kentucky. it s hard to put into words the amount of devastation that we ve seen. you know, you re talking about some really, really good people here in eastern kentucky don t have a whole lot. and a lot of them have lost everything they ve got. you can hear just sorrow in his voice. the fast rising flood waters forced many people to evacuate, but the storms ended up catching a lot of people by surprise because they happened the middle of the night. and we are learning some really heart breaking stories, like this one in knotts county, four people killed when kids and their parents were forced to go to the roof. the young ones were swept away as their parents tried to hold on. there was a house there and this trailer with this family of six. and it just washed them away. cnn s joe johns joins us live now from hazard, kentucky. you can see some of the damage behind him. joe, tell what you say the latest is. reporter: well, just let me give you an idea, sara, of wher
families. it helps both current and future bowers and will fax a badly broken system. and these actions build on my administration s efforts to make college more affordable in the first place. nbc s tom costello now with more on the plan and the mixed reaction to it. reporter: president biden fulfilling a campaign promise. cutting american student loan debt. it focuses the benefit on middle class and working families. reporter: but he s also stirred up a hornet s nest of backlash. i feel it is a little slap if the face to those who worked hard to pay it off. reporter: and from republicans who say it unfairly benefits americans who choose to go to college while ignoring those who don t. like truckers, plumbers, welders and retail workers. a lot of americans choose not to go to college. and then there are those americans who bought money to pay for school and paid it back. in what way is it fair to those taxpayers? reporter: many also argument the president exce
Meanwhile, in pennsylvania, police are now expanding their manhunt for a convicted killer who has been on the run since escaping from prison a week ago. On capitol hill, Senate Republicans are hoping for answers today about minority leader Mitch Mcconnells health after he apparently froze twice in two months. And excessive heat is expected to break records across the country today while we have got our eyes on Tropical Storm lee expected to become a major hurricane in just a couple of days. And we begin this morning with the very latest on the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump. The judge overseeing the case will hold a hearing today on motions by codefendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell to separate their positions, their portions of the case, from other defendants. It comes after all 19 defendants in the case pleaded not guilty and waived their arraignments originally scheduled for today. And todays hearing also comes as there are new developments in the fede
That delay, that gap is it really interesting. Because we know this isnt the only information that american intelligence had about possible russian attempts to influence the election. So there it were other channels coming in at the same time. Also highlights the degree to which the fbi was put in an almost impossible position later in the campaign. We know they had this information or some of this information. We knew there was the Ongoing Investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. You have the fbi essentially meant to it be a nonpolitical organization in possession of damming fascinating pieces of evidence, if not smoking guns, in either case, trying to decide how to play it, how aggressively to pursue their investigation and what political risks there are for a nonpartisan Law Enforcement agency to be perceived as putting its fingers on the scale if any of this nfrngs came out in the last few weeks. Again, another piece, not the full picture, but justins to provide context for hous