Category 4 storm with 140mileanhour winds closing in on the caribbean. Will the east coast of the u. S. Be next . Announcer this is cnn breaking news. And welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in for jake tapper. Cnn executive mark preston here with the numbers. Did last weeks debate change this horse race . It certainly did, jim. Since the last poll in september, Hillary Clinton has gained ground with a group shes been struggling with, including independents and noncollege whites. Here are the new rnc poll numbers, Hillary Clinton at 47 , donald trump at 42 . Gary johnson at 7 and jill stein at 2 . Clinton has gained four points in this National Poll since september, while trump has lost three points in this fourlegged horse race. Were seeing republicans are starting to rally around Hillary Clintons candidacy. Clinton has cut the Enthusiasm Gap in half and he now holds a 56 advantage. 56 say theyre enthusiastic, 50 of Hillary Clinton voters say theyre enthusiastic, jim. I know we dont k
Night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern to see Hillary Clinton and donald trump go head to head as they answer questions from nbc news own lester holt. If you had any doubt that this debate will be like no other, consider who is on the guest list. After the Clinton Campaign invited billionaire and outspoken critic mark cuban trump retaliated by inviting Gennifer Flowers, the woman who had an affair with clinton 26 years ago and flowers accepted. Mike Pence Insists flowers will not attend the debate. For the candidates, the stakes could not be higher heading into this debate. In a New Washington post abc poll out just this morning, clinton and trump are in a virtual dead heat among likely voters as determined by the pollsters. Im joined now by congressman Elijah Cummings, a supporter of Hillary Clinton. Congressman cummings, youve seen these polls. You see that they are tightening. However you want to sort of read the likely voter models, et cetera, this is going to be a close race. What does Hilla
Stop doodling. Do your show. I will handle it for the next 30 seconds until we have to go to the white house. Clint, particular around, you know, there might be stuff to talk about. As katy was saying, weve been around here for a few minutes. We have been expecting to go to this White House Press conference, press briefing that is supposed to have started about a half an hour ago. I would suspect that it is about to start within the next ten seconds because there is Sarah Huckabee sanders. Good afternoon. I know most of you and more importantly the American People have many questions relate to Hurricane Harvey and as you all know, the president was in Corpus Christi and austin earlier this week and today at the president s direction the Vice President , mrs. Pence and five cabinet secretaries are back in texas meeting with local officials and storm survivors and thanking many of the First Responders and other volunteers. The president s team here has been working around the clock to su
At see. We continue breaking News Coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey from texas. Trace gallagher in for shepard smith. The largest rainstorm in the history of the United States has killed 31. Were told the morgue is full and rescue crews have began the doortodoor search for any survivors. Also today in the city of beaumont, which is about 80 miles northwest of us, or northeast of us, some saw the worst of the storm this week. Reports is they lost an entire water supply. Were talking about 120,000 people that live there. The feds say a Chemical Plant outside houston burning today. Officials in crosby, texas ordering a mandatory evacuation for people within a 1. 5 mile radius of the plant. The plant lost its ability to safely store the chemicals when the flooding knocked out the power supply. In turn, that knocked out the refrigeration system. The epa reports that there right now is no immediate danger to public health. In downtown houston, people have been sending boats in th
Hill producer, chad pergram. Theres not a lot of wiggle room. Considering what they have to tack until september, its tough. Paul ryan is trying to keep the troops excited for tax reform. They have to lift the debt ceiling, fund the government. All of this is deficit spending. Some here have called september not september but debtember considering the bills that will be accumulated this month. What paul ryan is trying to do is keep the troops energized on tax reform. It will get done this month. Kevin brady has not schedule add markup session where they write the legislation on tax reform. Something else that is a very nedlesome issue, they have to approve a budget. You cant deal with tax reform unless you approve a budget, a budget is different from keeping the government open. What a budget does is allows you to have budget reconciliation. Thats why its called that and allows you to get past filibusters in the senate. They were supposed to pass a budget earlier this spring. I keep ta