lifted off. the fourth aircraft on the runway. i had the entire picture of the c-17 force in front of me. for sure. an image that i will never forget. >> reporter: the five c-17s had been on the ground a total of three hours, he says. the end of a 20-year war his final flight. oren liebermann, cnn, at the pentagon. >> unbelievable. it's really awesome to hear from him. thanks so much for joining us tonight. i'm kate bolduan. "ac 360" starts now. good evening from virginia up into new england at least 46 people have now lost their lives in what was once optimistically referred to as the remnants of hurricane ida. he with begin tonight with new video just in of what it looked like as two members of the new york police department rescued a driver last flnight in central park.

>> yeah. that's how you make your money, man. get your stuff. i'm here. i'll hold you. >> just like that. >> that's in new york's central park. that water rescue one of many overnight in the city and across the region. the storm also shut down new york's subway systems and computer rail throughout the new york tri-state area. the flooding as you see here was of a kind last seen when superstorm sandy hit. the rainfall set records. at least eight tornadoes struck as the storm moved north and sadly every measure of destruction is likely to rise in the coming hours and days. cnn's miguel marquez begins our coverage tonight. he joins us from new brunswick, new jersey. miguel? >> reporter: just shocking how powerful this storm was. nypd says it affected 69 water

rescues and over 160 other rescues there. i want to show you what's happening here in new jersey and new brunswick. this is a roadway next to the raritan river. it has started to recede, but you can see the cars, the station behind it, all of that still inundated by water as authorities here are still searching for the missing. raging flood waters flowing across parts of the northeast tonight where active rescues continue in the wake of ida. in pennsylvania officials estimate they've received calls in the thousands from people needing to be rescued from extreme flooding. >> the water is so high i couldn't run straight to the street. i had to run up the fire escape. i wound up on the roof where they had to get a boat to rescue me. >> reporter: in new jersey rescue crews using boats to help people to safety. in the northern part of the state flood waters left trains in boundbrook submerged and a nearby stadium filled with

water. nearly 30 miles northwest of there in elizabeth at least four people drowned in an apartment complex. officials say the victims all lived in garden-level apartments next to the elizabeth river, which rose more than eight feet at its peak last night. meanwhile, more than 90 miles away in mullica hill at least 25 homes were destroyed or badly damaged by a tornado. this was the scene in many new york city subway stations last night, caused by gushing flood waters. >> unprecedented is almost an understatement. this is the first time ever we've had a flash flood emergency declared. >> reporter: across the northeast the death toll continues to rise. among the victims, a 2-year-old. >> this has been a biblical storm by every means. >> reporter: in queens the new york police department commissioner says at least eight people died in the basements of homes inundated with water. >> the roads everywhere i saw coming out of the airport and beyond flooded.

dozens and dozens and dozens of cars marooned, stranded. >> reporter: across the big apple first responders rescued hundreds from submerged cars including commuters stuck in stopped subway trains. >> roughly somewhere between 15 and 20 trains did get stranded and folks needed to be rescued. >> reporter: in central park 5.2 inches of water fell in just three hours. a one in 500-year rainfall event. >> my message to everyone affected is we're all in this together. the nation is here to help. >> reporter: and help is something that will be needed, with officials warning things will only get worse because of climate change. >> we are in a whole new world now. and this is a reality we have to face. >> miguel, the water, i mean, i can't believe how high it is still where you are. you said it's starting to recede. what else are you seeing?

>> reporter: yeah, we are a couple of hours past high tide now. so that waning tide is starting to carry all this water. we're here on south 18 as you can see. it's down about a foot. and as the tide goes out the water's -- and then out to sea. but -- water here, it's going to take a long time to not only get this water out -- there's just -- cars and everything else they're going to have to clean up. >> we're clearly having some transmission issues with miguel. we apologize for that. want to go next to cnn's pete muntean in fill papp what is not supposed to be the water's edge but is it seems font. pete, you've been in philadelphia most of the day. what have you been seeing in terms of flooding and how much longer is that concern supposed to last? >> reporter: well, anderson, conditions are improving here in philadelphia although we are not out of the woods yet. this is maybe the most dramatic image of the day. this is the vine street expressway. interstate 676, if you know anything about philadelphia

