next couple days. the storm is at the stand still, lingering over the state of texas, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. our next hour of special coverage here on cn n starts right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. you are watching cnn here, special coverage tonight. texass about to find out if it is seeing the worst of tropical storm harvey. that state right now bracing for catastrophic flooding after being battered by what was a category 4 hurricane at the time when it barreled ashore just last night. we're on the ground. our cnn crews covering the storm from every angle for you. also breaking developments tonight on the pardoning of former maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio. tonight a new report from the "washington post" that indicates the president of the united states wanted the case closed and reportedly asked the attorney general about it before it went to trial.

good evening once again. i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn special live coverage. welcoming our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin tonight with this controversial pardon of former sheriff joe arpaio, a pardon that just got a lot more controversial because "the washington post" is reporting that president trump asked attorney general jeff sessions if it could be possible to drop this criminal case arpaio before he went to trial. when the ag would not do that, the president decided simply to wait it out and pardon his friend if he ended up being convicted which is precisely what happened. cnn white house correspondent athena jones is live for us tonight with the breaking detail. standing by criminal defense attorney page pate. athena, first to you. tell us what the president allegedly asked of sessions. >> reporter: hi, brooke.

according to "washington post," before sheriff arpaio, former sheriff arpaio went 0 trial in the spring, late june before that case opened, the president had a conversation with his attorney general jeff sessions to talk about whether it would be possible for the government to drop the case against arpaio. now, trump was told that that would be inappropriate and so he decided to let the case carry on. because he could always exercise his duty, his right as president, not his duty but his right as president to give a pardon afterwards. that is what happened. but this is unusual for several reasons, brooke. one is that presidents generally speaking try very hard to avoid looking like they're trying to put their finger on the scale of justice. they don't want to comment or interfere in specific cases because they don't want to make it look as though they're politicizing what should be an impartial judicial process. that's one thing that's interesting here. the other is that it seems like this is part of a pattern.

former fbi director james comey said the president spoke to him about potentially seeing a way to let the federal investigation, the fbi investigation into michael flynn who had been his national security adviser go. so this is another indication that the president may not have full understanding or appreciation of past precedent when it comes to the separation of powers. it also shows that this was a like-minded friend of the president's. sheriff joe was a supporter of the president an early endorser of the president. he shared the president's philosophy when it came to birtherism. he was one of the proponents of this conspiracy theory that president obama was not born in the u.s. so when he received this news, he not surprisingly responded favorably. listen to what he had to say. >> he's a big supporter of law enforcement. i know it came from his heart. two years ago, i supported him

first rally. i always said, regardless of pardon or no pardon, i'll be with him to the end. i say that. so i'm really happy with all the support i've received across the nation. arizona, for this pardon. and i'll have more to speak out and let the true story come out about the abuse of the judicial system and politics. >> so there you heard a very pleased sheriff joe arpaio but not everyone is pleased. you've seen blow back from republicans like paul ryan. the two republican senators from arizona who are raising questions about the president's decision. now, we're waiting to hear from the white house about this specific "washington post" report. but sara huckabee sanders, press secretary, told the "post" this. she said it's only natural the president would have a discussion with administration lawyers about legal matters. this case would be no different.

so trump supporters, allies, staffers, say this is all fine. there's nothing to see here. but trump critics already upset about the pardoning of this sheriff who ignored a court order in this racial profiling case. now they're going to most likely not respond well to this an additional news. >> an par aye giving some sort of news conference or addressing the public early this week. athena, thank you. at the white house, page pate, athena nailed it in setting whole thing up whether it was this initial intervention pretrial or even this pardon. totally legal, totally in the president's constitutional right. that said, how unusual is this. >> i think it's incredibly unusual. we've never seen anything at least that i can recall like this where a president intervenes while a case is pending right before a trial to try to convince apparently the attorney general to have the

u.s. attorney back off the case. i've never heard that have happening. there's tradition, there are protocols and policies in place to prevent that type of political interference when we're talking about an indictment and a possible federal criminal trial. it's highly unusual for a president but not necessarily unusual for this president. in fact, i think it shows a pattern of conduct from the white house as far as intervening in otherwise independent law enforcement and prosecutorial decisions. so to that extent, i do think the special counsel may look at exactly what involvement the president had in arpaio's case to see if it patterns or is similar to the conduct that's been alled alleged in connecti with jim comey. >> talking about the special counsel and bob mueller. talking to two republicans last hour. they said this could indeed signaling to other folks who may commit pardonable offenses that the president could have their

backs. the other question though is just about republicans are also saying look, why is this any different from when in president obama's waning days he commuted the sentence of chelsea manning. is there a huge difference or no? >> i don't know that there is. the constitution gives broad pardon powers to the president. he's completely within his legal and constitutional rights to pardon anyone he wants to. perhaps with the exception of himself. that's been an argument legal scholars have had and we've gone back and forth whether he can pardon himself. as far as anyone else, he can issue a pardon sentencing as he's done in this case, after sentencing, at the beginning or end of his term. we can certainly question whether this particular person should have been pardoned given the fact his offense involves completely ignoring and violating a judicial order versus someone who is convicted and may have accepted responsibility, been ves remorseful. i think the opposite is the case here. you can quell it politically but

legally, constitutionally, he's on solid ground. >> page pate, thank you so much for coming in on a saturday night and talking about this breaking news with me. i appreciate it. make sure to stay tuned to cnn. in a couple minutes, we'll talk to one of the key witnesses involved in that trial in that lawsuit against sheriff arpaio about what he thinks about the president's pardon of the former maricopa county sheriff. to texas now to you this catastrophic flooding expected in the overnight hours. harvey right now is just sitting there stalling over texas, 20 inches of rain has already fallen. another 20 more on the way. and when you look at these pictures here, just utter devastation in rock port. look at this. where harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, at least one person was killed there. power lines snapping over waterlogged streets. roughly 300,000 people right now are sitting in the dark.

