South so it is producing high winds there and low humidity. As we head out the door in dublin right now, looks pretty busy. As you get ready to step out its chilly, some cool air. Look at where we start in the upper 40s, so you need a heavier jacket if youre on your way out the door, and also going to be outside for a little while. Well see our temperatures warming up into the upper 60s and eventually hit the low 80s today. Ill have more in a few minutes. Mike, you have reports of a gravel spill in dublin. The same shot you saw, there is quite a bit of traffic flowing. This is not unusually heavy. As far as the volume goes im watching this area as you pass by hacienda and approach the dublin interchange west 580 reports of gravel in the roadway. Smaller rocks onto cars of the roadway, you see traffic moving smoothly at the dublin interchange and starting in the Altamont Pass with a tad bit of slowing coming off the merge, a typical spot for a friday. Light volume of traffic, we expect
his mountain of legal troubles. new reporting from the new york times revealed the ex president has spent a staggering $50 million of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of legal bills to pay. he faces 91 felony counts in four cases. a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business. not to mention the millions he owes e. jean carroll after losing two lawsuits. from that new york times reporting, quote, mr. trump has used funds in his political action committee known as save america to underwrite his legal bills. the account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election. he was making widespread and false claim of voter fraud. with save america s coffers nearly drained last year, mr. trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction. he asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group. a pro trump superpac to support his 2024 campaig
Leaving devastating floods and destruction in its path. One death so far. Harvey continues to move across the gulf south as officials warn the worst may not be over yet. Our biggest concern is the possibility of between and 30 more inches of rain in areas ranging from Corpus Christi over to houston. And as the white house coordinates the federal response, another storm, if you will, brewing on capitol hill after some controversial comments and orders from the commander in chief. Well have all of that. But were going to start in texas where Tropical Storm harvey now is continuing to barrel over the state after making landfall overnight. And so far we know that one approximate earn is dead and at least 12 more are injured. Harvey is now packing 70 mile per hour winds a decrease from itll dangerous 130mileperhour gusts that we were seeing just hours earlier. Search and rescue missions and cleanup efforts are already beginning if parts of the state but officials are warning residents in th
Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. As the president is battles a political storm in his own party hes also facing a literal storm off the coast of texas. Were going to get into all the big Political Developments today in just a minute. But first lets get the latest on this dangerous storm harvey. It is on the verge of reaching the texas coastline. Harvey is almost guaranteed to be the first major hurricane to hit the United States in over a decade. It is expected to bring major winds and storm surge with historic rainfall over the next few days. In fact, harvey is predicted to make landfall tonight as a category 3 storms with winds over 111 nirp. And it should reach just east of Corpus Christi around 1 00 a. M. Eastern tomorrow morning. Obviously where it hits matters a lot on the potential damage there. More than 700,000 people are under a hurricane warning and almost under 8 million are under a tropical warning. People in the storm zone are not g
Disaster for the white house and phil rucker from the washington post. What i saw today was a whole lot of traditional sorts of moves for a white house. Really with the safety and wellbeing of the citizens in the path of a Natural Disaster in mind. I would agree with that, nicolle, with one exception. Predicting the president would travel to texas some time next week, before we have seen the actual path and the scale of this impending Natural Disaster struck me as unusual. You know as well as anyone that even the smallest travel package, the Security Team and staff around a president can be disruptive when there is a local emergency because local police are drawn in. Thats the one thing that i thought was different, but in tom bossert you have in the Homeland Security adviser someone with deep experience with someone with these Emergency Management issues and with fema, a man with a lot of experience in brock long for this kind of an event. So they are well positioned and a lot of what