tarks massive thoroughfare straight through the heart of the city connecting 76 on the west to the ben franklin bring and camden, new jersey in the east. would typically be choked with cars. now it's filled with mostly water. in fact, the water is about halfway between the bottom of the 21st street overpass there and the bottom of the road. the water is receding a bit, but we are only scratching the surface of just how serious the flooding here is in philadelphia. the schuylkill river crested just near 17 feet earlier today, and the national weather service says it will not be below flood stage until sometime after midnight. that is why the flood warning remains in place here in philadelphia until 7:00 tomorrow morning. >> there were rescues going on in a town near philadelphia called bridgeport. do we know anything about the situation there? >> reporter: it's a sad situation, anderson, because there were hundreds of calls for water rescues in neighboring montgomery county where bridge porlt is according to governor tom wolf's administration and we know that at least one person died there.

the mayor of bridgeport says houses were flooded about 3/4 of the way up. you know, beyond the mortal toll of all of this will be a huge monetary toll. tens, maybe hundreds of millions to clean this up and to beef up this infrastructure from having this be less impactful on our everyday lives. a term called climate resilience. and you're probably going to hear a lot more about it, anderson. >> pete pun muntean, appreciate it. as we said at least eight tornadoes struck. we just got new video of the aftermath of one that hit southern new jersey which the national weather service has just determined had 150-mile-an-hour winds. we're about to see what one resident saw as he emerged from shelter. >> hey. no, no. holy [ bleep ]! holy [ bleep ].

oh, my god. >> just incredible. he was lucky. according to new jersey's governor, at least 23 residents of the state have lost their lives so far. this is new york governor kathy hochul's first crisis in office. we talked to her. we're grateful she could spare some time for us tonight. >> governor, what are you able to tell us on the latest on the search and rescues that are still under way? >> we had our rescue teams out through the night. we had about 100 rescues already. and we are still finding people. and it's devastating because in new york city it's very densely populated. there is large communities where people have been living literally in basements. and many of them have succumbed. particularly in the area of queens where we found that there's people -- we're still finding people who've succumbed to the storm. and it's been really very tragic. it's been a hard day for new yorkers to not just deal with the weather but to wake up and

know that we lost some of our fellow citizens simply because they weren't able to get out of their car, weren't able to get out of their homes. it's a heartbreaking day in the city of new york. >> do you think state and local officials were prepared enough? some of the pictures we've seen, especially the roads and the subways in new york, it's obviously caused renewed concern about infrastructure and what it's able to withstand. >> well, excellent question. and we know we talked about infrastructure particularly after nine years ago we had to deal with the aftermath of hurricane sandy. now, we spent billions of dollars building up resiliency. primarily along the coastlines. and we're in much better shape on our beaches than we had been in the past. but what we're seeing now are cataclysmic rain events, record shattering, where we have unprecedented amounts of of water coming out of the heavens all at once. literally from 8:51 last flight to 9:51:00 p.m. more water came down than we'd seen in the history of new york all at once and it shattered records literally that had been set two weeks ago that had been broken

from 100 years ago. so we're in this era that we have to continue to build resiliency. and you mentioned infrastructure. critically important. something i raised on the phone with president biden when he called today to check in and offer any assistance he could. and i appreciate his outreach. but infrastructure in the short term, the long term, we have to look at our streets. it's not just the shoreline anymore, anderson. it's what's happening in our streets. higher elevations because of flash floods are now becoming overrun with the water. and then the water because there's not proper drainage and sewer systems that are ant antiquated and need repairs, that water is overflowing literally like niagara falls down staircases into our subways, compromising the integrity of those systems. it's been a horrific confluence of events. >> at least some of the people as you mentioned who died in new york city were living in illegal basement apartments, which is obviously for some the only way they can afford to live in the city. obviously, affordable housing is an ongoing and a huge issue in

