Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 Election Cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred 30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohens testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal and defensively by trying to establish that co
Exciting. All right. Andy shovels. Thank you so much. Texas that could get some downpours have damaged homes swept away cars, and forced people to evacuate some areas got hit with almost two feet of rain causing widespread flooding and more rain is on the way lets bring in cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar so theres more youre tracking yeah. Unfortunately, the last thing this this place needs is more ran, but texas is about to get a bunch of it. Take a look at the video behind me. This is from livingston, texas again, you can just see all of that widespread water flowing into homes and businesses and covering the roadways. But its not just the rain that fell onto the roads. You also have to worry about the rivers, creeks, and streams because those swell after that much rain. Take a look. Youve got 39 river gauges at Minor Flood Stage 16 at modern and about a dozen river gauges at major flood stage. And these take time. In fact, some of these have yet to even peak and likely wont for a
News out of Columbia University in protests across the country are Breaking News is going to continue here on sienna anand dont go anywhere. Im Kasie Hunt Cnn News Central its right now breaking overnight here at Columbia University, protesters breached an Academic Building. They are now inside barricading the doors as this protest here continues into a second week and back in core, donald trump returns to a manhattan courtroom just as there are new reports trump is mad at his lead attorney in lives shattered after four officers are killed in North Carolina, we have new reporting on what put them in the line of fire im john berman with kate bolduan and sarah sinnner. This is cnn news central cnn Breaking News what again, with Breaking News here at Columbia University where things have ratcheted up because dozens of students were able to reach an Academic Building that youre seeing there, just behind me that is Hamilton Hall with guns are inside at the moment occupy that building . All