Were back from texas tonight, and great to have you with us here. And we begin with new questions this evening after those pictures just now emerging of a deadly commute home. Workers on the train in washington, d. C. When smoke and then panic fills multiple cars. One dead, more than 80 injured. This was the scene deep inside the tunnel, after the train left a washington, d. C. Metro station. And now, this dramatic video showing the chaos, passengers trapped, gasping for air, praying. The conductor, trying to calm them. Please stay calm. Please do not open the doors. Then, outside the train, passengers dazed. An oxygen mask on that man. Another one covered in black soot. Tonight, an investigation now under way. Major questions about the response. Some passengers climbing out on their own. Abcs david kerley is there. Reporter a frightening start to rush hour in the nations capital. [ coughing ] the train stops, goes dark, and start filling with smoke in an underground tunnel. Please sta
Good evening. More on the storm ahead. Within the last few minutes weve gotten new information about when and where it may hit and how hard. Well bring that to you shortly. We begin, though, with the words the president of the United States tonight at a second swearingin ceremony for Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh. It was in many ways a victory lap for the president. Hes done what few president s have, naming two justice to the court in his first two years in office. But in addition to celebrating his victory, he also used the moment to say this. I want to apologize to brett and the entire kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. Our country, a man or a woman, must always be
Panhandle in decades. Every family must be prepared. Remember, we can rebuild your house, but we cannot rebuild your life. Take this seriously and keep your family safe. Sandra were live in the fox extreme weather center. Anything to disrupt this storm before it makes landfall . No. Im concerned this storm is strengthening very rapidly. Weve seen rapid intensification over the last couple days. You can see that eye now beginning to form and the storm is looking like a perfect circle. You can see that buzz saw effect. A strengthening storm. There is nothing in the upper levels of the atmosphere to tear this storm apart. The water temperatures are 85 degrees ahead of this storm. It is going to crash into the Florida Panhandle. The strength is going to be a major hurricane. Possibly borderline category 4 and thats why the warnings are dire right now. Storm surge the worst of the storm surge is going to be on the righthand side. So the big bend of florida need to be prepared for a strength
About to begin. What are we expecting tonight from the president . And from Brett Kavanaugh . I think the big question for whats going to happen here is whether or not were going to see fence spending or more fire and fury. We expect the president to speak for about 20 minutes or so. Were expecting Brett Kavanaugh to speak. After we heard the president earlier today talk about the Democratic Forces aligned against kavanaugh as being evil, whether or not hes going to dial down that rhetoric. We know that Brett Kavanaugh put that op ed in the wall street journal, you can see people coming into the room right now. Supreme Court Justices okayingen, sotomayor, ginsburg, roberts, breyer and so on. Kavanaugh seemed to dial back a lot of that rhetoric that we saw during his hearing. Some of the other notables we should mention in the room right now is Justice Kavanaughs wife and children. Also one thing i want to note, Mitch Mcconnell came into the room, i thought that was interesting because
Suffering you have been forced to endure. Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. Our country, a man or a woman, must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. And with that, i must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. Well, it was, whatever you think of the president s choice of judge kavanaugh, the kid of language not traditionally heard at moments like this, but this has been a confirmation process unlike any in recent memory. The president clearly believes what happened will politically benefit his party next month during Midterm Elections. Ever since judge kavanaugh got the vote saturday, the president has gone all in against the people opposed to the confirmation. Here he was this morning. A man that did nothing