Hurricane harvey tops 63, we will look at the fallout from the historic storm in a spspecil report from houston, texas, the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry in the united ststates. We will take you on a toxic tour of the city from the flooded Oil Refineries spewing contaminants into the air of neighborhoods, so often poor commmmunities s of cocol. Plus, wewe attend a a fundraiseo pay for the e funerals of four rescue volunteerers who were electrocuted when their small boat was swept away by churning floodwaters. They were undocumented. Then we visit with the father of the Environmental Justice movement dr. Robert bullard after he returned to his houston home after a mandatory evacuation. How can we make invisible communities visible yucca those communities who have been inundated of pollution before the storm yucca when a storm like this, happens, it exposes that vulnerability. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report
Industry in the United States. We will take you on a toxic tour of the city from the flooded Oil Refineries spewing contaminants into the air of neighborhoods, so often poor communities of color. Plus, we attend a fundraiser to pay for the funerals of four rescue volunteers who were electrocuted when their small boat was swept away by churning floodwaters. They were undocumented. Then we visit with the father of the Environmental Justice movement dr. Robert bullard after he returned to his houston home after a mandatory evacuation. How can we make invisible communities visible yucca those communities who have been inundated of pollution before the storm yucca when a storm like this, happens, it exposes that vulnerability. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. North korea carried out its strongestever nuclear test sunday, just days after the u. S. And south korea wrapped up their massive joint military d
Hurricane harvey tops 63, we will look at the fallout from the historic storm in a spspecil report from houston, texas, the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry in the united ststates. We will take you on a toxic tour of the city from the flooded Oil Refineries spewing contaminants into the air of neighborhoods, so often poor commmmunities s of cocol. Plus, wewe attend a a fundraiseo pay for the e funerals of four rescue volunteerers who were electrocuted when their small boat was swept away by churning floodwaters. They were undocumented. Then we visit with the father of the Environmental Justice movement dr. Robert bullard after he returned to his houston home after a mandatory evacuation. How can we make invisible communities visible yucca those communities who have been inundated of pollution before the storm yucca when a storm like this, happens, it exposes that vulnerability. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report
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
Commute. Yes. Just reality. Mid winter, no more 50s and 60s, gone, back to the cold, typical highs in the the 30s and 40s for next several days. Midfebruary our pattern will be colder, so typical for middle of winter. Youll love this forecast. Still no big storms to talk about but we have a couple snow chances. Lets break it down. We have clear skies right now, decent sunshine on tap this morning before clouds thicken up later this afternoon into tonight. We are at freezing at the airport. West wind at six, light wind, right the now, feeling a little bit better compared to the past few morning but wind chills down around 26, that is what it feels like so that is key, what you want to focus on what does it tiehl like upper 20s in the lehigh valley, low to mid 30s in south jersey, and ahead on storm scan three, we have cloud around, north and west of the city but it looks like we are clear from the city to parts of the south jersey maybe a stray flurry or two up in the poconos for mornin