A security agent slammed a teen cancer patient to the ground. See what led up to the scuffle. Simone strong simone biles is crowned as the sports new queen in gymnastics, but in the pool, Simone Manuel does what no other africanamerican swimmer has done before. And Michael Phelps for the win. He won his 22nd gold medal and even managed to bring the nfl to a standstill. The gold medal man in the waters has done in good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, donald trump says if the Republican Party diverts funds from his president ial campaign to congressional races, hell just stop fundraising for the gop. Discontent with trump among gop leaders continues to grow. In a letter to the Republican Party, 70 worried republicans urged the gop to stop funding trump admitted his campaign is having a tremendous problem in utah while Hillary Clintons lead in National Polls has widened. Craig boswell reports. Re
Road could reopen soon. Coming up at 6 00 more on the storm damage and troubles people go through in trying to recover from it. Live in the santa cruz mountains, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Very active at this hour even without the rain. Some people are asked to shelter in place because of some downed power lines. You can see some of the video here, a tree knocked down lines in noon hours today. This is near cedar lane and Cedar Terrace just west of 680. Pg e is on the scene as we speak. The order should be lifted later this evening. Dozens of fallen trees across the bay area. This one on friday. Take a look. The giant tree looks like a red wood but not quite sure. Fell right on two homes. This is on lovers lane. Along the Russian River not far from rio nito. Both homes suffering major damage. Thankfully no one was at home at the time. How much rain did we get . Lets check p with jeff ra neefnieri with the rain totals. Thats why we have the trees that have come down and
Of stone wawalling, refusing toe whether the president asked him to stop russian investigation. Get nothing answers. And no confidence . President holding any words of support for his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. As their tensions apparently continue to simmer. With the russia probe exploding, could sessions now be on his way out . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Breaking news tonight, james comey declaring on the record that President Trump asked him to let go of his investigation of Michael Flynn. Fired fbi directors Opening Statement to senators released today at comeys request in advance of his testimony tomorrow morning. The sevenpage statement includes very specific details of comeys nine one on one conversations with the president in person and on the phone. Comey, citing his famous memos of his various talks with the president saying the commanderinchief flatly told him he expects loyalt
Chatter, but you have to look at the results. The u. S. About to begin a new fight against isis as early as today and certainly not where you would expect. This isnt iraq or syria. Its marawy and the philippines and isis captured it three months ago. And money, power, politics, how President Trumps trade policies are already doing damage to parts of his own base. We will rebuild rural america. We begin with the president himself is saying hes working hard while va cautioning at his golf club in new jersey but also doing a lot what else do you do on vacation . Watching tv and hanging on social media. You v you know what im talking about, twitter. Tiff best team here to break it down. Peter alexander in bridgewater, new jersey, my home state, not this front of the white house, just down the road from where the president is staying. Peter, yesterday the president was all over the place on twitter. General kelly had of course the high tailing it to new jersey to stop him. Listen, he was at
Cooperate with one another to share information so they can anticipate the prosecutors case and piece together a common strategy to fight back. Lawyers for trump and flynn, who along with his son is under investigation for foreign business dealings and his contacts with russian officials had been doing that up until this week. One reason according to the times for the change could than it is unethical for lawyers to Work Together when one client is cooperating with prosecutors and another is still under investigation. Which makes this news a possible sign of trumps worst nightmare, Michael Flynn cooperating with muellers investigation, potentially handing over incriminating evidence against his former boss and the Trump Campaign. Joining me is malcolm nance, paul butler also joins us. Paul on this question of cooperation, normal izen sent this tweet out thursday. I negotiated a cooperation deal for a target with muellers office when he was u. S. Attorney. Let me tell you, he wont give