Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Donald trump says the media launched a witch hunt against him. The chairman of the Republican Party says trying to launch an independent candidate to stop trump would be a suicide mission, and the democrats are trying to secure votes for tomorrows big primary in kentucky. Hena daniels is here in new york with our story. Good morning. Reporter good morning. All this as contenders are making a final push for votes ahead of tomorrows primaries in kentucky and oregon. Presumptive gop nominee, donald trump, is looking to add to his delegate count in oregon but still faces a challenge in getting Republican Leaders to unite behind him. Donald trump kept a low profile at his daughters Graduation Ceremony in pennsylvania sunday. As the campaign to build republican unity rolled on. Who is going to blow up the system . Who is going to get the change that people want done . Thats
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Donald trump says the media launched a witch hunt against him. The chairman of the Republican Party says trying to launch an independent candidate to stop trump would be a suicide mission, and the democrats are trying to secure votes for tomorrows big primary in kentucky. Hena daniels is here in new york with our story. Good morning. Reporter good morning. All this as contenders are making a final push for votes ahead of tomorrows primaries in kentucky and oregon. Presumptive gop nominee, donald trump, is looking to add to his delegate count in oregon but still faces a challenge in getting Republican Leaders to unite behind him. Donald trump kept a low profile at his daughters Graduation Ceremony in pennsylvania sunday. As the campaign to build republican unity rolled on. Who is going to blow up the system that people want done . Thats what this elections coming down
Enormous surges, up to ten feet here in miami. That and the sheer size of this monster has hurricane warnings, evacuation warnings and traffic jams extending further north. The governor saying everyone should be ready to evacuate. Leave now, he said, not tonight, not in an hour. Now. Weve got a lot of coverage tonight across the state in cuba, the caribbean. We begin with alison in the weather center. So a new forecast just came in with irma. Explain where it is and where its heading. It is in between the bahamas and in cuba. Its in very warm water. Thats going to allow the storm to intention fie over the coming hours. Likely back up to category 5 strength. We are just now starting to see some of the extreme outer stretches of the storm begin to produce showers and storms over the florida keys. Thats likely to increase in the coming hours. But again, the storm still a very strong category storm, just two Miles Per Hour off from category 5 strength. We expect it to get to category 5 str
Coverage from across the hurricane zone. Jeff flock standing by in ft. Myers, florida. Well start in jackson have where Evacuation Orders are lifted and rebuilding is beginning. Peter . Reporter sandra, here in jacksonville, where there was city wide flooding, most of the problem came from the st. Johns river, which you can see has gone down considerably here in the san marco neighborhood, just south of downtown, which also flooded. You can see here, it may be difficult to see in the distance, but the water line is to here. And because the water has started to recede and disappear in some neighborhoods the mandatory Evacuation Order is lifted. Shelter population is down to about 1400 in jacksonville which is a lot less than it has been. But the problem is, and the reason some people will be in shelters for up to a week, if not longer, is because thats how long officials are saying it will take for this to go away. There is water just a few feet in to where it starts. It starts getting
The bathroom in the hallways. For two days, it was hell. You didnt know if you are going to make it or not. And you look at damage to homes and rvs pushed on their side, you would think it was the wind but neighbors say it was the storm surge. They say the ocean rose up to their necks. It came in fast and it went out fast. Neighbors say they are stranded with little food, water, and zero ways to communicate with the outside world. This man put a sign on his driveway. It says sos. We hear. Need water. In case a helicopter anybody. No one has shown up. No one has come. Not yet. No one. I am on my own. Hurricane irmas wrath was the worst in the lower key is that there was plenty of damage in the upper keys. Water covered u. S. Highway 1. Votes on the side of the road. Once you get to big pine key, the damage gets more severe. This Mobile Home Park ripped apart. All thats left here is a toilet seat. Residents want the world to know they are alive but they need help. Coast guard helicopter.