journey inside north korea with unprecedented access to sites never before seen by american eyes. "secret state inside north korea" airs tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. on cnn. that's it for me. thanks for watching. our coverage continues with erin burnett "outfront." breaking news, north korea firing a ballistic missile. japan telling its citizens to shelter in place. president trump bragging about his comments about charlottesville blaming both sides. and jeff sessions, "the new york times" reports sessions called called it the most humiliating experience in his entire life. let's go "outfront." good evening, "outfront" tonight, breaking news, a nationwide alert warning citizens to shelter in place. the latest provocation coming

hours after north korea issued an extremely threatening statement. they say, let's reduce the u.s. mainland into ashes and darkness and event our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now. this is what the whole nation is demanding." the launch -- tonight's launch moments ago, coming days after the united nations adopted a u.s. drafted resolution which imposes the strictest sanctions yet on north korea. the country has launched 22 missiles in 15 tests this year alone since president trump took over. 11 days ago, nuclear conducted another test detonating a hydrogen bomb and that's what they say but it is very clear the strength of that missile was much, much stronger than anybody anticipated. jim sciutto is "outfront"

tonight. jim, what more are you learning? >> well, erin, the u.s. military and intelligence had been detecting preparations for a missile launch for some days and now tonight, this morning, new york delivering the range. it looks as if this missile traveled more than 2,000 miles. the initial indications of intermediate range ballistic missile but the trajectory, flying as you said, right over northern japan. a u.s. treaty ally. a direct provocation to u.s. treaty ally. a similar path to the most recent launch. 22 missiles this year, that pace far outpacing kim jong-un's predecessors in terms of missile launches and really escalating the danger of this situation here and it's something that makes not only the u.s. very nervous but certainly the u.s. allies in the region who were closest to this threat, south korea and japan very nervous as well. >> and how serious of a provocation is this?

you can look and say, 22 missiles tests this year. we had another nuclear test. how serious is this coming very quickly? not only three weeks. >> it's a direct challenge to the u.s., to north korea's only ally china and really to the international community. you remember just last week, you unanimous decision in the u.s. security council to impose greater sanctions on north korea for tests and military activity just like this. and let me tell you this, erin, it is interesting, i was briefed on the trump administration's approach to china and this official raised this question which stuck in my mind. is north korea deterrable at all? it's an open question. sanctions have not worked. military threats, threats of an overwhelming response, you hear from trump, secretary mattis, that hasn't worked in thames of these tests and advances in both missile technology. it really upends how a country

like the u.s. and real threat and very concerning to all involved. >> as you look at the provocations in japan, they are intended to show that pyongyang can strike the u.s. territory of guam and others and will ripley is "outfront" on the phone from tokyo who just -- will, you have woken up this morning, just back from your 15th trip to pyongyang. this missile test close to japan. obviously intended to threaten japan. how significant is it? >> it is very significant. and i flew out of the pyongyang airport and the airport area is where north korea is believed to

have launched this latest missile. so we were flying out of the airport yesterday and very likely missile preparations are under way. and over japan they are sending a number of messages, that they can launch from highly populated areas and by sending it over hokkaido. and they are warning them to seek shelter and you'll have to forgive the traffic noise and you also have potentially air raid sirens. it's a really frightening scenario for japanese citizens who once again have to face the possibility of north korean missiles threatening them and that's why you see for the first time since world war ii people have missile drills. children are going to school, being told what to do in the

event of a nuclear attack. this is not the kind of return to history that japan ever expected but that's the new reality. >> were there any signs the launch was imminent? you've gotten to know the signs. >> so we flew in last week and at that point, south korean intelligence indicated missile launch preparations were under way and possibly at the pea young ya pyongyang airport. however, when it was to take place, the fog was so thick, there was zero visibility. we knew if there was a launch scheduled for pyongyang and activity detected hours earlier, the fog would have stopped the launch. you can launch a missile in the fog but then your propaganda

camera won't capture it or release the footage. and so we knew at that point that they were going to wait. there was also a major hurricane bearing down on the united states which wouldn't have given the launch as much attention as it would get right now and so these launches are about military strategy and about sending a political message and perhaps that's why -- one of the reasons why we've seen the timing that has changed to today. >> will ripley, thank you very much. jeff zeleny is at the white house and we are, of course, awaiting the response. has the president said anything? >> reporter: we are indeed, erin. the president is holding an event at the white house. reporters are going in momentarily. so far the white house has not responded and they are trying to gather information on the ground there. we know by talking to officials

