Why did you decide to evacuate?

This surge right here, man.

If we had been in our property, we would have got flooded in.

We wouldn't have been able to leave.

Didn't know what I was going to do until these guys showed up.

I was going to actually stay and swim in my house.

My heart just dropped out of my chest when they called and said the house was on fire

because we prepared for a flood,

not a fire.

Some of the survivors of Hurricane Adalia, the first major hurricane to hit Florida's Big Ben region

in more than a century.

We'll have the very latest on the storm's path and on the destruction it has left behind.

Plus, another unsettling moment for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell while he answered

questions from reporters, how his team is responding to growing concerns about the

Republicans' health. And also ahead, Rudy Giuliani's lies about the 2020 election are starting to catch up

with him legally and financially. We'll have much more on that just ahead.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Thursday, August 31st.

I'm John Flamere. Thanks for starting your day with us.

And we will begin this morning with Tropical Storm Adalia.

The storm weakened overnight, but is still making its way through the Carolinas and dropping a massive

amount of rain, flooding streets and causing widespread power outages.

Charleston, South Carolina recorded its fifth highest tide ever as the storm surge there

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