Choice. As speaker ryan puts the pressure on, the president seems to be brushing off the mounting opposition from seniors and doctors and hospitals against the American Health care act. President trump tweeted this, quote, despite what you hear in the press, health care is coming along great. We are talking to many groups and it will endi in a beautiful picture lets go to jeff zeleny. We know speaker ryan declared now is the time, this is the plan. Last hour at the white house briefing, the tone seemed to me more open to phases or changes. How did you interpret that . Indeed, brooke. That is definitely the president s plan here. He is saying, look, he is open to making small changes in this. He is listening to all these concerns from these conservative groups. But going back to his tweet for one second, ive talked to a lot of people here and republicans on capitol hill. They were struck by it will be a beautiful picture. They said, look, legislation is seldom beautiful. How the sausage
Power. More than 20,000 spent the night in shelters, and the prediction everyone feared the most is now happening, high water is trapping hundreds of people that didnt or couldnt evacuate. And remember, florence isnt stopping soon, moving at a speed not much faster than most of us walk, 5 Miles Per Hour. That means it is dumping all kinds of rain coastal and inland. We are all over the story with cnn teams across impacted areas. Lets start with you, my friend, don lemon, cohosting coverage from myrtle beach. Don . Over to you, my friend. Reporter hey, brooke, how are you. Listen, it is crazy. You get big spurts of rain and gusts and come through unexpectedly at any moment. Sometimes it is still like it is now and a second later, you get a buildup. The concern is flooding, water, rain, of course because it is just sitting on the carolinas and spinning and drawing all of this water. As you said, 650,000 people really without power across the carolinas. Most of those were told in North Ca
Have died down, that is true, but they are still stiff and getting stronger here in myrtle beach. As weve said, this is not primarily a wind event. It is about the rain and the surge that is flooding so many communities. This is a multiday event that could stretch well into next week as the flooded waters that are in North Carolina come down to the rivers into South Carolina and flood some of the communities along the banks there. Im in myrtle beach, as i said. This is a town thats under aid curfew for another hour. No one who is not Emergency Personnel should be on the streets right now, weve gotten reports from officials across myrtle beach that the expectations were much worse. But here things for the moment are looking good. Again, this is one of many chapters of this event. I want to start with my colleague, nick valencia, across myrtle beach checking around, seeing if theres damage thus far thats come from the winds and rains. What are you seeing where you are . Reporter we decid
This article is part of the People’s World 100th Anniversary Series. On April 30, 1975, the war in Vietnam finally ended. Though U.S. imperialism had withdrawn its troops in defeat in 1973, Washington’s puppet regime in Saigon fought on for two more years.