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Still at 60 to 65 miles an hour. Notice the scope of the storm. The center of it still over areas in both carolina but the rain bands extend well off to the north. Raining across portions of new york, new jersey and even massachusetts from some of these outer bands. The heaviest rain mainly focused across portions of virginia and North Carolina. We have heavy bands making their way across portions of raleigh right now. We see them spreading farther north and the places like new jersey, delaware. That is the general trend through the next 24 hours. We have Flood Watches in effect for several states with the red indicating flash flood warnings including raleigh and communities off to the east. Basically the concern is they already had two or three inches of rainfall and anticipate another one or two inches on top of what they already have. There is a concern for continued flooding in the region. By tonight the bulk of the rain will be focus more over the mid atlantic. By Early Sunday Morning now the bulk of the rain is really positioned over portions of the northeast. If you live in new jersey, pennsylvania, it will be several more hours before we start to see an end to the rain. Flooding potential both days, today and tomorrow, but two separate areas. Today mainly across Virginia North carolina. Overnight into tomorrow that will transition a focus more across the northeast, specifically pennsylvania, new jersey, portions of new york and connecticut. Rainfall most areas likely will pick up two to two inches with some picking up five or six inches total before the system finally exits. It will exit and continued weakening off to the north. Eventually out to the east pushing out over the open atlantic. That is still 24 to 36 hours from now. You will continue to see the wind calming down every few hours we go past, but peaking at some pretty impressive amounts. Look out, North Carolina topping out at 73 miles an hour but even other states. Seattle, new jersey topping out at 60 miles an hour. Other states and locations have pretty significant high wind reports around 50 to 60 mile an hour ranges. We start to see storm surge already peaking for the day and especially across North Carolina the farther north we have high tide coming for some of the stairs either in the next hour or some within the next two or three hours. You will still see water levels rising approaching high tide, especially for areas the maryland, delaware and new jersey. More to come. Thank you so much. Lets go midatlantic right now where we have brian todd and alexandra with already high water and quite a few cars are turning around. Whats going on . Reporter really we start to feel the effects of the storm in earnest in alexandria the Potomac River. Prince street is starting to flood with this honorable area flooding even in normal times. The Potomac River is lapping up over the seawall and onto the street. High tide is not for another hour. I will be joined in a second bite ebony fleming, spokesperson for the city of alexandria. The streets will flood and particular them honorable in this area of alexandria. Ebony, thank you for joining us and what do you genres is to do now as the storm is approaching in earnest . Reporter you can see its pretty nasty out. If you dont have to be out on the road, stay home. For those that need to be on the roads, Exercise Caution while driving. Some lights good experience outages. Making sure we abide by the look at the fourway stop. For those individuals at home, clearing the patio because it is so windy. Clearing gutters and hopefully you have done that already. It seems the storm is already here. Reporter this area of alexandria, as we pan over received the Street Lighting and king street flooding. Why is this particularly vulnerable . We are at the waterfront built on a marsh which is susceptible to flooding and then we have high tide. With the wind, high tide, it is a combination of issues that will lead to more flooding. Reporter you made sandbags available to all the businesses. Have people been taking advantage of that or not . Absolutely. This is is on King Street And Waterfront Area have taken advantage. Im sure as the water rises more people will put them out. Reporter thank you for joining us, ebony. Good luck to you and Everybody Else down here. We will show you a little bit more as people start to turn around on prince street. Several cars have come down here and realizing whats going on have turned right back around. King street is flooding a little bit as well. These areas are very vulnerable even in normal times. As we pan out you can take a look at the seriousness of the storm. Really the wind and rain kicking up in earnest. Whitecaps out on the Potomac River, getting serious now. The last few hours were just a tease or this and we can really start to feel it now. We can see it too. Thank you so much, brian todd. Folks need to heed the warnings and take advice, stay indoors if you can. We are on the jersey shore but i dont see any people around you anymore. Earlier folks were Walking Around and now they have gone inside. Reporter there were a few we saw within the last hour but The Rain Did Come And Go On the jersey shore. What has intensified are the winds and whats telling is behind me where you see decorative palm trees flailing in the wind. Most telling brats is off the jersey shore we see the wind whipped waves that speak to the potential for Deadly Rip Currents which is why officials hear of actually locked up the gates or the beaches access. Weve seen one determine individual on the other side of the gates. For the large part most folks in new jersey are choosing to ride out the storm indoors. Most of the businesses on the boardwalk are