[Blackwell:] All right. Bottom left of your screen there shows that Hurricane Harvey is over land. The eye now over land there, dumping feet of rain, we're expecting over the next several days. You see in the top left, the forecast showing it will be over land throughout the weekend. And as we're watching the storm, we're also watching what is coming out of the White House overnight. Let's start with president Donald Trump pardoning former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. We know he was a staunch Trump supporter; still is. Arpaio was recently convicted of criminal contempt for violating a judge's order in a racial profiling case and continuing to target immigrants at traffic stops. He was awaiting sentencing when the pardon came down. Joe Arpaio has been controversial and for some a divisive figure in Arizona politics for decades. CNN's Sara Sidner takes a closer look at his legacy and his relationship with the president.
[Sara Sidner, Cnn Correspondent:] The case against Arpaio and his department's behavior began in 2007. A class action lawsuit accused him of implementing a policy of racial profiling and unlawful traffic stops of Latinos. Arpaio was sued, accused of encouraging his deputies to detain people for no other reason that they were suspected of being in the country illegally. Known for his tough speak, his department's workplace raids, the tent city where inmates were housed and the pink underwear he made inmates wear, Arpaio argued his department was simply enforcing the law.
[Joe Arpaio, Former Arizona Sheriff:] I'm the elected sheriff, I report directly to the people and I'm not going to be subservient to the federal government when they have come up with no proof.
[Sidner:] But Arpaio lost his argument in a civil lawsuit. In 2013, a federal judge put an injunction in place, ordering the department to halt unconstitutional policing practices. According to prosecutors and a federal judge, Arpaio and his deputies defied the order. Arpaio claimed the order wasn't clear and he didn't mean to violate it. But a federal judge found Arpaio showed a flagrant disregard for the court's order. His critics cheered the decision.
[Unidentified Female:] Racism in any form is wrong and Joe Arpaio, again, has been the center of racist policies and racist attitudes and he has been criminally convicted.
[Sidner:] From the start in 1999, when Sheriff Joe Arpaio was elected to office, he began an crusade against undocumented immigrants. His deputies' actions terrified not only the undocumented but anyone who looked like they could be.
[Arpaio:] Donald Trump will build a wall.
[Sidner:] Arpaio's fiery speech and immigration policies gave him a kind of celebrity status in conservative circles and a kinship with the man who would become the 45th president Sara Sidner, CNN, Los Angeles.
[Paul:] And we also this morning have to talk about what's going on with North Korea because North Korea launched three missiles overnight. This just a week after secretary of state Rex Tillerson praised North Korea for showing restraint with its weapons program. CNN's senior diplomatic correspondent Michelle Kosinski walks us through what's happened now.
[Michelle Kosinski, Cnn White House Correspondent:] Based on the assessment from U.S. Pacific Command, these are three short-range missiles that all failed, two of them in flight, one exploded almost immediately at launch. To put this in perspective, it was just last month that North Korea launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles, you know, seen as a real provocation. One of them flew more than 500 miles. After that, the U.S. president threatened "fire and fury" on North Korea, saying the U.S. was "locked and loaded" after North Korea also threatened to strike the U.S. territory of Guam. And the U.S. believes that North Korea has been steadily moving toward miniaturizing a nuclear weapon. So after all of that tough talk and threats, things quieted down. North Korea hasn't launched anything for weeks and now this. But you have to keep in mind, this comes right in the middle of a 10- day period, when the U.S. and South Korea are working together on military exercises, yes, as a counter to the North Korean threat. But North Korea always sees this collaboration as a threat. So this may well be the reason why Kim Jong-un decided to launch this now, that he wanted to do something, assert himself, express displeasure, by launching short-range missiles but not wanting to fan the flames too much Michelle Kosinski, CNN, the State Department.
[Paul:] Since that report was filed we just want to make clear, the U.S. Pacific commander, David Benham, has said the first and third missiles launched did fly approximately 250 kilometers in the northeast direction, not considered to be failures, so to speak.
[Blackwell:] Well, this morning, the U.S. military is searching for a missing service member after a Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a training exercise.
[Paul:] This happened off the coast of Yemen yesterday. Five service members who were also on board were rescued following that crash. But the military says an investigation is getting under way.
[Blackwell:] Ahead, a man in Texas rides out Hurricane Harvey at home with his family. He will tell us what it was like when it hit.