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considerable damage in parts of south carolina. you see it in this video. that storm ripping through a pier causing part of it to collapse. now, it also submerged this neighborhood with a strong storm surge that, in fact, was several feet high. it was so bad this man -- it was so bad this man had to wade through knee-deep water inside his own home. thankfully the water there is starting to recede, and some areas in the state have been spared the worst. but in florida the damage has been severe. at least 45 people have now lost their lives and hundreds of homes have been turned, well,...

Further to the north, so charleston was spared the worst, and i mention charleston because it's so historic and a densely populated area, also myrtle beach. but myrtle beach got hit pretty hard. i want to show you these images. this is out of cherry grove beach. if you were to drive to myrtle beach, south carolina, that's along the north coast, and then a few blocks further that's this cherry grove beach. and you can see just everywhere you look, just volumes and volumes of rain and water. but the good news is is that you can see that bottom level, that's actually where people park their cars ...

They have a levee near their location. as far as the storm surge goes, here is how it works. as it moves in, it moves in quickly when you get the peak winds coming in. a three feet water depth you can picture what that would be. a little gauge on the side of the house. that's three feet. moves up to the bottom level. all of the houses in this portion are on pylons, on stilts and they have certain restrictions how high they have to be because when you get up there to nine feet and the water is rushing in, you have wave action on top of that nine-foot storm surge, too. you may get waves batterin...

Lake pontchartrain is flooded pretty good in some of these neighborhoods. most of these homes over here if you look over here are elevated. they sit on stilts. we talked to a family who had just gotten home yesterday about why that is. >> when you have a lake front you anticipate there will be some flooding. rob: is this normal where you have your house on the stilts. >> , yeah, 3457b, when you live on the lake front have you got to be up. rob: baton rouge got hammered by this storm. a lot of rain in baton rouge. they faired okay. mississippi didn't flood over into any houses. new orleans didn...

Unconstitutional guy to prosecute him, and therefore the indictment against him should be dismissed. i don't think that was exactly what trump had in mind, but he might have. could i adjust one thing? i think representative cohen made a very important point when he talked about the warfare that's being declared on the house. but it's not just bizarre. for the president of the united states to say to one branch of the u.s. government, if you perform your function and get too close to bothering me, i'm going to go to war against you, that is not only an out of the box statement, it's part of an ...