Hello again. A State Of Emergency is in effect for maryland and virginia as Tropical Storm ophelia moves up the east coast. Power lines exploding in North Carolina where Ophelia Made Landfall this morning. Allison chinchar is tracking the storm from the cnn weather center. And brian todd is in alexandria, virginia. What is ophelia doing . Its still kind of chugging along, making its way akpcross North Carolina. Weve got outer bands stretching up to pennsylvania, new york, even massachusetts. The same winds right now are 50 miles an hour guesting to 65. The heaviest rain is really focused over virginia and North Carolina at the moment. Youve still got some pretty heavy bands, although the bulk is starting to push inland and away from the coastal areas. You have Flood Watches and Flash Flood Warnings in raleigh and off to the east. Theyve already picked up 23 inches of rain. Now youre going to get an additional 12 on top of that. It begins in the evening to spread more into the mid atlan
Theyll be relying on congress to pass a Spending Bill and aboat Government Shutdown by a midnight deadline next saturday. If congress fails, those workers paychecks will be delayed possibly for weeks. Federal agencies have begun the process of preparing for a shutdown and it looks more and more likely. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy conceded he has to win over a handful of gop handliners, but hes hopeful theyll eventually vote for a Stopgap Spending Measure did avoid shutdown. New jersey senator bob menendez is pushing back against calls to resign, even from fellow democrats. Federal prosecutors say menendez and his wife took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes including gold bars, cash, Home Mortgage payments, and a luxury vehicle. A Growing Crisis at the mexican border. Federal officials are sending more resources to help with the surge of migrants crossing into the u. S. Lets bring in a panel of political experts to talk about this. Joining us now, former fox news host Geraldo
Cnn primetime with abby philips starts right now. Objectively american democracy is in perilous condition. The nations politics are poisoned. Truth has become optional. Instead of desired or even required. The republic has of course always faced threats to it even before Rupert Murdoch. But so much of the current state of our democracy can be traced back to the beast of his creation. Good evening everyone. Im abby philip. Rupert murdoch is stepping down as ceo of fox news tonight. His legacy is outrage porn. Partisan red meat. Stoking relentless culture wars. But it all started with what you could argue is a noble vision to create a center right news network to elevate more perspectives that arent based in gotham or in washington. But instead, Stoking Division seemed to become murdochs mission. So did power and so did the money. Fox became a mouth piece for republican administrations, a mouth piece really for donald trump and eventually a vehicle for his baseless conspiracies. It is im
Crew rolling. Crew were rolling, daniel. Daniel roher ok, were going, guys . Both yeah. Daniel roher ok, so alexei, i want to talk about something that we sort of touched on this morning. And you might hate this, but i really want you to think about it. If you are killed, if this does happen, what message do you leave behind to the russian people . Alexei navalny oh, come on, daniel. No, no way. Its like youre making a movie for the case of my death. Like, again, im ready to answer your question, but please let it be in another movie, movie number two. Lets make a thriller out of this movie. And in this case i would be killed, lets make a boring movie of memory. [suspenseful music] [speaking russian] reporter Alexei Navalny is stepping back into another showdown with the kremlin. Reporter what to do with navalny presents a conundrum for the kremlin let him go and risk looking weak, or lock him up knowing it could turn him into a political martyr. Reporter mr. Navalny, arent you afraid
On their way to the u. S. Right now five americans held hostage in iran are free after the Biden Administration unfreezes 6 billion of iranian oil money, but the u. S. Is imposing new sanctions on iranian agencies and officials with connections to another detained american. We have details. Hunter biden now suing the irs. The president s son says agents illegally released his personal information. He claims the agency failed to protect his private records. Plus, a former Department Of Justice official and donald trump ally asking a federal judge to move his Georgia Election subversion case to federal court. How the judge is now reacting. We are following thinks major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. Here in a few hours five americans who were wrongfully detained in iran will be back on u. S. Soil for the first time in years. Their plane in the air as we speak. It left from qatar a bit ago and President Biden has spoken to each of their families, families