wild waves slam the east coast. >> there are homes right now under several feet of water. >> tonight is not the night to check out the storm. dozens of residents are being rescued from their homes 37. >> scary. we're lucky. it is just things that will get lost. >> john kelly revives the porter scandal and says he won't resign over it. >> seems to be a feeding frenzy inside the west wing. everybody is shooting at everybody. >> i served under six administrations, i've never seen such chaos. >> if they want to call it cares on kays on, fine. but we call it success. >> the president is facing growing criticism over the tariffs announced. >> on an average car, the actual impact will be a fwraraction ofe percent. >> we're seeing a lot of good things happening.

8:00 on a saturday morning and we're glad you are with us. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm martin savidge. >> and we're really watching the people across the northeast because nethey will start to survey some of the damage after the bomb cyclone just unleashed a vee severe winds knocking down trees, some homes are destroyed. but the wind threat is still very much alive. we know five people have died as a result of this storm so far. and there is torrential rain from the storm that is causing some widespread flooding now. we know also that the third wave so to speak of this storm is yet to come. >> and on top of that, the violent winds which are still

blowing tore down several hundred power lines. more than 1 million people are without power and that is extending from virginia to new england. massachusetts seeing the worst of it with hornmore than 400,00 without electricity. and there are states of emergency in virginia and maryland. we have a team of reporters and meteorologists that are covering this very dangerous storm. so let's begin live in quinn cy massachusetts south of boston. ryan, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: we're not dealing with the heavy rain that we had yesterday but the wind is still here pushing us all around. not as strong as yesterday because we had wind gusts above 70 miles per hour. but what we're starting to see is some of the damage that has been left behind. don't forget more than 70 people were just evacuated just from this area alone. but we look back this direction, you can see some of the damage that was left by the strong moving storm that came here dumping tons of water pushing the sea water into the streets.

we just talked to a woman who lives about three houses down about trying to get out of here and making turns down every street and all she was faced with was water. coastal communities in massachusetts pounded by monster waves. high tide sent water rolling down streets and into homes. in quincy, dozens of residents had to be rescued by trucks and scooped up by front loaders. christine was one of those getting a ride out of danger. >> kind of scary because we were the ones standing up and having to hold on. but, yeah, we're lucky. just things that will get lost. >> reporter: storm conditions are expected to improve on saturday. but the wind is still a factor, so is coastal flooding. near portland, be maine, storm surge left this home teetering on the edge of the ocean. >> the plan is to lift it and move it back a little bit i

believe. but it is a lot of things that have to happen before that happens. so we're just trying to keep it from going anywhere about that. >> you feel bad for the people, but that comes with having a house on the water. ocean winds, you lose. >> reporter: another issue is power outages. in watertown, high winds made power lines fall bike dlike dom. >> traffic lights out all over and they isolated the area, had them put the circuit off. >> reporter: one woman says her son is lucky to be alive, he was sit management back seting in t car when the tree came crashing down. >> the house shook and we heard a noise. we didn't know what it was. we ran out, my son was still in the car with the tree on top of it. >> reporter: so we just went up to the dunkin donuts where a lot

of people were having a conversation because some people have not been able to make it back to their homes just yet, so they haven't found out the extent of damage they will face. this will be long day as the independent withes continue to howl through here where people see what they have left. back to you. >> brian young, thank you swrech for t very much for that. >> and polo sandoval is in boston. and there is more coastal flooding expected with the high tide in a few hours. what are you hearing and seeing thus far and are they ready for the third round? >> reporter: a very big difference too especially when you compare to last night when we had the wind, when we had the rain and we had that high tide. if you look around me, this is a popular spot here looking over the boston harbor, the wet cement marks where the my tide moved in overnight. and three are three high tide events that officials worried about, the worst one already

