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In this Sept. 19, 2018, photo released by Cape Fear River Watch, heavy rains from Hurricane Florence erode and breach a coal ash landfill at the L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C. The landfill un... .
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected on Wednesday to visit North Carolina, which is bearing the brunt of Florence's deadly deluge and where rivers are still rising while thousands of homes and roadways remain submerged. Passersby look at a section of washed-out road damaged by flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, now downgraded to a tropical depression, in Currie, North Carolina, U.S., September 18, 2018.
Officials in the US plan to airlift food and water to a city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes threatened by swollen rivers. The spreading disaster claimed additional lives Sunday, with at least 17 people confirmed dead, and the nation's top emergency official said other states were in the path this week.
"There is no access to Wilmington," Woody White, chairman of the county Board of Commissioners, said Sunday at a news conference. State Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdon said one of his top priorities was determining how to restore ground access to the area.
The mom and baby were the first confirmed fatalities from Florence, which hit the Carolina coast as a Category 1 hurricane Friday morning. Firefighters and rescue crews in Wilmington, North Carolina stopped to pray outside the house where a fallen tree killed a mother and her 8-month-old baby.
A PSA Airlines Canadair CRJ-900 on behalf of American Airlines, registration N598NN performing flight JIA5224/AA-5224 from Wilmington,NC to Charlotte,NC , was accelerating for takeoff from Wilmington's runway 24 when the aircraft hit an animal on the runway. The crew continued takeoff but stopped the climb at 2000 feet and returned to Wilmington for a safe landing on runway 24 about 30 minutes after departure.
For about four hours, lawmakers listened as dozens of local residents described how they've become worried to drink their tap water. "I've raised my children on this water," said Emily Donovan of Winnabow.
It's the last hours before Election Day and North Carolina is awash in high-profile candidates stumping for votes. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to appear Monday afternoon at an arena on the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
Republican candidate for vice president Mike Pence is a late addition to the speakers' list for a big biennial rally featuring North Carolina's top elected GOP leaders. Thousands usually attend "The Conservative Rally" featuring barbecue, music and political one-liners and calls to action.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will give what the Hillary Clinton campaign is calling a "major national security speech" when he comes to Wilmington this week. "Sen. Kaine will underline that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate who has the experience, temperament and judgement to serve as commander in chief and who has the vision to make America safer and stronger together," the campaign said in a news release Saturday.
"Words can have tremendous consequences," the Democratic nominee said of Trump's Tuesday comments regarding the Second Amendment . "Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that cross the line."
Hours after setting off fresh controversy during a speech in Wilmington, N.C., Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump insisted that he had not intended to encourage violence against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with his allusion to "Second Amendment people" who could stop the Democratic candidate from stacking the Supreme Court with antigun justices. " This is a political movement ," Mr. Trump said in an interview with FOX News afterward.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday night he's benefitting from the controversy he created earlier in the day by suggesting After an outcry from Democrats and gun-control advocates over remarks that appeared to obliquely encourage violence, Trump said he didn't mean to suggest any harm. The real villains, he said on Fox News , were the media.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the audience during a campaign event at Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday. Sara D. Davis/Getty Images hide caption Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the audience during a campaign event at Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday.
A source within the local Republican Party says Donald Trump will be in Wilmington on Tuesday. The source says Trump will hold a rally at 2:00 p.m., but a site has yet to be selected.