how about thomas jefferson. >> drew griffin joins me now. like jared taylor, a so-called white advocate, want, exactly? >> an apartheid-style white-only america, where blacks and americans are pushed out of a white whites-only geographic zone, and if that means break up the united states, jared taylor said he's fine with that. >> and he thinks that many americans agree with him? >> secretly, he says. secretly. he told me his movement is growing, but they base that on traffic to a website. there's no real membership he can point to. he also told me, anderson, his convention last year was a sell-out. a sign that strength is growing in the movement. but that they had to actually turn away people. i asked him exactly how many people attended. he said, 300. so not that many. >> where do us gays get to go? >> i don't know. >> do we get our own group or what? >> reporter: well, you would have to work that out amongst yourselves, i guess. anderson, i want to bring in one other note. "the new york times" just published this afternoon and this evening

for more, drew griffin is live just outside beaumont.going from reporter to rescue worker. of utmost importance is the water supply. what do we know? >> reporter: the city sent out a notice last night about 12:30 a.m. that it lost its main pumping station right on the natches river. the other two main sources of water have already gone out. those were groundwater wells. what's -- first of all, when you woke up this morning, you turned on the spigots. there was nothing but air coming out. you couldn't brush your teeth. that is going to add to the misery factor for the 118,000 or so residents in beaumont. plus all evacuees. not much of beaumont left. so all of those people are here. and all of those people are dependent on the water supply. here's -- here's the issue. the main pumping station is in the natches river. they can't get to it because of a flood. they don't know if the pumps are broken there, if repairs need to be made because they just can't get there until the daylight hours. it's still dark here. they're going to take a boat

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. >> all right, drew griffin, thank you very much. that's it for me. our coverage of the aftermath of hurricane harvey continues with all of our brave teams on the ground. ground. stay with us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> all right, jim, thank you. we'll take it from here. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. you're watching cnn's special live coverage of the catastrophic aftermath that is hurricane harvey, and the new threat facing the flood-ravaged state of texas. get out now. that is the stark warning to folks who live just south of houston as the river levees breached some time ago. as harvey is now circling back over land, officials say river water is pounding down these tributaries and creeks and they are, quote, at the end of the line. dire predictions of up to 50 inches of rain quickly becoming a reality. last rainfall estimates, a staggering 49 inches of water in some areas. that is more rain than houston sees in an entire year. president trump and the first lady have arrived in corpus christi, close to the ar

(vicki) kathy griffin has a powerful new look...omedienne shaved off all of her hair to support her sister who is battling cancer. writer - yashar ali - tweeted this photo yesterday, saying griffin's sister kathleen is now going through chemo-therapy. ali also suggested donating to the american cancer society. griffin is one of five children in her family. in 2014 her brother gary died of cancer. (vicki) over the weekend, "modern family" star eric stonestreet... posted shots of his early gig, as a security guard at one of garth brooks concerts back in 1995. the two reunited at garth's l.a. show - he even signed eric's photos. the insider's louis aguirre joins us from hollywood with more on celebs - before they were famous. (----louis----)how cool was that?and we've got more celeb stories before they were famous.as we go inside the stars first jobs!i think my very first job was working the gas island at sears. or when i became a bus girl at bonanza steak house, i don't remember vo#1and check out where some of the "dancing with the st

cheryl: jennifer griffin out of washington. the trump administration today retaliating against russia. announcing that's ordering the closing of three russian diplomatic facilities. conference san francisco into annexes in washington and new york. this comes one day before the russian government's deadline for 755 american diplomatic personnel to leave russia. we are coming right back with a lot more. stay with us. mike pence during the harvey devastation and meeting with storm victims. >> we will be here every day until this city and this state and this region rebuild that are the never before. cheryl: will discuss the trump administration's handling of the disaster with ed rollins. in los angeles voting to wipe columbus day off the calendar. has it gone too far? >> take that up and much more next. it's time to rethink what's possible. rethink the experience. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief uses unique mistpro technology and helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy

