A tour de force. Were now one day away from what could be the change of health care in this country. President trump bringing his patented brand of hard sale to capitol hill. Trying to coax reluctant republicans to vote for the American Health care act repealing obamacare. And all hands, closeddoor meeting for House Republicans, the president said, quote, a loss just isnt acceptable. Even called out mark meadows by name. Meadows is the chairman of the House Freedom caucus. Trump predicted meadows and the caucus will get on board. And repeated that at the National Congressional dinner. The American People voted for historic change. And they also voted for serious action. The American People gave us clear instructions. Its time to get busy, get to work, and to get the job done. These are the conservative solutions we campaigned on. And these are the conservative solutions the American People asked us, as a group, to deliver. The House Rules Committee takes up the Health Care Legislation
Now they ran these images that youre looking at on your screen. They ran these pictures purpo purporting to show north korea leader kim jongun expecting the device. Lets go to straight to seoul south korea. Bring us up to speed with the latest as youre hearing it. I know the South Koreans were holding a National Security Council Meeting. Thats right. The meeting is still ongoing. That meeting convened about half an hour ago. Were also hearing that the south Korean Military has been put on a higher state of alert. Theres also more surveillance taking place right now of north korea. That according to the joint chiefs of staff. Theyre just analyzing what took place in that northeastern corner of north korea, where weve known that Nuclear Tests have taken place in the past. This one, according to the United States geological survey, a magnitude 6. 3, which is, according to the earthquake scale ten times larger than the test that took place just last year in 2016 was a 5. 3. Now we cannot c
In the next week ear or week or two. And early start returns now with the latest projections from nowTropical Storm harvey. Devastating scenes playing out across Southeast Texas as tens of thousands are stranded, waiting for rescue from harveys wrath. The rain is not letting up just yet. Were live in texas ahead. President trump heads to texased to to survey the damage texas today to survey the damage. Questions follow. Did he really pardon a controversial sheriff to get more conk during the storm more coverage during the storm . North korea launches another missile. This one over japan. A serious escalation the Prime Minister says poses the most grave threat ever to japan. Cnn is the only western News Organization reporting live from north korea. Well go there shortly. Good morning and welcome to early start, everybody. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august 29th. It is 5 01 a. M. In the east. 5 31 in the evening in pyongyang. Its 4 00 in houston. This morning, des
Fire and everyone panicked and ran and there was blood and there was burns. The blast happened during the morning rush hour. Under the when the underground system or the underground system was packed with people. President trump tweeted that, quote in response he tweeted this out that the, quote, loser terrorist was in the sights of Scotland Yard. Were going to get to that in a second. Lets get the latest on where exactly things stand in this investigation. Cnns Senior International correspondent nima elbagir is near the scene of the attack, Paul Cruickshank is here with me as well. Nima, to you, what is the latest on the manhunt . Well, police have evacuated a 50 meter perimeter around the tube station. Theyre looking for any and all evidence that they can find. Any remnants of this device. You can see the cordon behind me remains in place. The manhunt is ongoing even as British Security sources tell us they found a timer on the detonated improvised explosive device which leads them t
Many more are waiting to be served. Private citizens now using their own boats to ferry trap residents to safety. Two feet of rain has already fallen and that could double in the next few days. Tropical storm harvey has barely moved since slamming to shore as a hurricane, and may become even stronger. How much worse could it get . And president ial response. Calling the flooding, quote, historic, President Trump will visit texas tomorrow, says he may travel saturday to louisiana where he has also declared a federal emergency. At the same time hes caught up in a new controversy, defending his decision to pardon former sheriff joseph arpaio. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim sciutto, a orksciutto, the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. The breaking news, desperate rescue operations are under way at this moment in houston where epic, devastating flooding has put much of americas fourth largest city under water. It is a race against time as some areas in the south texas d