For racial insensitivity once its made public. Will clippers owner Donald Sterling sell the team, now that hes banned for life . Will his fellow owners force him . Who would buy it . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The national lead, it started coming down and it still has not stopped. Deadly storm system that has tortured much of the eastern half of the nation for days creeping up the eastern seaboard, causing some of the worst flooding in a generation, 37 Million People now at risk. The Florida Panhandle up through new england catching deluge now. Today its hard to tell the gulf coast from the actual gulf. Heres something you dont see every day, even in florida, airboat replacing cars as the best mode of transportation. This is just blocks from downtown pensacola. There are reports of people still trapped by Rushing Waters like these. Pensacola got more than 17 inches of rain in 24 hours. Thats more than a quarter of its average annual rain total in jus
Enough to sweep away parts of homes overnight. Also overnight, a suspected gas explosion caused part of a jail in pensacola to collapse. That incident killing two inmates, injuring more than 100. Its unclear though if the blast is connected to the severe weather. Lets get to ed lavandera. Hopefully youre starting to get a better idea of just what happened. Good morning. Here the crews are waiting for the sun to come up. The jail and part of the green structure on the build that you see that exploded last night. It was a dangerous situation and deadly. Breaking news overnight. Day four of a catastrophic storm system in the southeast is now barreling up the eastern seaboard threatening millions more. Officials have issued flood warnings from florida to new york with six inches of rain predicted in some parts of the northeast. City streets are already submerged. In maryland several thousand gallons of water rushed into a town 20 miles south of baltimore after a breach in the dam. In balti
But first lets jump into some of the Biggest Senate races today. Good afternoon. I am krystal ball. As we come on the air, some 90 Million People are voting in what our team has characterized at the longest, most expensive, most talked out Midterm Election cycle in our history. Nbcs luke russert has managed to escape from capitol hill. Hes in west des moines, iowa. Luke, Senate Candidate republican Senate Candidate there joni ernst, one of the republicans top recruit this is cycle, what do you think is happening there today in the Hawkeye State . Reporter well, joni ernst is coming into election day with a lot of momentum. She had a sevenpoint lead with the Des Moines Register poll. Her opponent bruce braley made a series of missteps throughout the campaign. She seems to have capitalized on those. Whats really interesting is theres been this question about who cares more about people like me. Joni ernst in the Des Moines Register poll tested better that for a democrat to do is quite su
First responders and survivors have been diagnosed with cancer. This changed everything from how we fight isis to how we negotiate with iran to airport security. Debra feyerick is in manhattan near ground zero. Reporter we are just south of ground zero where this powerful ceremony is taking place. You think about 14 years, carol. Just behind you see the tower, one World Trade Center that has risen from the ashes over the last 14 years. It will never replace the two buildings that fell. It will never replace anything lost on that day. But what it does show, what it does represent is that there is something there to remind people and to bring people together. Now, i did speak to the Police Commissioner of the nypd. He said were sort of at a cross road right now. A number of people dont remember 9 11 and they need to. We cannot grow complacent. Listen to what he had to say. If you were six years old at the time it has no relevance to you. This needs to serve as a constant reminder that th
NASCAR avoided one public relations nightmare last week when it granted Kyle Larson a waiver to participate in the playoffs even though he missed the Coca-Cola 600.