that made fort sumter happen, made south carolina happened? >> guest: the fire eaters in south carolina, i am blanking on the names of course. >> host: why south carolina? >> guest: south carolina was a unique state in the union, from the beginning it had a black majority. from the beginning, south carolina politicians and their leaders, their business leaders, were absolutely, you could call them frantic and fanatic about preserving the safety of slavery. whenever any threat was issued, this came up in the 1790s and would come up in congressional debates in the 1820s, it would come up in the mexican war debates, it would come up in the compromise of 1850 controversy. they were always the ones that provided the seedbed of secession. we associate the theory of secession in its fullest depiction going forward with south carolina politician john c calhoun and he certainly was the leader and, i think, the inspiration for many other southern fire eaters who saw secession as the only logical way to preserve what they were increasingly coming to call

carolina. >> so this is a map that includes south carolina. they've had flooding and tornadoes, and here are these little xs of shelters opened up last night. >> reporter: paul cardin says help is desperately need right now across parts of south carolina where flooding is a major issue. >> this is an indication of the size of the relief efforts. >> reporter: the region's american red cross owns six american response vehicles. four are in texas right now providing relief. these two driven by volunteers are headed to charleston, south carolina. >> you're ready? >> as ready as we can get. i'm always happiest when i'm in these trucks. they serve a lot of people. most of the time we have 200 to 300 meals on >> reporter: we're inside one of the two emergency response vehicles headed for south carolina. if you notice it is empty, that's because they need the space. at front they keep drinks cold. >> we will get there and pick up our supplies at the distribution center. then we'll find out if they want us to go, you know, basically concentrate on a sp

south carolina -- always south carolina -- south carolinians start wars that tennesseans have to fight. i'm in charleston tomorrow. i'm testing that out today. [laughter] >> if jay press made kevlar, would wear it. it was close run thing, as wellington said, of waterloo. john c. calhoun wanted to nullify the federal tariff. they believed that federal taxation was the thin edge of the wedge. he used a more modern formulation that would allow abolition, and jackson said, expect soon a civil war of extermination to commence. he threatened to lead troops in himself to south carolina. dispatched cutters and dispatched winfield scott, and he issued that proclamation that lincoln summoned, called for in 1861. let me read one by. addressing the people of south carolina. al term natalie stern and soft. he would always act at two levels. the absolute projection of implacablity. meanwhile trying to cut a deal in the back. some people might call that hypocrisy, call that statecraft. that's what great politicians do. that's what ronald reagan did with the soviet union, reagan went from 1981, two or

in south carolina, winds are whipping there. where are you watching? >> basically from points from jacksonville northward through central and south carolina. the coastal regions including charleston, but the worst is yet to be felt. water levels are already starting to rise in georgia and south carolina and will continue this afternoon and evening. that's the next area working its way up the coast. >> of course dangerous winds is something that folks easily understand, right? can you explain one more time what storm surges and why it can be so dangerous. >> basically what happens is you have a big storm with hurricane or winter storm and strong winds. the winds in the ocean push it towards the land. they put the land and has nowhere to go but up and over the land to wet or inunidate normally dry areas. >> an expert on this, jamie, we appreciate you jumping on the special coverage of irma, the destruction that she left this her path and where she is headed now as a tropical storm. our special coverage continues ahead. >>> john berman back in miami. i'm

keep in mind as it starts to erode up here, lots of rain for wilmington, south carolina and raleigh, as well around here we may see some rain from that storm, as well, but that would be toward the middle of next week. 74 clouds breaking today. it will be a breezy afternoon. 73 tomorrow, partly sunny and nice, for the weekend, bright and pleasant on saturday, 71 degrees. sunday, sunny and nice, 74 degrees. an autumnal weekend around here. monday, 76 degrees, we cloud up on tuesday, if we get rain from irma looks like we will, it will be starting tuesday afternoon and there will be more rain possible on wednesday a little too soon to say whether it's a lot or a little hopefully not inundating rain. >> 5:11 a.m., coverage of hurricane irma continues. the construction concerns that are hoisted high in the air among miami's highrises. >>> a man who posed as a pennsylvania high school student another person related to the case is going to prison. >>> the cathedral of washington, d.c. windows are being removed there. >> reporter: route 1 is looking super by oxford valley road. no overnight

