In preparation, the mayor has declared a state of emergency and flights in and out of kansas citys airports were shut down. Hit the pan handle with 15 inches of snow and hurricane forced winds. Blame the storm for at least two deaths. One from a traffic crash and one from a roof collapse. Dozens of roads and highways are still shut down. And power is out for thousands of people. A minute after the hour, lets see what we are in store for. Good morning. Mostly rain around here. Could be good soaking rain particularly this afternoon. The evening commute will be a slow go. Looking at the potential for one to two inches of rain. A flood watch here locally. Lets get to the radar. Its still several more hours before the main event. Its moving in from the south and west and packing everything. Wintery mix off to the south and west. A lot of rain. Thunder storm activity and the white you see out towards kansas city pushing up towards chicago and milwaukee. Thats snow thats flying. Temperatures
Phone with all of this. Evan, what are you learning . Well, at this point, the Justice Department and fbi are trying to figure out how to secure permission that would allow the fbi to conduct a full search of these nully discovered emails. Theres a lot that we dont know right now, whether they contain classified information or whether they are even meaningful to the email investigation. We dont know that. As part of this investigation into Anthony Weiner and whether he had exchanged sexually explicit emails with a 15yearold girl in north carolina, as part of that investigation, they stumbled upon huma abedins emails, emails that they immediately realized may be related to the Hillary Clinton investigation and that they appeared to not have seen before. Thats the thing that started this entire new crisis, frankly, for the Clinton Campaign and for the fbi. And what is complicating the issue right now is simply this. This is a computer that is believed to have belonged to Anthony Weiner a
Day 65 of the Trump Administration and it is marred by the collapse of the president s repeal and replace Health Care Bill that appeared as a sloe moving draw in a on capitol hill. Bottom line, the bill never reached the house floor for a vote. President trump said he told paul ryan to pull the measure in the afternoon. The president and gop do not intends to take up health care in the immediate future. Instead the president says he intends to tackle tax reform next. For the latest on how the health care saga unfolded, here is hallie jackson. Reporter the party in power divided when it mattered as republicans revolted around xroe compromise on something seven years in the making, getting rid of box c. A. R. Are obamacare. Perhaps the best thing that could happen is what happened. Reporter but 63 days after he signed one of his First Executive orders, the president in the end unable to close this deal. His biggest political defeat yet. But not to him. I think that this is going to end u
Antisemitic statements. And hurricane threat, a dangerous storm is gaining strength right now, and could hit the gulf coast in a matter of hours. Is the Trump Administration ready for what could be the first Natural Disaster on the president s watch. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking tonight. President trump is briefed on a major disaster likely to unfold in the hours ahead. A new warning was just issued on the danger from Hurricane Harvey. It is on track to hit the texas coast as early as tomorrow night with lifethreatening and catastrophic flooding expected. Harvey is rapidly gaining strength as it churns through the gulf of mexico. People are racing for supplies and evacuations are under way. Also breaking, the white house says the president remains committed to building a border wall, leaving open the possibility that mr. Trump will make good on his threat of a Government Shutdown to make
That. Youre talking about a comprehensive immigration fix from congress in a span of six months. Much to the president s frustration, congress hasnt been able to do much at all this year. What gives him confidence theyre going to be able to act on immigration, has he spoken to any congressional leaders since making this daca decision . Hes spoken to a number of leaders. Hopefully as you all know they came back from a threeweek vacation, they should be rested and ready to take on some big challenges that america faces. The lives of 7800,000 people its congresss job to legislation. Its not the president s job to create law. Its congresss job to create legislation. I think thats something we all learned in eighth grade civics. I know i certainly did. Every member of congress should know that is their duty and were asking them to fulfill it. Its simple. I think the American People elected them to do it. If they cant, they should get out of the way and let someone else take their job that c