happened last night. however, officials are certainly still keeping an eye on the water as it is still expected to continue to rise into this afternoon. but at this point, looking around downtown boston, it certainly doesn't seem like there was any major damage to report with that water. but it didn't mean that authorities aren't keeping their guard up. plenty of businesses are is s d sandbagged. but we have seen no shortage of people out and about checking things out as far as boston, it seems like things are slowly getting back to normal. i can see the airport from here, some flights are taking off and people are certainly out and about at this hour at least here in boston. very different from what you might find a short drive away. >> no doubt about it. and real quickly, we know that there are more than a million people who do not have power. any folks in boston experiencing that? >> yeah, boston at least not in the city itself, we never lost power here at all. even though we thought we would especially with the whipping winds last night. so at this point we haven't seen

any major power outages in and around boston. we're certainly looking into that. but authorities have said that it is really the communities outside that had some of thoof that were broken that are in the dark this morning. they are hoping that this break in the clouds believe it or not, i'm seeing some blue sky at this hour, will allow these crews to finally get in those communities and get those people back up and running again. >> polo apparently drew a lucky straw. we're glad that it is not that situation for you and everybody there. thank you both so much. joining us now is allison chinchar live in the cnn severe weather center. and do me a favor. explain what is a bomb cyclone and is this a hurricane or not a hurricane? >> so i want you to understand that you asked about a lurk. there are a lot more similarities than there are differences. the biggest thing is this is a cold core low. the center of the actual low is more cold based where a hurricane is a warm core.

that will be your business difference. but they have a lot more similarities. there are strong wind gusts exceeding 74 miles an hour. look at some of the wind gusts we had. around nantucket, 90 miles an hour. scituate, 80 miles an hour. even boston proper picking up 70 plrn miles an ho mile-per-hour winds. we call it the bomb cyclone, this refers to bombogenesis, this is when the storm drops at least 24 millibars of pressure in 24 hours. this one crwoone dropped about millibars. that means that it underwent a rapid intense if- intense if i . this is now offshore, but we will likely see impacts for the next 24 hours.if i indication. this is now offshore, but we will likely see impacts for the next 24 hours. we talked about high tide coming in at noon. so that means a lot of coastal

flooding will come back in. the record tide for boston harbor is 15.16 feet. we expect this one to be about 14.1 feet. i want to emphasize for you, that will still crack the top five for biggest high tides for that area. so you are still likely to have a lot of those roadways under water. >> all right. allison chinchar, thank you so much. and we need to point out as ryan young was saying, some people still can't get back to their homes. part of that might be because they don't have their cars. there are cars submerged by the floodwaters and in some cases the drivers were trapped inside. >> john atwater from wccb shows us the dramatic rescues that have been taking place. >> reporter: entire families were plucked from the floodwaters. >> very grateful. >> reporter: the end of a terrifying attempt to ride out a monster storm. >> very scary. worst one ever. >> reporter: national guard troops rescued dozens of people.

their video shows crews in waist deep water going door to door to grab families who did not evacuate. many basements are full 6 water and without heat or electricity. >> furnace is gone. basement has a foot of water. >> reporter: flooding was just one concern for first responders as high winds ripped apart fences, brought down trees and sparked fires as power lines snapped. and 24 ththis is just round one. >> horrific. but we're okay. we're okay. that is all that matters. >> she has the right attitude. thanks for john atwater for that reporting. want to talk about the suspect in a shooting at central michigan university where two people died. that suspect you see on your screen is now in custody. cmu police were able to arrest james eric davis jr. this morning for allegedly shooting

his parents when they came to pick him up for spring break. >> scott mcclain is live in mt. pleasant, michigan for us. and scott, what more are we learning about the suspect here? sounds like an awful crime. >> reporter: yeah, so this suspect put this campus on lockdown yesterday. students were forced to stay inside the buildings with the doors locked, the blinds drawn after shots were fired on the four floor of this residence building on campus. it was several hours until police were able to safely evacuate people from those buildings. and it was more than 12 hours until police actually am pr pre-behinded the suspect, james eric davis jr. he is a 19-year-old student that the college. and what makes the case bizarre is that it appears that he actually didn't get very far from the residence building. someone passing by on a train through the north end of campus spotted him and alerted police. north end of campus by the way is just down these train tracks.

