America remembers 9 11, 17 years later. Your tears are not shed alone. For they are shared grief with an entire nation. We grieve for every father and mother and sister and brother stolen from us. We honor their sacrifice by pledging to never flinch in the face of evil. Thats the period in shanks shill. We will go back to that, but we begin with the reality of whats coming. Its just getting a lot more urgent for millions of people along the east coast. Florence is bearing down and evacuation orders in effect for nearly every coastal county in south carolina, North Carolina and virginia. They are imploring those in the danger zone to get out of the way. This is a monster storm. This is a serious storm. Somebody is going to get hit significantly. Communities will be affect and devastated by the impacts of this storm. Its critical that we continue to communicate regularly which is what this is about. People in North Carolina and virginia as we mentioned being told to pack up and head inland. Not clear where this major hurricane will hit land, but many are heeding the warnings and evacuating now. Packs winds, Hurricane Florence is at least 130 Miles Per Hour. As forecasters stress over and over, the storm surge and the flooding florence is expected will be just as likely if not more so than the winds. Reporters are tracking the storm as it approaches. Kaylee hartung will join us in a moment. Lets check in with chad meyers for the latest from the hurricane center. Update us on the path and what to expect. What we should expect is overnight tonight, the storm to get back up to a strong four. Maybe 150 Miles Per Hour. Right now we are at 130. It doesnt seem like much, but it is. This storm will get a new eyewall in the middle of where it was last night. We lost that eyewall. A bigger eyewall start and it generated into a round circle. Not quite round yet. We are waiting for it to get perfect before we blow this thing up. Its oblong on one side. Not allowed to breathe properly. Its going to breathe tonight and get much stronger. 150 Miles Per Hour by 8 00 a. M. That is the official track and the official forecast. Now the reason why people are starting to breathe a little bit easier is the cone is getting smaller. The storm is getting closer. Why the cone . Because the storm is far away its almost all the way down to charleston, but not quite. Strt of the cone is the most important part. We dont want to watch t but the chance of something hitting in the center part is about 30 . You move away about 50 miles and its 20 . Out to the edge is 10 . Outside there is only a slight chance of it moving away from that cone. Its never a perfect cone, but the models have been doing stellar work. Is problem is here when it makes landfall friday 8 00 a. M. To sunday its about 200 miles. This thing will stop and rain and rain and people will say okay, enough with this. No more with this. Stop the rain. Its not going to stop raining. We could see three feet of rain. Three feet of rain. Keep in touch and anyone watching, listen to this. Listen to chad meyers and the rest of our team over the next couple of days as they adjust the track. That rain, listen. Appreciate it. Cnns Kaylee Hartung watching evacuations along North Carolina. It could be right in the path. She joins us now from wilmington. You understand how this works. People look at the skies behind you and say you have a couple of days . The Officials Say dont do that. Get the urgency now. Its a tough call and depends on who you talk to. Time on a lot of peoples sides, but they hope people take advantage and get far ahead of this storm. There are two ways out of wilmington. We are at the food of one of the bridges. That city is voluntary evacuation, but the Barrier Islands or the beach towns, they protect them from the ocean, those under mandatory evacuation. Its a mixed bag. You can always bet on finding those folk who is say they want to try to ride out the storm. Im gassed up and ready to go. I plan on sticking it out. I will make an evaluation coming at us at about 120 miles an hour. I may change my mind. Im planning on riding it out. That man is a resident of Brunswick County said his brick house built about five years ago could easily sustain 100 mile an hour winds. The gas station we are at, the pumps are staying busy. Two young men said they had to drive 25 minutes from the homes to find a gas station that even had gas. They have got it stocked up here and people are here fueling up, whether they plan to stay or go. Always the fascinating debate. Kaylee hartung in the center. We will keep in touch in the hours and days ahead. Live from wilmington, a meteorology and a storm chaser. You have been doing this and i heard chad meyers in the weather center. You are on the ground and have been at this for 15 years. When you hear florence and how it is described, what are you you look are for now . They have been on this thing as a serious threat. We are looking at the impacts of florence. I will tell you it looks like a beautiful day. Do not let that fool you. You can see they are taking a lifeguard stand down here on Wrightsville Beach off the pedestal. They are getting prepared for florence as it begins to move towards the coastline. We have another 24 hours of good weather here. Dont let that fool you again. We spoke to the mayor yesterday and he mentioned mapped torrey evacuations would come late this afternoon or early in the morning. What we have been stressing to everyone is this is a serious storm. Since hurricane hazel hit in 54 and hugo in 89, this is the most serious potential impact to the