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Died. mary kay letourneau, convicted of raping a 12-year-old student, later marrying him. he was by her side as she died. deborah roberts on that tonight. and the tropical threat were watching along the east coast this evening, as it closes in on the carolinas and then the northeast. we have the possible track. good evening and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. we do have a lot to get to. and we begin tonight with those new images, hospitals under siege. icus overflowi...

The system over decades. great countries dont break their major promises to their citizens. so as far as im concerned under all circumstances were going to live up to that promise. i think the way were going to end up doing it is by raising the limit at which people are paying into the system so that theres more money, so that wed avoid the default. but let me say this system would not be in default if, in fact, the surpluses that existed for decades had been saved and invested. so, in fact, i d...

And while we were having to hold people longer in our custody take the best care that we could to them to create more room for them and then for example also deployed an unprecedented level of medical support for example. today over 200 physician assistants, nurse practitioners all along the southern border to make sure that these very vulnerable populations who continue to be exploited by criminal elements are being cared for while they are in our custody. >> we just cut august numbers of u.s. ...

Government has expressed concern over migrant families being held together for long periods of time. what do you say to the government they are? >> what i would say is again what history has shown us is we have to make sure we are being intellectually honest. we are not holding kids families indefinitely. we are only going to hold them long enough to go to the immigration process and history has shown us when we did this in the previous administration, the same exact thing we are talking about w...

Out thinking im getting some free money, i might as well go out and have some fun. >> dana: thats one of the reasons you talk about a tax cut, so you can give consumers back their own money. its also because they earned it. payroll taxes for medicare, 2.9% with no gap, additional 9% over $200,000. thats just for medicare. i think we have that up here. all for social security. thats up 12.4% for up to $132,000. so if the government 2004 actually address the payroll tax, thats going to people who ...

10% under this plan. a tax on financial transaction, capital gains as if they were ordinary income. move the which is $132,000 on social security and add a carbon tax but they are not going to add up. heather: 236 million people get $12,000 per year, a growth cost of $2.8 trillion. heather: the tax foundation did the calculation if we are going to add these taxes which we just had onscreen what is the effect? $1.5 trillion in the red. up about $1 trillion we are up to $2.5 trillion per year. hea...

Someone giving himself a medal. we know who would be on the medal because they sell it for 45 bucks at donaldjtrump.com. jeanne moos, cnn. >> im a stable genius. . youre up early. 6:00 on a sunday. were glad for it. im christi paul. >> im martin savidge. >> major concern. there is heavy rain falling, just slamming parts of louisiana right now. >> tropical storm barry is slowly turning north and the national hurricane center says tornadoes could pop up across louisiana, mississippi and eastern ...

>> that affirm peoples human rights and dignity and have evidence-based often run by nonprotests placements for these children that dont hurt and harm them but actually help them. >> u.s. customs and border patrol reports that some 132,000, i want to make sure i have this right. more than 132,000 migrants were apprehended in may. thats around nine times the amount of people who entered in may of 2017. how specifically do you plan to address this obvious surge in migrants cross-i migrantsi migran...

Authority. >> laura: mark morgan was just named a few hours ago acting border patrol chief. if you have a good working relationship with him. >> absolutely. ive worked with him for years. hes been at cbp before, did a tremendous job for us there. chief of the border patrol, it will be good to have him back in that chair. if he is a key partner in getting the immigration mission done. >> laura: so people understand the sheer numbers, mr. secretary. these are the total apprehension numbers. may, 1...

That after speaking with the secretary of state mike pompeo, general keen says the administration is ready to pounce if iran does anything else provocative. watch. >> if iran takes more provocative action, then there will be a response and particularly if americans are killed. we will see a very different type of retaliation. i do think that while the presidents decision is being criticized in some circles that this does give him and secretary pompeo some leverage because of the restraint that w...