Waking up here, we know that nate made landfall as a category one overnight and here are some of the pictures to prove it. The biggest concern right now for some areas is storm surge but this is how powerful it was when it hit land at biloxi. This casino had to be evacuated. Look at the cars, a couple of, still in the Hotels Parking garage just floating around tossed around by those water. The storm knocked out the walker to nearly 73,000 customers in alabama. The Florida Panhandle and mississippi and got numbers a a couple of minutes ago. 270,000 actually is how many people in mississippi right now do not have power. We do know that crews are on standby there and getting ready to go out as soon as the sun comes out to help a lot of you sitting in that mess to get power back this morning to hopefully remedy the situation. We have meteorologist in alabama and reporters in alabama and mississippi. Chad myers, not done yet with nate. No. Where is it headed next . Its headed to dothan and
It goes around cancun and up toward new orleans and then back down again and around through the florida straits. But were seeing the wind speeds now increase. Hurricane hunters seeing the pressure go down. When i tweet that, saying the pressure is going to go down, everybody is saying, is that good or bad . If the pressure goes down, the winds go up. Its like a low pressure in the winter where the lower the pressure, the close you are you are to a blizzard. So the lower the pressure, the worse it is for a hurricane as well. Everywhere that you see red, thats a hurricane warning. Theres going to be damage everywhere theres red. That includes new orleans. I know were talking about biloxi and gulf port and all that but this storm, the western eye wall, will be very close to new orleans proper, so probably a wind speed there of 75 or 85 Miles Per Hour where the right side of the storm, the east part of the eye wall, will be 105, maybe even greater than that, and thats where the storm surge
If the people of alabama vote for this liberal democrat, doug jones, then they are voting against the president who they put in office at the highest level. But the states senior u. S. Senator richard shelby, among republicans refusing to get on board with president and the rnc. There is a time that we call it a Tipping Point and i think so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip when it got to the 14yearold story, that was enough for me. I said i cant vote for roy moore. Im disappointed that the rnc has resumed the support of its roy moore. I think that is a mistake. And the new poll this morning shows roy moore with a four point lead. Vaughn hillyard is in birmingham, alabama with a welcome to you vaughn. This tight race is certainly in the home stretch, just a couple days to go. What are you hearing from the voters on the ground there . Reporter there is only one campaign on the ground at this point and that is doug jones. He stopped in selma, montgomery and birming
Their news van. Heavy rains today and more danger conditions. Dont go to starbucks today for the afternoon caffeine sfix. All 8,000 u. S. Stores close for training. Im christine romans. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. We start with this summit. It is now two weeks until the on aga again off again summit between the two leaders. The president pushes aides to make the meeting happen on the original target date on june 12th. The wall street journal reports the u. S. Is brushing off the sanctions. And now on monday decided to press pause. For more, lets turn to cnns matt rivers live in seoul. Matt, for anyone who checked out for the weekend and now checking back in, it looks like the summit is back on. The june 12th date circled on the calendar. Reporter absolutely. We spent the last four days listening that all sides are pushing forward. Lets give you an an updaupdate. A team of americans went to the Demilitarized Zone yesterday to meet with their north Korean Counterparts to try
Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, february 19, im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside a louis burgdorf. Well start with deputy ag, Rod Rosenstein who spent the last 21 months overseeing the special counsels investigation has aboutat three weeks left at the Justice Department. Officials put Rod Rosensteins date of departure around the middle ofnd march after a brief transition period under new attorney general william barr. Reportsli indicate that barr settled on deputy transportation secretary Jeffrey Rossin as his replacement. The departure is in keeping with the timeline Rod Rosenstein gave for himself earlier this year and ends a three decade career in federale Law Enforcement th beganal shortly after his graduation fromtl harvard law school. This as President Trump is accusingum Rod Rosenstein of a quote treasonous act after former acting fbi director or Andrew Mccabe claimed Rod Rosenstein discussed trumps removal undermp the 25th amendmt in two meeting with senior doj officials an