Now i ll see you tomorrow evening. I m kaitlan collins. This is the source hurricane helene is about to slam into florida and i expected to make landfall and just a couple of hours from now, it s now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 miles per hour. If it stays this strong, it ll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida s big bend region. That s the area that we re keeping a close eye on. This hour, more than half 1 million people there have already lost power. And forecasters are predicting tonight that the storm surge in some areas could be unsurvivable reaching as high as 20 feet surges and high winds were already the reason for the closures of several major bridges in the tampa area that we saw tonight? officials, there are telling residents to shelter in place, that it is going to get worse and don t go outside. Emergency managers and one florida county are being so blunt with their warnings for those who are in low lying areas a
today on inside politics , new and exclusive reporting reveals the special counsel is asking questions about an oval office free for all, and the free yeo who pushed donald t trump. plus, hiring is solid, but new numbers fall short. does it all point to another rate hike from the fed that could crunch your credit? and the freedom caucus purges marjorie taylor greene from its ranks over questions about where her loyalties lie, to the hard right or to the house speaker. i m abbey philip in for dana bash. let s go inside politics . up first, the screaming patch at the center of the special counsel s investigation. exclusive cnn reporting gives new insights into jack smith s months long focus on that december 18th 2020 oval office meeting. the people inside that room and ses brat and legal ideas that then pushed donald trump. and cnn s caitlin pollonz is part a that report. what does this tell us about where jack smith is in the process? this reporting from a keep of us led
biden is handling the issues in his first term. people don t want joe biden and want somebody younger to be president in 2024. it is not that older people cannot work, you should work as long as you want. the most important job in the world, rigorous job as president, not a job for an 86-year-old, which is what joe biden would be at the end of a hypothetical second term. that is an issue for somebody that hasn t shown signs of aging. joe biden says nonsensical things, shakes hands with ghosts and needs to spend every weekend at the beach. he will not be fit in four years. ashley: fabrications or lies he tells all the time, we can t tell if it is fact or fkz. when you talk about the age, you are correct, people in their 80s have an active mind. it is not about the age that other than cans me, it is how long you have been this politics and corrupted by politics of being a politician. when you check the boxes, when they say voters, their ideal candidate is no older than 65, ha
times. cleotha abston was 16 when he began a prison term. brooke singman has breaking details on this case. brooke. brooke: good morning, human remains have been confirmed to be those of missing heiress and mother of two, eliza fletcher. memphis police department discovered remains of a body, further forensic investigation by the mpd positively identified the body was in fact eliza fletcher. fletcher s body was located in an abandoned home seven miles from where she was kidnapped and one mile away from where cleotha abston was seen cleaning the floors of his suv. her family is demanding justice saying we are heartbroken and devastated by this senseless loss, we are grateful to law enforcement for tireless efforts to bring justice to the personal responsible for this horrible crime. cleotha abston is charged with first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence. surveillace video captured video of a man running toward fletcher while out on a early m
sensationalism was, i would soon find out. more journalists should be in television. nobody was thinking as big as rupert murdoch. the largest single broadcast station transaction in history. 20th century fox. rupert has laid out he wants one of his children to succeed him but he doesn t say when, who, or how. it will have to be fought out between them. two minutes to the official start of the race. there are the boats. the sydney race in australia is a big deal. it is kind of their super bowl. lockland had done a lot of sailing and he eagerly signed up for the 98 race. he sailed on board the boat sianara. it was a beautiful day. there are wind gusts close to 100 miles per hour. and the waves were enormous. is there anything you fear in life? you always worry. i think. about the unexpected that could happen. what could bring all this tumbling down. boats would head into the waves. and they would sort of climb up and then they would go. you worry about wh