carolinas. Everyone needs to take this thing seriously. In the most recent memory, you have been part of both of them. Maria in puerto rico. No one is ever the same, but as you prepare for florence, what comes to mind . He mad the harvey comparison. Where you are, what would that water do if you were near that size and scope. The biggest difference between this storm and Hurricane Harvey is the size. The size of florence is much, much larger than harvey. It can have the same impacts here, but it can be over a larger span so thats absolutely what we are looking for. The Hurricane Force winds to gust over 100 miles an hour and be sustained well over 100 and one of the largest was around 20 feet. Two of the people are on the road to family in maryland. He joins me on the phone now. Randy, this is your house. You just decided to leave it behind. I understand some of your neighbors have stayed. How did you make the decision not this time . Im out of here. Once we heard it made landfall and we called and this happened, we decided to go ahead and head out of there. Any conversations with the neighbors who are staying . Um, not really. Just that they were staying and doing the same kind of thing as us. Preparing and batten down the hatches and bringing things inside and hoping for the best. You have your husband with you. You have bertha, your dog. Are you worried at all about what you left behind . How well have you prepared what you left behind . We prepared the best we could and tied everything down outside. Brought things in and boarded up the windows which we have never done before. We have all the important paperwork with us. I had to leave my art and supplies at home and we are hoping for the best, but we are definitely nervous. You mentioned you are an artist and you are also pregnant. Is that of the reasons you decided this time im not going to take the risk and we understand you used your artistic license, i shall call it, on Family Television to leave a message for florence. Absolutely, yes. Being pregnant is one of the big reasons we decided to leave and i did leave my mark. We are not going show it here in the noon hour, but it is a pointed message to florence. Best of luck to you and make it up with your family and you see anything along the way. Appreciate your help today. Best of luck. And we are going to continue to keep an eye on the storm. As we go to break on september 11th, lets listen to President Trump earlier today in shanksville, pennsylvania honoring the flight 93 person who is took on the terrorists, sacrificing their lives to save many others. They boarded the plane as strangers. They entered eternity linked forever as true heroes. A piece of americas heart is buried on these grounds, but in its place has grown a new resolve to live our lives with the same grace and courage as the heroes of flight 93. Olay deep hydrating eye gel breaks through the competition olay eyes with b3 complex hydrates better than 100, 200 even 400 eye creams. Thats something to see. Olay our new cnn poll shows a significant drop in the president s Approval Rating and the timing is potentially catastrophic for the Republican Party and the shrinking odds of the house majority. Why the drop is so worrisome for the president s party. This among registered voters. Disapproval at 57. Way under water. Approval only 37 lets look at how this played out overtime. You will watch as the president comes through. The president recovers around 40 . Its the timing. 56 days from the Midterm Election and boom, you see that drop from last month. Disapproval spiking up in the last month. In a polarized climate, how does it break down . Only 5 of democrats approve of the job performance. You know what they are going to do in november. 83 but he would like that number up close to 90. If the democrats are so against, he needs republicans to be completely for. The numbers among independents, if you have the democrats against you and most of the republicans for you, this could be the swing vote. In big wave election years. The approximate the is in trouble right now. Lets take a closer look as it plays out. It is the timing here. Dont invest in one poll. There are several recent polls that show this happening right now. The president s overall Approval Rating is down and support among independents dropping as we get closer to the election. If you are republican, dont invest in one poll. You look at the calendar and you get very, very nervous where trump was already trouble for you. This is Ryan Costello who decided no the to run for reelection because of the trump effect that seems to be getting worse. As the party is more and more defined by trump especially when he wades into primaries and the trumpbacked candidate wins, thats not a recipe for longterm success of a political party. Its simply not. In the suburbs you are seeing the acceleration of independents move to democrats. Either voting or in party registration. Lets talk it over. Cnn here with bloomberg. Host of the New York Times and davis also of the New York Times. Dont invest in any one poll, but several in the past week or so, more than a half dozen show the president s numbers going down. One of the smartest republican pollster in town had a slide show he shows to his clients and heres what they say. If you look at the past Midterm Election waves, the republican figures in 2010 and 2014. He analyzes all that and makes the point you can predict the congressional vote based on approval. Always the magic thing and if the president is at 45 , then maybe the republicans can hold the house majority. There will be a