this city. what's to be done? >> more investments. money that could be coming out of the federal government when congress is able to do what the president wants to have happen. we just have to get a major infrastructure deal over the finish line. and i know this can be done and that money will go to cities all over america. but particularly older places like the northeast and new jersey, new york, connecticut where our systems are more compromised just because of age. we have no choice. we can't talk about this anymore. we need the money. we'll spend it. we know what we need to do here in the state of new york to build up that resiliency. but in the meantime it was just a nightmare here yesterday. no one ever wants to have to go through the trauma. and a bus driver that i spoke to today and thanked her for what she did, she literally drove her bus through four feet of of water, taking people to a safe situation. but you look at the video inside her vehicle, the water was up

over people's legs standing on their seats, trying to hang on to the ceiling. it's traumatic. and i want to make sure that i can do everything in my power to get the federal resources, to spend it as soon as possible. working in partnership with local officials like mayor de blasio and others. we have no choice. we have to stop talking about this and just be better prepared next time and be aggressive about that. >> we're showing the bus video right now. i mean, as a lifelong new yorker who has ridden those buses all my life, it's insane to see that. how much warning did you have? was there any warning that it would be this bad? >> we knew from the weather reports. we monitor them very closely. that we had threats of tornadoes. those warnings were going off on everyone's cell phones. and what happened was just this opening of the skies during that one particular hour, and that shattered the records or anyone's expectations. right now we're still

recovering, individuals as assessing the damage to loss of life as well as property, businesses, homes that have been destroyed. but immediately after, once we get our fema assessment done, i'm going to be demanding answers. i want to know who knew what when and what could have been done differently. new yorkers deserve to know what we're doing to learn from this sxeent make sure it doesn't happen again. >> governor hochul, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> there's much more ahead tonight including one woman's experience stranded for hours aboard a commuter train, trapped in rising waters. she joins us. also an update from louisiana where the suffering continues to be immense. later breaking news on the january 6th investigation. cnn just learned the house sclekt committee looking into it is in fact taking interest in the house's top republican. healthy habits come in all sizes. like little walks. and, getting screened for colon cancer. that's big because when caught in early stages, it's more treatable. hey, cologuard! hi.

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camilla, can you just walk us through what happened when your train stopped moving? >> yeah. so we stopped moving i think about a half hour into the ride, around 8:15, and we were between stations. we were coming up to newark airport station. and this was a train that usually runs between new york penn and trenton in new jersey. so we had barically started on our journey, and by the time we stopped we were told there was rain coming onto the tracks, we weren't going to be able to move for a little bit. a little while later we were told there were mechanical issues then with the train and they were going to have to go out and have an engineer look at it. a little while after that we were told that the engineer was not going to be able to fix the problems, we were going to have to wait for a rescue train. and then around midnight the lights started completely going off. the ventilation systems turned off. there was still no rescue train. we had been told this entire time that the rescue train was on the way. they confirmed it was coming, it would be here shortly. and at that point the communication system also shut off. so you had to kind of search out for the conductors to be able to get an update on what was

happening. and it was quite scary. it stayed like that until about 4:00 a.m. and at that point i found one of the doors finally had been opened by the transit police that had arrived because a woman was having a really severe panic attack. but besides that there were no doors open. i in fact asked a conductor earlier could we open some of the windows, some of the doors just to let ventilation in? obviously people did not have to be vaccinated to be on the train. and masks were slipping. you could smell smoke. there were people smoking on the train. still they wouldn't open it up for ventilation. and finally the rescue train came close to 6:00 a.m. and we finally got into newark airport, the station around 6:30. we were originally told the rescue train would just keep us going along the route. instead when we got there we waited about half an hour and then the train -- another train came and got us and finally we continued on our route, stopping at all the local stops. >> so -- >> it was about a 12-hour journey that normally takes an hour. >> what a nightmare.

i mean -- could you see water rising? did it ever actually come into your car? and when the power went out, i mean, the lack of ventilation has just got to be awful. >> mm-hmm. yeah. so pretty early on i was in one of the front few cars, and it's basically a double-decker system. so i was on the upper level of the seats, and people on the lower levels were told when the lights were still on, the ventilation was still working, that there was water coming in. and at this point i only saw maybe an inch or so that had been coming in. but they came up to our level and then soon after that i guess it started accumulating more and more and there was a few inches at this point in the front few cars and they told us to evacuate further back into the cars. and so i did so, everyone else did so. whp the lights went out and the ventilation went out a few hours later, i think that was when people really started to panic because it was clear that the conductors just didn't know what was going to happen, if the rescue train couldn't make it to us. and i think new jersey transit said there would be deep water

