Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, at 7.15am on Friday with winds of up to 90 mph
Daily Mail: Florence hits land: 60 people are rescued from collapsing hotel as storm surge of TEN FEET swamps city where 150 people are trapped as center of the hurricane batters North Carolina with 90 mph winds
* Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, at 7.15am with winds of up to 90 mph
* More than 60 people were rescued from a collapsing hotel in Jacksonville, North Carolina, early on Friday
* Rescue teams are working to free those trapped in New Bern after the nearby Neuse River burst its banks
* The Neuse River near the city is recording more than 10 feet of inundation, the National Hurricane Center said
* In Jacksonville, about 70 people have been rescued from a hotel whose structural integrity was threatened
* Even before Florence hit land, life-threatening storm surge was reported along the coast of the Carolinas
* Once a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph, Florence was downgraded to a Category 1 on Thursday
The center of Hurricane Florence has smashed into North Carolina with a storm surge of up to 10 feet that has pushed miles inland and screaming winds of 90 mph.
More than 60 people including children had to be pulled from a collapsing motel in Jacksonville at the height of the storm and many more who defied evacuation orders were waiting to be rescued.
Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, at 7.15am with winds of up to 90 mph. At least 12,000 people sought refuge in shelters in the state and more than 415,000 homes and businesses were reported to be without power as the outer band of the storm approached.
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Gingrich: 'Good Chance' Manafort Wins at Trial, Making Mueller 'Look Like a Fool'
You win some and.....??
4/5 ths of Mueller's have been vacated upon appeal.
What does that look like?
That looks like Meuller has the levers of a big wrecking machines, but when it come up against SCOTUS it is found to be corrupt.
Everyone knows this except for corrupt in their heart Democrats.
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