throughout the day and indeed throughout the week, this is the biggest foreign policy issue that the president is dealing with. and when he was flying back to washington late today from a visit to florida to see all of the hurricane damage, he was asked about north korea. this is what he said. >> we are working on different things. i can't tell you what i'm working on but believe me the people of this country will be very, very safe. >> reporter: when you talk to officials here, they say the president is considering military options and it was just a little over a month ago when he was talking about that north korea would experience fire and fury unlike the world has ever seen. since then, he's dialed back the rhetoric but there are options on the table that the president has looked at. there's still a feeling here and indeed around the state department and across washington that diplomacy is a better answer here. but the president, of course, this will be front and center

next week when he makes his first address to the united nations general assembly on tuesday meeting with the japanese prime minister and others. there are no good solutions here. he is the third president in a row to deal with this. we'll see if he talks about it tonight. erin? >> thank you very much, jeff zeleny. as jeff said, reporters are going in right now. trying to get a comment from him in response to this launch. i want to go now to gordon chang, author. what do you know at this point about this missile, which, just to be clear here, when you look at the mileage, as we were talking to jim sciutto, certainly would, again, show that north korea could strike guam when you look at the miles, 2300 miles was the range here. >> the other thing is, we don't know if north koreans shortened the burn. they had a missile with much

longer range but decided not to show us the full range of the missile. so there is a lot that we don't know. i think that after the analysis, we will figure out a few things but the really important thing is that this is a political message as well. they just had the security council sanctions. the north koreans were especially defiant by arcing it over hokkaido. so they are saying, we can't be stopped. don't even try to stop us. >> colonel layton, in just the past 17 days, you've had three tests, two missiles. in just 17 days. why so much in such a short span of time? >> well, erin, that's one of the big mysteries that people are looking at but my view on it is this. they have the opportunity and a window to get attention on themselves and have an opportunity to really showcase their capabilities. what they want to do is tell us

how fast they are developing this and want to scare us and make sure that we are responding to them and a seat at the table. so this is an effort to get us to put them on the table where we're equal partners. >> here on this issue, the president obviously said he'd never do that, as has every american president, although north korea has marched successfully forward. jeff zeleny played it but i want to play more. he said he has plenty of options. >> i can't tell you obviously what i'm working on but, believe me, the people of this country will be very, very safe. >> believe me, this country will be very, very safe. colonel, how does he keep this promise without military action? >> it becomes really difficult. but it depends on what the north koreans do. so if the north koreans are going to throw missiles into the

air and throw them off the japanese coast, that's one thing. but if they actually threaten guam or if they actually threaten u.s. installations, such as the air base on the northern part of the island of honchu or the bases on okinawa in the southern part of japan, that becomes another issue and when that occurs, then he's going to have almost no choice but to use some form of military action and, of course, i'm sure that is what they are looking@thlooking at at this point in time. >> the president has maybe tamped it back a little bit but he put his position on the line and put it out there loud and clearly, if north korea threatens the united states, it's game over. here he is in his own words. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never

seen. >> three weapons test since then, including that nuclear test. that's a threat. today. north korea saying, quote, let's reduce the united states mainland into ashes and darkness. that is a threat. how does the president get out of this situation? he said fire and fury like they've never seen and he's done nothing. >> we've gone past words. what the united states needs to do is call an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council, submit a resolution, say we're not going to negotiate it. let the chinese and russians veto it if they want but we cannot allow them to sell these missiles to the iranians as they have in the past or sell chemical weapons to the syrians. although it's unfortunate, i believe this type of military action is necessary to protect the rest of the world.

>> thank you both very much. hardly stopping the program. "outfront" next, breaking news on president trump stirring up his remarks about neo-nazis. why is he reviving the both sides argument? plus, more breaking news. the president's humiliating takedown of jeff sessions. new reporting tonight about the meeting in which trump allegedly called the attorney general to his face an idiot and demanded his resignation. and will trump's base turn on him for doing a deal with democrats on an immigration deal without a border wall? republican steve king, one of the most vocal critics of that deal, is "outfront." with 33 individual vertebrae and 640 muscles in the human body no two of us are alike. life made more effortless through adaptability.