and virginia, north carolina and south carolina had all moved out. i mean, there was no knitting jobs, no weaving jobs, no textile jobs at all. and it really hurt the committee in those southern states or eastern states. and another thing is, you know, we've got a president now that don't seem to care about nothing but his fan base. as long as he's got people clapping for him, you know, he's out of the world. he's never done anything for the united states. he fraudulently had a university that took money from the government. anybody else would have done that they'd have went to prison. >> okay, caller, thanks. >> thank you for your service to our country in vietnam. there's a series that's been on pbs by ken burns talking about vietnam era. and what happened, and i just am very grateful for you and your patriotism. let me just say on textiles and also furniture, are you correct. i traveled to south carolina to north carolina prior to nafta's passage. and i talked to some of my colleagues down there. and after nafta's passage, it was just shocking to

in south carolina, a man was killed in his yard. the coroner said the man was picking up a tree limb as the storm was passing and a second limb fell right on top of him. >> falling trees also being blamed for two deaths in georgia and possibly a third. we know one tree fell on someone's house and pretty much split it into two. another fell on to someone's car. we'll get to angie at the live desk now with the latest coming in. >> we are starting to see the same kind of dramatic flooding that we were dealing with and we saw with hurricane harvey down in houston. the dangerous flooding continues in florida. crews working to save peoples' lives. this is coming to us out of orlando. 45 people were stranded where river overflowed there. that special water rig

sanford of south carolina. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 504, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. sanford, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina. ms. sanchez: -- mr. sanford: i thank the gentleman. i want to make clear i'm offering this amendment on behalf of frank lobiondo who i know has worked with my colleague, don beyer from virginia, on this bipartisan measure. i think it's one that makes sense. it would quite simply restrict money with regard to seismic testing on the atlantic waters and the waters of the florida straits. why do i think that that's important? i think it's important because you don't build a foundation if you don't intend to build a house. and yet fundamentally what we're trying to do is move forward on something that i think begs this most republican of questions which is, do we believe in home rule? because at home every municipality of every town and hamlett along the coast of south carolina has come out

the presiding officer: the gentleman from south carolina. mr. graham: is this a partisan approach to health care? i don't think so. if missouri does better, there's a democrat representing missouri. there's a republican representing missouri. here's the good news. we've got the republican on board. we appreciate the republican. let me tell you how this works. i like massachusetts. i like maryland. i like new york. i like california. but i don't like them that much to give them a bunch of money that the rest of us won't get. if you live in massachusetts, you don't get twice the social security or 50% more than if you live in pennsylvania. how can this happen? obamacare, for whatever reason, favors four blue states against the rest of us. now our friends in mississippi, like south carolina, we have a 31% african american population in south carolina. i think the highest in the country is mississippi. under this block grant approach, our friends in mississippi get a 900% increase. how can that be? well, that's money that was going someplace else ot

carolina a chance to come up with a better health care system for south carolina. give alaska a chance to do with a makes sense for alaska. if that's radical, god help us all of the time people in south carolina actually care about each other. preexisting conditions are going to exist in every state, but if you send the money and power back to the states, how do you expect a different outcome? the biggest winner under obamacare is insurance companies, not patients, and i intend to change that. >> whoa! i like that. >> but i'm not going to medicare for nobody. >> let's let senator sarnders have the floor. >> there it is. what he pointed out is why do we end up spending twice as much per capita as anywhere else in the country? this system is designed to make billions of thrashdollars of pr for the insurance companies. we pay to more the incredibly complex hundreds of plans we currently have with these guys if they got their way, would be even more plans and bureaucracy going to the insurance companies. medicare, the administration of medicare wants approximately 2%.

within the hour 49-mile-per-hour wind gusts inland to columbia south carolina. augusta, georgia, 46 miles per hour. 45 in savannah where there is flooding along the river. riverwalk area if you have been to downtown savannah there. it's a gorgeous place. but it's wet now. most of the ghost line is. the huge yellow box you might see underlaying the radar. that is a tornado watch. they have spinners in the tropical rain band up the ocean to spin off tornadoes. this is a huge system. it will make its wa northwestward. we may see some effects later in the week. meanwhile, abc7's meteorologist josh knight on duty in punta gorda, florida. what are you seeing down there? i see blue skies. josh: blue skies. we had on and off showers. we are left with a soggy mess around the area. the trees have come down. where the kids should be playing. the bay has come in and that water is sticking around. this is center on the where the centerline goes where the strongest winds are. marco island a place with the keys that got hammered by the strongest winds in florida. it started to

