radiant alison camerota. hey laura, hey alison, glorious. this is never going to get old. the stick is never going to get old. [laughs] . we were wondering if you are going to run out of superlatives. but we know that you re not. no, impossible, impossible. they gave him eight as soares. jack eulogy. jocularity, fantastic. i need boost. we re gonna keep the conversation going on cnn tonight. good evening, i m laura coates, and i m alison camerota. with midterms just 21 days, way things are getting hot in florida. tonight in the first and only debate between marco rubio and valdes will play some clips. and now never before heard tapes of then president talking to bob were woodward. you re about to hear his real thoughts on vladimir putin and russia and his own ambition. and we also have brand-new audio from trump s inner circle, meaning his son-in-law, jared. remember we never heard his voice? there s a whole thing. this is how we ve been involving
Going to one particular shelter near ft. Myers. Many of them are still waiting to get in. Were going to check in with our drew griffin whos there in the hour ahead. But first, lets get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. Allison chinchar is in the Weather Center. Bring us up to date. Right, anderson. Take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. Winds 125 Miles Per Hour gusting up to 155 Miles Per Hour. The movement its been what we call wobbling where its going back and forth between west and north and west and north. The question is when does it finally start to make that really sharp turn to the north. We focus on the maximum wind gusts. Notice for the most part its the western half of florida where we have our strongest winds. Key west, this will be our peak maximum wind gusts around 138 Miles Per Hour. But say up around ft. Myers 136, even tampa going to be in the triple digits right around 116 Miles Per Hour. The track its
Lavandera on a boat near dickinson texas, between houston and gal ves ston. Youve been talking to brave picture and showing incredible pictures, whats the latest . This is our fivtd chance to get into some of these neighborhoods. This is a neighborhood called bayou chantilly, just off of i45. You can see how devastating the floodwaters have been seth came up here earlier in the day, he was rescue iing people the last several hours. He did one last pass through the neighborhood. If you can focus in on this home in front of you, take a look at the roof, you can see the axe
seen here throughout the day, who have driven up i45 and used it as a boat launch. And this is just one of hundreds of boats that are out on the water here in south houston, this is one particular neighborhood where this is unfolding. This is happening all across the city here this afternoon. Were seeing so many cars in drive ways. Talk about how quickly the water came up. Incredibly quickly. People went to bed thinkin
Were lye in the cnn newsroom. Thanks for being with us. It is a storm for the record books. Harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nations fourth largest city. Around 3,000 National Guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. Some families desperate to get to Higher Ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. Pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. The two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and its only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. Cnn was there when an a dramatic
rescue took place in dickinson. Were live. Ed, what is the latest that youre seeing . Actually were going to show you the video of the moment when it happened.
Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new warnings to residents. Get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. Just moments ago we learned that a houston Police Officer,
sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. His police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in after him. It was too t