The building. Once inside the gymnasium, they had to maneuver through tables and vending machines set up by vote supporters to keep police out. Spains highest court says the vote is illegal and unconstitutional and vowed to shut it down. Cnns esa soares joins us live from barcelona, it is quite evident that the police were serious and the government about shutting this down. What is the situation there where you are . Reporter absolutely, i mean, they said all along it is illegal, it is unconstitutional, minister of interior for spain said this is a sham referendum that is being held by the catalonian government and that the gymnasium, the images you were showing there, natalie, that is where the president of catalonia is expected to vote, hes expected to arrive at 9 30. But the police we saw in the footage, thats the police force of some 7,000 according to the catalonian government. Theyre waiting at the port of barcelona for orders to move in. After that point, you had the police who
We are following the devastation in puerto rico and President Trump to visit the island later. O. J. Simpson released from prison early this morning. The official Nevada Department of directions told simpson dont come back and he told them, quote, i dont intend to. Simpson signed his paper work and he was picked up by a friend. Joipg us with more on the raefs and where he is headed neck, cnn correspondent paul brickhammond. Im here in las vegas and this is expected to be simpsons shortterm destination. You have heard him talk about going to florida. The paper work has not been turned in yet. It was 12 08 pacific time that o. J. Simpson left the correct n Correctional Center he had been serving nine years. According to the authorities he completed his paper work and he woke out they said unceremoniously without incident or without any problem. The prison officials feared there might be great media interest that paparazzi might follow him so they wanted to do it in a secret manner. When
Thanks so much for joining us. We begin this hour with President Trump. He plans to travel to puerto rico in two days for a look at the hurricane devastation and recovery effort. In the meantime he continues to brag on twitter about a Job Well Done saying in part the people are now starting to recognize the amazing work that has been done by fema and our great military. All buildings are now inspected for safety. Thank you to the governor of pr and all those who are working so closely with the first responders. Fantastic job. The governor said he is not sure what inspections the president is referring to. Im not aware of such inspections. There are areas of puerto rico which we havent really gotten contact. Perhaps he was referring to a particular set of buildings. Im not sure what the context of the message is. This comes on the heels of President Trump spewing nearly 20 tweets since yesterday on the dire situation in puerto rico from blasting the mayor to bragging about the federal r
Via a campaign of social media manipulation and intelligence gathering. Were going to be joined by one of the reporters on that big story in just a moment. But we begin tonight here. It is done. This weekend, after being confirmed by an historic narrow 5048 in the United States senate, Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the newest justice of the Supreme Court. He was sworn in immediately before anything else could happen. And then this evening, he got a formal installation ceremony at the white house with donald trump and a bunch of his conservative friends. It was 89 days from kavanaughs nomination to his confirmation on saturday. 89 long, long days. But Brett Kavanaughs nomination was not the longest nomination battle in recent history. If you set aside for a moment the Merrick Garland debacle, because of course his nomination was never actually taken up by the Senate Thanks to Mitch Mcconnell, then kavanaugh clocks in as the second longest in the last 27 years. The longest is Clarence