foreign dignitaries. we all remember the scene where north korea sent off missiles and the mar-a-lago dining room became the situation room. it was early in his presidency where the membership fee to mar-a-lago doubled to $200,000. foreign dignitaries flock to his hotel in d.c. t one firm that was representing the saudi government spent $200,000 there early in the trump administration. so to have president pence by the way, the president doesn t suggest anything. when he issues a suggestion, it s close to a command. to have president pence vice president pence. travel to the president s club it s more of the same. i wanted to talk about the hurricane preparations and the president s management of all that. there was an extraordinary statement by a white house aide
already. a lot more rain to go. a while, kauai. people getting in on it. you can see the center of the storm. the center of the storm likely won t cross landfall. i say likely. he can t fully rule it out. because of the trajectory, it s going to be impacting hawaii for a long time. came south, made eight northerly turn anti-western turn likely before moving across parts of the island, at least the center of it. that means we have a long time, it s a long duration stronger because its longer duration, with the rain, rainfall totals will pileup as will the flooding. down to a category 3. the center of the storm doesn t have as strong winds as it did before. we expect that to happen. the farther north, it s going to break apart a little bit. take a look at this. friday morning, saturday mornin morning. somewhere here passed a while who by sunday morning. likely pass the island chain by sunday. two and a half more days of rain
maui, oahu, over towards kauai. everybody already getting in on some of it. you can see the center of the storm. the center of the storm likely won t cross landfall. i say likely. we can t fully rule it out.y because of the trajectory this storm has taken, it s going to be impacting hawaii for a long time. came to the south of it, made this northerly turn and it s going to make a west turn likely before moving across parts of the island, at least the center of it. that means we have a long time, it s a long duration storm and because it s longer duration, with the rain, rainfall totals will pile up as will the flooding. down to a category 3. the center of the storm doesn t have as strong winds as it did before. we expected that to happen. t the farther north it moves, it s going to break apart a little bit. take a look at this. friday morning, saturday morning. somewhere here past around oahu by sunday morning. likely pass the island chain by sunday. two and a half more days of rain th
again, the storm doesn t even peak until later this afternoon and evening. the lines move a little bit, and a lot of snow on the way miles. huge difference. thank you. we ll check back next half hour. two republican chairmen are calling in attorney general sessions to appoint a special counsel. they want to investigate possible obama-era abuse of surveillance law. the lawmakers sent a letter to sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein urging an investigation into a warrant obtained on former trump adviser carter page. the fisa warrant was the subject of that much-criticized memo from gop house intelligence chairman devin nunes. they say the scope is too broad for the justice department, the i.g. in particular. there could be new sanctions on russian individuals and organizations as soon as next week. senior official tells cnn the internet research agency is
fields, swamps, that can be prone to flooding, we used to have 30,000 people in homestead, how it s 67,000 people. as far as we know, the storm doesn t look to hit directly there in 1992, but even a glanci glancing blow can be significant to south florida. you have the high wind, storm surge, you have a lot more people and property in the path of the storm. speaking to andy sullivan from reuters who spent time today with some of the people making these very personal calculations about whether to flee or hunker down, healther you have a individual who went through all of this with katrina and still chooses to hunker down. some of our viewers may say how, how does someone land on that decision. i wonder if you can give us anecdotally what you found