Premptive strike by the United States. The president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire Robert Mueller as his russia investigation heats up. Fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of Paul Manafort. And pouring more feud on the Top Republican in the senate. He called Mitch Mcconnells failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. This after he posted multiple tweets slamming the Majority Leader and urging him to get back to work. This hour, ill talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. We will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. You look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. I think what noo can do more and i think they will. His secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. Offering reainsurances to the American People. I think the preside
As emotions are running high on this day theyve already seen so much violence. Not just today but also in that rally you saw White Supremacist leading to the University Of Virginia campus. And a lot of locals here having a hard time grappling with the images coming out of this otherwise quiet college town. We have seen the verbal altercations between, yes, of course, protesters and counterprotesters, in addition to the violence, but also ive seen verbal altercations between members of this community telling people visiting here from outside to go home. To leave them be and to let charlottesville return to the college town it normally would be in the lead up to School Starting back up again later this month. All right, Kaylee Hartung reporting live from charlottesville. Thank you. I want to get straight to athena jones who is in new jersey where the president is having a working vacation. After waiting for him to respond
to the violence in charlottesville for quite some time, it appears
Is a [ bleep ] lie. And she has remained mostly silent until now. Why did you decide to come forward now and talk to us . I trust you. Does it feel good to talk about this . Yes. Its time. Ms. Mckinney, come forward please. There were bits of the puzzle i wasnt able to reveal at the time and i was unable to be as truthful as i really wanted to be. So she is telling her story, her truth, and for the first time exerts from the if you areman tapes youve never heard. Vulgar. Sexist. How do you arrest a violent suspect . Have a man do it. Romantic relationship ended. If somebody thinks enough of you, theyll call you a name. The nicknames he gave these women are pretty hash. We have all the female names. Theres one called critter. Theres another one we call hench monkey, like in the wizard of oz. Can i use that . Sure. Critter. What were you thinking when he said those things . Bingo. I feel that often when im working on there will be a bingo moment. Or ill get chills. When i get chills, i c
Were on the west coast but the effects of Hurricane Irma are being felt all over this state still. Theres a lot to report over the next two hours. Were going to be focusing on what happened in the caribbean where the storm has passed by the misery is remaining. There are now 16 deaths in the United States contributed to the storm. Twelve of them here in the states and at least others in the caribbean. Fema estimates 19 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. Over the next two hours well hear from survivors who rode out the storm and people who coming home to see whats left behind or not left. Virgin islands, the people there have told us theyre feeling neglected. The three largest islands in the virgin islands, st. Kroiks, st. Thomas. Here in the western side, they are shooting for september 22nd, thats next friday. More on that situation in a moment. First, we want to start in the keys. Lisa, is a nurse who wrote out the storm in key west. I spoke to her by phone a few moments ago
What are you guys going to do now, claudio . Were going to stay here, find shelter. Because weve been hearing the news its going to come back and hit us again. And would have had nobody would have had nowhere to go. So were going to stay here and try to protect ourselves. Try to protect my kids. And try to try to last through this storm. I dont know if its going to get worse or not. But we want to be safe. I want my family to be safe. So i guess were going to stay here until everything is over. Claudio, were glad youre okay. Hug your kids and wife for us. Thank you so much for joining us here on cnn. Good luck to you. Best of luck. All right, thank you, sir. Thank you. Jamie baxter, weve got jamie by phone again. Technical issues, storm, hes stranded in his apartment with neighbors tonight. Havent really tried the police because i know that theyve been swamped and the red cross is swamped, as well. So we dont really know who to call. It seems like we put out the word for help and we si