Hurricane laura. There is heavy damage along the gulf coast, where the storm made landfall as a category 4. But search and rescue operations have just been suspended. The halt was caused by a plant fire that has spawned a chemical cloud right along interstate 10. Youre looking at that image. Were going to go live to louisiana in just a moment. We expect to see President Trump this afternoon as well. He will visit fema headquarters to be briefed on the storm response. And later, he is going to blur the lines between campaigning and governing again as he accepts his partys nomination for another term from the lawn of the white house. If you believe Jared Kushner, mr. Trump will offer a hopeful vision of america. But leaked excerpts of the speech sound less hopeful. Politico reports the president will unload on joe biden in a blistering convention speech. He will claim that he has spent his first term reversing joe bidens damage. All of this against the backdrop of extreme unrest that is
Addressed those comments with a spurious claim of her own earlier today. Yesterday, he was point blank asked, do you denounce White Supremacy, and he said i have always denounced any form of that. He has condemned White Supremacy more than any president in modern history. According to one source, there is a Silver Lining for the white house. The debate might be enough to make people lose faith in the presidency altogether, in other words, the president may have succeeded in dragging biden so tar down into the mud that voters simply will stay home on election day. Quote, another positive effect of the night for trump, said the former white house official, could be to defer people outside of trumps core base of supporters from voting. But who needs an unnamed source when the president s former chief of staff is willing to brag about it on National Television . I also saw some analysis where one third of the people out there thought trump won, one third thought biden won, and one third sa
Aides, hope hicks, tested positive. Today, chief of staff mark meadows said the president learned about hicks on thursday, as he was leaving on marine one to meet with Campaign Donors in new jersey. He still went on the trip. Actually, as we look at this, im not going to get into the ticktock. I can tell you in terms of hope hicks, we discovered that right as the marine one was taking off yesterday. We actually pulled some of the people that had been traveling and in close contact. The reason why it was reported out and just frankly is that we had already started the Contact Tracing just prior to that event. Now, the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, is asking everyone who came into contact with the president at that fundraiser to selfquarantine. Mark meadows says he fully expects more white house staffers to test positive. It is unclear if we will be told about more cases, as once again, the American Public only learned of hicks diagnosis from a reporter who was told by a source. N
Its a muchanticipated vote count in the largest county in georgia that could go a long way to closing that gap between donald trump and joe biden in that state where donald trump maintains a small lead. Over to pennsylvania, we could know a winner by the end of the day or night. Pennsylvanias secretary of state saying the final 500,000 votes are being counted right now as we speak. Arizona releases numbers tonight out of Maricopa County that could signal whether joe biden will hold on to his slim lead. Were still waiting on nevada and its 6 electoral votes. State Officials Say we could be waiting for days before we have a declared winner there. Donald trump doesnt appear to like the direction this race is going for him. This morning he tweeted stop the count, even though if the count stops now and its over joe biden wins. Trumps lawsuits, some of them over just a few dozen ballots, now out number his pathways to an electoral victory. His completely baseless accusations of fraud remain
2 00 p. M. In the east. The election for Many Americans began four years ago in the early hours of november 9, 2016 is finally here. President trump filed for reelection the day he was sworn into office and has been running for a second term ever since. While Many Democrats have been working to ensure he has denied that second term since before he was even inaugurated. Think of everything that has happened over the last four years. Family separation, the border wall, the muslim ban, the mueller report, the kavanaugh hearings, the brink of war with iran, impeachment. And now a Global Pandemic that has killed nearly a quarter of a million americans. Today is a referendum on all of it. Right now millions of americans are lining up in the middle of that pandemic, some waiting for hours to participate in that referendum. That is on top of the more than 100 million americans who voted early. Thats up 111 from four years ago. Both sides say they are mobilized and eager to see the other party