Continues. Bizarre story. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is monday, september 17th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with the Supreme Court latest. Brett kavanaughs nomination faces new concerns. Her name is christine ford. Now her identity is known and with the clock ticking toward Senate Confirmation vote, the Senate Judiciary committee is trying to arrange staff phone calls with her and kavanaugh. But already some republicans are showing signs of concern. Here is senator lisa murkowski. There are more questions that need to be asked than answered. I think it would be appropriate to allow for that time. Bob corker and jeff flake who are on the Senate Judiciary committee believe the committee should hear from ford before voting. Republicans can only afford to lose one vote. Several democrats calling for delay. Including Dianne Feinstein and chuck schumer. She is the senator ford first reached out to. She is a constituent of feinstein. But the chairman Chuck Grassley calls the timing of the allegations disturbing. The committees vote on kavanaugh is still scheduled for thursday afternoon. Supreme Court Reporter diane duvogue has more. Reporter christine and dave, Christine Blasey ford has come forward and alleged that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her at a party more than 30 years ago while both in high school. Kavanaugh denies the allegations. She attended a party in 1982. In the suburban maryland home. Kavanaugh and a friend were drunk. She was allegedly corralled into a bedroom. At one point she said he tried to take off her clothes and put his hand over her mouth. I thought he might inadvertently kill me, she told the post. She shared the details years later in 2012 with a therapist and her husband. According to the article, the husband recalls the wife using kavanaughs name. The therapist notes reviewed by the post do not mention him. The other man alleged to be in the room, said last week he never saw kavanaugh act that way. Christine and dave. Thank you. Christine ford struggled to come forward according to a source familiar with the story. We were told late august she made up her mind not to go public fearing it would not affect the nomination. Ford tells the Washington Post she reconsidered because people were repeating inaccuracies about her and her privacy compromised. There had already been a leak. It was done confidential allly, there was a leak. A spokesperson says kavanaugh categorically denies the allegations. And no tweets from the president. Devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. The worst of the catastrophic flooding is yet to come. Hundreds of people remain trapped. Now 18 storm related deaths confirmed. Latest is a 3 month old baby killed by a tree that fell on the Family Mobile home. They were doing cpr for the last 30 minutes. They just want permission to stop. I said no at first. After another 30 minutes, he wasnt coming back. Tragic. Overnight, mandatory evacuation orders for hoke county, North Carolina, where there is a concern of a dam breach. In lumberton, people are bracing for disaster as the lumber river seemed to have a gap in the levee system. If the waters rise to 26 feet, it could overtop the permanent levee. If that happens, an official says all bets are off. Over a half million customers without power in North Carolina. States attorney general has received more than 500 complaints of price gouging for hotels and gas and water and more than 15,000 people are in shelters statewide. Transportation officials are telling people not to travel anywhere in North Carolina. Flooding has cut off wilmington from the rest of the state. That is where we have meteorologist derek van dam. Der derek, good morning. What are you seeing there . Reporter dave, what i witnessed yesterday and late last night was the citys infrastructure on the verge of collapse. Sinkholes forming on the thoroughfares across the city. Completely flooded out roadways. Parts of interstate 40 northbound, north of exit 420, was completely abandoned. Void of people on any given sunday would be full of residents and tourists coming home from the beach. This time it is a river of water rushing down the highway. Surreal scene to see. Of course, this makes it so difficult for authorities to move critical supplies. Food and fuel to the impacted areas across the region. There have been in North Carolina alone 1,000 high water rescues since florence began and since the flooding rains set in which we all know will only get worse before it gets better because the rivers, estuaries and waterways are making its way inland and it has to get back to the coastline. I talked to scared people coming across flooded out roadways with a blank look knowing their friends and family was on the other side and they could not access them. Flood waters continue to rise. The rain has come to an end for a brief moment, but more precipitation is in the forecast here. Dave and christine . Reporting from wilmington. Derek, thank you. Florence will dump more rain in North Carolina over the next few days. River levels are raising. Cape fear river is rising to 35 feet and expected to crest at 62 feet. Water flowing into the streets. