Miles. This is from one evacuee, caught in traffic out of north myrtle beach, South Carolina. See that traffic there. The carolinas are expected to get the brunt of florence, now a category 4 with 130 Miles Per Hour winds, forecast to dump as much as 20 inches of rain in some areas. So much water that the risk of flooding extends miles and miles beyond the coast of the carolinas, days into next week, and could impact places like ohio, maryland, west virginia, and georgia. More than 20 Million People face the threat of the storm. More than 1. 5 million are currently under a mandatory evacuation. Plus if the forecasts are accurate, florence will hit farther north on the east coast than any other category 4 hurricane in history. I canwe are planning for devastation. This is not a light storm, this is not a glancing blow. This is a category 4, category 5 storm, separated by Miles Per Hour. We get wrapped up in it. This is a major storm thats going to hit the coast, stay on the coast, dump amounts of water that the area, some areas are not seeing in a long time. Start with Kaylee Hartung there live in wilmington, North Carolina. There were 90 minute waits for plywood, and stores are limiting how much they can buy. Whats the story . Reporter yeah, it is true, brooke. The same true for gas and gas stations like the one im at. You cant let the beautiful weather were standing in now fool you, and you sure cant let the lack of heavy traffic behind me fool you either. From what locals are telling me, traffic is not much worse than a typical day, but a lot of people are taking advantage of time they have, despite warnings from officials because the Barrier Islands where theres mandatory evacuation in place, that deadline isnt until 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow. So were seeing people take time to get out of town, but making preparations first. Everyone i should say that we talked to is taking warnings to heart. Whether they are choosing to go or stay, they recognize the storm the threat poses like jr pitman, long time resident i spoke to earlier. You have to get out, not going to stop the water or wind if you dont get out, youre going to be a casualty. Reporter thats what im talking about, brooke. People recognizing the real threat, the lifethreatening capacity of the storm. We have seen the lines stay moving in the gas station behind me today. Some guys filling up gas for generators to wait out the storm. Others are filling up gas tanks to get out of town and far beyond. One man had to drive 25 minutes to find a gas station that had gas he could put into his truck and help him get out of town. Precious gas at times like these. Thank you. A lot of people are staying put. The mayor of myrtle beach, South Carolina pleading for people to get out now. More than a Million People in the carolinas and virginia are under a mandatory evacuation in coastal areas, lane reversals under way on several South Carolina interstates so folks can get out of town. Nick valencia, we talked to you last hour with the guy thats hunkering down. Is that the exception from folks youre talking to or are most planning to stick it out . Reporter you know, we want to talk to congressman tom rice that represents the district. He was telling us the majority of people that are here potentially are those that decided to stay or slowly starting to leave. He thinks a lot of people left, is that right, congressman . Yes. The tourists get out on any warm weekend day or summertime day, there are multiples of residents here and tourists are gone, and so the residents, a lot of them i think are staying around, watching the tv, and seeing the path of the storm. I think most of them will leave well before the storm is anticipated to get here. Youre joined by your son, lucas. You have family here. Are you worried as local residents . Are you planning to leave . Were getting out of the evacuation zone which the governor recommended. This is a large, potentially devastating storm. What the governor has said i think is exactly the right attitude. First priority is no loss of life. I hope others heed that warning. Theyre closing the emergency room at the hospital. If you stay and get stuck, youre on your own. People cant come get you. And when they do, theres nowhere to take you. Puts lives of First Responders in jeopardy. Where are you telling people to go, do you have evacuation shelters, go further inland . Whats the guidance . I would get on the county website or state Emergency ManagementDivision Website and they have shelters listed for you. There are Hotels Available in the midlands. Theres a wide range of options. Get on either of those websites. And there will be a lot of options for people that need help. How concerning is it to you, congressman, how much does it bother you when people dont listen to the warnings . It happens all the time. We cover hurricanes year after year, here we are in Hurricane Season again. Everyone i talked to outside this costco says theyre staying. Well, it is certainly scary. The thing is this storm is not like a typical hurricane which may be a category one or two. This is a massive, powerful, destructive, devastating beast, and it is headed right at us. And the last question. We talked about this with the mayor earlier this morning. This area if youre familiar with it doesnt have an interstate, not connected to a major interstate. We are working on that. I73, priority one. Sounds like a different interview question. Are you worried about people in the process, how slow it can be to get out . Certainly. The government is doing what they can. Reversed the one four lane out of here, 501. That will certainly speed things up. But people need to plan well in advance. Dont wait until the last minute and get stuck here. Congressman, thank you so much. Thanks for being on camera with your dad. Good luck to you. You hear the congressman there, tom rice saying get out while you can. Dont put the First Responders in jeopardy. Even still, brooke, you heard it last hour, people are planning to stay despite warnings. Nick, thank you. Thank the congressman for us. Lets go to meteorologist Jennifer Grey tracking the wind. It sounds like it is not only the wind but the fact that it could stall over the coastline, dumping all that rain for all of the folks on coastal carolinas. Thats the true part, brooke. You talk about the storms, we always talk about the coast. Move away from the coast, move inland. If you move inland, you could still be inundated with 20 or 30 inches of rain. When you evacuate the storm, you have to go far and wide because theres going to be flood water not only on the coast but very, very far inland. We have the latest advisory come down about an hour ago. Nothing has changed with the winds. It hasnt strengthened, but it has organized better. So theres room for strengthening in hours and days to come. West, northwest winds, 17 Miles Per Hour. It sped up a little bit. This is expected to be a category 4 until it makes landfall. Expected to make landfall late thursday, early friday as a category 3. And sit there. It is going to dump so much rain over interior sections of North Carolina and possibly South Carolina. Were talking 20 inches or more, including wilmington. This can change a bit closer we get to it. Were talking about a lot of rain. Could see up to ten inches in western portions of North Carolina, not to mention that, but storm surge. 