Much cooler weekend two more summery days Storm Chances return much cooler weekend today hot and humid. Isolated pm thunderstorms. Highs 9194 winds sw 10 mph tonight isolated storms early. Mild and muggy. Lows 6770 winds sw 5 mph friday partly sunny. Afternoon thunderstorms possible. Highs 8992 winds w to ne 5 mph this morning. The investigation into russian meddling in now in the hands of a special prosecutor. Its an appointment that even the white house didnt see coming. Suzanne kennedy is tracking the latest developments, live on capitol hill. Happening today Deputy Attorney rosenstein is set to brief the entire senate on the decision to fire former fbi director james comey. The request was made by both republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and democratic minority leader chuck schumer. Rosenstein is expected to answer questions about his role in comeys firing the white house says the president fired him, in part, becuase of rosensteins recommendation. We are monitoring the pres
Than 840 people have been killed by this monstrous storm, including one in florida. More than half a million homes in florida are without power. More than 4500 flights have been canceled through saturday and evacuation orders remain in place for two Million People in florida, georgia and south carolina. Authorities are urging people to leave these areas. The storm is barrelling towards georgia and the carolinas as we speak. President obama reminding americans that theyve got to remain vigilant. This is still a really dangerous hurricane. If they tell you to evacuate, you need to get out of there and move to higher ground. We can always replace property, but we cant replace lives. Trish theres also a hesitancy when there are events from People Living in these areas because they dont want to get out or figure i got out in the last hurricane and nothing happened. I would have been so much better off, it would have been easier to stay put, but once again the warning coming from the preside
Reporter the search has been called off. Rough conditions are hampering the search for Harry Hernandez. He was a crew member on board the tug boat named specialist that crashed into a barge at the tappen zee bridge on saturday morning. The search for him called off because of poor conditions. The bodies of two men working alongside hernandez, 63year old paul ayman, and Timothy Conklin have been found. At 11 18 on saturday, conklins whether he had a premonition or a bad feeling, its sad that he would have that feeling. Reporter the specialist was the boat on the right, and the operation drifted towards the destruction barge under the tappen zee bridge, and they radioed in. We are too close. We have to move left, but they could not move in time. Marine unit for county p. D. Will stay on sight for the entire operations until and in the event that the third crew member is found. Reporter there are containment booms around the sunked tug boat. Crews will be making a plan on how to get the b
Ramadi, 25 is contested, how sure is this victory . Well, the iraqi forces unless for some reason they just quit will finish retaking ramadi. Its going to be messy. Urban warfare the street fighting with booby traps and ambushes and snipers, you can only go so fast, and its always ugly. But they will retake it. And thats important. Its a significant tactical victory militarily. Its a big pr blow for Islamic State. But once the battle is over, once the shooting more or less stops in ramadi, then the strategic question kicks in and thats when the Iraqi Government, the baghdad government backed by iran, by the way, will they show common sense this time around and allow the sunni arabs, in province in continuous areas a reasonable degree of self government, of self control . Because iraq if it has any hope whatsoever of returning to the old borders, its got to be as federation. The kurds are not coming back, et cetera,. Deirdre yeah, i want to underline that point because as you said u. S.
A ukrainian mental blocks. The South African leader calls on the th, when a group to accept more countries from the proximate into their ranks. As africa pushes for a bigger role in geo politics. A month out of the world. This is our international. Im Rachel Blevins here with the top stories that be our welcome to the programmer. Poland has decided not to invoke a provision of natos charter for an inquiry into the missile incident. The Un Security Council convene to discuss the situation according to russias un ambassador. The missile incident was a deliberate provocation by ukraine and poland to bring nato into the conflict. Yes, we believe this meeting had not been scheduled. We would have had to convenient anyway. The discuss the attempts by ukraine and poland wants to provoke a direct clash between russia and nato. But it was not just an intentional attempt at this information, but a conscious attempt to bring natal, which is currently conducting a proxy war, into a direct conflict