drew griffin and his crew ran over and was actually able to pull that man from the car. drew joining me now live from beaumont. drew, give us an idea what happened. how commonly are people having a difficult time telling what's road and what's water? >> it's why authorities tell us not to go out when it's this kind of environment. because you can't tell the road from a ditch, from a river. this river ditch is right behind me. this fellow was trying to come across the parking lot of a fast food joint. he thought he would cross over onto this road that looks like it's covered in water. it's not a road. it's 10 to 12 feet of current going down a drainage ditch. we tracked him until we were able to get a rope on him as he came out of the window. we pulled over to the bank. we got a little tape what happened after that. >> i want to thank these guys for saving my life. thank you. >> where you from? >> winnie. >> you have been hit pretty hard. what's your name? >> jerry. >> somebody needs to come and get you. >> i'm staying at the motel. >> okay. take a breath. take a breath.

jennifer griffin at the pentagon. president trump getting tough on racial violence in virginia, reaction from the panel. >> racism is evil, and those who cause violence and its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacist, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> justice will be done. we are coming after these peopl people. >> i am extremely proud of my daughter. i am extremely proud she stood for what she believed in, that she not only gave mouth to it but she gave heart and soul to it and now she's given her life to it. >> bill: it is the story of the country is talking about. the last woman they are, the mother of heather heyer, the woman killed in charlottesville saturday. today the chief in that town taking questions that went to the police response and reaction on saturday. >> absolutely i have regrets. we lost three lives this weekend, local citizen and two fellow officers, we have regrets. it was a tragic, tragic weekend. >> bill: a l

he took their advice to stay engaged and i withdrawal. >> jon: jennifer griffin, thank you. president trump is getting ready to fly across the country for a campaign style rally in phoenix this evening. we expect he will touch on several hot button issues. >> melissa: yeah, without question. the president will get into a building the wall on the mexican border, he could get into the senate race and republican incumbent jeff flake who has criticized as weak and toxic just last week. let's bring in chief white house correspondent john roberts. a lot of fertile ground here, what do you think is going to happen? >> all of the above is probably the way it will go tonight. the president leaving for arizona and the next 45 minutes or so. as expected he will have a very friendly crowd inside the convention center, a place where he has spoken a couple of times before, i was there for one of them and he had a very big crowd. outside the convention center a very different scene. protests are being planned tonight. some people are upset with the president's comments about charlottesvill

patrick griffin is a former media consultant for republican presidential campaigns, simon rosenberg isr bill clinton campaign advisor. i have to ask both of you the same question. why did she write this, of all the things you could do right now, she's got all the money in the world, i don't understand. why write a book? >> let's look at the title, "what happened." she is reporting back to the tens of millions of americans that voted for her. as you pointed out in the audio clip, she is taking responsibility. she feels like she let people down and she wants to give her best take to explain what happened in the selection and why she did not win. >> melissa: i guess. that's probably the thing that makes the most sense. it's a topic that has been exhausted. everybody involved with this has come out and talked about what happened, including herself. she sat on stage and she's done it, there were a million other ways to do it, she could write a long piece for "the new york times." why write a whole entire book? >> two reasons, melissa. the clintons like money and i think she believes she can

ambassador and cabo. >> sandra: thank you, jennifer griffin. then, can you let us know what struck you last night as the president laid out his detailed plan? >> the most important thing is the president, when i heard his words, i realized that not only did he listen to the generals, but he listened to the soldiers as well and he brought in a number of soldiers who served there over the years passed, like myself, i was walking up to have lunch with him a couple of weeks ago to discuss afghanistan specifically. he listened to what we said in terms of here are the reasons why we have not been successful. there is really no clear and concise understanding of what soldiers were trying to accomplish. the diplomatic and military weren't working hand-in-hand and as vice president pence just said, there are so many strategies over the years. he listen to the generals, but also to the guys who have fought that fight on the ground and that gives me a lot of hope because as everybody knows, this is a president who campaigned and said he didn't really want

