And we will be with isa very shortly. Meanwhile, back up to a category 5 with 160 Miles Per Hour sustained winds, Hurricane Irma delivering a glancing below to cuba, not expected to weaken before slamming into the florida keys early on sunday. The National Hurricane center warns that the storm there might not be survivable. To give you a sense of what is coming, irma is larger than the p there is no safe place to stay, particularly around the keys area. It has prompted a massive evacuation. For days, cars and trucks screaming north along the states highway. 24 deaths have been confirmed since the storm first hit the eastern caribbean. This is how it looked a couple days ago as irma ripped into the British Virgin islands. Theres no reason to think it will be any less intense when it hits florida. Take a look at some of the after math, hour after hour of punishing wind leaving behind a surreal landscape, incredible images there. Whatever those hillside structures were, they are gone, red
Lieutenant governor to resign with state politicians and 2020 president ial candidates alike urging fairfax to step aside. Virginias democrat releasing this statement, quote given the nature of the claims against Lieutenant Governor fairfax, it has become clear he can no longer fulfill the duties and responsibilities of his post. It is in the best interest of the commonwealth that he goes through this process as a private citizen. Arthel ellison barber is live in richmond, virginia, in front of the State Capitol. Is there any indication this afternoon that the Lieutenant Governor will heed those calls to step aside . Reporter he says that he will not. He has said pretty consistently this last week or so when all these allegations started coming out that he would not resign after the second accuser came forward, he once again said i will not resign. He says this is all part of a Smear Campaign and that these stories are not the truth. However, there are many people who want him to step
Big win for Border Security and the rule of law. Lets go to garrett tenney, hes live in washington with more. Garrett. Reporter to be clear, this is a shortterm win for the white house which is now able to access those additional funds while this case works its way through the court. So for now, the president is able to redirect 2. 5 billion from the pentagon budget and use it to Start Construction on an extra 100 miles of barrier along the border. However, the aclu which is challenging the Trump Administration in this case, is vowing to keep this night alive saying in a statement, this is not over. We will be asking the federal Appeals Court to expedite the ongoing appeals proceedings to halt the damage from trumps border wall. This is just one of several lawsuits seeking to block President Trumps Emergency Declaration which he made earlier this year to access billions of dollars in additional funding for a border wall after congress refused to p fund his Signature Campaign promise. T
Irans downing of an unmanned u. S. Drone with no loss of life. Here is the president , earlier this afternoon. Everybody was saying im a war monger and now they say im a dove. And i think im neither. You want to know the truth. Im a man with common sense. This is not about disgrace. This is this is not about the straits. This is about iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon, very simple. Eric we have details on what we can expect. Reporter President Trump on the ground right now, meeting with senior advisors with camp david. Hell come back to the white house tomorrow. He has a lot of work ahead for him, especially when it comments to the iran policy. Hell be talk about other issues but iran will be top of mind. President said that war is not something he wants. He says sanctions appear to be more realistic. Tensions increased this week when iranians shot down a u. S. Drone. Its was unmanned. Minutes before the strike, the president announced he aborted the mission, citing the potential casua
Happy new year. Whats your new years resolution. Peace in the world. Peace is right, but im not sure youre supposed to say resolution outloud. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. This thursday, january 2nd. We begin with a new year full of the new and the old and a lot of challenges for President Trump. The New York Times Michael Crowley summed up the president s new years eve like this. It was perhaps fitting that President Trump ended another dizzying year in office with a crisisdriven day of surreal contrasts. One that began with him tracking a middle east emergency from his golf club and ended with a tuxedo clad president Holding Forth about north korea, iran, and impeachment and vaping on a red carpet over the thumping den of party music. In the mooefld meef in the middle east theres the conflict with iran, kim jongun now saying that he can in fact Testing Nuclear and longrange missiles despite the president s claim of a signed agreement for north korea to denuclearize. And t