Shutdown is all but certain at this point. Republicans in the house failing to pass a short term measure to fund the government, but the House Speaker says he has other ideas. Top official at the white house will join us on how the administration is bracing for a shutdown. Plus senator Dianne Feinstein, Longest Serving Female senator in history, passing away at the age of 90. How her impact is being remembered from congress to her home state of california. And speaking of the golden state, donald trump is in california this hour speaking at a republican convention. His message as one conservative group trying to keep the former president from becoming the gop nominee admits they are struggling to stop him. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here on cnn news central. The nation has just moved one step closer to a Government Shutdown. House republicans are expected to meet here in the next hour after their leader just suffered his latest defea
John and sandra. Good afternoon. Its a wet friday. Im martha maccallum. Thanks for joining us. We have a big lineup for you this hour. We begin here in the northeast where sandra was just saying millions of new york City Residents are being urged to shelter in place at this hour as torrential and lifethreating rain causes huge highway tieups and subways are flooding in new york city. Theres hundreds of flights that have been cancelled or delayed at this point. Katie byrne reporting live from hoboken, new jersey just across the river. High, katie. Hi, martha. A lot of people that were able to make it in to the city or to hoboken for work this morning are now wondering how theyll get home. We have roads submerged in water here in hoboken. If i step out in the street, the water gets deeper. Weve been here all day. The water has not receded much at all. Its one of those days that you cant get around hoboken by car. Ive talked to a lot of commuters. Were by the Train Station here. Some told
Years as a young adult in california, there were two female senators, senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both elected in 1992 during the socalled year of the woman. I was 9 years old when that happened, too young to grasp what was going on, and not entirely aware of Anita Hill Saga that prompted it so to me it was norm toll look to have washington and see two women representing my state. Completely normal to see one of those women led by bipartisan or to see her lead the Intelligence Committee or see her held to account for egregious wrong doing after 9 11 or see her stand up to the chief to get an apology out of it. It was norm toll watch Dianne Feinstein work in washington, and i know you see this coming, but looking back at the unremarkability is precisely what makes it so remarkable. Wasnt until i came an adult covering politics that i understood how hard she had to fight, sometimes against wings of her own party. Today the flags around the capitol are flying at half staf
evacuate several top democrats after violent struggles between police and protesters outside dnc headquarters. is now in control of gaza s harbor and questions remain about what the idf found inside al shifa hospital, saying they ll soon present more evidence that it was used as a base of operations by hamas. and new video of alec baldwin on the set of rust . i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. breaking overnight, one person was arrested, six officers injured after a protest turned violent in washington d.c. members of congress, including top house democrats, were evacuated as tensions erupted between police and protesters. demonstrators outside the democratic national committee were calling for a cease-fire in gaza. guanta gabe cohen is on the ground for us. what happened and where do things stand now? reporter: yeah, so john, if you look behind me, you can see the police barricades still set up outside the dnc headquarters
No strong lead yet now as to why he could have done this so we will be waiting for more information on that but let me ask you about a woman or a companion about was also named as a person of interest in this. Indeed there was a companion that was for many hours in the preliminary phases of this investigation companion of steven had ics who in fact was of interest to police but what we now know is that suspect that woman has been ruled out as a person of interest as a suspect apparently the gunman using her i. D. Perhaps to read the hotel room a room we know he was in from september twenty eighth and onward not clear if he allowed any of the sort of the housekeeping staff to come into that room that would have perhaps signaled something was imminent but we do know from police now that that woman that companion has been ruled out as a suspect but again this is going to take a long time to piece together las vegas is a very busy place there was a lot of hotel rooms to look through a big