Of punishments from the u. S. she described a tense but necessary conversation with secretary of state Rex Tillerson at the summit. Translator we felt the readiness of you are our u. S. Colleagues to still continue dialogue. Theres no alternative to that. Cnns Senior International correspondent ivan watson is in the philippines with the latest. Reporter this is supposed to be a gathering of diplomats from the association of Southeast Asian nations, and some affiliated countries like the u. S. , russia, south korea, japan, but the big topic of discussion right now is north korea. Its two Intercontinental Ballistic Missile tests carried out in spite of all International Security Council Resolutions and the decision saturday to slap new sanctions on north korea banning its exports of coal and iron, and even seafood, something that the u. S. Government argues will cut at least a third of its export revenues. The Chinese Foreign minister says that he put pressure on north korea during his m
And the passenger jet. The one thing so many passengers did that helped them escape the this jet in flames. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a wednesday night. We have several breaking headlines. First the alert up right now, tornado watches across several states. A tornado hitting houstons. More than a dozen reported across the region already. A deadly line of storms on the move. Its not just tornadoes its the damaging winds. Some reaching 90 miles an hour. Straightline winds destroying homes. Ginger zee is live with the track tonight and abcs phillip mena is in hardhit rockwall, texas. Reporter a dangerous storm system triggering tornadoes in texas for more than 24 hours moving east. Oh, my gosh. Reporter 14 tornadoes reported across a nearly 250mile stretch of the state. This morning, flash flooding and a Tornado Warning in americas fourth largest city. College students in houston sheltering in place. Look at that, fell on top of the truck. Reporter powerful winds topp
But should the video ever be released. Plus this week we did get to see the damage to the brain of nfl player Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide while serving a murder sentence. Bob costas made headlines around the country for what he said about the future of football. And hes here. But first, President Trump is again declaring that he believes Vladimir Putins insistence that the russians did not meddle in the u. S. Election. Heres what he told reporters on air force one today. Quote, he said he didnt meddle. He said he didnt meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times, every time he sees me he says i didnt do that. And i believe i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. Well, if in fact the president is accepting putins word, here is who he is not believing. Hes not believing his own ambassador to russia, jon huntsman who said theres no question russia meddled. Hes not believing his secretary of state, rex tillerson, who says that the Russian Election
Released . Plus, this week, we did get to see the damage to the brain of nfl player Aaron Hernandez who committed suicide while serving a murder sentence. Bob costas made headlines around the country for what he said about the future of football. And hes here. But first, President Trump is again declaring that he believes Vladimir Putins insistence that the russians did not meddle in the u. S. Election. Heres what he told reporters on air force one today, quote, he said he didnt meddle. He said he didnt meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times, every time he sees me, he says i didnt do that. I believe that, i really believe when he tells me that, he means it. Well, if in fact the president is accepting putins word, here is who he is not believing. Hes not believing his ohm ambassador to russia jon huntsman who said theres no question russia medel. Hes not believing his secretary of state Rex Tillerson who said the medding of russia caused serious miss trust. Hes not be
Win. That budget vote yesterday is a little bit of foreshadowing of the problems republicans will have hashing this out amongst themselves. I think were unified on a lot of issues but not unified how to approach those issues, if youre not unified on both, you wont get things done. Theres a civil war in the gop. Also this hour, face to face, the president met today with interior secretary ryan zinke even as questions mount about how and why a Small Company from zinkes hometown scored a 300 Million Contract to rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. Two house panels are investigating whether that company, White Fish Energy acted inappropriately in getting this deal. Earlier today, on this network, a whitefish spokesman defended the contract. The conspiracy theories, i get peoples questions, they are very legitimate. You buy experience. That is why whitefish is there and white fish is getting work done. 38 days after hurricane maria, more than 73 of puerto rico remains in the dark. So, obvi