we re lye in the cnn newsroom. thanks for being with us. it is a storm for the record books. harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nation s fourth largest city. around 3,000 national guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. some families desperate to get to higher ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. the two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and it s only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. cnn was there when an a dramatic
rescue took place in dickinson. we re live. ed, what is the latest that you re seeing? actually we re going to show you the video of the moment when it ha
Question about whether it could collapse. as this hours long operation took place. take a look at that map there they had to get and this is three helicopters from djibouti across ethiopia. sudan safely land in khartoum on the ground for less than an hour load up the diplomatic staff, the family members and a few other nationals less than 100, but a significant number. and then get everybody out. and that includes, of course, the 100 troops. special operations forces who were part of this back the way they came a refueling stop in ethiopian all the way back out, so at any point along this route, the ceasefire could have got could have fallen apart. even more. the fighting could have gotten worse. there could have been all sorts of technical issues, but the operation went off. i don t want to say without a hitch, but president joe biden made the decision to go ahead with this operation, and it was executed well, and we got news late last night of the safe evacuation of the embassy. of c
Right now the u.s. president joe biden has just arrived in south korea. so you are looking at live pictures there of the air base where air force one just landed. and this is president biden s very first asia trip as president. and he is expected to meet south korea s new president to reaffirm america s support. so as we await the president coming down those steps, let s bring back kevin liptak. he a live in seoul. kevin, first the logistics. take us through the time line of his visit. reporter: it is almost a 15 flight from washington, certainly the longest journey that the president has taken. there is a refueling stop in alaska. but it is interesting when you look at the course of the president s day, he started the day thursday meeting with the
the president is aboard air force one over the atlantic right now heading back toward the white house, he s not clarified regime change mixup on camera get, he ignored it while boarding the plane. he did not get off the plane during the refueling stop in uk so when he addresses this, it s probably going to be at least a couple of more days. jon: the remark on putin not remaining in power seems to have caused trouble at the white house, a cleanup on aisle four moment but the rest of the speech seemed to be pretty well received, our nato allies liked what the president said. and our crew that was there said a lot of it was like and
So i cannot even believe that this far into his presidency that the media and the democrats continue to engage in these issues that don t really matter and let us accomplish all the things we re accomplishing. it doesn t matter if this president obstructed justice, it doesn t matter if there was some kind of involvement with russians in terms of hacking and influencing this election, it doesn t matter that the vice president flew 180 miles out of the way that taxpayers paid for in ireland? and he s going to bring the g-7 to his golf course? none of that matters? it matters if if barack obama had dreamed any one of those things, you would be calling for impeachment. i believe barack obama is the one that put in place the refueling stop, which caused the vice president did he own the stop? no. i m just saying. i ll leave it there while you think of an answer. it s a holdover. we ll have more with holly and don later in this show.
New tonight, president trump denying he pushed the air force to stay at one of his resorts during a refueling stop in scotland, or vice president, his resort in ireland during an overseas trip. i don t need to have somebody take a room overnight at a hotel. mike pence, as an example, his family lives in doonbeg, ireland. he was in ireland, he said, you know, what i ll do, i ll see my family. i didn t know about that, but i can say, he has good taste. okay. trump defending the controversial resort visits as the house judiciary committee plans to move forward this week with its impeachment investigation. manu raju is outfront. manu, this is now going to be a part of the impeachment probe, right? and it s going to be important. and you now know also the timeline. impeachment has gone from being vague to this is what we re talking about, this is specific from chairman nadler to now. you know timing. reporter: yeah, they re expecting to get a result. they want to have a final decisi
There is also some news on mueller. we are live in washington with mark. as you mentioned, a very bus night. president trump on his way to japan right now. you were just talking about the meeting with world leaders at the g20 summit. of want show you video that got into the newsroom in the last few hours. this is president trump on the ground in alaska as air force one was having a refueling stop. he spoke with troops on the ground. before he left washington, he spoke to reporters on the lawn of the white house where he was talking about what he expects for this trip, his latest overseas.. a meeting with russia, a meeting with china, a meeting with many countries. a meeting with many countries. we have been ripped off by everybody over the years. the president was also asked today about the news that we aslked about all night last night on the show and that is special counsel robert moeller going to be testifying next month.
Broadly trying to co-opt that and make that their own. we will see how successful that is but what she did tonight by making that her first answer was set the tone for the economic discussion for the rest of the debate and it served her well. shannon: there were a lot of expectations honor, most and she lived up to it. great to have you both. the trump campaign war room s firing out rapid responses to democratic candidates while donald trump is on his way to japan. leland has more. reporter: it is unclear how much of the debate the president watched on air force one en route to japan on a refueling stop in alaska. he had it out on a summer afternoon to talk to the troops. big debate going on just started. it is between you and them. i chose you over the you are smarter than they are and better looking. a few minutes later he summed
President trump in the air on his way to the g20 in osaka, japan. at a refueling stop in alaska, he greeted the troops. and here s what he said about the democratic debate. so we have a big debate going on. just started. and i had my choice between you and them. and i chose you. you re smarter. you re smarter than they are and better looking. you re smarter and better looking. the president s one-word take on the policy-driven debate, boring. that was it as far as the twitter debate at this moment. nic robertson live for us in osaka, japan. nic, good morning to you. what should we look for today at the g20? reporter: you know, i think president trump s going to get a taste of what is going to get across the whole of this g20, which is as we ve seen before, you know, a fairly hostile crowd to what they view
Be meeting with leaders from two countries, japan, india and germany. the president left washington wednesday afternoon, had a brief stop in alaska. this is video from that refueling stop. the president has a lot on his agenda but we will be watching to see if he makes any further comments on iran. on wednesday before leaving dc encouraged iran to negotiate with the us, two days after the us imposed new sanctions on iran s top leaders. iran should do the right thing for their people. i m not sure their leaders care for their people. if they do they will make a deal. if they don t they are just thinking about themselves and they are selfish and stupid. if that is what they are doing. later this morning house lawmakers will return to work to debate a bill to bring humanitarian aid to the us border. house lawmakers passed a bill to do just that earlier this week but the senate refused to push the house plan forward instead of proving their own bill, now