right here, sue purcell dumping tennis ball sized hail. this is around sweetwater texas. destroying the windchill anna storm chasers vehicle. record flooding across the mississippi river. rob marciano is live in st. paul, minnesota, along the mississippi. rob, you re going to start with the severe storms. what do you see tonight? rob: david, the second day in a row storms erupting in texas and florida. let s start with texas. there was a storm that dropped a tornado just to the west of waco. still a tornado warning. the big watch area up until at least 10:00. you see those storms continuing to fire. they were clustered moved to the south towards i-10. new orleans, biloxi, mobile. the northern part of this thing pushes into ohio and virginia on friday, mid-atlantic in the northeast for heavy rain in new york city. the second trouble spot is florida. two seabreeze fronts colliding we have storms or baseball size hail. winds at 80 plus miles an hour.
welcome back. the taliban are making more territorial gains all across afghanistan. as the u.s. troop withdrawal nears completion. let s show you a map here, and you can see there, marked in red, the huge swaths of land that the insurgent group now controls. the speed, with which the taliban has expanded is causing a lot of concerns that major population centers could fall. the pentagon says, about 95% of american forces have, already, left the country. meanwhile, the first group of afghan translators that worked alongside american troops are now on u.s. soil. about 200 afghans, made up of special immigrant visa applicants and their families arrived at ft. lee in virginia on friday. n now, this initial group is part of 700 afghan interpreters set to arrive in the u.s., in the
allegedly last year, he died after talking about his efforts to find hillary clinton s missing e-mails. he may have had advanced knowledge of this as well. now it s putting together these pieces. did peter smith talk to roger stone? we know that peter smith had a relationship with michael flynn. now it s all about connecting the dots. barbara, paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager appeared in federal court in virginia on friday. he was in a wheelchair, missing his right shoe when he made that appearance. his lawyers claim they re dealing with significant health issues. they ve asked the court to expedite his sentencing. how do you think this might impact his sentencing that s scheduled for i think february now. a sentencing date has been set. that s lukely enough time to give robert mueller an opportunity to do what he has to
excited. we don t know yet how this will factor in how he decides various things in the case. julie: sounds like he should have a tv show. judge ellis goes as far as accusing mueller of using criminal cases to pressure trump s allies to turn against him. that sounds like entrapment i mean if you were to actually define what he s saying there. it certainly sounds critical of what s going on. but then again, we don t know we don t know how he s going to rule really. and he wants to see the source memo that outlines what mueller s team can do. we really have to see where it goes from here. julie: there s this hearing in a federal court in virginia on friday. u.s. district judge ellis sharply questions whether mueller exceeded his authority in filing tax and bank fraud charges against trump s former campaign manager paul manafort. he says the indictment appeared to be a way for mueller to leverage manafort into providing information about trump.