but the storm slammed charleston, south carolina. look at these scenes. ten-foot storm surge sending a rush of water into the streets. overnight, what's left of irma spreading its rain across the southeast. the downpours swamping charleston, south carolina, parts of the city underwater this morning. >> yeah, waves. >> reporter: a homeowner recording video as small waves roll through his front yard and several feet of water surround this restaurant, the strong winds toppling trees near atlanta, a close call for this driver escaping disaster as a falling tree nearly hits her car. in jacksonville, florida, the worst flooding in decades. the storm surge pushing the st. john's river nearly six feet above normal surpassing the record set by hurricane dora in 1965. the coast guard releasing these pictures overnight after they rescued more than 100 people and myrtle beach clearly not prepared for the storm. the papers inside this newspaper machine surrounded by water, with the ironic headline myrtle beach out of storm's path. and the extended flooding continues t

still getting heavy rain across parts of south carolina with severe flooding. that weakens as the storm presses west. tropical storm irma, 900-miles west of georgia moving west 15 miles per hour. maximum sustained wind 35 miles per hour pushing up to the northwest, becoming a remnant low, weakening more, but this storm will be impacting our weather as we head for the second half of the week. i talk about that, also talk about tropical storm -- hurricane jose. we are at the peak of tropical activity. more details on that in the full accuweather forecast. jim? >> cecily, thank you. the death toll in the caribbean stands at 35. nowhere was it hit harder than st. martin. "action news" reporter christie ileto at the airport tonight spoke with a philadelphia d.j. doing just that. it's a harrowing story. >> that's right, jim. this is d.j. touc touchtone's ft time back since hurricane irma. he arrived with nothing but the clothes on his back, a carry on and a soaring story of survival. >> a sound i have never heard before. i can't see, so that sound, hopefully, i'll ne

and same deal up but a little over, which indicates more of a hit over south carolina. the models are just barely spread apart, but it's looking more and more likely that this is going to be the biggest trouble zone. >> first alert meteorologist krystal klai, thank you. >>> and next, paying the price. why amazon is coming up fireport cost of its online water. >>> and putting on the hits. the new deal for apple that streams up its service. >>> as irma advances towards florida, people are having a hard time finding water. so people turned to amazon. an amazon shows $99 per case and amazon is now removing bottles of water that exceed average prices. >>> those affected by hurricane harvey will have to pay an terrible cost. hi, landon. >> good morning. millions of homeowners affected by hurricane harvey could find out they're on the hook for extra payments under their insurance policies. the storms are expected to trigger hurricane deductibles and these are little known provisions allowing insurers to shift thousands of dollars of damage costs on to consumers and they were p

no one in south carolina can get obamacare. host: on the issue of russian backed ad on facebook, let's look at what mark zuckerberg said about what facebook is doing. >> we will strengthen our own advertisement review process. it has always been against our policy to use any of our tools to break the law and we have many controls in place to prevent this. we can do more. a robot without an advertiser speaking to someone at facebook. that is what happened. even without our employees directly involved in the sale, we can do better. i will not tell you that we will catch all that content in our system. we do not check what people say before they say it and i do not think society should want us to. freedom means you do not have to ask for permission first. by default, you can say what you want. if you break our community standards or the law, you will face consequences. we will not catch everyone immediately but we can make it harder to try to interfere. host: this marks the 30th anniversary of c-span's video library and to watch t

heavy rain and gusty winds are now affecting georgia, alabama, and south carolina. flooding rains continue and a storm surge along the southeast coast. tornadoes are also possible as the storm winds down. it should continue to weaken tonight and no longer a tropical storm by tomorrow. by tomorrow. tropical storm longer a tonight and no longer a tropical storm by tomorrow. (vicki) florida police have arrested several people accused of looting stores and homes left empty during hurricane irma. nine people were arrested for allegedly stealing footwear and other items from a pawn shop... and sporting goods store in fort lauderdale. a news crew was able to capture the thieves on video - which helped police identify the suspects. and earlier that day - two men were arrested for allegedly ransacking six houses. as of today - police in fort lauderdale have arrested a total of 19 people for burglarizing businesses and residences during the storm. several arrests were also made in miami - as a group of suspected looters stole from a miami foot locker. our coverage of tropical

for the south carolina archival association. serviceshe director of for the louisiana state museum, a state like vcm system that maintains nine museums. she has an active in the southeast museums conference and currently serves as the vice president. she also bachelor of arts degree from louisiana state university, a master of liberal studies from the university of oklahoma, and is currently enrolled in a professional certificate program in nonprofit ministries and at the university of montana. our second speaker, dr. david nichols joins us by phone. he is a presidential historian and leading authority on the presidency of dwight eisenhower. the spoken president eisenhower and civil rights. 2007. published in this publisher, simon & schuster, describes it as the definitive book on eisenhower's civil rights policies. he wrote a book on the suez canal crisis, and his name's book, "eisenhower and mccarthy: eisenhower's secret campaign against mccarthy," documents how he destroyed senator mccarthy's political influence. dr. nicholsk

