Well, good morning to you on a saturday morning, i hope its been good to you so far. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. This morning, Vice President mike pence is hitting the road to pitch the republicans plan to overall the Affordable Care act, actually to repeal and replace it. This is a crucial sales job, the opposition within the party is threatening to potentially derail one of the president s Biggest Campaign promises. Its two hours from now the Vice President will speak to leaders in louisville, kentucky, hell appeal with the governor mike bevan. This is a man not completely behind the plan himself. We just act now to save the americans from the imploding obamacare disaster. Premiums have sky rocketed by double digits, triple digits in some cases. 17 would be a disaster for obamacare. Thats the year it was meant to explode because obama wont be here. Plus, considerable anger after dozens of u. S. Attorneys abruptly are told to resign by the Trump Administration. Weve got our
To make a lastminute play to try and strike a deal. Will it be enough . At the same time House Speaker paul ryan cancelled a planned meeting with the republican conference and pushed back his scheduled news conference. We dont know why, but in general, its not what you generally do as speaker if you have the votes locked in. Cnn reports the fbi has information that associates of donald trump may have possibly coordinated with russian operatives during the campaign, this as the Top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee is facing intelligence backlash right now. Democrats accusing him of compromising their bipartisan investigation into the president s possible ties to russia. Moments ago, word of an apology. A lot to get to. First this. No deal, at least not yet. President trump hoping to twist some arms in the 11th hour ahead of tonights vote, again, if it happens, by cnns latest count, 28 House Republicans say they will vote no or are leaning that way. Remember, of course, rep
50 kilotons. Sixth and easily the strongest nuclear test we have seen and that 50 kilotons is obviously, much stronger than the 10 that was registered in september. Just hours before this announced test, pa yang said it had an icbm ready hide again bomb. These are the pictures of the leader inspecting that bomb. Global leader are condemning the test and calling for new measures against the regime. Translator if north korea has gone ahead with a nuclear test, this is absolutely not acceptable and we will have to strongly protest. We are starting National Security council now to collect information and analyze this. We want to begin with cnns will ripley who join us from tokyo. He just returned, i think yesterday, didnt you . From pyongyang . What are you hearing there this morning . Reporter yeah. I woke up in pyongyang yesterday and landed in tokyo last night. I thought when i left north korea after speaking with government officials and some statements from north korean media talking
Lets get to it. And first from the fox news deck this thursday afternoon, the white house says its open to the idea of regulating bump stocks. Those are the devices that the shooter in las vegas apparently used to allow his rifles to fire much like automatic weapons. It comes just after the National Rifle association called on the federal government to review whether bump stocks comply with the law. In a statement leaders of the Gun Rights Group wrote the nra believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations. More ahead on the trump administrations response to the massacre in vegas. Were learning the gunman may have had other targets in mind. Thats the word from the investigators. They say Stephen Paddock rented rooms overlooking two other music festivals. One in las vegas the weekend before this shooting and another in last august in chicago during the lollapalooza music festival. Theres rep
Try to assess some of this damage. Kcnns Martin Savidge is standing by in biloxbiloxi. How are things now . Reporter doing better. Doing better. Lets talk about the storm surge because i think that is the real story when daylight comes up. Give you a sense of where it was. It stopped about here. Okay . So gulf of mexico is all the way across four lanes of roadway there. It came roaring in around midnight last night and when i say surge, it surged. I mean, at one moment, you thought, all right, its okay, its right there. Then about one minute later its washing around your ankles and pretty soon up around your calf. A lot of debris in that water too. Tore up a number of piers so a lot of heavy debris that was floating down u. S. 90. Now you can see by the traffic that water is all gone and drained away quickly but the debris is still there. They just started a frontend loader moving down the roadway here so they have not only got to clear a lot of stuff but a lot of the beach that is on