specifically south carolina. florida governor ron desantis, he will join us in a few moments. but first hear with the very latest on the ground in charleston tonight is katie bern. what is going on there? reporter: here in charleston, we are getting over a high tide which was what a lot of people were right about. what happened was streets turned into flooded roads like this because the seawall which is right in this direction, you can t see right now because of how dark it is. with watch for hours, waste from the charleston harbor crash over the seawall and unfortunately, flooded roads in charleston saturday. and also, across downtown charleston. those sea walls typically protect the charleston peninsula where, you know, we have got these gorgeous historic homes. businesses where people have sandbags laid out to try to stop some of the water from getting in but it is not just flooding that we have been monitoring here in the state of south carolina. we have seen tornadoes
serious threats of flash flooding. idalia is now a category 1 storm, but it made landfall as an intense category 3 storm earlier today. the area of florida s big bend took the biggest hit, big bend is the part of florida where the panhandle meets the west coast of the peninsula of florida. this was the town of steam hatchy. so much standing water in the streets that only the roofs of these homes and businesses were visible. up the road near the town of perry, florida, the brutal winds toppled this gas station awnings. the winds gusted to 85 miles per hour earlier today. and look at this storm damage in keaton beach, also in the big bend area, the eye of idalia came ashore shortly before 8:00 this morning. this home has been ripped apart. the entire roof in front of the structure are gone. debris scattered all across the yard. the city of st. petersburg shared this video with us saying it rescued more than 75 people so far. more searches are still under way. the national weath
hour. gillian: i m guillain turner ane expecting major engineering challenges and digging through some of the debris now. madeleine rivera out on the water with the latest for us. hi. reporter: hey, good afternoon, gillian. i was told by a member of unified command that no work has begun to lift the debris from the water. you ll see it right behind me over there. i am told that they re finishing up their plan of action here. the primary challenge for crews here is trying to figure out how to break up the bridge on the dolly into smaller pieces that weighs between 3-4,000 tons and the cranes heading to the area can only lift between 150-1,000 tons so that span of the bridge has to be broken up and once that is done, the work can begin to lift that off the bridge and start clearing off this channel. moments ago though, we saw another crane arrive to the site and crews here are planning to scale up the response over the next five days to seven cranes, ten tugs, nine bathrooms an
compensate the mother and daughter for their on going pain and distress. plus, we ll expose republican s new tactic of trying to upend democracy by targeting election officials and judges who pushed back against their false claims of widespread voter fraud. and in the wake of another campus shooting, unc student newspaper delivers a gut wrenching front page that revealed what it s really like to be a member of the run, hide, fight generation. that paper s editor in chief joins me later in the show. but we begin tonight with the architect of the plan to keep donald trump in power after he lost. john eastman, one of 19 co-defendants facing charges in the georgia criminal case. last week, eastman was booked into the fulton county jail, still pushing the big lie immediately after surrendering to authorities over efforts to overturn the georgia election. eastman is the author of the coup memo. advancing the theory that u.s. vice president has unilateral authority to reject c
news in what could be a once in a lifetime weather event for parts of florida and the united states. right now, hurricane hurricane idalia is barrelling toward florida s gulf coast and is expected to make land fall as a category 3 storm or stronger overnight. the storm is rapidly intensifying as it travels through a warmer than normal gulf of mexico. the majority of florida s counties are now under a state of emergency. schools are closed, aurpts have been shuttered and hospitals are moving patients that they can move to safer locations. cities around the eye of the hurricane are predicted to possibly see more than 12 feet of storm surge with winds more than 100 miles per hour. we are just getting in some new video. this is out of key west, where residents are already starting to feel the storm s effects. moments ago, this dire warning from the mayor of cedar key, near where the storm is expected to make landfall. the mayor estimating around 100 people remain in his town. he