It was intense. It was quick. 80100 mileperhour winds in this area. The water in front of my house is still about kneedeep. I cannot leave with my garage, my car at all. Moments after the storm they thought it would be 24, 48 hour recovery. Now we are learning theres Transmission Lines down so it will be days if not weeks. [ ] fox on top of deadly storms bearing down on texas still. Houston schools close. Folks being told to stay home today is debris and power lines literal the streets. Windows from skyscrapers were just blown out. More than 700,000 still knocked out. And we got to deal with the trail of destruction from the hurricaneforce winds just setting them. Welcome everybody. Neil cavuto. Fox weather katie byrne in houston on very latest. Sometimes it would circa war seen there. Reporter absolutely wild seeing how the downtown has been impact. After serving the damage the National WeatherService Confirms 100 mileperhour Street Line Wind Gusts are what caused the damage youre seeing. When you look at what crews or zameer to hear, trying to board up windows as fast as they can. These are blown out windows and Downtown Office buildings and hotels because we got on and off rain that keeps coming down on us so the Cleanup Effort is really rushed to get this done to protect whatevers inside. No tragically from pickton people were killed in the storm 1 of the victims was inside of a truck when a crane came crashing down from strong winds last night. It also took a massive Transmission Lines. Hundreds of thousands of people still without power and they are preparing for it to be out for weeks. We have cooling centres opening for people without a. Reporter find relief in the texas heat. This all happened around dinnertime so people were heading to concerts may be even waiting for the athome astros game to start. Talked with several visitors in town for conferences staying at hotels around the block from the worst damage in the downtown area. They tell me they took cover in closets and bathtubs were shared stairwells with strangers. After seeing all of this they feel lucky to be alive. I just feel very lucky because they were buildings 1 block over that were pretty well damaged, and i saw floors. I was on the fifth floor. I saw windows knocked down about the same level. So i thought i just feel very lucky. Weather is gone to play a huge role in the recovery efforts. As we have been outside today we had gusts of wind that have taken down glass and brought them crashing down to the ground. Some of the workers in these buildings are wondering when its good to be safe for them to head back to the office. Thank you for that. Be safe yourself katie byrne in the middle of all of that. Fights across the country been affected by this. 4,000 facing outright delays and or cancellations and it might not end anytime soon. Tariq khan that at the fox weather centre. Spent such an incredible storm and texas is had so much rain of the last number of weeks. The last number of months of the ground is really saturated flies really easily right now. See all of these Storm Reports across much of east tactic. Winds over 80 miles an hour in some spots and ureters hearing from katie winds over 100 miles an hour reported because of that. Still 670,000 utility customers without power and its getting really warm across much of texas over the next few days. Take a look at this Daytime Highs in the nineties. It will be really humid. If you dont have any airconditioning it will be a problem for you. Weve had so much rain. This is the amount of rain since weve been into may about 17 days. Some spots here over 15 inches and thats why all the rivers and streams are in some sort of a flood stage but some of these in major flood stage so any more rain we problematic. We do have ranges to the southeast of town today. Is that most of this will remain on that side and once this is done things will improve quite a bit for us for at least about the next say 5 tetro 6 days. Heaviest of the rain now moved further off towards the east. We do have Flood Concerns across much of the louisiana and much of The Deep South towards the panhandle of florida. Going to be watching for that rain. A few other little bullseyes of flooding by the way up around confluence of the mississippi and ohio rivers up and across parts of virginia but really the bullseye across the south. Mostly to the south off Interstate 10 is where the heaviest of the rain will hold. 1 last thing a little bit more Severe Weather to get through today jack may be strong winds inhale and tomorrow especially in the afternoon. Youre watching for this across parts of the Coastal Carolinas possibly there may be an isolated tornado certainly really strong winds and a little bit of hail. So still rough weekend ahead for so many but we are at least going to dry out for a few days across parts of texas. Got it. Thank you very much. Will be monitoring my weekend show 10 00 am tomorrow will be up to speed on all the new certainly in texas and the south whereas rick indicated there could be some problems. We are monitoring. Meanwhile no problems at the corner overall and broad the very, very lasting second of trading the dow did move over 40,000 settling at around 40,003. 