the storm dies out north of charleston and wilmington, south carolina. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 74 degrees clouds breaking. 73 partly skinny and nice own -- sunny and nice on friday. what an autumnal weekend. sunday, sunny and nice that's my favorite kind of day. monday, 76. 72 tuesday and wednesday. ifwe get the expected track of irma well get rain tuesday afternoon and wednesday. doesn't look like we'll get hammered but we can't sigh say for sure. >> the art of the deal in action. president trump goes against his own party new surprise move supported by democrats. >> in anther at 6:30, a family celebrates the first day of school. >> reporter: he looks like he is ready. good morning, matt we have a broken down vehicle on the schuylkill expressway westbound side by lincoln drive and kelly drive they have it pushed off in the gore point. basic ily this is normal. westbound traffic on the schuylkill expressway. we'll take the problems on the area bridges when "action news" continues on this thursday morning. what if there was a paint..

what do south carolina residents need to know tonight? >> right now the latest is that there's still dangerous conditions throughout much of the state. still very high winds, flooding in localized areas, particularly along the coast line. we can't still rule out the possibility of an isolated tornado. so we have a few hundred thousand power outages, about approximately 200,000 statewide. it's going to be a night where people just need to monitor the weather and as local officials say take safety precautions. >> i wonder if you guys thought you'd be in the path because we're seeing some tremendous flooding in charleston. the waters in the harbor cresting to nearly ten feet high. was south carolina prepared for this? >> oh, absolutely. we've been activated for six days. in fact, several days ago south carolina was in the direct path of hurricane irma. so we're actually look at this as a good thing for the people in south carolina that don't have power or they saw damage to their homes as a result of this, we feel for them and we're going to

devastation in the south. millions without power in florida, georgia and south carolina. downed power lines as many struggle to return home following hurricane irma. >> there is still dangerous conditions down, electric line, problems that would be compounded by reentry. local officials not only by evacuation but for a reason. >> the latest of several airports fight to get up and running following the massive storm. tax reform on the table. literally, a moderate democrat than republican senators focused on getting a deal done that happens this evening. the highly anticipated

carolina border monday. that's a long weekend to deal with irma that's for sure. and our "fox5" accuweather 7-day forecast. beautiful weekend here four, five days in a row looking great and we may deal with rain showers by the tuesday, >> bahama koz get a direct hit. >> we'll stay on top of this. >> thanks for joining us tonight. >> "fox news morning" 4:25. he's our pediatrician, dr. ralph northam. born and raised in rural virginia went to vmi. trained at johns hopkins. an army doctor who treated soldiers seriously wounded in the gulf war. eighteen years as volunteer medical director of a children's hospice. as lt. governor, he's fighting to expand healthcare in virginia. he'll get it done as governor. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, and we need to provide access to affordable healthcare for all virginians, not take it away. announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: i'm not touching this one. you do it. [laughter] >> racial controversy. jason whitlock, who is an anchor on fs1 and it was the guy with a colin kae

the storm surge led to massive flooding in the historic town of charleston, south carolina. at its height, the storm generated a nearly 10-foot tide. that is one of the worst in the city's history. >>> we were touched last night by the story of a washington housekeeper who called our wusa9 hurricane help desk, beside herself with worry. iris joaquin knew a brother had been killed finally the phone rang, and she got more. >> reporter: phone call finally got out today from tortolla, and let me tell you, iris is relieved, because now she knows her five surviving brothers and sisters are all doing okay. they're alive and well. all of them hunkered down at the home of a sister. apparently the only one to come through the storm in tortilla with a roof on it. >> everything is gone. no water, no light, no internet, nothing so they cannot connect to. >> reporter: ira's holding it together, but so desperate for information from her family she was hoping wusa9's hurricane help desk could solve the problem. before our attempts to contact the state department could come rang. her brother

in south carolina. we'll have more on this and some interesting facts about this particular hurricane. when i come back. >>> the meantime it's a race fwens the clock. people trying to escape areas that could be in hurricane irma's path. >> keith jones live at philadelphia international airplane. time is running out quickly. >> this is a busy place right now. take a look. you can see everybody coming off of their flights. i talked with a south jersey man from puerto rico. he was huddled in a hotel ballroom with other guests. as irma battered the u.s. territory. that's what florida is preparing for. that's why people are getting out of town. >> reporter: tornado like winds, flash flooding. and historically powerful and deadly hurricane. baring dun on puerto rico and heading for south florida. >> the vacation place said get out now. >> she evacuated from key west. thankful to be out of the storms path. >> there was panic in their voices. they were scared. >> last night they said get out. and take what you

