that warned ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. this is not a drill. parents hiding their children in manholes. families huddled in closets. and what we ve now learned tonight. and olympic gymnast simone biles. her brave words. what she has just revealed. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on this martin luther king jr. holiday. and we have a lot of news to get to. we begin tonight with that new winter storm moving across the country at this hour. the alberta clipper bringing snow and ice and freezing rain, and there is real concern tonight about the commute tomorrow morning. already tonight, dangerous driving from the plains to the midwest. a driver losing control, slamming into a police cruiser, right there in park hills, kentucky. as we come on the air tonight, two dozen states now under winter storm warnings and watches right now. that system pushing all the way from texas to minnesota and moving east. d.c., philly, new york, boston all get hit to
i said this on the radio this morning, democrats need to let this investigation take its course. if we turn to take it into our own hands, if we use committees to subpoena people, we can really destroy this investigation. sandra: a couple of hours from rod rosenstein, he will brief the entire senate. hit tomorrow he will do the same for house members and there is a whole lot on his plate among other things. senators will certainly ask him about his decision to appoint robert mueller as special counsel. the memo james comey wrote saying the president asked him to shut down the flynn investigation and of course, the memo rosenstein wrote himself that the white house initially pointed to as the reason the president fired james comey. i would like to hear exactly the rationale. i read the letter, why the deputy attorney general, in terms of why he had some real problems. do you think we ve learned
context and he s unjustifiable maligned. i heard that from the white house as well. we re writing what bob woodward s position was and white house went on the record saying what their position was on it. it s an interesting piece of intrigue. it s interesting more about the origin of sequestration. i think the reason woodward is under the white house s skin is that his reporting does show that sequestration set to hit tomorrow, one of the silliest ideas that washington has come up with in a decade that it what s it being called now? what s it being called again? i said birthday cake. dave rogers calls it the dooms day budget machine. if you cannot use that s word and call it the dooms day budget machine. dbm. david is more poetic than most congressional staffers.
evacuated with his children, thinking they d be gone a couple of hours. when they came home after that storm came through, there was no home. take a listen: right now, i owe a morton a house that doesn t exist, on land that doesn t exist. this was a strange place to go from one day having aotomy with your kids were on the tromp lien and you trampoline and you had a garden, to no home, your garden is a sidewalk and your front yard is a road. reporter: and right now, he doesn t know where his property begins and ends. there s been a task force put in place to address those legal issues in the coming months martha. martha: so how quickly do you think that task force is going to be able to help some of the people answer questions and hopefully get some support? yeah, they re actually going to be listening to some of the concerns of the people hardest hit tomorrow, and by january, they re expected to give lawmakers some of their ideas been how state laws could be altered and diffe
course, very important, have a spare or alternative power supply for your cell phone, david. alex perez in miami for us tonight. alex, thank you. and this evening, into the evening hours, in fact, some of the islands already in irma s path. puerto rico gets hit tomorrow, and they are expecting the worst storm there in nearly a century. abc s linzie janis with the urgent effort tonight to get prepared in san juan. reporter: tonight, with irma s eye bearing down on the caribbean, the last sandbags are being filled and the shelves being cleared out. the hurricane could bring waves up to 23 feet. fishermen in antigua, pulling boats to safety. the time to prepare is over. the island, the first in line to feel irma s effects. its airport shutting down with a prayer, may god protect us all. puerto rico also in irma s path. the national weather service says it hasn t seen a storm of this magnitude in nearly 100 years.