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
Police continue to search for the black car and the driver. The suspect attempted to lure several children into his car. Well tell you where the incidents happened and what we are learning about the case. Jersey shore perhaps for possible rougher surf and beach erosion as jose moves closer to the area. Chris sowers is tracking jose, please tell us the storm is not going to hit us. Reporter the bulk of the storm will stay out to sea. We could have minor impact and rough surf, but we think it will stay off the coastline. 5 00 a. M. , Hurricane Center maximum winds of 80 miles per hour. We have bright red wrap around the center of circulation. We have a nice outflow, you can see how the clouds are expanding from the center of circulation. Its Getting Better organized and developing better now. It will intensify as it moves over the warm waters of the gulfstream over the neck 24 to 36 hours. It will head north during the course of the weekend. It will be off Cape Hatteras by tomorrow after
Storm tracker 6 live, ill show you in a second. The Weather Center showing we have rain wrapped through the region yesterday an last night. And now we have a batch coming through, theres a heavier cell in that in the line of it. You can take a look at the closer view on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan thats progressing to the east of allentown and breaking up around philadelphia and coming in from the west. Theres the movement you can see how this is wrapping around and getting ready to shoot off toward new york and boston. Behind it light rain and drying quickly after that. So it actually looks like were going to dry out fairly quickly, once we get rid of the morning band of rain. As we look at temperatures we are looking at a chilly start though, wet, windy, 48 degrees in philadelphia. 48 in trenton. 47 in allentown. 46 in wilmington, these numbers not changing a whole lot over the neck couple of hours, if youre dressing it is kids for the bus stop, dress them for the rain and tempe
I think i would let the hammerhead win at that point. Stand back. Good morning, everyone. Im diane macedo. And im nick watt in for kendis gibson. We begin with President Trump ignoring criticism and doubling down on his assault on the media. As the president prepares to head to germany for his first g20 summit, he unleashed a few attacks against the press including a doctored video that some say could trigger violence. Abcs emily rau has the latest from washington. Emily, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane and nick. Theres no shortage of important topics on President Trumps agenda for this week, but it seems attacking the press remains a top priority. A cnn smackdown. President trump tweeting this video sunday morning showing him punching and tackling a man with the cnn logo covering his face. Some republicans even speaking out against it. The president of the United States is inciting violence against the free press. Its unfortunate and the people are now begging the president