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Lashing the louisiana and texas coast with 150 mileanhour winds. Good morning, everyone. Im sandra smith. Trace good morning, everyone, im trace gallagher. Right now laura is a category 2 hurricane winds still reaching 100 Miles Per Hour. Sandra a trail of destruction. Blowing off roofs and windows and snapping trees. Hundreds of thousands left without power. The National Hurricane center said there was an unsurvivable storm surge with waters rising up to 20 feet. Governor greg abbott updates the situation in his state. Some regions of texas still getting whipped around by heavy winds and rain and tornadoes. So many people in the northern stretching of east texas need to still be vigilant. The good news is this, that is the early reports show that we have no loss of life, which was the primary goal. Sandra we have fox Team Coverage. Janice dean is tracking the storm from the Fox Weather Center and have jeff flock standing by in lake charles, louisiana. We begin the Charles Watson live
Washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im trying to figure out a saturday that wasnt busy in recent memory. Nice to be with you. Im leland vittert. Its the weekend, but President Trump is getting ready for the election mode. We have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the Campaign Trail for some g. O. P. Candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. Ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. Hi, ellison. Hey, leland, President Trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. Hes set to head to tampa on tuesday for a Campaign Rally there. Traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but President Trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. I am going to work very hard. Ill go six or seven days a week
when were 60 days out and i will be
Im christine romans. It is tuesday, march 21st. President trump back in washington this morning after one of his trademark Campaign Style rallies in kentucky. He talked about health care and tax reform and other topics. Did not touch on the extraordinary testimony by the fbi director james comey. This despite tweeting all day long about the capitol hill hearing. A hearing that features fireworks, but not smoking gun connecting russia to the Trump Campaign. The fbi director confirmed for the first time there is an fbi investigation into whether trump allies colluded with russia with the election meddling. Comey told senators the investigation started in late july and they had come to the clear conclusion of the russian interference driven by Vladimir Putins disdain for hillary clinton. They wanted to hurt our democracy. Hurt her. Help him. Putin hated secretary clinton so much, the flip side, he had a clear preference running. As the summer went on and the polls appeared to show secreta
And this was a good week for politics, given that very small microcosm of where we hope things will go. I dont care which side of the aisle. We just need real people who want to serve who love this country. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage now. Thanks so much, mika. Hi there, im stephanie ruhle, with a lot to cover this morning. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement. While Mitch Mcconnell says the senate will vote on a new justice in the fall and democrats are calling to wait until after the election. One thing all sides agree on, the midterms matter much more today than they did 24 hours ago. Justice kennedys retirement makes the issue of Senate Control one of the vital issues of our time. Getting hammered. President trumps trade wars have caused massive market volatility. Now some workers fear for theirle jobs. As americas largest nail manufacturer gets hit hard by tariffs. President trump, if you hear this, you know, th