a lot of you said south carolina. south carolina looks like it will be hit by a strong hurricane here. possibly around the charleston area. but a lot to worry about. a lot to think about the next couple of days. a state of emergency has been issued by the governor of south carolina chblgt there's that. for our weather, once it moves through south carolina and the mountains, we're going to see rain. speaking of rain, we've got some right now. this has nothing to do with irma. right around the area and i-95, going to be a wet night. enhanced rainfall in spot the wider view showing big-time thunderstorms out there towards the beaches. ocean city, rehoboth and severe weather. i i-81, still lighter rain. tomorrow a nice day. 74 degrees, inkreegsing sun. on the breezy side. the next few days, really, really nice. friday, saturday, sunday, monday looking grate with aeat. we'll continue to track irma. most likely with rainfall next tuesday and wednesday. i know you'll keep it here. 11:00 tonight, the latest path will be updat

carolina. and also were to because he is an american hero. >> ronnie, did you see kate line barrier on book tv? we covered that book as well. >> of course i did. [applause] i never miss book tv, if i can help it.t. it is a wonderful read. other people had written a bit here and there about robert smalls, but she did a very personal perspective and did a lot of research and oral d history, and also talks at length and met with some of his descendents and one who kept an enormous history and portfolio of her ancestors. >> thank you for calling in. thanks for watching the tv. we hope to see you down here next year. >> thank you. >> on twitter, a post that the choice of books for this person is rules for revolutionaries, man of peace, the illustrated life, story of the dalai lama and giant of the senate by al franken which is also being read by hm roland who post that on our facebook page. next call comes from steve inn stamford virginia. >> hello. >> good evening. i'm just about finished with my m

it's a worse scenario for georgia or south carolina, which ever area gets. but fluctuations in here are going to happen. we probably won't know really until we see that turn happen, on saturday, exactly where this is going to go. that means all of these 16 million people need to make their plans to get out. one last thing, shep, you've been talking about irma, all of the images out of barbuda and all of the lesser antilles, this right here is jose, now a category 2 storm, forecast to become a category 3 storm. take a look at this. barbuda that was hit with that cat 5 storm yesterday by saturday looking at maybe a major cat 3 storm going over it again. four or five days after. >> we're losing your mike, probably a battery change. this big wall, this is irma, and this is the projected track that he was talking about. this is that next storm. it's already making its way. here's that eye, right there, the last little image on the big wall is that eye. i want to show one more thing over here, rick was talking about what happens if it stays offshore. we were talki

georgia and one in south carolina due to falling trees. for the first time ever, a tropical storm warning is in effect for all the way into north georgia, from eastern alabama to south carolina. so that again is shocking people because still wind gusts are 50, even 60 miles per hour and we talked about the massive area of pine trees in here and they easily fall. heavy rainfall, tornado watch still in effect for parts of south carolina. charleston under a flash flood emergency. the state of florida issued 69 tornado warnings. the all-time record was 46. but i want to take a look at -- show you all of these numbers. florida, 6.5 million without power. georgia, almost a million yon. 930,000. south carolina, 166, almost 167,000. 45,000, alabama, new york -- that's a total of 7.67 million people without power. that staggers the imagination. but it's all going to come to an end and it falls apart over night tonight. >> thanks very much. before irma battered florida it left a path of destruction in the caribbean. millions are desperate for food,

nothing like florida, georgia, south carolina saw. here's the current conditions on irma. 35 miles per hour, moving northwest at 15 miles per hour. the "l" with the circle shows it's a depression through the morning. by this afternoon/evening, it falls into no longer a tropical system but remnants of irma. that's the moisture that will be impacting us as we go on through our workweek. let's talk more about our current conditions. we'll start with right now our satellite and radar. we've got clouds that have spread across the board. well ahead of irma. these clouds, you'll notice them throughout the morning. through the day, a mostly cloudy forecast. yes, you may see peeks of sun out there. it's going to be a bright cloud instead of that gray, ominous cloud coverage. nonetheless, more cloudy than it has been. look at the temperatures as we go through. 59 this morning. we'll be at 80 by 3:00. and 81 is the forecast high. in the suburbs, 71 at 11:00 a.m., 77 by 3:00. for the lehigh valley, 71 at 11:00 a.m. 78 by 3:00 in the afternoon. up

