Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka witfield. The southwestern u. S. Is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as hurricane hilary churns off the pacific. We just learned moments ago that the storm has weakened just a bit to a category 3 storm with 125 mile an hour winds. Its lashing mexico with strong winds and high waves right now. Forecasters warn it could dump more than a years worth of rain across parts of california, nevada and arizona. The storm is expected to weaken as it moves north, but the threat is so severe, a Tropical Storm watch has been issued for california, the first ever for that state. People there are trying to prepare as best they can. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar is joining us. A new advisory has just been issued. While it may have been downgraded a little bit, thats still very threatening. Right. Keep in mind the weakening was forecast. We knew as it slid into cooler waters, this was going to happen. In terms of the fore
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A look at the days top news and headlines. Is glaring right at him, does not look like he is really blinking much, just waiting for him to look over as far as i can tell. Gates has not looked over, but only one person, the Defense Attorney between them, it is really interesting, because at one point today gates was trying to explain how it is that he would help Paul Manafort, his old boss reduce his tax bill by doing things like faking a loan or making income look like colognes. And apparently in 2014 when the tax bill came it was higher than manafort was expecting, emailed to rick loyds, i just saw this, not happy, wtf, he has spent most of the time on the stand explaining how he figured out his taxable income, wired from overseas, and to wire money from overseas to highend retailers for fancy suits or construction
projects, they needed A Little Bit More of a paper trail, but gates said that he falsified invoices. The mueller team is asking a lot of questions about consultancy agreeme