Their job and refused to be there for the votes. On the president s nominees for health and Human Services and the treasury secretary. In response, the republicans changed the rules. They approved the president s pick without a single democrat by pushing forward a new rule. Joining us now with her on this, karl rove, former chiefs chief of staff and austan goolsbee, a former top advisor to president obama. First, we go to ed henry come alive on capitol hill tonight with the latest at what is going on there. Boy, what a scene. Ed. Trickle republican senators today came out against betsy devos, imperiling her nomination to be nomination secretary. Of President Trump can hold republicans, he will get most of his cabinet. He has harry reid to thank for that because remember, he changed Senate President so that you only need 51 votes instead of 60 votes to get nominations through. He did that to help president obama. Now, it is helping President Trump, which is by chuck schumer, the new Sen
Louisiana closed or closing early. We have meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joining us live in the cnn Weather Center with the latest. P. J. , whats in store . This system is going over warm waters over the next 12 hours. We think strengthening is possible. It is not very organized or impressive system. Thunderstorms on the western periphery of florida. 65 miles per hour. 5 00 a. M. Update talks about the storm system at 65. No changes made to the update. You notice 17mileanhour winds to the north northwest. That is the area we are watching. That is a rapidly moving system which gives it little time to intensify beyond category one if it makes it there at landfall. When you talk about slow moving systems. Harvey was five miles per hour. It produced 30 inches of rainfall in cases. When you speed the system up, chances of rainfall drop dramatically. That is the case with gordon with the rainfall amounts on the lesser end. Water temperatures in the upper 80s. All of this is conducive for dev
The pair earned the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for the story that got them jailed. Inside in a prison and also around the world, people who are wishing to release us, so i would like to say thank you very much for everything. Im really happy, excited to see my family and colleagues. I cant wait to go to my newsroom. [ applause ] reuters newsroom as you can see there in singapore erupting. Cheers as journalists watched their colleagues leaving prison, and now heres some new footage of the two journalists being reunited with the families just a short time ago. Imagine that reunion. The president of myanmar has pardoned thousands of other prisoners in mass amnesties, customary around the traditional new year. Steven adler described the two men as courageous reporters and symbols of the importance of press freedom around the world. His daughter was born while he was in prison, simply for telling the truth. Major show downs between House Democrats and the Trump Administratio
Critical trade talks resume tomorrow. Im just over the moon. Its a boy, and thats well, thats about all we know. The baby of prince harry and the duchess of sussex is now 7th in line to the throne and finally, a game of thrones conversation i understand. For once, good morning, everyone, welcome to early start, im dave briggs. Congratulations to them. Congrats to the happy couple. Harry was beaming indeed, wasnt he. Good morning, everybody, im christine romans, tuesday may 7th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Lets begin with breaking news overnight. Two journalists for reuters jailed in myanmar are free this morning after more than 500 days in prison. They had been sentenced under myanmars official secrets act for reporting on a massacre of rohingya citizens. Now they have been released just weeks after their final appeal was denied. They received the pulitzer price for International Reporting for the story that got them jailed. Inside in a prison and also around the world, people wishing to r