This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tropical storm erika is dumping five inches of rain on puerto rico, as it continues its path through the caribbean. Four were killed as erika dumped 15 inches of rain on that small island nation. Twenty people are missing there. Fastflowing rivers swept up cars, landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies knocked out. The storm now heading towards florida. Kevin joins us with details. This storm has been inconsistent and hasnt gotten its act together. Since yesterday, taking a look at the satellite and radar, you can see the rain showers in puerto rico. The radar ends here, but the satellite as you can see, the Actual Center of the storm is not here, its here towards the west. We do think that as randall said, puerto rico will be getting up to about five inches of rain over the next several hours, but my concern as we go through the rest of the morning into the afternoon is the Dominican Repub
This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Tropical storm erika is plowing a deadly path through the caribbean and heading for florida. In fact the governor declared state of emergency just about an hour ago. This church collapsing under the fury of the tropical storm. Officials say they have found 14 bodies and several people are still missing. Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. Power and Water Supplies have been knocked out completely. Lets bring in kevin corriveau. Kevin when might we expect to see the outer bands of this in florida . Based on what we know so far and based on the current track, we think sunday night well start to see the feeder bands, and then monday morning, very early it will make its way from the south up to the north, but theres still quite a bit of uncertainty. You can see the storm is really not well organized and they have moved it several different times over the last 48 hours, which changes all of the tracks ahead of it.
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Floridas governor declared a state of emergency as erika heads towards the sunshine state. And the white house says president obama has been briefed on storm preparations. The Tropical Storm has plowed a path of death and destruction through the caribbean. [ screaming ] a church in dominica collapsed under the fury of the wind and rain. The island nation so far the hardest hit. Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. Landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies were knocked out. The storm is right now delivering another punch to puerto rico. As much as eight inches of rain are expected before erika moves over the Dominican Republic towards florida by monday morning. George w. Bush has been in new orleans today visiting a school hard hit by Hurricane Katrina ten years ago. The slogan that guided the school when we first visited is true today. We believe in success. And because of that success, that school
Mortgages. , if are predatory in that you miss a payment, you are evicted and you lose equity you have built. These wall street firms that bought these foreclosed properties dont want to invest anything in them. They are trying to sell them off and they cant really read them because they are in terrible shape. They cant sell them with Bank Financing because they would not be acceptable for mortgage. They sell them to people with contract for deed or rent to buy terms. It sets people up. Of whate latest chapter i would consider, a predatory lending. Host why write this story now . Are we seeing an increase in these type of loans happening in this time and what is leading to that . Firms like street vision property, harbor properties, they bought up thousands of these units and they are trying to unload them. They are aggressively trying to get people to enter into rent to buy arrangements. Now people are getting to the what, where they realize they overpaid or it has problems and they a
Manipulation of social media and says they were caught flatfooted. Betty speaking about russia, it within the last hour a new headline about George Papadopoulos, the former trump advisor. Some claims he made in an email stating Top Trump Campaign Officials agreed to a preelection meeting with representatives of russian president vladimir putin. We saw inrevelation the last couple minutes, bolstering the claim and making it harder for the Trump Administration to distance itself when it comes to these meddling issues, as well as collusion allegations we continue to see. How we have to look at this with a grain of salt, the details still unclear. Betty it is still a little murky. Lets get clarification with megan murphy, our bloombergs nest week editor and Washington Bureau chief. How significant are these new claims . Every revelation that comes out of this nature is significant in that it furthers what we know, expands on the investigation in terms of what is out there. This Program Blo