59 with a gain of about 140, 134 points. This is but a fiveweek waiting streak. A lot of this the fact that people are optimistic will have a soft landing that the growth is slowing to the degree that fed had wiggle room to cut rates whether that happens is anyones guess but the fact that the matter is the trend has been the market trend. Earnings coming in better than a lot of companies forecasting improving Economic News as well. Bottom line in case your accounting in the last 4 years the dow has essentially doubled from 20,000 to about 40,000. And again since 2022 we have come storming back to put on the extra 10,000 points. A lot of that backdrop again is an improving corporate structure, Inflation Problem eased up. And again optimism that rates could condemn. Theres wrinkles here. We will go into that this weekend. But for now all optimistic on the stock front. In the meantime to some legal storms brewing right now. Of course donald trump and the fixer, big develop and so with Michael Cohen who returns to the stand to be crossexamined and we dont know what happens after that. We do know it could be and probably will be appointment watching. State Supreme Court in new york. Nathan. When court resumes 9 30 Monday MorningMichael Cohen will again be under crossexamination. Comes lawyers anticipate finishing that cross by the Morning Break after that. The das office will have another opportunity to question cohen. After cohen process testimony trumps team plans to call brad smith expert and Campaign Finance law to the stand. The judge will allow limited testimony from him. Trumps team is also considering other witnesses. We just heard from attorney bob castillo in the story. He cave cohen legal advice and 2018. Castello said if hes called to testify he thanks will happen tuesday or wednesday. Decision was not made on whether or not trump will testify himself. Theres no court today because of this. Trump posted about his sun bear and untrue social writing going to barrons high school graduation. Great student wonderful boy. Very exciting. Dj t. Cohens testimony will extend to a second week. His prosecutors star witness and the only 1 directly linking trump to Reimbursement Scheme to influence the 2016 election. On the Stand Cohen Edmonton to line for congress in 2017 and 2 special counsel prosecutors the next year. He claims he told trump the Stormy Daniels deal was done on trumps bodyguards phone but Text Messages from that time so cohen actually wanted to talk about harassing phone calls he received. You can bet prosecutors will try to address some of the doubts raised during cohens crossexamination on redirect. But long story short this trial is nearing its end. Prone is a prosecutions final witness and the judge told lawyers to be ready for Closing Arguments on tuesday. A lot of bulls up in the air after cohen leaves the stand with what from steam or do a Closing Argument could happen on tuesday. Will send back to you. Incredible. Rapidfire. Thank you for that. Legal eagles joining me. Get this wrapped up by tuesday. Doable what you think . Pretty ambitious on the judges part. As possible but it strikes me as doubtful. We have a lot to do. The trump team has to finish crossexamination of cohen. The prosecutors will then take a shot at trying to rehabilitate cohen on redirect examination. The trump team may have more questions for cohen and then of course trump defence team gets to put on in some case. After the jury instruction Closing Arguments is still a lot of stuff to closing this thing out on tuesday strikes me may be is a little ambitious. Is the judge when he does stuff like this putting pressure on them to wrap it up . Is trying to telegraph how much time they think theyll need. I think tuesdays totally unrealistic altogether and we have to remember before the defence puts on any case theyre going to likely move for directed verdict once a prosecution rests. If they have not put on evidence to establish the element of these are fences which i personally do not think they have at this point. What does that mean then . Readily likely to see . Tuesdays unrealistic, obviously prosecution might have some of the plans. We dont even know right now if the defence has other plans. Special witnesses, what do you think . Theyll be able to get to Closing Argument sometime next week but defence is not indicated who if anybody they intend to call as a witness and we dont know how long those examinations are going to go on for so its very hypothetical at this point. But i would say by end a week they should be able to get to Closing Arguments. Thats not to say anything or Jury Instructions because i think will be quite a big debate about the instructions of this case does go to the jury. If it goes to the jury thats come more times than i would think and i have been watching coverage and other channels just to get a what they were setting. More than a couple of times i have heard that raised on these other channels and part of the criticism about the prosecution that it might not go to the jury. What do you think . My guess is this judge probably is going to send the case to the jury picker not saying thats legally correct result. I think there are some judges who tell the prosecutors you havent proven your case. Im not sending it to the jury. This