[Hill:] All right. Sentencing begins today for Bill Cosby. We do have some video of him arriving at the courthouse a little bit earlier this morning. This is in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
[Sciutto:] He faces up to 30 years in prison. This, after being convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. The judge will also determine today if he will have to register as a sexually violent predator. Athena Jones joins us now. So Athena, five of Cosby's accusers, they testified today. We could also hear from them during the sentencing today?
[Athena Jones, Cnn Correspondent:] That's right. We could hear from them again. We could hear from Andrea Constand herself and also these other women who are able to come forward in this second trial to bolster her testimony with substantially similar stories about being drugged, being incapacitated and being assaulted. So we could hear from them today in what's called the victim impact statements. The defense side would get a chance to cross-examine them. So we could hear some more emotional testimony about them talking about being drugged and penetrated. We could also hear from Cosby himself. He did not testify at his trial. But usually, during the sentencing phase, you'll going to have the convict trying to ask for leniency, going for leniency, and that's one thing we expect from his lawyers, as well.
[Harlow:] You know, we have heard some important things from Cosby in his own words that came from deposition that he gave, admitting to some things. How remind our viewers of what he said when he was deposed and then, B, how that could play into the judge's sentencing today.
[Jones:] Well, what's interesting about that deposition, that was a secret deposition that remains secret. It was related to the civil case that Andrea Constand brought
[Hill:] Right.
[Jones:] against him several years back. That settled in about 2006. But that deposition was secret, and then when there was allegations that reemerged in 2014 with with that comedian, Hannibal Buress bringing up Cosby's accusations against him. There's a lot of pressure, a judge decided to release that deposition. That is what laying the groundwork for the prosecutors in that county to bring to file criminal charges against Cosby a month before the statute of limitations expired in the Andrea Constand case. So that is really why we're here now. And that could play a role, certainly. But I would expect these potentially very emotional victim impact statements.
[Sciutto:] We know you're going to keep us up to date. Athena Jones, thanks very much. Coming up, we also have updates, testing under way near a North Carolina power plant where floodwaters are posing an environmental threat now.
[Harlow:] So over the weekend, water from the bloated look at that, the bloated Cape Fear River forced the closure of one of these power plants that led to fear that industrial waste could seep into waterways nearby. Meanwhile, eight rivers across North and South Carolina remained at flood stage with at least one river expected to rise another three feet by tomorrow morning. Let's go to our Kaylee Hartung as she joins us again in Wilmington, North Carolina. I mean, this is what they were talking about, Kaylee, with all these concerns over what would the aftermath of Florence be. What are you seeing?
[Kaylee Hartung, Cnn Correspondent:] That's right, Jim and Poppy. The threat to the Carolinas continues, and the work of the volunteers of the United Cajun Navy has evolved well beyond the rescue operations that they began more than a week ago. I'm here in the volunteer group's command center. And it has turned into a distribution center, something of a 247 Wal-Mart, if you will, where folks can come in and pick up the essential supplies that they need, everything from dog food, and canned food, and snacks, to fresh produce, diapers and medical supplies. And if people can't come here to pick up what they need, the volunteers here will deliver those same fishing boats they use to rescue folks are now taking these supplies out into the areas that are otherwise cut off, because plenty of those areas still remain. We're talking about visiting individual home, shelters. There was even a delivery to a farm that needed hay and feed for their animals. Yesterday, about 20 boats loaded up with supplies. I hopped in one, a 16-foot bass fishing boat with two military veterans. We travelled about 50 miles up the Cape Fear River. And I was struck not just by how vast this flooding was but also the stench of that water. You mentioned the environmental concerns of the contaminants that could be getting into this water, as it comes to that one power plant just off the Cape Fear River in this Wilmington area, Duke Energy, assures me that the coal ash basins are secure and water testing has come back with positive results. That water not contaminated, to their knowledge. But also hog farming is a big industry here in North Carolina, the waste from those farms entering the water, as well. At one point in this journey up the river, we went more than a mile inland and we were driving a boat down the streets of the small town of Whitestock in North Carolina. And I was able to step very easily from the boat onto the roof of a church to get a better look. And water stretches as far as the eyes can see. When you think about the dangers of this water, though, that stench is more than just displeasing when you're in it, but it's a danger to those who get anywhere near it. The volunteers I worked with yesterday, one of them suffering from a staph infection after working overnight rescues, another with sores on his feet. And yet these volunteers continue to donate their time, their skill and their resources to helping people who need it. We just got a call in to this command center from a shelter in North Carolina, an area we have heard so much about in terms of how it has been cut off from the rest of civilization. They need canned goods, dish washing liquid, batteries, bug spray, pull-ups and toilet paper. Boats being loaded up right now to get those supplies to them.
[Harlow:] OK.
[Sciutto:] Sometimes they forget the aftermath. We're glad we have Kaylee Hartung there. A lot of people still suffering, a lot of people still in danger. On to a different story now in the sports world. He is back, Tiger Woods, finding his winning form to capture his first tournament in more than five years.