vehicles or something like that but no passengers ever saw them. i know i didn't. no one i spoke to did. and it was quite scary for a while. >> and why wouldn't they open windows or a door to just get some ventilation in? >> so when i asked a conductor, i was given a very abrupt answer, just there's water. and at this point when i asked the rain had already stopped. the level of water was going down. and we were basically one of the outermost tracks. so one one side of the tracks you could see out to a parking lot. and at this point you could see the ground of the parking lot emerging though there was still a few feet of water on the tracks. but it didn't come up to the level of the doors. we pretty much weren't given any other explanation for why they wouldn't open this. maybe they were worried about people getting out of the train and causing a liability for nj transit. they just weren't really concerned our health, i suppose. >> and i can't believe is this thing went on for more than 12 hours. >> yeah. it was a really long time.

by the end also a lot of people take this as a commuter train. so those people hadn't eaten since much earlier in the day. we didn't have water until the transit police came and dropped off a few cases. the bathrooms were very disgusting at that point. pretty much unusable. so for that amount of time to be trapped in that space i know i and many others by the time we hit around 2:00 a.m. were just getting very claustrophobic and very worried about how long were we going to be there, did they actually even know if a rescue train was going to be able to reach us and why there weren't more clear blanz for an issue like this. >> well, camilla, i'm glad you're okay at least. i can't believe what you and the other passengers had to go through. but i'm glad you're safe. thank you so much for talking with us. i wish you the best. >> thank you so much. happily, everyone i know on the train got home safe. i hope they're doing well at home now. thank you. >> what a journey. wow. as for louisiana where hurricane ida first struck over the weekend, the storm's effects will fester for the coming days and weeks. tragically, the state department

of health is reporting the deaths of four nursing home patients. they were evacuated ahead of the storm along with stefrl hundred other patients from several nursing homes to a warehouse they said had deteriorating conditions. brian todd joins me. is there any estimate as to when people will get power back at this point? >> reporter: anderson, they're careful not to give estimates but there has been progress made despite this being a really slow grind. we're told by energy officials here that roughly 140,000 customers have had their power restored. but out of close to a million female. you can see that that is just not fast enough. for so many people who are here. they're frustrated by it. we're also told bill nrg louisiana that they've restored power to at least 10 hospitals in southeast louisiana. they've restored power to several sewage treatment plants. so again, some progress made but it is a slow grind and a dangerous one. we'll illustrate that right here. this is in kenner. this is the main drag where you have downed power lines here, a transformer down over there,

more downed power lines and look how they're leaning. and these wires are very close to the road. we've been watching this for hours. this is a dangerous situation. they're letting motorists and some pedestrians navigate around this but they may want to rethink that because this is a little too close. a lot of trucks have come by here with high clearance and when it gets pitch black here they could be in danger of pulling down some of these lines. but anderson, again, a slow grind here in louisiana. they're assuring people they're getting to this as fast as they can, but we've been chasing power crews all day long and talking to these guys on the line, restoring the poles and everything. it's tough. they've got to check for sewage, gas, water lines, fiber lines. every time they try to correct the situation like this. that's what they've got to check for. it's very painstaking, dangerous, and again not fast enough for people here. >> president biden said today he got his assurances that his visit to louisiana tomorrow wouldn't disrupt recovery efforts. what is his visit expected to entail? >> reporter: well, he's going to

survey the damage in some of the hardest-hit areas of louisiana. we do flow that. we know he's going to meet with local officials. as you mentioned, a white house aide told us before this trip was announceped they did want to make sure his visit did not get in the way of recovery efforts. that's going eye delicate dance tomorrow. what we can fell you is if he's going to talk to real people on the ground he's going to hear a lot about how people have not heard from agencies like fema and other agencies and people have not had folks come and knock on their door to see if they're okay. we talked to many, many people here in kenner and elsewhere who say that look, the cavalry just hasn't come. some of these are elderly people who can't leave their homes, they can't leave their neighborhoods. all they need is a knock on the door from someone with fema, another agency could say what do you need, can we get you something? one older lady in kenner told us she thought we were fema when we were pulling up. >> brian todd, thank you. coming up the repercussions

