logics and supply chain management, prepositioning of supplies, as you were describing there, that seems like the sort of thing that we saw go so disastrously wrong for example in the hurricane maria response in puerto rico. it was one thing to say that puerto rico was in danger and in a fragile place when it came to the winds and rain of that storm. what fell apart and why maria ended um being such a fatal disaster, nearly 300,000 americans killed, ended up being such a disaster, the plans, the supply chain weren t managed. cbs was broadcasting images of thousands of pallets of bottled water that never got distributed to people in puerto rico and still to this day, a year after hurricane maria hit, those water bottles are sitting on a runway. it seems like supply chain management is the difference between life and death in terms of hurricane response. it is the difference between life and death. people who watch fema will tell
area. market stall vendors, one told the associated press that she was in a taxi when the quake struck. she said she saw glass bursting out. a number of buildings according to the associated press have been seriously damaged. a 7.1. you can see local television stations are broadcasting images of this. the united states geological survey says they calculate this earthquake struck central mexico as a 7.1, which is about 76 miles south and east of mexico city. so the center was not in mexico city but the first pictures are from mexico city. so far nothing from 76 miles to the southeast. mexico s government says it was
muhammad, tell us who brought the last groups out? well, brianna, this is what could be a major turning point in this war, something people thought four years ago would not be possible, the announcement made a few moments ago on syrian state television. they re broadcasting images of people celebrate in the streets and firing into the air. what it means once it s confirmed by opposition groups is that the city of aleppo, which was the opposition base for so many years, will no longer be divided. the government of bashar al assad will control the entire city and this also means that bashar al assad will likely outlast imagine that president obama. something we thought wouldn t have been possible a few years ago but this has been possible because red cross teams on the ground have been supervising the last wave of these evacuations. most civilians were evacuated and all that left were fighters and their families on the ground. those evacuations taking place, the red cross gave us a
but people in jerusalem are changing the calculation. i understand there was no stop in attacks from the assad regime, and in fact we might ask what president assad is saying today. president assad is doubling down, both in terms of words and in terms of action. still out on the battlefield today, syrian state tv was broadcasting images of a battle going on, and the rebels are still on the run in syria,ñr ill equipped, and president assad is pounding away. today president assad said he thought a strike by the united states would launch a regional war here in the middle east and threatened to attack israel. the civil war is still going on fiercely as there s brinksmanship between the united states and syria going on. one officer on state tv there in syria said that we are going to continue per suing the rebels, quote, until we kill every last one of them, and you can t
this hour about the issues at hand. also meet the new generation of flash mobs. kids using social media to commit crimes. what happened to the days of dancing and singing in the middle of the mall? hello, everyone. i m don lemon. we start with breaking news. there s a lot of news. i want to get you caught up. it s out of libya tonight. a rebel spokesman says anti-government troops have now entered the capital. and cnn s senior correspondent matthew chance is live in tripoli. we spoke with you not long ago. what are you seeing and hearing now? reporter: the situation appears to have calmed a little since we last spoke, don. there s still sporadic outbursts of gunfire across the city that we can hear periodically, every few minutes or so. clearly the situation isn t as calm as the government authorities are telling us that it is. we ve had a press conference within the last hour or so with the libyan government spokesperson. he says that a number of armed small odd number