this is cnn breaking news. breaking news tonight. mexico s president cancels a planned visit to the white house next week, as tensions escalate over president trump s news to start building a wall along the border. mr. trump says the talks would have been fruitless unless mexico agrees to pay for the wall. the white house press secretary suggested a 20% tax on mexican imports in the united states, maybe one possible way to cover the wall s costs. for the first time, republican leaders in congress are revealing how much u.s. taxpayers will have to pay up, up-front, to build that wall. they say they expect the trump administration soon will request between 12 and $15 billion to fund the wall s construction. another story we re following, president trump expected to move forward with his call for a formal investigation of unsubstantiated allegations of major voter fraud. the white house says mr. trump will sign an executive order, maybe tomorrow, maybe saturday, instead of ton
we remain in constant contact with staff, and they all had one thing to say. how can we help? sandra: the president calling this an event of epic proportion, and peter doocy. both the present and the governor giving praise on each other for the handling, but fema administrator it was very key that he jumped into say, this is not over yet. peter doocy is live in corpus christi where he find the president. what did he just say about his approach to the relief effort of all this? sandra, it sounds like president trump has watched or studied the way his predecessor, previous presidents have handled disasters, and the unfolding not done yet could top them all. we wanted to do a better than before. look at it in five years, ten years are from now and say, ths a good. he sent set a fire house here corpus christi with both senators and the governor, greg abbott. the president did have a key talisman with impaired he joked that brock long has become very famous. and presiden
seeing the way everything was. i was traumatized. my house is six feet up, it was up at our like the top of the door. have you ever seen flooding like that? no, i haven t. i thiank the good samaritan for coming to pikus up. there was no way we could walk out of there. 4 to 6 weeks. we don t have water, we don t have food, we don t have sewer or electricity. we don t have anything right now. nbc news can confirm that three people have died in the houston area. the family of six are missing today. officials feared they died after their van was swept away as they tried to escape the storm. road after road is unpassable. neighborhoods look more like lakes. thousands are still trapped, stranded in their homes. an estimated 9 trillion gallons of water has been dumped on the region. 11 trillion more could follow. 30,000 people have been forced into shelters. 3500 people have been rescued. 12,000 national guard members have been activated by governor abbott. and outsi
power. more than 20,000 spent the night in shelters, and the prediction everyone feared the most is now happening, high water is trapping hundreds of people that didn t or couldn t evacuate. and remember, florence isn t stopping soon, moving at a speed not much faster than most of us walk, 5 miles per hour. that means it is dumping all kinds of rain coastal and inland. we are all over the story with cnn teams across impacted areas. let s start with you, my friend, don lemon, co-hosting coverage from myrtle beach. don? over to you, my friend. reporter: hey, brooke, how are you. listen, it is crazy. you get big spurts of rain and gusts and come through unexpectedly at any moment. sometimes it is still like it is now and a second later, you get a buildup. the concern is flooding, water, rain, of course because it is just sitting on the carolinas and spinning and drawing all of this water. as you said, 650,000 people really without power across the carolinas. most of those we r
This traditional red phone box in a Yorkshire village is quite possibly one of the smallest art galleries in the world - at least according to the locals.