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Millions of dollars by elaine chao's father as elaine chao has used her position as transportation secretary to boost her father's business in china. right, he has personally benefitted from that to the tune of millions of dollars. because the elaine chaocru scandals are not just a trump campaign scandal but have proven to be a benefit to the top republican in the senate, this is -- this is bad. this is bad in a few different ways. so far the containment effort by elaine chao and mitch mcconnell on this has been to try to laugh it off, play it all down, assure everybody this is no big deal and...

Because the elaine chao scandals are not just a trump campaign scandal but have proven to be a benefit to the top republican in the senate, this is -- this is bad. this is bad in a few different ways. so far the containment effort by elaine chao and mitch mcconnell on this has been to try to laugh it off, play it all down, assure everybody this is no big deal and these allegations don't even bother them at all. well, "the wall street journal" reports tonight that elaine chao has now finally actually sold off her gigantic stake in the road building company from which she has been profiting as r...

The toxic chemical released into the air during the containment effort. officials earlier assuring residents the billowing smoke had not affected the air, despite falling debris. >> they look almost like a lump of charcoal. >> reporter: and tonight, the shelter in place warnings now lifted, after air quality improved. but growing environmental concerns about water, foam and debris from the containment efforts entering nearby waterways. and david, officials here say they will continue to spray that special foam on the burned area to keep those chemicals contained. environmental groups also now ...

That continues to burn. again, unclear, patty ann, what caused it but it erupted quickly, went up at least 20 stories. it could be more than that at this point. but as we said, that major general on tv said the fireworks display and event will go on as planned. we'll see. it's just under an hour from now. but getting people out of there. you talked about the debris raining down. we've been seeing that, tremendous and massive amount of smoke. fortunately the weather isn't bad, no high winds or anything like that. really it's all about the containment effort. it's a sprinkler system presumably, ...

We're involved still in iraq and then we've also got 18,000 members of the service personnel and 19 warships tied up in helping the people in japan. >> we got to get to your headlines now so people in florida are waking up to this mess after a tornado tears through the state. the storm whipping airplanes around like toys in lakeland. it also took out a tent there trapping nearly a dozen people inside. all of them, though, expected to be ok. even the space shuttle endeavor affected by the weather. lightning and hail causing minor damage to the shuttle's fuel tank. nasa will check for more damag...