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because of what has happened since then with anti-fa, you look at what has happened since charlottesville, a lot of people are saying -- in fact, a lot of people have written, gee, trump might have a point. i said you got some very bad people on the other side, which is true. >> that's how he discusses it. you'll remember, there was widespread condemnation after the president first made that remark blaming both sides after charlottesville. after today's comment, senator scott, cnn caught up with him and here's what he said. that's who he is. it's who he has been. i didn't go in there, referring to his meeting with the president, to change who he was. i wanted to inform and educate a different perspective. i think we accomplished that and to assume immediately there after he's going to have an ee gi p epiphany is just unrealistic.

ben ferguson is a conservative radio host and trump supporter. thanks to both. simone, let's start with you. you heard the president. he says a lot of people have come out and said, gee, trump might have a point about blaming both sides. there's bad people on both sides and good people on both sides. does he have a point? >> no. and i would like to know what article the president is reading. the fact of the matter is, one side is white supremacist. the other side is not. i don't ever want to be on the side of white supremacy. i feel as though the president is saying this because he truly believes it deep down in his soul, in his heart of hearts. so it should not be out of the ordinary, if you will, for folks like jemele hill over at espn or even myself who says the president is a white supremacist because he seems to sympathize with white supremacists. >> ben, senator scott was certainly diplomatic in his

response. he made it pretty clear, it's who he is and who he has been. i didn't go in there to change who he was. that's quite the remark coming from the lone black senator. >> he also said that the president did a lot of listening during that half hour meeting and really seemed to understand the context of the long issues that we've had with white supremacy -- >> but then he got on air force one and the sound bite we just played where he said people are agreeing with me was said after the meeting. >> there are people -- right. and i'm fine with that. but let's also be clear about what the president said today. it's undeniable that there are people in anti-fa that have been violent and broken laws and gone after statues that have broken the law. there are some people in anti-fa that are bad people. the president should be able to say that and not have to worry that someone is going to scream, you're a racist because he's willing to have an honest conversation about what's going on in the streets in america

right now in 2017. he's making comments about what we're seeing in realtime and you cannot tell me that anti-fa is not out there. some of the people in anti-fa being incredibly violent, incredibly an ttagonistic and wanting to have a race war in this country. look at their tweets. they are trying to stir up things in this country, some of them, and we should be able to have a conversation about that in realtime. >> we cannot equate anyone with white supremacist. i'm sorry. >> i'm not equating. >> yes. to say that there are bad people on both sides and to -- >> by the way, he said there are good people on both sides, which is rather problematic on the issue of white supremacist, isn't it? >> there are some people that

are anti-fa that are good people. >> so you disagree with the president? >> of course i disagree with the president there. my point is, when you look at what is happening on the streets in 2017, it should not be off limits to have an honest conversation about what is actually happening and there are bad people that are out there in anti-fa that are causing problems. >> no, it's disingenuous for anyone, especially the president of the united states, to suggest that anti-fa is some way, shape or form as bad as white supremacy. do i condone violence? absolutely not. there's only one side calling for the cleansing of america of a certain type of people. that's the white supremacist side. there's only one side talking about blood and soil. anti-fa is not out there talking about it. >> simone, i'm not disagreeing with you. >> you're saying that it's okay and it's not okay to talk about it like that. it's not. >> no. what i'm saying is this.

it should be okay to have a real conversation -- >> but it's not. >> -- without being politically correct about the violence that is in anti-fa. it's insane to act like it's not happening. you're pushing a narrative if you refuse to accept the fact that anti-fa has become violent. >> wait, no one is saying -- >> simone, you did accept that there are people in anti-fa that -- >> she did. >> i don't condone violence. i absolutely understand that there are spaces and places and people who participate in the anti-fa movement that are violent and i don't condone violence. what i'm not okay with and what i would hope no one who would step foot on this network would be okay equating white supremacy with anything else or saying that we don't have to be politically correct in this moment. when it comes to white subpoe supremacists and what is happening, in 2017, black and brown people are being shot in the street. in 2017, you can get in more

trouble for calling the president a white supremacist than gunning down a young person of color. >> that's just not true. >> it's absolutely true. >> no, it's not true. she didn't lose her job at espn. she did not lose her job. >> hold on. i said you could get in more trouble. >> how did she get in more trouble? >> look, it's very dangerous for folks to group white supremacy with just being politically correct. >> simone, simone -- >> can i ask you a question before we go? >> sure. >> what the president just told tim scott, words that i won't use on this program, tim scott said he was pleasantly surprised that the president was thinking about what might have been a better frame for his comments. and then the president gets on the airplane and says, everyone is agreeing with me, they are writing things to agree with me, there's bad people on both sides. is he telling tim scott to --

