On. Again, they were working so frantically and exhaustively trying to get these two people out. Unfortunately a sad outcome in the end, don. Yeah, thats a really awful outcome. Brian todd, thank you very much. You heard the warning from brian todd, you also heard it from miguel marquez. Unless it is a dire situation, theyre asking you not to call Rescue Workers or Emergency Workers or dial 911 because they have their hands full. Theyre dealing with people who have flooding issues, dealing with people that may have trees down, people that need immediate medical attention. Theres an update on florence. I want to get to meteorologist Jennifer Grey at the cnn weather center, she has it for you. Jennifer . This is still a hurricane, 75 Miles Per Hour, winds are still gusting. Seeing torrential downpours. Unfortunately see rain bands set up to where theyre training. Storms are just hitting the same spots for hours and hours on
end. Some of them raining several inches an hour. It has been going on nearly 24 hours. You can see the center of the storm, not much eye, it pretty much collapsed. 20 to 30 miles southwest of wilmington, pushing into South Carolina. A little drier air tried to sneak in which is good news here. Between Emerald Island and sneeds ferry, getting dry air. New bern still getting torrential downpours off and on. You can see here on the border of North Carolina, South Carolina, whiteville getting torrential rain. The storm is Still Holding together. Its going to sit here another day or so before it starts to finally lift to the north on sunday. But were still going to get gust gusty winds. Wilmington beach, this is 9 30 tonight, still getting 55 to 60 Miles Per Hour winds, even well inland. Fayetteville, 50 Miles Per Hour winds. Were going to see that On Shore Flow continue for North Carolina and thats whats been causing
all of that flooding, especially in rivers because it is causing rivers to flow backwards. That water is pushing west and cant allow it to flow downstream. Oriental, carolina, 20 inches of rain. Wrightsville beach, 18. 5. Rain totals keep going up and up, as long as rain bands are sitting over them. We had 108 Miles Per Hour wind in dafdsville, and more rain is still to come. Cant stress enough this is not over yet. Lot of times we talk about storms making landfall and wrap up and say everything is fine. Thats not the case with this storm. It will sit here for quite some time. Even days and days after the storm were going to continue to see River Flooding well inland, where we could see record breaking levels, higher than floyd, a lot of levels people said were the highest theyve ever seen. Well see it top that here in North Carolina unfortunately in the next couple of days, don. All right, Jennifer Grey,
trying to keep posted. Find out what the storm is doing, is it going to stick on us a little bit . Yes, it is going to stay over for awhile, could be a couple of days. The worst where i am, im in myrtle beach, the worst wont happen until maybe midnight hours. At least we wont get the beginnings of the storm, but then it will continue to sit here and circle. I have to ask you, in wilmington were getting first confirmation of two people that died, a baby and a mom. Oh no. Due to a tree falling. Im wondering what conditions youre able to see where you are now . Theres a tremendous amount of trees down. I have three down in my backyard alone which crushed a chicken coop, a well house. Looking out the backyard, can see probably nine or ten trees, big trees, that are down. Kind of depends where you go in town, youll get a big gust in a certain area, maybe not so much in another area. I think one went through my backyard. I was down by the marina by wrightsville beach, and overall, not too bad. We got flooding in lower levels. Todd, how many Family Members, is it you by yourself or do you have folks with you . I have my wife and my daughter which i have sent to disneyworld, and my son is in raleigh to visit with Family Members up there, so im here by myself looking after property and my other businesses. And theyre safe. Theyre on vacation. Maybe i should have gone too. That probably would not have been a bad idea. Were glad youre okay. Try to stay in the center of your home. Theres much more to come when it comes to florence, and stay in a high area in your house as
well because we dont want you being a flood victim here. Thank you very much, todd. Take care of yourself. Appreciate it. I want to get back to my colleague, brooke baldwin. Brooke is there and covering this from new york. Brooke, my heart broke when i heard you get the confirmation live on air about the baby and mom. It is awful. This thing is going to stick around awhile. Sadly were going to be reporting on more people that need a lot of help through the situation. I know. I cant stop thinking about them, cant stop thinking of the mother, baby, father who survived in route to the hospital. And think of the First Responders that were there, many of them who are parents themselves, who saw this and tried to help and couldnt. Don, thank you. Stand by. Also, well talk to someone that is trapped in their home, thats ahead. And a stunning turn of events in the Paul Manafort case. The former Trump Campaign chairman cutting a deal, agreeing to cooperate with the special counsel, robert mueller. We have details on whatesq he is being forced to give up and what it could mean for the russian investigation. Cnn Special Coverage continues right after this. roger being a good father is important to me so being diagnosed with advanced nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer made me think of all the things
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her in time. Thats three in terms of deaths so far. It is early yet. Miguel marquez is in Carolina Beach, North Carolina whos had the pictures of the day. Youre in water through much of the day. Now youre seeing othe story where you are, the water level and the wind. Reporter yes, brooke, it is absolutely horrendous that people are now dying. This is one of the concerns Emergency Services was worried about. I can tell you the reason that you have this tree falling on a house, winds are horrendous. This storm will not relent. This is the boardwalk in Carolina Beach. I want to show you something here thats amazing. The waves are unbelievable. Theyve grown in size, maybe doubled in size since this morning. We got up this morning, it was the eye of the storm, and it wasnt actually that bad. I have to walk this way, it is so darn painful. This morning there was beach up
to here. There was sand up to here. Check it out now. About two feet of the beach is now gone here. They have erosion all the way down Carolina Beach here. It is just brutal. Across new hanover county, about 108,000 people are without power, certainly here at Carolina Beach, were without power. Duke energy only serves about 128,000 people in new hanover, so most of the entire county is without power. How much longer will this go on is anyones guess. The storm is moving so slowly, they think by saturday, perhaps sunday, the rain and worst of it will have gone by, theyll be able to reopen the bridge onto Carolina Beach and get people off and onto the island again. Right now, just miserable conditions here. We are expecting another storm surge. Another tide around midnight tonight. That storm surge at the same time we expect more flooding may
