Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, Hurricane Irma is now a dangerous category 4 and warnings are up for a string of caribbean islands while it is still too soon to gauge the storms potential impact on the u. S. , floridas governor has just declared a state of emergency. North koreas largest ever nuclear test is sparking global outrage and a new war of words. South koreas boosting its Missile Defenses and is answering with a Live Fire Exercise simulating an attack on a nuclear site saying the display was meant to show a willingness to wipe out the north korean regime. At a emergency u. N. Security council u. S. Ambassador nikki haley said kim jongun is begging for war saying enough is enough. She called for the strongest sanctions possible against pyongyang. That follows blunt talk from the white house where President Trump said, well see, when asked if hes planning to strike at north korea. Defense secretary james mattis warned of a massive military response to any thr
Leadership. I believe in our intel agencies. I have worked with them very strongly. There werent 17 as previously reported. There were actually four but saying there were 17. As currently led by fine people i believe very much in our intelligence agencies. Lets get to cnns Caitlyn Collins in manila. President trump trying to clear up the confusion. Has it made it more confusing . Reporter almost. He did not directly state yes i believe that russia meddled in our election. When he was asked to directly do so today. We saw him straddle the line between saying he sided with the u. S. Gency agencies and almost trying to down play the meddling at all saying you can only ask russia so many times. He had to make clarifying remarks because of comments he made on a flight on air force one to vietnam when the president was speaking to reporters. He said he believed Vladimir Putin was being genuine when he said russia did not interfere in the election. That raised a lot of eyebrows because people
To govern, to lead. They have failed. I had no idea the democrats were this dysfunction al. Stop victimizing the American People and get back to work on their behalf. He should, instead of throwing tweets, pull together the four leaders of the house and the senate, and negotiate. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, were going nowhere. I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five deferment draft dodger. We have soldiers fighting for us who will not be getting paid. This is ridiculous. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. All right. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is your new day. It is monday, january 22nd. 6 00 in new york. Alisyn is off. Poppy harlow determined here helpful. Without a vikings win, but i am here and proud of my team. Life is full of ups and downs. Good to have poppy. Good to be here. The u. S. Government shutdown heads to day three. The deep divisions over the fate
Cnn is live in north korea tracking kim jonguns dangerous new moves. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim sciutto and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking tonight, President Trump is promising full support for recovery from Hurricane Harvey as millions of americans suffer through a disaster that is growing worse by the hour. Right now it is unclear how many people remain trapped in unprecedented flood waters, swamping much of Southeast Texas. New evacuations are underway in some communities as the death toll in the flood zone climbs now to 7. Texas now deploying all its 12,000 National Guard troops to aid in this emergency urjgent operation. Pulled from standing cars, flooded hoem flooded homes and streets now turned to rivers. Much of the nations fourth largest city is under water, up to waist deep and still rising. At least 15 trillion gallons of rain, about 25 inches or so, f
Lisa murkowski is leaning no, and so the announcement of senator mccain means that he cannot support the bill, and leaving it one no vote away from defeat and so perhaps politically influential. No reaction from the white house on the mccain bombshell, but he is about to speak at this rally in alabama, and he has never been one to hold back on the rally, and so we will keep a close eye on this when he taks s the stage. So as we watch, that i want to bring in cnns phil mattinglyt at the capital. What more are you learning absenator mccains decision today . John, interestingly enough all you had the do is to lis own what the senator was saying, and where the senator could go and the great friends with Lindsey Graham, and the idea to repeal obamacare, but every time i have spoken to senator mccain, he has never wavered in the opinion that it was a wrong process, and just go back to july, and the Senate Floor Speech just after he had been diagnosed with cancer, and he decried the direction