town, but throughout many parts of southeastern north carolina. closing about 750 roads, including sections of interstates 95 and 40. and meanwhile, flooding along the cape fear river forced duke energy to shut down the lb sutton natural gas plant in wilmington. flood waters breached a cooling lake and department of environmental quality, river has spelled into a basin or a dump, containing coal byproducts or coal ash from a retired plant at the site. duke energy says they re serving power connected to the grid. 26,000 are now without power, but that s down considerably from the 1.8 million who went without electricity during the height of the storm. neil: thank you, jonathan serrie. we re getting a report out of politico that congress is looking at providing 1 1/2