and i m not sure it and done it in service of advancing some of these really hateful, really disgusting, really awful accounts. he spent a lot of money buy it. all right. thank you. panel for joining me this morning and thank you for joining us. i m on a raja cnn news central starts like now the final countdown exactly one week tool, presidents sure be like no other right here on cnn. and we have our first glimpse of how the candidates are preparing fires. and now floods millions are now under flood threats as the first tropical storm of the year makes landfall and batters southern texas also a historic decision, louisiana now require three all public school classrooms to display the ten commandments opponents, wout challenge this new law have all those stories and more for kate bolduan out today, i m sarah side and with john berman, this is cnn news central this morning game on. but of course it is no gain. it is the earliest general election debate the presidential ca
with us. our biggest hour of cnn news central starts right now all right. new york times, maggie haberman says donald trump is prepared to go after president biden on hunter. biden cnn s historic debate. now, just a week away, new details on the final preparations. that s ahead. plus were standing thing by for a possible a huge supreme court decision. many decisions major questions involving trump s immunity and of course, abortion rights unlinked the line and repeatedly reckless with guns, how prosecutor planning to go after alec baldwin, kate bolduan, out today. i m sarah sided with john berman. this says cnn news central just one week to go until the first presidential debate here on cnn no general election debate has ever been this early or potentially this important. and we re you are getting details on how the candidates are getting ready. president biden is headed to camp david. we re told that donald trump is talking to his vice presidential hopefuls, outside alli
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It is starting to develop a centric eye wall, which means it is close to that eye wall replacement, which means we could see temporary weakening as we head through the next hour or so but after that, it is likely that will intensely, rapidly intensify and continue to work its way toward the gulf coast, as a category 3 storm, as we head through the rest of your friday, expected to make landfall later this evening. So well show you here, its exact track, as it continues to track really to the north of Corpus Christi, is where we are expecting that heaviest impact as a category 3 storm, before it swoops down, back into the gulf of mexico, as a Tropical Storm early next week. So heres what were tracking in terms of rainfall, because weve been talking about it all day, flooding will be the primary threat, as we head through the next couple of days. So here are those impacts again. A major impact for wind. This will be a category 3 hurricane. Winds in excess of 111 miles per hour, storm surg
For catastrophic flooding, tornados and a massive surge from the biggest storm to hit texas in more than 50 years. Our team is on the ground in the storm zone with the very latest. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our continuing coverage of Hurricane Harvey. We have been trarking this storm all morning long and it has been a harrowing one for so many people. Harvey is now a category one storm located 25 miles west of victoria but it blasted ashore near rockport, texas. An extremely powerful category four storm, with reports some buildings there have been heavily damaged. Were starting to see some of those images coming. This is the strongest storm to hit the United States in 13 years. Its not just the wind or the storm surge but the fact that this system, the storm system is going to stick around in this neck of the woods for days and days and days and dump inches and inches of rain, upwards of 40 inches in some spots. This is a look at the sea wall in galveston this morning. Also an