Nothing but debris on the side of the road. You know, skip, were we went to the bridge and went over the bridge and went over the bridge again. Found nothing to be wrong, thank goodness because thats our life blood coming in and out of the florida keys. The bridge is fine. I dont know if theres a problem with it technically that we cant see. They had put the stay arms from going over, they were gone but work to be done on the bridge. For sure. Engineers will were going to be all right. Were keeping our fingers crossed. Theyre clearing the roads. Maybe by tuesday theyll allow people to come back down to monroe county. Im not sure its passable from key largo to key west. I dont know how the status is at this point. The good thing is, theyll have engineers checking out the snake creek bridge. I know that bridge, it would have been horribly destructive had that gone down. Im glad that rumor you can dispel. You talk about the debris. I also want to talk about the gulf water. I saw pictures
Im richard lui in for phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Hurricane irma thrashing the gulf coast this morning. Swallowing up the state, first made land fall in the florida keys. Once again, up marco island, irma is now a category 1 and is expected to weaken to a Tropical Storm. It poses great danger with up to 85 mile per hour winds. Heres naples being battered by those winds. Tearing apart homes and scattering debris across flooded neighborhoods. And from sarasota here is a closer look at the disaster in action, ripping the roof off a building just one moment there of widespread destruction. In tampa, the hurricane snapped power lines and blew up transformers, bright explosions cutting through the dark night sky. Official say the storm has knocked out power for more than 3 Million People across the state and the chaos is only growing. While that is all happening the Fort Lauderdale Police Department arrest the 9 people for allegedly looting. The department is telling residence to stay h
Confidence in all of his cabinet members. A great day at the white house. Thats how President Trump described via twitter monday evening what was certainly an active day at the white house, one that began with a hiring and ended with a firing. It started with the swearing in of new chief of staff general john kelly who says he wants more structure, less game of thrones. I predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. One of kellys first acts as chief of staff pushing out anthony scaramucci. On the job for less than two weeks scaramucci had trouble shaking a profanity laced interview going after reince priebus. The president certainly felt that anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. Scaramucci is just the latest in a long line of high profile names that have come and gone from the white house. The president insists this is not adding to chaos. Lawmakers praising the discipline kelly already seems t
Up and went and got him. Thats my job. Mason and forgiveness for a much vilified chicago cubs fan. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. General john kelly reported for duty today as new white house chief of staff and left no doubt that he is in command. His first order of bids, giving Anthony Scaramucci his discharge papers just ten days after he was named Communications Director and just three days after scaramucci won a power struggle with reince priebus, forcing his ouster as chief of staff. So far in the trump presidency, there have been nearly half as many firings at the white house as in an average season of the apprentice. Heres chip reid. I love the president. I love the team. Im a super optimistic guy. Reporter that was Anthony Scaramucci ten days ago, his first day on the job as white house Communications Director. Five days later his tone had changed dramatically. In a profanitylaced interview with the new yorker, he
Good morning from the studio 57 news room at cbs news headquarters in new york. For the first time, its clear whos running the show at the trump white house. The president s new chief of staff, former general john kelly was given full authority. All white house staffers will report to him and in a head spinning turn kelly had the new Head Communications fired. The white house is not in turmo turmoil. Today begins the first full day of a new west wing. A new chief of staff is in. The man who was a new Communications Director is 67777dy out and the white house says mr. Trump has 100 confidence in all of his cabinet members. A great day at the white house. Thats how President Trump described via twitter monday evening what was certainly an active day at the white house, one that began with a hiring and ended with a firing. It started with the swearing in of new chief of staff general john kelly who says he wants more structure, less game of thrones. I predict that general kelly will go do