Watch tonight beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Ahead of South Carolinas democratic president ial primary, former Vice President joe biden received the endorsement of congressman jim clyburn, the third highest ranking democrat in the house of representatives. There are 54 delegates at stake in South Carolina. A recent poll from Clemson University shows the former Vice President with a double digit lead over his closest opponent. Let me thank all of you for joining us here this morning. I particularly would like to thank my colleague, congresswoman Bernice Johnson of texas who is my classmate in the congress where she and i first met at the Democratic National convention in 1972, and weve maintained a friendship ever since. We had no idea that we would end up getting elected to congress the same year. And i owe a great deal too h hei never would have become chair of the black caucus without her tutelage and i thank her for being here today. Several of our colleagues wanted to j
cyclone. associated press reporting at least 30 people have died, including 27 in florida. griff: ian now set to bring heavy rain to the east coast after definiting leaving devastating damage and landfall again in the carolinas, ap confirming at least 35 have died including 27 in florida. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. jacqui: good to be with you all, i m jacqui heinrich. and molly is in south carolina, and adam klotz in the weather center and rich at the white house. we ll start off with steve harrigan in north port. jacqui, the water in north port is going up and they re struggling to make rescues. a waiting list of 500 people, calling 911 they re trapped by the water and want to get out we ve seen national guard, and private citizens, too, trying to help people. you can see the houses one after the other have become little islands about chest high, four or five feet height of water around some of these houses. first responders are joined by a lot of people
And a team effort. High winds lift up the tarp during a rain delay. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, july 8th, 2015. Good morning and thanks for joining us im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. This morning an unexpected twist in the murder of a San Francisco woman. The gun usedd to kill Katherine Steinle e belonged to a fedederal agent. The suspecect said he found the gun. As of our San Francisco station kpix reports, Law Enforcement officials are trying to fill in all the blanks. There are a lot of questions being raised by our investigation. Where did the gun come from. Reporter sources appear that the gun used to kill kate steinle on the pier belonged to an agent. We can confirm mr. Sanchez did not know miss steinle and he had no reason to want her to be harmed in any way. Reporter the. 40 gun had been found stolen during a car burglary just last month. Sources tell kpxi that they trace it back to an agent. Earlier in a jailhouse in thor vie
Reporter this is Francisco Sanchez walking again. He walked into the wrong without handcuffs on and shackles on his ankles. He did have a chance later as the fed before and pleaded not guilty. Between the attorneys it was the discussion over the bill amount. His public defender argue that sanchez has never committed a Violent Crime in his path and argued that it appeared that the shooting was accidental. It was at this time in court today that we learned and he wished that she was shot in the back. The chip attorneys that it appears that she was shot just one time. Bill with that as 5 billion british beer a lot of talk this afternoon from the defense about this being an accidental shooting crit reporter you have a victim but with no entrance he had no witness or alleged that there was some kind of crime going on at the time of the shooting. Any kind of an assault on an individual person 3 it. Reporter a chance will be back in court just over two weeks as for the family they were not in
During a rain delay. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, july 8th, 2015. Good morning and thanks for joining us im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. This morning an unexpected twist in the murder of a San Francisco woman. The gun used to kill Katherine Steinle belonged to a federal agent. The suspect said he found the gun. As andrea of our San Francisco station kpix reports, Law Enforcement officials are trying to fill in all the blanks. There are a lot of questions being raised by our investigation. Where did the gun come from. Reporter sources appear that the gun used to kill kate steinle on the pier belonged to an agent. We can confirm mr. Sanchez did not know miss steinle and he had no reason to want her to be harmed in any way. Reporter the. 40 gun had been found stolen during a car burglary just last month. Sources tell kpxi that they trace it back to an agent. Earlier in a jailhouse in thor view with telemundo he admitted to shooting steinl