i m just going to read this and get folks to respond to it. but this is chris murphy, tweeting the arpaio pardon is a big middle finger to america, a loud, proud declaration that this administration supports racism. talk about that story here all evening here on cnn and into the morning, but i want to get to our other breakingne news story now. hurricane harvey, making land fall along the texas coast with winds of up to 130 miles an hour. joining me is ed rap pa port, the deputy director of the national hurricane center. i now you re very busy, we appreciate you taking the time. so describe what hurricane harry is doing right now. has it made landfall? hurricane harvey is making landfall, as we speak. it s coming ashore, as we said, as a category four hurricane. and we ve already received winds, reports of winds of 111 miles per hour, gusts to 130
disgraceful for a lot of reasons. i find it a insult for people we re talking about, people in public safety who every day do their jobs really successfully without violating the rule of law, and it also empowers that very small group of them who are harmful and damage communities of color and immigrant communities and, you know, target women. it emboldness them to do what they ought not to do. and in the end, we re here on a friday night talking about these specific issues, who s in with the president, who s not in, who did him a favor, who endorsed him early, and there is a category 4 hurricane hovering over feks for the next couple days. i m imprelsed with feema and the homeland security adviser, but we have a president who seems disinterested in that, the most important part of his job, the
miles per hour, to the southwest of the center near port aran sis, texas. what can those in the path of the hurricane expect next? the two biggest concerns are rainfall and storm surge, with the storm surge coming first. storm surge is where the water rices along the shore line, being driven by the strong winds that we just talked about. that will bring the water level up to as much as 13 feet above ground level near to the northeast of where the center is coming ashore. water levels are already up about five feet and are going to continue to rise. the storm will stall very near the coast, just inland. that s the other problem we re expecting. rainfall on the order of 20 inches or more in this area. with isolated amounts as much as 40 inches, record rainfall amounts, extreme flooding is possible. oh, my goodness. so can you talk to me about this, if you can, we ve seen
knew we would be covering this. i guess i m not the media analyst, but i don t think this is a news dump. i think the sheriff is very much what the president wanted us to be talking about, because it s a signal to what kind of law enforcement he wants, it s a signal about pardon ning and his priorities right now. i think he anticipated we were talking about it. i would prefer to have a president who was only focused on the category 4 hurricane, but i believe he knew he knew i don t think i think he knows how we would react. maybe he can t stand not being the lead story. i think he didn t want to be usurped by harvey. he has to be in the news cycle. i think this is a way for him to have taken a leadership goal. we have a category 4 storm slamming in texas, instead he chose to do a news dump. i was in new orleans for katrina, i used to live in the
with president trump s pardon of the controversial sheriff joe arpaio. plus the latest exit from the administration, sebastian gorka. joining us on the phone, what would you like to say to them? caller: i d like to say hang in there and hold strong and be safe. we ll keep you in our thoughts. i m happy to hear the words of fahrenthold. we jut came bast came back from. i can envision him with a cell phone and flashlight in the dark y dark, but hang in there. it s not the first time for corpus christi. it s going to be a long, hard slog. i have to ask, knowing that the hurricane was hitting the texas coast, pardoning joe arpaio, why do you think this was shoe horned in on a friday