clothed. We have one pizza joint in front of me that said theyve actually been Serving Pizza is 1950 so the storm will not stop them. There still open for business. One individual by me but very few folks for the most part. People have decided to stay in. In terms of flooding, we have not seen significant flooding yet. Its all about the wind. We have been in worse conditions. It does not take much to topple power lines and then you end up with the potentially deadly situation and of course with power outages. That is what we are monitoring here in new jersey with conditions continuing into today, and potentially into tomorrow as well. Perhaps not as bad as today. The storm is not finished. Thank you so much, polo sandoval. To the ongoing response to the surge of migrants at the southern border. U. S. Customs and Border Protection has resumed operations at the international Roadway Crossing Bridge in eagle pass, texas after the agency shut it down. Meanwhile, Homeland Security secretary Alejanddro Mayorkas set to visit the Rio Grande Valley in Southeast Texas today. He will torah mcallen, texas with the president of honduras. Our sitting president rafael romo is here with us now. Many cities along the border are expressing they are stressed. We are there to perhaps convey some relief for at least a hear the grievances. Some relief and hope. Speaking of grievances, there is plenty coming from the government in texas. The government is saying it is railing against the Biden Administration, saying Border Communities are overwhelmed and overrun by the large number of migrants arriving and calling the situation a crisis. Governor abbott announced the Texas Division of Emergency Management to deployed additional buses to the Border Cities of eagle pass and el paso. The purpose is to peaking transport them to the century cities and chartered municipalities mostly run by democrats. Governor abbott said last year texas busted nearly 12,000 migrants to the nations capitol. 15,010 your, 8703 chicago. In the Statement Governor abbott said the following. Until President Biden oppose the constitutional duty to secure americas southern border, texas will continue to deploy as many buses as needed to relieve the strain caused by the surge of illegal crossings. Meanwhile the Biden Administration announced several steps being taken to address the situation, including the deployment of 800 activeduty Military Personnel adding capacity to border facilities and continue to conduct deportation fights. The problem goes beyond migrants that have made it to the u. S. Southern border on tuesday. The mexico largest Railroad Operators suspended service of several northbound train lines after reporting halfdozen injuries and deaths of migrants. Homeland security secretary Alejanddro Mayorkas is expected to meet at the border this afternoon with hungarian president. It will be happening within the next few hours and thats a very important meeting because honduras has the next to the largest number apprehen u. S. Border by Border Patrol. Is that the honduran president that feels he stands to gain more from the conversation or is it secretary Alejanddro Mayorkas that feels they could get more intel an understanding as to why so many hondurans are making their way to the border. Traditionally is the idea of having the shared responsibility. The countries, origin countries trying to do with they can to stem the flow of migration to the north. U. S. Officials also trying to help financially to create opportunities locally so that these people dont have to leave. Good to see you, rafael romo. Lets talk more about all of this with an attorney and Immigration Analyst and cnn opinion rider writer. Great to see you. The border surge has been an issue for years and what do you believe is at the root of the latest influx . Reporter there are two factors in play. One is that countries of origin. That is the economic authoritarianism and economic instability. Thats growing climate change. Those factors push migrants to leave their countries of origin. They have no future. But on the american side of the border the bigger problem is not just the numbers of people at the border. Its the broader Immigration System is so dysfunctional. It is outdated and out of touch with reality of the 21st century. We have not updated our systems , Immigrations System since 1986. We have 10 million undocumented people here. The measures weve seen in recent years like daca, Temporary Protective Status are only bandaids on the bigger problem. Until as the country and im talking about congress specifically, we stop focusing so much on the ebb and flow of the border numbers and tackle the much larger problem of our outdated Immigration System. Unfortunately will keep coming back to the same status quo of Human Suffering and overwhelmed Border Cities. Give me a good example of what is updating the Immigration System. For starters let me remind you that the people coming, arriving at the borders now, are not undocumented or Illegal Immigrants per se. They are pursuing asylum claims. Once they come to the country, with a backlog of 1. 6 million asylum cases. The average asylum case text 4. 