Very busy morning. I need to hand it off to Pamela Brown now, but pam, no shortage of news this week absolutely not, jim. And we just want to remind our viewers that were going to continue to cover the devastation from helene, jim in the media will cover stories and their complaints. We dont stay on it will work in a stay on it because there are a lot of people suffering right now as you have been reporting on in your show, in that suffering, sadly, its going to continue for weeks, for months as these small communities continue to rebuild after almost station. Absolutely. And its going to take a lot of time and a lot of resources from the federal government, State Government Theyve got to get on it. No question about it. They do. Im actually i had Governor Beshear of my Home State of kentucky on later in the show, were going to ask kim about it because as you know, in kentucky, my Home State, there has been devastating Storm Events that have caused a lot of damage and we tab it over th
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s just bring you an update from the us state arkansas. we have been reporting on a tornado that ripped through the state. the governor, sarah huckabee sanders, says at least two people have been killed. at least 2a others have been injured and tens of thousands have lost power. governor sanders has declared a state of emergency. arkansas is close to mississippi, which has just suffered its own tornado disaster. our reporter shelley phelps has more. oh, my god! it s coming our way, y all! ripping away building tops, uprooting trees and flipping over vehicles, the catastrophic tornado started moving through little rock on friday afternoon. this was the moment a weather presenter spotted it while live on air, giving warnings to locals. here it is and could be a strong tornado, ef2 or stronger. this is exactly what we didn t want to happen today. over reservoir road at this time. over reservoir road. we re gonna k
share 20 transcripts from his witnesses with justice department investigators. the committee also seems to be zeroing in on former trump cabinet officials. of particular interest, conversations among those officials about possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. joining us now is johnwood, a former senior investigator for the january 6th select committee. he is running as an independent in missouri for the senate there. john, thank you so much for being with us. so, it was cnn s exclusive reporting, the department of justice is preparing to make a case to get around executive privilege, to basically force the testimony, to be prepared to force the testimony of key trump advisers. what does this tell you about where they are? where this federal investigation is? yeah, this is a really big step. up until a few days ago, there were very few public signs that the justice department was really focused on people in trump s immediate inner circle, as opp
i ll speak to kentucky governor. welcome to the viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with exclusive new reporting. multiple sources are telling cnn the top watchdog over department of homeland security learned about missing u.s. secret service text messages months earlier than previously known. let s get to ryan nobles. what are you learning about the missing texts? reporter: the timeline outlined by the inspector general of the department of homeland security just doesn t match up with exactly how it played out. that according to reporting. according to the reporters learned is that he was notified as early as may of 2021, a couple months after the text mebsz ands were deleted and did not inform members of the january 6 select committee and the other oversight committees. this raises serious questions about the timeline of events and when he took action to try to retrieve the messages.
situation is fluid. we ll be listening to what nancy pelosi has to say. and it gets to a larger question, is momentum building for some big wins, a bill that helps us compete with china now heads to the president s desk for signature. and democrats have senator manchin on board for a bill they are calling the inflation reduction act that addresses everything from climate change to health care. couldn t come at a better time with the midterms fast approaching and democrats fighting to hold on to control of congress. and there are policy challenges from the war in ukraine to securing the release of brittney griner. there is iran and russia and china whose leader the president spoke with yesterday amid rising tensions of pelosi s trip to the region and potentially taiwan. let s dig into all of this. wehave mike memoli and also ali vitali. and we have our mcrib contributors. ali, what more can you tell us about the situation of the bills? reporter: at this point it is really fl