Trump Deals with Democrats; Seoul: Expect North Korea to Launch ICBM.
HERERA: So, President Trump will return to Camp David Friday with his entire cabinet. They are expected to tackle the widening nuclear crisis in North Korea and tax reform. Funding the government also front and center after the president stunned Republican leaders by cutting a deal with Democrats on a short-term debt ceiling increase.</s>BRIGGS: The agreement funds the government and gets Hurricane Harvey relief money flowing. But by siding with the Democrats, the president infuriated Republicans and gave Democrats all the leverage here. One GOP senate aide telling CNN the move killed any hope of any hope of the president advancing the agendas this year. Ryan Nobles has more from Capitol Hill.</s>RYAN NOBLES, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Dave and Christine, good morning. There was a breakthrough here on Capitol Hill Wednesday, but it was not necessarily the breakthrough that we expected. Donald Trump striking a deal primarily with the Democrats. What he's essentially said is that the Senate and the House will pass a package that will provide the much-needed aid to the hurricane-ravaged sections of Texas and Louisiana, but at the same time, pass a continuing resolution that will keep the budget funded and take care of the debt ceiling. It's a short-term fix that will only take three months. And while Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he and his caucus will go along with the plan, there are several Republicans who are a little leery. So far, it is just a small group of Senate Republicans who said they will not support this package, likely not enough to keep it from passing, but it does show that there are some cracks in the Republican Congress as they try and push forward on some of the big- ticket issue items that are still on the agenda. And while it is likely that this Harvey aid package will pass both the Senate and the House, it essentially just pushes off many of these big decisions on the budget and the debt ceiling to December. In fact, it will be right around the time that Congress is ready to go home for the Christmas holiday -- Dave and Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Ryan Nobles, thanks for that, Ryan. South Korea now says it expects North Korea to launch another intercontinental ballistic missile on Saturday. The South Korean prime minister told a meeting of defense ministers the situation is grave, and he expects another launch marking this weekend's anniversary of the day North Korea was founded.</s>BRIGGS: Also overnight, Russian President Vladimir Putin with some harsh words for President Trump on the North Korea crisis. Putin said inflating military hysteria is counterproductive and asked, quote, why are you playing along with it? He says Pyongyang is counting on a specific reaction, and they're getting it.</s>ROMANS: All right. Let's get a check on CNN "Money Stream" this morning. Stocks futures in the U.S. falling this morning, but stock markets in Europe and Asia mostly higher. Investors encouraged by President Trump's debt ceiling deal. But those worries about North Korea and the economic effects of the hurricanes still lingering here. Facebook telling congressional investigators it sold political ads during the presidential election to a so-called Russian "troll farm" that was looking to target American voters. Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos says a review found 470 inauthentic accounts bought roughly 3,000 ads from the summer of 2015 through spring 2017. The costs, about $100,000. The ads were both traditional and sponsored posts that were intended to sow discord among voters by amplifying decisive social and political messages, that's according to Facebook. Those range from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights. We can't show the ads because Facebook has not released them. All right. Pop quiz -- what do you do if you're a billionaire and there's a category-five hurricane barreling toward your private island? You hunker down in your wine cellar. Billionaire Richard Branson sent out this tweet from his home on Necker Island. Quote: expecting full force of Hurricane Irma in about four hours. Will retreat to a concrete wine cellar under the house. After the storm passed, his son posted that everyone was OK, but the storm destroyed some buildings on the property. He warns those in Irma's path not to take this hurricane lightly.</s>BRIGGS: Would we expect anything less of Sir Richard Branson? Absolutely not.</s>ROMANS: When I saw that, I was nervous. A wine cellar underground, storm surge, didn't sound like a very good idea to me.</s>BRIGGS: No.</s>ROMANS: But sounds like everyone is OK.</s>BRIGGS: But a Branson-esque handling of a hurricane.</s>ROMANS: Yes.</s>BRIGGS: All right. EARLY START continues right now with the latest projections for Hurricane Irma.</s>ROMANS: A storm so powerful it has flattened an island, smashed the instruments trying to measure it, left meteorologists out of adjectives to describe it. Irma barreling toward south Florida where the Miami mayor has called it a nuclear hurricane. A new update from the National Hurricane Center just moments away.</s>BRIGGS: And the deal-making president finally strikes a deal, albeit with Democrat leaders. Now Trump's own party is shell-shocked, forced to accept Democratic terms to raise the debt ceiling. He did promise he makes great deals. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Dave Briggs.</s>ROMANS: And Democrats are -- Republicans saying, what's the deal?</s>BRIGGS: Yes, Democrats agree.</s>ROMANS: What's the deal? I'm Christine Romans. It's Thursday, September 7th. It is 5:00 a.m. in the East. Let's begin with this monster hurricane, Irma, taking aim at Florida after it left a trail of destruction in the Caribbean. Right now, Irma remains a very strong category five hurricane. This is a rare, rare storm here. It's packing a 180-mile-an-hour winds as it moves along the northern end of the Dominican Republic. Before it reaches the U.S. mainland, territories and islands out in the Atlantic have been battered. The death toll rising overnight, nine people now killed in the storm. That number expected to climb.