Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Our top story, a new revelation could can derail the confirmation of Donald TrumpsSupreme Court nominee. Now that the woman accusing Brett Kavanagh of sectixual asst has come forward. The previously anonymous woman detailed reports in the Washington Post. Reporter she has publicly come forward in the Washington Post and alleged that Brett Kavanagh assaulted her at a party more than 30 years ago when they he were both in high school. Kavanagh categorically denies her allegations. She said she attended a party in a suburban maryland home in 1982. Kavanagh and a friend were drunk. She was allegedly corralled into a bedroom. At one point she said he he tried to take off her clothes and he he put his hand over her mouth. I thought he he he might inadvertently kill me, she he told the Washington Post. She only shared the tee tails yea details later with a therapist and her husband. The husband rehe calls the wife using kavanaghs name but the therapists notes reviewed by the Washington Post do not meng him. The other man who she alleged was in the room back then told the Weekly Standard last week he never he saw kavanagh act that way. Senator chuck grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee has scheduled a vote on kavanagh for thursday. Arianne da vo, washington. The senate wants the vote to be postponed. Democratic senator schumer said this. They ran a partisan confirmation process and then immediately insinuated professor ford is being untruthful. They cannot impartially investigate these disturbing allegations. That must be done by the fbi and the vote must be postponed until it is complete. Cnns Boris Sanchez has more on the white house response to these claims. Reporter the white house not really saying anything new when it comes to these tee tailed allegations from chris he teen blazy ford in the Washington Post in which she alleges that judge Brett Kavanagh inappropriately sexually assaulted her when they were both in high cooschool. Kavanagh denied the accusations. Last week through the white house he he put out a statement saying essentially it never took place. When i asked raj shaw about the tee tails and her name coming forward in the record, he pointed to the denial by kavanagh. The white house appears to believe that is sufficient to deal with the new claims ford is making. She took a polygraph back in august which she claims she passed. Now, democrats are suggesting that any confirmation vote move Brett Kavanagh into the Supreme Court should be trade until the fbi completes a probe into these allegations. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee are pushing back. The chairman of that Committee Chuck grassley openly he questioning why senator feinstein had this information back in july from ford through an anonymous letter and can chose to hold it back until these later stages in the confirmation process. Republican senator Lindsey Graham had a notable statement as well. He essentially said he sympathizes with republicans on the judiciary committee, but that he would like to hear from mrs. Ford himself. In that statement he effectively invites her to testify before the committee, something that is unclear whether it will happen or not. We should point out that President Trump has remained uncharacteristically silent on twitter. The president has tweeted multiple times sunday afternoon congratulating mekah congratulating mexicans on their naggal independence day. If temperatures were elected the ee economy would tank. Boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. Let talk more about whats going on here with natasha lynn stat, professor at the university in cartiff wales. Lets talk about this, the accuser did not want to come forward. She was quote ed in the Washington Post saying, why suffer through the annihilation if its not going to matter . Of core, in 1991, anita hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of Sexual Harassment and he was eventually confirmed. Heres what miss hill, now a college professor, had to say about am i fords reluctance. Heres her quote. The reluctance for someone to come forward in r even in the me too era, it remains incredibly difficult to report harassment, abuse or assault by people until power. They should put in a process anyone with a complaint of this nature to be heard. I have seen fir hand when such a pro is weaponized against an accuser and no one should have to endure that again. So, natasha, lets talk about the era of metoo. Do you think that will make things different from when anita hill accused a nominee of Sexual Harassment . Definitely. I think this a completely different era than when anita hill came forward and people werent taking these types of allegations very seriously. Now theres a whole different political climate, social climate about wanting to support victims, wanting to support women come canning forward. But i think the other thing we have to mention is that the allegations by ford are really, really serious. Even though he it was many years ago, thiss about a Sexual Assault, one that was very violent, one where she felt he was going to kill her, in her est meagan. So, its a little bit even going further than someone who is sexually harassing someone else, which is also very serious, but its something, this allegation that shes putting forward is very, very serious. Right. And the question is, how will members of the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Deal with this. One editorial in the New York Times said absolutely this should be investigated before this vote that was set to take place by the committee happens on thursday. But at the same time, this is a deeply partisan washington. How might that factor in . Right. So, i would think that they would want to investigate this further because they have a couple of senators, like Susan Collins and murkowski who might and maybe even jeff flake or bob corker who might vote differently, and can they could end up this thing could end up being completely derailed. It sounds like there are enough senators that are pushing for an investigation and to delay the vote on this. But they need to take these allegations very seriously. Had she not come forward, kavanagh would have probably fwon through and he probably would have been confirmed by the end of the month. But having a name on the victim, the name who is accusing kavanagh of some really serious act and allegations, and a lot of the tee tails details in her, things that are very easy to understand that it probably could have happened, something that is very probable. And so i could see that they should try to delay this vote and investigate this further. What about judge kavanagh himself . He has issued a statement vehemently denying that this ever happened. Should he he can come forward now and can confront it in front of cameras or stand back and see how the process pans out . I dont see him can coming forward in front of cameras and saying that this was something that happened or trying to provide his version of the story. I see him sticking to his line that this never happened, it never had anything to do with him, and i cant even imagine him trying to come forward and address that this even happened. A lot of the candidate and