Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. Irma churns through the caribbean towards florida, one week after harvey slams into texas. But who bears the cost . And earning a degree in winemaking. Find out why this dude and are choosing to learn the trade in australia. These students. Welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. As youve been hearing newsday, Hurricane Irma is barrelling through the caribbean towards the us. Irma arrives a little over a week after Hurricane Harvey slammed into texas, which caused severe flooding and displaced more than 1 which caused severe flooding and displaced more thani Million People. The damage bill from Hurricane Harvey is currently estimated at about 180 billion, with much of the bill going towards the taxpayers. Earlier i spoke to someone the taxpayers. Earlier i spoke to someone from Research House and asked who is likely to foot the bill. The range of damage can vary tremendously, however the consequences for the
Danger there might have been here seems to be clearing up. Still some police and Fire Department activity going on in and around the Bridges Academy middle school here on mclaughlin avenuenr near phalen avenue, an as you can see behind me officers say that this is an example of Public Safety eight sis not taking any chances for the police squad and thqi bomb squad and other crews responding to this call quickly, evacuated the school and cordoned off the neighborhood. Now, were told a School Custodian discovered a backpack with a 750 mill liter bottle labeled nitroglycerin as well as other chemical and formula references on it. The bomb squad took the backpack and container to an area off the parking lot. Students and staff were taken to the cafeteria and experts have taken that fluid and container to an offsite facility and are inspecting the suspicious fluid. The bottle or device has been collect by the bomb squad. We have that in our custody and well do a methodical search and go and
All lanes for a time. No injuries were reported. The cause of the crash still under investigation tonight. Camden is continuing its push to demolish vacant and abandoned buildings in the city. Officials want to get rid of these eyesores to pave the way for redevelopment. Nora muchanic has an update on the efforts to rid camdens neighborhoods of polite. Reporter heavy equipment is demolishing an old medical office on the 1200 block of kaighn avenue in camdens gateway neighborhood. The city is using a 3 milliondollar state loan to clear away vacant and abandoned commercial Properties Like this. Were struggling and working hard to rebuild camden and so this is a step forward to clear this site that will hopefully attract development to this particular site. This building has been like this for several years now and were trying to bring some new businesses here to the city. Reporter in the last year and a half the city has knocked down about 600 vacant houses. What officials call the large
That all that water caused a lot of emotion. The earth shifted meaning the soil, of course, and they had to cut a larger than expected hole as you see there to replace all that washed away. At 3 00 this morning emergency crews found water bubbling from two spots in the pavement. Water had already made its way to nearby garages. The loading dock at the Marriott Hotel also flooded. Very little, if any, damage to any of the properties. There was some flooding spillage into a couple of other garages in the area. Reporter the new mosconi underground station is part of the new project and it, too, got flooded and construction there is still going on. While there was a reduction in water pressure, service to people who live and work there was never interrupted. The water from the 12inch pipe was rerouted. A huge hole in the old pipe was discovered. Crews worked quickly to replace that section of the right above it is a much larger 30inch distribution line. This is a castiron pipe. First insta
With ann coulter . Reporter good morning, kris. I spoke with police right before this Community Event taking place behind me, and they made it clear they will be there for Uc Berkeley Police if they need help on this ann coulter visit thats taking place either this week or next week, but essentially this is the jurisdiction of Uc Berkeley Police, and they will be there for mutual aid. Of course, this whole firestorm started with ann coulter when her event was scheduled for this thursday. It was cancelled by University Officials due to security concerns, and then days later the university tried to reschedule that event to next week. Now in the meantime, student organizers are suing the university claiming they are restricting their free speech by cancelling the coulter event. And this all comes months after the Milo Yiannopoulos protest that turned violent in february. We spoke to students about the latest controversy. Im not a republican and i dont like ann coulter and not a fan of yia