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Going to be facing major flooding from the mountaining into the lower state of south carolina. so this is major change thats occurred in the last 24 hours. >> governor, appreciate your time. we wish you luck and everyone in your state. hopefully they can deal with that and not have something horrible happen like sandy in the mid atlantic. well be right back. possibilityn quickly become the only thing you think about. thats where at&t can help. at at&t we monitor our network traffic so we can see...

For me. and i think it should be right up at the top two or three issues for all americans. were using americans at the rate of 88 a day, and that should be unacceptable. if it was a virus, wed be taking care it havof it. for us to turn our heads and assume its going to go away, its not. its going to get worse. we dont have the checks and balances in this country to keep us and the public safe. >> this is the number one public health safety issue in this country. 60,000 people have died -- over ...

Guns. >> you go up against them like you would any other bully, one piece at a time, one state at a time, one law at a time, just like they went after us. theyve had over 20 years to prepare for what theyre getting now and thats a lot of mass shootings because there are too many guns in the hands of too many people that dont need guns. so the nra is a big organization thats got a lot of money but theyre coming down. theyre going to come down. i hope im alive to see it. im going to be here fighti...

Wounded. joining me now, three people who have also suffered from gun violence. sandy phillips lost her daughter, jessica, in araura, the theater shooting. you know, its tough for me to even talk to you. as i was reading that, sandy, i became a little misty. how long have we known each other since jessica died? >> three years and three months approximately. lets start with the president, andy. you just heard from him talking about how many families keep getting wrecked by gun violence. you saw t...

Lives. the fact that is single solution is not 100% is not a good argument against it. we know from the evidence from states that have background checks that the stronger a states background checks, the less gun violence. it shouldnt be harder to get a drivers license in this country than to buy a gun. >> sandy, what do you think about the progress or lack thereof? >> i think the presidents frustration is we seem to not be able to get congress to take the steps that we need to have a safe countr...

Winds topping 120 miles an hour. huge surf slamming the shores. fears joaquin could be the next sandy. record rain from a different city flooding cities from massachusetts to maine. red cross workers in pennsylvania packing emergency bags, like these, handing them out. chad myers on top of it all for us in the severe weather center. it is scary to think of anything that is being compared to sandy. >> and this is getting stronger and stronger every hour, poppy. thats what sandy did. sandy was a m...

Great beaches along the jersey shore, has been preparing. they were hard hit for sandy. theres a lot of changes that have taken place in that town. and theyre doing one drastic thing, and that is they are trying to drain lake como, which is a major feature in that town. thats where all the rain runoff goes. thats where all the high tide water goes. ron allen is there for us in belmar, new jersey, where theyre also putting up temporary dunes. hey, ron. >> reporter: hey, brian. welcome to your par...

Good morning everyone. im poppy harlow in for carol costello. now to hurricane joaquin, strengthening overnight to category 3. see it there whipping up speed, winds faster than 120 miles per hour right now near the bahamas. this morning millions on the east coast worrying joaquin could hit as hard as sandy. huge sand walls already in place. tad meyers on top of all of it. sandys strength? really? >> well here is the deal. i cant put to rest the fact that it cant happen that way. because it is st...

Topping 120 miles per hour. in its path? the east coast. record rain from a different system flooding cities from massachusetts to maine. joaquin threatening to weaken -- not weaken, wreak even more havoc in the same towns. huge surf already slamming the shores, growing fears this morning that joaquin could be the next sandy. red cross workers in pennsylvania packing emergency bags like these, handing them out to people who are in the path of the storm. farther south they are moving sand and lot...

Storm system. its going at about 6 miles per hour. you can jog at the speed past the storm system as the speed its moving. heres the concern. we call it a negatively tilted trough. its pointed to the northwest. when you have this with a tropical feature offshore, it typically steers it north. if that happens, we have this impact in the eastern united states. off store, clockwise flow that likes to pull it toward it. thats where the models are having trouble. it literally is going in both directi...