To win over conservatives . Plus are you African American . I dont understand the question. Stepping down Rachel Dolezal resigns as spokanes naacp president over questions about her racial identity. This is not some freak birth of a nation mockery black face performance. This is on a very real connected level. But does she owe america more . Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. A horrific scene in berkeley california after an apartment balcony collapses just blocks from the campus of uc berkeley. Police say 13 people fell from that balcony. Five of them died. Hi dan. Reporter good morning, carol. What a heartbreaking situation. Obviously there was some kind of party or gathering at this apartment complex late last night in berkeley. Were told this occurred just before 1 00 in the morning local time. We had a number of people apparently on a balcony and it just collapsed. As you said five people dead and at least eig
Dismissing reports of a disintegrating relationship. The New York Times reporting a political cold war between the leaders with mcconnell privately expressing uncertainty that mr. Trump can salvage his administration. He called bob corker and complained about russia sanctions. We certainly hope senator flake will continue to support the agenda he ran on and president ran off. I have to concern myself with my own campaign and my day job of being a senator. What the president does, thats his prerogative. I dont think a Government Shutdown is necessary and i dont think most people want to see a Government Shutdown. Hell stick to building that wall and he wants the money to pay for it. The president is serious about this fight and shutdown threat. Well get to all of that but breaking news on a powerfully and life threatening Tropical Storm could bring catastrophic flooding to parts of the gulf coast. Moments ago the National Hurricane center released the latest update about harvey, a quick
Wind gusts of up to 132 miles per hour. Winds and massive storm surges pummelling large swaths of the state leaving thousands without power. Areas like rockport get hurt worse than others with entire buildings collapsed, trapping residents and sending others to hospitals. President trump declared Hurricane Harvey a disaster late into the evening. Hes monitoring the storm and tweeting from camp david with his National Security team and the Vice President there. Leaders in texas also urged residents to evacuate, warning those who remained would be subjected to the storms wrath for days. Heres governor greg abbott. We are concerned that not enough people have evacuated, and we are still urging people if at all possible, if youre in lowlying areas, in zones where evacuation orders have been in place, there may still be time to get out. We begin by heading to corp Corpus Christi, texas. Were hearing about catastrophic flooding possible the next several days, correct . Reporter that is the p
With maximum sustained winds of 102 miles per hour. Harvey is rapidly becoming more powerful. It was just a tropical depression this time yesterday. The National Weather service says harvey will bring a life bring lifethreatening amounts of rain, nearly three feet in areas. This storm will linger there for days. Well have the full forecast in a moment. This morning, there are mandatory evacuation orders for at least a dozen cities and counties along the texas coast with voluntary evacuations in other areas. Governor greg abbott declared a state of disaster in 30 coastal counties and activated 700 members of the texas army guard, air national guard, and texas state guard. Texas highways filled with cars yesterday. Interstate 37 out of Corpus Christie backed up for miles. Those choosing to stay in place, look at that exodus those choosing to stay in place not taking chances, theyre filling sandbags, stocking occupy food and water fox stocking up on food and water, boarding up windows. A
Harvey went from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm. Now, greg abbott, the governor of texas, was expected to have a press conference in the last hour, and now we are getting information that hes going to be holding one in this hour. As you can imagine, with the impact of harvey, the fact that the governor wants to get as much information as possible before he comes out to give an idea to the press of just what the state faces, but the issue with harvey is the fact that this is going to be a camper, basically, this system is going to stall out and be a major rain disaster event for the state of texas. So it really adds insult to injury for this storm, which typically, you know, an event like this would not be such a drencher, but thats what is going to make harvey so infamous. Shana is ready with us now and i want to go. Shana, explain, i was trying to do the best to explain the infamy of this storm and the downgrade of harvey doesnt really take away the impact that folks are going to fee