thank you for joining us. we ll begin in washington where congress returns to capitol hill this week after a holiday break with several pressing issues to address. lawmakers are facing a series of deadlines to avoid a government shutdown. funding for several agencies is due to expire on january 19th, and then in february. there s also that second funding deadline they ll have to contend with. the issue of military aid for israel, ukraine and taiwan, and broader concerns about security at the u.s. southern border. leadership in both parties have been in talks about overall funding. some republicans have shown they re willing to force a shutdown soefr border security messages. joining us, anchor of inside politics sunday , manu raju. manu, the latest on these negotiations, what do you know about them? this is going to be a huge test for the u new speaker, mike johnson. he essentially set up the situation that we re headed into at the moment, which is a government shutdo
the country s longest serving monarch. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. it is tuesday, september 20th, 4 a.m. here on the east coast of the united states where we are tracking hurricane fiona as the storm gains strength in the atlantic. fiona is now a category 3 hurricane barrelling closer to the turks and caicos islands after tearing through the dominican republic on monday. heavy rains and strong winds ripped through cities destroying buildings and homes. more than 1 million people are without running water in the dominican republic and officials say it s too soon to know the exact number of power outages. it s only a glimpse of the power of this storm, and that s expected to get even stronger through the weeks. let s turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who s keeping a close eye on the storm. all eyes on the storm. it is a major hurricane, category 3. possibly up to a category 4. the turks and caicos, home to 5,000 pe
with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk and they re so upset this is happening. president biden responded overnight, accusing desantis and others of quote, playing politics with human beings. suggesting that those governors such as desantis should not interfere in the immigration process. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is simply wrong. it is unamerican, it is wreckless. the u.s. attorney for massachusetts will speak with the justice department about desantis transporting migrants to martha s vineyard as other atlantics are calling for an investigation. we ll take you there live in just in a moment. but we begin with a set back for the justice department in one of the investigations. a judge has named a special master to review documents seized at mar-a-lago but it paused the criminal investigation into classified materials confiscat
Monday is focus on the gulf coast, tuesday from florida to massachusetts. there s also a component of severe weather. yes, tornadoes, damaging winds a concern monday along the gulf coast and tuesday further east to atlantic-side states. allison chinchar, thank you very much. with just eight days until the iowa caucuses, republican candidates are out in full swiwg makingng their pititch to votet. we re liveve on the cacampaign trail.
Investigation into the flight. javier salazar is told one was paid to recruit others from san antonio. they were flown from florida to massachusetts where they were dropped off on the wealthy resort island with some cash and a map. i believe that they were preyed upon. somebody came from out of state, preyed upon these people. lawyered them with promises of a better life which is what they were looking for and with the knowledge they were going to cling to whatever hope they could be offered for a better life to just be exploited and hood winked which is nothing more than political posturing. ron desantis claims credit for the flight paid for with tax money. he said the migrants signed tax