Tropical storm harvey making landfall again, this time in louisiana where it is ham 34ering the area with heavy rain. Here in houston where im standing, after five Straight Days of rain, im happy to report the conditions seem to be improving. The streets we drove in to get to houston, they were wet, but they were not flooded. The situation in the Convention Center is pretty dire. Im in the citys largest shelter where at last count, 8,319 people are seeking refuge. There are two more mega shelters now open in this city. Theyre taking people in to alleviate the overcapacity conditions here. Onethird of Harris County which includes 4. 9 Million People in houston and the suburbs are under water. All eyes are on the two dams trying to contain the record breaking rainfall. The death toll, it is, of course, on the rise. Among those people killed, a veteran Houston Police sergeant. Steve perez drown trying to get to his command post trying to help those in need. Rescue crews and volunteers are
Still ahead and the worst could be yet to come. Im eric shawn, this is americas news headquarters. Arthel entire neighborhoods under water. Officials telling people to stay indoors and only call 911 if their lives are in i am nernlt danger. Adam klotz is tracking the storm. How much rain is headed houstons way . Reporter these numbers just keep climbing and climbing. So far this is from the system that made landfall. This your legend up at the top. We are getting into the 12 to 16inch range. A wide area where we have seen heavy rain. And there are those numbers. 15, 16, 17, 18 inches of rain already. And its still raining and it will be range for days. Here is the last 24 hours. You will see where it moved on to shore but where all the rain has been falling father up the coast. Again, just rounds and rounds of heavy showers, thunderstorms, isolated tornadoes within the system. And thats what we have been seeing and continue to see the heavy rain. Flash flood watches and warnings in pla
The Washington Post that the president actually asked about the possibility of closing the case before it went to trial. Good evening. Im brooke baldwin. You are watching cnn. I want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. But lets get straight to that breaking news out of washington. President trump reportedly asking attorney general Jeff Sessions whether it would be possible to drop the criminal case against the former Maricopa County sheriff joe arpaio. And the key piece here that was all apparently before his case was at trial. This is all, of course, before the pardon. Lets go to athena jones at the white house for us and cnn political analyst on the phone for the analysis. Athena, first, just backing up on the Washington Post reporting, what more do we know . What did he ask for exactly . Hi, brooke. According to this new report by the Washington Post, the president had a conversation back in the spring with his attorney general Jeff Sessions. W
Courtroom, observing the trial of the ringleader of the Birmingham Church bombers. When the sister of one of the victims campaigned for jones, im going to talk to her tonight. We have contributor frank bernie. Good evening, gentlemen. As i said earlier, roy moore is out with this new video message. He still refuses to concede. Lets look at it. I want to thank all of you who have stood with me in this very important battle for the future of our country. We are indeed in a struggle to preserve our republic, our civilization and our religion, and set free a suffering humanity. And the battle rages on. In this race we have not received the final count to include military and provisional ballots. This has been a very close race and we are awaiting certification by the secretary of state. Secretary of state did an interview last night saying he didnt think that would change anything, but if you want to go through all of this he certainly doesnt want to seem like he wants to ride off in the s
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