be the biggest test that Carolina Beach will face. Brook . That wind is insane. Miguel marquez and team, thank you so much on the island of Carolina Beach there in North Carolina. Coming up next, we are going to talk to a woman currently trapped in her home. More high water rescues. Stay with me. I am brooke baldwin. This is cnn special live coverage of hurricane florence. I love my grandma. Anncr as you grow older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall. Learning from him is great. When i can keep up anncr thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. Dads got all the answers. Anncr prevagen is now the numberoneselling brain Health Supplement in drug stores nationwide. She outsmarts me every single time. Checkmate you wanna play again . Anncr prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Who would have thought . Who would have guessed . An Energy Company helping drivers pump less. Reducing emissions is our ongoing quest. Energy lives here. We are back with Breaking News on Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman is now a government witness. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of Witness Tampering in Federal Court today and as part of this whole deal, he is cooperating with prosecutors, including special Counsel Robert Mueller on quote, unquote any and all matters. So manaforts lawyer today choosing his words very carefully with reporters. Update for mr. Manafort, is he accepting responsibility, and wanted to make sure that his family is able to remain safe, live a good life. He accepted responsibility for conduct that dates back many years, everybody should remember that. So thank you everyone. We have standing by cnn chief
political analyst gloria borger, and jeffrey toobin, shimon prokupecz, lets start with you. This Cooperation Deal on any and all matters. Yeah. And what could that possibly be, right . Thats what everyone is questioning and asking sort of. What other information, what information could Paul Manafort possibly be providing. This is a big get for the special counsel. This is someone that they wanted to cooperate from the beginning. Certainly when bob mueller came in and took over this investigation, his team, andrew weissman, one of the lead prosecutors, stood up and announced Paul Manafort is now cooperating, this is something they wanted for quite some time. Something seemed to change, perhaps because Paul Manafort spent all of this time in jail and the prospect of facing the rest of his life in jail now perhaps led him to cooperate. Whats significant here also is that the government has agreed that based on his cooperation, if it is a successful cooperation and he does everything that hes supposed to do, theyre going to write a letter to the judge essentially downgrading sentencing, which could mean he will be a free man and be able to move on, live his life. His cooperation is substantial obviously because he was in on a lot of meetings, had a lot of overseas contacts with russians, with ukrainians, with other countries, People Associated with other countries. The other thing thats important in all of this, his cooperation is not limited to the special counsel. It has to do with the department of justice, and as we have been reporting the last several months, the special counsel team, bob mueller and his team sent cases all over the country, different parts of the country that have nothing to do perhaps with the campaign or russia or trump that have to do with other issues, that Paul Manafort may have knowledge of, and he will have to testify in those cases
as well. As you said, brooke, no doubt a significant get here, significant development. Changes the entire dynamic of this investigation now. Shimon, thank you so much. Over to barrett and jeff tube in. We talked earlier when the news broke about the plea deal, you said my question is whether he cooperates. He is now fully cooperating. This is a big get, someone in trumps inner circle. What kinds of questions will he be answering for team mueller . I think the big question thats at the core of this investigation from the very start is we know there were these conspiracies of the russians, using social media and hacking. We know the Trump Campaign was extremely solicitous of russia, candidate trump was praising vladimir putin. What we dont know is whether there was a connection. Did the Trump Campaign conspire,
collude with the russian government. If anyone is going to know that, it will be Paul Manafort, and i dont know what his answer is, but the mueller team will know soon. Barrett, how would they know hes telling the truth . Thats interesting. I think one of the ways they do that is by testing every single thing that a cooperating witness says against the other hard evidence they have. Here they have the benefit of already having signed up many other cooperating witnesses, having served dozens of subpoenas, conducted an entire grand jury investigation. So theyre going to ask him questions they already know the answer to. I think thats one of the ways theyll figure out if he is telling the truth or not. What would you be looking for next, other potential charges involving other people, you read Between The Lines and think is that because of something Paul Manafort said. The person clearly in the sights of the Special Prosecutor at this point is roger stone. They have been interviewing everyone around him. What makes him a potentially interesting target is that he is
someone who at least allegedly and this has not been proven or charged had connections to both wikileaks, thats sort of the russian side, and the Trump Campaign. That connection has not yet been made. Gloria, back over to you in washington and this trump white house, the statement from Sarah Sanders saying this has nothing to do with us, nothing to see here. Right. This is what theyve always been saying. When he was indicted, this is what they were saying. Today Rudy Guiliani said it. I have spoken to some people on the trump legal side as has my colleague, evan perez, theyre all saying this is totally about Paul Manafort, has nothing to do with us. However, however i think were being spun. I think that when bob mueller gets in there without lawyers and i would also say that the Cooperation Agreement maintains that the client has to testify
fully, completely and truthfully before any and all grand juries in the District Of Columbia and elsewhere. It is so broad. Cant have his lawyers. He has no cant plead the fifth here. He has to tell the truth. Dont you think theyre going to ask him about the trump tower meeting . Of course, he was in it. Roger stone, too. Dont you think theyre going to ask him why did you join the Trump Campaign. We know roger stone was one of the people that actually recom