31 now dead, 2 million evacuated , 124,000 homes destroyed. The cost ranges are ranging wild ly weve got one right now that seems reliable, 125 billion. Thats more than hurricane katrina. We are with you. The American People are with you we are here today. We will be here tomorrow and we will be here every day until this city and this state and this region rebuild bigger and better than ever before. [applause] liz and the white house confirming today President Trump plans to return to texas this saturday to visit other parts of the state still reeling in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and to another story two explosions shook a flooded Chemical Plant in crosby texas just outside houston. It shot a plume of black smoke into the air, triggered an intense fire and continued to burn. Now officials equated it to a gas o loan fire warning more explosions could occur. This as harvey damage caused toxic chemicals to pour out of refineries operated by exxon, shell and other companies. Houston now
Their account from inside the home at 6 00 oclock. For now we are live from blue bell Steve Paterson for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Steve paterson, thank much. Commercial air liner on its way from spain to germany crashed in the french alps today and there are no signs of survivors. Cbs the news correspondent tina krause has the very latest. Reporter this is what is left of the commercial airline their slam in the Mountain Side in the french alps. The german winnings plane carrying 150 people was about an hour from the flight from barcelona to dusseldorf when it made a sudden wrapped descent. There was no distress call from the air bus a320 as it approached the Southern Alps plunging 14,000 feet in eight minutes. We have to investigate properly with all of the professionals what went wrong. Reporter a group of 16 High School Students and two teachers are among the passengers. Family and friend gathered at their school in germany to wait for word on their loved ones who were returning from a
Level volunteer and proven liar and also implications for democrats. I think the what the democrats will experience with the republicans. Investigations are like saturn. They devour their own. You will see an expansion bringing in other people. Melissa chief washington correspondent james rosin is live with the story. Changing every minute. Fast moving indeed. Good morning, melissa and jon. A key assertion of the special counsels office and the low level Trump Campaign advisor George Papadopoulos is coming under challenge today. It was his meetings with a foreign professor who claimed access to wellconnect russians that documents attached to papadopouloss guilty plea said the professor told defendant papadopoulos as defendant papadopoulos later described to the f. B. I. That they, meaning the russians, have dirt on her, meaning Hillary Clinton. Russians had emails of clinton, thousands of emails. Today the telegraph newspaper in london has identified the professor as a Teaching Fellow
This week. The president s team putting on a united front as the charges became public. President donald trump was correct, there is no evidence that mr. Manafort or the Trump Campaign colluded with the russian government. Those activities ended in 2014, over two years before mr. Manafort served in the Trump Campaign. Todays announcement has nothing to do with the president or his campaign or campaign activity. The real collusion scandal has everything to do with the Clinton Campaign, fusion gps and russia. All of the activities as i understand it was long before they ever met donald trump. The reaction of the administration is what the legal Justice System work. Everyone is presumed innocent and see where it goes. Bill former Trump Campaign advisor George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty about lying to the f. B. I. About his contacts to russia and cooperating with the special counsels investigation. Sandra james rosin in live in washington good morning, in the summary of events that Ge
Telephone booth. He was also under investigation for his 2017 lease of a bedroom in a condominium linked to a Canadian Energy companys powerful washington lobbying firm. And for accusations that he demoted or sidelined epa employees who questioned his actions. Nbcs hans nichols joins us from the white house along with the New York Times chief White House Correspondent peter baker and with us on set careen john pierre Senior Advisor to move on. Org and michael steel, former chairman of the rnc. Hans, lets start with you. This news not surprising, but it seemed to take a crush of negative press for donald trump to push out someone with clear flagrant blatant and repeated ethical problems. Ethical problems, ethical challenges, however you want to couch it, nicolle. It was clear that scott pruitt was causing problems for the Trump Administration. The only real question was how was he able to last for so long. And the answer to that was always that President Donald Trump really liked what h