so you truly did not get far. he was arrested without incident. he is accused of killing his parents who were in town from the chicago area apparently to take their son home for the spring break. what happened, what went wrong here? that is still very much an open on question. but we do know that police did have contact with this young young man on thursday night. and he was taken to the hospital for app lirarently a drug overd. people in his hometown are calling his parents really pillars of the community. police here meanwhile have said very little, but there is a press conference scheduled in just over two hours from now. >> maybe we'll learn are more then. thank you very much. a new report claiming the donald trump team deal with a porn star prior to the election almost fell through. why stormy daniels nearly came forward the report says with her allegations of an affair with

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deadline for playing their clicht, but ten days later she received a payment of $130,000 and the story stayed under wraps under earlier this year. >> so this report obviously just the latest chapter in what has been a long complicated week for the trump administration. boris sanchez is traveling with the president in florida. so we've had international blowback on this trade deal, the guns, staff shakeup and john shkreli facikel kelly facing cr. when will we hear from the president on all of this? >> reporter: yeah, the president now weighing in on the latest comments from john kelly, but we have heard from sources in the white house who tell us that they are puzzled by what the chief of staff told reporters yesterday, stunned in the words of another source. one source actually telling us that they do not believe that the chief of staff was telling the truth. it all stems from an off the record meeting that john kelly had with reporters yesterday,

portions of which were put on the record specifically portions detailing what he knew and when he knew it regarding domestic abuse allegations against former staff secretary rob porter. the chief of staff tried to make the case that the same day that he learned about the allegations against rob porter, that he was physically and emotionally abuse suffer of two of his ex-wives, that he then secured a resignation from porter. that goes against the time line. it contradicts what we know about this story because it wasn't until 24 hours later the next day that the white house put out a statement defending rob porter saying that the pr president and chief of staff had full confidence in him. further it contradicts what sources have been telling us that the fbi provided the chief of staff and white house counsel with documentation that detailed some of the allegations against porter. kelly defended himself to reporters saying in part, quo ,

quote -- i don't have the statement with me. i apologize. but essentially he said that he had done nothing that would require him to resign over the rob porter scandal. and it becomes just one of an additional number of controversies around the white house this week. sources have told thaws they are not worried when the president that he may lose control in part because he has been lashing out at staffers during the week. certainly something to keep an eye on. >> boris, thanks very much for that. cnn national security analyst is with us. sam, first let's talk about this reporting from boris about john kelly and what the consequences for this administration. a lot of people wondering why would he bring back up the issue of porter. >> i really don't know because these inconsistencies are deeply concerning and that is why we

need independent oversight mechanisms to kick into look at what happened. and the senate intelligence committee in fact is holding a hearing on this issue next week. while they do that, i think the salient point here is that we shouldn't want national security-wise anybody with a secret level clearance working at the white house on key national security issues right now. because the fact is, the information that they are able to access at a secret level is just a drop in the bucket. and i can guarantee that russian officials at the kremlin aren't working with limited access. when someone like jared kushner says that he is now preparing for a meeting with the israelis for example, if the system is being enforced, he probablies th has access to almost none of the intelligence that is needed to get ready for his meeting. so he is starting out with a handicap and from a national security perspective, we would want to send in all of our officials with all of the information that they need to do

their jobs. >> there is something that -- i'm stunned by what you said. but let me bring up john kelly again because he's had mitt that the white house has had issues when it comes to the security clearances. that is stunning to me. staunding that it is coming from him because he should know about all of this. >> he certainly should. and i worked for four chiefs of staff. and at the end of the day as chief of staff, you are responsible for your staff. even jared kushner. and so i think in a kethat kell faced with a decision of how does he get the process back on the rails and make clear that as chief of staff he will enforce this new system and frankly that he will take responsible for the fact that there were systemic abuses of the security clearance system and that the new rules need to be applied and need to be enforced. >> so i want to talk to you about the report in the "new york times" that says that the president asked john kelly to help the president force his daughter and jared kushner out of the white house.

