businesses, schools, churches. it s a tough go for people here who haven t gotten a break yet. we know that schools are canceled through wednesday. meanwhile the port of galveston also remains closed, about 20,000 cruise ship passengers who were scheduled to return still stranded some of those boats waiting out at sea, others at other ports until conditions are safe enough to return. rev, back to you. thank you, sarah dollop. hurricane harvey appears to have given the white house an opportunity for a weekend news dump. first it was the presidential pardon of sheriff joe arpaio, after the 85-year-old was convicted after ignoring a judge s order to stop rounding up people he suspected of being illegal immigrants. the white house said in part, quote, after more than 50 years
myrtle beach another seven to eight inches. we re starting to see minor flooding. when we get another possibly six to 12 inches of rain today, that s when the water starts to go into the rivers and we ll have major flooding concerns today. yeah. this seems relentless. we mentioned columbia, south carolina. let s go there right now. nbc s sarah dollop is right there. you heard a one in 500 year rain event there. how are things looking? reporter: well, right now, alex, we are in the wait and watch stage. although as you heard bill say we re expecting record rainfall totals here in columbia. some are forecasting record amounts of rain, perhaps in the teens. already one death in south carolina is being attributed to this nasty weather. the officials are headquartered here in columbia. to prevent more tragedy the governor of the state is saying a storm the likes of which the
yesterday in rowan county kentucky as the county clerk refusing to issue them is spending her holiday weekend in jail. her attorneys say this fight is far from over, today protests are planned. nbc s sarah dollop joins us from kentucky. reporter: good morning, jonathan. kim davis s attorney says she s in good spirits, doing bible study in the jail behind me and she s not planning on getting out any time soon. she s receiving support both national left-hand and locally including mike huckabee, he s planning to visit her in jail next week as well as planning a rally in her support. yesterday a judge declined to put the contempt order on hold while davis attorney prepared her appeal. this as deputy clerks at the office began handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples who emerge from the office triumphant to the cheers of supporters waiting outside.
exception of hillary clinton. i think when she taugs about a deal with iran, she s obviously been a ceo and made thousands of deals in her life. i think i d take her at her word, she knows what she s talking about. karen, carly fiorina is polling well in iowa, but moving at a slower pace in national polls. how can she broaden her support or can she? i think all these candidates should be paying attention to state-by-state polls and not even looking at the national polls. the thing that is going to move you fastest in the national polls is winning a few of those early contests. sarah is ger flores with the fiorina campaign and karen tum allity with the washington post. thanks for coming in this morning. thank you. here is the chair pope francis will be sitting in when he presides over mass at madison square garden later this month. why he ll probably be sitting pretty for his entire visit. k a.
political class. they re ready for citizen leadership. i think carly brings that to the table in spades. my question to you is do you think a carly voter and a ben carson voter and a donald trump voter, are they all interchangeable? no. i think voters will make their decision based on a 234u8 ber of metrics, on issues and who they think can get the job done. when it comes to carly, she can win this job and she can do this job as i think you saw in the hugh hewitt interview. karen, you ve been listening to sarah and reporting following carly fiorina s campaign. why do you think fiorina is appealing to voters? i think the settings in which voters have seen are including, at the so-called kid s table in the last debate, showed in this particular kind of forum, she really does seem to have the instincts of a fighter piloted. she s probably better than