my wife worked in a textile industry for years and years in virginia, north carolina and south carolina and it all moved out. was no knitting jobs no jobs at obs or textile all. t really hurt the economy in the southern states or eastern states. we have a president now that butn't care about anything, his fan base. as long as he's got people lapping for him, he's out of the world. he's never done anything for the united states. university ly had a that took money from the government. anybody else would have done to , they would have went prison. host: caller, thanks. guest: thank you for your country in ur vietnam. that's been ones pbs by ken burns talking about and what m era happened. passage it was shocking to see the closed textile plants. i was in greenville, south carolina, going through empty plants it looked like it was plants it motive looked like a bomb had gone through the communities and the hung out to just dry. undergerd american manufacturing and american need to n and we rotect the pension and the future, health benefits of individuals who lost jobs, i can tell you many

they went up the river, 25 miles into the depths of south carolina. they burned plantations, flooded rice fields and emancipated them an hundred 50 to 800 people, there is significant because in tubman's time, people were of course, property. it was a huge loss to that slaveowners down there. it is showing harriet tubman in a smaller boat reaching down to rescue people to their emancipation. it shows women carrying anything that they could carry, a basket, some chickens, and children. deal because it with the largest emancipation event in the history of the united date. states. >> i pray to god to make the strong and he able to fight. it shows harriet taman dedication to the united states, she was indeed a veteran. a massive boon to the union army because about 10 days later, 110 men signed up for the union army. harriet tubman was a little bit of a rabble-rouser, complaining that nothing was being done to emancipated people to free the slaves. so, massachusetts governor don andrew recruited her to operate behind the confederate lines. she was given a

also north and south carolina declaring states of emergency. let's get to meteorologist ginger zee tonight. she has been tracking irma with us all day, and where is she right now? >> reporter: irma is northeast of san juan, puerto rico. the eye is about 20 miles across, is moving west, northwest at 16. so san juan, my primary concern for that part, and puerto rico, the northeast corner, flash flooding. as this moves on, with 185-mile-per-hour winds still, the pressure is actually dropping. we could see strengthening yet tonight. that's what's frightening. look at turks and caicos, and the southernbahamas, and nassau. we could see a 20-foot storm surge. these islands have elevation of a couple of feet. this is thursday into friday, and friday into saturday, it's north of cuba, and saturday into sunday, it moves toward florida, and sunday afternoon, we have a category 4 in this scenario, sitting over miami. storm surge, heavy rains, incredible power. pay attention to the cone, because still looking at georgia and south carolina. additionally in t

it was loosely his day in south carolina that day. i got up opportunity to unveil the best of him there. it's interesting, i remember being quite terrified up to the moment thinking about speaking in front of people and something literally washed over me as i'm sitting on the stage and sort of took that anxiety away and i've never felt anxious about speaking in public. i wouldn't say do it well, but whether that was robert moving his hand over me or whatever, that was a great opportunity and our family has a traveling exhibit that travels around the country and has artifacts and papers and typically whenever that opens someplace i go into a little talk. it's wonderful having an opportunity to talk about somebody you're proud of and if that person happens to be connected to you, all the bette better. >> tell me about the research process. you found out about it, you decided this is someone you would be interested in exploring further. what is the research process like. >> i'm talking to an audience full of researchers. i was trained by

if you have south carolina responsible for the money let me tell you what happened. you call me up and say this is not working for my family, i'll find out who the state house person is will call himor together.he i guarantee the governor will listen to because he wants you to vote for him or her.. the bottom line is the concept f of who should be in charge in your healthcare is what this is about. our friends on the other side deserve a great complement. you know where you're going on healthcare, you have a plan to get there i just don't agree with your plan and i don't agree with where you're taking the country. i will say this, you have a plan. and provide democratic f colleagues, when it comes to god this you fight like tigers. we voted on christmas eve and we would've been there if that's what it what it took for harry reid to pass obama care. on our side, have we done everything we could to repeal obama care? y president trump is now behind the spill. thank you mr. president. i appreciate it very much. without your voice we cannot succeed, with your voice will

he made the charleston south carolina. it was a place where the state of south carolina signed the ordinance. it was the spiritual capital of the confederacy. he was really in the middle of it all. it's deftly an important aspect of the story. i think in the 70s at the tabernacle church. can you explain what the relevance is at the tabernacle church. i had been blessed to have an opportunity to talk about robert smalls many time over the times over the course of my life. hundreds of times. but the first time that i spoke publicly about robert smalls was april 1976 and i thing i think i was 13 or 14 years old. the eighth grade trip that everybody does to dc. i was robert smalls a day in south carolina that day. there was a big parade. i get a chance to ride in a float with the lieutenant governor. and then afterwards at that tabernacle baptist church where he is buried i have an opportunity to unveil the bus that is of him there. i remember being quite terrified they washed over me as i'm sitting on the stage. and took it e

