A tornado qqssed us and lasted for four hours. It cut a wide, especially hard hit, the residents endured 150 mile an hour cwinds. Leaving behind devastation on a massive scale. I mean, at least, it was the ceiling, then the roof. Flying in all directions. Pdramatic rescues saved many. Away from a tide of destruction. Many did not survive. We have an estimate on the casualties, ten,000. So many dead people. The waterym supply is contaminated. Food washed away by the storm. The town is suffering badly. After sweeping through the philippines, typhoon haiyan is taking aim at vietnam. And the rest of south china. Vietnam braced for the storm, evacuating hundreds of thousands, and packing sand bags against the fury. Ht homes no longer standings, washed out roads, dramatic photographs of the destruction people are facing. This is the nasa picture of the storm from the international spacec station. The typhoon is headed for vietnam. Expected to make landfall by tomorrow morning. They have e
Coming on shocking afghanistan off to the us, kills al qaeda. Anita aim and also watery. On the balcony of a house in the heart of kabul, and another 2 months of peace in war torn yemen. A truce extended hours before it was due to expire. And on he descended in bo, with your sport, you, roy, argentina, paraguay, and truly you have most a joint boot post between 230 football will help us lose whole ball school stall, abruptly, groin a expect a verdict in her russian drugs trial very soon. Ah, welcome to the news out to find warnings from china in the advice of our own government. Us House Speaker nancy pelosi is in taiwan. She is the highest ranking us official to visit in 25 years. The trip has not been back, spite press joe biden. As she touch down into pe, policy tweeted that her visit owners the United States on waiver and commitment to supporting taiwan vibrant democracy. And she said america solidarity with taiwan is more important than ever. As the world faces a choice between au
Good morning, im Rick Leventhal on this last friday of 2017. Well ring in the new year together. Good morning. President trump railing against north korea and china in a New York Times interview. The president sounding off in the special counsel investigation and indicating he has faith in Robert Mueller and the outcome saying lets just say i think that bob mueller will be fair and Everybody Knows that there was no collusion. Rich edson is traveling with the president live in West Palm Beach, florida. Hi, rich. Good morning, julie. He brought up that investigation and denied that there was any collusion between his campaign and the russian government during the 2016 election. Did so about a dozen times in a 30minute interview. He also then asked about former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her deleted emails saying what ive done, i have absolute right to do. What i want to do with the Justice Department. But for the purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be treated fairly, i
National guard. The president directed that the department of defense and department of Homeland Security Work Together with governors to deplay the National Guard to assist the border patrol. The president will sign a proclamation to that effect today. Martha thats just one component of the president s story. The other is leveraging the story of the caravan to get what the president wants on nafta. Country by country, the president is reworking trade deals with south korea and china and mexico. This should come as a surprise to nobody. We will be guarding our border with the military. Thats a big step. We have not done that before. Certainly not very much before. We will doing things with mexico and they have to do it. Otherwise i am not going to do the nafta deal. Martha will the president get what he wants . We got word that he signed the proclamation to send the National Guard to the border. Thats now in motion. James jones helped pass nafta as a former ambassador to mexico under p
News room starts right now. 4 00 a. M. Here on the east coast. If the United States imposes tariffs on steel, on aluminum imports, countries around the world are threatening to retaliate. The eu has a list of products to target like motorcycles, whiskey, blue jeans. The most important restrictions announced by the u. S. President are likely to cause damage not only outside the u. S. , but to the u. S. Economy its, including manufacturing and construction sectors which are major users. Translator we hope to find the opportunity to tell the United States steel and aluminum imports from japan, an allied nation, pose no threat to national security. From germany, leadership saying it endangers thousands of jobs in europe. They will respond. Translator the European Commission is already prepared with Counter Measures for specific products. It appears the u. S. Does not understand any other language. So, how would these tariffs work . What would it mean for workers in the u. S. And around the