keith boykin, a former white house aide at strategist, a reporter for "the washington post," patrick griffin a campaign strategist and adviser to four presidential campaigns and cnn politics reporter and editor at large, chris cillizza. keith, let me start with you. you saw the anger in that room. then you heard the words of president trump last night, clearly trying on some level to make amends or start the healing process. do you think his words last night were enough to begin that healing process or are people not ready let go of this, yet. >> the two words i heard last week were moral clarity. i don't think the president, even when he tries to speak about an issue from the teleprompter or scripted remarks is speaking with moral clarity. you can't, on one day, talk about unity and the next day tweet about how you hate your enemies and these people are divisive and the outside agitators are anti-police. these are the type of mixed messages the president of the united states is communicating. it's time for the president and john kelly, if he's capable, to have a heart-to-heart with the amer

sweet lettuce griffin on the mound at the coliseum.second inning griffin wasn't thinking this was so sweet. matt olson with the deep drive to the right. a's have a 3-1 lead. matt chappie chapman, that was gone too. ten homers for chapman who is certainly a keeper after his mid-season call up. chappie doing it at the plate then in the field. rangers load the bases in the 8th with one out. blake treinen comes it many giving up a shot to mike napoli. chappie makes the grab. a's then put it away with four in their half -- their half of the inning winning 8-3. >>> chris herman the worm, a good pitching performance by chris stratton. he pitched six strong innings. this is one of those two-runs he allowed. j.d. martinez goes deep the other way ending up in the resort. just 2-0 when he was relieved. the ball game changed when matt cain entered the game with a two-run single to make it a 4-0 game. but things got much worse. paul goldschmidt unloaded with a three-run shot. j.d. martinez homered allowing just eight runs. a guy a huge part of the

jennifer griffin live at the pentagon.hey launch a missile, we have one of these flights. >> it's definitely a dangerous game of cat and mouse. the pentagon usually says these exercises are preplanned, but today, the u.s. pacific command said the drill and eastern south korea was a direct response to north korea firing over japan. they joined and live fire exercises on a military field and eastern south korea. according to a joint statement from u.s. pacific command and south korea defense ministry, the bombing raid simulated strikes against the north core facilities. the b-1 jets were flown from anderson air force base in guam, which north korea's leader has threatened to strike calling it a forward invasion base. 106,000 u.s. citizens live in guam. the f35 king from a u.s. base in japan. "north korea's actions are a threat to our allies, partners, and homeland and their destabilizing actions will be met accordingly." that according to general terence jay o'shaughnessy, commander of u.s. pacific air forces. he said that i

. >> eboni: with more on this development, will bring in jennifer griffin. what do you have?we have seen the reports. the pentagon is aware of the reports from the news agency, the south korean news agency with first reported within the last few minutes that the north koreans had fired a missile somewhere from a location near pyongyang. the reports from japan suggest that missile over flew northern japan. this is not the first time the north koreans have launched a missile with that kind of range. the first time they did so was in the '90s when they surprised the world by firing a missile. that was the first time that missile flew over japan and got the attention of the world. they have only done so three times. what's notable about the timing of this, and i've spoken to senior u.s. officials who said they had seen some sort of movement that suggested the north koreans were preparing for an intermediate range ballistic missile. but they weren't sure whether that was going to come. they were surprised it came today. remember, there are ten days of military exercises taking pla

jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon. >> the u.s.issile defense agency says it's successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of hawaii. the uss john paul jones, a guided missile destroyer, successfully launched a interceptor missile which intercepted the target fired from a base near kawai. it was designed to send a message to north korea. a day after it fired a ballistic missile over japan. defense secretary jim mattis hosted his south korean counterpart at the pentagon. >> we are never out of diplomatic solutions. >> that was not a message from the white house today. president trump tweeted "the u.s. has been talking to north korea and paying them extortion money for 25 years. talking is not the answer." north korea's leader promised to fire more missiles, describing the most recent launch as a meaningful prelude to pyongyang's effort to contain guam which a north korea newsreader described as an advanced base of invasion for the united states. the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, a

bret. >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. members of the u.s. army detail assigned to vice president pence's munication steamer sent home from panama earlier this month for bringing women back to the hotel. the pentagon says the soldiers were reassigned to the army and the incident is under investigation. it's not clear whether vice president pence was in panama when this occurred. legal experts say house housing secretary van carson probably did not violate federal law when he appeared with president trump ad of phoenix rally tuesday. the hatch act bars most executive branch officials from using their government positions to influence elections. spokesmen for the agency says carson did nothing wrong because he was there on a personal capacity, did not use taxpayer money, and did not discuss his duties during his speech. the state department says at least six teen americans working for the u.s. government in cuba suffered symptoms related to a covert sonic device. this is the first time we've been told how many employees were affected. we brough

