988 and press one for the veteran in this crisis hotline is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and there are folks their eagerly waiting to offer help. thank you so much for watching the lead with jake tapper starts, right? now. closing in on closing arguments, the lead starts right now we re less than 24 hours away from the prosecution and the defense making their final pitches to the jury in donald trump s hush money cover-up trial, how strong is the case going into? this final phase? a panel of legal experts and a former new york judge will join the li plus a tragic mistake. that s what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he s calling the military strike on a refugee camp in gout and rafah, gaza authorities saying it killed dozens, israel insisting its forces, we re going after hamas leaders killer tornadoes at least 21 people dead after devastating storms tore across the central us over the holiday weekend. that s severe weather. now, heading east may disrupt
If you have to walk outside this morning you absolutely want to check with us but also , be make sure to give yourself an extra hour, at this point in a lot of areas. You have to hear. I dont know what it business rain, light to moderate rain at worse but we all drive, just differently when there is rain out there. Heres current radar, damage has been done, we are already finding issues on the roadways but you will see here when you look at this three hour loop hour things are starting to deteriorate, we have decent rainfall, some of the heaviest of which ace cross south central, burlington county, good portion of the Cape May County also engulfed in the heaviest rain but it does become more scattered more sparse in nature as the day goes on. Temperatures flirt nothing to the low to mid 60s. Still cooler in the mountains and in our path, 56 degrees there but in the suburbs we are starting to drop off more and more. You will not rebound all that much, technically these temperatures are
Send us a tweet cspanwj. Or go to facebook. Or send an email. The phone lines are open. Take a look at the exchange between donald trump and john kasich on immigration. Mp we have to stop ilLegal Immigration, it is hurting us from every standpoint and causing tremendous difficulty with respect to drugs and what it does to our inner cities and it is such an unbelievable moment because the courts have not been ruling in our favor. It was a 21 decision, a terrific thing that happened. We are a country of laws. We need borders. We will have a wall and the wall will be built. The wall will be successful at if you think walls do not work, ask israel. The wall works. Properly done. Can you just send 5 Million People back with no effect on the economy . We are a country of laws. We either have a country or we do not have a country. We are a country of laws. , they willo go out come back, and hopefully they get back but we have no choice if we are going to run our country properly and going to
To bring in transportation. We have c 130s coming in. Authorities say that at least 2 Million People are affected in 41 provinces. We will have more from a live report from the ground. In the meantime, lets send it over to andrew. He has this mornings top stories. Good morning, becky. Thauchk. We have some corporate headlines this morning. Avardis is selling its blood testing units for 1. 75 billion. Its a very busy market for health care deals. Also shire has agreed to buy viro viropharma. The deal should boost shires rare disease portfolio. Trans ocean reached an agreement with carl icahn to settle a proxy battle. They will pay a 3 dividend. The activist investor tweeting his response writing in part, quote, great news for transocean and activism today. Joe, over to you, sir. I think he just likes us to say his name. A lot, in any context. Carl icahn in. Yes, pretty much. Icahn, icahn, icahn. In every story, in every headline. Icahn wants to be an icon. He is an icon already. Is that
His case on gun violence. His executive order met with plenty of pushback from republicans who want his job. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im christine ber romans. Im john berman. The breaking news north korea says it exploded a Hydrogen Bomb. This is the very first time the Nuclear Regime made a declaration a. Fusion device would be a huge escalation in their capabilities and present huge new challenges for the u. S. In terms of security. If, in fact, it was a hydrogen device that, is in question. The apparent underground test said off tremors all night and prompted a u. S. Emergency Council Meeting earlier today. Will ripley live from beijing. At this point, will, what do we know . Reporter we know the list of countries that are condemning this action by forth korea continues to grow not only here in china the United States, japan United Kingdom the list goes on. If, indeed, north korea tested the Hydrogen Bomb. This is hundreds of times more powerful than for example the bom