customers in florida. and the other major concern at this hour, the tornado watches in effect into the night. airport closures, the ripple effect now, and this hurricane now headed inland. headed straight for orlando before then tracking north. alerts at this hour up across florida, georgia, and now the carolinas. our meteorologists ginger zee and rob marciano both on the ground again tonight with our team across florida. also, the acting deputy director of noaa s national hurricane center right here with us tonight. what concerns him most as we head into the evening hours. the other major news this wednesday night, the u.s. state department now urging americans to leave russia immediately. the american embassy warning russians may force americans with dual citizenship into military service. and the allegations involving potential russian sabotage of the pipeline that would deliver russian natural gas into europe. ian pannell inside ukraine tonight. in this country, the m
It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Were tracking several breaking stories right now. Israel strikes back, targeting iran overnight. The fallout as tensions grow in the middle east. Here at home, a critical vote under way right now on capitol hill to advance a whopping package of aid to ukraine and israel. In new york city, Jury Selection back under way in Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial, a full panel of 12 in place as they search for five more people to fill the alternate seats. And we begin with Breaking News on capitol hill, where happening right now the house is voting on whether to consider a package of bills with 95 billion in aid for ukraine, israel and the indopacific. Joining us now from capitol hill is nbcs ali vitali. What is happening right now . Reporter look, just in the last minute or two, jose, since we came on the air with you, democrats who had seemingly been holding their votes back from this rule vote just i think to get a sens
Something that he drives or in connection to this, the one live on the screen right now, and we will continue to get some more information as to what he is charged with. We should be hopefully getting that in the next hour or so. All right. Our justice correspondent pete William S Williams is also reporting that dna evidence played a role in his arrest. I am going to step aside and Andrea Mitchell reports starts now. Thank you, craig. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, and breaking news with the 12 packages containing explosive devices. And we are told that florida resident Cesar Sayoc Jr. Has been arrested in a string of mailed bombs. We will have a Press Conference at 2 30 with more details. And to today, we are told that cory booker, and James Clapper, those men joining the growing list of public figures critical of President Trump, and that
list is two former president s, and democratic officials, and democratic Law Officials and a leading democratic donor. And now, joining me is Ke
themselves so they would have levers of power throughout the rest of this congress. they are exercising those and so this is really a moment where the decisions that republicans and kevin mccarthy made in the very beginning of this congress are now coming back to sprout and to show what the impact of that actually is. ali vitali on capitol hill, thank you so very much. and turning now to more breaking news this morning. from inside a manhattan courtroom, where a jury selection and former president trump s hush money trial continues. right now the prosecution on the defense are working through candidates to fill the final five seats for alternate jurors in a process expected to potentially take weeks, a busy thursday afternoon led the selection of a full panel of 12 jurors to decide donald trump s first criminal trial. they include five women and seven men whose identities the judge ordered to be kept confidential during the trial. judge juan merchan said he hopes to select the rema
they want it now. those lawmakers held an emergency conference call this afternoon led by speaker nancy pelosi. and the house judiciary chairman said the letters have been sent to the white house counsel and more than half a dozen agencies demanding any underlying evidence and investigative materials, compiled by the special counsel, be preserved. cnn senior white house correspondent pamela brown is watching it all for us. good evening. reporter: president trump is uncharacteristically quiet about the mueller probe in the wake of the report being delivered. this is someone who tweeted, it was a witch hunt more than 170 times during the course of the investigation. but sources close to the president i ve spoken with say he is very happy that the investigation is over. but he wants to wait and see what happens next. as the president spent the day on a florida golf course, the attorney general spent the day reading a report that could define donald trump s