dangerous move? and a story you ll see first out front. we re going to introduce you to a group of women learning to fire a gun for the first time. they say they don t feel safe in their cities anymore, and they are not republicans. let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, bracing, the state of florida, that s the right word for what s happening there tonight, bracing and preparing tonight for a direct hit as hurricane ian picks up speed. the storm is now a category 3. winds are 120 miles an hour. conditions are quickly deteriorating in the florida keys. tropical storm winds and a damaging storm surge are battering the island chain. that is tonight. now let me show you sombrero beach in marathon, florida. there you see the winds already hitting those palm trees. residents are being told to take cover. tornado warnings there have already begun. and this is all as ian is not even there. ian is still growing in strength feeding on those incr
hello, everyone, thanks so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield in atlanta. in wisconsin a deadly shooting left a former judge dead and sources tell cnn the gunman was planning to target several other high-ranking government officials. former juneau county circuit court judge john roemer was gunned down in his home friday. police say the shooter then shot himself. sources say the gunman was also planning attacks on wisconsin governor tony evers and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. we have details now. what more are investigators sharing. reporter: sources tell cnn the suspect had a list of targets, a long list of targets. officials say this was somehow related to the justice system. was it one case, several cases? that is simply not clear. what i can tell you this began friday morning when someone ran out of judge roemer s home, called 911 and told police someone had broken inside and shot two rounds inside that home. when police tried to negotiate with the s
The storm. Were doing whatever we can to help. Shepard lets get to it. Good friday afternoon from the Fox News Deck. Were tracking Hurricane Irma. Floridas governor says the window to escape the path of the storm is closing. With each updated forecast, the chance of a direct hit on some part of South Florida and then up the peninsula of florida are increasing. This as the head of fema says i dont know anybody in florida has experienced what were about to get. The florida says we should expect life threatening conditions from coasttocoast. He says this is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen. Over 500,000 people there from mandatory Evacuation Orders, including miami, miami beach, the keys. Rick scott telling people to be
patient when dealing with crowded highways. He says more troopers are on the road to help with the flow of the traffic. He says the state has sent school buses to get residents out of dangerous areas. Some gas stations have long lines. Others have no fuel
Congressman to his son, the phone calls from the son made to i believe it was the future fatherinlaw and the other calls first lady there. How much time would he be facing if convicted of all the charges . Yeah, i mean, he is facing 150 years, and thats just addressing the congressman. Were not talking, again, about the 25yearold son and his future fatherinlaw. Those phone calls, anderson, there were seven in total that went back and forth between the congressman and his son while the congressman was at that white house congressional picnic. And theyre very quick. They finally connected on that seventh phone call. This is shortly after only minutes that the u. S. Attorneys office says that he received that email saying that the drug trial had failed. And then according to the attorneys office, his son, cameron, 25 years old, again, went to his fiancees familys house to tell them in person that the drug trial had failed, that they needed to do something about it, allegedly, and then
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The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. There is nothing at the Department Of Justice that indicates that they didnt do overt acts and these investigation investigations 60 days before elections. Its customary, usually around the time of an election they wont do what is called overt acts, that i wont bring indictments or subpoena people or do anything publicly as to try to not sway the election. The idea that we here in that time frame or approaching it is simply not true. I think what we know, poppy is that we expect mueller will continue in september and there may be a quiet period come octob october, a month before the election. As we saw from james comey in the Hillary Clinton email probe, things can be reopened days before an election. That is something that mueller and his team would be conscious of. Mueller was i mean, comey was in trouble for that. That is something they are considering. For sure in their minds. Dana bash got the scoop fro