Nevermind that Donald Trump Jr. testified before a Senate committee today (about his admitted meeting with Russians in June 2016), or that President Trump made an agreement with the Democrats on Wednesday*, blindsiding the leadership of the Republican Party. It’s all about the Category 5 monster hurricane Irma coming for Florida. There are gas shortages and the interstate freeways are clogged, as some 500,000 residents were told to evacuate to safer areas up north. Hotel and motel rooms as far away as Atlanta are said to be sold out. There were long lines at Miami, and other airports with people trying to get out before the airports close down on Friday.
*To raise the debt ceiling until December, and to provide $15 billion of funding for hurricane Harvey
