Going to one particular shelter near ft. Myers. Many of them are still waiting to get in. Were going to check in with our drew griffin whos there in the hour ahead. But first, lets get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. Allison chinchar is in the Weather Center. Bring us up to date. Right, anderson. Take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. Winds 125 Miles Per Hour gusting up to 155 Miles Per Hour. The movement its been what we call wobbling where its going back and forth between west and north and west and north. The question is when does it finally start to make that really sharp turn to the north. We focus on the maximum wind gusts. Notice for the most part its the western half of florida where we have our strongest winds. Key west, this will be our peak maximum wind gusts around 138 Miles Per Hour. But say up around ft. Myers 136, even tampa going to be in the triple digits right around 116 Miles Per Hour. The track its
Backdrop he is going to step in front of the American People tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. Its a very big decision for me. I took over a mess. And were going to make it a lot less messy. Reporter President Trump set to outline his strategy for americas path forward in afghanistan. A major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harms way. After meeting with Top Administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. He has made a decision, as he said. He wants to be the one to announce it to the American People. It is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. Reporter the president has been presented with a wide range of options. Everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers,
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This was somebody there are people who were skeptical about donald trump from the very beginning. This was Somebody Playing Ball with donald trump and was a supporter and maybe even going to be his Vice President ial candidate. So the fact that hes saying these kinds of things shows that he gave him a fair hearing, was willing to give him a try, and its become pretty clear that this is a highly problematic president. Part of the thing that is worrying to me is were starting to see everything through the prism of heres another twitter scandal, heres another bit of the crazy. How crazy. Youre talking about somebody who has more access to information about threats to america than almost any human being on earth, Senator Corker, saying hes afraid of world war iii, to the paper of record for the country. That should be a full stop, all traffic comes to a halt moment. Because this is a cry for help for the country. And yet but it doesnt come until after donald trump personally insults him on
No rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, Tornado Warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. Harvey has been downgraded to the Tropical Storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. One confirmed death and injury. Most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. Local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. It is rockport, texas. Take a look from the air. This is what is left of rockport. There was no escaping harvey. Rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. Leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. Lets bring in the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick by phone. Always good to be with you. I wish it was under different circumst
Pattern. Plus the president is demanding that congress do something, keep their promises for once, build of the southern border wall. Also tonight, the russia Collision Hoax continues to unravel. The house and talk house until Committee Chairman devin nunes is now saying there was never credible evidence for the fbi to even launch an investigation into drum camping associates. Also brandnew tonight, more monumental setbacks for Robert Muellers Imploding Witch Hunt and new evidence that the doj is in fact installing it stonewalling even further. Meeting with devin nunes and trey gowdy to review classified material is no longer happening tomorrow. It has been rescheduled for next week. Mara obstructionism. Another major win for the trump administration. The american hearer, gina haspel, secure the votes needed. She will become the new cia director and will call out the mainstream medias lies about what is happening between israel
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