stand by the high stakes missions to take out the world s most wanted terrorist. the pentagon wiped the phones at the end of the trump admini administration. i ll get reaction from a member of the january 6th select committee. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, wolf blitzer is off, i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin with house speaker nancy pelosi s controversial trip to taiwan and the added strain it s putting on already tense u.s. relations with china. cnn selina wang has a report from beijing. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi staying overnight in taiwan, ignoring relentless warnings from beijing that there would be grave consequences. speaker pelosi touching down in taipei just before 11:00 p.m. local time, becoming the most senior u.s. official to visit taiwan in 25 years. but the high-stakes, high-risk visit also comes at a delicate moment for u.s./china relations. speaker pelosi expected to meet the t
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followers and he s putting out statements that the vaccine can t be trusted under the biden administration although he himself had the vaccine, mucking up efforts to get this country vaccinated and safe from the coronavirus, putting the virus behind us, mucking up the efforts, even though he himself is vaccinated. the other big issue is climate change that richard wanted to talk about. case in point, devastation in western europe where more than 180 people have died in historic floods and hundreds are missing. germany is one of the countries hit hardest but the country is promising to recover. we talked with survivors and reports from germany s flood zone. reporter: as the water reseeds, a look at the vast devastation in germany. neighbors and strangers working together to clear out the debris. as the traumatic sets in.
help our citizens. our meteorologist bill karins has talked about the threat of a storm surge that s still very much a possibility. what kind of things would you be seeing if you are dealing with something like a storm surge hence there would be more floodwaters. and then also what are you expecting to see out there when you have 90 mile-an-hour winds right now in that state? well, most of us are hunkered down. we try to monitor all the weather reports like that. i tell you what we do is try to do predictive analysis on the rivers as the water reseeds and the rain coming in. we have a system which gives us really good river precinctive analysis in north carolina. so we can target areas we know post-storm that are going to be affecting low lying areas. a lot of our areas affected by matthew and lawrence are going to be affected again by any floodwaters triggered by this storm. all right. sir, thank you very much to you
some looting. it isn t as bad as i would have expected given the fact that the looters are getting around. they re having to risk their lives to steal from people. i think looting becomes a bigger problem as the water reseeds. law enforcement officials will look out for that as time goes on. neil: thanks. ken paxton, the texas attorney general. you heard they re looking for someplace to send the evacuees, like large centers or churches or at a guy s store. meet the guy that owns the store after this.