do you get a sense that if that happened maybe he was trying to protect jared kushner in some way? >> i think that this story sounds a little odd frankly. and as much as i may prefer that jared kushner no longer work on national security, it does sound odd to me. i do think that it is important for john kelly to really do his job, that again he is the chief of staff of all of his staff. and not everybody but jared kushner. and that is why it is really important that he enforces all of these rules throughout the course of the day. look, jared kushner apparently no longer has access to the presidential daily briefing. but there is still going to be multiple points in the day when jared kushner could be around top secret intelligence including when he is speaking with his father-in-law. and john kelly needs to make sure that jared kushner does not have any kind of access to top secret intelligence just like everybody else at the white

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their own tariffs on major brands like le vichltvi, harley-davidson and bourbon whiskey. and china could also decide to hit back. >> john defterios is with us now as well as matt rivers who is live in beijing. john, i want to tart wistart wi. markets did not reacts well to this news. >> reporter: no, in fact as you know, the word trade war was rarely used before the trump administration took over the white house. that has certainly changed in the last 48 hours. particularly the rhetoric between u.s. and europe, the trance at lakity te planity tie. the comments from juncker suggesting that europe will not stand on the sidelines and singling out three categories, harley-davidson, whiskey, and even blue jeans. but listen to the tone of his

language that he used in a speech in hamburg, germany overnight. >> translator: the european union will have to take a stand against this plan because we cannot just stand aside and watch how for some reason the industrial dislocation in europe will be marginalized and tens of thousands of jobs are lost in europe. and europe needs to defend itself against there and we will defend ourselves. >> reporter: and there is a new list being drafted up on monday that will cover u.s. farm products and striindustrial pro and steel ironically. as you you bou you you both kno trump has targeted the world trade organization in the past with 164 countries. the director general suggests that the u.s. should be careful, that retaliation in his words are for real. but if seems like president trump is trying to serve two different audiences. the blue collar workersif seemsp

is trying to serve two different audiences. the blue collar workers and he's also gauged his success on the response on wall street. wall street does not like language like trade war. so it is very difficult for the president going forward to try to balance the two. he has had the support of both until he's announced these trade measures. >> john defterios, thanks very much. matt, we've lettered tperiod thm europe. what is the view from china? >> reporter: well, they are not really in favor of this, they came out pretty strongly against it. the xwhoechlgovernment releasin statement san diego hurts global trade. but also the chinese response has been relatively measured because aluminum and steel are not two of china's exports that it relies on for a healthy economy here. they send all kinds of stuff to the united states. everything from bedroom furniture to toys, sports equipment, and that stuff is way more important to the chinese economy than aluminum and steel. so if one of the goals of these tariffs by the trump administration would be to hurt

the chinese economy, this isn't going to do that. and i think you are seeing the chinese respond in kind in that similar fashion. however, we're looking forward though if this is the start, the signal to a heard line trade poli harder line trade policy, the chinese government can do a lot to hurt u.s. industry that relies on market access here. think boeing, apple, cisco, the soy industry supports tense s thousands of jobs. if the chinese government want to hurt the u.s. economically, they can do so. but we haven't see it yet. >> all right. thank you both gentlemen for joining us this morning. president trump and his commerce secretary a felg lfellow bill ye their says the trade war is nothing to fear. >> take a look. >> there is only about 3 cents