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri standing by live in the cnn Weather Center. The pictures are amazing. The water on water and more coming. Absolutely. Unfortunately when the sky turns blue above, it is a concern of what is happening next to you with the rivers. Just toward the west, 120 miles northwest of norfolk is where the storm is centered. Moisture streaming along to the carolinas. Right toward eastern North Carolina. Heavy rainfall and going on three consecutive days in some regions. 600 roads across the state have been closed or impacted by what is happening across the area. In fact, when you go in for a closer perspective, the river gauges which are still functions, which are limited because of the water pushing through them. The instrumentation is damaged by this as well. 36 gauges reporting moderate to major flooding. That is from the rainfall that has come down. Look back up stream. Heavy rain into the appalachians. All of that water becomes a slow motion disaster. All of that water wants to flow down stream and derek says through the rivers andes f estus and it will rise the waters. That is a major concern. You can look at any wau any gauge. Some of them rising. A lot of them forecast to get to record values before receding a bit for thursday and friday and hopefully better come saturday and sunday. We have the flood alerts in place. 35 Million People impacted by this system. The system pushing up to the ohio valley this afternoon and new england by tomorrow morning and tomorrow night. 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I feared he may inadvertently kill me. The words of woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of Sexual Misconduct decades ago. Now some republicans want this weeks Committee Vote delayed. Record flooding in the carolinas in the wake of florence. The death toll climbing with rising rivers which keep the threat alive well to the week. We are live in North Carolina. Would you quit your job halfway through the workday . One nfl player says he ditched football for good at halftime. Jimmy behind the camera says yes. He wants to quit halfway through the show. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is 5 30 eastern time. We have that story in a moment. We start with the Supreme Court latest. Brett kavanaughs nomination faces new concerns. The woman accusing kavanaugh of Sexual Misconduct and coming forward explaining details in the Washington Post. Now christine fords identity is known and with the clock ticking toward Senate Confirmation vote, the Senate Judiciary committee is trying to arrange staff phone calls with her and kavanaugh. But already senators showing signs of concern here. Here is lisa murkowski. There are more questions that need to be asked than answered. I think it would be appropriate to allow for that time. Bob corker and jeff flake who is on the committee believe the committee should hear from ford in person before voting. Republicans can only afford to lose one vote. Several democrats calling for delay. Including Dianne Feinstein and chuck schumer. She is the senator ford first reached out to with the allegations. She is a constituent of feinstein. But the chairman Chuck Grassley calls the timing of the allegations disturbing. The committees vote on kavanaugh is still scheduled for thursday afternoon. Supreme Court Reporter ariane duvogue has more. Reporter christine and dave, Christine Blasey ford has come forward and alleged that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her at a party more than 30 years ago while both in high school. Kavanaugh categorically denies the allegations. She attended a party in a suburban maryland home in 1982. Kavanaugh and a friend were drunk. She was allegedly corralled into a bedroom. At one point she said he tried to take off her clothes and put his hand over her mouth. I thought he might inadvertently kill me, she told the post. She shared the details years later in 2012 with a therapist and her husband. According to the article, the husband recalls the wife using kavanaughs name. The therapist notes reviewed by the Washington Post do not mention him. The other man alleged to be in the room, said last week he never saw kavanaugh act that way. Christine and dave. Thank you. Lets bring in the congressional reporter for politico. Good morning. Last week, there was an unnamed accusation. 35 years old. Murky. Not a lot of detail. We have a name and specificity. Here is the excerpt from the article. Kavanaugh was on top of me laughing with a name redacted. Theyi both laughed as kavanaugh tried to disrobe me. With kavanaughs hand over my mouth, i fear he may inadvertently kill me. She says the two got rough. The two men tumbled off the bed. She ran out of the room and locked herself into a bathroom. Then was able to leave the party. Now interetheres a name to the, does it intensify the attempt to delay the vote . Absolutely. There is a vote still on this thursday in the Senate Judiciary committ committee. I would predict that it will be delayed if not the question is how long and will it derail the confirmation . You have Senate Democrats saying we cannot have this now. Two top republicans, corker and jeff flake want to hear specifically from ms. Ford about her allegation before they move forward and vote. Flake has a lot of weight on this. He sits on the Senate Judiciary committee. He may join democrats. He can ultimately sink the vote in committee. That would be pretty unprecedented. I dont think it will come to