Former President Donald Trump tries to get the criminal case against him in florida thrown out. We have an answer from the judge. What if you could work 32 hours a week and still be paid for 40 . Well, Congress Takes a look at that and we talk about the troubled present and uncertain future of College Football with seventime National Championship Coach Nick Saban. Bret but, first, breaking tonight, haiti is spiraling into chaos. Political turmoil and street violence and there are still, at least, hundreds of Americans Still on the Island Nation as of tonight. So far, it appears the Biden Administrations message to those Americans In Haiti is youre on your own. The president s team says it is not preparing to assist in the evacuation at this point. Correspondent Gillian Turner is at the State Department tonight with the latest. Good evening, gillian. Hi, bret there are potentially as you mentioned Hundreds Of Americans trapped on the ground in haiti tonight as the Country Tea Teeters on
very slowly. that s what happened to puerto rico. this storm was moving at 8 miles per hour. that is in the bottom 10% of forward speed of any hurricane ever as we list them out and that s why they picked up so much rain. that s why there was so much flooding. 32 inches. that s just one town on the south shore where you get the word san juan and it was less than 10. that s the north side. still more rain to come but probably less than a couple of inches. the storm now taking aim at the turks and caicos battering that island nation and on up towards bermuda as we work our way into the rest of the week. it s going to get stronger. this is going to be 140 mile per hour storm. right now the storm surge in the turks and caicos. up towards nova scotia. it won t be that strong. 5 to 8 feet in the low lying islands. they re only 10 feet tall. we ll be watching that. chad, thank you. hurricane fiona gathering speed as you heard chad there. it s climbing over the warm atlantic wa
fiona dealt a devastating blow to puerto rico. most of puerto rico without power this morning. it could be days before it is restored. many people there also have no running water. at least two deaths have been reported from the hurricane which dumped up to 30 inches of rain. emergency crews have rescued well over a thousand people including this woman who had to be carried to safety. many more may still be trapped in the flood waters. parts of the island, puerto rico we re talking about, are still struggling to recover from maria that made landfall five years ago today. let s go to layla santiago. what can you tell us? brianna, john, it has been continuing to rain this morning. these are the outer bands of fiona. we are in the northeastern part of the island, san juan. where a small portion of customers have actually had their power restored, but in the interior, in the southern part where we spent most of our time it s a different story. they are waking up without pow
dominican republic. much of puerto rico is in the dark this morning. it could be days before power is restored there. the storm dumping as much as 30 inches of rain on the island. this is where there is catastrophic flooding and mudslides. more than 30,000 people have been rescued. efforts are still ongoing as they try to get people in more hard-to-reach areas. it hasn t stopped raining. fiona s outer bands are still lashing puerto rico. today marks five years since maria s devastating landfall. the destruction and flooding from fiona could actually be worse. let s get to meteorologist chad myers. chad, what s the latest update on this storm? grand turk in the turks and caicos is right in the way. 115 miles per hour. the eye very close. there s not a radar that will go that far to actually know, but within 10 miles of that little tiny island. this is a storm that was moving
with wing guest more than 80 miles an hour in massachusetts the storm dumping was 2 feet of snow on boston coming very close to the one-day record, molly live in plymouth massachusetts with the dig out. good evening is a very calm day to dig out but beautiful and bright throughout much of the day 15 degrees in plymouth massachusetts and 20 in boston a little bit warmer but still very cold in boston as you mentioned hitting the big tide breaking the single day snow record they got 23.6 inches, michelle wu talking about what a test situation it is as far as digging out. i would ask everyone to be careful as you are troubling it is cold outside and we want to encourage you to take your time, take care of yourself and watch for signs. the jackpot for snow was known massachusetts in the city of boston 30.9 inches, lots of