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Outages. they wanted to get the last of the beach before they had to hunker down. that is a good thing for the people here who are trying to protect the folks here. law enforcement and rescue workers. the people who did not get out and who were sitting the storm out, if you get into trouble, you have to call these rescue people to get to you. thats going to put their lives in jeopardy and danger as well. my colleague has been out in this all morning. i have been watching you. you are at carolina...

Rescue workers are frantically trying to reach two people. we have a better angle than before. you see that tree came and split that room in half, thats a back bedroom. there are two people inside there. theyre trying to extract them. it is an adult and a child. i have spoken to a relative of the adult, says it is her aunt in there. from what we gather, it is a woman and a child in there, and theyre desperately trying to extract them. the call came in a little before 7:00 this morning, were told...

The finance department would have something to say. >> air b&b offering free shelter for evacuees. >> they are helping evacuees and rescue workers find a place to stay, waving the accommodation fee and this will take place until october 1st, giving people a long time to stay free of charge when disasters occur, they have 11,000 people find shelter since 2012. >> they need all the help they can get. we talk about the zoo animals. >> hurricane florence is not just affecting people but pets. what w...

>> shepard: rick leventhal, thanks, this is a live look at jacksonville, north carolina. theyre taking one of those boats out to do rescuing. look at that. got a furry friend on board there today. when you leave -- you dont want to leave your dog behind. if i left mine behind, she would eat everything. piles of fluff would be everywhere from the pillows. but thats what wed get. nobody left this guy behind. temperatures are still up around 80 degrees. it is hot and humid. when the sun comes out, ...

Drain out and so much water funneled in, its going to take awhile for the water to drain. >> ken graham from the national hurricane center. thank you as always. to tom balance now, he lives in new bern where they had to have rescue workers save people from their homes by the hundreds. his wife went to atlanta. he stayed behind with a cat and three dogs, its my understanding. how did that work out? >> well, it was pretty dumb. we should have gone to atlanta. >> shepard: we talked just yesterday. ...

Its going to rise up as the high tide comes in. we are expecting 1-2 feet of surge. theres a reason why all the home that is are built along here, almost all of them have been built on stilts because they expect and anticipate and regularly get surging water off the coast here. they are prepared for that. you know, this is a very dangerous situation for rescue workers. a lot of them arent going to come out in these level of winds, mostly because of debris that flies around in the streets. theres...

At all here. we have high winds and barely a sprinkle of rain. but what we have here in the myrtle beach convention center is a huge setup for rescue workers preparing to face the brunt of the storm. when i talk about rescue workers, we need to expand that definition. its not just the firefighters and the police officers and the medical workers who get a lot of richly deserved recognition for that. we have to remember its also public works people. its also water works. its also electrical people...

With me jason johnson, politics editor of the root. msnbc contributor jennifer rubin, conservative columnist of "the washington post" and associate professor christina beltran. jennifer, i will show that the president just in the last few minutes, i guess, like tweeted a lou dobbs segment defending his utterly odious comments on puerto rico. and i got to say okay, the president says horrible things and people sort of -- they hate it. but this felt to me like the kind of thing you should resign o...

Up to 100 miles an hour. that can send debris hurdle iin down the street. it can be dangerous for everybody involved. thats why rescue workers are reluctant to go out in conditions like this. its changing dramatically from moment to moment, ali. >> all right, matt, the point you just made about triaging, thats what we just heard from the fire chief in wilmington, north carolina. while the eye is over them, they are taking advantage of, you know, when the eye gets over you, if you happen to be lu...

Workers here. thats well above the level -- which rescue workers, the fire departments, are willing to go out and brave the storm and try to rescue people. thats important information for some of the people that you are talking to who are trapped in their homes. as you said, the rescue workers, theyre not going to put their lives entirely on the line to rescue people who are so reluctant to leave when given a fair warning and a chance to leave earlier in the week. now what were hearing from fi...