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going to one particular shelter near ft. myers. many of them are still waiting to get in. we re going to check in with our drew griffin who s there in the hour ahead. but first, let s get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. allison chinchar is in the weather center. bring us up to date. right, anderson. take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. winds 125 miles per hour gusting up to 155 miles per hour. the movement it s been what we call wobbling where it s going back and forth between west and north and west and north. the question is when does it finally start to make that really sharp turn to the north. we focus on the maximum wind gusts. notice for the most part it s the western half of florida where we have our strongest winds. key west, this will be our peak maximum wind gusts around 138 miles per hour. but say up around ft. myers 136, even tampa going to be in the triple digits right around 116 miles per hour. ....
honored that recusal with regard to matters pending the department of justice, but i just want to comment on what may have been on anybody else s mind or offer any opinion about that because it s not for me to make those decisions. well, it is exactly, i think, why senator schatz asked a whole series of questions about the scope of recusal, because i am a lawyer. senator schatz may not be. he asked better questions than i did, but i also am having real difficulty understanding the scope of the recusal, its contours in definition, and i have an unresolved question about whether or not that s why the attorney general failed to appear before us today, is to avoid having to answer direct questions about the scope of his recusal. i do appreciate and respect your appointment of a highly talented special counsel, and there have been questions from both sides that imply strong support for his independence and his conduct, and i appreciate the care with which you are answering my questio ....
dangerous and it s really the lack of visibility. we can barely see 100 yards in either direction and obviously with the winds blowing at this speed if there is debris flying through the air i don t want to be out in the middle of that and get caught up side the head by some flying branch or anything like that reporter: hold on one second, ed. stay where you are. stay where you are right now because some of these big trees are surrounding this hotel. i don t know if they re going to make it. they re starting to creep out. look, the palm tree is an extraordinary piece of vegetation. there s no question about it. they re built to bend. there are a lot of trees that aren t that and they re starting to split and fail under the strain on them and we ve been watching it and the concern is that these trees are going to go into the structures across and while they may not look physically impressive to you, we re talking about thousands and thousands of pounds and even more of that for ....
destabilizing charge and it comes as the president appears to call for hik s top aide, huma abedin, to go to jail. it happened as of course it usually does, via tweet. today, here s what the president wrote. crooked hillary clinton s top aide huma abedin has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. she put classified passwords into the hands of foreign agents. remember sailors pictures on submarines? jail. finally, the white house press secretary defended her boss obvious disregard for due process in that tweet. is the president requesting that the department of justice investigate huma abedin, and how did he reach his conclusion that she should be in jail given that she hasn t been indicted or convicted of any crime? look, obviously, the facts of that case are very disturbing. considering that the president told the new york times in an interview this weekend, quote, i have absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. that would mean th ....
really incontrovertible and available in the public domain. while this admission might seem in significant, it s not. for more than a year president trump has refused to accept that russia meddled calling the probe a hoax and a witch hunt. the russia story is a total fabrication fabrication. it s just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. the entire thing has been a witch hunt. how many times do i have to answer this question? it s a ruse. i ve been in office 11 months. for 11 months they ve had phony cloud over our government. it s a democrat hoax brought up for an excuse losing ha election frankly the democrats should have won because they have such facebook. the pages issues in american life. race relations. immigration. and of course then candidates hillary clinton and donald trump. facebook estimates close to 126 million americans may have been exposed to this and other prop ....