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declined to block a texas law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected usually about six weeks into pregnancy before many women even know they're pregnant. the law contains no exception for rape or incest. and in an effort in the words of dissenting justice sonia sotomayor to, quote evade judicial scrutiny, the law puts enforcement in the hands of private citizens, not the state. it deputizes individuals to sue anyone who knowingly aids or abets an abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy. what this does, experts say, is make the law's constitutionality nearly impossible to challenge in court. the vote to let the law take effect was 5-4 with chief justice roberts joining the court's three remaining liberal justices in the minority. already today the repercussions are beginning. florida's senate president saying he would take up similar legislation in the coming session with other red states expected to follow. then there's the political impact which could be profound especially for republican moderates, some of whom enabled the court's conservative tilt while publicly downplaying fears

about overturning roe. susan collins for one putting out a statement said that "the texas law is extreme and harmful," she says. "i apose the court's decision to allow the law to remain in effect for now while these underlying constitutional and procedural questions are litigated." it's the same susan collins who went out of her way to justify her support of one of the majority justices in last night's ruling on the basis of his commitment to precedent. here she is promising that not only wouldn't brett kavanaugh try to overturn roe he wouldn't even try to undermine it, which is exactly what his vote last night did. >> there has also been considerable focus on the future of abortion rights based on the concern that judge kavanaugh would seek to overturn roe v. wade, protecting this right is important to me. in short his views on honoring precedent would preclude attempts to do by stealth that

which one has committed not to do overtly. >> now, agree or disagree on abortion or roe v. wade this appears dpooktly what the majority did overnight. perspective now from cnn chief legal analyst and supreme court historian jeffrey toobin. jeff, what does that 5-4 split among the justices tell but not the fate of just this texas law should it wind up at the court again but also roe v. wade itself? >> well, it tells you that clarence thomas is really in charge of this court now. the supreme court works by seniority. and the chief justice is always senior even if there is a longer tenured justice in the minority. but he is now in the minority on abortion rights. and the seniormost justice in the majority was clarence thomas. so he will control the opinion if there is a vote on the future of abortion rights, which there will certainly be more of. there's a big mississippi case coming down the pike. and it is likely that this texas

case goes back. clarence thomas is committed over and over again to overturn roe v. wade. he is the single most dominant justice of that view. but he is joined by samuel alito, who has also expressed the view as wrong. and donald trump promised to appoint justices who will appoint -- who will overturn roe, and that's what he's done. with justice gorsuch, amy coney barrett and justice kavanaugh. so interior nowthere are now fi solid votes on the supreme court to overturn abortion rights and clarence thomas is leading the charge and he's going to be the one assigning the opinion when the mississippi case comes up later this year. >> the fact that the majority of the court conceded in their opinion that abortion providers raise, quote unquote, serious constitutional questions about the law and those same justices said their order was not based on whether the law is constitutional, does it give you

any reason to think their minds are not already made up if and when they have to rule on the merits? >> you know, the only question to me is whether they give roe a decent burial and overturn it or they create some are fiction where they uphold the texas law, which they are clearly committed to doing, but somehow say that roe is still good law. i don't see how that's possible. i mean, a six-week law is a -- is a ban on abortion rights. you know, lawyers are lawyers. they can make up distinctions where none exist. but i think the die is cast here and we are now heading to a moment where abortion rights are going to be fought out state by state. and texas has been won by the anti-abortion forces. >> stay with it because i want to bring in former next text democratic state senator wendy davis who led a marathon filibuster against abortion legislation back in 2013. senator davis, i want to read part of something you tweeted earlier.