. >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. another global story to update you on. associated press thing officials have suspended the third for five army soldiers in a helicopter crash during offer training in hawaii. we will bring you more information as we get it. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is guaranteeing congress will raise the debt ceiling. mcconnell told an audience in kentucky there is zero chance lawmakers will allow the country to default on its debt by voting not to increase borrowing limits. stocks mixed. dow gained 29. s&p 500 of 3. nasdaq los 3. was it good for you? total eclipse from coast-to-coast. depending where you were. a lights out experience and tonight the country reacts. one way come back. ♪ fitting into my skinny jeans again? that's cool. feeling good in slim fit? that's cool. looking fabulous in my little black dress? that's cool. getting the body you want without surgery, needles, or downtime? that's coolsculpting. coolsculpting is the only fda-cleared non-invasive treatment that targets and freezes away stubborn fat cells. vis

thanks to the quick thinking of drew griffin. happy it turned out the way that it did. >> well played, drew. >>> flooding continues to slam the u.s. oil industry forcing america's largest refinery to shut down. oil company motiva closing its port arthur refinery, won't reopen doors until floodwaters recede. that closure on top of 13 other key refineries already knocked off line, cutting about one-fifth of the nation's refining capacity. a major gas pipeline to the east coast is also shut down. that disruption means higher gas prices. they haven't budged much yet. the average, only up about six cents from last week. however, gas futures have risen 13% since friday. that spike will eventually trickle down to consumers, increasing prices somewhere between 15 to 25 cents nationwide. hopefully that will not take too long, will just be a short-term bump and come back to normal. >>> coming up, the president with a shift in tone after coming under fire for forgetting the victims during his visit to texas. we'll show you what he's saying

speak of the navy is down to codestroyers. >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. a down day on wall street. dow lost 88. s&p 500 down 8. nasdaq dropped 19. the self-proclaimed worldwide leader in sports has a tricky political situation on its hands tonight. fox news media analyst and host of fox's "media buzz" howard kurtz tells us about espn's latest acquiescence to political correctness. >> this is robert e. lee, confederate general. a divisive historical figure whose statures have become the focus of a racially charged debate like the deadly protest in charlottesville. this is robert lee, asian american, a college football announcer for espn. he, not the general who died in 1870, was scheduled to call a university of virginia football game in early september, but do sports network yanked him and assigned him to a game in pittsburgh to avoid offending any uva cavaliers fans. the blog which broke the story called it pathetic. espn statement said "in the wake of the charlottesville tragedy, -- tragedy, the decision was made." many news outlets have been kicking ar

jennifer griffin just giving us that breaking news. ashley: interesting.tick with the flooding story out of texas, going too far. texans are struggling in deadly flooding waters, trying to keep their neighbors safe, critics say a "politico" cartoon crosses the line. we'll have the backlash to this next. en we asked some older peoe when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us aren't prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. it's going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today, we'll all be better prepared tomorrow. prudential. bring your challenges. (con artists...) they'll try anything to get your medicare card number. so they can steal your identity, commit medicare fraud. what can you do? guard your card? guard your card? just like your credit card. nobody gets my number, unless i know they should have it. to protect your identity, new medicare cards without social security numbers will be mailed next year. visit

vanessa griffin, the director of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. suit, the uniform there, brian. thety associate director of national resort steward science administration in washington. thomas, to you. >> thank you so much rain. duane. >> sometimes we forget that we are sitting on a planet that is turning on its axis. there is a celestial body right next to it, our moon. everything in the space, and the field of our star, the sun. it gives us life and is supporting everything we do. it is also the rosetta stone of all-stars. what we learn about stars we first learn from the sun. the eclipse is important because alignmentes come into in a cosmic moment that we are all part of. these cosmic moments when nature speaks to us in an emotional way sometimes come loud like thunderstorms, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes. this one will be silent. all of a sudden, day will turn tonight and back again. animals, around us, will react to it. this emotion is important. you should talk to anyone who has seen such an eclipse. for me, the story i remember is my gra

