Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings with a crucial day of questioning ahead. An extraordinary news wednesday. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And im christine romans. It is wednesday, september 5th. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Good morning, everybody. Breaking overnight, a new democratic primary upset from the left. In massachusetts, a boston city councilwoman, Ayanna Pressley, soundly defeating tenterm incumbent congressman Michael Capuano. Pressley joins a growing list of younger, more progressive democrats, many women and people of color, winning competitive primaries. Miguel marquez was there, filed this report for us. Reporter christine, dave, just an absolute upset here in the seventh district of massachusetts. This district had been tested two times by pollster, in february and this august. In february, capuano was up by 12 points. This august, just a few weeks ago, he was up by 13 points. She got people out that dont typically vote. S
Behind Colin Kaepernick. Now part of the iconic marketing campaign. Everybody has an opinion on this one. They do. Get ready for the latest boycott. Im certain. Maybe president ial tweet. Im christine romans. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Good to have you back. Tuesday, september 4th. We will get to kaepernick in a moment. We begin with Tropical Storm gordon. It strengthened overnight and expected to make it to hurricane status. Up to 2 Million People under hurricane watch for warnings. Officials in biloxi ordered the evacuation of harbors and marinas. People along the coast turning to sand bags to keep boats and property safe. In new orleans, the mayor declared a voluntary vevacuatio for people outside the levee system. Gordon has lashed south florida with rain and Tropical Storm force winds. Many schools are closing early. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joining us live in the cnn Weather Center with the latest. Hurricane by later today . It looks like it, christine.
Cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. Thats okay because i was looking for the transcript in the woodward phone call where the president talks about, well, i dont even talk to raj. So you should be speaking to my secretary, whatever, when we were saying, hey, ive been trying to get you on this book. I dont know how much credible rog has but i think youre right, he should answer for it. I want to know why. You cant say, i have no idea who he is. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced him and others at the hearing, guttenberg, about who he was and how he lost his kid. I dont mean to indict the judge. I dont know him, i havent learned much about him from his own mouth, we will get to that tomorrow. But how we disagree matters and we have to have decency. You have to have credibility. When youre caught in so many lies on tape and in person, it is hard to have credibility and im talking about the white house. Thank you. Got a lot to get to because you know we have to talk about what hap
Well test that notion. And Colin Kaepernick is the new face of nike. Can you guess whos not happy about that . We have the response that nike was banking on. What do you say, my friends . Lets get after it. All right. Now, this is not just another book, okay . This is one of the most respected journalists around, bob woodward. You know his name. That tells you much of what you need to know. Now, on a day that the president expected this to be all about his chance to leave a Lasting Impact on the Supreme Court with the kavanaugh confirmation hearings, instead his aides are disputing whether the white house really is, quote, crazy town. Here to help us sort out fact from fiction, ceo of newsmax, friend of the president , chris ruddy. Always good to see you, sir. Glad to be on. Now, lets just start with this aint omarosa, okay . If we were going to have titles on tv. She has a lot of tapes. Well see what she can prove and what she cant. Bob woodward is a man who deserves respect. You cant
Nick, are you there . Oh, well, lost him. So as we said, the winds are about 70 miles an hour. Its not clear yet exactly where this is going to be making landfall. It is roaring, as we say, toward the gulf coast. Its expected around actually, lets go to Allison Chinchar in the Weather Center right now. Allison, if you could give us a sense where this is right now, where it may make landfall. Right now its 50 miles off the coast. When we reference that, we mean the center of circulation. Winds are still 70 Miles Per Hour. Thats only 5 Miles Per Hour off from hurricane strength. The key thing to note is even if it doesnt get up to a category 1 storm, the impacts are still going to be the same, anderson. And thats going to be the very heavy rain. Weve already had several inches dumped in a lot of these places, and additional rainfall will come down. Not to mention you have storm surge, three to five feet in this red area here and about two to four feet in the orange areas that you can see