Welcome to FOX News First. Not signed up yet? Click here. Developing now, Monday, September 10, 2018 Virginia and North and South Carolina are under states of emergency after Hurricane Florence strengthened Sunday, and weather forecasters predicted it could become a major storm that batters the southeast U.S. later in the week Trump administration officials urged the anonymous purported senior White House official behind last week’s anti-Trump New York Times op-ed to resign and indicated an investigation may be needed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly has approved a gas attack in the Idlib province, the country’s last rebel stronghold, despite a warning by President Trump last week CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves stepped down Sunday amid new allegations of sexual conduct A Dallas police officer who shot and killed a black man in his apartment after she mistook him for an intruder in her own home has been charged with manslaughter THE LEAD STORY – BRACING FOR FLORENCE: Hurricane Florence regained its strength Sunday as weather officials predicted it will turn into a “major” storm as it aims for a possible hit on the southeastern U.S. later this week … According to the National Hurricane Center, Florence is “forecast to become a major hurricane on Monday,” and is expected to grow larger and move faster over the next few days. On Sunday, The storm crossed the 74 miles-per-hour threshold from tropical storm to hurricane, and by evening its winds were up to 85 mph. Forecasters warned that it could be a fearsome Category 4 with winds of 130 mph or more by Tuesday. The hurricane center said it’s too early to know what path the storm will take, but that it could hit the Carolinas by Thursday. Forecasters urged residents from South Carolina to the mid-Atlantic to get ready. The governors of North and South Carolina, along with Virginia, have declared states of emergency in preparation for the storm. INVESTIGATING ‘ANONYMOUS’: President Trump’s top officials on Sunday said the anonymous senior White House aide who allegedly wrote the infamous New York Times op-ed last week should leave the administration and that an investigation could be needed … “If they are that senior administration official — they’re violating an oath, not to the president, but to the Constitution,” Vice President Mike Pence told “FOX News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace. “Look, it’s un-American. And I think that’s why you’ve seen Republicans and Democrats condemn this.” President Trump, Pence said, was concerned about the national security implications of the op-ed. “To have someone who literally celebrates coming in every day to frustrate the agenda that the president and I were elected to advance — it really is an assault on our democracy,” he said. Pence added that he would be willing to take a lie-detector test to prove he was not behind the op-ed. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway told CNN “there can be an investigation if there is criminal activity.” President Trump, Conway indicated, is concerned the anonymous op-ed writer could leak information if he or she is trying to undermine his agenda. “We also don’t know what this person has said to try
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