And the clean up efforts after Hurricane Irma have just begun. In the caribbean, which was hit last week, some areas still need food and basic supplies. In the British Virgin islands, there has been criticism over the uk governments slow response but 1,000 british troops are now there helping with the relief effort. 0ur correspondent laura bicker has been to the Remote Island ofjost van dyke in the British Virgin islands and sent this report. The idyllic shores and secluded bays ofjost van dyke were no match for Hurricane Irmas wrath. She tore through the island, stripping away years of hard work in just a few hours. This would normally be a place to escape to. Some may now describe it as a place to escape from. But not those who live here. This was the bar here. This man has lost everything he built. His bar, his restaurant, and his home. And yet, he is determined to start again. First have to get it cleaned up. First have to clean it up. Take out all this stuff. A lot of work. Do you
Have showers offshore but staying out there for now. This system is dropping in and sweeping through the visibility will be sparkling with that smoke and haze long gone. We have clear moving in with 48 at lakeport and santa rosa, 44 in kelseyville, calistoga, windsor, sebastopol, rohnert park and all in the 40s. Do north at 20 at the Half Moon Bay, west at sfo, oakland and hayward, gusting up to 30 eight 38 miles an hour and that is a cool breeze moving in. We have 60s and 70s, cool is the rule. We have mr. Sal castaneda oh. We dont have a lot going on but we do have slow traffic as you would imagine. Lets take a look at the tracy commute with a lot of slow traffic already on 580 westbound and on 205 four the people coming in from tracy. The speeds are not too low but there are some slow speeds, for example, after the 580 and 205 on 580 down to 15 miles an hour. At the main part of livermore and pleasanton we are at the speed limit and 70. Actually even a little more is what the road s
[applause] thank you very much. C with him back to the afternoon session of the National Security forum. My name is juan zarate and im the chairman of ft center and sanctions and finance but if you are here morning i was privileged to be able to sit down with director pompeo for what i thought was a really interesting conversation and i hope you did as well. Bear in mind that we are not just people in this room, great goodlooking crowd by the way but we are being livestream so we need to be on our best behavior. I have the distinct honor and privilege of introducing this afternoon session and first of all kudos to have ftd and cliff may in the whole team for settling this discussion with two of the most important if not the most important figures in National Security is circling now with the National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster with us this afternoon so a real honor and privilege i think for olivas to have general mcmaster with us today. I have been asked to introduce general mcmas
For Peace Program is the focus on the Senate Foreign relations hearing. We will hear from the director, Catholic Relief Services an official from the Government Accountability office. This runs about an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing a humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide in need of food aid. The us continues to be the world leader providing more than a third of all food aid. Over 2 billion annually. Sadly despite our generosity there are shortfalls for whats needed due to other donor nations not meeting the challenge and in next years farm bill deliberations women opportunity to do more without having to spend more money. A little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill with our food for Peace Program. The farm bill requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from us farmers after which must be shipped on us vessels according to cargo preference rules. Of these restrictions resulting spe
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