hit on the texas coast, knocking out power to nearly 3 million homes and businesses. beryl slamming ashore as a category 1 storm, with 80-mile-per-hour winds. at least four dead. homes destroyed. neighborhoods underwater. in houston nearly a foot of rain, flooding highways. the dramatic rescue. a man stranded on top of his truck pulled to safety. our team in the storm zone. and the dangerous heat wave. 136 million under alerts tonight. also this evening, president biden vowing i m not going anywhere as calls grow for him to drop out. mr. biden daring dissatisfied democrats to challenge him at the convention. it comes as white house logs reveal an expert on parkinson s visited the white house eight times in eight months, including a meeting with the president s personal physician. the white house saying it can t confirm why he was there. the united plane losing a tire during takeoff at l.a.x. what the airline says happened. boeing agreeing to plead guilty to a felony o
pandemic just because it s worldwide. it s not slowing up very much. i m confident we re on the right track. the american public is scrambling and showing signs that they are fed up with the management. our frustrated constituents cannot find rapid tests when they need them. tests are hard to find. they re costly. people are unable to find the at-home tests in pharmacies, online. people cannot find a test. i m getting texts as we speak saying we re not getting tests. you ve experienced that, too. senator rand paul was in the hearing today. he s on that committee. we saw another spirited exchange with dr. fauci that is getting attention. we ll talk to him about that. the responses is tests will be in the mail soon but omicron could be gone by them. first to chad pergram. hi, chad. good afternoon. the leading republican on the senate health committee warned of a tough hearing today. i m at the end of my rope. i think you ll see today most of my colleagues are as w
it all goes down in the dms and the dms have been turned over. twitter gave at least 32 private messages from donald trump s private account to special counsel jack smith. what that tells us about where that investigation is heading. unprecedented strike. for the first time ever, thousands of autoworkers walk off in a job stoppage that targeted all three of the big automakers. the ripple effects will be felt across the country, even if you re not in the market for a new car right now. and utter devastation. at least 5,000 people killed by catastrophic floods in libya. rescuers are still desperately searching for 10,000 who remain missing. we re going to take you there. we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. special counsel jack smith has obtained some of donald trump s private twitter communications. twitter handed over more than 30 direct messages from the donald trump account from earlier this