Magnitude quake strus just after 1 00 p. M. Local time. Heres what it looked like in mexico city about 120 kilometers away from the epicenter. Holy [ bleep ]. After shocks continue to be a major concern right now. More than 4. 5 million homes and businesses are without power. And take a look at this video from mexico city. Mexicos president has ordered damaged hospitals to evacuate patients. He says at least 22 bodies were found at at an Elementary School in the capital. Another 30 children remain missing. Schools in the mexico city area are closed, but the airport has reopened. Translator were facing another National Emergency in mexico with a 7. 1 magnitude earthquake which had an epicenter at the border of the states of wefbose. Just describe the seen around you. How much damage is there . How expensive is the destruction which is being caused by this quake . Reporter so its been absolutely devastating for the city. Right behind me you can see a building of six floors, which collaps
Whether it will hit the u. S. Mainland. What do we know, allison. Well, we just dpot the brandnew update in at the top of the hour and it has actually increased a little bit in wind strength. Winds right now 125mileperhour. That is only fivemileperhour off from a category 4 storm. Theyre gusting upwards of 150 miles per hour. Now, the track over the next couple of days will continue to take it out over the open atlantic towards the United States. The ultimate question is how close does it actually get . At this point in time here were going to take it out to thursday. This is one week from today. You can see at this point a direct u. S. Landfall does not necessarily look very likely, but with that said, there are still expected to be impacts from this particular storm because, look, all of the models, they do get close enough, and thats the key right there. Basically from an area from North Carolina all the way up towards maine we could being looking at impact, coastal flooding, beach
Paying respects to the late Justice John Paul stevens, as is the justice who took his seat on the high court when stevens retired a decade ago. If ever there were a case where a funeral should become a celebration of a life well lived, this is that case. He lived a life of integrity and kindness and decency and service. We begin the hour, though, with the fight the president simply doesnt want to end. Today the president again in a backandforth with the socalled squad. Very racist troublemakers is how he describes these congresswomen of color in tweets this morning. That tweet would normally be boilerplate in the president s outright racist attack on these lawmakers last sunday. But the circumstances today make it extraordinary. The president sent that tweet 10 48 a. M. Eastern time after his motorcade left for the Supreme Court and a public viewing of the late Justice John Paul stevens. It also came just minutes after one of the four members, michigans Rashida Tlaib, said this at an n
Testimony on wednesday, he just told reporters he might watch a little bit of it. He renewed his attacks on former special counsel Robert Mueller, saying and claiming that hes conflicted, even though in Robert Muellers report it shows the president s own aides said that argument was petty and ridiculous. Of course the president is continuing to frame what is going to happen on wednesday as a doover for democrats. Thats how the president and his allies have been framing that in the last several days. It looks like thats going to be the tactic they continue up until wednesday. Thats not all. The president touched on a slew of issues. One big one was the president talked about iran and said he doesnt know if hell be able to make a deal with iran anymore. That reported after cnn reported the president had been moving in a more hawkish direction after he called off that strike last month. Thats what hes been telling people behind the scenes. Now hes alluding to not only his strategy in iran