Millions of people are being evacuated in southern Florida

as this monstrous hurricane Matthew is barreling down

with winds of over 120 miles an hour.

It could become actually stronger than that.

They talk about category 3, category 4.

It's been category 4.

But it's getting ready to hit the Florida and the east coast

and then North Carolina, South Carolina.

Terry.

Well officials in those states are making it clear

that people in the path of this deadly hurricane

need to get out of its way now.

Charlene Aaron has the story.

CHARLENE AARON (VOICEOVER): Florida

is preparing for what could be the worst storm to hit

the Sunshine State in years.

Hurricane Matthew had already claimed 25 lives

as it slammed into Haiti.

I've lost everything, the water took it.

CHARLENE AARON (VOICEOVER): In Cuba, towns were leveled.

And the storm badly battered the Bahamas overnight.

Matthew strengthened early today as it crawled towards the US,

with winds of more than 120 MPH.

And with about 2 million people being encouraged

to evacuate before it arrives.

Those evacuations are underway in Florida, Georgia,

and South Carolina and residents are being forced

to either leave or stock up.

Get out now.

It could be the decision between life and death.

CHARLENE AARON (VOICEOVER): South Carolina

is expected to evacuate half a million people.

Traffic there has been bumper to bumper as residents leave.

We want you to evacuate.

We do not want you to stay.

CHARLENE AARON (VOICEOVER): Many riding out

the storm are scrambling for supplies, food,

and bottled water.

I've already been to three gas stations that have shut down

because they're out of gas.

Well we've been waiting about 30, 40 minutes.

Just getting some plywood.

We wanted want to get batteries but they're out of batteries.

CHARLENE AARON (VOICEOVER): Matthew is also

making for difficult travel.

American Airlines has canceled all flights

into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

Preparations are being made up the east coast

to North Carolina.

It's a huge waiting game.

Because as you can tell from the hurricane

tracks they've changed almost every single day this week.

And they will continue to change until the storm either makes

landfall or goes back out to sea.

CHARLENE AARON (VOICEOVER): CBN's Operation Blessing

is already on the ground in Columbia, South

Carolina, and Ocala, Florida.

Plans are underway to set up a mobile kitchen

and help people with cleanup efforts after the storm passes.

Charlene Aaron, CBN News.

I was down in Florida after Andrew,

it was the most awful devastation you could imagine.

But in that hurricane were tornadoes.

And some had winds in excess of 200 miles an hour.

They were just vicious and they just ripped

the roof off of churches, roof off of homes, devastation

in that area.

And I don't think they've had anything

like that in quite a while.

And Florida has been growing, the population

has been growing and suddenly with all these people

and all these homes comes this vicious storm.

So our prayers are with our friends in Florida.

And we just hope that-- it looks like they've

got the preparations underway that will save lives,

and we certainly hope so.

Well by the way, Operation Blessing

is already there in Ocala, Florida.

They've got a mobile kitchen, they've

got a semi truck full of emergency construction

supplies, they've got a construction trailer,

they've got skid for removal-- a skid steer they call it,

they've got a shower trailer, they've got a food kitchen,

they've got all kinds of things.

They want to help people we just don't quite

know where to position them yet because we're not sure

where the worst devastation is going to be.

But Operation Blessing will be on the scene.

If you want to help you can get the number.

It's CBN Center Virginia Beach, Virginia 23463.

Well in other news, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

were getting ready for Sunday night's presidential town hall

while the vice presidential candidates are back

on the campaign trail.

John Jessup has that.

That's right, Pat, Mike Pence and Tim Kaine

hit the road again.

Both men talking about their debate performances

Tuesday night where Pence was widely seen as the winner.

You know, what I can tell you is from where I sat,

Donald Trump won the debate.

Donald Trump's vision to make America great

again won the debate.

The debate was a little feisty.

I mean, I gotta admit, I am Irish.

JOHN JESSUP (VOICEOVER): After hitting a fundraiser here

in Washington DC, Hillary Clinton

is focusing on getting ready for Sunday night's town hall debate

with Donald Trump.

Still on the campaign trail, Trump

praised Pense as a good Christian,

before reading from the Bible.

Trump also warned an audience at a Christian school in Las Vegas

that Clinton will quote endanger religious liberty

across America if she wins.