it is that lack of power that is a massive concern overnight as the threat of tornado ramp up. this an apparent tornado spotted just a couple of hoursago. we have live team coverage for you tight on the gund in texas. we also have meteorologist chad meyers standing by in the weather center to talk about all that flooding. first, let's talk to derek van dam who is live in victoria forest, the wind is whipping. nothing much you can do about it. just forget the hood. you're wet already. how bad is it where you are? >> reporter: okay. well, i've been better. lost my hat but doesn't matter, does it, brooke? we are in victoria, 30 miles outside of the coast. and what i found particularly astonishing about had particular location in southeast texas is that they are currently under a flood washing and a tropical storm warning indefinitely. there is literally no end time

to their tropical storm force winds and flooding concerns here. and that is concerning for any residents or tourists potentially within this area. when you don't have an end time to that type of condition, you can imagine how concerning that is. that shows you harvey has stalled out over southeast texas. that is the concern going forward. we've got already a very saturated ground. i did a walk around the city a couple of hours ago. the damage here is what you would expect for an equivalent to a category 1 hurricane, for instance. we had trees uprooted. we've had power lines snapped, awnings taken off of roofs. shingles torn off some of the buildings. lots of windows blown out, as well. setting the scene here. it is a bit eerie to walk down the city because there was a mandatory evacuation there also simply no one here with the exception of the odd car driving past, diehard people who decided to stay. since harvey is sticking around

for the foreseeable future, the flood threat is the big concern. that's what we're going to monitor for the days ahead. >> that is a good thing it's quiet. we want people to not stick around or hopefully stay indoors as it continues to rain. thank you so much, derek, to your crew and yourself for standing out in it telling us about the conditions. we appreciate that. from derek to martin savidge live in rockport. you were talking to us last hour. you're in a more business district. whether it's businesses, homes nearby, total devastation where you are. >> reporter: it is. i mean, this shows you while. people are still bracing for the floodwaters of harvey, here 24 hours ago, they were going through what many described as just horror. they was this category storm 4 coming ashore here. this was ground zero. the impact of the winds was so severe, it looked like a tornado ripped through the town. usually a tornado cuts a narrow

path. this was a big powerful storm and leveled much of the downtown area. we're talking about very strongly built buildings, not just wooden structures. those made out of brick and mortar are also down at the ground. on top of that, there's no water. you can't have any sewage here. there's no electricity, no cell phone. they've essentially been knocked back 200 years. that's been a problem for first responders. there are teams going door to door in the darkness trying to find those that may still be trapped in the rupes of their homes or those who is may have died. there's within one reported fatality. the sheriff says we really don't know. they were not able to even organize a search effort or bring in real outside help until late this afternoon because of so much debris and so much water that is surrounding this town and in this town. it makes it extremely difficult to get around. so there were still people here. about 50% of the population supposedly sheltered in place.

many of them say that was a terrible mistake and they had a nightmare of a night. but they managed to make it through. and now there are buses waiting to take them to san antonio. so this town needs a lot of help and a lot of prayer, brooke. >> thinking of them, praying for them. all we can do right now. martin, thank you so much for your coverage there. appreciate it. let's talk to chad meyers again on harvey's strength and path and so the story, and we see it churning over texas, how much longer does it stit there and stall and rain on everyone? >> i was just tweeting with a guy on line. i said last hour this could be around till next friday. he said no way. i took a picture of the gfs, the model we use in america and cut and pasted to him and said here it is. the low is still near san antonio, six days from now. so this may never leave. it may just completely fizzle out and get pushed away. what i'm worried about tonight is that big purple rather right

there. houston. you are really getting rain now. you are in an outside feeder band of what would be a hurricane. it's on land now. so it's a tropical storm. but you still have feeder bands. what does that mean? there's moisture in the gulf of mexico. clearly it's hot. 86. that moisture is being pulled up into houston and it is raining at 2.5 inches per hour. if it rains at your house for four hours, that's ten inches. where is that going to go? into the rivers and bayous and going to flood. we have flash flood warnings going on very, very close to houston, especially just to the west. people saying cars are already stalled out. don't drive in this. this is a dangerous night. this is a night where the rain will continue possibly all night long at one or two inches per hour. you already have eight inches on the ground for sugarland and katy, hobby, about five inches there. the ground's wet. the water's already running off.

if we get what is forecast here, this is now a model, i'm going to show you what the radar may look like over the next 18 hours. this is now. now for the next few hours, the rain moves through houston, maybe toward pasadena. and at that point in time, bay city, you're really going to get pounded. later on tonight, it redevelops and goes right back over houston. the model i'm about to show you should scare you because you should have a noaa weather radio on, your ala clock on. somewhere around 2:00 in the morning, get up andook outside because brooke, this purple area right there, houston and even beaumont over there, that is ten inches of rain by 10:00 tomorrow. and not a place in america can get ten inches of rain in ten hours and not flood. there might be flash flooding in a major metropolitan area by morning. that's the forecast and what i'm warning people right now. >> there is the fair warning as you mentioned as you're pushing

the button on the coffee machine in the morning, look outside. that is the situation in houston, texas. chad, thank you. we'll come back to you. we've got special coverage for you on this saturday night. coming up, a pregnant woman trapped in a texas hotel. she's supposed to have a c-section in a couple of days. we'll check in on her and talk to a woman who had to leave her home with her family and she's supposed to have that baby on tuesday. plus, fallout continues from president trump's pardoning of former sheriff joe arpaio in arizona. we will talk to one man who was a key witness in the federal civil rights suit against the former sheriff. electric light orchestra ] ♪ sailin' away on the crest of a wave, it's like magic ♪ ♪ rollin' and ridin' and slippin' and slidin' ♪

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breaking news tonight here talking about the widespread disaster in texas with more flooding expected in the overnight hours and for the next couple of days, depending where you are. it's rough enough if you're hunkered down in your hope but imagine being pregnant and trapped in a texas hotel room with a c-section on the books for tuesday. that is diane weeks' situation. she left her home in port aransas before danielle, before the storm rolled in and now danielle is trapped in a hotel room in corp russ christi with her husband and their two daughters and her mother. danielle, you're live here on cnn. how you doing?