democrat plus four. If the president it at 39 , he projects the democrats would win by 13 points on election day. We have the president at 36 or 37. Thats a catastrophe in the making. The president is slipping and coming at the wrong time for the republicans about 56 days before the Midterm Elections. In 2006, president bush was in the high 30s when the party got decimated. In the 40s when his party got decimated. Bill clinton was in the 40s when his party got wiped out. These are troubling numbers. Other things were devastating. On the issues of caring about people like you. Honest and trustworthy, under water. Not a uniter and 21 said they are not proud to have him as president. This is a lot to overcome. She going to defy history and be the one midterm after a big president ial win that is not going to cost the Republican Party the congress or control of one chamber of congress. That could be true if as you pointed out earlier, the robb y republican number would offset. Not just for him, but for congressional candidates in the places who absolutely need the turn out of the very conservative Trump Supporters who would be activated and him talking tough and tweeting. They need the middle people to come out. There are not enough of them on the president s side on the side of things going in the right direction. Its fallen. We can show the numbers and this is the overall job approval numbers. 57 disapprove. 57 disapprove of the president of the us and only 37 approve. You have 56 days, but i have been through a few and it gets harder to harder to change the dynamics. The frustration is these numbers are going down as the economic numbers nationally are going through the roof. They have reached the conclusion that they cant change them. There is something about this president among independents and in the suburbs. We have to ride this horse and be in trouble. They are not running on what they thought. All the president about the president s base and no matter what the president does, the base, anything like that, the big issue is those independents. They were not going to vote for trump and they voted for him because they didnt want to vote for Hillary Clinton. Though the president is not on the ballot in the fall, people dont like what he has been doing and tweeting and saying. Thats going to be a big issue for them. It may not come down to who is in the race and referendum on the president. This is what president s are fighting. The whole strategy was tax cuts. Thats the only thing they did last year. They thought Mitch Mcconnell said if we cant win on 3 growth, we shouldnt win anyway. Here they are. Now they hitched themselves to trump and he is diving down in the polls right at the last minute. This hurricane could play into this right now. If they dont have a good response and this hurricane is a real disaster, its going to figure into it more. If you look at it, a very thorough analysis. If the president is above 40, they have a france. At 45, they can hold the house. If hes below 40, its over. Right now we have 36 or 37. If hes down there, its not just the house. The house is gone. That is 30 or 40 seats. What about senate races . The map favors the republican fist you look at democratic incouple bents on defense. Mitch mcconnell speaking in louisville said ted has a competitive race by all indications. We expect a win, but he has a competitive race. This is texas. If the president is going there to help his good friend, ha ha, ted cruz, but if the president is at 33 with independents, even a senate race in texas or tennessee or arizona. And nevada. And it increasingly sounds like that super changing turn out. President obama was excellent in turning out his base. He failed to do it in 2010 and 2016. He is trying to mobilize the voters by talking about crime and the issues that worked for him. Are those people going to show up to vote for a republican who they hold in lower regard when hes not on the ballot . That will be the question on whether they hold on to the house and the senate. It cuts both ways and makes it harder for the republicans to win the places they think they should win. Indiana we have seen improvement and it makes it harder for them to win in a place like tennessee where there is a real democratic threat. People are saying right now, the senate is in a little more play than we thought it was going to be. Still uphill, but if the senate and the house changes the dynamic for the next two years. Agendawise and investigationwise. The president at 36 or 37 , that is a recipe for a catastrophe for the Republican Party. Those numbers dont lie. Hurricane florence lurking off the east coast, but we heard little from crisis communication. The commander in chief. 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Hurricane florence is the strongest to target the carolinas in this part of the country in decades. We will have Power Outages and homes damaged. Debris on the roads. This will be a storm that creates massive damages to our country. This storm is not a glancing blow. This storm will abe direct. You see that fema briefaing and the warning. They are prepared for florence even if keeping the president s focus might be an issue from time to time. No tweets on the coming storm from the president. The russia investigation was his top priority. The storms encourages anyone in the storms to prepare themselves. Ready to assist. We are with you. That was the message yesterday. Including Hurricane Irma and har fee. He went down with the first lady. Widely criticized after hurricane maria. According to a recent estimate, that storm