Well North Carolina is a key battleground state in the 2016

presidential election, and it's a hotbed

of many of the country's current controversial issues.

No one knows this better than the state's Republican Governor

Pat McCrory who's up for re-election.

One issue he's standing strong on

is the state's bathroom bill, which deals with which

bathrooms transgendered people can use.

In an exclusive interview with CBN's Jenna Browder,

McCrory explains why he says this

is a time for Christians and others

in the silent majority to speak up.

Tonight a blockbuster clash is brewing

over transgender rights and North Carolina's

so-called bathroom law.

Breaking tonight, an explosion of violence on the streets--

Protests have erupted in Charlotte, North Carolina.

JENNA BROWDER (VOICEOVER): It's a state making national news.

The shooting of Keith Lamont Scott

has shaken the city of Charlotte.

JENNA BROWDER (VOICEOVER): North Carolina,

an epicenter of emotional issues felt across the United States.

Normally you To go home to escape it all.

But even here at the governor's mansion

in North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory

can't escape the headlines.

Everyone comes up to me and go, governor

you must have incredible thick skin when

people say pretty cruel things about you

and even make threats.

And the fact is I don't.

JENNA BROWDER (VOICEOVER): One of those issues,

the so-called bathroom bill.

Earlier this year House Bill two became law,

requiring North Carolinians to use the public bathrooms

and locker rooms corresponding to the sex

on their birth certificate, not their gender identity.

McCrory and conservatives say it protects women and girls

from sexual predators.

Liberals say the law discriminates

against transgender people.

There is immense pressure to repeal House Bill two.

Have you ever considered doing this?

No.

Not based upon the concept of changing

the definition of gender.

And the House Bill two is actually irrelevant now.

Because the federal government has stepped in and ordered

the definition of gender to be based

upon expression and identity.

So this whole focus on one bill is really a diversion

and it's probably going to be changed after the election.

It's now a national issue.

And the national media has no idea, the people in the public

have no idea that this issue was started

by the left in the city of Charlotte

by a very liberal mayor and by the Attorney General

that I'm running against.

JENNA BROWDER (VOICEOVER): McCrory Cory

is up for re-election and it's a tight race.

His opponent Roy Cooper is using House Bill two

to drum up support.

We've seen no leadership from our governor on this issue.

He has doubled down on this bad law

as our state has taking hit after hit.

It's a major change in our moral fabric.

And it deserves debate and deserves discussion.

But there's even a lot of pressure on corporations.

JENNA BROWDER (VOICEOVER): Apple and Pay-pal

or among the corporate giants backing out

of the state, though not entirely.

McCrory says a number are still quietly pursuing opportunities

in North Carolina.

Groups like the NBA and NCAA have also packed up

some of their operations.

Well you've got to draw the line somewhere.

And the entertainment world is very hypocritical on this also.

George Clooney, who I love as an actor,

after he criticized North Carolina's bill

he went to China to promote his movie.

China whose human rights records are horrible.

How much influence do evangelicals

have in North Carolina?

And how important are they to your battle you face here?

One thing I've told a lot of people

is we've got to have the silent majority to quit whispering.

They talk too softly about their support.

And they need to speak out now.

Because what's happening in America

and what's happening North Carolina the only people

you hear from in the media.

And the only people you hear from protesting in the street

or on our universities are people

of the very far left who disagree with people of faith

in many, many issues.

But we are not hearing from the silent majority.

There they're too quiet right now.

And therefore the impression of the independent voter

is, well, the loud people must represent the majority.

And we're going to find out this election.

It's going to be very, very interesting.

JENNA BROWDER (VOICEOVER): There's

no doubt the eyes of the nation will

be watching North Carolina to see

if evangelicals have enough punch to make a difference.

Right now the jury's still out.

In Raleigh, Jenna Browder, CBN News.

Thanks Jenna.

Pat, back to you.

That Governor is a courageous man.

He's a wonderful human being.

And he's been a very superb public servant.

Ladies and gentlemen how does this suddenly become

a national civil rights issue when a government says,

look, what's on your birth certificate that

says who you were.

You were a boy when you were born,

you were a girl when you were born.

Now if you use a restroom you go to the boy's restroom,

and if you're a girl you go to the girl's restroom.

So big deal.

Why is that suddenly an anti discriminatory type of policy.

