Tbhat hammas and the u. S. Hurricane dorian is expected to arrive sometime tomorrow. This as the bahamas got hit with the most of powerful hurricane in history. Category 5. Wind gusts up to 220 miles per hour. A 27foot storm surge. Its highest point is 40 feet above sea level. In the u. S. , five states in a state of the emergency. Florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, and virginia. Millions urged to evacuate. 25 billion in damages. Thats the estimate of the cost of this storm. But those jumps typically change. Mike tobin is live in tybee island with more. Reporter the last we heard from the governor of georgia, hes trying to address the people who arent taking this storm seriously. He says the storm will park itself offshore and dump water on this part of the country for 2430 hours. So the Evacuation Order remains on the beach. You can see a lot of people who are not respecting the Evacuation Order. Some people are taking a nap. Others are playing out in the water. Most of
robert wolf. we about to manchester, fox news christian fisher is outside of the arena where president is holding his rally. reporter: there are now thousands of people in this arena, first people to get inside started waiting in line yesterday. afternoon, they waited overnight in cold and rain before getting in today, this is a show of force by the trump campaign. on primary eve, president trump tonight to get on stage, and say look at all of the people they have been able to get to come to hear me speak, and compare that to crowds the number of people we ve seen showing up for all of the democratic candidates. i think safe to say this is a bigger crowd than his democratic rivals have been able to draw. that will be a focus tonight. another thing, this is president trump s first rally. since he was acquitted, since the impeachment hoax, as he liked to call it has ended. if you thought his victory lap last week was a big deal, wait until are hear what he is expected to say to
It feels to me the next couple years should be quite strong. You will see businesses expecting and i would expect the next two years to be on the current path to be good years for the economy. Charles fire . Tammy, i have been watching these things for 20 years. Some of the classic dustups between Maxine Walters and allen greenspan. But they beat him up today and would not accept the fact that this economy is on fire. Tammy you have them on display to edit into a commercial for people back home. That does no one any good service because people at home are already benefiting from Donald Trumps tax cuts and tax reform. But they are still stuck within that pit of not being able to embrace the fact that everyones lives are improving. They are part of the government but they refuse to. But it also speaks to the fact within what they are stuck in, the financial aspects, they dont want the American People to do well because it hurts their political prospects. I want them to be a loyal opposit
A few stock standouts. Haines brand higher by more than 9 . Verasign up by 5 . Heres what else is happening at this hour. A california woman has been awarded more than 70 million in a lawsuit alleging that Johns Johnson johnson baby powder caused her cancer. Bmw will recall 136,000 vehicles over a fuel pump problem. And a recordbreaking heat continues from the planes through parts of the southwest, some areas will see temperatures up to 25 degrees warmer than normal. Meantime, we kick it off, however, with breaking news in the race for the white house. Lets get right to cnbcs eamon javers. Were getting new news here out of the fbi and relation to the investigation into secretary Hillary Clintons emails. This just breaking within the past couple of minutes here, the fbi director has sent a letter to capitol hill in regard to his own testimony about Hillary Clintons emails. I want to read you the key sentence here from the letter. He says, a letter from james comey to members of congress
Business news and analysis. The book, so maybe the president could be right about that. Something that the president knows hes got some backup on when pushing this issue, trish, of immigration and his national security, he was standing there with guiseppe conte, the new Prime Minister of italy that won office based on wanting to reform italys Immigration Laws and tighten Border Security there. Angela merkel, who is not exactly a huge fan of the president , has recently said that germany is going to tighten up its borders as well. So perhaps public sentiment is moving in a direction that the president believes if he were to pull the trigger on a Government Shut Down, might be one that he could benefit from politically. That really would be bucking history, trish. Trish thanks, john. The president pushing ahead with his shut down threat despine warnings from gop leaders, especially with the midterms coming up around the corner. Here with me right now, u. S. A. Today congressional reporte