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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170918:19:32:00

currents while hurricane maria now a category 3 threatens to strike the same caribbean islands already devastated by irma. here with the latest forecast is today show s al roker. al, hard to imagine. i m fine with rain up here on the northeast, but so hard to imagine maria going for puerto rico, maybe touching, affecting, the u.s. virgin islands? and that s the exact case, ali, because these places have just been devastated, and there is no place to hide, no place to shelter. from the lesser antilles into the virgin islands, into puerto rico s puerto rico hasn t had a direct hit since 1998, with georges, and this could be very much like hugo in 1989. so we have lee out here. that s a tropical depression breaking up and not a big deal, but we are watching jose that s not going to make landfall right now. doesn t look like it. look how big the sprawl from

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170918:19:38:00

that s going to be a huge hit to our economy. we lost our largest employer several years ago which was an oil refinery, and we ve become deeply dependent on tourism. my concern, why i m back here in washington right now is what is the relief package going to look like? is there going to be infrastructure for the virgin islands? is there going to be the discussion of the maintenance of our economies? particularly in light of the that can t if a congress has up until now been very negligent of the territories and their treatment of them. the disparity in how we receive funding is something that i m really concerned with in how we, they are disbursing monies for recovery as well. and good to talk to you. thank you so much for being with us. thank you for having me. congresswoman representing the u.s. virgin islands. we ll stay in close touch throughout the upcoming hurricane maria. and talking about james mattis talking possible military options regarding north korea. we have brea

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island of st. croix. st. croix has really been the base camp now for a lot of the relief efforts, because it had not been hit previously, and a hit to st. croix with those north bands, as al roker was talking, is really going to be very, very difficult for ow islands to recover from. i want to talk to you, congresswoman, about the effect and recovery. tourism is a, a very major part of the economy in the virgin islands and, in fact, stephanie pointed out, there may be a percentage one might ascribe to tour pit tourism. many businesses are dependent on tourism because they serve the people working because there is a tourist industry. what is the best way to bring recovery back to the virgin islands? thanks so much. we are going to miss that season of tourism. some of it will be absorbed by the island of st. croix, depending on how its hit, but

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