Why does that discriminate against anybody.

It doesn't discriminate against anybody.

This whole idea of sexual identity,

when I'm nine years old, I'm 10 years old

I'm going to declare that I'm no longer a boy,

I'm going to be a girl.

I mean, these kids don't know what they're doing.

And the idea that they're are being forced into something

because they like to wear dresses

every so often or something, I mean, you know,

they're in a process and they will grow into it.

And North Carolina is very wise, we

don't want sexual predators coming into the girls bathrooms

to take advantage of them.

To say well I'm really a girl so I want to go in there.

There's a big, old, hairy chested man he comes in

to have sex with these girls.

You don't want that. and North Carolina said,

we want to protect them.

It's crazy.

The whole thing is nuts.

And the trouble is it's been inflamed by radical groups.

The people in Charlotte, as I understand,

70% of those who are arrested are from out of state.

They weren't from North Carolina,

they're from out of state.

They were radical groups bussed in to demonstrate and make

a big fuss.

And what happened in Charlotte?

Black police Chief, black cop shoots a black man

who apparently had a pistol in a holster down on his ankle.

And that was the big thing.

And they started talking well let's kill white people.

White people didn't have anything to do with it.

Black police Chief, black policeman,

black victim who apparently had a gun.

I mean that was-- and for that we're going to burn the city,

we're going to tear things up.

Why?

Because it's a big state in a national election and the left

doesn't want it to go Republican.

They don't want it to be conservative.

They don't want McCrory to be reelected.

It's all a put up job.

We've got to recognize what we're dealing with.

John, what's next?

Pat, not only has the national debt been growing here

in the United States, debt is on the rise around the world.

Total global debt has now hit $152 trillion

according to the International Monetary Fund.

The world's debt has more than doubled since the beginning

of the century.

And the IMF warns that the amount of debt

could rise even higher in the years

ahead, pointing out debt is high not only in major developed

countries but also in important emerging economies like China

and Brazil.

Pat, those figures are just staggering.

It is staggering.

And the thing of it is there's no engine

to pull it out anymore.

There's no government, no country big enough

to handle all of this.

Used to be the US could do it, maybe

the US and Britain could do it.

No longer.

There's no unit of government can do that.

So we're looking down the road if there's

going to be something bad happening it's not

that global warming, it's going to be a financial collapse.

$152 trillion.

And we're adding debt as fast as we can add it.

And all these countries are in debt,

the United States is in debt up to its ears.

So is Europe.

Look at countries like Greece and Portugal

and Spain and Italy and on down the line desperately drowning

in debt.

And so it's going to be.

What's going to happen?

Well, one of these days but it's going

to be terribly painful for a period of time.

So you need to get used to it.

Well ladies and gentlemen, I have said a long time ago

that God wants us to live and prosper and be in health

and grow into old age.

That's what he says in the Bible.

Well John has some health news for us.

That's right, Pat.

The question is just how long can people live.

A new study published in the journal Nature

suggests there may be a limit to our lifespan, around 115 years.

The oldest documented person in modern times lived to be 122.

And researchers say that life span

can't be extended too much because of the complexity

of the aging process.

But some specialists say the new study doesn't take into account

other research, and they think the human age

limit can eventually be increased so that people

can live even longer.

Still others question that, and some experts

say that, at least for now, people

should focus on eating better and exercising

so they can stay healthy in their twilight years.

Pat, if I remember correctly, didn't you

say something about living to be 120 something years old?

That's what God told Noah after the flood.

He said the lifespan of man is 120 years.

Up to the time they were living 700, 800 years.

Then after the flood, I don't know

whether it was a whole bunch of bacteria

that began to grow because of all that moisture

or what it was, but nevertheless he said, OK

your lifespan's 120.

And you've got guys like Moses lived about 120 or so,

I think Joshua lived 110.

And so that's OK.

You know?

You know, I think the key to that

is if you're going to have longevity you'd

like it to be with good health.

Absolutely.

You have a go?

Where you going?

I'm going-- you know, for everyone

there is an appointed time.

I'm going till my appointed time and then--

Well you can change your appointed time

if you change what you're doing.

But I'm figuring, hey.

My wife says, honey, I don't want

to live that long because all my friends will be dead.

Well I said, get younger friends.

That's what you gotta do.