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dave and christine. >> nick watt, thank you. >>> officials in california say six new people have been identified who may have been drugged and raped by a california surgeon. grant robicheaux and his girlfriend cherissa riley. the orange county d.a. office says woutwo of the cases appear outside of the state. one woman who appeared on an episode of the reality show, she wasn't raped or drugged, but he made unwanted advances. >> he took me to the jacuzzi and he tried to take my top off. he kept pulling off my clothing. >> she did not report the incident to police. the police received more than 30 calls with more coming in. robicheaux and riley are set to be arraigned on october 25th. >>> the owner of the company who makes 3d printed guns has been charged with sexual assault with a child. they say the 30-year-old paid $500 to have sex with the girl last august. his last known location was taiwan and his return flight date has passed. cnn reached out to cody wilson for comment. he is embattled into a legal battle over the 3d guns. >>> and mark cuban is donating $10 million to women's advo

nick watt has more from one of the hardest hit areas from wilmington. >> reporter: dave and christine, the sun is shining here in wilmington, but the outlook is bleak. governor said we are a state that is hurting. the state will hurt for some time. here is why. they still have thousands of people in shelters. hundreds of roads closed. long-term impact is also just beginning to be calculated. carolinas rely on tourism and agriculture. fields have been inundated. and 3 million chickens killed and 5,000 hogs dead. the president said the people of south carolina, the worst may still be to come. one of the last spots on the trip here wednesday was conway in south carolina where officials say they don't think the river will peak and cause damage until friday. other rivers may not peak until next week. one of the officials down in north myrtle beach texted me we are slowly becoming an island. the president's message on his trip. >> washington is with you. trump is with you. we are all with you 100%. we will get through it. >> reporter: that was the message from the president. two messages. o

we want to check in with in this case -- with nick watt, in north myrtle beach, south carolina. nick, where are you now? >> reporter: martin, these bands of wind and rain were coming through about ten minutes ago. a blank of wood was ripped off our house. the real issue is going to be the storm surge, that is the problem. the big waves of the tlaatlanti we had a high tide at lunchtime which reached us here, if you pan down, jake, down, down, down. it would only have to rise another couple of feet over what's called a dune but it's not really a dune, and that water is into the town and inundating north myrtle beach. this storm is not over yet, we're still under flash flood warnings and storm surge warnings. there's still an evacuation order for this county. but a sliver of good news, about ten minutes ago a lady walked over to us with a huge smile on her face. she lives in that pink and greenhouse ovgreen house over there. she saw us broadcasting, she came back today to make sure it's okay. she said to me, you don't know the feeling of coming back and seeing your house is still s

nick watt, cnn, north myrtle beach, south carolina. >> nick watt, thank you so much. now thousands of people evacuated ahead of the storm, though many were forced to leave their pets behind. some shelters wouldn't allow pets. earlier, i spoke to crystal webb in myrtle beach, south carolina. crystal chose to ride the storm out from her home and is now on a mission to help those animals that were left behind. take a listen. >> one of the main reasons i stayed behind, when i stayed behind with matthew, i became aware of just how many people when they evacuate, they just leave their animals to fend for themselves. and these animals needed rescue. so, you know, i took that chance just to put my faith in and i'm going to be okay, i'm going to be here, and before the storm, i was out looking. you know, i was getting messages from people all around saying hey, we've heard there is a dog at this address or there is a couple of dogs at this address, or, you know. and people have left their dogs in pens or chained up. these dogs don't have a chance, especially when the water sta

nick watt, cnn, north myrtle beach, south carolina. >> our thanks to nick watt there. as i toss it back to you, nick talked about the 85% that evacuated myrtle beach. here a separate town, myrtle beach, the mayor says roughly 60% of the people heeded the warning to get out of town. the remaining 40% didn't simply ignore it. they had questions about their pets or just could not afford it. we'll talk about the percentage off people that stayed here and we have the mayor coming up a little bit later. the rain and wind starting to pick up here as the storm mosou >> watching you in the last 25 minutes, i can see the change coming towards you. so do hunker down. best to you and the crew as we'll be talking to victor throughout the morning of course. it did slam ashore as a category 1 storm yesterday. we're just about 23 hourinize to this. it is still dangerous though. i want to show you a look at some of the fury the storm has given that area since it hit. >>? wind is looking stronger than it has in the last 24 hours. >> i did make land fall about six miles where i am with a

