an same time line, that the shelters this storm we only have 5,000 that chose to go the shelters so. you re saying this decision was out of your hands completely. yes. the board is not voting on this. this is something that the county management and the data from the state emergency management down to the local emergency management. and the emergency plan doesn t say anything about the cone, though. chad myers was just on hair talking about the cone only represents two-thirds of the impact. there is always right outside of the cone that will get a major impact, especially the right side of any storm. i m just wondering, you said there is a review after any major disaster as there should be to figure out lessons learned and hurricane isn t even over. do you want to see anything done different for the next storm? based upon the data i have in front of me now no, because we gave warnings to the residents
category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, and is making its way very slowly across northeast florida. the hurricane isn t expected to reach the atlantic ocean until late tomorrow. and even then, it will continue north in a week and form. states of emergency have been declared as far north as virginia, into dissipation of what the storm may bring in the coming days. in florida right now, nearly 1.9 million households are without power, as wind and water, knocked down trees, and power lines. curfews will be in effect along the west coast. the greatest danger is the storm surge, which has already broken records in naples and fort myers. the national weather service warned that the storm could reach as high as 18 feet in some areas. multiple florida counties reported that they had significant number of calls from people trapped in their homes by water. authorities say they are prioritizing situations that are immediately life-threatening, but rescues in some pl
the promise of president trump s overtures. this only reinforce that s north korea seems at least at the moment not committed to denuclearizing to the extent the president had mentioned. reporter: how can the u.s. and its allies countter threat from kim jong-un? they ll have to put more spy planes in the air, more shipments and even underwater sensors to try to detect and intercept the submarines. it will be difficult, expensive and it could provoke china and russia to be more aggressive in the pacific. the allies may have no other choice. coming up, dorian could slam the u.s. mainland by labor day as major hurricane. pride ourseln making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. with safelite, you can see exactly when we ll be there. saving you time for what you love most.
and could pit flori, hit florid the labor day weekend as a category three hurricane. puerto rico is still recovering from hurricane maria, which killed nearly 3,000 people two years ago, and as the island braces for impact, slammed by p, who calls it one of the most corrupt places on earth. president trump also tweeting about his border wall, saying it is going up very fast, although no new miles have been built. sources say the president has told aides he will pardon them if they need to break the law to build the wall before the presidential election. i will speak with the national hurricane director and our koreans a correspondents and analysts will have coverage of the top stories. polo sandoval is on the scene for us. what is the latest there now? i want you to look directly behind me, way off in the distance of dark and ominous clouds, that s what dorian looks like from 40 miles away here from our vantage point in san
something that he believes is a political priority, which is the border wall. the issue is that he is putting american lives at risk. his political campaign is trumping the lives of at least three million puerto ricans that could be at risk, from this hurricane, as well as folks in florida, and unless fema stepped in, which we don t think they did, and said that these funds weren t necessary anymore, the president is making himself the appropriator in chief, and maybe setting up yet another battle with congress. is he allowed to reprogram this money, just with a signature? i mean the key word here is appropriations. there are three branches of government. and congress is the one that has the power of purse. to actually appropriate funds like they need to. and as always said, they did not want to appropriate and ear mark funds for fema-related beds, and i.c.e. related beds, they did not want to do so and now to circumvent the authority, at the beginning of the hurricane season, in a