you said, "this morning i woke up feeling more powerful and saddened than i have ever felt." which legal path are you focused on the most right now? >> you know, this of course is going to proceed now on a state court legal path, anderson, and it still actually is a question before the 5th circuit as well. they made a decision simply to cancel a hearing that was set prior to this law going into effect. that's why so many of the providers immediately appealed to the supreme court and of course got the terrible 5-4 decision last night that we received. but the question is still in front of the fifth circuit. so it's going to proceed on parallel tracks. the problem with the state track is this. the law is written in such a pernicious way that individuals who sue any person who attempts to help another person receive

an abortion after six weeks can choose any jurisdiction that they want. and in fact the plaintiff doesn't even have to live in the state of texas. so they're going to forum shop. they're going to look for the friendliest courts that they can find. i can assure you that the abortion providers, the center for reproductive rights, planned parenthood, naral, others, are all working hard on a competing legal strategy right now. of course i can't share the details of that. but in no way, shape or form are we going to give up. and as powerless as i felt yesterday morning, as deflated as i felt, i am so encouraged by the fight that people are demonstrating right now. >> you know, anderson, just to talk about the political side for one moment, one of the things about all the abortion restrictions that have come in since 1973 is they mostly have affected poor women. the one thing you can say about the texas law is that it affects

everybody. it affects all women. including middle-class and upper middle-class women in texas. and i just wonder what it's going to be like in the suburbs of houston, in the suburbs of dallas, where you know, women who may not be politically active wake up and say you know what, like if my daughter gets pregnant, if i get pregnant and i want to end it i have to go to new york, i have to go to los angeles. that is something that they haven't had to think about. and they have to think about that now. and i wonder how that is going to affect the politics of texas and other places where these laws -- because there's no more money issue here. it's illegal for everyone. and that's a change. and i wonder what that's going to mean. >> senator, what do you think that might mean? >> to some extent i agree with that. but here's the privilege that many people will still have in our state. they can get on a plane and go

to colorado or california or new york. they can afford to put their daughters and other people that they love on a plane to access that kind of care. and so the outfall is going to continue to be felt by women who are lower income, primarily falling on women of color, and continuing a systemic racism that the impacts of these abortion laws have had on texas since the law that i fili filibustered in 2013. i do want to let everyone know, though, that our abortion clinics are open. they are allowing people to come in. they're doing sonograms. they're beyond the six-week period of time. they are not violating the law as it stands today. but in no way does that mean they agree that the law is valid. instead, what they are concerned about are the legal costs that

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breaking news on the house select committee investigating the january 6th riot. cnn has learned the committee is seeking to preserve the phone records of house republican leader kevin mccarthy. now, earlier cnn reported the committee had asked telecommunications companies to keep the records of an evolving list of several other lawmakers from that day. for his part mccarthy warned those companies if they did eventually turn over those records they would be breaking the law and that "a republican majority will not forget." cnn's jessica dean tonight is on capitol hill. so what's the latest now on this? >> reporter: so the latest that we know now, anderson, is that this select committee included kevin mccarthy in this list of gop lawmakers' phone records

that they want preserved by these telecommunications companies. we do know that when we originally reported the existence of this list it was a draft. kevin mccarthy's name wasn't on it at the time. that was earlier this week. what we know now is that when that list got sent to these telecommunications companies that kevin mccarthy's name was on it. and remember, on january 6th when everything was happening here during the insurrection at the capitol we know that house minority leader kevin mccarthy was on the phone with then president donald trump. and you can bet that the house select committee wants to learn everything they can about those communications between mccarthy and trump as well as these other gop lawmakers. now, you also mentioned that once this was announced and we learned today that his name is on the list, that he issued this threat to these telecommunications companies saying that if any of these companies complied that they would be breaking a law. but anderson, we've reached out to mccarthy's office to see what law they would be breaking and

also just to get his response to being on this list and so far we've heard nothing from their office. >> part and parcel of this of course is republican congressman andy biggs is calling on kevin mccarthy to remove liz cheney and adam kinzinger from the republican conference, to punish them for their roles on the january 6th select committee. is there any indication mccarthy's going to do that? >> reporter: well, at this point no. at this moment in time it doesn't seem to be -- he doesn't seem to have an appetite for that, anderson. he's certainly focused on 2022 and trying to regain the majority. but one thing to keep in mind we did see liz cheney el vaipted to vice chairman of the select committee today and in her statement tellingly she said something to the effect of we will not be deterred by any threats. so certainly making an indirect nod there to all the political things that lie ahead as they move forward with their work on the select committee. >> jessica dean, appreciate it, thank you. >> reporter: yeah. >> just ahead, football legend herschel walker just got the most important endorsement a republican can get these days as he runs for senate in georgia.