>> i'm holding my own. >> i can't imagine -- so you're supposed to have had baby on tuesday. and what are you doing? just watching forecast around the clock? >> yeah, pretty much. we've got it on the news channels. we're trying to just stay cm and keep it together for our kids and hope for the best. >> how are your kids doing? >> they're doing okay. they take it more as we're just hanging out in a hotel like on vacation. >> sure. >> they don't really understand. our 5-year-old kind of gets it. she got a little upset today. we tried to go see our trailer but we couldn't get onto the island because they're still doing search and rescue. seesaw some of the flooding and some of the buildings torn apart. she got a little bit upset. for the most part, they're doing good. >> so you tried going to your home. you don't know the status of

your home as you're sitting there in corpus crist i in this hotel room? >> right. we tried to get there, but they're still doing search and rescue for people that had stayed on the island. so they're not allowing any people on right now. >> so danielle, you're about to have this baby on tuesday. if all goes according to plan. how -- what are doctors telling you? how is the weather where you are? >> the weather right now isn't too bad. it's been kind of windy and off and on rainy, but i'm supposed to call my doctor on monday to find out. of if they're going to be allowed to do the c-section on tuesday or not. >> and if they can't? >> i'm not sure. >> okay. >> we're going to think happy thoughts for you. >> push it back a few days. >> we're going to think happy thoughts for you and that baby. any idea on names?

>> her name will be laura lynn. >> laura lynn. >> well, danielle, good luck to you and laura lip and the whole family. and i hope you are able to get to that doctor on tuesday and everything goes beautifully. thank you so much for calling in. >> thank you so much. >> you got it. my goodness. come up here, on cnn, we're going to keep covering the storm but also a key witness in the federal lawsuit against former sheriff joe arpaio who was just pardoned by the president will talk to me here. what does he have to say about the news of the pardon. we'll ask. and the news on harvey as the storm is still lingering over texas. severe flooding expected over the next couple days. chad's been talking a lot about tornadoes. national weather service confirmed 12 tornadoes have hit their area since friday afternoon. stay here. wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that? uh-huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone-everything on it- -oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah.

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you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. breaking news of this pardoning of the former maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio. the "washington post" this evening is reporting earlier this year, president trump asked attorney general jeff sessions to drop the criminal case against his friend, this former sheriff. this is before this went to trial. when that didn't happen, the president apparently decided if arpaio would get convicted he would pardon him. and you know the story. the former sheriff was convicted

of violating a judge's order to stop racially profiling latino drivers. he was found in contempt. one of the key witnesses to testify against arpaio has reacted to the pardon. this new opinion piece in the "washington post," dan magos describes being pulled over along with his late wife by one of arpaio's maricopa county deputies. he writes what happened to me and eva that night eight years ago was all too typical. we were driving a pickup tool with landscaping tools and we were hispanic and we got pulled over by a deputy who never made an attempt to hide contempt for immigrants. he patted me down, my underamples, my torso, even m groin. my wife was watching the whole time. that was the most humiliating part. i couldn't defend myself or her. question the search was finished, i asked the deputy for the third time why he pulled us

over. he said it was because he hadn't been able to see the license plate and finally he let us go with this warning. don't think for a minute this has anything to do with racial profiling. dan magos is live with us tonight from phoenix. those where is powerful words in the paper but just hearing from you this evening and knowing the president has pardoned arpaio what are some of the emotions you're feeling? >> my first reaction was that of anger. i was furious when i heard the announcement that arpaio had been pardoned. and i was also sad. disappointed. disappointed that the presidency was getting involved in a case in maricopa county.

and it was quite disappointing especially since had i been fighting this case going to court to every session, court session for the last seven and a half years. my wife also went for about six years. he was found guilty of racial profiling. he was found guilty of civil contempt and he was found guilty of the criminal contempt. and after all this effort of years, now the president trump comes and just with a stroke of a pen erases everything and walks all over my efforts and that of the hispanic community in maricopa county. and all those people that stand behind the constitution and

defend the cstitut some even with their lives and apparently, the constitution does not mean anything to either arpaio or trump. >> dan, let me interject and say, i hear how you're feeling. but it is actually in the president's right, constitutional right to pardon arpaio no matter how you feel about him, what he did is perfectly legal. and in a tweet september out last night, the president i'm paraphrasing, called the former sheriff a good guy. >> well, as far as the pardon, i think it's still premature since the case has not come to a conclusion. we were waiting for the criminal, i mean for the sentencing. come october 5th. >> that's correct.