we'll get back to nick watt in just a little bit here. one of those wind bands coming through right now. i'm going to get to my colleague brian todd, he is in wilmington. we've been out witnessing rescues. last night you were out and saw people contemplating driving through floodwaters and not doing it. that's always a good idea. what are you seeing tonight? >> don, i hear you and nick talking about the power and danger of high tide where you are in the coastal areas. high tide here could be disastrous, as well. this is a little bit inland. this is fresh water high tide on the cape fear river. it's just beyond account barriers. high tide when it comes in in about an hour could be very, very dangerous because when we got here a couple hours ago, the water from the previous high tide was still standing in here. this is water street. it was still fairly deep. because the storm surge pushed the tide of the cape fear river on to these barnes, and a little bit overlapping it. that was nothing compared to what may be coming because this river is

nick watt, north myrtle beach, south carolina. >> nick watt, thank you. north myrtle beach important tourist area, so this is certainly an inconvenience for sure. but a lot of people watching to see what happens as this storm pushes through that area. you can see right behind me here, i'm sure you can see it, this storm chasing truck. i want to bring in mike tice. this is mike's truck. mike is a storm chaser and also a photographer with national geographic. mike, what is it like for you to drive around in a situation like this and get important readings, understanding of the storm? >> i feel like it's my passion in life and my purpose and that is to collect scientific data in hurricanes. i've always been passionate about them since a little kid so i developed the herb, which stands for hurricane eye watch vehicle. windows can't get smashed out. i have calibrated anomometers. i recorded it earlier today. adds the eye wall comes in, which is very close, we'll see if i get a higher wind gust than that. might be 90 mile, 100 range. the big thing is the surge

nick watt, cnn, north myrtle beach, south carolina. >> nick watt, thank you for that report. again, florence is making its way through the state of south carolina this hour. and now on the line with me to talk more about that tim harper, tim the county administrator for marion county, south carolina. thank you for being with us. your state certainly in the middle of this thing right now. what are you seeing, what are you experiencing? >> we're experiencing some of the rain right now, and a lot of wind. we still got a little bit of wind to go but we're expecting probably another 10 to 20 inches of additional rain on us in the coming days. >> tim, are you concerned about the need for the work of these rescue crews that are in position? are you concerned that there are people who will certainly need that help and assistance? >> we are concerned. we experienced a lot of flooding in 2016 with hurricane matthew. but we're seeing more people are taking heed and are responding to the mercy notifications that we're putting out to seek higher ground and to find shelter. so we have thre

nick watt, cnn, wilmington, north carolina. >>> our meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us more from the weather center. what are you learning about the flooding, pedram? >> as nick eluded to, we're going to see the water drop in some areas upstream. we'll show you what happened here. we're looking at the totals every wom overwhe overwhelmington. 44 inches will be normal. the wettest year in the years of recordkeeping across the area. you compare it to seattle, washington. 38 inches per year. miami, florida, gets about 62 inches per year. wilmington, north carolina, outdoes them by a couple of feet. you look at some of the gauges in cape fear and fayetteville. we just crested below the record at 61.5 feet. the water levels are drop sunday afternoon. they will still be in flood stage but receded across that region. as nick eluded to in his story, in some aer areas where it will take days for water to rise, it will be sunday or monday when we have record flooding taking place across those regions. the flood warnings, still widespread across this region. over 50 counties that are dealin

let's get out to cnn's nick watt. he is in south carolina, and, nick, when we saw you last, you were on the beach. now i understand you've moved further inland. show us the conditions there. >> reporter: yeah, ana, we've driven today 100 miles inland to the threat that this storm exist. this is normally a lazy little creek called the huckelberry creek. as you can see it's a flowing torrent. it's been risen and i've been standing here 15 minutes and it's risen 3 or 4 inches in that time. the chief of police tells me the issue they have been getting these flash floods. the this morning in one hour they got 5.5 inches of rain and that left water standing three feet in places and towns the that's now dissipated but issue here in lumberton as we heard from paola as on the cape fear issue, the issue is river levels are rights. this creek is flowing into the river which is just a few hundred yards down that way. that river normally runs and flows at about 7 feet. currently it's up about the a 30 feet, and it's not expected t