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tonight, the former president has officially endorsed the man he encouraged to run in georgia, herschel walker. it comes a week after walker announced this. a claim by a woman who says she was threatened by walker who previously has blamed his behavior on mental illness. drew griffin has the details. >> reporter: he is called the greatest college football player of all time, in the state of georgia, he is a legend. a as university of georgia running back, herschel walker won the national championship and the heisman. now at 59, walker is running in a new game. >> my name is herschel walker. i'm running for the united states senate. >> reporter: as a republican close friends with former president donald trump. >> i have known donald trump 37

years. i don't mean just casual ran into him from time to time. i'm talking about a deep, personal friendship. >> reporter: new allegations are surfacing about walker's troubled past. detailed in this police report from irving, texas, in 2002. a woman telling police she was very frightened of walker, that he had previously been calling her, making threats to her and having her house watched. and when she saw him at a resort that day, he jumped into his vehicle and followed her all the way to her house. the woman contacted by cnn asked not to be identified and said she never dated walker but is friends with his ex-wife. it's the latest revelation of similar incidents involving herschel walker, though he has never been charged with a crime. >> i'm very sad. i was angered. i didn't understand why. >> reporter: walker has previously linked his behavior to a mental illness called

disass disassociative identity disorder. he said he has fragments of alternate personality. >> you can get anger. but the anger you can go out and hurt someone. that's when you know you got a problem. >> reporter: walker wrote a book about it in passages. he talks about thinking of murdering a man who was late delivering a car. all i could think was how satisfying it would feel to squeeze the trigger. the enjoyment from seeing brain tissue and blood like a 4th of july firework exploding behind him. >> i played russian roulette before. more than once. >> reporter: he said he was sharing his story to remove the stigma of mental health. in a sign of support, his ex-wife joined him on media appear ances and confirmed she had been a target of walker's

frightening personalities. >> he held a gun to my temple and said he was going to blow my brains out. >> reporter: a few years before that interview, walker's ex-wife got a protective order against him. her sister submitted an affidavit saying he stated unequivocally that he was going to shoot my sister and her boyfriend in the head. in another incident in 2012, a police report shows a woman who was involved in an on off on off relationship for decades with walker said he told her that he was going to come and sit outside her apartment and blow her head off whether she came outside. he then told he was going to blow his head off after he killed her. in a statement, walker's campaign said herschel denies these false claims about the 2012 incident. on the other reported threats, herschel has been open about his mental health journey. since getting help, he dedicated his life to helping others.

>> repor . >> has he been asked this on the campaign trail? >> he certainly hasn't been asked by us. he won't talk to cnn. except for a few puffball interviews, hasn't been on the campaign trail. only recently moving to georgia from here in texas to file his candidacy for election. >> there willare other republic contenders who would be against him, right? is that the case? >> there's several republicans running against him. all trying to delicately navigate how you attack this favored football georgia kind of star who also, anderson, frankly, has his biggest supporter in the president, donald trump. they have carefully gone after

him, called him a newbie in terms of politics, an outsider, but they are trying to figure out how to lay a glove on a guy that right now is still beloved in georgia. mostly because he could run with a football. >> appreciate it. just ahead, one of the more infamous figures. now a possible conclusion to this. where you can pay a little less and enjoy the ride a little more. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ now, get new lower auto rates with allstate. because better protection costs a whole lot less. you're in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today.

. t the rioter responsible for an image that's indelible is set to plead guilty. he went viral for wearing a horned bear skin outfit during the assault on the capital. neither the records nor his attorney said which he will plead to. his lawyers wanted him to

releases where he has been held since his arrest in january. back in march, the judge in the case said he found, quote, none of his many attempts to manipulate the evidence and minimize his actions persuasive. government has secured 50 guilty pleas in the insurrection. news continues right now. let's hand it over to chris. >> appreciate you. welcome to "prime time." we will show you the unimaginable scenarios that are still unfolding all across new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, delaware, maryland, connecticut and virginia. search and rescue missions are going to go on through the night. there's a lot that is still not known. once again, here is what we know. the storm that followed the one that we were all worried about hit harder than expected. of course, we were all waiting for henri in the northeast. right? it barely came in any real way. then a lot of people apparently slept on