The right decision to leave. Theres no evidence that staying longer would have made the afghan government any more resilient or self sustaining. If 20 years, hundreds of billions of dollars and Support And Training did not suffice, why would another year, another five, another ten . Now this comes as President Biden is about to land in colorado where he will make another pitch for his build back better plan. Democrats hammer out the detils of a Reconciliation Bill to make the proposal a reality. Were going to talk with Pramila Jayapal about where things stand at this hour. Now it is also recall day in california. Voters in that state decide if Governor Gavin Newsome should remaun in office. This vote comes as senate democratS Put forward a new ill to protect Voting Rights. Were going to talk with Alex Padilla about the path forward. Now in texas, more than 300,000 homes and businesses are without power after tropical storm nicholas made land fall. Bringing high ones and heavy rains to
Maybe slightly less Wind Damage and then were still going to have epic amounts of rainfall. Weve already seen that in some areas of new York City. Some areas reported six inches of rain overnight. To the latest on the storm, see where its located just south now of about New Bedford and newport, Rhode Island. The storm is starting to bend to the left. We are going to have this heading up towards the Connecticut Rhode Island border. Doesnt look like well get that island landfall, but it does look like it should be happening near westerly, Rhode Island. Winds are starting to pick up along the Twin Forks of long island. A Wind Gust on Block Island up to 50 Miles Per Hour. Slowly the winds are moving onshore and well begin to have Power Outages. Right now were doing okay. Here is the new now were getting hourly updates from the Hurricane Center. The storm is only 40 miles southsoutheast of montauk and heading up to the east of montauk. Winds at 70 and moving at 16 Miles Per Hour. Pretty qui
Believe this is new haven, connecticut. Rhode island, new york. Six states in all will be impacted by this storm. It will feel the brunt of this storm. Rain coming down as you can see in new haechb. Other video we can show you throughout the hour of Storm Surges already. We have a team of reporters. Rt were going to begin with Hurricane Henri getting ready to crash into the northeast coast. Expected to make landfall within a few hours. Can see Janessa Webb there, poor thing hanging on to a railing from then strong wind d rain. Long island, Southern New England are bracing for a direco hit for the first time in 30 years. As We Saw from janessas live shot, areas are already experiencing initial impacts. Look at this video from new York City. Eastern parkway behind the brooklynhi library. People in Henris Path are emptying shelves like this one at a walmart in connecticut where flashlights are usually stocked. Those close to the Coast Boarding up windows and in some kiess evacuating. New
Covid. The white house wants trump trial to move quickly but the houses Impeachment Managers have to make an incredibly convincing and thorough case if they are serious about trying to win a conviction. Senate negotiators are closing in on an agreement that would likely extend the trial through the middle of next week. Possibly longer because the current outlines of the agreement do leave open the possibility of calling witnesses. Were learning is basically the crux of trumps defense. In a new legal brief trumps lawyers concludes after 70 plus pages of analysis that quote, the article of impeachment presented by the house is unconstitutional. Democrats are dismissing those objections, they clearly taking them seriously. All as the Clock Tick Ons this countrys race to vaccinate and help as many people as possible amid the spread of more dangerous covid variants. In just a minute well talk with top member of house leadership about the road ahead but lets begin with shannon who is standin
space. we ll take a look at what security officials are saying about the puzzling phenomenon. plus, the latest from turkey. as rescue crews are pulling fewer and fewer earthquake survivors from the rubble. we ll get a live report in just a few minutes. and we re learning new detils about a classified documents folder that former president trump s legal team just recently turned over to the justice department. good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, february 13th. thanks for starting your day and week with us. big news, the big game. the kansas city chiefs have won the super bowl, defeating the philadelphia eagles in comeback fashion last night. two-time nfl mvp quarterback, patrick mahomes, led the chiefs to a 38-35 victory and earned his second super bowl mvp and is already illustrious career. we ll have all of the highlights from last night s game. a fun one, not quite a classic. we ll break it all down in way too early. let s begin with the growing