worth of steel or aluminum in this case happens to be aluminum in to begin with. so if that goes up 10%, you are talking a fraction of a penny. these products sell for over a dollar in the store. so it is nonsense to say that there is a great tragedy looming. >> joining us now is global economic analyst. rana, he has to work with his technique there with the can. it didn't really fill me with a whole sense of confidence here that this is not going to hurt me as a consumer. and i'm wondering what is the rest of america thinking? >> well, it has already hurt you. look at the market drop off the back of this tariff news. the idea of the tariffs which frankly i think the president was sort of shooting from his hip a little bit here, i'm not even sure thatsome of his top

advisers flu in w s knew this . it has already had a major impact on the stock market knocking about 400 billion or so off the market cap of any number of firms. yeah, the price of u.s. steel went up, but steel jobs have been declining in this country even before any concerns about chinese dumping. that is about technology replacing jobs. it is really not about china. and mats was rigt was right, ch experorts less than 1% of their steel and aluminum to the u.s. this nts would hurt thewon't hu. but a trade war would hurt everyone in the form of raising prices. and steel is used in a lot of things besides coke cans. it is used in cars and every kind of consumer good. steel and aluminum are all around us. and sos effect on the u.s.

supply chain is going to be much more significant than the administration is playing up. and then there is one more effect which we shouldn't downgrade. and that is if you start to see price inflation on things like manufactured goods that use these products, that could make the fed have to hike rates sooner than it would like and that would cause everybody's debt to get more expensive, it could also cause bigger correction in the stock market. >> so with that said, give us the best and worst scenario for the middle class consumer. >> so the best scenario is that we find out on monday that this is a lot of uberous, maybe the president backs down and there are many ways that a tariff if it was implemented could be implemented. it could be targeted on certain countries. we can hope that it wasn't a blanket tariff on some of our allies. that is already by the way having -- creating real concerns in europe, there are retaliatory measures being talked about on jeans and motorcycles in the

u.s. so you don't want to get in to that kind of situation. full blown trade war is really the worst case scenario. that is how the great depression got started. if you look back even more recently at 2002 under george w. bush, he implemented steel tariffs an and the industry endp in a worst place. so best case, it is just a war of words that creates some dips in the stock market. worst case, full blown trade war. >> some of this is assuming that the nations will retaliate. and yet that could also hurt their own economy. so how much of this is bluster and how much is serious? >> well, you know, right now it is a lot of bluster and it is important to say that actually if you go back ten years right after the financial crisis, you all probably remember there was a lot of talk about a trade war because when countries are under pressure when they feel pinched, and when they have political constituencies that they want to speak to and donald trump by the way is feeling particularly

pinched right now. the republicans are not happy about a lot of what he has been saying around tariffs, goveruns they get nationalist he can. so you see the war of words. but once you have one tariff in place, it can become a real snowball effect. it can cause a lot more damage a lot sooner. >> you mentioned 2002 and george w. bush. and the steel tariffs there. why does it come down to steel tariffs? why is that the center point? >> it is a great question. steel like china is one of those things that is very iconic in the u.s. -- well, really for any nation, but in the u.s. there is this idea that steel is about our greatness as a country, it is about being able to protect ourselves, build. the president invoked at one point national defense concerns around needing to have enough domestically produced steel, but really only about 3% of our steel goes into the u.s. defense industry. most of it is going into cars

and consumer projects. and cans like we've just heard. >> all right. always appreciate your perspective. thank you. so listen, it was a tense day in colorado yesterday. a state lawmaker was expelled over sexual harassment allegations and representative steve lipsock is who we're talked about. either making inappropriate comments and/or touching them in ways that made them uncomfortable. >> so the house voted for his expulsion, 52-9, though it wasn't an easy decision. some fellow lawmakers expressed their fears about speaking out on behalf of the accusers and ousting one of their own. >> i bought a bulletproof vest. i'm wearing it. it is right here. i'm wearing kevlar because i

