blum even has a backup plan.ng tomorrow's solar eclipse, california will lose enough solar energy to power more than a million and a half homes. the figure underscores the state's growing reliance on energy from the sun. for about three hours monday, there will be diminished solar power available. california produces 40-percent of the nation's solar power. the eclipse presents an unusual challenge for those who manage the state's power grid because the solar energy will drop off and re-emerge more quickly than during usual conditions involving clouds or nightfall. grid managers say they've been preparing extensively for more than a year and are confident nobody will lose power. (anny) up next... a school backpack giveaway in the east bay came with an important message. that story is just ahead. live look outside...embar cadero (anny)(lydia) here is dave spahr with the weather. (dave)cooling will continue early this week as an upper trough of low pressure becomes nearly stationary over the eastern pacific. coastal

it's our right. >> meetings hosted by rod blum have been less civil. since 2000, his constituents have been unpredictable, electing a republican, democrat, republican. rod blum's time at home has been colored by sometimes chaotic town halls but he doubts the unrest is organic. >> i think it's a subset of a subset of a subset of the most part it was very organized. leftist groups. >> the district gave obama double digit wins over mccain and romney, then broke for trump in november for three-point margin over clinton. >> he appeals to blue-collar people. >> local democrats disagree and they plan to tie blum to trump. >> congressman blum showed tremendous support for donald trump. i think that's going to be in our favor. >> democrats need to rewrite the playbook if they're going to end, according to one of the democratic hopefuls, courtney ro. >> i think the democratic party did a poor job presenting they cared about the problems to the people in the district. >> until democrats have a message, blum isn't sweating his status as one of the top targets for

joyce blum has been chasing darkness that lasts just a few minutes. she saw her first total eclipse in 19-94... in the chilean andes mountains. since then, she has traveled to south china, aruba, the black sea and now missouri to see the natural phenomenon. blum says, the opportunities came because her brother served as project managing engineer for the moon landing back in 19-69. (joyce blum/90 years old): "i've been terribly lucky to be at the right place, at the right time with the right people that loved to travel... you gotta see it, that's my attitude. it's too interesting to miss" on monday, blum -- along with six first- timers -- will travel to saint joseph, missouri to see the total solar eclipse. blum even has a backup plan... she says, if the skies get too cloudy joseph... they will all fly to kansas city . (justine) during the solar eclipse on monday california will lose enough solar energy to power more than 1-point-5 million homes. the figure underscores the state's growing reliance on energy from the sun. for about three hours monday, t

. >> and congressman rada blum says that he is not even thinking about it yet, though he is one who ising to win back its back. he does not think that they are all going to let him in when they go to vote. >> i think there is an independent streak end of this district, the majority of voters here are registered independently, they are not so blinded by politics, i think it is one of the reasons that i have done well is i don't even think about partisan politics when i think about bills, when i think about my stances on the issues. >> still, the democratic chairman says that democrats got more excited after the 2016 election the done they were before, and part of their strategy is going to be to harness that energy to take out blum and replace them with a democrat. >> yeah, i guess they probably hope that's that intensity really spreads infectiously because they didn't have it going into the election, as you just mentioned, so what are they going to do to tuneup excitement? >> they have been really hammering republicans on health care, we went to a meeting of the linn county democrats i

for more than 20 years joyce blum has been chasing darkness that lasts just a few minutes.n the chilean andes mountains. since then she has traveled to south china, aruba, the black sea and now missouri to see the natural phenomenon. blum says the opportunities came because her brother served as project managing engineer for the moon landing back in 19-69. <(joyce blum/90 years old): "i've been terribly lucky to be at the right place, at the right time with the right people that loved to travel... you gotta see it, that's my attitude. it's too interesting to miss">( mark ) blum -- along with six first- timers -- are in saint joseph, missouri to see the total solar eclipse today. ( darya ) and we will have complete and we will and we will have complete coverage of the eclipse as it moves across the country. we will be on air until 11:00 this morning. you can also follow 4 dot com and with the kron 4 mobile app where you will have access to 50 cameras all across the country. (james) tracking your morning forecast. details coming up. ( terisa ) we are just hours away from the

pretty active today on twitter twchlt two favorite target "the new york times" and senator richard blum that will. he went after him again this arch saying he should go on a long vacation to vietnam so at least he can say he was actually there. chieding him for his misleading statements he's made in the past about his service during vietnam. so, you know, he's doing the same thing he does on vacation that he does in work, which is to watch television, to get mad about something and to express it in a very visceral way. >> so he's mad and he's tweeting, but the reality is this mueller investigation, the stories surrounding this white house are just not going away. and mikeel a, you had a story over the weekend about how bob mueller is asking the white house for documenting pertaining to michael flynn. so how far out are we from formal subpoenas? >> well, this is sort of the first stage of the mueller investigations interactions with the white house. this is sort of saying, look, i'd be interested in these documents, you know, let's talk about howic get them. both sides would probably wan

