And there is a lot of support for that within the ranks of republican senators, because many of them still have a big problem with the way the High School Era accusation of dr. Christine blasey ford, and the college era accusation of deborah ramirez, were brought to their attention. Its amazing to me that these allegations come Out Of Nowhere at the last minute, and that they werent brought up earlier in this process. Its not on thetypical for our Friends On The Other Side to pull that kind of crap. Dont forget, his stripper, who escorted him throughout those meetings in the summer, is now the newest g. O. P. Senator, john kyle. He was asked if he ever picked up on a character flaw, and he said he did not. Sandra . Sandra peter, any undecided democrats hinting that they might support his confirmation . Not yet, but there are some democrats who say they still want to hear more. That has to be something more than just an allegation, okay . I think its very serious. The second one seems t
Its really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. It is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we dont see that much destruction. But it will take days to survey what happened. And there are areas we cant get to. We drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. That means peoples livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. The Boat Captains are out here and they wont be able to make a dive living for a long time. Tucker it takes a long time to know what happened. Leland vittert, thank you. Move now to Rick Leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, North Carolina. Rick . Rick we moved from
wrightsville beach. Two of the four fatalities reported so far was a mother and her infant who were killed by a falling tree on their house. Well, there are trees all over this town. And this state that are coming
Quickly went to make mention we have an area of low pressure that could develop and bring rain along the coast of texas, this is separate from florence, several systems we are watching but the bottom line is we are uncertain. We are uncertain thursday and friday what happens. That cone of uncertainty getting wider. Bottom line North Carolina, South Carolina, georgia. If it stalls this is going to be a prolonged impact along the coast. Remember harvey when it stalls. Rob if it stalls over the ocean it could be good news in the Wind Department because it might lean less powerful winds. Going back to diana a couple decades ago. It stalls, moved southward before making landfall and it weakened to a category one. That would be awesome. However we want people to still
keep your eye on the ball. This is a category 4, still a major hurricane. We have to finetune the forecast. Along the coast, carolinas, georgia, virginia, keep watching. Jillian people who live along the North Carolina shorelin
In flood communities. He see winds coming up the ocean. The rain coming in sheets sideways. This wind is Strong Enough to break off parts of the houses along the beach. [sound of wind blowing] [ ] we need a boat to get everybody out of there. Jesse wilmington, North Carolina took a direct hit. Moms not going back. The devastation has been too much and she said she is done with it. Reporter we have some business to show you of rexs business. Rex is a Funeral Director and he opened up a funeral home. Tell me who you have got staying there now. We had 20 people who were rescued. And it was sheltering to take care of thing while the storm was going on. We heard about people who were in trouble through facebook and they were friend of ours. We just began to be praying but after that, found out they were safe and they had no place to go, i said bring them on. Reporter we were down earlier today off the coast in beaufort. We saw people in 40knot wind
trying to rescue people who were cut off a
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