candidates that trump has picked and trump himself have stuck to this strategy of just completely t denying that anything happened. We will wait and see what happens because, again, this vote is set to take place thursday and now its monday. Thank you so much, natasha lindstadt. We appreciate your insights. Well, in other news that were following very closely, it is the storm that keeps on going in the southeastern u. S. Us. After massive flooding and relentless rain we still have not seen the worst of florence which has now been downgraded to a tropical depression. At least 18 people are dead in north and South Carolina and the rain likely will not let up until at least tuesday evening. That means the worst and most t dangerous flooding is yet to come can. Officials are afraid a levee may not hold a river thats rising very quickly. Reporter the residents of lumberton, North Carolina, very familiar with the damaging potential of flood waters that come can after these tropical systems. Its been only two years since Hurricane Matthew came through the region sending flood waters in the region. Here it is again. Many residents tell me they feel like history is repeating itself. This time, however, they he tried to get ahead of the storm. Last week they came together, strangers with city officials to create a manmade a makeshift levee, if you will, in a certain part of town that they say is where the water swept in after hurricane market yu. To keep that from happening again, they grade that had levee. On sunday it was compromised. We were there with the u. S. Coast guard as we noed tticed t water began seeping in by the barrier. It did buy time to evacuate some of the neighborhoods that were hardest hit by matthew, get people to higher ground. However, officials fear there are many people who tee side today stay in their homes even though the water level continues to rise. Authorities say that they he expect the lumber river to crest sunday night into monday, possibly even reaching record height. In the meantime, Authorities Say that there is still one main levee that runs along that lumber river that Still Holding up, stilling to okay,ing to the job it is supposed to to. Officials say and they fear if that gives out, all bets are off. Polo sandoval lumber don, North Carolina. Earlier the mayor of wilmington, North Carolina said the city was effectively cut off by flood waters. Lets discuss this with the Deputy Director of Hanover County management region. He joins us on the telephone. Zach, this is just hard to fathom that wilmington has been cut off. We know the number of boat rescues is in the hundreds. Whats the situation right now and are there still people that need rescue . Hey, good morning. We are hopeful that theres not too many more rescues to go on in the coming day. Were hoping the safety of the public has been kept by evacuation or ton previous to the flood waters coming in and people heeding the warnings about the incoming hurricane. And, you know, the are qrescue have been hard at work the past cup can l tase. Bo cup couple days. Let me ask you, if wilmington is cut off, are there still people in homes, in apartments in wilmington, then, that are stuck there . As we are getting 911 calls, we are responding to those persons that make those emergency calls. Im not aware of any right now. There was a report that the 911 system went down for a time. Is everything working okay now . Yes, maam. You know, any time that 911 service, you know, goes down in a certain location, theres contingency plans in place and the lines automatically forward to another jurisdiction. Thats good to know. As far as the people who have been helping out the rescuers on stand by, do you still have people that are able to assist, enough hands to assist considering this has been going on for so long . Our teams have been supplemented by through a federal request for a task force team. So we have federal and state partners ed in t partners in the county right now that have been assisting us with this. Everybody has been working hard to keep everyone as safe as we can. Zach, is there any idea when wilmington will get back to life as they knew it before florence . You know, in the next several days, the rivers are cresting still. Theyre at flood stage. Nearly every river in the region is in flood stage right now. And so, you know, we want to maintain our message to the public that when the rivers are cresting, when the rivers continue to rise as water flows town the cape fear and other areas, other bodies of water, that its still dane andrew dangerous. We he dont want you out on the roads. We want you to stay in a safe location until the waters recede, until its safe to to so and get emergency crews in the area to restore utility and power. Right. So many people still without power and, yes, its likely going to get worse before it gets better. And there is a video there on the screen of the situation, rescuers helping a baby into a boat there. Zach wicker in wilmington, North Carolina we know youre still very busy. Thank you so much for your service and taking the time to speak with us. Thank you, too. Lets get more on the storm with our meteorologist pedram javaheri. We just heard from zach. You can tell how tired these workers are. Theyre sitting there cut off, womeninging tong wilmington. Theyre waiting for more water. North carolina has been completely cut off. Literally traveling across the state has become impossible at this point. The system made landfall 72 hours ago nearly and still pro he tusing rainfall. Fwes what, you when you look at the southern trajectory, its producing rainfall not far from where it made landfall. Tropical depression, the soil has been absolutely saturated the last cup can l of tase. The groundwater pushing up and up. Finally eventually in the last couple days weve seen the water come to the surface. Any a tigeral watt rain that does fall becomes surface water. A lot of that watt waer wants t revert back into the ocean. Really across much of these river gauges is prevalent as well. A lot of them stopped working in the last cup canouple hours bec theyre over whechwhelmed by thr across them. We have 17 million under flood alert at this point. We expect the rain as you were mentioning to begin to finally die town over the next 24 or so hours. The damage has been done. This is the wettest tropical system in state history being what floyd did in 1999 with 30 inches. Really hard to fathom. Feel for the people there. Pedram, thank you. 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Typhoon mangkhut is moving a kos thailand and china where it is blamed for deaths. They have been evacuated from their home. Thats how many is are been evacuated. The storm cleanup ha begun in hong kong where fierce winds have up rooted treeses and smashed windows there. Rescue efforts are are under with the in the philippines where at least 54 people now are confirmed dead in the typhoons aftermath. Landslides caused many of those deaths. And you can see that seems to be what theyre working with right there in that video. Our matt rivers joins us now from beijing. Hello to you, matt. The storm has been extremely dangerous from start to finish. Reporter yeah, thats exactly right, natalie, three different land falls now for