>> nick watt, thank you for that. officials, governors, emergency officials have been giving updates through the day and throughout the evening in the carolinas, updating us on the number of people without power. at last check, about 650,000 people without power here and that's going to go on quite some time as the storm continues to turn here. also, at least 12,000, up to 15,000 people as a matter of fact who spent the night in shelters, 126 shelters in north carolina alone. my colleague, martin savidge is watching this thing. he is in wrightsville beach where it made landfall this morning. martin, i can't see you but i can only imagine what you're dealing with. what's going on? >> reporter: let me be clear, don, we are right at the edge of the intercoastal and wrightsville beach begins on the other side. we can't get there because the bridge is closed. it is closed because of the fact we're still dealing with very high winds. probably not hurricane, tropical storm i would say. every now and then gusts are really str

we have our nick watt in northern myrtle beach. south carolina. and our meteorologist at the cnn weather center. starting with you, there in carolina beach the wind is hitting you there. the rain hitting you. tell us about the situation as it is now. >> good morning to the viewers. the full story of hurrican florence still yet to be written. one thing is for sure. we know that where we are here at carolina beach on the coastal region of north carolina, we will be feeling the full brunt in the full fury of florence. as a projected land fall will move across the region in the over night and early morning hours of friday. something as a meteorologist i am looking forward to. this is an incredible event. we have seen the storm slow down tremendously. at snails pace. that's why the storm is so different to any other storm that people have lived out here along the coast. it is moving so slow, this is going to be a long duration event. it's just starting to show its nasty face to us now. wind gusts get this, over 60 kilometers per hour. gusting close to

cnn's nick watt is on the sands in north myrtle beach, south carolina. some people are returning and relieved by what they found. >> reporter: yeah, since we last spoke, martin, the wind has picked up. the rain is a lot heavier. i've spoken to somebody else who has just returned, he lives on the next block beyond where we are. he said, listen, this place will flood at the drop of a hat. the problem here, it's actually from both sides. we can get the storm surge and the surf from this way. there's also the intracoastal water way which runs a couple of blocks back in town. if that inland fresh water flooding, if some of that water makes its way down here, these people could get hit from both sides. these houses on the beach, a lot of them are built on stilts so the surge can't go underneath. further back there, there are a lot of homes, a lot of condos right on the ground that are ripe for flooding. listen, we've been predicting another ten inches of rain for this weekend. those predictions may be right. but hopefully, hopefully, we will not see the storm

wolf. >> nick watt, be careful over there. thank you. >>> let's get more on the first deaths since florence hit land. cnn's brian todd is in wilmington, north carolina for us. you are near the house where a mother and her baby were killed? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. we have some updated numbers for you tonight. we just heard there are a total of five fatalities in north carolina so far today from this storm. so these numbers could easily, of course, be going up. this was the scene of really an excruciating rescue operation. this 30,000 pound tree right behind me, we can zoom in on this house. you can see where it came crashing down. it split the back of this house wide open. that's a back bedroom, and shortly after that happened a little before 7:00 a.m. eastern time, the 911 calls came and rescue teams got here as quickly as they could. they brought a lot of trucks and heavy equipment to try to cut through some of this stuff. we got here shortly after that. this rescue operation took a total of about eight hours that we

>> nick watt, thank you very much with a view from south carolina. the problem is in many areas that were i mpacted, there's no electricity. people that were in their homes may not have the ability to hear warnings or see much because it will be so dark in their own neighborhoods, and that water will rise tremendously fast. i can't underline enough how dire the circumstance could be for north carolina. >> and as we heard in the last press conference from the governor as well as other state officials in north carolina, they anticipate the entire state could see flooding, including places that haven't flooded before. martin savidge, thank you for staying on top of it for us. we have more ahead, other news we are following. >>> big developments involving paul manafort, former trump campaign chairman, pleading guilty to conspiracy and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. what this could mean for president trump. (vo) combine the right things. and something amazing happens. that's our inspiration for fancy feast medleys. wild salmon