>> and then our president comes in and blocks the case. stops the case all together. it's my understanding that there will not be a sentencing. so i could be mistaken. >> no, that's correct. he had been convicted of content. hadn't been sentenced. he's been parrened. that's done. we're supposed to hear from him early next week. for people in this country and e arouorld watching who will never understand what it feels like to be racially profiled, take me back to when you were pulled over by the sheriff's deputy. what was the most humiliating piece? >> the most humiliating piece was when he had me up against the truck with my -- he kicked my legs apart, kicked them back and began to search me. taking all contents out of my shirt pocket, my pants pocket abc then putting it back in.

frisking me from top to bottom. in the press, of my wife. that was the most hughmiating to be in front of my wife being abused, you know, by the tactics that the deputy was taking. all the time but he was at this traffic stop. he was yelling at me. yelling at my wife. being disrespectful. intimidating us by his tone of voice and also his right hand on his xwun at all times. >> we should point out. >> that was the most. >> no, no, i should point out your wife, she was, your late wife was born in arizona. you've been a naturalized this countr over 50 years in this is what happened to you, dan, fim question just a piece of the politics here.

this may backfire for president trump. he won the state of arizona just by about 3.5 percentage points. you know democrats are already jumping on this. this could rally latinos. you know, in terms of that jeff flake senate seat. i mean, is that -- i don't know where you stand politically. i don't know if that's your hope. what do you hope comes of this politically? >> yes. my hope is political consequences for trump mainly. he's got senator mccain and jeff already talking against him on this parred. >> and correct. >> but yes, both are saying that it is premature. you know, and you know, i see it as obstruction of justice. and that may be you know, one of the stumbling blocks for trump.

some people will even republicans will see what he has done, but it's an injustice to the people of arizona, to the hispanic community. and all those of us who stand for the u.s. constitution. >> dan magos, thank you so much for the time tonight and for your voice. appreciate it. >> are you welcome. still ahead here, we're going to take you back to texas. harvey still at a stabbed still. pouring rain and a lot of these cities including houston, growing concerns of life-threatening flood package. we'll have an update for you coming up there. also ahead, north korea launches a trio of ballistic missiles. tensions ramping up amid u.s. south korea military drills. will ripley is live in pyongyang. we will take you there. (boy) and these are the lungs. (class) ewwww! (boy) sorry. (dad) don't worry about it.

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our breaking news tonight, disaster in texas. dire warnings of potentially cattic flooding in houston. tropical storm harvey is spinning in place on shore and dumping torrential rain. the national weather service in houston is confirming that 12 tornados have impacted the area since friday. dozens of warnings have been issued. and now a lot more rain is expected to fall overnight in the nation's fourth largest city. rosa flores is on the ground in

houston. rosa, what are you seeing? i know it's dark. >> reporter: the biggest concern in the city of houston is flooding. city officials here have told people for days that they need to have food and water for four to five days because waters here can rise very quickly. this is call the biocity. there are bayous, waterways that meander through downtown and neighborhoods. the ground is already sat ratsa. rain, lightning, thunder has city officials and first responders very worried because it doesn't take much rain for these bayous and creeks to swell even more because t ground is so saturad. they are expecting between 15 and 30 inches of rain in the harris county, houston area.

and in isolated areas, up to 35 inches of rain. that could be catastrophic because these waters can rise very, very quickly. so they are advising residents to stay put. there is no evacuation order in the city of houston. but they are asking residents to be very vigilant. if the waters is rise to quickly they are asking people to call for help. >> rosa flores, thank you so much in houston. parts of texas bracing for days of rain. two to three feet. sti expe still expected to fall in some areas. lightning, heavy rain. with me to talk about the flood concerns is keese smith, a public information officer with emergency management. thank you so much for calling in. >> you're welcome, brooke. >> talk to me about the rain. i know tornadoes is an issue, as

well. but what are you all anticipating and how are you preparing for it? >> well, your reporter was exactly right. for us, this is going to be less a wind event than a rain event. we're anticipating possibly as much as 8 to 12 inches of rain in parts of houston just tonight. so in preparation for that, mayor turner has opened three shelters with the assistance of the red cross. th's just for people if they feel like they're not going to be safe in their homes or not comfortable in their homes, they can go there now. we'd rather have them move now than in the middle of the night when we'd have to have emergency responders with high water vehicles go in. also to that end, we've staged high water rescue vehicles throughout the city and also rescue boats. police department and fire department have rescue boats that we've staged throughout the city. should those kind of situations

arise. >> my brower just got in my ear as we've been talking, a flash flood warning emergency has been issued for houston. what is your concern, number one, as we led into the overnight hours? >> well, the concern is how much rain are we going to get overnight and where is it going to fall. the bayous are our main drainage system. as we've seen in past tropical storms which have flooded the city, if one of those rain bands parks over the same area and continually drops downpour on that same location, then you will see street flooding. so we're hoping that doesn't happen. but we've been advised by the national weather service that it might. we're taking precautionsne necessary. >> what should people who are watching heading to bed, what should they keep in mind as they you know, first thing in the morning peek out the window and see how bad it is? >> well, first thing to do is we don't want anybody to try

driving tonight if they can at all stay off the roads. that's just you never know when you come up to a pile of water on the road how deep it is. and that's where you see most of your loss of life is people trying to drive through high water. if you can stay off the road we're telling people to do so actually at night. when you wake up in the morning, assess your situation. you know, if you can't get out of your house, one of the safest places you can be is inside your house. just stay there. as opposed to trying to wade through the high water which can be swift moving. you don't know what's in it. the pressure has a way of forcing manhole covers up. and you can be walking down the road and can be sucked into one of those drainage pipes. so we would rather you just stay out ofater for a variety of reasons. >> all right. keese smith, thank you for calling in.

