intensefying to a category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mile-per-hours. the mayor called it catastrophic. some seeing three feet of rain. look at this. most of the island remains without power and a electrical grid with a checkered past and a bad history. it could be a while before it is restored. two deaths have been reported so far in puerto rico which is still struggling to rebuild after hurricane maria hit five years ago today. crews have rescued more than a thousand people but more could be trapped by the floodwaters. the storm killed at least one person in the dominican republic. cnn meteorologist chad myers is tracking this storm for us. and chad, the latest update just came in from the national hurricane center. what is it showing? it does show one good thing for bermuda. the storm turned a little bit left. you re out of the cone for now. not every storm stays in the cone but one-third could sneak out. that is good news for the people of bermuda.
real. but will high inflation derail the democrats momentum. gop primary field is set. it is filled with trump picked election deniers and some are changing the tunes. we live and learn. right? the election was not stolen. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. hello and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. illegal immigration roared back into the headline as republican governors sent migrants up north. governor desantis flew approximately 50 vendsn migrants to martha s vineyard saying he was using the tax dollars to make a point. we ll spend every penny to protect the people of the state of florida. we have an infrastructure in place now. there s more that s happening. the democrats say he s using human beings including women and young children in a cynical ploy. buses sent by texas governor abbott brought migrants to washington d.c. dropping them off outside vice president kamala harris s residence. it is go
killed in a safe house in kabul. it was carried out by a cia drone strike. and president biden met with his national security team to discuss the operation. you can see in this photo, just by the president, a wooden box on the table that contains a model of the safe house used by al zawahiri. national security council john kirby spoke about the intelligence that led them to find al zawahiri, after a two decades long time. yeah, just an incredible amount of painstaking work went into this. and i want to be careful about the intelligence stream. but basically, we were able to track the movement of mr. zawahiri s family to kabul. trying to understand both the habits of this individual, but also confirming that this individual was in fact mr. zawahiri. and once we had that in place, then it was really a matter of presenting the case to the national security team and to the president, of course, for the president to make a decision and then, he obviously made that decision. it
during a call with house gop leader kevin mccarthy while the capitol was under siege on january 6th along with congressman the three had been facing trump s wrat. republicans in two of those states, arizona and wisconsin, set to make their picks for statewide offices in the next few weeks. arizona today and wisconsin next tuesday. amid a rift between donald trump and mike pence that dates back to january 6th. the washington post reports, quote, two gubernatorial candidates in arizona and wisconsin backed by trump will face-off this month against those endorsed by former vice president mike pence. who split with trump after refusing pressure to reject the results of the 2020 presidential race. but make no mistake, this year s republican primaries have been shaped in large part by who donald trump is endorsing. and competition for his endorsement took a surreal turn last night when trump endorsed eric in the missouri primary. just eric, no last name, you know, like beyonce
the committee compiling this comprehensive and compelling minute-by-minute account of trump s inaction, and they documented the pleas from everyone inside and outside the white house for trump to condemn the violence. instead of telling support force back down supporters to back down, trump spent time in his private dining room watching the attack on tv until he finally and reluctantly sent out a video message that advisers said still missed the mark. president trump did not fail to act, he chose not to act. reporter: the house select committee investigating january 6th making the case that then-president trump betrayed his oath of office during the capitol attack. a white house security official whose identity was concealed by the panel details the security concerns in allowing trump to go to the capitol after his rally. the president wanted to lead thousands of people to the capitol. i think that was enough grounds for us to be alarmed. reporter: the committee sai