Situation in puerto rico. What do you say, lets get after it. This is a national emergency. Millions of our fellow americans are in peril. Did you acknowledge it was not a mistake to not have this on the ground earlier . No, not at all. It was a news story in terms of the ability to reach people. Everybody needs help. The bill is 1 million, and hes paying 52,000. Who is picking up the rest . The taxpayers. It reinforces every bad stereotype about the Trump Administration. I am not happy with that. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning and welcome to your new day. Its friday, september 29th and 8 00 in the east. And the rescue efforts in puerto rico are unfolding at a good pace. And trump is tweeting this morning. The fact is puerto rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes, Big Decisions will have to be made as to the cost of rebuilding. In a moment we will get an update from fema, and we will bring that to you live as soon as it happens. 10,000 responders
By Debbie James A LIVELY new cider that packs the punch of six thousand men storming a castle has been launched by a Pembroke brewery. Cromwell 1648, fermented in part with Pembrokeshire-grown apples, marks one of the livelier periods in Pembroke’s history, when Oliver Cromwell arrived with his army. Nearly four centuries after the Siege of Pembroke and the Pembrokeshire Cider Co has reflected that moment in history in the branding of the fourth cider in its range. “Storming a castle must have been thirsty work so I am sure Cromwell would have appreciated a few glasses of our cider,’’ laughs David Halsted, a DIY shop owner, who launched the cider company along with Jon Ryan, of Wisebuys, and Chris Scourfield of The Castle Inn, Pembroke.
line for gas for 12 hours, and i will go to the super market for ten hours, and that s life on the ground when you get outside the major city. bill weir has been there watching this reality and reporting it to us. david halsted, the former director of the florida division of emergency management has seen what it takes in bad situations. he understands what is happening in puerto rico and what still needs to happen. we have them both. bill, what we are pointing as a portrait, has it changed? reporter: i will tell you, just as we were coming on you could hear the sweet sound of chainsaws, a sound of recovery eight days after the storm. these are local volunteers, and that s the first tiny step in the right direction. it s so desperate everywhere else. just as a perspective, we covered the haiti quake in 2010 at the height there there were 22,000 troops on the island, a
representative from bp and the coast guard in our state doc and continuing the booming operation that s going along the pensacola beaches. in the event, and we anticipate it may be monday or tuesday, that florida starts seeing the effects of this oil spill. we re already hearing reports in clearwater the beaches are complaining of all that. what are you telling residents right now? what we re telling residents, we re actually hoping to ask for help. take some debris out of the way that will get involved with the oil and cause even further damage along the beaches. actually, if we clean up those areas we ll, in fact, make it easier for bp to come in and clean up those areas that are affected by the oil spill. david halsted with florida s emergency management group. i know it s a tough time. good luck in the days ahead. thank you, monica.
this spill could devastate their sp industry. hopefully will oil will not come. we have our fingers crossed and hope to god it works to our advantage. the perfect storm together with the winds and surf changing and them not being able to contain the spread of the oil. today alabama, mississippi and florida are all bracing for what could come this weekend. joining me now, david halsted with florida s emergency management group. how is florida preparing? currently now we re going to have a briefing of emergency support functions, state agencies this afternoon. we will take the emergency operation center to level two at the direction of the governor. that is partial activation with department of environmental protection in the lead. what will that mean level two? what that will mean is that all of our agencies will continue heavy planning processes. we re going to get a