i want to bring in chad meyers here. talk to me about the flash flood emergency. >> it means that flash flooding is occurring. and it is life-threatening over the city of houston. harris county and also just slightly to the west of harris county, too. let me get to what has happened over the past three or four hours. this big purple eruption of cloud cover has gone right over the city of houston. and southward too, all the way down to just about galveston. it's a train of storms. one storm after the other that is going along the same path. that's the same problem and the aim threat that the pio was just talking about, talking about if a storm traveling over the same path that the previous storm already put down rain, that is the most dangerous threat of all time. it's called training thunderstorms. we already know that there's been three to four inches of rain in the past hour. in the past hour.

in some spots. that's how hard this rain is coming down. here's the forecast for right now. this is what the radar does look like. i'm going to put the forecast model in motion. we run through nighttime. it's storm after storm all the way through houston. galveston, beaumont, even over toward lake charles. this is like a fire stream, a fire hose just pushing water on shore and raining it down in the same spot. the gulf of mexico is very warm. that's the fuel to this fire. the water and the air combining over the gulf of mexico and they're moving up. those particles of moisture moving up into houston and raining down where we certainly don't need it. what we're seeing on this map, this is very telling and i've been showing it all night long that this area right here is a ten-inch bull eye of what's going to happen in the next 15 hours. ten more inches in 15 hours. there's not a city in america

that can deal with 15 incs anywhere across the country. 15, 10, whatever in 15 hours. there's going to be a major flash flood event and people have to make the right decisions. >> yeah, be smart about it. just heard the emergency management person saying don't drive through it. we see the video every year. don't do it. chad meyerss in weather center. still ahead on cnn, we are reporting exclusively from inside north korea tonight amid new provocations by the regime. we'll take you live to pyongyang and live pictures out of houston where tropical storm harry is expected to continue pounding the city with torrential rainfall. we are minutes away from a new advisory. we will keep you updated on cnn. you're watching special live coverage on this saturday night. no, please, please, oh! ♪ (shrieks in terror) (heavy breathing and snorting)

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restraint in the weapons program, and likely not a coincidence that it comes at a time when the u.s. troops are holding joint drills with with the south korean military. cnn has not been allowed ip s e inside of north koreat at the timef of the drills until now. will ripley is inside of north korea and is pyongyang. you have met with the official, and what are they telling you? >> well, they say that even though the things appear calm on the rface, despite the missile launches within the last 24 hours or so, they say it is extraordinarily tense time, and dangerous time on the peninsula, in part because of those joint are drills that you are talking about, and also because of the remarks several weeks a ago that back and forth that a fiery rhetoric between president trump and north korea's leader kim jong-un where president trump threatened to rain down fire and fury and something that officials here took lit rlly as a nuclear war and a threat they

are taking seriously, and so since then, and since north korea launched the icbm in july, we have not seen a lot of the actual military provocations from the north, but now in the span of this weekend, we are have seen them launch three short range ballistic missiles traveling 150-plus miles a and putting in range seoul and military bases in south korea, and even though the test runs went off in the south of japan, but you also saw the leader kim jong-un going with the special operations with dry runs to the attacking islands in south korea. so brooke, the officials sense here that it is very touch and go, and they believe that any misstep on either side could once again fire up all of the actual confrontations on the peninsulas among the rhetoric that we saw and the strong rhetoric in recent weeks. >> to be clear, these launches

are different from the ones that we have seen previously and provocative, yes, but they don't cross president trump's red line? absolutely. because what president trump was essentially threatvening north korea to do was not to launch the missiles simultaneously over japan and bring them down in guam, and over anderson air force base in game. a -- in guam, and this missile test where they went harm less ly in the waters the bush the u.s. is concern canned about this, because each launch helps to advance their military program, and they are just months away from a nuclear tipped ics bm capable of striking the u.s. >> thank you, will aripley. we are back here at home still talking about the hurricane harvey, and the worst

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let's go back to chad myers there in the weather center on the latest update that you just got on texas, and what doest say? >> 50-mile-an-hour storm, brooke, and losing the intensity, and that is the good news, but e bad news is moving east/northeast at one, one mile

per hour. >> hmm. >> you can walk faster than that. that is the rain and it is going to be heavy for houston and this is the flash flood emergency for houston proper. there is flood iing and life-threatening flooding in the city of houston and baytown and towards sugarland and i can't name all of the suburbs of houston, but you are involved if you are anywhere within 30 miles of downtown. lightning involved as well and heavy rainfall, and something, and some spots are seeing 3 inches of rain in 30 minutes. 3 inches of rain in 30 minutes is enough to cause flash flooding anywhere and it is not done. it is going to rain all night long, brooke. people are in danger tonight, a make sure that you know where to go if the water comes up. >> chad myers, thank you so much for all of your updates all night long and let me tell all of you on cnn state in the union in the wake of the hurricane and now tropical storm, jake tapper will talk to the texas governor

greg abbott and the fema director brock long at 9:00 a.m. eastern, and that is here on cnn. i'm brooke baldwin and thank you for the cnn coverage here on a saturday night. in the meantime, coming up is cnn film presents elian. > i remember that day very vividly. it was thanksgiving. it was pitch black to the north and to the east was like this ray of light coming up where the sun was starting to come up. they called me the fisherman, but i had not really been out fishing a lot. my cousin sam, he is more of a fisherman than me, a he said, look for sea wooweed or debris

anything floating on the ocean surface. maybe like three miles off of the coast, i said to him, like that intertube right there. and he said, yeah, go over there. >> i said to my cousin, hey, man, this a sick joke? we thought that it was a doll tied to an intertube. >> and then i see the hand move and i go, hurry, go, go, go, and before i can blink my eyes my cousin is not in the boat anymore and he is screaming, it is a baby. >> and when i reached over, he grabbed me by the neck and tried to kick my way to the boat. >> i am trying not to fall into the water, and he is trying to push up and i just grabbed this child and i held him in my arms and my cousin got on the phone with his wife. >> 9 #11 what is the emergency? >> my husband found a 5-year-old

child and he has him on the b t boat. >> all of the local news stations were were on the helicopters out, there and saying this is a little bit bigger than what we thought it was was. >> do you know this boy? >> elian gonzalez. [ speaking foreign language ]