general blum has come to loot do you think those comments them from mr will actually carry a lot of weight in the current u.s. investigation. the problem is that in washington there's a very very strong and to a russian caucus and from the democrat side sometimes among the republicans and the liberal press and they will literally not accept anything which is positive about russia have a russian say something they don't believe it and they were. president trump say something about positive about russia the say that's treasonous he shouldn't be saying that russia is in fact already and we should be concentrating on that so unfortunately in washington now. you have on the one side president trump who would like and his people they would like to improve relations with russia. get things going and so on but congress as you know just passed legislation which increases i think sions not only does the do the increase sanctions but russia iran and north korea being put together has pariah states which is very very insulting so therefore the. congress if you like is doing its best to ensure that rel

rod blum, the house freedom caucus back in d.c.tube clip of people shouting him down you aren't getting a whole picture. >> i still believe in iowa nice. iowa is nice. my district is nice. some of the people that disrupted the town halls that were screaming and yelling couldn't hear my answers over these people screaming and yelling. i think it is a subset of a subset of a subset. for the most part it was very org iced by leftist groups. >> he says the big issue here right now ahead of the mid-terms is healthcare. >> leland: all right. on that note. does blum have any serious challengers for his seat right now? >> he does. he has already got three on the democratic side and like the other places that we visited across the country so far this week they're all first time congressional candidates well aware of the independent streak going from obama to trump. we talked to one of the challengers, a local engineer who has an idea about how to try to capture those voters. >> really what it was, they just felt that one candidate was addre

. >> reporter: andrew blum, author of the book about the guts of the in the net took us to a tightlyubs that connects broadband users here with high speed networks elsewhere. >> bandwidth in this room is cheaper and more abundant than anywhere on earth. the challenge is connecting where we are to the rest of the country. >> reporter: rural homes and businesses are far from the hubs and often far from each other in areas where fiber optic cable can cost $40,000 per mile. slow speeds can make downloading songs take up to 16 times longer. a movie that takes fewer than 8 minutes elsewhere, can some times take up to 1.5 hours. >> we are working hard and fast as we can to get as close to customers as we can. >> reporter: he runs georgia operations for winstream, one of rural america's largest internet providers. he brought us to a home where one of his technicians was installing broadband. >> why can't you bring high speed internet to everybody in the countryside? >> challenge of economics trying to get further out into the rural network, density spread out. population being mr. and more s

it started this morning when he wrote interesting to watch senator richard blum b that will talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a phony vietnam conartist. never in u.s. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like blumenthal. he told stories about his vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was. and it was all a lie. he cries like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion. more than eight and a half hours later he finished with this. i think senator blumenthal should take a nice long vacation in vietnam where he lied about his service, so he could at least say he was there. blumenthal has apologized for saying he served in vietnam. he was in the marine reserves during the war but was not deployed to vietnam. speaking with chris hayes on this network tonight, he deflected the personal attack and placed the attention back on the mueller investigation. >> there are growing ominous threats, tweets and warnings that we have seen, the world has seen that we're heading towards a collision between bob mueller and the president of the united state

he'll speak out against blum that will.l the people attacking our community or spike in anti-semiitic attacks. i want to see his passion against the big yots and the raceists and some are in his face. it's about time. stand up against big on thery and hate. >> he said the base is growing. we're going to examine that very shortly. he's the host of seerous xm. it is on 6 to 9 eastern every day. >> yes, it is. >> okay. coming up next, chicago has filed suit bens the justice department against trump's efforts to withhold funding from sanctuary cities. >> it is wornt that we make very clear to them and to all the residents of the city of chicago that we are going to fight and stand up for our values as a welcoming city. >> he had sis colawyer for the city of chicago standing by. i'll talk to him after the break. you were made to move. to progress. to not just accept what you see, but imagine something new. at invisalign®, we use the most advanced teeth straightening technology to help you find the next amazing version of yoursel

a district that voted for obama twice, then trump, then the congressman who challenged congressman blums why. >> i think that to the democratic party did a very poor job saying that they care about the people in this district, they did a poor job of saying we are here to fix the problems in your life. and it trumps message of i am going to make america great again, and i am not taking these super pacs. but they have it listed this district as one of their top targets for the 2018 midterms, they think that voters here can be convinced to swing back to their side again. >> jon: thank you. we told you earlier in the hour about an active shooter situation in charleston, south carolina, we are on the news deck with more. >> john, the locals are describing this now is a bit of a hostage situation, it is a very strange thing, we have live pictures coming out of there, they are a little rocky sometimes, but we want to give you a look, if you have been to charleston, the main tourist street, there is shopping, restaurants, king street, this is where this is, and it is a restaurant called the vir