case with this judge and the rulings hes issued my guess is hes gone to send it to the jury. Make no mistake the prosecutors had a very bad day yesterday and. Michael cohen got caught in what appears to have been another lie his testimony has been crippling in multiple respects and the prosecutors have a big Big Uphill Battle ahead of them monday when they finally get a chance to question cohen again. Theyll try to rehabilitate him. Try to clean him up clean up the testimony but i dont know. Maybe 2 to late in the minds of the jury. You dont know what jurors are thinking and to this point i am told from those who have covered in but watching this that the jurors were most riveted by Stormy Daniels. I guess that showed between too much of a surprise. But they were not exactly falling suturing Michael Cohens testimony. They were a little border seemed to listless many heard from financial types accountants and all of that. Again i dont know what to read to that. Youre prosecuting a case like that what does that tell you . Anything . I dont like to read into juries either and show the testimony was definitely salacious but when it comes to actually following the judges instructions about what they need to find i think the jury will determine much of what both of these witnesses said never really mattered it all when it comes to the elements of those are fences. And thats why going back to the directed verdict issue i think there is a missing element in terms of the far side of records the prosecution is not portable witness such as forensic accountant of some sort to say it was improper to classify those as legal expenses. Thats a very simple fact of the matter. In my opinion thats failure of proof and the prosecutions case are you looking at the jurors faces tom . I have been trying to get a read on what the jurors thank in my sense is i think they were riveted by portions of this trial but it was salacious stuff as katie said they were interested in the Stormy Daniels stuff and all that back and forth but they havent heard much to be totally honest about the actual charges in this case concerning falsification of business records. And i think theres a good chance when the jury gets in the jury room to deliberate and render a verdict theyll be looking around the table and confused saying hey did we ever hear any evidence on the charges the da is asking us to convict on . Thank you both very much. Katie and tom. And meantime we are learning hunter biden this isnt just donald trump pushing for delay in a major trial. Maybe because at the same time his father is going to be debating. The former president of United States after this. When enamel is gone, you cannot get it back. But you can repair it with Pronamel Repair. 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Turn shipping to your advantage. Keep those expectations with reliable Ground Shipping. Thanks brandon. With usps ground advantage®. Im gonna hold you forever. Ill be there. You dont. You dont have to worry. The judge in Hunter Bidens tax case on Hunter Bidens request at least delay this trial until september. If not further back than that that. Lucas tomlinson has more. Thats right. Hunter bidens attorneys asked the judge overseeing his tax case in california to delay it until some timber. This calvin mckay sorry faces 3 Felony Charges and 6 misdemeanours in connection with his alleged failure to pay is taxes is set to begin june 20th. Theres 2 trials hunter faces, a gun charge in delaware goes to trial june 3rd. Earlier this week hunter lost his attempt to delay it. Expect hunters name to come up in the first president ial debate between joe biden and former President Donald Trump on june 27. Recall back in the last 2020 debate the accusations against hunter were largely dismissed. Someone Hunter Adjudicated in the court of public opinion. Kimberly strasser writing in her Wall Street Journal Column Today Says Quote The Nation was largely denied information about the biden Family Business in 2020. Thanks to compliant chris hart the Central Source of Social Media Participle cabal of former intelligence officials. Heres joe biden and donald trump in the 2020 debate. There 50 former National Intelligence folks. They said to what this hes accusing me of his a russian plan. 5 former heads of the cia both parties say what he is saying is a bunch of garbage. I want to stand the issue of race. You have to be kidding me speak last month the judge ruled for the eighth time against hunter biden in his attempt to toss out those in california. Lucas tomlinson all of that. So trial isnt delayed for hunter biden it would be going on when his dad and donald trump are facing off in the first president ial debate. So these legal cases whether 1 that presumably might be wrapped up for donald trump now or this with hunter biden that will be going on then, going to be a big issue for voters. Doug shown on that. What do you think . I dont think so. Some polling weve done has shown the trump trial has had no impact on the polls. I dont think hunter biden at this point is going to be an issue for joe biden. However, salacious the issues in his case may be. And i frankly think the voters are pretty locked into their views which now have trump with a narrow but clear l