[ speaking foreign language ] and from the coast of the waters off of the coast of florida a real thanksgiving story. >> of the cuban rafters only two were rescued alive. >> his mother is believed to have drouped, but he has cousins he just met in miami. >> this is the story of little boy from cuba whose mother died bringing him to freedom in the

united states or maybe it is a story of a boy shipwrecked in miami whose father just wanted him back. it is always supposed to be elian's story, but although a lot of other people would try to make it their own. >> the first thing that came to my mind is how did he survive by himself when he is only 5 and the only thing that i could say is that it is a miracle. god wanted him here for freedom. and he is here. and he is going to get it. >> i will never forget that he was sitting there, and about to have soup, and the first thing i said is don't eat that. and the he looked straight up at me and he is like, is it bad? i said, yes, it is and we will get you something better than that. that moment was our first connection. and then after that, he would ask me for everything.

ev every raft that came from cuba, you would see it on tv and when u saw the press there, i said, that is normal, that is what they are there for. >> and when elian and his cousin waved good-bye from the hospital the next day, the story could have ended there. >> another cuban rafter makes his home in miami. like so many cuban families the gonzalez clan had come apart in the years following fidel castro's revolution. from the small town of the cuba's north coast, the aunts and uncles of his father made their way in the florida straits settling into the enclaves of it ll havana. the eldest of elian's uncles had come in the 1970s after spending years in castro's political

jails. he found a quiet living in the keys makings lobster traps. and his wife and children followed. he worked mostly as an auto body repairman, but he struggled to find a job. his daughter, she had arrived in the united states when she was elian's age, and at 211, she processed loans at a local banning and dreamed of opening up a hair salon. >> i am told of all of the family members, you are the one that elian has bond ed with mos. do you feel the bond? >> i sure do. definitely. i feel like he has been my brother since a little kid can. [ speaking foreign language ]

>> maybe two daysater i got a call from "good morning america" and they asked me if i would k like to reunite with elian gonzalez. i said that i would love to. >> wa is your name, sir? >> you know some people go out fishing for fish and treasures and for me, this is a treasure in the deep right here. elian, and to see this gift of god and that is what i believe really is to happening out in the water for that many days, and doipt know how long it is, but he is a gift of god and i'm privileged to be next to him to touch him. >> that is awesome, man. thank you so much. >> what a beautiful kid. >> yes. >> he is beautiful. >> it is weird to think that when he grows up. >> we were all so scared to ask

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>> in cuba elian's father juan miguel hadn't known that his ex-wife and her boyfriend took elian away on a homemade boat, hoping to start their lives over in the united states. frantic to find them juan miguel and his parents began calling relatives in miami. almost from the start the two sides of the family were talking past each other. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i remember my dad saying that you know that juan miguel says to take care of him so he could come over here. in the beginning of everything i had a picture he was going to come and stay. i was like, wow, my whole family is going to be reunited.

>> juan miguel's family were rooted comfortably in cuba. he and his parents were loyal members of the ruling communist party and juan miguel, who had remarried had a good job at a nearby beach resort. when they needed help, they didn't hesitate to ask the cuban government. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]

how's it going? good. good to see you. hey mark, how's it going. >> you've got some gifts there. >> as soon as elian's rescue made the local news uninvited guests began to descend on the gonzalez home in little havana. among the first was jorge m monsantos, the head of the most powerful cuban national foundation. >> we saw this young boy who lost his mother at sea. i think the image that everything cuban americans terrible. i thought the cuban american national foundation should use this as messaging of a human story, a human tragedy. that's why we developed a poster from the campaign to bring at attention to something we need to stop. >> this is something that they wanted to capture the story and

make castro laser focus on the story, and he wanted to get back at the miami community, and he did it perfectly. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]

[ speaking foreign language ] >> nbc news in-depth the struggle over a little boy. >> even his new puppy came from a member of congress. >> on sunday castro demanded the u.s. return the boy within 72 hours. >> no one has the right to steal the boy from his father.

>> the white house officials clearly don't want this dispute to become a big international incide incident. >> don't forget that the country is an election campaign, says castro. >> america has determined enemies who hate our values. >> we've just begun to fight. >> of course i would rather grow up in the united states, but there may be other considerations there. >> cuban officials promising twice as many protesters today as this country unites around the powerful symbol of a 6-year-old child caught between two worlds. ♪ hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we'll find them in our subaru outback. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get 0% apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 outbacks.

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>> the elian case was a very important national unifying factor. there was a moment in the long history of confrontation between cuba and the u.s. as the millennium approached, both leaders were scanning the horizon looking for something to rally their tired supporters.

