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So are you having to prepare for this hurricane any differently than how you have prepared for other storms? >> you know, i don't think so at all. this is my first one here in charleston, and we've been through preparations for other storms in south florida as well. but i think we're able to leverage lessons learned from harvey, from maria, from irma last year that are really helping us get the teams in place and ready to respond as the governor and the state eoc kind of asked for those requests. >> all right. i mean this in the best possible way, get back to work, captain. thank you for joini...

After that vessel departs, we are not anticipating and we will close the port of charleston. that vessel was really a team effort of the ila, the ports authority, and the pilots to get that in here and get it serviced overnight with the american-made vessels that are outbound from the port of charleston. >> mm-hmm. so are you having to prepare for this hurricane any differently than how you have prepared for other storms? >> you know, i don't think so at all. this is my first one here in charleston, and we've been through preparations for other storms in south florida as well. but i think we'r...

Coast. and that really caused, that great disaster, 66 of our 100 counties were declared disaster areas. unfortunately with florence what we're seeing emerge could be a lingering storm that dumps copious rains that unfortunately might even approach what we saw in some cases with harvey. harvey set new rainfall records, and i think everybody knows that story. and right now that's one of the fears. but there are other things to be concerned about. that storm surge you mentioned on the coast is another great concern we have, particularly because the storm is likely to slow down, track very slowly...

Anything like that. it was the excessive rains that fell in inland counties, places that were many miles from the coast. and that really caused that great disaster. 66 of our 100 counties were declared disaster areas. unfortunately with florence what we're seeing emerge could be a lingering storm that dumps copious rains that unfortunately might even approach what we saw in some cases with harvey. harvey set new rainfall records, and i think everybody knows that story. and right now that's one of the fears. but there are other things to be concerned about. that storm surge you mentioned on the...

>> jesse: president trump visited texas today to see the aftermath of harvey it firsthand and to try to lift the spirits of those impacted by the storm. >> we want to do it earlier rm. before. this is the way to do it. it was of epic porportions and nobody has ever seen anything like this. >> jesse: with the latest on his response to harvey, let's bring in ed henry from washington, what do we have? >> just in the last few moments, we learned of the coast guard had said that 4300 lives have been saved by that agency in the houston area since sunday alone. the key is they are still saving lives ...