days and those facts don't seem to matter to this president because he moved on deciding to go after blum m blumenthal. a short time later, blumenthal, who was already booked to come on cnn, booked his appearance. >> i will not be distracted by this. >> well, today's tweet storm, it's fair to say, disappointment for many who hopes the chief of staff, general kelly, would police trump's tweets. kelly would look to moderate trump's tweets but didn't say it's not really among his highest priorities. and maybe there's a reason for general kelly's seeming hesitancy to stop the president's tweeting. look at other trump backers who suggested publicly that the president tone down the tweets. >> we're going to defend him very, very aggressively when there's nonsensical stuff being said about him and he'll probably dial back some of those tweets. it's just the way it works. >> i'll try to encourage him not to tweet. >> chris christie, one of trump's earlier supporters, never even got a full-time job with the administration. maybe it's the fact that they took on the twitter. in all seriously, trump

i think senator blum that will should take a nice long vacation in vietnam so he can say he's been thereork times," how much longer will the filing -- these are moving foofs tore me to read. any way, the point being we end where we started with the president raging away with twitter on this rainy monday. >> lashing out at some of his most favorite targets. we see the president do this a lot, attacking someplace where he knows he himself is weak. >> i need a degree in psychology. he projects. >> the idea some of the attacks on hillary clinton about this here he did not of course serve in vietnam. that's what he seize z upon with the senator and even lying ted which is my favorite of the campaign nicknames. for ted cruz. we know the president sometimes has an uneasy with the truth. >> what this demonstrates is all this hope that kelly was going to put him under control, you cannot control this president. it's a rainy day give him some elmeasures glue, some construction paper. he is incapable of demonstrating the kind of discipline a president should have and i don't think anyone is going t

the group's president edward blum said it pits americans against one another. >> i had a 2230 sat, not. perfect a.c.t. and 4.67 gpa, i believe. >> reporter: michael wang applied to almost every ivy league school but was only accepted to one. >> had i been african-american or latino i might have gone to more schools. i'm not sure myself. >> reporter: in 2015 federal civil rights investigators reported no evidence that princeton university used separate admissions processes, reviews or tracks by race. according to documents this spring admissions officers did discuss applicants in racial terms. no cultural flavor, reads one review of an hispanic applicant. very few americans with verbal scores like this. >> can you guarantee asian american and white applicants aren't held to a higher standard? >> i canuarant all our students are held to an equal standard. it is if you have to get into princeton. it is tough to get into other ivy colleges. but everybody gets a fair shake. >> reporter: harvard stands by its policy to consider race to enroll a diverse class of students. in a statement to cb

. >> reporter: andrew blum, the author of a bobook about the guf the interin the took us to a tightlyom in new york to see one of the hubs that connect broadband users here with high speed networks elsewhere. >> bandwidth in this room is cheaper and more bun disinfectant tan almost anywhere on earth. the challenge is connecting where we are right now to the rest of the country. >> reporter: rural homes and businesses are far from these hubs and often far from each other in area where is fiber-optic cable can cost up to $40,000 per mile. slow speeds can make downloading songs take up to 16 times longer. a maumovie that takes eight mins to download elsewhere can sometimes take up to an hour and a half. >> we are working as hard and fast as we can to get as close to the customers as we can. >> jared berkshire runs the operations for one of the world's largest internet providers. he brought us to a home where one of his tech nixes was installing broadband. >> why can't you bring high speed internet to everybody in the countryside? >> it's a challenge of economics, if you will. trying to g

general blum, commander national guard, 40,000.e have 20,000 federal troops, over 245 helicopters on day five. the airborne division as well as first army in the u.s. ships. they've got to scale it up. i know business people understand that term. the military and fema have to scale it. the continued wind and weather is challenging than the local airfields are closed, but they will have to figure out a way to get in there as quick as they can because right now this is a big area, a lot more people they could bring up in the challenge is going to be bigger. the elevation is three feet. i learned about the shinier refinery they are. it was built after hurricane rita and most of that area flooded as well as the big plant up in westlake north of lake charles under construction. that's an $18 billion plant in all of that area, just a few feet above elevation. this is a significant impact on our infrastructure, energy supplies in the people living in and around those plants are most concerned about it. dagen: kevin kelly has a question fo