6 to 12 feet, filling rivers, overfilling their banks far inland. And let me show you what were talking about when we talk about 6 to 12 feet of storm surge. Thats going to fill not only your first floor but it could go into a second floor, an attic. Thats where we have seen in storms in the past, people have been stuck in attics, and it creates a lot of problems. Dangerous situation that people cant seem to get out of. Thank you. Florence could be the strongest hurricane to hit since hurricane hugo in 1989. With me now from wilmington, congressman david rouser that represents the area. Congressman, good to see you, sir. Looks can be deceiving with the beautiful blue skies overhead. You look at the different models, our weather experts are tracking the models. Looks like wilmington is a prime target, no matter which model you look at. Tell me, sir, why isnt wilmington under mandatory evacuation . Well, the coastal towns are under mandatory evacuation. New hanover county, that is a little further inland is not. But the local officials here are all encouraging folks to evacuate, particularly if they have a place to go. Shelters are made available outside this area, one in raleigh, North Carolina. We dont want anybody to take this for chance. If you look through hurricane history, hurricane hazel hit in 1954, and its destruction is legendary. This is a very similar type storm, and everybody i know is taking this seriously. I have some friends that are staying. Many others that are on the way out of town as they should be. Hope that folks heed warning. To your friends that are staying, you say what, congressman . Well, theyre adults, can make their own decision. But theres a reason why mandatory evacuation or an evacuation has been encouraged, even if it is not mandatory. I would encourage them to do so, but thats their choice obviously. Sure. I want to say, i left the wilmington ems. Can you hear me . Yes, yes, wilmington ems. I just left the wilmington ems. Theyre doing tremendous work there. The director stood up told his folks we have been preparing for this type of storm for five years, lets go and execute. I commend them for all of their great work. Again, to all of the residents here, please heed the advice of the local officials and evacuate if you can. One last one for you, congressman. We know the white house is in touch with various governors, fema. Youre there on the ground, walked out of wilmington ems. You have an ear to the ground. What would you want the president to know as the storm approaches your home district . Well, we had a call this morning with the administration, brock long, administrator of fema. The administration is well aware of the scenario here. All hands are on deck. The federal government is going to have all Resources Available to us. And i know the president has been well briefed by brock and others in the administration. I have no concern about that whatsoever. I hope folks heed the warning to evacuate. Flooding could be significant. Thats what concerns me the most. You can have from 13 to 30 inches not just here but inland. Thats a concern for all of us. Thats what the meteorologist said, dont just leave town, get really far inland. Youll still see two feet of rain. Flood waters. Congressman, thank you. Great to be with you. Thank you. Still ahead, we will talk to a man who has evacuated his wife and children from the carolina coast but says he is staying to ride out the hurricane. Lets ask him why. And don jr. Says he is not afraid of going to jail when the special counsel reveals his findings. Hear what he had to say about that and muellers motives and President Trumps Approval Rating falling significantly in 8 separate polls. Whats behind this. Youre watching cnn. I am brooke baldwin. Directly to investors. And now we have zero account fees for brokerage accounts. At fidelity, those zeros really add up. Maybe ill win, saved by zero but prevagen helps your brain thoswith an ingredient up. Originally discovered. 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You know, when you listen to the clip, josh, to you first, does it sound like he is resigned to the fact that he might serve time depending on what may transpire. Putting on his best face. He has to realize having watched people close to trump kind of fall one by one either to indictment or guilty pleas to the Mueller Investigation and know that he is somebody whose actions and meetings are being scrutinized. On the other hand, he is one of the few surrogates the president has left to send out and talk to the media, push back against various encroaching story lines from Bob Woodwards book to the anonymous oped that have been dominating the news cycle. You mention the oped. Let me play this for you. Pretty disgusting, pretty sad. Perhaps it is a disgrunlt eld person that was driven out because they didnt do what they should. Whats the crime . You have millions and millions of americans that voted for this. I think there are people in there he can trust, it is a Smaller Group than i would like it to be. Who do you trust . Ill keep that to myself. And theyre not family. Obviously talking outside family. That one goes without saying. Nia, josh mentioned how he has few surrogates left because of the trust gap and the white house. Are his family members the only one the president can trust . You can imagine after the oped, the sense of paranoia around the white house has only increased. They said they narrowed it down, maybe it is someone, but who knows. Perhaps it is somebody in the white house. In that white house there are few family members, ivanka, jared, keith schiller, his bodyguard, at one point hope hicks. She is not there any more. You can imagine theres concern that theres a shrinking circle of people. Bill shine in there, people new to the trump circle. As josh said, only a few people that have that kind of loyalty to the president that he can rely on. Even with that, what we have seen in the last weeks is even people that trump thought were loyal to him like Michael Cohen, people he could depend on have turned against him. I think it is a concern to don jr. , should be a concern to americans, too, that theres a shrinking circle in the white house around this president. If anything, if youre the administration, you want to expand the circle, you want to be bringing in new people you can trust. Not have it be smaller and smaller. Right. And on the oped, theres a greater over arching question being floated, josh, to the fact that you have the baseball cards of all of the people in the cabinet and beyond who are denying, it wasnt me. If the oped writer is one of those who denied it, do you think the New York Times should expose that person . I dont think so. 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