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>> reporter: yeah, good morning. we all knew that this was going to happen. all week long officials have been warning residents that the water, overflow from the waccamaw river, its here. it was going to overflow into the community. this is a community that had already been hit hard by flash flooding from hurricane florence. that water receded long enough for the president to make his visit here this week, this is the same neighborhood that he walked around in. residents hard hit after hurricane...

>> reporter: its remarkable to see the community more than a week after it made land fall and theyre still deal wing the aftermath of the storm. were 20 miles inland from myrtle beach and its going to continue to get worse in the coming tase. weve already set a record. the record last set was somewhere around 17.9 inches. were well past that. this community didnt see that much water during hurricane matthew. i skpopoke to the emergency management director and he said all of this is surveal. >> i...

Order here in the county, but as the water continues to rise, that voluntary evacuation may turn into a mandatory one. we are already talking a week after the storm, and this is the type of flooding we are seeing because of those overflowed rivers. this river isnt expected to crest until friday. >> we are talking about the record here of 17.9 feet above the flood line, well, this storm and this flooding is already expected to reach them 22 even 24 feet this weekends above the flood line. that is...

Wic program for low and pregnant women and breast feeding women and women and infants under the age of 5. it calls for a 17.9% decrease nor the department of health and human services. president trumps budget proposal will include a new benefit for americas working parents. paid family leave. his daughter, ivanka trump, is said to be the driving force behind this proposal. the president will seek funds for the creation of a program to grandmothers and fathers, six weeks of paid leave after the b...

Spending. first of all, the state department, its budget is going to go down 28%. they are cutting $10.1 billion from the state department budget. e.p.a. will see a 31% decrease, which will include the eventual elimination of 3200 jobs. hhs will see a 15.1 billion-dollars reduction thats 17.9%. that will include a dramatic reorganization of the national institutes of health. the president also proposes to end funding for the national endowment for the arts and corporation for public broadcasting...

Budget, quite another to get it through congress as history has proved. big spending increases in this budget proposal but some serious cost cutting as well, first look at the big ticket items. more than $50 billion, $54 billion to be exact in defense spending, $42 would be go to department of defense, 2 billion and other agencies, department of veterans affairs because the president has promised to take care of veterans gets an increase of 6%, about $4.4 billion. also $1.5 billion to begin cons...

Big increases in hard power, big cuts to soft power. lets take a first look at some of those big ticket hard power items. $54 billion increase in defense spending, that breaks down into 52 billion for the pentagon and 2 billion to be given to other agencies who are involved in defense. homeland security ops the budget by $3 billion, veterans affairs gets a little more than $4 billion. also, $1.5 billion for beginning construction of the wall, as well. massive cuts on the other side to some of th...

Cant gi them these kinds of excuses. >> that may not be true. guantanamo bay is playing less incorporate of a rule. he has argued that very few of those released anticipate the fight. >> we assume theyre going to be out of four, five, 600 people that get released that a handful of them are going to be embittered and still engaging in anti-u.s. activities. >> the director of national intelligence, james clapper, concluded something different in october saying, quote, "we assess that some detainee...

>> i think the first thing is the school shouldnt have handed a letter to a 7-year-old. the 7-year-old could read. obviously the little girl could open it up and read it. >> she did on the ride home. he asked her dad and he said youre overweight. >> first of all, one number is meaningless. bmi 17.9 is a meaningless number. its up to the pediatrician to look at the child and evaluate that number. its looking at what theyre eating, their waist circumference. >> all those factors go in to measuring...

Yesterday morning and he told the patchdispatcher that he accidentally shot his wife. he told the dispatch thaer the gun was in the bed, he tried to move it and thats when it went off. she was shot in the she was shot in the back and still in critical condition tonight. according to investigators, the gun that mccollum was using was his police department issued weapon. a a glock 17.9 millimeter. thats the same gun that all police officers in peach tree city are issued. he had just got an promoti...