Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Now. I am writing myself a note. Its worth just put the 20 bucks in. Buy lottery ticket. Its tonight, right . Yeah. To do. I will do that. Maybe ill see you back here tomorrow morning. Would you come back if you won . Yes. Oh, okay. You not . No. A billion and a half dollars . Yes, i would. I like what i do. I like it too. But not when im a billionaire. I hear you, my friend, victor. Lets get to the powerful storms ripping across the east coast. Theyve been deadly. We know this morning at least two people have died, Hundreds Of Thousands of people, though, waking up to Power Outages this morning. Oh my god. That is a tree snapped in half in north carolina. While indiana residents are digging out after a tornado touched down there. Maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. Look at this. This is the people who were trapped between these power lines. Today already nearly 900 flights have been delayed. More than 300 cancelled. Here is
con congresswoman ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. the lead starts right now. my leadership and voice will not be diminished, if i am not on this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger. republicans key committee, b comments that omar has meat critical of israel. some using anti-semitic tropes. comments for which he has apologized or ones she retracted. the minnesota democrat and only muslim refugee in congress asks today, how might this look to the rest of the world? plus, a despicable act. a young new jersey politician shot to death just steps from her own home. was she targeted or was she a victim of random violence? but first, russia ramping up strikes against ukraine, with warnings of a larger offensive on the horizon. cnn is in one town hit more than 70 times in just one day. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. russia s renewed offensive against ukraine may already be beginning. that s the assessment of volodymyr ze
this photo shows downed power lines littering a roadway in carol county, maryland, after a storm passed through the area. another driver captured the chaos caused by those electric poles in maryland s route 140 in westminster. maryland state police say more than 30 vehicles were stuck in the incident, but no injuries were reported. in many parts, the storm caused extreme low visibility. in downtown philadelphia, a live tower camera showed the magnitude of the weather conditions. in victory gardens, new jersey, several residents displaced after a tree fell on a home, bringing down power lines and crashing cars. according to cnn affiliate wabc, the house was occupied at the time but there were no injuries reported. the storms caused major travel disruptions in the skies on monday. according to data from flight aware, more than 10,000 u.s. flights were impacted by the severe storms on monday. among them, over 8,500 flights
bringing down power lines and crashing cars. according to cnn affiliate wabc, the house was occupied at the time but there were no injuries reported. the storms caused major travel disruptions in the skies on monday. according to data from flight aware, more than 10,000 u.s. flights were impacted by the severe storms on monday. more than 1,700 cancelled. all this as new weather threats are expected to develop for tuesday afternoon with risk of severe thunderstorms in several southern states. the severe weather threat along the i-95 corridor has largely come to an end except for greater metro region in boston. slight risk across the gulf coast state and also across the central plains today. with these temperatures being so hot across the south doesn t take much for the severe