Welcome to the programme. We start this hour with some breaking news. That is that reports are coming from both south korea and china suggesting that north korea may have carried out some sort of test. This follows seismologist picking up on some sort of explosion from the United Statess Geological Survey, they have picked up a magnitude 5. 6 tremor, im sorry, thatis magnitude 5. 6 tremor, im sorry, that is actually from the chinese authorities, from the us they have picked up also on tremor is. South korea saying the north may have conduct did another test, that is coming from the newsagency in south korea. We can speak now to Yogita Limaye tell us what we are hearing in the last few minutes. We have spoken to the south Korean Defence ministry who are saying they have detected the earthquake in the North Eastern pa rt the earthquake in the North Eastern part of north korea. They are still analysing to see whether it was triggered by any sort of explosion ora triggered by any sort of e
Dow is outperforming even though the nasdaq is on the wane. A choppy performance, mixed session. Ordering moree than 600 50,000 people to evacuate miami as Hurricane Irma churns closer. This threatens to be, the most expensive storm in history as we were mentioning. Of the people who has not evacuated and is sitting tight, nathan, you are one of the few. A lot of people have left. Kind of physical preparations are you seeing around the city. Did everybody board up . Were they able to board up before they left . Where i am in downtown miami, its a lot of Office Towers and condo buildings. The way they were designed, they were supposed to be hurricane proof. We are going to find out real soon. Out, of houses further residential, people are boarding up, putting sandbags in place, x anticipating storm surge and flooding. Told everyoneve in miami that we need to have three days of food and water. We definitely saw Grocery Stores , people were buying anything they could. Bottled water ran ou
Clark. Lets talk about your friday weather. Steve paulson is here. Ive been reading across the country. Detroit wants it. Yeah. There is a revitalization of the area. Caesars areasonis opening, where the red wings will play. Taking a look at the Hurricane Irma. Category 4. Unfortunately, the track, everybody is pretty close here, either a little jog towards key west or a little bit towards miami. Probably will be somewhere in the milled but the european model has been very, very good on that. Well keep you updated in about ten minutes. Low clouds giving way sunshine. Well bump up a little bit after a cool day. A lot of 70s. One week ago, we were blazing hot. Today started off 50s and 60s. 59 gilroy. Campbell, cupertino the 58. Look for more sun today. Another low drops. This one hits Southern California first and comes back here early. 70s, 70s and 80s on your temps. 5 02. Hello, sal. Hello, steve. Good morning. Good morning to you. Taking a look at the track right now, a pretty good s
Where the landfall will take place. Its a 150 right now category 4. Some of the outer bands, some of that terrain might be weakening a little bit. Everything says that somewhere around there, the middle keys are around marathon. There is a slight westward jog, though. So well see. A lot can change. Low cloud deck but thats just a low cloud deck. The high clouds are gone. Santa clara, 57 degrees. 54 felton. So cal, 57. Saratoga, 59. The humidity as been going bongers crazy. Should be per but better but still warm here. 6 01 and sal tells us things are what . Okay . Yeah, things are okay. There is congestion. People still have to go to work but just a little bit of the edge taken off as some, a percentage of people do the fourday week. Friday, they take the day off. This is westbound on the carquinez bridge. It only takes 19 minutes to drive that stretchs which the best time that we had all week at this time of the morning. Traffic will be busy on the bay bridge. We are look at the east
In flolooded jails. In nfl s star michaeael bennettt speaks out after being takaken dodown and assaulted by police n las vegas. S. He said one officer threatened off. Ow my effing head a lot of people have lived that experience and are not here to tell their story. I think about trayvon martin. I think about Philando Castile. Samir rice. So many people who had the experience i had better not here to tell the story. So that is what it is. Amy them we look at sesegregatn in alababama. And the name ofof the greatet people that t have ever draraw s area, i jojoined a line in thehe segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segreregation forever. Amy that was alabama governor George Wallace in 1963. We will speak to New York Times magazine reporter Nikole Hannahjones about how segregation is returning to alabamas public schools. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hurricane irma, the mostst powerful atlantic storm