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On Wednesday October 4, the news carried an apocalyptic version of our country with its chaotic national and foreign policy politics; its epidemic of Americans massacred by fellow Americans fatally attracted to assault weapons; and climate change denial in the face of a trifecta of record-breaking hurricanes. Our world is closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1960s.
An effort to accomplish that kicked off Saturday afternoon when the group Public Water Now held a rally at Laguna Grande Park. There were petitions available for signing, a chance to donate to the cause and to be videotaped while telling about experiences dealing with California American Water's Monterey District Water System.
Red flags fly at Navarre Beach, Florida indicating that people should not swim in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Nate approaches the Gulf Coast, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. This enhanced infrared satellite image made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Nate in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017 at 2:15 p.m. EDT.
We end today's show where we began the week: in Puerto Rico . Doctors say the island's health system remains crippled two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island , leaving more than 90 percent of the island without electricity and half of its residents without drinking water.
You will see story after story in the news about how hurricanes are stronger and more frequent. They will tell you that Harvey and Irma are the worst-ever storms and are unprecedented.
Puerto Rican society is starting to mirror the island's jarring post-Maria natural landscape, where the ghostly gray-brown of wind-slashed tropical trees is already being overtaken by the iridescent green of emphatic new growth. Roberto Figueroa Caballero sits on a small table in his destroyed home Oct. 5 in the La Perla neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
It is forecast to make landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Friday with up to 8 inches of rain. An advisory from the US National Hurricane Center said warnings had been issued for portions of the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastlines, with the storm expected to hit the region late Saturday or early Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane.
As thousands of troops and government workers struggle to restore normal life to Puerto Rico , a small group of scientists is racing to save more than 1,000 monkeys whose brains may contain clues to some of the most important mysteries of the human mind. One of the first places Hurricane Maria hit in the US territory Sept.
Dressed in a threadbare purple cardigan and stained grey Crocs, Ines Cabrera limps over to her Chevy Colorado and cracks open the passenger window. A torrent of high-pitched yelps escape from inside.
With Tropical Storm Nate forecast to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast over the weekend, New Orleans is bracing for the possibility of hurricane conditions, including flooding as parts of the city's drainage system are not in full working order. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu declared a state of emergency on Thursday, urging residents not to panic, but rather to make preparations.
Nate Champ, with Wolfe House & Building Movers places boards under a home for support while raising a house on Church Street , Lumberton, off its foundation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.
As thousands of troops and government workers struggle to restore normal life to Puerto Rico, a small group of scientists is racing to save more than 1,000 monkeys whose brains may contain clues to some of the most important mysteries of the human mind. One of the first places Hurricane Maria hit in the U.S. territory Sept.
The White House asked Congress on Wednesday to approve $29 billion in additional hurricane relief and debt forgiveness, seeking to help Puerto Rico and other battered areas and to shore up the troubled federal program that provides flood insurance to homes and small businesses. The request came nearly a month after lawmakers approved a first installment of $15 billion in disaster relief, taking action after Hurricane Harvey caused devastation in Texas and while Hurricane Irma was heading toward Florida.
The official death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico has increased to 34 from 16, the U.S. territory's governor said Tuesday. Gov. Ricardo Rossello also said he believes the hurricane that struck on Sept.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Confronting Puerto Rico's devastation nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump highlighted the island's relatively low death toll compared with "a real catastrophe like Katrina" as he opened a tour of the island Tuesday by focusing on the best of the reviews he and his administration are getting for the ... (more)
President Donald Trump will come face to face with Puerto Ricans struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria on Tuesday, amid criticism that the federal government's response has been sluggish. Pushing back, Trump has faulted local officials as "politically motivated ingrates."
President Donald Trump is heading to San Juan on Tuesday to meet with some of the 3.4 million Puerto Ricans struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria, as criticism that the federal government's response has been sluggish continues. The president is expected to spend more than five hours on the island, meeting with first responders, local officials and some of the residents struggling to recover from a hurricane that, in Trump's words, left the island U.S. territory "flattened."
President Donald Trump on Sunday scoffed at "politically motivated ingrates" who had questioned his administration's commitment to rebuilding Puerto Rico after a pulverizing hurricane and said the federal government had done "a great job with the almost impossible situation." Trump's latest tweets sought to defend Washington's attentiveness to recovery efforts on a U.S. territory in dire straits almost two weeks after Hurricane Maria struck.
People take water from a tank in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, on September 30, 2017, due to the lack of water after the passage of Hurricane Maria. US military and emergency relief teams ramped up their aid efforts for Puerto Rico amid growing criticism of the response to the hurricanes which ripped through the Caribbean island.
Matt Yglesias has written a good overview of what we now know about Trump in a crisis. It's not good: For the first nine months of his administration, observers have had occasion to wonder - and wonder, and wonder, and wonder - how exactly Donald Trump would manage to handle a real crisis imposed by external events rather than his own impulsiveness.