nick watt, cnn, north myrtle beach, south carolina. >>> u.s. president donald trump is likely to tour some of the storm damaged areas this week. back in washington, he's dealing with a rough week. his former campaign manager paul manafort who has already been convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion has now pleaded guilty to other charges in a deal with special counsel robert mueller's office. also, mr. trump's pick for the u.s. supreme court also hit a possible snag. an anonymous woman claims brett kavanaugh assaulted her when they were in high school. kavanaugh denies the allegation. and mr. trump continues to insist that 3,000 people did not die in puerto rico from hurricane maria one year ago. he tweeted the new death toll was cooked up to make him look bad. >>> let's talk about the developments with political analyst scott lucas joining us from birmingham, england, where he teaches international politics at the university of birmingham. we always appreciate you coming on. thanks for coming here, scott. let's begin with paul manafort's plea

>> nick watt, thank you so much. stay safe. in wilmington, north carolina, this video captured the moment a tra transformer blew. you can see a huge flash and some sparking, then darkness. they are reporting widespread power outages. let's go to tom for more on that problem. tom, where are the largest numbers and where are we seeing the most outages? >> as of this hour, florence has left more than half a million homes without power alone. thousands more in neighboring states, too, and that number could certainly grow, perhaps in a big way, as the rain and floods go on through the weekend. this map from the biggest power provider in north carolina, duke energy, shows almost every county was affected and some were hit particularly hard, left with almost no electricity. and new hanover county down here where wilmington is, more than 14 14,000 people affected. and in coren county, in the dark. about halfway across the state it trails off in the hundreds, but still very widespread outages and a big challenge for electronic providers

nick watt, cnn, north mrytyrtle bea beach, south carolina. >> nick, thank you very much. now cities and counties throughout the region are now trying to assess exactly what is the impact of this storm. earlier i spoke with tim harper, the county administrator for marian county, south carolina. and he told me how his county is preparing. >> we still got a little bit of way to go, but we're expecting probably another 10 to 17 inches of additional rain on us in the coming days. >> tim, are you concerned about the need for the work of these rescue you crews that are in position? are you concerned that there are people who will certainly need that help and assistance? >> we are concerned. we've experienced a lot of flooding in 2016 with hurricane matthew. and -- but we're seeing more people are taking heed and are responding to the emergency notifications that we're putting out to seek higher ground and to find shelter. so we have three shelters open now. we have over 350 people in our shelters right now. >> tim, i want to ask you, we're hearing right now that there is a torna

nick watt, thank you very much. be safe out there. i want to get to my colleague now, martin savidge. martin savidge joins us from wilmington. what are the conditions like where you are? >> reporter: they're improving here, don, and that's to be expected, of course, as the storm comes to you. it is moving away from us. but there are new dangers that are now beginning to pop up, and that is tornado warning and tornado watches. tornados are often a spin-off of the kind of weather you have, we think of the mass hit thing of the hurricane but there's the specific threat of tornados, and that appears to be more and more a reality tonight. of course, on top of that you have deluge of rain that continues to come down, the run-off that will affect all of the waterways here in a couple of days. it is almost like you face a second storm surge although this will be predominantly fresh water as all of that rain will reach the rivers and then down to the ocean. that's another problem they will face. on top of that we are dealing with many issues i

nick watt is in north myrtle beach. that's where we saw chris cuomo just a little bit earlier. he was talking about the ocean and possibly some flood conditions there. nick, what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, don, we are seeing a continuation of what chris was talking to you about earlier. if you remember, we were talking about this berm on the beach and whether the waves were going to breach that and then perhaps come and just flood straight under our house and into this town. now, we have high tide here maybe at around 2:00 a.m. now, and if that coincides with these onshore winds, that is when we might be getting this surge issue. i believe i've lost my contact with you, but hopefully you can still here me. so that is what we are waiting for, and it could be catastrophic. i mean the national hurricane center is saying that there is a chance of very severe, life-threatening surge up here in north myrtle beach, and that is what we were hoping doesn't happen. we're going to be up for a few hours watching this to see if it does flood under our house. the other issue here, ju