[ speaking foreign language ] >> the cold war never ended in miami. a mother died getting her kid out of cuba to get him to freedom, and of course, we will hold that child, because we don't want to have him go back. ♪ ♪ elian >> i think that he should stay here with the family, because he has no future or life in cuba. >> the mother died to give him freedom and that is what she

wanted in the last moment. >> we have a role to protect freedom and when people risk everything to come, even if they are a 5-year-old kid, they should be allowed to stay. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] >> relatives of elian gonzalez say they saw a different side of the 6-year-old boy, but a boy filled with happiness and joy at the disney world visit. but they said that he had some pr problems when he went on the it's a smalle world ride. >> he had a problem with the boat, and asked me if it was go ing to sink. >> two families torn over a

little boy who has officially captivated a community. [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ [ speaking foreign language ]

>> we wanted to give him a life where he felt comfortable and everything was normal. then we got him to go to the school. he was so happy to go to school. [ speaking foreign language ] >> elian, elian. ♪ for the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave [ applause ]

>> they were summoned by president fidel castro for what he calls the second stage of the battle of the masses. thousands demonstrated again in front of the u.s. diplomatic mission in havana. >> the boy's father joined other cubans at a weekend rally demanding the child be returned. >> americaimmigration officials will interview the father here in cuba to give him a chance to assert his rights and prove his paternity. >> we had a very unusual circumstance of a father in cuba asking for the son to be returned to him. it was pretty unprecedented. i mean, typically people who came to the united states from cuba came because they wanted to stay here. as the immigration service, we had to determine whether this was actually the father and

since the child had come to the united states with the mother, whether the father had a relationship with the child. what was the family's story. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] >> when miguel and elisa had

mar married as teenagers and it had taken them years and several miscarriages before elian was born. they separate and decided to build a new relationship around the son they both adored. [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ happy birthday to you [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ happy birthday dear elian ♪ happy birthday to you

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>> for me seeing my cousin on tv speaking the way he used to speak about us and then seeing fidel next to him made me think, are you for real or do you just have to play this role? my uncle delphine said that's probably not even what he really wants to say. so don't take it to heart. delphine was the person i listened to because that was the person i knew experienced the torturing of cuba when he was in prison. he would say, that's how the government works. they try to destroy the family. they try to keep us apart. so i was fighting for both of their freedom because i was hoping for the day juan miguel could meet with elian here and be free as well.

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>> the case of elian gonzalez has been a difficult one, complicated by the fact that several people other than elian's father claimed to represent him. i.n.s. has determined that elian should be reunited with his father.

then we said by january 14th he's to be turned over to the i.n.s. so that he can be returned to his father. what did i think at that time? did i think it would happen? i don't know. >> could we ask you about your reaction? >> they're only letting the dad decide what's best for the kid and everything like that. as we all know when elian came and found himself lonely in this country without no family, without his dad not having the freedom to get on an airplane to come here and support his child when he most really needed it because he couldn't even sit down in a bed because he would fall. i was there so was my family, supporting him. until then they did let us support him and be there for him. why aren't we getting the opportunity at this point to speak for him? his dad doesn't have freedom otherwise we would have got on an airplane and got to this country and see our kid. his words where i haven't lost anything there.

what about your son? >> a fight was on. a fight was on. >> this community asked since day one the due process of elian gonzalez. >> we thought the best way to make sure the judicial process was followed was to issue a subpoena. >> this is a federal subpoena which we believe protects elian gonzalez from being forcibly and illegal removed from the united states to cuba. >> several congressmen an one senator say they will offer bills as early as february to grant elian gonzalez u.s. citizenship. >> but it's not just congress. at last night's presidential candidate debate, all candidates asked that elian be allowed to stay here. >> the man ought to be brought to the united states and given a

whiff of freedom. so he can see how wonderful our country is. >> why has this become so political? because cuban immigrants are a critical voting bloc in florida's republican primary and a lucrative source of campaign money for both political parties. the 6-year-old may have even more politicians as playmates. >> i know that this is where he wants to stay. if that's the case, i will take care of him like if he would be my son, but i feel that we should have the right to take his chance to court. >> can you remember when you were 6? >> there were some days i wanted to run away from home. and there were other days i wanted my mommy so bad i couldn't stand it. i think the law has indicated and it's certainly i think that the experience of most people that 6 years old is too young to speak for themselves. >> under u.s. law it was the

attorney general janet reno who had the final say on elian's immigration case. she came to it with a unique perspective. born and raised in miami, reno identify identified with the cuban exiles. she had a passion for child welfare issues which she handled as a florida prosecutor before joining the clinton administration. >> she devoted her life to making her community safer, keeping children out of trouble, reducing domestic violence and helping families. >> as reno stepped forward she made no secret of her competing sympathies. trying to find a compromise she set aside the deadline of returning elian to cuba and invited his relatives to plead their case. >> today, we have filed a very significant lawsuit in federal court. it is the case of elian gonzalez versus janet reno.

>> my hope is that people will look at this little boy and get him into a situation where he can live a normal life without television cameras and the world in his face. >> elian, himself, he had said almost knnothing in public duri his time in miami. but one night in january, a camera caught him yelling at a passing airplane and his words quickly became a point of contention. the family disputed the translation by local television,

and he didn't say that he wanted to return to cuba. >> he had been manipulated for a long time. >> i want to respond that the reason that you do not come to miami is that the cuban government afraid that once you get to miami, you will defect. how do you respond to that? >> translator: who said that? who said that? i think that i have been extr e extremely clear, and some people think that i am under pressure here. i have always said, i haven't lost anything in miami, and sometimes what i would like to do is to go down there with a rifle and i don't know to get rid of i don't know how many people. >> are you serious about that, sir? that is a very inflammatory remark. >> translator: and what about it, is it inflammatory what they

are doing to my son? >> i did see the anger and i did see the frustration, but as a parent, you get on the first flight you can and you just come get your child. he is not allowed to do that. i had to take care of his child. my dad had to shelter his child. juan miguel's frustration should be with the cuban government and not with me or our family. start here. at fidelity, we let you know where you stand, so when it comes to your retirement plan, you'll always be absolutely...clear. it's your retirement. know where you stand. you'll always be absolutely...clear. s'cuse me. mind if i sit here? not if you want your phone to work. let me guess, you can't livestream your lobster roll. and my mobile pay isn't connecting and i just got an unlimited plan. right plan, wrong network. you see verizon has america's largest most reliable 4g lte network and now unlimited plans start at $40 per line, you know what i am saying? (laughs.) oh this is your seat. definitely. yep. just tucking it in. nah, i wasn't going to pull it out.

