We want to welcome you in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. The breaking news tonight, Hurricane Matthew is closing in on the southeastern part of the United States, with florida bracing for a direct hit as early as friday. All of florida is now under a state of emergency, with the governor warning of potential massive destruction. President obama is urging people to heed evacuation orders. He says matthew could have a devastating effect. Also breaking now, the Justice Department says a Government Contractor has been arrested for allegedly stealing top secret intelligence from the National Security agency. Prosecutors say hard copy and digital files containing highly classified information were found in a search of the maryland home of Harold Thomas martin iii. And donald trump is praising mike pences performance in the Vice President ial debate and seeming to take credit. Trump says hes being praised for pi
Building and for saying youre fired on the apprentice. The former tv star carried some reality show habits with him to the oval office, seems particularly fond of one specific game show device, the tease. Well now unlike tv, where the goal is to get to you come back after the commercial break, trumps teases seem designed to keep us on the edge of our news feeds, thus distracted from his many scandals. Trump tweeted for weeks to tee up his final decision on the paris climate accord. It was 3 00 p. M. On may 31st. Did you tune in live . Spoiler alert, it was not a hit. And earlier that month trump had the entire nation waiting for the answer to one question. Are there tapes of his conversation with former fbi director james comey who before he was fired was running the russia investigation. This week when we finally got the big reveal trump does not have any recordings and never actually did, we learned the original tapes tweet was unlike his other teases. It wasnt meant for us, it seems
Three are all the top story and each reflect a particularly corrosive tension of the Trump Administration. Travel ban, its growth showing how much the Trump Administration is doing on policy while the tweets and feuds grab attention. Old ban was temporary threemonth experiment and this revised ban is slated at permanent. This today is more farreaching policy than the first travel ban. And its revealing for Many Americans and leaders, this ban is getting less attention than the shock of the first travel ban which seemed to plunge the nation into a weekend of chaos. Protests throughout the country at airports. This as President Trumps executive order that bans refugees from predominantly muslim countries its unprecedented. Protests still going strong here. Immigrants are welcome here. No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here. That was then but today apparently the permanent travel ban not considered the most shocking thing trump has done even in the last 48 hours. Supreme court orde
A childhood behind bars. And disappointing results for germanys biggest banks more than half a billion euros in losses so what is going on with the countrys largest lender. Im going to have you with us michael heads into the final round of talks to form a new government this weekend with less than half the country supporting her hoped for a grand coalition that according to a new poll released today there is still doubt whether merkel will pull the coalition off and germans are losing patience the numbers are even worse for her potential Coalition Partners the social democrats Germany Center left party is looking at its lowest Approval Ratings ever. Germanys social democrats need to regroup theyre still the second Largest Party in parliament but their standing has been flagging since the partys poor Election Results last september the latest polls suggest if people voted now chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives would score thirty three percent of the vote far ahead of the s. P. D. W
Story also included confusion, lawsuits and even some missing votes as some counties failed to meet todays deadline. We gave a heroic effort and given three or four more hours it might have made the time. That was heroic effort and we completed uploading our saturday results as is required in law. That was Palm Beach County. Quite messy. Hillsboro county also saying they have to resubmit their original results because they had two Power Outages during the recount, counting roughly 850 fewer votes than they had from the original election day calculation. Here in broward, the center of so much controversy, election supervisor brenda snipes not answering questions when they announced they finished the recount. Reporter do you know how many votes we have . Im sorry, weve been desperately trying to get the report done. Well put it on the web site and everybody will be able to view it. I was in that room today and it was not exactly a show of force. When they did announce the numbers, there