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no rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, tornado warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. harvey has been downgraded to the tropical storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. one confirmed death and injury. most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. it is rockport, texas. take a look from the air. this is what is left of rockport. there was no escaping harvey. rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of corpus christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. let s bring in the texas lieutenant governor dan patrick by phone. always good to be with you. i wish it was under differ ....
statement, meaning at one point the president told the country the trump tower meeting was about adoptions yet today he s tweeting to the world that it was to get dirt on his opponent, and that there s nothing wrong with that and there s nothing to hide. so why the changing sortories fm trump s story? here is what that same lawyer, jay sekulow, said about it today. i had bad information at that time. i made a mistake in my statement. i talked about that before. that happens when you have cases like this. i think it s very important to point out that in a situation like this, you have over time facts develop. that s what investigations do. cnn without correspondent boris sanchez is in berkeley heights, new jersey, where the president is spending his summer break. boris, why are we again talking about this trump tower meeting? reporter: hey, ana. because that trump tower meeting is central to the rush The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabr ....
unlock all doors and i see the pride when they say i am an american. to see how florence s program unlocks the doors of the american dream, go to cnnheroes.com. thanks for watching. our coverage continues. happening now. hurricane lane battering hawaii with strong winds and deluge rain. another ally appears to have broken with the president. the executive who helped kill stories about the president s affairs before the election cooperating with investigators. and a predominately black georgia county could close most of the polling places before midterms. critics say it is doing to muzzle the majority vote. good morning. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. happy friday. august 24th. 4:00 a.m. in the east and 10:00 p.m. in hawaii. we start with hurricane lane on final approach to hawaii. it is now category three. officials are warning the storm is a significant rainmaker. more than 19 inches fell on the big island. governor david ige says some parts of the island ....
it s really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. it is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we don t see that much destruction. but it will take days to survey what happened. and there are areas we can t get to. we drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. that means people s livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. the boat captains are out here and they won t be able to make a dive living for a long time. tucker: it takes a long time to know what happened. leland vittert, thank you. move now to rick leventhal who is live for us tonight in wilmington, north carolina. rick? rick: we moved from wrightsville beach. two of the four fatalities reported so far was a mother and her infant who were killed by a falling tree on their house. well, there are trees all over this town. and this ....
also tonight, after president trump told millions that the government is fully prepared for this hurricane, the president tweeting today, questioning how many really died in puerto rico, saying 3,000 people didn t die after hurricanes hit puerto rico, and the president now says that number was raised to make him look bad. we are also following several other breaking headlines tonight. more than a dozen explosions outside boston in several different communities. authorities are urging some residents to get out. and paul manafort, tonight news of a key meeting. is manafort about to plead guilty? is he striking a deal with robert mueller? and good evening from wilmington tonight. and as we come on the air in the west, millions along the coast here and inland are bracing now for this monster hurricane. the cape fear river right behind me here. we witnessed some of the very outer bands of the hurricane. the winds, the rain of course here already. and there s a good chance tha ....