that. I think that senator grassley knows and is a smart politician. We are in the middle of the me too movement. Republicans cant just turn away. They have to look at the allegations and hear from her. They have to address this. This is very serious. They cant just paper over it. We will see her potentially come to the hill and talk to the senators and see how it impacts the confirmation going forward. It will delay it. The question is will it derail it . It is not just the context of the me too movement, but the president with more than a dozen accusers of inappropriate sexual behavior of one level or another. Right now it is he said she said. The other guy allegedly in the room told the standard, quote i never saw brett react that way. It is cynical washington politics. If it remains he said she said, there are enough votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh right now . We have to watch the key voters. Right now the senate has 51 republicans. They can only lose one republican. They have a number of retiring senators not afraid to stand up to the president and say no when he asks them. We have a number of swing votes. Susan collins and lisa murkowski. Beyond the he said she said, this woman took a polygraph test and passed. Senators have to weigh that as well. Listen, republicans, like i said, cant ignore this. This is the me too movement. A critical Midterm Election in a couple of weeks where women are a huge swing vote for republicans. They need women to keep majority. They cant just turn a blind eye. The me too movement of last year is the antics of the 80s and 90s at work or prep school frat boys is not tolerated anymore. One wonders what they do or dont do. You wonder what it does to women in 50 days. People are likening this to Clarence Thomas in the confirmation fight with anita hill. The me too movement changed everything. We could be in for a real battle. We have to listen in the next couple days to see if anymore accusers come forward. A lot of times sexual predators dont do this oneoff. It happens a lot. We have to see if anyone else comes forward. It was 35 years ago. If you believe the story, it is two wasted prep school kids. How much can anybody remember . She mentioned it in couples therapist in 2011 and mentioned the name kavanaugh. This is a complicated week for republicans. Thank you for being here, rachael. You have trade this week too. The kavanaugh and china trade quarrel. It is a lot happening. It is not over yet. Major flooding from Hurricane Florence and several rivers may crest for days. We are live in wilmington with the latest. From insurance to savings to retirement, it takes someone with experience and knowledge who can help me build a complete plan. 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Authorities say the worst of the catastrophic flooding is yet to come. Hundreds remain trapped right now. 18 storm related deaths confirmed. The latest fatality is a 3 month old baby killed by a tree that fell on his familys mobile home. They have been doing cpr for the last 30 minutes. They just wanted permission to stop. I said no at first, but after another 30 minutes, he wasnt coming back. Overnight new mandatory evacuation orders for hoke county, North Carolina. Where there are concerns of a possible dam breach. In lumberton, residents bracing for disaster as the lumber river is trying to patch up a gap in the levee system. Officials say all bets are off if it overtops the crest. Over 500,000 customers without power in North Carolina. States Attorney Generals Office received 500 complaints of gauging of hotels, gas and water. Transportation officials are telling people not to travel anywhere in North Carolina. Dont go anywhere in North Carolina. Flooding cut off the city of wilmington from the rest of the state. That is where we find cnn meteorologist derek van dam. That is something when you hear Officials Say dont get in the car or drive around. It is a deadly situation. Reporter christine, there is 30foot wide sinkholes on interstate 40 north of the city. You can imagine why it is virtually cut off from everything around it. Just driving around, we had the fortune yesterday to have access to a fiveton army truck. We were able to navigate the flooded roadways, but our vehicle became stuck. We did see a lot of people with fear and dispspi desperation their eyes. We saw people staring blankly in the roadway waiting to be rescued. There were over 1,000 high water rescues in North Carolina alone from the cajun navy. The Evacuation Centers fearing are the worst is yet to come. They know if the sun has come out, the flood waters will still rise in wilmington. People were so desperate to get their animals off their property and get them to high shelter. We came across a surreal scene going across the rural parts of pendle county. There were donkeys and horses herded to higher ground. They are anticipating the worst and bracing for it as the flowas rise. Dave and christine. Thank you,. We know hog farms and horse farms. Thank you, de derek. We know waters will keep rising for the week. