Retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8 percent last month, following two months of slight declines, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

'So anytime there's a natural disaster, it's kind of that Rahm Emanuel quote of "Never let a crisis go to waste."'

When a natural catastrophe occurs, you’d hope that people would come to one another’s aid. Yet that’s exactly what didn’t happen to Army medic Luis Ocampo. His house got broken into while he was helping those devastated by Hurricane Florence.

Even Michael Jordan, a UNC alum and current majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets NBA team, backed the idea of the scrimmage.

'We were trying to help abandoned animals,' Hedges said. 'We knew North Carolina didn’t have any regulations or laws regarding shelters for animals.'

Flo wasn't born into idyllic pastures, and he didn't spend his early days frolicking with the people who take care of him now. His story started last Monday when he made his escape and finally began his life.

'We knew we had to go above and beyond.'

'There are plenty of new, high paying jobs available in our great and very vibrant economy.'

There was one big thing wrong with the story.

He was keeping watch over his hunting beagles who cowered in their shelter as the storm’s winds picked up.