Plans are raising taxes on the rich. We will see. We have a college degree. We can use words. Thank you. Early start continues right now. Dozens dead. Hundreds injured in a series of huge explosions. The fire still burning this morning. Firefighters still missing. We are live. Donald trump on top in iowa. New cnn poll shows he is widening his lead in the race for president. Former president jimmy carter announcing he has cancer. Details ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets begin with the explosions rocking the warehouse in northeast china. This disaster happening in the port city of tianjin. Dozens of firefighters are missing and hundreds injured and dozens killed. The blast knocked down doors and blew out windows for miles. Lets go to cnns will ripley. He is more than a mile from the blast site. Look at the damage behind you, will, more than a mile away. Reporter im thinking about the firefighters, christine, at the epice
We have what the experts are saying about the storms path. We begin with phil in jupiter, florida, where they are preparing for the worst. Reporter good evening. Mandatory evacuations are already in effect in parts of florida tonight. Sometime this evening, Jupiter Island is expected to be under a mandatory evacuation. Up and down the east coast, at many gas stations you are finding bagged up pump handles and fuel tanks that have dried up. They are empty after a very long day of long lines of drivers trying to fill up and fuel up in case they need to evacuate. That could be a good sign that 11 years after the last major hurricane slammed into the sunshine state, that people are taking this storm seriously. Hurricane matthew is big, its strong and powerfully barrelling through the bahamas as it chugs towards florida. The current storm track projects the major hurricane may strengthen back up to a category 4 when the eye approaches the eastern coast of florida. Mandatory evacuations bega
Landing. Good morning, everybody. Its wednesday, hump day, october 5th. Im betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis bergdorf. Evacuations are set to begin today on the east coast of the United States as Hurricane Matthew barrels through the caribbean. The governor of South Carolina has ordered more than a million to leave the states coast beginning at 3 00 p. M. Today. Reversing four lanes of one of the states main thois facilitate that. The tell tale signs of a major stores as inland hotels fill up and walmart shelves are empty. President obama has cancelled plans to campaign for Hillary Clinton. This asthma enthusiasts magnitude begins to take shape slamming haiti with intense winds and massive flooding and the navy is sending the uss George Washington for relief efforts. Lets get more on matthews latest track and its timetable. Bill karins, take it away. The bottom line overnight a better forecast for new england. Aetter forecast for virginia. And a better forecast for North Carol
Turmoil. Less than a year ago, it hasnt recovered from that. Monday, you met with the Deputy Attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is, i was going to fire comey, my decision. It was not you had made the decision before i was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. Because in your letter, you said, i accepted their recommendation. Yeah, well you had already made the decision . Oh, i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. He made a recommendation, hes highly respected. Very good guy, very smart guide. The democrats like him, the republicans like him. He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Let me ask you about your termination letter to mr. Comey. You where, i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation. Why did you put that in there . Because he told me that. He told you you werent under investigation with r
Electoral success for his sake a party all driven by sustained Economic Growth but turkey is now efficiently in recession president anyone have been hoping to turn prestige projects like istanbuls new mega airport all the citys giant new mosque into votes but that doesnt appear to be working the boom has turned to bust this specially in the Construction Industry where many have already lost their jobs well the countrys words are also mirrored in the real estate sector and one of the most bizarre examples of where the problems in turkey live these days is the boards are brass resort project that lies just a couple of hours drive east of istanbul. Who wouldnt want to own a castle and here there are plenty to choose from over seven hundred in total its a place straight out of a fairy tale. But its turned into a nightmare for developer maser yeah dylan because no one wants to live here. He dreamed up the idea of building these chateau style villas some two hundred kilometers east of the tu