cnn's nick watt is live in north myrtle beach, south carolina. not everyone is seeing the same degree level of flooding. what are you seeing where you? >> reporter: here in north myrtle beach, there's a feeling that this town dodged a bullet. the big fear here was the storm surge. there was minor damage with power outages and injuries, but there are now three deaths in south carolina. one woman was killed when her vehicle hit a fallen tree on the road. and two people who died of carbon monoxide poisoning reportedly after using a generator inside their home. obviously, officials are warning people do not do that. the north coast has dodged a bullet of the story, the storm and the weather today moving inland. the next 23 to 24 hours, the water is expected to rise above 40 fate and eventually peak sometime this weekend at about 48 feet, which is just below an all-time record. the reason for that, the trillions of gallons of rain that have fallen over. the issue today will be roads, flash flooding, people being told to stay off the roads. that is the

nick watt is in wilmington, north carolina. what is the president saying so far about the damage, we have seen him a lot today handing out meals and so on to storm victims. >> reporter: we said he wanted to meet the people and see some of the worst damage, and that's what he's been doing, he's visited new bern, a community that was under six feet of water just a few daysing a and he was at a church providing aid. he also met earlier with state and local officials. let's take a little listen into some of what he had say to. >> we have had a lot of help from congress, and they're ready to do whatever we have to do to make this perfect, and that means, unfortunately, the money will be a lot, but it's going to come as fast as you need it. we're going to take care of everybody. >> n >> reporter: now remember it was just last week that the president was questioning that new high revised death total from puerto rico in hurricane maria, suggesting it was some kind of democrat plot to make him look bad. >> coming up next, joining me liv

we want to go to north myrtle beach now and check in with nick watt across the area. there were concerns, nick, about the tide that was rising and how they would fare. any indication now? >> reporter: martin, there is one more high tide, which will be shortly after midnight. my guess is if north myrtle survives that high tide, it will have survived this storm and hurricane in pretty good shape. as scott just mentioned, the evacuation order for the county, which includes north myrtle beach, will be lifted at 9:00 tomorrow morning, which would suggest to me that local officials share my optimism that north myrtle beach is going to be okay. as scott said, the story is really in south carolina, will it move inland, maybe 60, 70 miles, where the pee dee river might rise by about 40 feet over the next few days. that is actually as a result mainly of the water that's been falling in record amounts over north carolina. the pee dee river rises up in north carolina. some of those trillions of gallons that have been falling over north carolina and south carolina will go into tho

i want to check in with our nick watt, who i think is in north myrtle beach. nick, explain -- correct me if i'm wrong if you're not in north myrtle beach and how are things there? what's it looking like? >> anderson, i am in north myrtle beach. you're right. and the conditions seem to be similar to what you're getting up there. the wind is picking up. i would say gusts right now of about 60 miles per hour. they are forecast to rise to about 90 miles per hour this afternoon. now, we are staying in a house on stilts on the beach. i tried to grab a few hours sleep. it was hard because you could feel the house moving in the winds. it was blowing in the wind. now, the issue here is going to be the water. that storm is going to turn south-southwest, so at some point later today, we're basically -- we here in north myrtle beach are going to be between the eye of the storm, the intercoastal waterway, which is big body of water, and the ocean. now, that tide is supposed to be out right now, and i can tell you, it is not. we're going to get high tide at about 2:00 this

we get more from cnn nick watt in wilmington, north carolina. >> president trump visited the carolinas wednesday and had two main messages. first was we the federal government and president trump we are 100% with you. this will cost a lot of money but we'll provide what is needed. the second message for south carolina was that for you the worst maybe to come. from florence. because so much water fell a lot ore north carolina. both states broke the record for the most precipitation from a tropical storm. all that water is in rivers and heading towards south carolina. con way was the president's final stop. officials told him that they think they may see the worst of this friday. that may be when their town floods. in north myrtle beach i heard an official said they're slowly becoming an island. some rivers may not crest until next week. up here in north carolina, the governor said this is a state that is hurting and may continue to hurt for sometime. evacuations have been lifted in many places. but drentzs are told it is dangerous to come back. hundreds of roads are still closed. so tho

