Highstakes debate, and tropical Storm Francine on a Collision Course with the u. S. First tonight, francine, expected to strengthen to a hurricane this evening. As it closes in on the gulf coast, bringing lifethreatening Storm Surge and up to a foot of rain. Al roker is standing by. Also tonight, the highly anticipated clash between Kamala Harris and donald trump. Their first and potentially only debate before the election, with the race in a dead heat both candidates expected to go on the attack. And what mr. Trump told us his biggest challenge will be tonight. Our full team coverage. The scary moment on the tarmac in atlanta. Two delta planes colliding. The tail of one aircraft knocked off. We just hit something on the taxiway. Could you tell us what it was . What the airline says happened. The raging wildfires in the west forcing new evacuations. The deadly israeli airstrike on a humanitarian zone in gaza. And new video inside the tunnel where six hostages including an american were
Mare in this kind of warehouse and then it became the symbol of jewish success, where when i went to columbia about a third of the class was jewish and then now there was his place of acceptance of jewish triumph in america. And then now to come full circle to see the ways in which jewish students dont have a basic sense of safety on campus. It feels like a parable about america. Very remarkable. Thanks very much to our panel for being with us this morning. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn understands. All starts right now all right. History three in the courthouse Opening Statements set to begin in the Criminal Case against donald trump, and breaking this morning roared on who the first witness will be. Some one who bought embarrassing, damaging stories about donald trump. Columbia universitys president. President is calling for a reset. All class going virtual today he has university grapples with the ongoing propalestinian protests on campus. And jewish students now being urged
-my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then here s this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew. -oh! -you got to remember the hat you re wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew member, even though it s my wife. -i remember a certain sense of relief like, it s almost over. she s almost back. -i didn t talk to laurel about the foam issue. that conference was for iain and laurel, and i was a bystander. -i knew she was going to come back. you know, i never had a question in my mind. -given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during lift-off, i m wondering
That the president has been acid wously denying for more than a year now, that there was a in fact a major russian operation to interfere in the 2016 u. S. Election. And, you know, the Intelligence Community has been saying for a year now that they have high confidence that that is the case. And here you have the u. S. Department of justice and a grant Ju Grand Jury saying they can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, using admissible evidence. And that, you know, is a Rod Rosenstein today was extremely careful not to offend the president and make sure that no americans were witting participants in this plot. But that is a remarkable factual repudiation of the entire
he was very careful to stay within what is alleged in the indictment. But he did make a point on several occasions of saying that no americans are accused of participation in this. And i do think that was probably aimed at the president in a fashion that allows the president at least until such a time as
Plane. I dont think this was the first flight certainly. And the communications back and forth with the tower at one point asking if there were other pilots on the line, asking about what kind of chop he would get into over the mountain areas. This went on for quite a period of time and it did Emso Liseem E air Traffic Controller had some familiarity with them. So as the picture becomes, you know, more and more flushed out, this is someone who was familiar with the airport. You know, you almost are tempted to say it was someone who kind of snapped because he clearly enjoyed the flight, enjoyed the role and loop that he performed, sounded anyway, surprised that he was able to do that loop. That is difficult do especially in a twin Engine Aircraft that is not made do that. And it sheds a lot of light. And many people heard the clip that we just played, but i want to play a bit more of it. Obviously viewers here in the u. S. , many people just waking up again for this plane that was stole