Yourself, we have not seen temperatures in the 90s since august 22 its been more than a month, hot and humid, sunny skies, 91 degrees with the humidity it will feel like 92 or 93. When i come back in just a few minutes well focus on the heat and how long that will last in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Plus well talk about Hurricane Maria, it will come close to the carolina coast before making that right hand turn. It should come close enough to impact the jersey and delaware beaches. Ill explain in just a few minutes. President trump stirring up controversy this time with the sports world saying the nfl should fire players for protesting or taking a knee or sitting down during the National Anthem at games. The president took aim at one of the nbas best players. We have reaction from the athletes. Reporter this morning its the president versus the players as trump sparks a political war with professional sports. It started with this jab abbey profanity about Football Play
Evening to see some of the light rain moving into northern Sonoma County and then as we go into tonight, some of the heavier downpours moving in, into some of those wild fire ravaged areas and San Francisco with lighter rain tonight and making its way into parts of the peninsula as well as the east bay and into san jose shortly before midnight, youll hear some of that rain coming down through the roof and also breezy winds. A lot coming while you will be sleeping later on overnight. We will talk more about how much rain we could see and then also whats ahead as we go into the weekend. Thats coming up a little bit later. Well, up in the north bay, many people will return to ash and cinder. The rebuilding process begins in Sonoma County following the devastating north bay wild fires. Officials will meet with residents to make sure that theyre doing it safely. Nbc bay areas pete soranos joins us live with details for later, pete. Reporter yeah, good morning marcus. And were stand in that
Emergency food aid over 2 billion annually. Sadly, despite the generosity there are shortfalls from what is needed due to other nations not fully meeting the challenge. And next years deliberations we have an opportunity to do more with having, without having to spend more money. Half of which must be shipped according to cargo preference rules. These restrictions result in spending as little as 35 to 40 cents on the dollar on food. Let me say this one more time. Because of these ridiculous requirements, only 35 to 40 cents of each dollar is actually used to provide food to people who are starving. If we relax the preference to meet the needs overseas, the overhead costs would drop dramatically. U. S. Farmers would still play a vital role in th the program ane would free up over 300 million in taxes to feed up to 9. 5 million more starving people each year. One of the major obstacles to modernizing food for peace are those who continue to support and profit from cargo preference rules.
For Peace Program is the focus on the Senate Foreign relations hearing. We will hear from the director, Catholic Relief Services an official from the Government Accountability office. This runs about an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing a humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide in need of food aid. The us continues to be the world leader providing more than a third of all food aid. Over 2 billion annually. Sadly despite our generosity there are shortfalls for whats needed due to other donor nations not meeting the challenge and in next years farm bill deliberations women opportunity to do more without having to spend more money. A little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill with our food for Peace Program. The farm bill requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from us farmers after which must be shipped on us vessels according to cargo preference rules. Of these restrictions resulting spe
We speak with him about his journey from loss to laughter and now love. But first we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. As we say in the south, all hat, no cattle. Thats a lie. He refutes the comments by a florida congresswoman. If you want to go after general kelly, thats up to you. If you want to go after him, i think thats something highly inappropriate. Families of four soldiers killed in niger are demanding answers. A manhunt is under way for a possible serial killer linked to three murders in a tampa neighborhood. This is our street, this is our neighborhood, and youre not going to drive us out of it. Thousands gather over an officer killed earlier this month. He received full department honors. The uss constitution marked its 0th anniversary of a voyage. A 21gun salute. I dont think youre going believe this, but you just went over puerto rico. Get out of here. All that and bright stars not skipping a beat, they finished the National Anthem for h