>> look, when you're the president, you get asked a question on the plane about a meeting and you say there's a lot of people that look at anti-fa and say they are part fd . >> you can agree or disagree, but that's what he said. he didn't say it was a good meeting. the guy had a lot to say. that's not what he said. >> erin, i've said this from the very beginning, if i was president of the united states of america, i would not have said it that way. i also think what he was referring to today is the reality that we should be able to have a conversation about what is happening in realtime on the streets and on social media and what people are actually seeing. you cannot bring up -- hold on. simone, simone, to say that you cannot bring up -- >> quickly finish, please. >> what you're saying is that you can never talk or say anything negative about any group if they were next to white

supremacists. that's unrealistic. >> thank you both. we'll leave it there. i appreciate your time. i know we're going to be talking about this a lot more. next, more breaking news on the attorney general jeff sessions. apparently tendered his resignation to the president because the president called him an idiot and told him to resign. it's a shocking new report and conservatives are outraged over trump changing positions on immigration and the wall. and they are not too happy about this either. the democrat, chuck schumer, caught on open mike. >> he likes us. he likes me, anyway. winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, i've taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a minute. whole wheat waffles? [ crying ] why!

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jeff sessions that he wanted him out, he should resign, after robert mueller was named the special counsel for the russia investigation. this is according to a report tonight in "the new york times." it's also reported that he berated jeff sessions including calling him an idiot. and that sessions then sent a resignation letter to the white house after the meeting. he told associates that the episode was the most humiliating experience of his entire public career and yet he still works there. "the times" reports that trump rejected the resignation because his staff convinced him that it could hurt him. jessica schneider is "outfront." is the president tonight, the white house, saying anything about this shocking report in the new york sometimes? >> reporter: erin, the president himself waving off the report, denying that he asked jeff sessions to resign but we know that the president has expressed

his dissatisfaction with the attorney general in the past and tweeting that jeff sessions was, quote, beleaguered and "the times" today laying out the new details that the president unleashed a string of criticism calling him an idiot and the same day that special counsel robert mueller would be taking over the investigation and that sessions told the president he would step down and even sent a resignation to the president that was ultimately not accepted. well, today president trump, when asked about it, said this. >> did you ask jeff sessions to resign? >> did i what?

>> so the president waving on the rauf theeport there. the white house itself not commenting. neither is the justice department and they are saying that the president never did -- the president never asked the attorney general to resign. of course, it's been several months since the president allegedly asked sessions to step down. it was may, according to "the times" and just this past weekend, jeff sessions characterized his relationship with the president as, quote, great, when he was interviewed at fema's headquarters and said we're having a great i am too. really, it's unclear if this latest report might drudge up old wounds. >> if your boss calls you an idiot, i don't know how that becomes an old wound. joining me now is chris cillizza

and calling him an idiot and telling him to resign and yet they still work together. >> it's somewhat remarkable but i think it's not a close ally of mitch mcconnell. he was plucked from security by donald trump largely because of his views on immigration aligned with donald trump. he was behind trump and trump awarded him with an attorney general job and i think he is coming to weather this stuff and can get things done and he has,

yes, on daca of late, the president appears to be breaking his position but he's done a lot more as attorney general than as a relatively obscure senator from alabama. so i think that's how jeff sessions looks at things and i wouldn't want to be called that by my boss, but -- >> sessions was so humiliated that he actually sent a resignation letter to the president. that's pretty stunning. how significant is that? >> it's stunning and it's extremely rare and there are two words to describe jeff sessions. and those two words are attorney general, which he still is, and he gets to undo the work of eric holder and loretta lynch on voting rights. he needs to make sure that our criminal sentences are long as they need to be. he gets to increase ass

asset forfeiture. he's an attorney general who got yelled at but he's still an attorney general and that's a heck of a good job. >> i guess that's true. you know, sessions -- i hear you but he seems to be on a run to do trump's bidding now more than ever, right? he was the one. the president didn't want to announce that daca was ending the popular program. no. he sends jeff sessions out. he takes the public shaming for doing it and when asked how he feels about it, here's what he says about his boss. >> how is your relationship with the president these days? >> he is great. we had a good time with him yesterday and his positive leadership just comes through. we have a great time. >> jeffrey, does the man have no pride? >> well, look, he's a subordinate. i think anyone who works for the president in any administration recognizes that they work for the president and you can either