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this was not a simple matter of a parent saying i miss my child and i need to bring my child home. this was going the take tio tak there was always going to be the possibility that they could not get him home. i have been involved with cuba for almost 40 years. if you have come to cuba and come to known cuban people, you have a very different view than if you have only lived in the united states. i knew that the grandmothers had a passion about getting this little boy back home. so, i had to go to fidel castro, and i had to ask permission to

take them. >> the grandmothers came, and we tried to arrange a visit for them with elian who of course was in miami. and then ensued a back and forth over the terms, because in fact, there was such tension and unresolved issues and disagreement within the family, itself. >> it was not a negotiation. it was dictated to them that they must present the boy tomorrow or his stu would be change and the boy would po t potentially be sent back to cuba immediately. >> i'm very concerned of what is going to happen tomorrow, because every night i go to sleep, a and he tells me not to let them

take him back, and i am the one taking him to this house where i don't have any control of o. >> i was not allowed to stay in the room with them, and this is the perfect time for him to tell her i want to leave with you, and if that is whs is what was heart. if that had been me, i would have run to my grandma and said, take me. but he didn't. actual actually, he did the opposite. he ran out of that room, and all he said to me is run, run, they are going to take us. just make me feel, wow, i need to fight for his freedom just like his mom gave her life for it. >> i think that for the grandmothers the meeting was extremely frustrating, and they felt that he was in danger, and they felt that he was drugged, but they did go home having seen elian, and they did go home more determined that they had to get him home.

>> youre in a bigass hurry, man. >> at that time i was a freelancer for a.p. and one morning i get a call from my editor, and he says, all right, this is what i want you to do. you cover elian everyday. miami police shutdown the street, and the whole half block was blocked off. there were tv stations paying $500 a day just to have a crew

in front of the house. >> back in 1999 and 2000, we were not actually living in the 24-hour news cycles, and it was a very different landscape, and and they are you know, using this child almost as a prop to tell a story, you know, having him out, playing with american flag at 11:00 at night. we've not seen anything like that. >> the rewarding this atrocious behavior, this trotting out this kid the way they did and then you're acting shocked and surprised that it's happening. they wanted a full media blitz and we gave it to them. >> we had things like, you know, diane sawyer going to have play dates with elian. >> we spent some time drawing. some waves. a dolphin. himself in an inner tube.

me, he said. i was sinkg. >> i always tell him i'm his cousin. >> he tries to call you mom sometimes. yeah, he says it stands for mom. [ speaking foreign language ] >> nobody cares about a little boy who lost his mother whose lost everything and now is about to lose the only thing that he has which is me and it's hard to say when he tells me please don't ever leave me. people just say return him to his father but people don't live with this little boy. people don't see how this little boy feels.

>> just the family stuff is enough to you know, throw someone over the edge. now, when all of that is being witnessed on a daily basis by the entire world, not easy. i mean, i've been involved in politics all my life. i'm a practicing lawyer. public speaker. you know, i have the training as best you can to be able to do something like that. this family had zero. zero training. > i have been in this for four months. not for political issues, not to look good in front of people but for the bests from of this child. >> i remember the "today" show where i think we might have left the show and gone to the hospital because she already took a beating, emotional beating from that process. >> it was a loving family.

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what people saw in the elian story often depended on where they stood. as the weeks passed, national polls showed a deep divide with more and more americans outside south florida in favor of returning the boy to his father. but in miami, the exiles' fury copied to grow spilling over into protests that blocked traffic on the highways and exasperated many of the city's noncubans. >> i'm a parent and i believe that that a child should be with his father. you know? >> a citizen of the united states. >> you people have no, you don't have a clue about what being in

a free society is. you have no respect for other people's opinions. >> you don't know what happened to him. >> the community who had been so appreciative of the united states all of a sudden, was acting in a very rebellious way. you know, we had a mayor that defied federal authority. >> we will not lend our respective resources, whether they be in the form of police officers or any other resources, to assist the federal government in any way, shape or form tore inappropriately repatriate elian gonzales to cuba. >> that seeps to sound like an invitation for the community to block federal authorities and in assurance to them that the miami

police will stand aside. >> well, i like the mayor very much. but i still believe in the rule of law here. we all have to -- whatever the law is, whatever the decision is ultimately made, the rest of us ought to obey it. >> i right now had seen the anger in miami. i had seen the determination of some of the miami cubans to make sure that elian did not leave. senator leahy came to me and he said, we're going to get that little boy back to his father. and i'm going to help you, but you're never going to make it happen if you don't involve a lawyer in this. i have a lawyer for you. his name is greg craig. i'm calling him now. he won't say no. >> i went to the justice department and said, i'm going to go to cuba and i want to be able to tell juan miguel that when he comes back to the united states, he will be able to take custody of his son within the

space of a few days. that he's not going to have to sit in some room and watch his son on television being paraded around by these relatives. they were not willing to give me that commitment. i had nothing going down to cuba. other than to say now is the time to do it. >> we're talking with dr. andrew wild, the author of "eating well for optimum health." >> i think it is fine to lower kell levels. >> let's go to washington to greg craig as the offices of williams and connelly. >> i'm gregory b. craig. i'm pleased to report that juan miguel gonzales, his wife and 6-month-old son will be coming to the united states. they will arrive tomorrow morning, thursday, april 6th, at 7:00 a.m. at dulles airport.