Foreshadowed pardon of controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the latter drawing open and direct criticism from Speaker Paul Ryan. Also over the weekend as the president focused on responding to his first major domestic crisis he took on notable fire, incredible comments from defense secretary james mattis and his secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Well play those for you and explain why they are so significant at this point in this presidency, and finally, a brand New Washington post report that trumps business sought a deal on a trump tower in moscow while he ran for president. Well speak with one of the reporters who broke that story late yesterday but we begin with the texas flooding, more rain is in the forecast and there is simply nowhere for the water to go. Stories of heroism, neighbors and people from hours away helping each other in the depth of the catastrophe. The latest, two people are dead, 290,000 without power in the Gulf Coast Region and many of houstons sprawling freeways a
Harvey moving finally up and out of the gulf. The brunt being felt in port arthur, texas. The mayor of that city described it as being entirely under water. The nations Largest Oil Refinery is out of commission in that city. The Port Arthur Civic Center opened last night. Was supposed to be a ref unl for peop refuge. It was flooded. In beaumont, texas, they had to save a mans life behind them as they were setting up for a live shot. A guy drove his truck into what he thought was a road. It wasnt. It was a river. The man and our crew shaken but okay. Harvey made landfall what should be the last time this morning on the texas louisiana border. In houston, they are still trying to measure how many people need to be rescued and how much damage was done. The rain is no longer falling there. In some areas, we have seen the floodwaters recede. Cnn covering the story from every angle. Lets get to drew in beaumont. You had a heck of a morning. Reporter yeah. We were just setting up for a live s
Back down. Jillian air travel gridlock, ripple effects from a powerful noreaster being felt across the country. Major airlines canceling, delaying thousands of flights as people in the northeast begin to dig and try out. Fox and friends first continues now. So wake me up depends on where you live. Sixth avenue in midtown, not much snow on the ground. Rob 30 minutes north of new york city, you get two feet. Janice will dive into all of this. We are waiting for that, we dont really know why there is snow on the ground. Why the shovel so much. Rob you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. Jillian donald trump putting pressure on mexico, canada, to renegotiate, appears to delay the signing of the deal. I woke up this morning wondering why i am not seeing a tariff signing. Apparently after rattling world markets, leaders and members of his own party, you had gary cohen leaving, still working on details of these tariffs that will involve softening a blow to our neighbors to
They had supported in the past. Those republicans who are criticizing the president s are the same kind of republicans who just a year ago did not want us to debate in push for the law dash mike while funding. But he is doing is robbing from them military to go build this wall. Allison barber has more. We have democrats responding. The plane of the resolution of disapproval. The top two democrats have said that they would use every remedy available. In the courts in the public. They seem like they are planning to move ahead with the disapproval resolution. They plan to introduce a joint resolution to terminate the declaration. A number of House Democrats have indicated that they would support moving ahead with that sort of resolution if they do. It would most likely be in the other chamber. Heres a little bit more of what she have to say. Whether or not we have enough for the override and veto. I think there is enough people in the senate who are concerned that what hes doing is robbin
Investigation . It was a comment made in court, printed on a transcript that would explain a lot as the 11th hour gets under way on a monday night. As we start a new week, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 753 of the trump administration. If it is monday, it must be el paso. That was the site of the president s rally tonight and the counter rally, headlined by beto orourke, within sight of the president s venue. The president went hard after orourke. He went hard after the news media and the mueller case and made his case for the wall all over again, while just minutes before he emerged on stage word had arrived from congress that they appeared to have a deal in principle to stop this looming next shutdown. At one point President Trump said, the last Government Shutdown was important to show people what is going on at the border. You know what . If we didnt do that shutdown, we would not have been able to show this country, these politicians a