Im fredricka whitfield. And we begin this hour with Tropical Storm ophelia. Just hours after making land fall in north carolina, heavy rain, coastal flooding, and high winds, are hitting much of the Eastern Seaboard today. North carolina, maryland, and var are all under a State Of Emergency right now. And the storm is already knocked out power to more than 50,000 homes. And businesses. With those outages expected to grow. Allison chinchar is Tracking Ophelia from the cnn Weather Center and Polo Sandoval is in pelican island, new jersey, watching the impact and feeling it there. Lets begin with you, allison. The National Hurricane center issued a new advisory moments ago. The biggest change that we noted is the sustained winds have calmed down ever so slightly, dropping down now to 50 miles an hour. Still gusting up to 65. Look at the scope of this storm. You have so many of these Outer Rain Bands far away from that center point. And the center is still over north carolina, and you have
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i have no doubt that there were illegal activities engaged in by burisma. it continued to expand and zlochevsky started bringing in people who could provide protection for him. hunter biden was among them and the corruption network expanded as a result. here to react, sunday morning futures anchor, maria bartiromo. maria, thanks for being here. and he also mentioned in the interview no one reached out to him, no one is trying to get to the bottom of what he might know. maria: it s extraordinary. this is the same exact bribery allegation that we heard from the fbi whistleblower who told us that the head of burisma said 5 million to one biden, 5 million to another biden so the allegations of bribery seem to be getting louder. the issue for the republicans now is they need to identify that $5 million. they need to find the $5 million to prove to the american people
fired which resulted in his son hunter continue to get paid, that was the enrichment of his family. that would be a textbook, in my view, i m not an attorney, i ll let s them weigh in, definition of bribery allegation that needs to be investigated. david weiss question, original question, which is very important. david weiss supposedly had been investigating for four years, entering year five. when you listen to the irs whistleblowers, they were very, very clear, what reason would career whistleblowers have to lie and put their career and pension on the line? those career whistleblowers, okay, they said that david weiss said to all of them as they were taking contemporaneous notes in fact he did not have jurisdiction over hunter biden in relation to other investigations like out in washington, d.c. and out in california. merrick garland testified under