be a loyal supporter or you can leave. i think one reason why so many people in the trump administration are mad at gary cohn, the economic adviser, he's trying to have it both ways. he's trying to criticize donald trump for his behavior after charlottesville and he's also saying i still want to work for him. frankly, you're in or out and jeff sessions is all in. >> and look, the president gets what he wants out of him. before you had sessions stand up to him. now he sits there and just does whatever he says, it seems, without question. and the other thing, chris, is this part of trump's lashing out? right? sessions, then chief of staff john kelly, lashing out at him after a rally and somebody there told "the times" that kelly has never been spoken to the way the president spoke to him in 35 years of serving his country. and that in the future he would

not tolerate such treatment. he's still there right now but will he be? >> again, i struggle to think that general kelly did not know that donald trump had some, at times the volcanic temper. the voters know this, too. they thought donald trump had the right temperament to be president. the other two-thirds who didn't think they had the president, one in five of those people voted for him anyway. this is the remarkable thing about donald trump. in march, he's angry at the chaos being portrayed in the white house. he jumps on twitter early that morning and accuses president obama of wiretapping trump tower during the 2016 election. there's no evidence of it. ruddy, his personal friend, said he's never seen him angrier. there are a lot of things that happened during his campaign all the way through this white house

that are driven by his temper and by his -- frankly, he's unwilling to take blame for things that he does. >> absolutely. jeffrey, it does seem that he gets what he wants. jeff sessions gets to keep that job and he takes great pride in that job but the president has a guy now who will do whatever he wants without asking questions. with the daca announcement, and then he's not standing up against russia. >> he's gone from that. that's what donald trump is really angry about, is that, you know, donald trump can control what he can control. what he can't control is the mueller investigation and you see over and over again his rage about that, the fact that sessions recusal set in motion the process that created the mueller investigation and the mueller investigation, which is aimed at such vulnerable points in trump's background. you know, how he handles his

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would not fund the border wall.

>> my relationship with the republicans is excellent. many of them agree with what i'm doing. >> well, not all of them agree. including some really important ones and really vocal trump base supporters. breitbart news, run by the former strategist steve bannon, running multiple angry headlines like these, amnesty don, trump getting rolled, daca deal, a nightmare and steve king tweeted, if this deal becomes reality, "trump base is blown up, destroyed irreparable and disillusioned beyond repair. no promise is credible." "outfront" tonight, republican congressman steve king. thank you for being here. i know you're angry about the deal. the president is working on it with the democrats. how come? >> well, at first because we've worked this immigration policy for a long time and helped lay the plancks in for the platform which is president trump's platform, the platform that he owned on january 20th when he

swore into office and our expectation was that daca would be ended then and that at a minimum there might not be a notice but they would stop issuing new permits. we found out some weeks later that they were issuing new permits and now we find out that the president has said, well, i'm going to end it in six months but i want to throw the cat into the kennel, so to speak, and you all in congress can fight over it for six months and if i don't like the results, then i might change it or extend it or end it. >> although, congressman, when you talk about your frustration about immigration, part of this is the wall, right? and it seems like that could be completely changing. i mean, at the very least, the very least, congressman, his time frame for a wall seems to have changed. here he is. >> on day one, we will begin working on a tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. >> i would say i'm certainly planning to start immediately.

>> the wall will come later. >> you heard it. big, beautiful wall. and then today, it's going to come later and now it's about a renovation. is the wall ever going to happen? >> we were going to have the rolls royce of a big, beautiful wall. the first section of that is inspiring to me to hear that, erin. the second part kind of says that the rolls royce is going to be an overhauled gilapi. there was a time when i made concession to that and it could mean a fence, could mean vibration sensors or infrared cameras and could be drones or a balloon. the president articulated it beautifully. the cheapest thing we can do is build that wall and build the support mechanisms and the technology on it and around it and man it and maintain it.

