Coverage from it still rests in the hands of the Trump Administration. And the republicans in congress. The president says, let obamacare fail on its own. Ive been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. It is exploding right now. Many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. This morning our team of political correspondents and experts standing by to break all of it down for you and look at where we go from here. Cnns brian nobles for more on the finger pointing going on this morning, good morning. Good morning, christi, and it white house. The Trump Administration is trying to brush off the setback, that theyre ready to move on to bigger and better things. But make no mistake, this was a pretty big setback for this administration. Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care act was a Major Campaign promise by donald trump during the campaign. And yesterday he wasnt necessarily blaming repub
But we did hear from both the acting president s of south korea and Vice President pence that thaad will deployed as soon as possible. Its already started to come in over recent months and it certainly said it will be operational as soon as possible as it is needed for the defense of thaad. Ewe did pick up on the most interesting thing i thought, that was referring to the the attack on syria, the air base in syria and also that the mother of all bombs that was dropped in afghanistan. Vice president made a direct link from those two to north korea. There have been lots of speculation as to whether or not that was a message. He made that direct link saying north korea will do well not to test his resolve. Thats a strong statement from Vice President pence. It was interesting to hear the Vice President point out that the era of strategic patience is over, pointing out, paula, that strategic patience has been the strategy of past administrations and also seeing the Trump Administration has
Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im Rosemary Church and this is cnn newsroom. Irma is gone. But it will take some time for the u. S. And the caribbean to recover from the devastation this monster hurricane unleashed. It killed at least 17 people in the u. S. , a dozen of those in florida. Emergency Officials Say 90 of homes in the keys are damaged or destroyed. Millions across the state are without power. Meanwhile, the caribbean is trying to assess the damage. Theyve reported at least 38 stormrelated deaths. The World Food Program said 250,000 people are in need of aid on the eastern islands. Cnn has teams across the caribbean on some of the hardest hit islands. Well bring you their reports this hour. Some people are starting to return to the florida keys, to see if their homes are Still Standing. The area was blasted with some of Hurricane Irmas strongest winds when it made landfall on sunday. Cnns brian todd takes a look at the dam
St. Thomas. Theyre going to be arriving here and going to the Convention Center. Theyre coming actually on a cruise ship which was in the region when Hurricane Irma came through. Theyve picked up 2,000. Theyve going to be processed through the Convention Center and move on hopefully to hotels or other destinations. Then on saturday, another 2,000 will be coming in as well via the same cruise ship. Now, those who remain in the Virgin Islands are pleading for help. The storm hit three of the largest islands in the group, st. Croix, st. John, and st. Thomas especially hard. Four people, in fact, were killed. Widespread damage as weve seen from the videos. Cnns sara sidner now with the latest. Reporter on st. John, the smallest of the three major islands and arguably most ruggedly beautiful, Hurricane Irma swept away life as we knew it. Theres nothing left. Reporter nearly 30 square miles of island wiped out. I was in our sheltered hurricane called hurricane hole. There were 200 boats out
Called President Trumps lawyers and said he could no longer share information with them. Perhaps signalling that flynn may be negotiating. Some sort of plea deal, or perhaps, as the New York Times says, could be perhaps cooperating. We dont know for sure. Now, people weve talked to werent ready to draw the conclusion that flynn is cooperating. Let me read to you part of a statement from President Trumps lawyer, which says, no one should draw the conclusion that this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president. Jay sekulow, the attorney for the president , told us. Now, flynn is, as we know, the former National Security adviser. Is under investigation for his lobbying work on behalf of turkey, and also his contacts with russia. It was the former general attorney general, sally yates, who back in january went to the white house alarmed at flynns communications with the russian ambassador, which ultimately led to his firing. Because he lied about it to the vice pr