. >>> we start with tropical storm irma, the death toll is rising with georgia and south carolina now reporting deaths related to the storm. >> irma battered georgia, brought down tree, houses and cars, the wicked winds took out power lines and left more than 1 million people in the dark, ken rodriguez joins us with the latest. ken, when we talk to do hours ago, the rain was still coming down. what's the situation now? >> reporter: it's still raining, shawn and tony. just when i step out here, thinking it will lighten up, it just continues to pour. we've gone through several changes of clothes out here in atlanta getting these reports done, but i can tell you the wind died down just a little bit. some relief in that. that ads to the saturation of the soils leading to a lot of problems around the state. we've had two confirmed deaths, one, of course, here in sandy springs where a tree fell on top of a guy's house killing him instantly. and that's the sort of problems we have in these situations in georgia of one of the more dramatic videos of the day, about 50 miles south of here in gr

right up to the carolinas down the coast to south carolina to florida, area over the hook is gulf coast with irma. >> which needs break. >> needs a break. >> and by the way there's a hurricane katia in the gulf of mexico. that will go more southward to mexic. and it's a much weaker storm. both jose and katia are category 1 storms. >> not that we want to diminish by any means what is going on or happening in miami but further up the coast we're wondering as it makes its way up when would tim pact carolinas are we talkng about and do we know if it may turn and go out east and out to sea. >> i'll go back and show you spaghetti models. once we get that far out in time the models die vernl. right now we had great consensus between the models we look at and they're on it in the next you know two or three days ahead. you get to day four and five and there's a bigger spread. so, but if we were to see effects on this path it would be likely tuesday, wednesday, carolinas would see it they have to watch that too. jose this is category 1 following behind irma. i want to show you that track that it

let's look at myrtle beach, south carolina. you can see the remnants of the storm and here's south carolina. the winds are whipping and the waves are crashing on the shore. >> this is one of the first looks at the keys where irma first made landfall. roads are impassable. boats are everywhere. tons of debris is spread across the island. in jacksonville, florida, heavy rains and a record storm surge are turning streets into churning rivers. tim furlong has been in florida since last week. he's live from miami beach. >> that's always hopping with people. it's more like a ghost town now where you are? >> reporter: yeah. only the people who were here before the storm are here. they are not letting anybody in yet. there is sand in the grass, all over the sidewalks, sand in the streets. this place is still a mess and in some spots it's still

downtown charleston, south carolina now under a flash flood emergency. waters in the harbor, peaking at nearly 10 feet. we're about three meters high. one storm related death reported in that state. at least three storm related deaths reported in georgia. the flooding in savannah, forcing officials to temporarily shut down a highway leading to tiby island. irma has carved a path of destruction here in florida, where one storm related death has been reported. people in jacksonville experiencing storm surge levels and flooding. and the only road that connects the florida keys is still closed. an estimated 10,000 people who stayed there to ride out the storm may need to be evacuated. but the city managers say there are no plans to evacuate anyone at the moment. that's it for me here in tampa. back to you, george, in atlanta. >> michael, thank you. as i mentioned, it is still raining in atlanta. we started to feel the strong winds pushing through the city in the morning. we also saw flooding throughout the region. you talk about cities like savannah, you tal

we had a 31% increase in south carolina alone. the system is failing. the good news is that republican are not just going to deliver on a campaign promise, were going to improve our health care by giving you access to people who care more about you at home than any bureaucrat in washington. taking the same amount of money in a fairway allocated to the states, you have to spend it on healthcare, you have flexibili flexibility, and i believe this that the governor of the state house member is going to listening closer to you then your family and some bureaucrats in washington who will never know your name. to the leader, thank you, it's complicated, difficult politics and it will allow us to move forward and how far we have come in such a short period of time. president trump, thank you for engaging vice president pence. governor pence has shown us that with flexibility governors with the right attitude can improve quality. so, the leadership team has done everything we have asked them. were coming back to this after taxes. we'll have time to explain our