>> he has frustrated you, he has frustrated others, including conservative commentator ann coulter who tweeted -- and by the way, she was once a big trump supporter, as were you. she said, at this point, who doesn't want trump impeached? she was responding to the president's tweet about daca in which he said they've been in our country for many years through no fault of their own brought in by their parents at a young age. he was tweeting about this and the issues are related, daca and the wall. she said, who doesn't want trump impeached. do you agree? >> i don't want the president impeached but ann has a unique way of making her point with the sharpness of a razor and i really do, i appreciate the way she makes her point and there's not any justification for that. democrats come out with that shortly after the president was

elected. the president can change his mind. it's not unconstitutional for a president to change his mind and it's up to us to weigh in on this and he'd have to convince all of congress. i have to stand on the principle that i've always stood on. >> are you saying that he's changed his mind on the wall and that you, steve king, would be open to that? sort of sounds like that's what you're saying. >> i actually don't think the president has changed his mind on the wall but he is telegraphed a diminishment of the resolve that we saw and that you ran on the tape and i want to see that resolve restored and i want to go on record i believe we get a wall built but in there's amnesty delivered into this package, then i don't know that any candidate could run for president again and make a promise and expect the people to accept that promise at face value. >> right. so he'd lose? he'd lose re-election over the wall? that's what you're saying? >> i think to be re-elected in

2020, it would be very difficult for the president if amnesty goes with daca and if a wall is not at least under robust construction by then. plus, it puts the majority in the house and senate in re-election in 2018 in the >> thank you. glad to do it. >> and new tonight, president standing by his treasury secretary, dwentding steve mnuchin after using jet for european honeymoon. >> i doubt he would do it, i've known him a very long time. he's a very honorable man. >> looking into his travel. every single use of government plane and request for government aircraft. sometimes you request and don't get it.

out front. >> reporter: independent treasury department inspector general's inquiry into steve mnuchin's travel following allegations he asked to use a government jet for honeymoon. ultimately withdrew the request. >> government never paid for my personal travel. >> reporter: pushed back today, insisting staff wanted it for him to do job on honeymoon. >> put in request, not so much for flying but a portable office so i could be available. and ultimate -- we withdrew the request, found a way of dealing with secure communication and were through it. nothing to do with convenience, purely national security. >> reporter: democrats aren't buying the explanation. >> you have to wonder where

their ethical compass is. secretary had problems with financial disclosures to the committee with his nomination. then problems with the ellipse. now this. >> reporter: not first time taxpayers funded travel has raised eyeballs. reviewing noouchin's trip to kentucky with his wife. insulted mother of three on instagram after criticized her for attacking high end designers whose clothing she was wearing. she later deleted the photo from instagram and apologized, treasury department insisting she would pay back. cost of the trip to determine if real purpose for a better view of solar eclipse and not official business at for the knox. not just travel dogging mnuchin,

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appointments available now. breaking news, frustration growing four days after hurricane irma, millions of floridians suffering through one of the biggest blackouts in american history. no power, no air conditioning, many suffering from shortages of food and water. today president trump meeting with emergency responders in florida thanking them. work of course is far from done, especially hardest hit communities. ryan young is outside of one of them. how bad is it where you are? >> reporter: another tough day here. almost 90% of the people here without power at one point. temperatures around 90 degrees, feels like over 100. desperate for power for ac and gas. >> follow that car. >> it's just hot. miserable for everybody.

>> reporter: for the fourth straight day, county residents facing sweltering florida heat without power. >> 100 in the house. it's high. very hot. >> reporter: what's it been like? >> hell, especially my canids. one of my daughters has heat rash all over. >> reporter: residents swarm the handful of gas stations with power. sheriff's deputies on hand to keep tensions at bay. >> also own a business, can't open it up, no power. missing inventory. >> reporter: hylands was blindsided when irma made a shift inland, delivering a painful blow to the county and critically damaging the power grid. 76% of the area's nearly 100,000 residents still without power tonight. >> storm passed, 99% without power, a stragering number.

>> reporter: a small number of utility crews from states as far away as texas working to restore power. governor scott giving a sobering look at damage. >> second hardest hit out of the entire state, 67. >> reporter: power restored to the two hospitals but majority of the county warned that electricity won't return until sunday. leaving many concerned about the area's large senior population. >> ice is our biggest need in the county along with gasoline. been several days in 90s plus heat. don't have air conditioning, majority of them. >> reporter: and residents remain hopeful that goal will be met this weekend, many have doubts. >> yeah, we're not getting power for a while. >> reporter: two big things right now, one, just starting to rain. will cool things off. happy to see that. also learned in last half hour

that two substations just came back online, provide power to 4,000 to 5,000 people. workers plan on working through the night. erin? >> thanks so much. thanks for joining us, anderson starts right now. good evening, begin with breaking news, another missile launch by north korea, intermediate ballistic missile that landed in pacific ocean. passed over northern japan. president trump has been briefed. joining us from seoul, south korea, what is the latest? >> south korean military announced the launch around 7:00 a.m. local time east over the japanese island of hokkaido. nobody hurt, no damage reported. seco