40 3petses. And this entire intersection was washed out because of the heavy rain. And much of the florida keys remain cut off from the mainland as the National Guard deploy s search and rescue missions there. Hurricane irma made landfall in the keys sunday morning bringing 130mileanhour winds. As many as 10,000 people who decided to stay and ride out the storm may need to be evacuated. And this morning 7. 6 Million People are without power across florida alone. Authorities say residents should be prepared for extended outages, including weeks without power in some cases. Once irma moved past florida, the storm made its way into georgia and South Carolina where at least three deaths are being blamed on the storm mainly because of fallen trees. In sammy springs, an atlanta suburb, one man died when a tree fell on his home. Power crews are working to restore electricity to thousands. River street, the tourist haven in savannah, saw the river spill out into the streets. Usually bustling w
And we begin in the wake of last weeks shooting massacre in parkland parkland, florida. President trump is signaling an open to modest gun control measures. While speaking yesterday, the president said he had directed the Justice Department to propose changes that would ban bump stock. The devices allow some guns to shoot hundreds of rounds per minute and were used during the Las Vegas Shooting last october that left 58 dead. Just a few moments ago, i signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. I expect that these critical regulations will be finalized, jeff, very soon. In 2010, the atf concluded that bump stock devices are firearm parts with no automatic function and therefore not regulated as a firearm under existing gun laws. Senator Dianne Feinstein who previously introduced legislation to ban bump stocks is calling on President Trump to follow through with action and support her measure. Th
Number of immigration plans today to include a more permanent fix to the family separation problem that the president ended with an executive order yesterday. The conservative option failed on the house floor today. Republicans seem to be confused about what is in the remaining bill, the socalled compromise bill. House leaders say they will not be voting on that tomorrow, as has been planned. Senior capitol hill producer chad pergram is there with the inside scoop tonight. Good evening, chad. Why was this ball with that was going to move tomorrow, why did the leadership all of . They didnt the votes. They decided to go back to return to this belly little better. They will put in some provisions to deal with agriculture, and everify, we dont have specifics on that. But think about the muscular weight they put into this bill to try to work it out the past couple of days, shannon. They brought President Trump to the hill, they brought the Homeland Security secretary, kirstjen nielsen, to
President ial election, sort of. Well, i would, because hes in charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. Certainly as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. And two weeks before his inauguration, President Trump while he was president elect was briefed in detail on u. S. Intelligence that putin ordered the election attack. The former director of National Intelligence James Clapper was involved in that briefing. Before we left the room, they started writing a press release about our encounter, and were trying to say that the russian meddling, the interference had no impact in the outcome of the election. We didnt say that, but i do think there was skepticism from the get go. From that day to this day, that indicated that anything that attacked the legitimacy or questioned the legitimacy of nowPresident Trumps election, he just couldnt get his head around. Lets bring in our cnn White House Co
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