Good wednesday morning, everybody. Lots happening at this hour and lets start with Hurricane Maria right now bearing down on millions of americans. Its 160milrpee wurho have been lashing the u. S. Virgin islands overnight before an expected direct hit on puerto rico. The governor of the u. S. Territory warns maria could hit, quote, with a force and violence that we havent seen for several generations. We also heard from the islands Public Safety commissioner sounding the alarm with a blunt message for people in vulnerable areas saying, you have to evacuate, otherwise youre going to die. We begin with abcs arlette saenz. Reporter Hurricane Maria barreling towards puerto rico. The islands 3 million u. S. Citizens bracing for impact. Bth most dangerous storm in our generation. Reporter many in puerto rico heeding rnings to ev streaming into shelters, catching lastminute flights out of san juan. Cynthia manfred and her family seeking refuge in a hotel. With a bum leg, with three dogs and a
This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. A white house official says theyre right on the threshold of losing on health care. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Is the senate gop bill doomed. Plus 22 million americans in danger of losing their health insurance. 22 million real life stories. Im going to talk to two people whose lives could change if trumpcare becomes the law of the land. And one, a pastor who says her daughter would have died without obamacare. The other is a trump voter who says he was uninsured for five years until obamacare came along. And he jumped at the chance to sign up. Does trumpcare hurt trumps voters . Well take a closer look. A lot to discuss this hour. I want to get to sr. Cnn political analyst mark preston. Good evening to you. Mark, senators are against even bringing this Health Care Bill to the floor. And a white house official conceded to jim acosta that were right on the threshold of losing on 4ehealth care. Whats going on . Right now Senate Republican
Financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. China their central bank has told their other banks, its a massive banking system, to immediately stop doing business with north korea. Dana will it work . Doesnt sound like the north is taking mr. Trumps warnings very seriously. If they thought they could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, thats a silly dream. Dana kim jong un chiming in. According to state news, the mad dictator said trump is deranged and will pay dearly for his threats. A lot of bluster, jesse. One thing we did find out today is after President Trump made those announcements, we did have china tell the bank of china no more dealing with north korea. South korea, japan, even russia and australia saying the north has got to stop. It could be that kim jong un feels even more isolated than he was. Jesse bad day for rocket man. I think hes a little bit nervous at this point. Two things, the chinese bank. The executive order of President Tru
With north korea. China their central bank has told their other banks, its a massive banking system, to immediately stop doing business with north korea. Dana will it work . Doesnt sound like the north is taking mr. Trumps warnings very seriously. If they thought they could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, thats a silly dream. Dana kim jong un chiming in. According to state news, the mad dictator said trump is deranged and will pay dearly for his threats. A lot of bluster, jesse. One thing we did find out today is after President Trump made those announcements, we did have china tell the bank of china no more dealing with north korea. South korea, japan, even russia and australia saying the north has got to stop. It could be that kim jong un feels even more isolated than he was. Jesse bad day for rocket man. I think hes a little bit nervous at this point. Two things, the chinese bank. The executive order of President Trump. A big onetwo punch. You have a huge diplomatic victor
With donald trump jr. s meet with russians no, i had it right the first time. President trumps meter with russians in the oval office and donald juniors role in responding donald juniors meeting with russians in which he was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton and the president s role in explaining that. Lets get to all of this with our reporters who will help me make sense of this. I have all of you here because all of these stories have obviously frustrated the white house on a week when the president thought hed be taking the world stage, taking manhattan by storm with his displays of brute strength. He seems to be dodged by your paper and others relentless pursuit of the truth and facts in terms of these investigations into russian meddling. Talk to us about where this investigation stands. Your reporting yesterday that bob mueller is honing in specifically on the president s actions in those four instances we named at the top of the show. Weve known for a while that bob mueller was l