Under way. volunteers on jet skis rescued a wife, husband, their 6-year-old daughter trapped in flood waters. about a dozen jet skiers rescued at least 100 people in dangerous conditions. cnn s patrick is in freeport, which is the main city on grand bahama. patri patrick, you mentioned earlier survivors were the first responders and now we re seeing the pictures to go with the images that you really were describing earlier to us. absolutely. and we were there the day after the hurricane, it was tuesday morning. the hurricane was raging here and i would say just being here far more than 100. we saw them working around the clock. dangerous conditions. conditions you should never be in a boat or jet ski. and imagine, you know, you re not just out on the water and hurricane-force winds, you re driving down submerged streets where there s all type of debris, fences under water, light posts. tons of different objects
Great lengths to protect this person s identity. and even though more than 25 different people have said that they re not the person who wrote this op-ed, as you can see from what you play in that clip from michael caputo, that doesn t necessarily mean that those in charge here or those whoclose t the president believe all those people. that is for sure. ryan nobles, appreciate it. thank you. reporter: thank you. well, as ryan was pointing out, trump white house officials today hitting the sunday news show circuit to talk about that anonymous op-ed. keeping the speculation and story alive. patri patrick, our own reporting here is that staffers, including kellyanne conway, have really been trying to get the president to move on. and yet, they re not. they re putting themselves out there and talking about it. are we stuck in this news cycle until the writer is unveiled? well, until president trump, you know, calms down over it. i mean, he s been, you know, saying on twitter that
Job growth and the economy, you know, and instead is trying to sort of settle scores. the person is trying to say, you know, we re trying to do sort of the best that we can in spite of him and in some ways trying to sort of contain the chaos. all right. here we go. get ready for day six of the washington parlor game, who wrote the op-ed. kelly, patrick, thank you both. thank you. when president obama left office, he said he wanted to stay out of the spotlight. his scathing speech slamming president trump on friday, though, has put him squarely back in its focus. we ll speak with his former speech writer next in the cnn newsroom. what s with him? he s happy. your family s finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds eye voila skillet meals. and they only take 15 minutes to make.
Significant step in hi. international inspectors must vir fi that iran. rushed up to the near 20% plesh old. coming up. box 19 in sip sin where a firefighter was killed after falling through a floor while battling a fire early this morning. he was responding to reports that a person may have been trapped there. patri patrick. fox 5 in san diego with the identity of a 33-year-old man who fell to his death at sun side cliff. they slipped and fell 45 feet while distracted and landed on
we re only a day away from a crucial primary that could determine where this republican marathon is headed. fresh off a run away win in puerto rico, mitt romney is now looking to score big in illinois. rick santorum needs a strong showing as he tries to deny romney the nomination. the two rivals have long since taken off the gloves, but now they have put on some brass knuckles as well. our national correspondent jim accosta is in chicago with the very latest. the top two gop contenders are practicing their own brand of chicago style politics on this day before the illinois primary and both rick santorum and mitt romney are proving to be untouchable. reporter: the battle for the gop nomination has come to illinois and in the land of lincoln the republican party is a house divided in an uncivil war of words. i m somewhat experienced in the economy, i m not an economic light weight. president obama is. we re not going to be successful replacing an economic light weight wit