up the beach, nick watt my colleague in north myrtle beach where he is seeing damage going on with the hurricane. nick, what have you got for us. >> the surf has gotten wilder and heavier. we're still seeing gusts of wind. that wind is what is keeping first responders in the station. they're not going to answer any calls unless it is life-threatening. i got a text from the director of public safety, he said we're lucky right now. let's hope that holds. if i was a betting man, not sure i would put money on that luck holding through the night. the storm moving 6 miles per hour down southwest, behind us. we will be in between the eye of the storm and the ocean with all of the rain pouring through the night. so far in north myrtle beach, a few trees are down, power lines are down. beyond that, not too bad. the water is beginning to puddle and pool. i just tested a bit of earth there, and the ground is just saturated. all of this rain that's now falling is sitting on the top, so we can expect to see some flooding later here today. this place is susceptible to flooding. it flooded before, it

cnn's nick watt is live in wilmington, north carolina which is basically cut off and turned into an island. give us a sense of where will the president be going after this? what will he see today? >> well, we are not being told exactly where the president is going. perhaps some of the plans are still fluid. lots of roads are still closed here. this is still a fluid situation on the ground. some of the rivers are still cresting. we have been told by the white house that he does want to meet people who have survived and he does want to see some of the worst hit areas. the message we just heard there, he is in a hangar at a marine base up at cherry point. that base was hit hard. the message from the president was very clear. he said the planning for this was fantastic. the work of the first responders has been great, but there is still a lot of hard work to do. he said this is going to cost the federal government a lot of money. whatever you need, we will be there for you. he also spoke to the families of those 36 people who have lost their lives. he said america is with you. america grieves

the eye of the storm is now headed south toward north myrtle beach and that is where our nick watt is. nick, the winds have been off and on, kind of coming and going, picking up even just compared to the few minutes ago. what are you seeing right now? >> well, the wind has just gone a whole lot worst, and it's also coming from a different, more dangerous direction. as this storm is turning, as it's moving slowly through the carolinas, we are now getting winds coming on shore. now, if we get on shore winds, coupled with a high tide in the middle of the night, that could cause some problems in terms of storm surge here in north myrtle beach. we have not seen the worst of this yet. all day, we have had winds, we've had gusts in the 70s, gusts so high that first responders couldn't go out to respond to 911 calls. that has died down. we thought the worst may even have passed and that this started about a half hour or an hour ago. i was just texting with local officials who say so far, they've only had some trees falling down, knocking down some power lines and let's hope it stays that way.

i want to go just up the road north to our nick watt in north myrtle beach. that's where chris cuomo has been camped out all day. i'm wondering what the situation is where you are, nick. good evening to you. >> don, we're about 15 miles further north from where you are in myrtle beep, and the conditions pretty similar. it has been windy ever since but no rain. we're expecting the winds to really pick up, 5:00 in the morning and then tomorrow afternoon maybe, you know, between 75 and 90 miles an our. but as we have been saying all along, it's not about the wind, it's about the rain, it's about the water. and that's what's different about this hurricane to others that have hit here in the past year. matthew hit here, 2016 killed 30 people in the carolinas but the rainfall totals was a maximum of 30 inches then. we're talking now about 40 inches. and of course there was hurricane hugo back in 1999. but again not this volume of water that we're expecting. where we are here, the beach, the shore is about 3, 400 feet behind me. and basically there's nothing to stop

reporter nick watt, from our partners at cnn, has the latest on this massive storm. tonight, hurricane florence beating down on the carolina coast.the storm making landfall in north carolina early friday morning... bringing sustained winds of over 90 miles per hour, ripping through structures, washing out roads,soaking the north carolina coastline as it slowly crawled ashore.the center of the storm is expected to linger over the coast of north and south carolina for another day, bringing life threatening storm surge, ngerous winds and torrential rains, endangering the many residents who stayed behind.gov. roy cooper/r- north carolina: "hurricane florence is powerful, slow and relentless. it's an uninvited brute that doesn't want to leave."new bern, north carolina 150 residents were trapped overnight while awaiting rescues.felix fisher/new bern resident: "it got real hectic, real fast."the storm surge reaching 10 feet in that area ariel heath/new bern resident: "the water on the wall, you can see how high up the water was by the dirt."in nearby river bend, volunteers