A roundup of the day s events.
justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. but president trump telling fox he thinks politics matters in prosecutions. if you look at president obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general, and they viewed it a lot differently. you know, we have somebody, they seem to like to go after a lot of republicans. reporter: one top republican, now a convicted felon, paul manafort, president trump s former campaign chairman, found guilty by a jury this week of tax crimes and bank fraud. i have great respect for what he s done in terms of what he s gone through. some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. reporter: the question now, will the president pardon manafort? his press secretary says he s never discussed it. that s not something that has been up for discussion. i don t have anything for you on that. reporter: his
What were you thinking, knowing that you still had a flight tomorrow? i just wanted to get out as fast as possible. just so i didn t have to, i guess, stay for the aftermath. reporter: luckily, she s getting on a flight tonight. and gio is live now from honolulu, where they re bracing for hurricane lane. and gio, officials there warning people to stay out of the water? reporter: yeah, that s right, tom. in fact, we just heard a lifeguard telling people on a megaphone to get out. it s just too dangerous. we ve been watching these waves get bigger and bigger. powerful bands are just hours away here, tom. all right, gio benitez watching for hurricane lane. gio, thank you. let s turn right now to senior meteorologist rob marciano, he s tracking the hurricane tonight. hey, rob. reporter: hey, tom. concerning on two points. one, it s not weakening very rapidly, and two, the pacific hurricane center says this is a low-confidence forecast. you ll see why when we look at the track.
More than any hurricane that s moved through the area. eight inches of rain is too much for any location. you ll get some pretty crazy flooding. it s amazing that it wasn t widespread. everyone else had a quarter inch. all the rain and gloomy weather has pretty much exited. a lo of clouds are lingering in new england. the sun will poke out and drier air will move in during the day. the big weather story will be a tropical storm heading for a very unusual place, hawaii. the storm does not look as impressive today as it did last night or yesterday. the winds are starting to come down a bit. so the storm is in a weakening state. it will move over the big island of hawaii throughout the day today. that s 8:00 p.m. east coast time it will be exiting. south of honolulu and exiting to south. the other story was the chilly air in the great lakes. that will remain today. not quite as cool, but still 70s. end of july is typically a hot