means and what it will do in terms of dividing or excluding and king is is big because his part of the party is fundamental. ask him why he hasn t deleted thretweet. we ll be watching. thanks very much. cuomo prime time later tonight. 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. that s it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. next, trump s victory lap. what s next after his major supreme court win today. and can democrats do anything to stop him? senator booker is outfront. plus, house speaker demands an apology from maxine waters. it s amazing how lacking any such demand has ever been from the speak whern it comes to the president and the president calls it a crisis on the southern border. one border town mayor though says it s anything but and that mayor is is our guest. let s go outfront. tonight, trump s travel ban.
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let s say good morning to you. i m alex witt in new york. it is 9:00 on the east coast, texas, you are getting hit hard. we got dramatic weather ikts from overnight. there are also three other breaking headlines this morning, as the president faces his first big test with a growing weather disaster. late friday the white house announced a pardon for sheriff joe arpaio. also, the president has made the band on transgender troops official, which directs the pentagon to move forward on that band. also late last night, the ousting of sebastian gorka, a deputy adviser to the president. he said he is no longer with the administration. we will have more later on this hour. right now in texas, more than 20,000 people are stranded on cruise ships, sitting in the gulf of mexico, all thanks to hurricane harvey, harvey, of course, made landfall late last night. it was a category 4 hurricane. as we ve said, downgraded to a category 1. however, that does not mean danger is far from over.
added her voice to the chorus of democratic critics who have been speaking out against president trump s zero tolerance policies. many of those lawmakers have been traveling to those facilities that process some of these families that are detained along the southwest border. the facility you see behind me is the one that she got an inside look of. this is a facility that we have seen through handout images that were provided by the u.s. government just last week alone, and you see those people being housed behind that chainlink fencing. and also covering themselves with that mylar, that aluminum-like-looking material as well. this is also happening at the same time as we are learning that a child at a separate facility, one that is privately owned, privately operate and contracted by the u.s. government to care for some of these children, we now know that a 15-year-old child walked off one of those locations in brownsville, texas not far from where we are. only about 50 miles
dropped off. this group has already been processed. is it like this every morning? every morning. glor: and, for the first time, we see a black hole. and as with all great discoveries, this is just the beginning. glor: good evening. i m jeff glor. and this is our western edition. we re going to begin tonight in north carolina, where part of downtown durham was leveled by a natural gas explosion. at least one person was killed; more than a dozen others hurt. the front of one building was blasted apart. several others were damaged. windows were shattered for blocks. some described it as feeling like an earthquake. errol barnett is in durham. oh, my god. reporter: thick, black smoke and a roaring fire, visible for miles. reporter: while on the ground. you re not safe right here. it s not safe. reporter: .rescuers had to use a makeshift stretcher to get victims to ambulances. others sat stunned and bloodied. the blast left at least one dead and 17 people injured