Mayor of Corpus Christi, texas. His city to bear the brunt of the storm. And the governors text declared an emergency for 30 counties and spoken with the president about possibly emergency measures from the federal government, and at 1 45 eastern, White House Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders will believe the press talking how the government is preparing for the hurricane in text. Well bring that to you live. The leading edge of the hurricane is bringing rains and strong winds to parts of the coast including Corpus Christi. It doesnt look too bad now. Obviously, as hours drag on here its going to get worse. Whats it like now and have people there been heeding the call to evacuate . Reporter about an hour ago, jim, we saw some heavy rain bands come through here at Corpus Christi, seeing the most significant rain its seen. This hour you mentioned, lightened up a bit. Keeping an eye on the water and watching the storm surge. The National Hurricane center xpek expects a three to sixfo
13th, have the finance Committee Mark it up. The goal here, of course, get everything done by the end of november, in the senate, end of december in the house. The white house is pushing to cut the Corporate Tax rate. It claims thats going to raise wages. Right now the Corporate Tax rate, the statutory rate, is at 35 . Often you hear people say highest in the world. Thats because it is, at least one of. Not the highest, one of the highest in the industrialized world except most dont pay that. Pay a different rate depending how many loopholes. We calculate to be about 18. 5 . They want to bring it down to 25 insisting those cuts will stimulate growth and increase the annual Household Income by an average of about 4,000. They were saying 4,000 to 9,000, now were hearing 4,000. Ill ask about that in a moment. This plan says dropping the Corporate Tax rate will increase Economic Activity to something between 3 to 5 in as little as three years. It says that this 3 to 5 increase in the gdp w
It will be the end of the Peace Process. Under scrutiny, President Trumps son, don junior, on his way to the hill for a closeddoor meeting with the house intel committee. This as documents exclusively obtained by nbc news reveal don junior asked russians for damning information on the clinton foundation. And rage against the machine. The race in alabama gets even uglier as steve bannon goes off at an event for roy moore. And now im going to get personal. We begin this morning with President Trumps big decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel, a move that breaks with 70 years of u. S. Policy and one that palestinians and others say could destroy hopes of middle east peace once and for all. Well, ive got a great team here to break it all down. Before we get to them, i want to explain why this city is so very important. Jerusalem sits at the center, literally and figuratively, of nearly 70yearold dispute between israelis and palestinians. A much older, broader conflict bet
But as of last night police say they do not believe this was a random act of violence. Im keeping everything open and looking at every possible monthsive motive. When you have this many people struck by gunfire its a great concern. I want to find out what it is. Im not closing any doors or chapters and i dont want to speculate as well. Bill laura engel, what more do we know about what happened last night . Good morning. This was a very popular area. Police are still trying to piece together what happened in this location. It was a warm summer night which had many people, including families, out for dinner and strolling along the street filled with restaurants and bars when witnesses say all hell broke loose. They described seeing a man walking by several restaurants which had their doors and windows open, when he suddenly pulls out this handgun and starts shooting at people from the sidewalk. Listen. I thought it was fireworks at first because it was rapid fire and then there would be
Reworking a rebuttal that they had written months ago. Jude yaen saying he doesnt think any of the redactions will be covered by executive privilege. Where things stand, where things down. Cara, what are you hearing about the reports release . Kate, i mean, washington is on the edge of its seat as we await bill barr to refeel the full Mueller Report nearly two weeks after this investigation began. The timing is still fluid, it could come any day this week. Bill barr testified last week on capitol hill that it would come this week, that he was in the final stretches of dealing with these redactions. The Big Questions remain how much is going to be redacted and what does the report say about the president s role in obstruction of justice and Robert Muellers investigation there. Bill barr said that the report from mueller did not conclude that trump had obstructed justice but it did not exonerate him, either. Rudy giuliani told our dana bash last night that they are preparing a rebuttal f