5 years to process start to finish. The good way to address it is to send more resources into immigration courts, to support personnel, and to process all the large numbers of people so that we dont have huge crowds of people at the border. Also a tremendous population within our borders waiting for asylum case that may be five years or more. Again, the bigger picture. Its congress that got us into the problem. The only we can get out of it is by Congress Taking action on immigration. Whatever measures the different president s have done such as president obama, with daca, President Trump met with some is immigration bands, and now President Biden. They are only temporary solutions. The solution must come from congress to address it in a meaningful way. So far congress has not shown any propensity to cooperate and to compromise, to get us past the situation. In the meantime, again, we see so much suffering. These pictures, quite disturbing. But politically, they are one reason that President Biden has i believe 31 Approval Rating on immigration. Because people see this, whatever they know about immigration or the system, they know is not right and its upsetting people. The only way we will get beyond this is just a look beyond the border, look at the broader system, and hopefully update it, fix it and provide more resources. So when the white house announces the expansion of the humanitarian Relief Program for venezuelans, already in the u. S. , makes an impact or makes a difference. Allowing hundreds of thousands more people to be eligible for work permits. Is that at least a shortterm solution . Are you hopeful about that . Im hopeful about that. Normally asylumseekers have to wait six months before they can even begin to work in this country. Under tps those that registered and probably vetted can work right away. That will start getting them all the City Social Services programs. They can start the fund on housing and pay taxes, contribute to the cities and states. That is a positive development. But tps will last for 18 months. What happens when at times goes by . It is a bandaid fix. I think the mayor of new york, governor and many other mayors around the country welcome it. That is not a lasting fix. Unfortunately the way the political system is designed with no cap on asylumseekers, no Country Limits on asylum seekers, we will ultimately come back to more greater numbers of people. Is the question of what to do with them. I welcome this. It shows me that President Biden is listening to some of the mayors around the cities. What would be ideal i think would be some of these republican mayors in the border states, instead of being so antagonistic with the Biden Administration, if we saw more cooperation in terms of how they are handling this unprecedented crisis. Raul reyes, we leave it there for now. Thank you so much. Thank you. Still to come, russia gets his turn at the u. N. General assembly after many World Leaders including biden and zielinski denounced the war in ukraine. We will have a Live Reportrt Fr the u. N. Stay with us. A chow down day. A Take A Big Bibite day. A Pererfectly Delicious day. Mm. [ chuckles ]. A love my new teeth day. Because your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu. A clearchoice day changes every day. Schedule a free consultation. Meet the future. A chef. A designer. And, ooh, an engineer. 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Reporter defined Russian Foreign minister went after the United States and european allies on a variety of issues in effect saying the Ukraine Border was the responsibility of washington. In the speech before the Press Conference the Russian Foreign minister laid out how we felt that the u. S. And others were there true global threat. We are working with those that respect themselves and who will never trade their National Interest because someone from washington has told them to. We know how american diplomats travel around the world and prohibit meetings with our diplomats, and with representatives of russia in general. I will say the following. The u. S. Is superpower, cleared everyone. But to run around like this threatening everyone, only then to show ones obsession with domineering. It is simply embarrassing for a great nation to act this way. On other aspects about ukraine, peace deal and peace offerings, he says its not realistic. He did not also give any indication that russia would be rejoining the black sea grain initiative. He said we dont reject it but explained why he did not like it. He said that russia has been lied to one point. All right. So it sounds like russia is saying it is being victimized. Victimize globally. Earlier this week ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was addressing the General Assembly. Actually asked for Greater Unity to help defeat russia. What was the reaction to his message . Reporter the reaction from most members was good. This morning and afternoon Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov explained after he got a question on why he did not sit in the Security Council chamber while zelenskyy was speaking or in the General Assembly all. He said i knew what he was going to say. I 33 other meetings to do. He rated the remarks from zelenskyy as not his best. He basically kind of said that there was no need for any zelenskyy versus lavrov moment. Interesting. 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The Committee Spokesperson told cnn the hearing would focus on the constitutional and legal questions that republicans are raising about biden. From the legal standpoint, what are you expecting from the first public hearing . First of all they will send out subpoenas with the Subpoena Power to hunter biden for the bank records and other members of the joe biden family. I would imagine some of the first hearing will be either about getting the subpoenas out or getting the return and getting a chance to talk about what they found. It may be a bit too early for that. The legal and constitutional issues and here is the thing. It seems like a darn rehash. Lets go through these impeachments one by one, if thats okay. When we had clinton, the independent counsel was Kenneth Starr and presented by linda tripp and in real time with voice recordings with monica lewinsky. It raised questions about the claim brezny in office, and if he was lying in