mount pleasant south carolina south of charleston 2.83 inches of rain. it's indeed a mess. the winds are still kicking up. even though the storm center is near albany, georgia. 40-mile-per-hour gusts. 37 miles per hour gusts in jacksonville and atlanta gusts now way away from the center at 44. later this week, maybe showers of the pop-up thunderstorms as the remnants creep our way. we talk about that and the weekend coming up. jonathan: thank you. as irma turns deeper inland it's causing problems with if air travel. this is thenessry map. all this red -- this is the misery map. all this red is either canceled or delayed. that is understandable when you consider that is the storm that continues the march up through the southeast. shutting down one of the big hubs. florida, forget about it. all the airports remain closed at this hour. more than 100 delays and cancellations reported. that storm trying to get home any way they can. and richard reeve is at reagan airport. i understand they will try to get miami and tampa back open as quickly as possible. >> hoping to get them ba

the presiding officer: the gentleman from south carolina. mr. graham: is this a partisan approach to health care? i don't think so. if missouri does better, there's a democrat representing missouri. there's a republican representing missouri. here's the good news. we've got the republican on board. we appreciate the republican. let me tell you how this works. i like massachusetts. i like maryland. i like new york. i like california. but i don't like them that much to give them a bunch of money that the rest of us won't get. if you live in massachusetts, you don't get twice the social security or 50% more than if you live in pennsylvania. how can this happen? obamacare, for whatever reason, favors four blue states against the rest of us. now our friends in mississippi, like south carolina, we have a 31% african american population in south carolina. i think the highest in the country is mississippi. under this block grant approach, our friends in mississippi get a 900% increase. how can that be? well, that's money that was going someplace else ot

illinois democrat dick durbin will be joined by south carolina republican lindsey graham in a briefing expected to start at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we're planning live coverage when it starts here on c-span. be with us tomorrow when the senate, health education and labor pensions committee will hold the first of two hearings on the individual insurance markets. tomorrow, members will hear from state and shurens commissioners about stabilizing insurance premiums and then thursday they'll address this issue with several state governors. live coverage starts tomorrow at 10:00 eastern on c-span3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and is brought to you today by your cable our satellite provider.

if i can get south carolina in charge of this money that would have been spent in washington by a bureaucrat who is unelected, i promise every south carolinian the following, someone will listen to you. your governor and your steakhouse representative. if you go to the statehouse representative, who likely go to the same hospital you do. you can go to your governor who will listen to you because they care about your vote nothing else -- vote if nothing else. i'm trying to take the money and power in washington and send it closer to the patient. if you think government closer to the people is the best government, why not help you -- why not healthcare? we will have a single-payer health care system that will ration the budget like you have never seen. obamacare is feeling for a reason. it is a bad idea. state-controlled health care because the people in turkey will be accountable to you, unlike obamacare with a person in charge could give a damn of what you think. >> and 25 years, i treated patients and louisiana's hospital. n louisiana's hospital. when a fellow back home, a special needs chi

carolina and georgia as the storm progresses. i'm come back to the path and tracking forecast in a moment. i'd like to see if i can reinforce that by suggesting we take this seriously. it's not only a dangerous storm, we've seen loss of life, this storm has taken lives already, it will take more unfortunately if we're not prepared. please take it seriously. i'd also suggest now in terms of influencing, that people stop watching so carefully this track and start think manager seriously about getting themselves into a safe place and out of danger. i don't want them to take that as a call for evacuations, listen to local authorities on evack orders, they're not only looking out for your best interest but they're coordinating the peninsula, and it's a staggered and carefully thought through process. at this point, it is a large storm. whether it wobbles left or wobbles right, you need to start thinking through your own personal accountability. please make sure it's kind of an oxygen mask theory, take care of yourself first so you can

the storm has weakened to a tropical storm, but millions in florida and now georgia and south carolina are without power. and many more are cut off from their homes. in jacksonville, entire streets swallowed by record flooding as heavy rain and storm on surge hit that city. the mayor asks people to hang white flags outside their homes as a signal for help. and the coast guard says they rescued more than 100 people and 40 3petses. and this entire intersection was washed out because of the heavy rain. and much of the florida keys remain cut off from the mainland as the national guard deploy s search and rescue missions there. hurricane irma made landfall in the keys sunday morning bringing 130-mile-an-hour winds. as many as 10,000 people who decided to stay and ride out the storm may need to be evacuated. and this morning 7.6 million people are without power across florida alone. authorities say residents should be prepared for extended outages, including weeks without power in some cases. >> once irma moved past florida, the storm made its way into georgia and south carolina where at le