Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Island. A slide at one of the major roads across the island and some voluntary evacuations in hilon. This particular location, we had hilo. In this particular location, we had six or seven hours of rain dumping down. Crickets. The rain has stopped. The wind. There is almost none now. We are waiting for the next band if it comes from the hurricane. Many other islands of hawaii remain under Hurricane Warning right now. The big question is honolulu and oahu. The island with honolulu county. Population is 400,000. How close will lane come to it and how will people fare there . They are concerned of flooding in honolulu. Easier to deal with it on the big island where they are accustomed to rain. Honolulu is not looking forward to this and people battening down the hatches there. Back to you. Miguel marquez live for us in
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Unlock all doors and i see the pride when they say i am an american. To see how florences program unlocks the doors of the american dream, go to cnnheroes. Com. Thanks for watching. Our coverage continues. Happening now. Hurricane lane battering hawaii with strong winds and deluge rain. Another ally appears to have broken with the president. The executive who helped kill stories about the president s affairs before the election cooperating with investigators. And a Predominately Black Georgia County could close most of the Polling Places before midterms. Critics say it is doing to muzzle the majority vote. Good morning. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Happy friday. August 24th. 4 00 a. M. In the east and 10 00 p. M. In hawaii. We start with Hurricane Lane on final approach to hawaii. It is now category three. Officials are warning the storm is a significant rainmaker. More than 19 inches fell on the big island. Governor david ige says some parts of the island could take 30 inches
thinking, you would see you would see numbers that you would not believe in reverse. the president of the united states is essentially declaring he is the stock market. let s take a less hyperbolic look. impeachment would cause a concern, but a crash? resilient riding the longest bull market ever. the economy is strong. corporate profits are booming thanks to the tax cuts. if trump were impeached and had to leave office, impeachment does not necessarily guarantee that. they may drop his trade war which wall street would love. if the market did crash, would americans be poor? no. half of americans are invested in the stock market. many of those are wealthy and super wealthy. the top 10% of earners, the
hurricane lane battering parts of hawaii with strong winds and rain. we have the latest track and a live report from the big island. and predominately black georgia county could close most of the polling places before the midterms. critics say this is just being done to muzzle the minority vote with a black woman making an historic run for georgia governor. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. 5:31 eastern time. 11:31 p.m. in hawaii. we have a live report straight ahead. we start with that headline. another key figure in the effort to squelch trump scandals is now cooperating with investigators. david pecker, head of american media and publisher of the national enquirer. he knew of payments to buy the
the new york according to the new york times prosecutors want to know how the president accounted for reimbursement of michael cohen to the payment of daniels dwae daniels. federal prosecutors say cohen did know legal work in connection with the matter. the da review is said to be in the early stages. no comment from the trump organization. attorney general jeff sessions has apparently had enough of attacks by president trump. a.g. pushing back after the president lashed out saying sessions failed to take control of the justice department. the president slammed the a.g. regularly for more than a year since sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. he took the job and then he said i m going to recuse myself. i said what kind of a man is this. the only reason i gave him the job is i felt loyalty. he was an original supporter.