Extinction of parasites that are critical to natural ecosystems and could add to the planets si xth mass extinction. We will speak with the elizabeths winning author and scientist Colin Carlson hurrics impact on haiti and the caribbean. Hurricane irma is the strongest and largest storm ever that has come out of the atlantic. It caused devastation throughout haitiribbean, texas, and was severely damaged by this. Amy and we will hear voices of the earthquake in mexico. The survivors. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least four people have died and nearly 6 Million People are without power in florida after Hurricane Irma made landfall on sunday on the florida keys as a category 4 hurricane. The storm also flooded the streets of downtown miami, turning the citys main strip brickell avenue, into a , threefoot high raging river. Its arrival sparked one of the largest Mass Evacuations in u. S. History, wit
Him and overcoming difficulty. The opioid explosion, were on the line as the dogs sniff it out in the mail room. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Sex always will be an important part of the book because sex is probably the single thing that men are most interested in. America remembers a cultural icon. What i tried to do from the very beginning was to give sex a good name. The ultimate playboy hugh hefner has died at the age of 91. Its time for a change, kids. You know youre up for it. A lot of it is caught in a bottleneck waiting to get out. This is a revolutionary change. President trump unveiled a sweeping new tax plan. Is the senate going to get it done . Wed better get it done. And the answer is yes. The university of louisville now placing its head basketball coach rick pitino on an unpaid leave. I think its the beginning of the end for the ncaa. An suv was caught in Running Water with the driver trapped inside. All that the championship
Market is close but the equity market is open. Were halfway into the day, abigail. Abigail we are halfway into the day and seeing stocks trade in a tight range on the day. We are looking at mixed trading action. The dow and tech trading higher. The s p 500 is down fractionally. The dow and nasdaq have put in alltime highs so the moves may be small but once again we are looking at records. This ahead of earnings season. This could reflect why we have stocks besides the columbus day holiday a bit on pause. Earning season does, of course, kick off this week. Investors may be wondering whats ahead. This is 6054. Back in 2015 and 2016 we had a bit of an earnings recession where they dropped on a year over year basis but earnings strength has returned. The question is whether or not we could see another sequential decline and whether or not earnings could grow above 10 or less than 10 for the Third Quarter. We will of course know season. But that could, again, be one reason investors are not
Will be our guest on the bus. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Now, federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator testifies at a Senate Hearing committee on the federal response to the hurricanes that recently hit the u. S. Territories. This hearing has come to order. On the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. But the circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and send them our thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. There is still blockages to worry about it additional surgery that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts. Thank you. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, for what you are about to answer in terms of our questions
Its not fair. He was only 17. He had so much to live forits not fair. We were just talking about our summer trip to disneyland and now that will never happenthe mayor tells me they plan on making this a memorial site so families can continue to visit in the future. Reporting live from alameda. steve happening now at 11. The ramp now at 11. Happening steve alameda. From alameda. steve happening now at 11. The ramp connecting northbound interstate880 to southbound 238 in san lorzeno is still closed. After a big rig carrying Hazardous Material overturned spilling the dangerous acid. The crash happened around eleven this morning. A building near the area was evacuated as a precaution. And the driver suffered minor injuries. Alameda county fire says about 500 gallons of acid leaked from totes onto the roadway and soil. Nearby storm drains not impacted. Crews are still out there tonight cleaning up the acid on the highway. As of right now no word on when it will be back open steve a shooting