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri in the Weather Center with the latest. Lets talk about the system. Still plenty of moisture to go around. Watching a bit of thunderstorm activity from raleigh to the south here as moisture lingers and pushing off the atlantic and North Carolina. Eastern North Carolina and tennessee. We expect it to pick up Forward Motion as it moves to the ohio valley by this afternoon. Certainly needless to say, the damage has been done. We are almost 34 inches recorded in one observation point. Shattering the previous point of 24 inches from floyd in 1999. If the water stops, the water table has risen with the flooding which has taken place. Additional flooding. When you look at the forecast. You go up to the appalachians. That water wants to end up back into the atlantic, of course. It comes from Higher Elevations to sea level, all of the rivers and tributaries and streams will begin to see increase in the flood levels over the next couple days. We have about 35 Million People from the southeast and up to the north under flood alerts at this point before conditions gradually improve the next couple days. Pedram, thank you. Lets get a check of cnn money. Asian stocks slid as u. S. And china trade tensions weigh on investors. The president plans to impose new tariffs on chinese imports. European stocks opened lower amid the fierce of escalating trade tensions with the Worlds Largest economies. Bmw unveiling the vision for self driving electiric car. 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He gives the president credit for where we are now. The confident switch was flipped when the president came in. Fascinating run. It would be. The reason why he is talking about it because people keep asking him. He says no. He is done for now. The first deadly shark attack in massachusetts in more than 80 years. Why there could be more sharks in the water off cape cod. Next. This is your wakeup call. If you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. Ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. Humira can help stop the clock. Prescribed for 15 years, humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. 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You could make that argument. The fact she hasnt been seen in public since june is obviously a big deal. It has a major impact in china. Millions of people talking about it. This goes back to a tax avoidance scheme she was accused of being part of. Signing fake contracts to avoid paying taxes on her sizable income. She was accused publicly in may. She categorically denied it. The government would launch an investigation into the fake contract in the chinese entertainment industry. Fan bingbing denied it. She posted one time on social media in june and hasnt been seen or heard since. We reached out to tax regulators and ministry of foreign affairs. They all said they had no comment. We tried to reach out to fan bingbing. We were unable to get in touch. The only clue to her status is from an article posted on the state run media site on september 6th. It said in part fan bingbing had been brought under control and about to receive legal judgment. The article was swiftly deleted. If you talk about this on social media, Chinese Government will censor it. We dont know where this actress is right now. Bizarre. Matt, thank you. Authorities in texas describing a border practiatrolt as a s serial killer. Juan david ortiz confessed to the callikilling of four. All worked as prostitutes. The woman on friday escaped and ran to a gas station and found a state trooper. Not clear if ortiz has a lawyer. The death of a swimmer at the cape cod beach this weekend is the first fatal shark attack in massachusetts in more than 810 years. Witness 80 years. Witnesses tried to carry Arthur Medici and another man to get medical help. Medici was given first aid, but later died at the hospital. The statement from the Bunker Hill Community college says medici was enrolled as a parttime student in the spring. A major study finds risks may outweigh the benefits of low dose aspirin. Millions of people take low dose aspirin regularly. Researchers say the regimen has no benefit for older healthy adults and poses health risks. It increases the risks of internal bleeding. Researchers do not say if healthy older people taking aspirin should stop. I would say ask your doctor. The best in show at the 70th emmy awards. It features two best dramas. Handmaids tale won last year when game of thrones was not eligible. And veep and marvelous mrs. Maisel are nominated. I have got to catch up on todays television. It is not the way vontae davis, a twotime pro bowl quarterback dr cornerback drew it up. Retiring at halftime. He just left the stadium. The veteran says he meant no disrespect to the teammate and coa coaches. He said playing through injuries and surgeries, he said it hit me fast and hard. I should not be there any more. He signed a oneyear deal in february with the bills. That is walking away from a violent game. Caught a lot of people by price. You have to stick by surprise. You have to stick it out until the end of the game. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. See you tomorrow. New day starts now. An kavanaugh. Judge kavanaugh has denied the allegations. Receding epic flooding in North Carolina. This is what people are dealing with. A dire situation. People need to heed the warning. This is one for the record books. This is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. This is new day. Its monday, september 17th. 6 00. Great to have you back here. Its great to be back, and is there a lot of news all