jacqui. supreme court watch as we wait for the court to issue new rulings any moment with 19 cases from the current term still undecided. welcome to a brand new hour of america s newsroom i m jacqui. and start this friday morning with you, it could be a busy hour, i m sandra smith, the court issued opinions in four cases yesterday, none were the big ones we were watching for. what we are watching for includes former president trump s claim of presidential immunity. shielding him from prosecution for actions taken while in office. the use of an obstruction law against some of the january 6th rioters and the biden administration s influence over social media content. also on the docket, fisherman are fighting administrative powers of unregulated, whether federal law can override state abortion restrictions forcing hospitals to perform abortions if there is an emergency. our legal team is standing by, shannon bream, along with jonathan tourly, andy mccarthy, shannon ou
Carlos, i ll start with you. tampa is already looking at potentially 4 to 7 feet of storm surge if idalia shifts in its track, obviously that could get a lot worse. what are you seeing there, what are people preparing for? reporter: well, we know there are two-man todayer to evacuation orders that have gone out here in hillsborough county which is home to the tampa bay area as well as out in pinellas county which is to the west of where we are, that is home to the clearwater st. pete area. as you mentioned, the concern in this part of hillsborough county, the downtown tampa area is the flooding associated with this hurricane. as you noted, we re talking about a storm surge anywhere between 4 to 7 feet and when you take a look at the bay here behind me, you can see it won t take a whole lot of water out here in order for some of the flooding to take place. this time tomorrow, we ll have taken into the account the rain which has already started to fall and as well as high tide and the
Meet on the supply chain crisis. biden then hits to glasgow, scotland for the cop26 conference. let s bring in white house reporter kevin liptak. kevin, big picture, what are you expecting from biden today? reporter: well, he s got three big issues on his plate today. the first is trying to secure an agreement for this global minimum tax. it s something that he s been pushing for the last several months he s been helped by secretary janet yellen. they re basically trying to get countries to end the sort of race to the bottom on corporate tax rates to embrace this 15% minimum corporate tax rate. they have had some success in that. and they do expect today, the president expects todayer that the g20 will sort of formally endorse this in their talks. the second big agenda item for the president today is energy prices, of course, gas prices, in the united states are rising. they re higher than they have been historically in a long time. and the president wants to talk to producers who ar
Stigma? the first priority in mind let s start with a question. what should america do when a and many of our partners view tweeting, trolling celebrity with a reality show lifestyle is starting to talk about it. takes over the oval office? there still remains a very deep that s not a reference to trump silence of shame about mental health and actually confronting or rather con akanye west who j it. and we need to get better talking about it. unscripted programing, where if you think about a physical west joined ten minutes straight ailment, one generally knows who to go to or who to turn to for a sounding off on politics and a nasal gazing talk about west, physical ailment. himself. now, there is plenty wrong with when it comes to your mental health, we don t think about that picture. but that doesn t mean america that. we haven t really identified who we would turn to which puts us should pretend this didn t happen at all todayer ignore the at a great disadvantage when the impli
We explained the process last week. the white house personnel security office staffed by career officials received information last year in what they considered to be the final background investigation report in november. but they had not made a final recommendation for adjudication to the wlouhite house because t process was still ongoing. in the view of personnel security office, the fbi s july report required significant additional investigation todayer to field work before personnel security office could begin to evaluate the information forred a jude kagtadjudication. information was still coming to the personnel security office in february. so just to be clear, the july report, if not back to march, was there information contained in those reports about the allegations about rob porter? i wouldn t have access to that information. i wouldn t know the answer to that. i want to drill down on one