Wicked weather this week between heat and rain storms and winds in excess of 100 mile per hour in texas, houston, where at least seven are confirmed dead. And hundreds are still without power. Katie, how do things look there now . A new shift of workers have arrived this morning and their work is underway after some cleanup crews worked through the night and theyre trying to board up a lot of the shattered windows in some of the Downtown High Rise Office Buildings and hotels. And you can see the work is cut out for them and there are a lot of windows theyre going to have to take care of, all of this damage, caused by the strength of 100 mile per hour straightline winds that hit right in downtown houston. The cleanup and power Restoration Efforts are likely to take weeks, not days. More than 500,000 people in Harris County here are still waking up in the dark. Its a huge concern as we enter the stretch of 90 degree days coming up. Weve been speaking with a lot of people on the ground be
This morningism maria bartiromo. I hop youre having a good friday morning. Happy weekend. Its friday, may 17, 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. Former President Trump so called hush money trial is entering its final stretch as the defense prepares to resume cross examination of exlawyer Michael Cohen on monday. Lydia hu with more. Reporter the cross examination highlighted cohens history of lying and made the discussion that Michael Cohen continued his lies on the stand before the jury yesterday. Defense attorney todd blanche crossexamined Michael Cohen about a brief phone call that took place in late october of 2016. Cohen testified that he called Keith Schiller, trumps body guard, and trump about Stormy Daniels, telling them the nons didisclosure agreement was done. Blanche used Text Messages to suggest cohen received a harassing series of phone calls and called schiller to discuss the harassment. Heres the exchange. Blanche, question, that was a lie,
John any moment now the white house has had to hold a briefing as the Supreme Court comes under fire yet again. Hello i am john roberts in washington, sander we are almost to the weekend. Sandra all right friday it is an sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. The New York Times published a photo taken in 2021 about upside down American Flag hanging outside the home of Justice Alito. A symbol with Donald Trumps false claims of election fraud. John Justice Alito denies having any involvement with the flying of the flag he told the New York Times his wife on the flag in response to signs in a neighbors yard and the maid already taking aim at the ability. We see Dysfunction Congress and now in the Supreme Court. Its unsettling its gross. Justice alito has become increasingly unembarrassed about displaying himself as a partisan come as consumer of partisan natives and media and in ruling in ways that is just kind of out loud all caps disdainful. It shows how politicized the c
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