i m lester holt. a strengthening hurricane arthur is skirting the eastern seaboard tonight on track for a dangerous july 4 rendezvous with north carolina, forcing thousands of vacationers to flee the coastline. the storm develop enter into a category one hurricane early this morning. it now packs sustained winds of 90 miles an hour. arthur has steadily been making its way northward, gaining strength and is expected to make a direct hit on north carolina s outer banks as a category two storm. tonight, there are hour cain warnings along the north carolina coast, up to the virginia border and tropical storm warnings now posted as far north as nantucket and cape cod. the weather channel s jim cantore leads off our coverage on the outer banks of north carolina. jim, good evening. reporter: good evening, lester. arthur is trying its best to be the earliest known land falling hurricane in history in the state of north carolina. and unfortunately it is going to pack a punch. it s a
courage and faith. he passed away in july. in 1936 competing in the olympic games, in 1941 enlisting in the air force and in 1943 in a search and rescue mission he crashes into the ocean leaving his family convince head was killed in action. but zamperini zamperini stuck on a life raft in the open ocean and captured by the japanese and held by a prisoner of war. still suffering with depression and post-traumatic stress until he meets the reverend billy graham. and now to talk about this story of survival and revival, the president and ceo of the billy graham eadvantage listic association. why what was his relationship with your father? he was a war hero and the whole country knew him. torrance named their airport after him thinking he was dead because he was so well known as an olympian and his heroism in the second world war. my father was just a young preacher. but he was holding a meeting in 1949. he was asked by a group of christian businessmen and some pastors to com
Days spotted in his disabled sailboat by a passing cargo ship about 200 miles off the coast of north carolina he was medivac d by the coast guard to the hospital. what s remarkable chris, is that he only had a shoulder injury but otherwise was okay. he apparently rationed his food. he said then he ate raw fish and drank rainwater in order to survive. it sounds like a movie. like part of the unbroken movie that came out about zamperini. i can t believe, imagine what goes through your mind for two months. survive. more than that. incredible. we re going to take a break. when we come back more on the bloody terror attack that has kenya and the world reeling. al shabab terrorists singling out christian students for slaughter. what do these smalian extremists want? and we are going to take a look at some of the revamped religious freedom laws in two states.
Zamperini running in the 1936 olympic games and he captured the attention of the world. the fame he earned as an athlete would be ultimately saving his life. our special continues. on their 27th day at sea, the men heard what sounded like motors in the distance. the plane came down and we thought it was an american plane. and it was a japanese sally bomber and we recognized the red circle after they opened fire on us. and then they spent 30 minutes circling and firing on us. now it s a small raft. they stayed in the raft because they were weak. i dove in the water with the sharks. every time a shark would make a pass i would hit him in the nose. the shark would go off one way and i would come back into the
Interesting about louis zamperini. he went back to japan after everything they did to him. when jesus christ, greta, came to stay at centers, franklin graham is a sinner. louis zamperini is a sinner. but god sent sinner, zamperini is a sinner. god sent his son to the earth and he died for our sons. he will come into anyone s life for anyone who is willing to trust him. zamperini was at the end of his road when he saw god and he saw how much god had forgiven his sins. he felt he had no choice but to go back to japan and forgive those who had mistreated him. he went back a few years later and he wanted to meet the bird he never did. he avoided coming to justice but