full well that opponents from different political parties are looking for ways to legislate against, to force him not to have an ideal brexit. he doesn t get a deal with eu. today he has frustrated # that, and he s caused huge upset. as he said, people are calling this undemocratic and outraged. they ve had enough, they have seen processes, from westminster all the way up to downing street. this is a day when no one was expecting anything of particular note to happen in brexit. anna stewart, outside 10 dwning street. thanks very much. just in, in a rare briefing, the pentagon said that china and russia are building up their forces to challenge the u.s. more on that. plus, breaking news on the storm heading for puerto rico and the mainland. dorian is now a hurricane after strengthening just moments ago. stand by.
followed, when much of the island was left without power, clean drinking water, a response that is currently being investigated by congress. with me to discuss all this is politico s national political reporter, laura beren-lopez. as we ve been saying, there s a huge storm heading for pewter reek o, the biggest since hurricane maria, which left 3,000 people dead. how does the president think that it is even attacks against puerto rico at a time like this? well, the president has repeatedly, time and time again, referred to puerto rico, and his administration has as wella though it is a separate country, as though the people who live there are not u.s. citizens, and yet all of them are. and many have migrated to the mainland since maria, given that the government response was so slow. and parts of puerto rico are still not fully recovered from that hurricane. so, the president has used this
to tamp down a bitter public rift within her own party. one of the most progressive new members of congress, new york representative ocasio-cortez, accuses the speaker of targeting, and i m quoting her now, newly elected women of color. can the speaker bridge the divide? and bracing for barry. tonight, millions of people are on alert for possible flooding as tropical storm barry gains strength in the gulf of mexico. where s the storm heading? the national hurricane center just issued an updated forecast. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re following breaking news. we re expecting to see president trump any moment now for an announcement over at the white house. sources tell cnn the president is backing away from a court fight over inserting a citizenship question on the 2020 census. according to two sources, he s
this is the area of greatest concern. this huge storm heading for the middle of the country will have everything. you have the possibility of tornadoes. a blizzard definitely. areas like cheyenne to fargo. then we ll have melting snow, heavy rain, and a frozen ground. that s why we have about almost 11 million people under flood watches from minneapolis all the way back down to omaha and des moines. as far as the snowfall goes this area of pink in here that s up to a foot of snow and with it will come winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour. telling people don t get caught on the roads late tonight into tomorrow in areas north of denver, cheyenne, scotts bluff and areas of south dakota and up to fargo. as far as the rainfall totals will go this area of purple has about one to two inches of rain. we don t need this. so wet in areas of tennessee and northern mississippi. additional flooding concerns. anyone flying it s going to be bumpy. we ll see very windy conditions.
pensacola thing. since then, everything is south of the mississippi. going back to camille, all the way through katrina. from new orleans to gulfport and biloxi. that s where they hit. they don t hit here. but now they have. yeah, you re absolutely right. you mentioned a lot of these tracks. it is. it s over towards pensacola, destin, farther off towards the west. we have this one track. you see making that turn. now you do have a first real major storm heading toward panama city beach, over toward apalachicola. shepard: adam, thanks. you talked about destin. destin with a small fishing village probably 35, 40 years ago and it s now an metropolos. they call this area the red neck