office. There was the deposition. In addition of that and it was all realtime. In addition of that with trump we have the insurrection, call to ukraine. All of these happening in real time while both were president s. Now with joe biden you have the inquiry looking back years to when he was Vice President first of all, over things that have really been hashed out and rehashed out by and under the Trump Administration with the Department Of Justice looking at him them. The Treasury Department looked at him then and they found nothing. What are they really thinking they will get as far as huge legal and constitutional issues when the bar is supposed to be so high . Dont forget that high crimes are misdemeanors. When you mentioned there would be subpoenas, and involved with this inquiry, we have seen it in recent inquiries. Also in Committee Hearings that people defied the subpoenas. Right. Without honoring the subpoena and getting the testimony or seeing the evidence, what will there be to discuss . Like that subpoena in banking records, you see the bank will comply . It might. I would think that it really probably would because youre talking about the bank does not want to be brought into this kind of inquiry. Even if the holder of the account does not want it done. Once you have started an independent inquiry, which is Impeachment Inquiry, that have the Subpoena Power to do that. Where i see more issues like with what youre talking about, is bringing individuals in. Not Bank Officials really because they dont really have much in the game. But bringing in officials, people that supposedly overheard conversations, and that kind of thing. I could see those folks saying no not me and defined the subpoena but to great consequence because youre not supposed to do that. So the Gop Committee says they will bring it constitutional experts to the discussion of by the Impeachment Inquiry is warranted. What might that involve . It harkens back again to the Clinton Administration. I remember being on the ds with Everybody Else, congressmen and women. We did the same thing abroad and constitutional experts to talk about first what is impeachment, what is the level of impeachment what does it mean. It was kind of giving a History Lesson almost the people. You know, during the Clinton Administration there have not been and impeachment since richard nixon. But now impeachments kind of put in part of the vocabulary. Its almost like a tool used by the house that is different from the white house. That is the house run by somebody, Different Party than the white house. I dont know we really need to constitutional pressure but they will do that. Every inquiry has done that which is really all it will lead to. We will leave it there for now, liz will. In this quick programming note tonight, cnn journalists spotlight the changemakers whose contributions that hart inspired them. See how the seen in in cnn highlight their r profile for sosociety. We will be right back. K. 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What we have been told is that there was sort of an advancement, progress in the negotiations, especially after a long time of not talking. The fact they are there on a saturday, and the fact it is the fourth day of marathon sessions, its just giving a lot of people hope. A lot of people in the industry like this is a good sign, the fact that the ceos, Heads Of Studios at the table. That includes warner bros. Discovery, netflix, disney and nbcuniversal. There at the table with the union negotiators. We are waiting to hear exactly what happens. Many of the writers say their demands are extremely important with residuals and higher wages when it comes to streaming. Also talk about a. I. And writers want to be the ones writing the scripts. They have been on strike for over 140 days. Many say they will continue to be on strike for as long as it takes. Here is one of the writers i talked with. We have to waive these negotiations in space. There is no option and no backing down. Theres no getting less. Theres only getting more from my view. Reporter telling me and they also say we want to go back to work. A lot of them are telling me i am ready to go back to work. This is been an extremely difficult period for a lot of these writers. For many it is about putting the food on the table and paying your rent. They have not been working for months. Aside from the individuals struggling, Economic Impact already surpassing more than 5 billion. This is not just hollywood or the writers and the actors. It really is a Domino Effect to many industries. Los angeles as a whole because it really has had an Economic Impact here. Its really everywhere. But keep in mind that the writers still do not have a deal. The actors dont have a deal. Even if the writers to come to a deal, you have to wait for sagaftra to come to an agreement with the studios as well. It does not mean that productions will go back to normal anytime soon. Very tenuous still. Thank you so much. 