flew in an aircraft, jayhawk helicopter out of elizabeth city earlier today. they had to sit down. they couldn t get to new bern because of the heavy thunderstorms and the micro bursts. we just got over the air here but we have not done rooftop rescues in the last 15 to 20 minutes. martha: so in terms of i know general mattis announced earlier today that they wanted to remove any sort of red tape that might exist in terms of getting military help to people who need it. can you explain what the procedure is like? i can tell you this. for the united states coast guard, our authorities allow to us come in immediately after a storm. for general mattis, there needs to be approval to move military forces to do defense support of civil authority. so he is cutting any of that red tape. national guardsmen, active duty, navy, air force folks can immediately respond. that is encouraging. secretary mattis is fully involved be the department of the defense team. all the agencies, all the federa
reason, has been unwilling, incapable of doing that except for these very kind of micro bursts of coerced honesty. and then he just reverts to type, which is no collusion, witch hunt and maybe, you know, some 400 pound guy on a bed somewhere. i want to go back to the point rachel raised when i was talking to her about this new report tonight, and that is the lying to the american people. that was one of the counts that was preceding in theism peachment process for richard nixon before richard nixon resigned and short-circuited the whole thing. this is both lying to the american people for going on two years now, approaching two years, but also it is lying during a criminal investigation about this very subject that the president is lying about. and he is trying to communicate that lie to everyone around him in his campaign, in his
the bottom of this. donald trump, for whatever reason, has been unwilling, incapable of doing that except for these very kind of micro bursts of coerced honesty. and then he just reverts to type, which is no collusion, witch hunt and maybe, you know, some 400 pound guy on a bed somewhere. i want to go back to the point rachel raised when i was talking to her about this new report tonight, and that is the lying to the american people. that was one of the counts that was preceding in theism peachment process for richard nixon before richard nixon resigned and short-circuited the whole thing. this is both lying to the american people for going on two years now, approaching two years, but also it is lying during a criminal investigation about this very subject that the president is lying about. and he is trying to communicate that lie to everyone around him
down at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta standing by with more information on the weather situation and as we have been reporting it doesn t appear the weather would be a problem so investigators might have to look elsewhere. right. i ll let tom speak to that. we heard from eyewitness accounts earlier. they said it was a clear, beautiful day to watch planes. that s what they were doing and when they saw this plane flight 214 coming in for a landing they say very clearly they saw it hit that sea wall right there at the san francisco bay which is where the airport is. you describe the conditions and are their accounts right? it was a clear day. the first time any incident like this happens the first thing everyone thinks of, thunderstorms. sure. micro bursts, downdraft. wind shear creating problems. really the conditions could not have been better. we ll just break them down. when you have visibility at ten miles plus, it doesn t get any better. there are two elements.
wind damage across central minnesota. you see the watch box drop now but more developments are expected. another hot bed of activity with the thunderstorms has been the southeast. what a wicked afternoon and evening it was. yesterday, today, we re going to see severe thunderstorms again across the carolinas and georgia. the biggest concern is maybe wind damage with micro bursts, and these thunderstorms have been putting out so much rainfall. we could see two to four inches easy. the focus up here across the centralplague centralappalachians. we re starting to sound like broken records with this. it s going on still. just not as widespread as it has been. heat advisories for the upper mid wefts. severe weather. not a big enough threat in minneapolis and st. paul, we have heat advisories.