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. >> national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports from the pentagon. >> it is the latest incident marking an increase of high profile military aviation mishaps, four marines and sailor showed signs of decompression sickness, on board a marine cargo plane. it lost pressure at 21,000 feet. while in hawaii, five army soldiers remain missing, after their blackhawk helicopter crashed tuesday night, during a routine nighttime training flight. late last week, the us marine corpse grounded its entire aircraft fleet, some 80050 jets, helicopter, and ospreys, after two recent deadly crashes killed 18 marines and a sailor. so far this year, there have been 14 non-combat aviation crashes involving us military aircraft. 40% higher than this point a year ago. the up-tick in crashes has the chairman of the house arm services committee concerned. >> we're working these airplanes beyond their design life. >> just last month for the first time in the fight against isis, the us navy was forced to grounds an entire f18 fighter squadron, after two pilots suffered from decompression sickness.

the newshour's julia griffin explains. >> reporter: brazil's copacabana beach. rome's colosseum.or india's taj mahal. pick one for your vacation destination. or, see all three in one afternoon-- on a much smaller scale. >> we wanted to give the impression that even though we are dealing with very small things, this is huge. >> reporter: eiran gazit is the co-founder of gulliver's gate-- a world of miniatures the size of a football field, in new york city's time square. >> i believe the way to create the experience properly was that each area would reflect its own flavor, tastes, smell and even the things that are important to that area. >> reporter: achieving that required a team of 600 artists from eight countries. gazit's partner, michael langer: >> in russia, it was building the russian section. in rimini, italy, they were building the european section. and by doing that, we not only got the authenticity, but we also got a diversity of design. >> reporter: among the highlights? >> i'm very fond of the panama canal. i love how the water functions through the amazon and turns in

it's very tough right now. >> all right, drew griffin, thank you very much. that's it for me.ftermath of hurricane harvey continues with all of our brave teams on the ground. ground. stay with us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> all right, jim, thank you. we'll take it from here. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. you're watching cnn's special live coverage of the catastrophic aftermath that is hurricane harvey, and the new threat facing the flood-ravaged state of texas. get out now. that is the stark warning to folks who live just south of houston as the river levees

defense department, my colleague in the pentagon, jennifer griffin traveled a year ago to two marinew marine aircraft and about 70% cannot fly predominate beside, a few months later, a similar story. about half the navy strike fighters, particularly the old legacy hornet model can't fly. for a long time everyone put the blame on a problem with equipment but now as you've just saw with mccain and fitzgerald, just a few months ago aboard the uss george h.w. bush, in the middle of strikes in the mediterranean, a deployed fire squadron had to be grounded. nf 18 hornets were grounded for an entire week in the middle. pilots suffered from decompression sickness and so a lot of people are raising a lot of questions about the readiness of the u.s. military. >> that's a very sobering assessment of what's going on. the president will be giving an address tomorrow. we don't know what he will say. we do know when he disembarked he was alerted to the fact, that the uss mccain had gone through this mishap and his response at that time, at the time he said it's too bad. indeed it is too bad for tho

national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the pentagon perspective. >> good evening. defense secretary james mattis made a surprise visit to iraq today to shore up allies but also to help promote the president's new policy on afghanistan. >> i prefer not to go into those numbers right now. i have directed the chairman to put the blame together. >> this is the top u.s. commander for the middle east says the first new u.s. forces will arrive in afghanistan within days or weeks. >> america's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. stick with the president opted to keep u.s. troops in afghanistan for as long as it ts based and not a blank check and this time there are no timetables for withdrawal. >> i will not say when we are going to attack. but attack we will. >> the plan will rely on the state department. >> have that talent and understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one but neither will you. at some point, we have to come to the negotiating table and find a way to brings to an end. sticker democrats pounced on the

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