The winds were whistling and howling. It was so powerful that we couldnt leave the building for hours and hours. And once you did think it was okay to leave, the winds were so strong you had to go back inside. And youre going to get a sense of how bad that is with daylight. Im sure in the coming hours as tammy was saying, as we see the daylightimages, its going to be devastating. For more, lets bring in our meteorologist, bill karins. What can you tell us about the storm as it passed over puerto rico and makes its way north . The misery is not done. The storm itself shows the satellite, is north of punt a cana. The bands have set up a heavy torrential rain over puerto rico, even though the eye is well away from the island. That has caused the entire island to be under a Flash Flood Warning. Right now all the way to the areas of west coast, the entire island is under a Flash Flood Warning, an catastrophic flooding is ongoing. Rivers are well above record stage. Mud slides are an issue.
Respond now and please pass this on. I cant do, um, everybodys name, but i just want because theres so much conflict happening right now, i think its important for all americans to know that Something Like this, when it happens, it tends to pribring out the best in peo. Even some of my competitors and people i have raging arguments with on television, you think we hate each other, but we dont. So im going to thank you for your kindness, from folks like sean hannity who reached out to me to steve doocy and ken cuccinelli, harry hauk and bruce lavelle, to megyn kelly and joy reid and tamron hall, to all of you, thank you. To folks like mayor landrieu down in new orleans and cory booker in washington, wendy williams, thank you so much for the flowers from you and kevin. Theyre amazing, and from little kevin as well, thank you very much. Gloria borger and David Chalian and dana bash and kirsten powers, symone, angela, bakari, alice, fareed, jeff, allison gols, don gnash, thank you so much.
The power of american journalism deserves appreciation. Its one of those days when the power of american journalism is like a klieg light in a dark sky. Look at what we have just learned. If you were able to follow each of these paving stones as they were laid down one by one by Great American journalists and published by free American Press, if you were able to follow this one story all along from the beginning, today was a day when righteously, you should just take a second and look back at where that path has led us to today and behold what Good Journalism can do and how valuable it is to us as country. What we have learned tonight in reporting is stunning enough in bottom line but all the more stunning all the more civic appreciation for it when you see where it came from. Started in july, last july. 2016, in the Republican National convention. Doing something that usually the National Press doesnt care that much about. Beat reporters cover it, political activists tend to cover it.
3. 5 million american citizens are without power and struggling with Severe Damage and worries about what is going to happen tomorrow and into the next day. We have a live report with the secretary of state from puerto rico coming up in just a moment this hour. Thats a very serious situation. Before we get there though, this is one of those days when the power of american journalism deserves appreciation. Its one of those days when the power of american journalism is like a klieg light in a dark sky. Look at what we have just learned. If you were able to follow each of these paving stones as they were laid down one by one by Great American journalists and published by free American Press, if you were able to follow this one story all along from the beginning, today was a day when righteously, you should just take a second and look back at where that path has led us to today and behold what Good Journalism can do and how valuable it is to us as country. What we have learned tonight in r
The fbi from doing its job . Did he throw his official influence behind efforts to bend justice from the truth . This is the quest that Robert Mueller per sues to see if the president obstructed justice. We start with breaking news from the the New York Times that reveals new details about the materials that the special counsel has requested from the white house, requests that shed new light on the direction of the ongoing probe. We also tonight are following two natural disasters, of course in puerto rico, Hurricane Maria made landfall as a category 4 store, knocking out power already to the entire island. It may be months before its back on. In mexico, more than 200 people are dead after a 7. 1 magnitude earthquake. The death toll is expected to rise of course as the rescue crews continue to search the rubble in the countrys capital city. Well have live reports coming up. First, to the russia investigation and the document request special counsel Robert Mueller has made of the white