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So theres no training behind this. Theres no standard attack in any of this. So, actually, we can see it going any way. But i think the i think the longer it goes on without violence the more likely there wont be any. Welcome back, everybody. Im john vause at the cnn center. Im natalie allen. Thank you for joining us. Weve been here several hours with this breaking news out of australia. And we will continue to bring you the latest now. And wed like to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Wed like to give you the update now. A gunman is Still Holding an unknown number of people at a lindt coffee shop in sydneys Main Business district. Sky News Australia reports that the Hostage Taker, ....
Building. it pears to be three miles or so away from the kabul airport. notably, outside the perimeter that is as best it can be secured for anybody trying to still get into kabul and leave the karzai international airport. what do you know about this? i was literally talking to a family i was helping that sent me the videos and pictures that hit a house. so she was telling me she was leaving the house, people were gathered in that neighborhood and they were saying about 60 confirmed. but before that, i was talking to a journalist. so that rocket was launched from the west of kabul. you know, a couple weeks ago, the similar attacks have been launched in the palace and rocket head near the former afghan president. so it s not three miles. it is literally less than a mile to the military side of the airport. we re talking about the north side of the airport. this is a gate north gate. it is controlled by the it has been controlled by the afghans in the past. ....
no, i can t. okay. well, i can write a great column. if it pears on tappears on the it sinks without a single noise. wrong headline, wrong news, wrong day, wrong moment. in the day. so timing means a lot. and the timing, the best timing for actually getting the message of the mueller report across was when it was released. and that moment has been missed. so maybe there will be another right moment. but the moment makes a big difference. two better than average writers joining us. two of our rurng veterans. thank you gentlemen both for coming on tonight. tim o brien, eugene robinson. coming up the president says the man he hired to be his first secretary of state is dumb as a rock. why would he say such a thing about rex tillerson? well, we ll show you why when we come back. ack. calling all sunscreen haters. ....
Briefing with the cia director gina haspel. the national security adviser earlier this morning john bolton did say at an event here in washington that they still don t believe that there is conclusive evidence that shows that the crown prince was behind jamal khashoggi s murder. so anderson, at this point tonight it pears maybe he did maybe he didn t is the official stance of this administration. so again, you have the cia s assessment along with bipartisan agreement from senior senators. any idea why the president continues to downplay all of this? reporter: one thing we should point out, anderson, and you foe, this that the cia doesn t put out smoking gun evidence or direct evidence as the secretary of state and the former cia director mike pompeo said. they deal with assessments and it s up to policy makers, it s up to president s administrations to deal with those assess sxmts they re just choosing not to do anything with that assessment. we ve heard the president say time and ....
16 minutes past the hour. we have breaking coverage of hurricane irma as it pears across florida. packing violent winds, torrential rains and breaking records along the way. irma leaving a trail of destruction in south florida. a hundred mile-an-hour wind gusts. major water damage at miami international airport. airport will be closed today. officials hope to resume a limited flight schedule on tuesday. schools in miami-dade closed until further notice. and this dramatic video shows just how powerful the winds were in miami. blowing the roof right off of this two-story building. derek van dam live forness miami. derek, looks relatively calm there this morning. what do you see? highest recorded wind gust was 90 miles an hour. that s when we were in the thick of this this morning. ....