Katie, thanks as always. Busy news weekend and day. Developing news. Russian investigation and report on hurricane irma. Big news, problems at white house caused by steve bannon, breaking silence in first tv interview sunday claiming he only wants to support the president. Clearly doing that his own way. Confirming in interview that trump firing jim comey was a historic mistake. Someone said to me that you described the firing of james comey, youre a student of history, as the biggest mistake in political history. That would be probably too bombastic even for me, maybe modern political history. The firing of james comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history . If youre saying thats associated with me, ill leave it at that. By leaving it at that, bannon ensured the critique would hit the white house today. At time when Trump Officials would like to push agenda on taxes or focus nation on hurricane relief, instead once again pressed to revisit the scene of the firing of jim
Accidental nuclear war. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. And this is our western edition. The Atlantic Ocean tonight is an alphabet soup of storms j, l, and m. Hurricane jose, tropical depression lee, and hurricane maria. Maria is the one posing the biggest threat. A category 4 hurricane, its aiming for caribbean islands that took a beating earlier this month from hurricane irma. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs station wbz. How is it looking, eric . Reporter well start with the storm weve been tracking for two weeks, which is jose. It looks like a noreaster. Its starting to lose some of the tropical characteristics. The track keeps it just off shore, but this will produce a lot of surf, rip current risk, and some strong winds near the coastline, not a worstcase storm here. The storm that has gone under rapid intensification these last 24 hours is maria. It was a Tropical Storm yesterday afternoon. Now its a category 4 hurricane, and we c
Killed in this storm. We can tell you 7 Million People in the u. S. Dont have power. Search and rescue units on the ground in the keys. Officials say a quarter of all homes in that area have been destroyed. Lets get right to it from the florida keys. Nbcs gadi schwartz. Whats the latest . Reporter hey, its not just search and rescue on the ground. It is out in the ocean as well. Theyll check submerged boats and submerged sail boats in particular to see if people are inside. A lot of those are live aboard boats so they may be people inside who tried to ride out the zone. Were in an area that took one of the biggest hits from Hurricane Irma. These are one of the weird peculiarities. First of all, the ocean is this way. So Hurricane Irma came ashore this way. Which has been puzzling the neighbors. This mobile home was sitting about 20, 30 feet over there next to these mobile homes that you see next to it. Somehow the winds of Hurricane Irma picked this mobile home up over this fence thats
That same day, the words that are used to women in congress, go home. Whether because they didnt look like others here. As annoyed as is insulted as we all should be, about the president saying that about our colleagues its also not showing mercy for him to say that about so many people in our country as he wants to split up families. I think mr. Monthlinowski to sp to the statements the president made later in the day. Mr. Molinoski was born abroad. The house hopefully has come together standing as one to denounce the white houses xenophobic attacks on our members. On our people much and what is america . America is many things a land of a great contribution. A beautiful land that god has given us. Values that we share that are being undermined. But america is also a nation largely but not totally largely of immigrants. The founders conceived america as a haven for refuge. For people fleeing from religious and political persecution, and Thomas Jefferson alexander hamilton. Having oppo