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The future. they re not that related in terms of what the real challenge is. martha: that s what i was going to ask you, general. thank you. general jack keane. now to the other big story of today. hurricane ida now down graded to a tropical storm. oneperson is confirmed dead. the state s governor says he expected that death toll to go up considerably throughout the day because there s so many areas where they have no eyes and ears right now because of all of these power outages and areas that they just can t get to. mike tobin is on the ground in new orleans where there s no power in the entire city. mike? well, martha, the wind damage you see around the french quarter here is typical. what you see behind me is roofing material. behind the city, downed trees and light posts, things of that nature. the big impact is to the power grid. nobody in new orleans has power. a few people across the state ....
Rainstorm and has been for about an hour and a half now is also kind of serving to disperse some of the protesters. one of the big stories is, as you mentioned, the numbers were really on the side of the people on this side of the protest, the antiracist protesters numbered several thousand, the white supremacist protesters were maybe numbering around 20. that s just an uneven count there. but they were really just not much in attendance in this equation today. they were kept over here just behind me, about 200 yards. and these antiracist protesters that were here were not allowed to get beyond this barrier. that was the big story of today, the distance they kept, the two sides, from each other. they were not about to let these two sides get into a confrontation like they did in charlottesville last year. they kept them several hundred yards away from each other at a given moment and nothing flared up as a result of that. the d.c. police taking every precaution here. until just a few m ....
Necessary. but, you know, we also saw they re paying they re trying to extract $20 million from stormy for a breach of a contract, so if they were trying to downplay the story and get rid of it, they re kind of doing the opposite. kimberly, quickly, those critical of what might be happening with stormy daniels and the president, he s staying away that third rail potentially here, he does not want to allude to what those are saying there could be a cover-up. well, that s the biggest problem here, the idea that he is trying to cover people up. that this is an m.o., his m.o., essentially, trying to keep them quiet through threats of lawsuits and ndas. but, look, predicting what the president will do, we never know. i mean, we could get a tweet tonight after this story airs. he s clearly concerned about it, has talked to folks within his inner circle worrying about how it s hurting him himly. so i don t think the silence will last forever. all-star panel. thank you. kevin, natasha, ....
Your passion. sarah lerner, thank you for what you do with the students there at the school. appreciate all three of you. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. all right. now, after the break, we re going to turn to the other big story of today. stormy daniels. the interview. and that s happening tonight on 60 minutes. this tweet from her lawyer showing what appears to be a dvd, that s about the only clue we have about what the porn star might say, but will whatever she says actually have an impact? we ll talk with on that very topic later. also watch kcdc tonight for a full breakdown of the interview. to severe crohn s disease. then i realized something was missing. me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn s disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. ....
Bringing up issue of poe things, watch the polls, watch what is going on in voting areas. president obama said this, we have tight system. the internet is not connected to voting booths across the country. there is no way to get to that. he was sticking up for the system to say how solid it was. interesting what can flip when the shoe is on other foot. he appears correct at time. all recounts efforts have pretty much fizzled. martha: very true. i want to get your take on rex tillerson, the other big story of today. a lot of talk about him, his ties to russia. but he is also getting a lot of very positive feedback on this pick. long-time executives ceo of exxonmobil, been with the company 41 years. getting a lot of positive press. he is the kind of fresh, creative, outside the box choice that donald trump promised when he ran for president and as john roberts noted, he was actually recommended by condoleeza rice ....