings. kaitlan, thank you very much. joining us now, cnn contributor and former nixon white house council john dean. from water print, blue for scandal. thank you for joining us. just curious to know what you thought about thursday and how effective liz cheney and panel was and opening the case to the american public? i thought it was very effective. to flashback to watergate, 50 years ago, they started very