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Earlier mccarthy addressed reporters admitting he still lacked support from a handful of republican hardliners with the countdown toward the september 30 shut down getting a little bit closer. Cnn Priscilla Alvarez is joining us from the white house. What is the approach from the Biden Administration on whats happening on capitol hill and whats not happening . Reporter Office Of Management And Budget preparing for the potential shutdown. Rider they formally an estate the process. We are so sorry, priscilla. Lets get to capitol hill to congressman garret graves. We just finished the republican conference Telephone Call talking about the path forward. Certainly on a path right now to keep it moving with Appropriations Bills and moving the public defense, Homeland Security, agriculture and appropriations as well as state and foreign operations. We are trying to get this process on a path where we can truly reduce spending, and address a lot of the fundamental problems that this administration is causing, particularly at the border in areas like energy, inflation and inability of americans to make ends meet. Obviously with the end of the fiscal year, i think an important part of the strategy would be ensuring that we do everything we can to avoid a government shutdown. We should not be in a situation we are asking our troops to put their lives online and yet not get paid. We should not be in situation to where we are fighting to close the southern border, but not have our Border Patrol page. I think this is an unreasonable situation. I think it would be a failure on our part if we actually reach that point. I think that republicans are aligned on the strategy, at least 95 of them. We will continue to work to do this. The last one i want to make. I remind everyone that the Appropriations Bills moving forward are the Appropriations Bills that the Appropriations Committee reported or voted, or passed out as far back as may of this year. There have been aggressive efforts by the members standing here as well as scores of other republican members of congress to try to get these bills to the floor for a vote as soon as possible. Those efforts have been forwarded despite awarded an thwarted despite the aggressive gop. The members of the rules Committee Just finished voting a little while ago on reporting the rollout of the four bills that to determine the conditions under which these bills will be considered. Thank you. We just came out of the rules committee and will have maybe the largest role weve ever passed out of the rules committee containing four Appropriations Bills with hundreds of amendments allowed to be offered for the process. Again, i reiterate what Congressman Graves said in that many of the Appropriations Bills have been noticed and out of committee for months. We have been trying to get these bills to the floor. Handful of people have sort of been standing in the way of that. We will keep moving forward. We will keep trying every single day to get these bills through. Every single day we are fighting against what the Biden Administration is doing or not doing on the border. This rules package in particular contains Strong Border provisions we hope that the Senate President will take seriously. Thanks. I think what i walk away with from the call we just had was how unified the Republican Congress is on two things. To address the runaway spending and reckless spending of the Biden Administration, and two, to get serious about securing the u. S. mexico border. The conversation we are having in the final days is tactics to get us there. I think the strategy we are unified behind and hopefully over the next few days we will be up to move these bills forward. Ultimately to make sure we are not shutting down the federal government. We will have a stopgap period of time to complete the appropriations bill. The work we can do this week i think will build the momentum in the appropriations process and give us opportunity to get the Stopgap Funding Bill across the lake to complete the work of the appropriations. The vast majority of Republican Congress is unified and i think we are exactly where the American People are. That is to reduce spending and secure the border. Is something i hear in these guys do too, every time ago home or get calls to the office. Its lets reduce spending and secure the border. Those are the two things we are bringing to the forefront in our appropriations package. Im excited to see the bills come to the fore and to get the rule through and continue to do the work. Again, the congressmen stated the Stopgap Measure were working on. We are working on the Stopgap Measure but at the same time collectively working together to try to move appropriations. Reporter is this a new Stopgap Measure that was introduced in conference or will this be worked out. Whats going on here . Exactly what it looks like. Not sure right now but we continue to have conversations. I want to make a point that i think is important. We saw several days ago where people like congressman donalds, perry, and others worked out the really good approach that i think gave us a path to actually reduce spending, to secure the border, and something absolutely worth fighting for. I think that every day we get closer to the end of the fiscal year, opportunities of leverage to force this white house to force President Biden, to cave on those issues is waning. I think that is a huge mistake. We are continuing to work on this. Also another party of the speaker of the house is the Debt Commission to look at Long Term Debt saving ultimately hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars through mandatory spending programs to be part of this as well. Reporter we understand that the speaker floated the 45 days. I want to be clear. Your people in the conference talk about 14 days and others talking two months. A decision has not been made on this. Right now i think our front burner issue is the four Appropriations Bills. Reporter the speaker said 45 days. I will say again the discussion the conference is between 14 and 60 days at this point. The focus is to make sure we dont have a shutdown to provide the stopgap. To get the stopgap across the line is 40 number one and the prioritizations is the timeline of that and we will see how it plays out. Listen, your deodorant just has to work. I use secret aluminum free. Just swipe and it lasts all day. Secret helps eliminate odor, instead of just maskining it. 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