Beach Weather: Hurricane Florence jumped yesterday from a Category 2 up to a Category 4, causing the governor of South Carolina to order evacuation of the state’s entire coastline starting at noon today. That involves about 1 million people. Roads will be reversed to one way — out.

President Trump has already signed a disaster declaration

The storm is expected to make landfall Thursday or Friday. People were already leaving the North Carolina coast this morning.

A Category 4 has winds up to 130 mph. The storm surge could bring floods as deep at 15 feet. Whatever it does to the coast, Florence could bring torrential rains to the Appalachians and West Virginia, causing flash floods, overflowing rivers, and mudslides.

The Man Has a Problem: Julie Chen, host of “The Talk” and “Big Brother” on CBS, announced she’s taking time off from the talk show to be with her family after her husband Les Moonves was deposed as boss of the network amid accusations of sexual misbehavior. She issued a statement saying, “I will be back soon and will see you Thursday night on ‘Big Brother.’”

“Talk” Co-host Sharon Osborne said on the air yesterday that while she regrets the trouble for Chen, “The pattern is so similar, for me he’s not been convicted of a crime but obviously the man has a problem.”

Chen met Moonves while working forCBS. He married her, made her the host of “Big Brother” and later, “The Talk.” We’ll see whether CBS buys her out.

The Numbers Game: President Trump is busy pumping up his economic record — “The Economy is soooo good” — while trashing the Bob Woodward book that trashes the President. He describes Woodward’s book “Fear” as “a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources.”

Nothing in the book is disproven — denied, yes, disproven, no.

Speaking of disproven, that applies to Trump’s claim yesterday that the 4.2 percent growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product last month is bigger than the unemployment rate for the first time in 100 years. In fact that has happened 148 times since 1948.

While we are speaking of numbers, CNN reports according to their latest poll that the President’s approval rating fell 6 points in the last month and now stands at 36 percent.

  CNN says Trump has hit a new low of 35 percent among independent voters. And here’s a really bad number for a president; just 32% say they see the President as honest and trustworthy.

Negative Numbers: While Trump crows about the economy, the Congressional Budget Office reports that the federal deficit for the first 11 months of fiscal year 2018 is $895 billion. That’s $222-billion more than for the same period last year. What that means is that Trump has the economy on a sugar rush.

Power Play: California  Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring the state to convert to 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2045.  Brown said in a statement, “It will not be easy. It will not be immediate. But it must be done.”The law also requires the state to become carbon neutral, removing as much carbon from the atmosphere as it emits.

Deadly Force:  More than 100 people marched in Dallas last night in protest over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in his own apartment. Botham Jean died of a single gunshot to the chest.

Dallas police officer Amber Guygersays she entered what she thought was her own apartment and fired her gun when the man inside failed to obey her commands. She said the door was ajar, but it turned out she was on the wrong floor.

But other residents in the building say they first heard knocking and a woman asking someone to open the door.

Food Fault: Not since Mayor Bill de Blasio ate pizza with a knife and fork has New York been so horrified by a politician’s culinary error as Cynthia Nixon’s bagel order at Zabar’s. The former actress running for governor ordered a bull load of cream cheese, lox, and capers and then said she wanted it on a cinnamon raisin bagel. Some New Yorkers said the thought of it rendered them unable to eat all day.

Nixon’s spokeswoman said she’s just standing up for the overlooked. “New Yorkers need someone to stand up for their view, even if those opinions are out of the mainstream or even unpopular.”

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