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incredible moment caught on camera near a ski resort after a devastating avalanche hit the ski slopes. rescuers spotted a snowboard sticking up from under a foot of snow. they started digging. four others were also trapped, but remarkably nobody was seriously injured. but look as they uncover him, he apparently slid down the mountain to safety after being rescued. still to be there at that moment and see as he literally comes back from what he must have thought would be his death. >> his lips were blue initially and they couldn't find his wife, but they found her and she came running up. so quite a moment for them. just glad everybody is okay there. president trump will be attending the gridiron club dinner. an event that puts him in the same room as many of the country's top journalists. he usually likes to criticize them. >> the president kind of allows himself to be the subject of jokes. and remember, he skipped this

and the white house correspondents dinner as well last year and held his event. here is what he said there. >> they are gathered together for the white house correspondents dinner without the president. i could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from washington's swamp. spending my evening with all of you. >> this is a good opportunity to bring in cnn politics media and business reporter. good morning to you. >> great to be with you. >> so answer this question. why would he attend this year when he didn't attend last year?

does he have a change of heart? >> that is a really good question. and you have to remember, as we all know, president trump is not the biggest fan of media. in fact he's not a big fan of the people that he will be in the room with tonight. let's take a listen at some of what he said about these exact folks that he will be with. >> they are gathered together for the white house correspondents dinner without the president. if the media's job is to be honest, and tell the truth, then i think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade. the dishonest media did not explain that i called the fake news the enemy of the people. the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. we are in a rigged system. and a big part of the rigging are these dishonest people in

the media. >> and so now tonight, donald trump will be in front of these people that he has called the enemy of the american people. the reason he is doing this tonight the first time as president he subjected himself to one of these sort of events where journalists make fun of him in costumes, it is be very fancy white tie sort of the opposite of what he says at least last year that he wanted . so tonight is really a are a run for the correspondents dinner that is coming up next month. this is a much larger affair, it is covered on television. and the white house has not yet said whether the president will attend. they are keeping that in the air. soservers are saying tonight is the test run. if he can handle this event with sgra grace, then we might see him at the correspondents dinner next month. >> so besides the president, who of these media outlets will be

in attendance there and will the president himself speak? >> so the president does speak at the event tonight. he gives a speech. and what we will be looking out for is whether this speech which is also supposed to be comedic in nature will be in that good nature joky way. motto of the gridiron is to sing but not burn. so you can poke fun, but not go too far.singe but not burn. so you can poke fun, but not go too far. the last time was the al smith dinner. and that speech started off pretty good, it was well intentioned, but then he got into territory saying that hillary clinton was xrupt or th corrupt or she didn't like catholics that got him a little bit of boos. so we'll siee tonight if he goe off better. >> he is notoriously thin skinned we've been told, so i'm wondering when the jokes go against him, how do you expect the president to react?

>> that is what a lot of people will be working out for and i'm sure what a lot of white house staffers will be looking out for. so tonight's dinner is no cameras. it is on the record so we'll matter what he said, what the journalists said. but we won't see any images out of it. and i think that is the key here. because next month the correspondents dinner, that is live tv the entire time with the camera on mihis face. so how much he grimaces, how he takes the jokes will be what we're looking out for. >> is there any political ramification for him if something is said that truly might ruffle feathers? >> there is a lot of potential political ramifications when a politician tries his hand at comedy and especially for the president who has spent so much time making the media his opponent. this entire time, he has called as we saw he says the media is the enemy of the american people, that they are rigged against him. and to have him be at this event, everybody in fancy dress,

he will be in a white tie, this a image of him hobnobbing with journalists clashes with the image that he built up officver camera. >> anxious to hear how it all works out. thank you very much. and oscars are kicking off tomorrow night. there is some drama on the red carpet expected. ryan sea crest will be co-hosting e network's red carpet coverage. but he is doing something amid the sexual harassment allegations by his former stylist. we'll talk about that. dial your binge-watching up to eleven. join the un-carrier right now, and get four unlimited lines for only thirty-five bucks each. woah. plus, netflix for the whole family. on us.

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