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Warning residents to stay off roads out west, another unusual weather event, a major wildfire in january. this is just outside big sur, a popular destination in northern california. a section of the famed highway 1 is shut down, and hundreds of residents were forced to flee their homes. we are covering it all tonight for you, and we begin with kathy park. >> reporter: ice, sleet, and snow piling up and taking a treacherous turn in the carolinas. >> we just came through here a few minutes ago and there was no ice on the roadway. and within a matter of minutes, it changed, just like that now we ...

Children, unloading on the bus. a lot of the people they see standing on the bus in the grass area. some of them holding signs. those are people who are either here, offering strangers rides, or people coming to pick up friends and loved ones, and friends of friends. if you look further back, you can see a line of cars here forming between the checkpoint in poland, and also the ukrainian checkpoint. if you look further back, there is also a yellow bridge. that is the ukrainian checkpoint. speaking with people here, people who have been waiting for their loved ones. some of them have been waiti...

Insurrection defendant. assault of police, obstruction of an official proceeding, unlawful entry. here's what he had to say when we talked about these allegations. >> i don't think i committed a crime. >> reporter: landon copeland is facing among the most serious charges. 130 defendants acaused of assaulting police. the feds say he grabbed a -- knocking an officer down. in a jailhouse interview with me, i asked him about that allegation. >> they were pushing people around and out towards the grass and there were clear signs around the grass area, and it was kind of felt like they were trying t...

Surge. let's point out to people what we are talking about. the dune behind us. the grass area on the dune. in hurricane matthew in 2016, a three-foot storm surge wash eed out the dune and flooded oak island. three feet. we are expecting six or nine feet or higher. >> that is devastating. that is across the island into the mainland. that is a lot of water. >> then the rain. >> what they are projecting now is up to 40 inches of rain. hurricane floyd in '99 brought 20 inches here. that is 20 more inches. that's a lot of water. people need to take heed and leave now. >> and the duration. we have ...

The stage. it's a large grass area on either side of the stage and pretty packed in. we heard what we thought was like a pop gun and we turn today see some confetti so we thought somebody let off a confetti cannon, we were upset at the time and that sounds like a gun and why would you scare people. rob: what was your immediate reaction, you ducked down, obviously, what did you see at that point once the bullets start today fly? >> well, originally, no because we didn't think it was forreal and then we started to see people screaming at us to get down and we all huddled and i put my arms in my ...