The northeast. It drowned us. Close to 50 dead, still counting, still early numbers. Thats in the northeast and midatlantic states. The question becomes why . Too much, too soon. So much rain, Record Rainfall in many places, in a compressed period of just a few hours. For example, in new York City, a record three inches of rain in one hour. How much is that . The previous record, which stood for 100 years, was just over an inch. This record left wreckage. It was about this time last night that the sky started unleashing its fury, spawning at least eight tornadoes, dumping rain, triggering Flash Floods. New York City never had a Flash Flood Emergency alert issued ever until now. Almost the entire Subway System knocked out at one point. Came back different ways. People got stranded, got back on. Other people got stranded on platforms. Some overnight. Roads, railroads, stadiums, hopes completely under water. Look at this. This is a yankees minor League Affiliate Stadium in New Jersey. Its
Calls himself the qanon shaman. He obviously went viral for wearing a horned Bearskin Outfit during the assault on the capitol. Neither the records nor his attorney indicate which of the charges hes expected to plead guilty to. He was charged with six crimes including felonies for civil disorder and obstructing congressional proceedings. His lawyers wanted him released from jail, where hes been held since his arrest in january. Back in march the judge in the case said he found, quote, none of his many attempts to manipulate the evidence and minimize the seriousness of his actions persuasive. As of earlier this week the government has secured 50 guilty pleas in the insurrection. 600 have been charged in federal court. The news continues right now. Lets hand it over to chris for cuomo Prime Time. Appreciate you, coop. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time. Tonight were going to show you the unimaginable scenarios that are still unfolding all across New York, New Jersey, pennsylvania
235,000 jobs added. What did you think of what the president what the president said and how he his take on it. Because it sounded as if he was trying to give something of a Pep Talk. Well he did. The first part of his remarks were a Pep Talk about progress that had been made since he took office. I was a little bit surprised. He did Go On to say the disappointing report was an indication of the surge of the Delta Variant and the need to take Stranger Action against it. He did not do so today. And whether he does things liken Hans Vaccination mandates, perhaps on Air Travel or train travel, other things within the power of the president. The second thing he did was make a very hard pivot to his domestic agenda and just Joe Manchin Yesterday spoke to him and other democrats through the pages of the Wall Street Journal where he said lets take a pause on this 3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill, said it might be inflationary and things of that nature. The president responded in this Forum T
still without electric and the overnight temperatures are dropping into the freezing digits. dana: destruction spans more than 200 miles from arkansas to kentucky and the bluegrass state bearing the brunt of the damage. bill: look at these satellite images. this is above mayfield, kentucky, the town basically wiped off the map. meanwhile we re hearing stories from survivors that say all it happened to them in the blink of an eye. i ve never been through anything like that in my life. we got stuck downtown and all the rubble i went through. i don t know it was like a war zone or something. it was so awful. my apartment and my car, people say live in the apartment with me lost everything, too. i don t have anything. i ve been through the town a couple of times and saw everything but it is just it s upsetting to know that s the town that you grew up in and everything and you know, memories are all gone. bill: just story after story. to help us through that story
inquiry on joe biden. i will not fundy government because i will not fund the weaponized part of the government. we won t continue to fund the biden regime s weaponized government, so there should be no funding for jack smith special counsel. i will get reaction to that threat from marjorie taylor greene, in just a bit. and former president trump, and several of his codefendants want to distance themselves and avoid facing the same jury in georgia. we will have that story ahead as well. we want to begin with the president, right now on the ground in florida, surveying the devastation from hurricane adalja, biden arrived in the state just a couple of hours ago. and is expected to speak in just over an hour for governor ron desantis, he will not be meeting with the president, claiming a meeting would hinder response efforts. we want to bring in who is live for us in live oak florida. just down the street, we ve been following the president meeting with local officials there