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Flattened how they are preparing for this monster hurricane. The president set to hold a News Conference this hour with the amir of kuwait, a day after the president shocked republican dealers. And new reports are out about a possible trump schumer deal. Plus the News Conference live. All of that is on tap. The dow is the biggest loser, and disney is one of bob iger warned about apple is taking a hypothetical wall street journal set reporting that the new iphone is plagued by production glitches we will more on this developing story ahead. Now to the biggest atlantaic hurricane ever that is irma shes battering the crib ban, leave a terrible path of destruction on the islands already hit, now taking aismt at florida here one of the we have wmaq meteorologist kalee dione this is whats moving toward turks and caicos and south florida in the coming dayses this has weakened just a tad in the last update at 175 Miles Per Hour update for those of you in south florida, you have been added to t
This afternoon as the school board tries to come up with some kind of solution here, vern. Reporter trouble in the class appear to be ahead brian at this point the School Districts solution appears to be to cut off funding and revoke the schools license. Its the only Charter School among more than 80 city wide that that currently faces revocation of its charter. This is the ninth and sedgley building the Charter School has been occupying for years but now the landlord wants to evict them as the charter created in 04 continues drowning drowning in hundreds of dollars of red ink owing money all over town. All classes k through eight were shut down a week early in june without warning or ceremony. Teachers tell me they have resigned en masse and found new teaching posts elsewhere. Were protecting their identities. Now were going on three paychecks we have not been paid. Reporter what have the officials told you so far. Theyve told us nothing. Reporter we were unable to contact anyone on t
[chuckling] brian why . Mr. Press thats a long story, im not sure we have time. During that time i have to say, bernie and i never talked about barack obama, or any disappointment in barack obama. Im not sure where you are going, i want to make that clear. The reason i did it because i had applied i was a member of the White House Press corps. I had a standing white house pass, went to the briefings every day. I got out of that for my own program, because i could ask questions. I thought i could expand that opportunity by getting a press credential of the u. S. Capitol. I applied, and i was told i had to appear before the full Senate Reporters accreditation committee, because there were questions about whether or not i qualified. I was told because i gave my opinion actually first, i was turned down because i gave my opinion on my show. I am a talk show host, of course i give my opinion. I pointed out there were others on the press corps already who i thought should be disqualified. So