society are given credit for the confirmations of neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett. it was leo who was in the driver s seat of those nominations. leo is the person who can raise the money and has the background to put in place judges who will build a conservative judicial infrastructure around the country. leonard leo now has an unprecedented amount of cash to spend on whatever political projects he likes. and while the donation was meant to be kept secret, name and address withheld on the irs form, cnn has confirmed the source as 90-year-old businessman and philanthropist barry side, who donated the entire stock of his company to marvel freedom trust, which turned around and sold it for $1.6 billion. cnn has attempted to reach mr. side without response. his donation will leave behind a dark money political legacy that could last decades. already, marble freedom trust has given more than $200 million to other causes. including $40 million to donors tru
this weather setup is much like we had a few weeks ago from that 1 in 1,000-year event from st. louis with the tragedy in kentucky. this is how much rain fell. for the most part, the models two days ago and even yesterday were predicting a good 6 to 10 inches of rain. but now it s extending eastward, where it s been raining even more across areas of louisiana and toward mississippi. the watch is extended in this area and there s much more on the way. now the threat is going to continue as it moves the to louisiana, mississippi, and later on alabama. tom seeder, thanks so much. coming up, these times are changing and so are americans habits. plus, women around the world showing off their dance moves to show their support for the finnish prime minister who is in the middle of a rather bizarre dance scandal. stay with us.
have been talking for weeks and months about the low levels, the dropping lake levels, evap evaporating because of extreme drought, extreme heat. all of this essentially vanishing in less than 24 hours. this is one of those spillways in east dallas where the water in the spillway where this has been bone dry for weeks. it is now a rushing river, and scenes like this playing out in many areas across north texas this afternoon. a sliver of good news is that the rain has finally moved out of the dallas/ftd sl-ft. worth into east texas. as we have been driving around the water levels are kwquickly receding, especially in the areas where as much as three to four feet of water got into some homes and neighborhoods as well. as quickly as it came in, it seems to be moving out and receding just as quickly as well. jake. ed laver dara in dallas, thank you so much. how long will the rain last in the dallas-ft. worth area.
tom, explain how extreme this rainfall has been. it s just crazy. the rain is coming to an end in dallas. however it s moving eastward. dallas just ended, jake, the second longest dry stretch in history. and the record ego back to 1899, since the beginning of the year, we had a deficit of ten inches and they got it all in one day. you mentioned a 1 in 100 year event, but this total in dallas is a 1 in 1,000-year event. second highest august rainfall. they are just a third of an inch from the wettest august in history. you have to go back to 1915 for that one. but part of the problem, it s all runoff, is the drought we have been in. the top ten driest years, san antonio, this is the driest ever. second for college station. third, san angelo, dallas, the fifth driest. it s just hitting this ground. what we need is weeks of a nice light rainfall to seep into the ground. but all of this is moving away from the area. if you expand out a little bit, we now have warnings in the austin area.
to assist the government, not others around him, him himself. he himself, and that trump himself was the person who gave the direction to comply with that subpoena to hand over surveillance footage of the areas inside mar-a-lago that the justice department wanted to observe. so they really are saying what trump s agency was here and potentially hoping to couch that in the guise of the power of the presidency that he may have. so it really isn t others that they re putting this on. it is trump. all right, caitlin polanz, elie honig, kaitlan collins, thank you. coming in with this breaking news report. it is flooding down in texas, the dallas area seeing ten inches of rain in less than 24 hours and that threat is not over. then, teachers in one state s largest school district are going on strike just days before classes start and they re not alone. bus drivers and custodians are also striking in a different city. stay with us.