That knocked out power to more than 36,000 people in three different states. In mississippi, alabama, the storm surge has been the big concern here. You can see firefighters wading through rising water at a casino parking lot garage in biloxi. That casino and others were closed before nates arrival. Nate is blamed for 28 deaths in Central America earlier this week. The pictures from costa reek reek rica here. We want to bring in Martin Savidge and we have ed lavandera with us. Martin, lets start with you, the situation there from what youre seeing, has the storm backed off a bit. Do you feel things are improving there in biloxi . Reporter not as bad as it was on the front side of the storm. Were on the back side now. The eye passed directly over biloxi. For about an hour, it was downright pleasant. The rain had stopped, the wind was down to a few miles an hour. It was suddenly peaceful. But then it picked right up again. The thing we noticed about the back side here is that hardly any
After being slammed by President Trump, bob corker, the chairman of the Senate Relations committee has said, quote, its a shame the white house has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. In them President Trump claims corker, quote, begged the president to endorse him for reelection and also said corker wanted to be secretary of state but then he turned him down. President trump then went on to blame corker for the iran deal. I want to go live to cnns ryan nobles outside the white house. First, lets talk about the Vice President walking out of that 49ers colts game. What do we know about that decision . If you look at the evidence that we have in front of us on social media, it certainly looks like the Vice President knew what he was getting into and he was prepared to leave this Football Game early. Those shot you you showed were at 1 08. They were ready to go the minute he left. The Vice President showed a picture of him standing for the N
People ive ever known. Outstanding intellect and judge respected by everybody. I have great confidence in the u. S. Senate. They will go through a process and hear everybody out. I think its important. It is an accusation which the Ranking Member of the committee of juris dick shun has known about for six weeks but chose to keep secret until the 11th hour. Obviously if judge kavanaugh has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying. These allegations ought to be treated with the utmost gravity. The allegations are extremely credible. Eric peter doocy is live on capitol hill with the latest. Good morning. First do republicans have the votes to confirm kavanaugh even if they dont hold the hearing on monday . They dont. Behind closed doors republican senator jeff flake has been warning leadership that a hearing is the least they can do to earn his support. I would have voted no this week absent her being able to tell her story. So im glad she is going to be able to and i may con
Can be deadly. Right now we believe any overtopping of the levees will be relatively short duration, of 12 hours, thats a significant hazard, and so were asking everyone to take this very seriously. Alison chinchar is in that cnn Weather Center for us. You got a fresh update on this storm. What are you seeing . The good news is, no major changes with the update that came out at 2 00, were sitting at winds at about 40 miles per hour, gusting up to 50. Its only moving west at 5 miles per hour, heres the thing. That forward speed isnt expected to pick up that much at land fall. The longer period of time the storm has to ride over these places, the more rain it can dump over that time frame. We expect the storm to intensify, theres the potential. It can get into a low end category one storm right beforehand fall. The main concern here with this particular stretch of rain. The outer bands will approach tonight into friday. Other gulf coast states, florida, mississippi, even texas as well, r