himself but his feeling was that we needed to come together, to not create a picture of divisiveness at a time of genuine national crisis, and that was the rationale, i m confident, for his decision to agree to what i m going to be offering. senator mcconnell and joining me now is cnn white house reporter kaitlan collins. kaitlan, give us the detail of this deal that the president struck on the debt ceiling. reporter: well, it s pretty remarkable here, brianna. we re seeing the president essentially rebuke his own party and side with the democratss here. we see him today. he said he s agreed to this democratic proposal to tie the funding for the aftermath of hurricane harvey and texas and louisiana to this three-month increase for the debt limit, and essentially, the president is going what they had suggested. he said he agreed with chuck and
rico. brianna. big concern. realistic concern there. george howell in san juan, thank you, sir. you heard george talking about how unusual this is. irma is only the fourth storm in the recorded history of atlantic hurricanes to grow this strong weather experts are stunned by what they re seeing. we have seth borrwith us, a sci writer for the associated press. i want to show our viewers something. you said, i ve been covering hurricanes and storm science for more than 25 years and i have never seen anything like irma. what is it about irma that is so unbelievable to you, almost? the strength. 185-mile-an-hour sustained, not gusts, sustained winds, 185 miles an hour. so, when andrew hit south florida, and i was there for andrew, that was 145-mile-an-hour winds. sustained. 145 sustained. this is 40 miles an hour more. there has never been anything
top of the hour, i m brianna keilar and we are beginning with hurricane irma, which is one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes in history, roaring through the caribbean as we speak. the current forecast puts it on a collision course with florida. that s what irma looked like and sounded like as it tore like a freight train through st. martin and while it s still too early to tell how exactly this will impact the u.s., both florida and puerto rico are declared states of emergency right now. here s florida governor rick scott. he s issuing an ominous warning just a short time ago. storm surge and extreme winds are the biggest concern right now. the storm is bigger, faster, and stronger than hurricane andrew. we are being very aggressive in
makes landfall over florida or north carolina, folks need to get their preparations under way. it is always better to be prepared and then find out the storm doesn t hit you than to have it the other way around. it certainly is. and we know that you were going to keep looking at this for us, allison, as this is making its way over the virgin islands there, as you said, a category 5 is what irma is right now. allison, thank you. puerto rico right now is under a state of emergency. many fear that if the power goes, it s not going to be restored for weeks, maybe months. cnn s george howell is there in san juan, puerto rico. tell us what you re seeing. we see wind, hear the rain. what is the vantage point from where you are? reporter: brianna, along the north shore of this island, which is the part of the island that will be impacted most, the north and the eastern parts of o it, but we are starting to see these conditions deteriorate and it s expected to get worse through the hour.
first there was the visual i.d., and then the height checked out and then the preliminary dna evidence. and people really started to kind of breathe a sigh of relief, drew. yeah, i don t know if people have seen it. we have it on cnn.com, but if you see that one picture where the secretary of state, hillary clinton sort of has her hand over her mouth. it is a very, very tense situation, and i think says it a all. very interesting. brian brianna keillor, thank you for that. down the road from the pakistani military, brings us to our talk back question for today. carol costello following that conversation. big old mansion, nobody notices. notorious mass murderer charles manson and his gang move into a multimillion dollar suburban mansion for six years. did i mention that the house is just down the road from the fbi headquarters? yet nobody in authority knows he s there. that would be embarrassing, at best. derelict at worst. and that is exactly the kind of situation the pakistani