onto the pop tarts he'd been cradling in his lapse. the milliseconds felt like hours and suddenly out of nowhere joe biden regained consciousness. yes, the fda, he responded. he got the message, always welcome acute commercial break, crisis averted. there were a lot of moments like that. he could tell don lemon was very close to asking the fda but time and time again he held off. he had to. the audience might have noted something was up there they had no choice but to let the commander in chief keep talking, as he did in this moment is joe biden began to muse about black people and their love of basketball. >> and what we did, the original bill got passed, he would go down in the tough neighborhoods in my state, in my city of wilmington, which is overwhelming minority city and everybody can tell me where the best basketball is played in the playground here in this city. you know who it is, you know who the best ballplayers are, you know where they are.
the world whether you're a person on the street. i heard ludacris was giving money to organizations liven carnival and, you know, ngos like jose andres and others. please continue sending aid and help. it's going to be a long rebuilding process, but the bahamian people are ready to get their lives back together. >> they're wonderful, wonderful people there in the bahamas. all right. we appreciate it. thank you, sam. all the best. >> thank you. the united states, north carolina is feeling the effects of dorian right now. we have a live video from the city of wilmington. but even before the sun went down, it had already seen a good deal of nasty weather from the storm. it's been hit with a number of tornadoes. more than one dozen reported so far. one passed by a fire station near wilmington. another near there tore siding and roofs off several homes. dorian spawned this waterspout
>> seems like a small world when you put it that way. bill karins, thank you so vf very much. we want to turn to ana mcray, the assistant emergency management director for new hanover county. we'll show you what we mean by that. this is the part of north carolina that includes the city of wilmington. she is with us by phone from the emergency operation center in wilmington. please tell me, ana, that you guys aren't out making all kinds of rescues, that for the most part the streets are safe, if not a little water logged. >> we agree with that assessment 100%. so our community has been great about listening to the messages we've been pushing, about the importance of seeking shelter and making their final plans well before 8:00 p.m. last night. we know when we started to experience the stronger
their way back to this, the seventh or eighth largest city in north carolina. >> reporter: yeah, exactly that, david. folks starting to make their ways back as the bands make their way through. what they're greeted with is this. trees down in the middle of the road. the crews can't get to these houses. you see here, this house. this is charlie's house. we'll talk to charlie in just a minute. had this big tree come in and this is the damage we're talking about. this is the risk of why you leave this storm. if you follow me, we'll go right with charlie. hey, charlie. thanks for doing this. i really appreciate it. show us your house. show us the damage so people can get a sense. you were here during the storm. you actually moved you said to a fire house? >> yeah. we evacuated across from the fire house downtown. we were worried about the wind speeds and how long the wind would be here. and we were worried about the trees falling on our house and it actually happened. >> you can see here, david. water damage all over the floor. this is what we're seeing across the city of wilmington. we'll go into the kitchen.
as you know, you are only ten miles away from me and we are in the thick of it, the strongest part of hurricane florence and it's only going to get worse before we get into the eyewall. >> stay safe out there on carolina beach. thank you for being with us. hurricane florence baring down on the city of wilmington. three inches of rain per hour, a storm surge which has created a crisis situation. cnn special live coverage of hurricane florence picks up after a very quick break. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin
hurricane. >> shepard: steve harrigan who is live along the coast now. that is north of the storm. so they still have the winds coming off the ocean. this is south of the storm in myrtle beach. so because of those counterclockwise winds, in this case, the winds are pushing the water away from the beach. look how the winds are blowing. you can see winds going out to the ocean. people along out there now because the ocean is receded a lot. you can see the winds pushing the sand out towards the beach that is all because of this counterclockwise flow. up in wilmington, north carolina, they're still getting the winds and the rain off the sea. not as bad as it was. there's bill hemmer that appears to be high and dry. hi, bill. >> hi, shepard. change of clothes here and we're back at it. you mentioned the fatalities. tough news for the city of wilmington. the police department putting out a statement about a woman and an infant killed when a tree
her house. that's in the town of wilmington. the father in this case has been transported to a local hospital. but we are very sad to report a woman and her infant child have died in a town of wilmington. to fox news' knowledge that's three deaths now attributed to this storm, which is still barreling inland, moving west at about 6 miles an hour. expected to remain over land, which means the strength will continue to diminish. we're guessing if it hasn't already, it will drop down to tropical storm status in a matter of minutes, really, because the maximum sustained winds were at 75 miles per hour as of the 2:00 report. 47 minutes ago. and without any energy from the water, it's suspected that this storm will continue to diminish in strength. that doesn't mean that the rain bands and heavy winds are over. far from it let's bring in vice admiral scott bushman
tuesday and into wednesday on some of the rivers, the northeast cape fear is going to be one of them. we haven't talked about the issues in south carolina yet because it hasn't gotten there. but the p.d. riefr river is one that will peak almost into major flood stage until tuesday night, so this is a story that is going to impact that region for weeks. >> i want to show you nbc correspondent miguel almaguer. how have conditions changed there? >> a short time ago, a county official said hurricane force winds are now hitting the city of wilmington. i can tell you it certainly does feel as though the wind speed here is increasing as well as the lashing rain that is now blowing sideways. just in the last few minutes we saw several new bolts of lightning in the area. our hotel and much of the city has lost power. fortunately we have generators here at our hotel so the power has come back up. we know much of the city is in the dark. 160,000 people across this region are in the dark right
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